Umm…I hope this story is going in a positive direction. Sorry, if it seems a little out there. It will get better as I go on, forgive me! A lot of my energies are being focused on writing, 'Remus Lupin and the Unicorn's Blood.' I mean I am updating, WAH! I don't know what to say!
PS. My sister proofread the last chapter and posted them because I was to tired! So she wants praise!
Well, here is another chapter…WHEEE
Chapter 7 Forgotten birthday
For the next weeks a routine was set. Lupin would wake first and then go wake Nymphadora. Have breakfast, then it was time for school. He not only taught her how to read English but a little French and Italian. 'You never know when it might come in handy.' was his reply when she said it was to difficult to learn another language, when she was still trying to learn her own. After that it was lunch, then just a hour more of work then it she was free till after dinner were they reviewed. In her free time Nymphadora was about as free one can be when your guardian is also your teacher. Lupin was always ransoming asking her, 'How do you say 'hello' in French?' or 'How do you spell 'animal'?'
That evening though, Lupin ended their lesson short. It was right before sunset and it was going to be a beautiful harvest moon that night. She would have complained that she wasn't tired but Lupin looked very tired, in fact he looked exhausted. Then he said something to make her worry just bit more, 'Please don't disturb me tonight Nymphadora. For I'm not feeling too well and I don't want you to…catch it."
That morning when Nymphadora woke up and there seemed to be something wrong. It wasn't only that here had been strange noises in the night, that had woken her up abruptly. Lupin had also worried her. Had he heard the noises too? She couldn't put her finger on the thought it wasn't concern she was feeling but something else. The annoying thought refused to let her go back to sleep. What was the matter? She had slept sort of well, school was going great, it looked like it was going to be a lovely day…
A soft knock came from the door, it was Lupin. Tonks didn't feel like answering though for she had just remembered what she had forgotten, or had least tried to forget. Today was her birthday, that was why she had scared away the last nanny, so that she could spend her birthday with her parents. Nymphadora didn't feel like getting out of bed and talking about French verbs after breakfast.
"I don't feel well, Lupin. I have…chicken poxes. Go away!" and with that Nymphadora buried her head in her pillow hoping to turn invisible.
Instead of hearing a 'Sorry to disturb you when your sick, Nymphadora. I'll go way and avoid you for the rest of the day' she hear the door open slightly. She snuggled even farther under the covers. All the emotions she first had when Lupin first appeared, came back. He was the reason her parents were gone! Why hadn't she tried to get rid of him it was her dad opening the door? With these thoughts, Nymphadora cried with a fury she hadn't used since before Lupin and her had first became friends.
"You don't look like you have chicken poxes." Lupin said after pulling the blankets off Nymphadora and looking her over. He tried to pull her out of bed but Nymphadora took the pillow she had been grabbing and threw it at him. Lupin caught the pillow mid-throw and let it fall to the ground. She just looked at him with a glare and the thought, 'Disappear!'
Lupin didn't disappear, instead he sat down next to her on the bed and asked two short question.
"Now why are you acting in such a manner on your birthday? Do you think this is the way a six year old would behave?" and as he finished he pulled out a small box wrapped with blue paper.
Nymphadora felt guilty. Now she cried from that instead of sadness. Lupin had been there for her the last few weeks, more then her parents had ever been there for her in her whole life. He was right! She was older now and it was time to start acting that way. So drying her tears on her night gown, she apologized for throwing the pillow at him. She looked at him as she took her birthday present, if it was possible Lupin looked even more tired that morning, then even last night. As if she had voiced her concern, Lupin said:
"I am perfectly fine. Now open that present, so that we can go have breakfast. I'm starved." Lupin finished with a smile and nudged her to open the gift.
Nymphadora gave him a large smile and began to open the birthday present from him. Her parents completely forgotten for the moment.
OWARI
I wanted to make the part of the story where she is younger a little longer but…forget that! I want to make her older! MWAHHH, so next chapter! Hee-hee I will also introduce some other characters soon! So just hold on, it's coming!