Dedicated once again to Quynh!!!!=]
The women got ready to shop for groceries at 8 in the evening. Jade informed Draco and the rest of the men that they would be going out to buy groceries to feed everyone.
"Now? But it's eight in the evening and we already ate." Draco said seeing her nod.
"But the kids are hungry and well…I'm going to be hungry a lot more often." Jade said placing a hand on her stomach. Draco placed a hand over her stomach as well and kissed her forehead.
"You can't walk there with the women. Take the car and here's the card." Draco said giving her his muggle credit card.
"Thank you love. Be careful of them and keep an eye on the kids." Jade said seeing him nod and laugh.
"It's so much funnier to watch them play; you should have seen your father's face when George said a four letter word he shouldn't have in front of the kids." Draco chuckled.
Jade snickered and hugged Draco tightly. "I'll see you in a bit ok?" Jade said seeing him nod. As she kissed him goodbye, they heard Fred and Ron get up and start arguing with each other.
"Take care of the real children." She said seeing him laugh again and nod. She left the basement and went upstairs to see the women ready.
"All ready?" Jade asked squatting down to James who looked like he was having a hard time to walk in his bubble jacket. Jade lifted the hat that was covering half of James face and giggled to see him look irritated to be nearly blinded and restricted to move freely.
"It's like a jail in there isn't it?" Jade asked.
"Aunty Jade, what's Daddy, Grandpa and the rest of the uncles playing downstairs?" Arthur asked as Jade lifted James and held Arthur's hand.
"They're playing muggle video games love. Will you come along with us?" Jade asked seeing him look shy.
"But I want to play a little." Arthur said.
"Draco?" Jade asked loudly. She heard Draco appear from the basement and she patted little Arthur's bum to run to Draco.
"Let Arthur play a little with your gaming system? Don't let the men hog it all up. Please?" Jade asked.
"Come Arthur. Want to see how I kick your uncles out to let you play?" Draco asked seeing Arthur nod his head vigorously. Jade smiled and turned around to see Angelina and the rest of the women look grateful that there was at least one man that they could entrust their children to.
"Oh your Draco is so reliable and dreamy." Angelina said seeing Jade shake her head and laugh.
"He was born to be a father. The kids just love him." Katie said.
Jade led them outside to the front of the house to the garage. They all marveled at the two cars that Jade and Draco had to travel around. Draco used a car to go to work and Jade apparated but if she had an emergency, she'd use the car.
"This is my car. A bit big this one but I reckoned we would all fit into this one since there are so many of us. Ready?" Jade asked everyone when they were buckled up.
"Oui!" Fleur said for them.
Ginny shot Fleur an annoyed look and held James to her chest. Jade pulled the gear into rear and started backing out slowly of the garage.
"Please be careful dear!" Molly shouted, holding on to Jade's arm who glanced at her mother in worry.
"Relax Mum, I'm better than Dad and this can't fly so I won't be hitting any birds…yes maybe a couple of mere muggles but-I'M JOKING!" Jade yelled when her mother started to scream her head off.
The women in the back seemed to get the joke and laughed at Jade. The only one that seemed comfortable was Ginny and Hermione. Ginny knew as well as Jade how comfortable they were inside a muggle car and having their father, Arthur Weasley drive around, especially Fred and George Weasley, they were immune to the feeling of impending death hovering over their heads or under them for that case. Hermione's parents were both muggles and so she grew up to riding in cars. Fleur, Katie and Angelina however looked deathly scared, just about as scared as Molly Weasley was. Their eyes were wide open, as if they were going up to the top on a roller coaster, ready for the drop at any time.
Jade laughed to herself and gently pressed on her brakes when she saw her good neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Bailey with a tall sandy haired man next to them, probably the son that they were talking about that studied in some prestigious university in America, Jade wasn't sure but they were waving at her. She waved back and lowered the window on her side.
"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Bailey! How was your Christmas?" Jade asked seeing them make their way towards the car.
"Why are they coming closer? Don't they understand that they'll get killed?" Molly asked, her voice rising.
"Relax Mum, the monster's sleeping." Jade joked patting the steering wheel.
"You are not helping." Hermione told Jade and turned to Molly Weasley to console her.
"It was splendid but we missed you. This is my son Cole by the way." Mrs. Bailey said moving aside for Jade to see.
"Hello handsome." Katie said receiving a few pokes shoves and giggles from Hermione, Ginny, Angelina and Fleur.
"Hello Cole, I'm Jade." Jade said reaching her hand out for him to shake.
"No Jade! Don't let go of the steering wheel! You foolish muggles, run away!" Molly shouted. Jade turned red in embarrassment and saw Mr. and Mrs. Bailey drop their mouths and wonder what she called them.
"This is my mother actually. I'll tell you what Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, please come by my house in an hour and a half, I'd like you to meet my family." Jade said seeing the Bailey's nod, still shocked by Molly's outrage.
"Bring your family as well! In an hour and a half, remember!" Jade said driving away.
"Oh they don't listen." Molly growled.
"Bye!" Jade said waving and closing her window.
The Bailey's waved back, still shocked.
"What did she call us?" Mrs. Bailey asked Mr. Bailey and her son Cole.
"I think she called us foolish muggers." Mr. Bailey said feeling incredibly offended.
"Hmph! No wonder that poor girl never brought them over to the neighborhood. First her prat of a husband now her mother. I wonder what her father would be like. Poor thing, it's a wonder how she could be so sweet and kind around all those arrogant and rude people." Mrs. Bailey said walking off.
