Left Behind
Disclaimer: Like hell I own any of this! Just the plot and a few minor characters are creations of my mind! All the rest belongs to the master herself, JK Rowling.
Summary: Gabriella's the only child at home now, and she is learning to deal with it.
Chapter 1:
"Mama! Papa! Gabriella!" with a huge smile on my face I leaped from the back seat of my father's muggle car and ran into my sister's open arms. She picked me up and swung me around before placing me back onto the floor. I heard the door open behind her and looked up to see my future brother-in-law, Bill Weasley, standing behind her. He smiled at me
"Hullo, Gabriella" He said, bending down and giving me a hug. He kissed Fleur's cheek before stepping in front and shaking my father's hand.
"It's a honour to finally meet the man Fleur talks so highly about" Bill said, Papa smiled as he shook Bill's hand. He turned to my mother, and than looked from her to Fleur.
"I can see where Fleur gets her stunning beauty from" Mama blushed, but smiled as she shook his hand. When he finished she hugged Fleur.
"Vous aver bon gout, Fleur, il est bon celui la!" Fleur smiled as she kissed both my mother's cheeks and adding.
"Mama, please speek Eenglish!" Fleur had moved to Britian and taken up a job at Gringotts, the Wizard Bank here, to practice her English. Mama and I still hold the opinon it was because of Bill, but we don't say that to her.
"Of course, 'Arling" she said linking arms with her and heading inside.
"Come on in" Bill said holding open the door
"Gabriella, do you mind if I call you Gabby?" I nodded no and smiled.
"Sure, Fleur calls me that sometimes" it was the first sentence in, what I considered perfect English, so I grinned wider.
"Great, you will be sharing with my sister Ginny and a friend of hers and my brother's, Hermione" he said offering to take my suitcase.
"Its alright" I said
"I can do it" I continued picking it up. He nodded and lead the way. He stopped when we came to a closed door.
"Gin, can we come in?" he asked knocking.
"One second!" a girl, I assumed to be Ginny, yelled. We heard the opening of a door and than the closing. Finally the bedroom door opened to revel a familiar redhaired girl with brown eyes. She smiled at me.
"You must be Gabriella" she said opening the door and letting me enter. Bill said he'd see us downstairs and left.
"Mum set up two cots, one for you and one for Hermione" she said cheerily. I nodded and chose the cot that was nearest the window. I placed my suitcase on it and it folded causing me to jump. I heard Ginny sigh as she came over and fixed it.
"Fred and George" she said setting it up again, and just than I heard laughter outside.
"Another job well done, Fred" a tall redhaired boy, with the same brown eyes as Ginny and the same explosion of freckles across his cheek bones said to his twin, Fred.
"I quite agree, George" he answered and they slapped hands.
"I am very sorry, Gabriella, we thought Hermione would have that one" I couldn't help but laugh, now that the shock and fright was over.
"It's alright" I didn't dare try and say his name, I was confused as to which was which.
"It was funny" they kept laughing as they headed down the stairs.
"They are, what is the word in English? The word's tres drole" Ginny looked at me.
"Funny? Hilarous?" I nodded at the second word and she smiled.
"Yeah, they own their own joke shop in Diagon Alley, that's the place where we get our school supplies, and its really going well" I threw my pillow on the coat along with Illumaire, my stuffed kitten, and than put my blanket on it. Ginny's eyes went wide when she saw it.
"It's beautiful, Gabriella, where did you get this?" she ran her fingers over the silky material.
"Fleur made it for me before I was born, she made it so I could always have it to keep warm" I said, tears coming to the surface. I was going to miss her when she and Bill got married next week. There would be no more picnics, or walks or sister talks. I would be alone, an only child, I wasn't sure I could handle that.
"Gabriella, are you alright?" I jumped at the sound of Ginny's voice. I hurridly wipped the tears away and smiled.
"Oui" I said, she looked at me a minute before nodding and leading the way down stairs.