Chapter Two; Dinner Guests
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Harry was busy driving down the highway when all of a sudden his cellphone rang. He steadied his grip on the steering wheel with one hand while he dug his other hand inside his pocket and answered it. He quickly slowed down by putting his foot on the brake allowing another car to pass him and then put it back on the gas pedal and accelerated again while he answered his phone.
"Hullo?" he said.
"Hey Harry, it's Justin." The wizard on the other side of the phone replied as Harry grinned.
"Hey Justin, what's up?" he wondered.
"I was just wondering if you and Ginny would like to come over for supper since Johnny and Danny are going to be there." Justin told him.
"Yeah, sure, I'd love to. But Ginny and I have to be at the church for wedding rehearsal tonight." He said.
"Yeah, so does Johnny since he's the ring bearer. Well I'll see you there then." Justin said.
"Alright, see you." Harry told him before he hung up the phone and then placed it back inside his pocket with one hand while he dug his cigarette box out of his other pocket with the other hand and lit a cigarette.
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Harry parked his car inside Justin's driveway as Ginny apparated and then they both walked up to the doorbell and rang it. Justin answered the door and smiled at them. "Oh hello Harry, hey Ginny. Bill, Fleur, Johnny, Brittany, Aaron, and Danny are already here." He said as he stepped aside and allowed them to come in. Brittany was there to greet them at the door carrying her infant son at her hip. Danny grinned widely when he saw them standing there.
"Why hello there Danny, how is my favorite godson?" Ginny inquired while she bent down and smiled back at him. "You are getting to be such a big boy, yes you are." She told him as she stood back up and lifted him up by the ribs. Danny giggled as she kissed his forehead. "Is he crawling yet?" she asked her.
"No, not yet. We're thinking that it's going to be soon though. However, he does need a changing." Brittany told her.
"Oh. Now you tell me." Ginny said before she handed him back to her.
"Come on Daniel, Mummy's going to get you all cleaned up." She said as she planted a kiss on the top of his head before she turned around and walked down the hallway.
"Danny is so adorable isn't he?" Ginny said as Aaron smiled at her.
"Yes he is. He's teething now so that's a new experience for us, but on the plus side he sleeps all the way through the night, only has two bottles one in the morning and one at night if Brittany's not busy nursing him, and he really isn't too much of a picky eater." He told her.
"This little guy on the other hand won't eat anything without ketchup on it." Bill said with a grin as he carried Johnny over to them before setting him back down again.
"Yeah, sorry, I'm afraid that I'm the one who got him started on that." Harry said before he bent down in front of him. "Hey buddy, your baby sister is going to be born soon. Are you excited?" he asked him.
"No." he replied.
"I wouldn't take that too literally. He says no to almost anything." Bill told him.
"Most two year old's do." Ginny said.
"Mummy can you play with me?" Johnny asked her as he turned around and looked at her while Brittany carried Danny back down the hallway.
"No, not right now baby." Fleur began with a shake of her head. "We have to eat dinner and then we have to take you to the church before we have to go home and get you ready for bed. You have a big day ahead of you tomorrow." She told him while Brittany sat Danny down inside the highchair and then tied a bib around his neck.
"What does he like to eat?" Justin asked her.
"Oh he only eats baby food right now and we brought a jar along with us." She told him.
"Alright Harry and Ginny would you mind very much in helping me set the table?" he asked them.
"No, not at all." Harry told him as he and Ginny followed him into the kitchen.
"Thanks Harry, I could use all the help that I can get." He told him when all of a sudden Ginny caught a glance of a picture hanging on the wall. It was a picture of a young woman with Justin sitting on the other side of her and three little girls sitting in front of them smiling up at the camera. It was a still frame picture so Ginny had guessed that the woman had been a muggle. She had straight long brown hair, chocolate colored eyes, and tanned skin . Two of the girls had looked like her, except for the youngest one who had even darker skin and curly black hair.
"Is that your wife?" Ginny asked him as Justin glanced over onto the wall.
"Yeah that's her. That's Rebecca. Of course we all called her Becky. And those are our three daughters Katie, Kelly, and Kayleigh. We adopted Kayleigh when she was only a baby. Of course they're all grown up now with daughters of their own. All except for Kayleigh of course, she's the only one who has boys, and she's the only one who doesn't have an ounce of magical blood in her or the rest of her family." He explained.
"What happened to her Justin? Becky I mean, I don't think you've ever talked about her before." She said.
"Well that's because it hurts too much. Anyway she was a flight attendant and the plane went down somewhere off the coast of Ireland. She and the rest of the passengers were killed. Poor Kayleigh hardly even knew her much. She was only a year old when she died." He explained.
"I'm sorry to hear that." Harry told him.
"Thanks Harry, it really means a lot to me." He said before he took a deep breath and sighed. "Becky might have been a muggle but she was the only woman that I ever truly loved, and I really don't think that I could learn to love anyone else."
"My father felt exactly the same way after my mother passed away." Harry began. "The thing to remember is though Becky is in a better place. She probably wouldn't want you to refuse to get on with your life just because she isn't a part of it anymore." He told him.
"I know. I just don't think I can do that Harry." Justin said as he, Harry, and Ginny withdrew their wands and started levitating the plates, silverware, and napkins onto the table before they all gathered around it and sat down. Ginny would have liked to have added that she was very interested in meeting Justin's daughters and the rest of his family and grandchildren, but at that moment she figured that it would be better if she didn't talk about it anymore since she could see how much it was hurting him and that she would ask him some other time. That's when they all grabbed ahold of each other's hands, bowed their heads, and said grace before they started passing around the food and began to eat.