Thank you, Rachel, for helping me with revision, and Belinda for always helping me with everything!
Chapter Eighty - Drunken Promises
Late in the night, the only siblings left were Charlie, held back by the sudden arrival of Grandpa Higurashi carrying a bottle of sake with Merlin knows origins, and Fred for obvious reasons. The night followed with stories about demons, ghosts, and dragons. With reduced audience, even the soon-to-be mother and soon-to-be grandparents relaxed and shared curious events of their lives. Who could have known that Mr and Mrs Higurashi met at detention?
Morning came too soon to the wizard with a killer hangover. The sunlight hurt his eyes as much as the voice coming from his right side. He pretended to be still sleeping, hoping Souta would give up for now and let him rest for a couple more hours. Fred and he invented a cure for hangover years before, but he would need to use the floo or apparate to his shop. In his current state of mind, he may have ended in Scotland in an attempt to get there. It was a mystery to him how could the boy not be suffering from jet lag. Obviously, his almost eleven years younger than him brother-in-law.
"Johji-Nii-chan, wake up! You promised!"
George slowly turned his head growling, meeting Souta with a deadly glare. His head pounding as if a thousand trolls were throwing a party inside it. His brain slowly processed the words coming from Souta's mouth. Gardens, palace, tower, queen, list, none of it made sense to him. What in the bloody hell did he promise? The door burst open and Fred's voice joined Souta's chorus.
"Come on, little brother." By ten minutes, George mentally added. A little bottle was put in his hand. George looked at the label and tears of gratefulness almost fell from his eyes. "You can thank me later. Get up, mate. We have a Muggle London to visit!"
Fred tried but couldn't hide his excitement, not from George. The memories from last night drinking session started to rise. After Charlie left, Souta started to ask about the touristic attractions in London that he had only seen in movies and TV shows. Turned out not even the twins had the chance to meet muggle London. Molly never had the same fascination as Arthur and their father, as much as a muggle-lover he was, couldn't convince his family that Muggle attractions could be as much as interesting than Diagon Alley or a dragon sanctuary, but Souta talked with so much enthusiasm about the locations that it was contagious and his drunk-self agreed to take them.
George realized that he never took Kagome to actually visit the city. Sure, they walked around when looking for a house but he had yet to take her out for a date. He had been working hard to be a good husband and provider for his family but he would make sure to remember to be a good boyfriend too.
I'm so sorry it took so long! Exams lasted forever and, as explained in another fanfic, I'm getting married in five weeks, so everything is hurried right now. I'll try to write in my free time, but I can't promise many updates until September.
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