Cole looked at his father and shrugged, seeing his father circle his finger at his temple.
"Women." Mr. Bailey said.
"Mum didn't I tell you they weren't going to die?" Jade asked as they drove slowly. Due to Molly Weasley's panic, Jade had to drive at a very slow 15 miles per hour.
"Arthur promised me that my chickens wouldn't die and what happened to that? My chickens were squashed to death!" Molly shouted. A car behind Jade that honked in irritation sped by her but slowed down to only yell a few curses to her.
"Thank you, I love you too." Jade nodded seeing them gesture rudely at her. Even in spite of that, Jade still went as slowly as she could to keep her mother happy and at peace.
"Bloody hell, we could have walked there." Ginny said as Jade pulled into the grocery's parking lot.
"Right?" Jade said parking the car. She stopped the engine and hopped off the car and ran to the other side to help her Mum out. "Are you all right Mum?" Jade asked wrapping an arm around her mother's shoulder.
"I'm fine but you shouldn't drive like that Jade! You drive like a maniac!" Molly said seeing Jade shake her head.
"We're apparating you home all right?" Jade said seeing Molly give her an incredulous look.
"And let you drive like a mental runaway? I think not!" She scolded.
"I'll be there and I will make sure you make your muggle car crawl back home. Sweetheart, I've seen you after 6 years. If anything happens to you, it'll kill me!" Molly said as Jade hugged her tightly.
"Mum stop worrying, you scare me sometimes!" Jade said hearing her Mum squeak from her bear hug.
"If you don't mind Jade, I'll be walking home and you can come back with Mum in the morning." Katie joked.
Jade laughed along with the women and Ginny nodded, carrying James with her. They got a cart and placed both Rose and James in the children's seat. Rose whimpered, not used to being placed in the cart but James grinned widely and threw his arms around her and kissed her cheek, causing her to shove him away from her.
"No!" she screeched.
"Rose." Hermione warned. James brushed it off and looked around the supermarket.
"This is such a beautiful opportunity to spoil my nieces and nephews rotten. Oh I just wish Teddy was here to enjoy it as well." Jade said grabbing candy, sweets and junk food from the shelves and throwing it into the cart. James reached for a chocolate filled plastic toy and Jade handed it to him.
"No! Jade are you insane? Giving James chocolate is like giving Voldemort the Elder Wand!" Ginny said taking the plastic toy away. James started to throw a fit and cried his little eyes out, thrashing his legs against the cart and reaching for the plastic toy that Jade handed back to him. Rose looked at him cautiously, her hands to her ears from his crying.
"He's a little boy! Let him have his candy!" Jade defended her nephew who at the moment strongly disliked his mother Ginny Potter.
"Have you seen him on candy? He literally runs himself into the walls for no good reason at all…not like there would be a good reason to run into walls." Ginny said.
"Gin, James is getting anything he wants and that's final. That goes for Rose as well Hermione." Jade said as Hermione quietly pried off a small toy from Rose's hands.
"But Jade-" Hermione went to say but was cut off by Jade who shook her head and pushed the shopping cart.
"No buts. My nieces and nephews get what they want when they're with me." Jade said.
"I understand that sweetheart but don't you think it's unnecessary wasting all that money?" Molly asked picking up some of the things from the cart.
"Well that's for Draco. He loves to eat those and I'm not wasting my money Mum. I haven't given these kids the love they should have got from me when they were born. I've been away all these years so the least you could let me do is spoil them just a tiny bit and as far as money is concerned, Draco and I had no family whatsoever during all these years. We never had a child to spend money on and never had the time to spend money on each other unless it was Christmas or something. Other than that we'd just work almost every single day and put our money in the bank, not even giving it a glance. Mum you know me better than anyone else in the world, have I ever been reckless with money?" Jade asked seeing Molly shake her head admittedly.
"I've always lived by managing; budgeting and saving so please don't stop me from being reckless with my kids. They're the only future I ever have and if I can't spend it on them, I'll burn all my money up, I swear I will." Jade warned.
When Jade had finally persuaded the women to let her spend her money freely, they left off to buy whatever they thought was necessary for a good meal, especially if the Bailey's were coming over.
"With your driving, they'll be already there by now." Hermione said walking with Jade arm in arm. They giggled and watched Molly, Ginny, Fleur, Katie and Angelina shop for food.
"Well you all can apparate and get started on the food because I know my Mum is going to be crazy about getting me to drive as slowly as possible." Jade said seeing Hermione nod and grin.
"How's my little one doing in there?" Jade asked touching Hermione's belly.
"He's absolutely killing my back. I swear, sometimes I just want to take him off for a good few hours so I can sleep properly." Hermione sighed putting her head on Jade's shoulder. Jade wrapped her arms around her best friend as they walked around the supermarket.
"You know I'm honestly craving for some chocolate covered pretzels…or those yogurt pretzels…I don't know, I'm just in the mood for sweet and salty." Hermione said as they walked over to a shelf. Jade grabbed a different packet of each flavor.
"I want some ice cream." Jade said. She let her cravings take over her and she grabbed a tub of a sorbet.
"Ice cream? During winter? You'll get a cold Jade." Hermione said.
"I promise I won't." Jade said.
"Wow…that answer is just as valid as Ron and Harry's dream interpretations in Divination." Hermione said seeing Jade shaking with laughter.
