I own nothing! Yet...

A cool and gentle early morning breeze blew into Luna's face as she stared off into the distance, reflecting on the events of the previous week. She sat with her arms wrapped around her legs and her chin resting on her knees.

She had been like that for the last twenty minutes, sat up against the stump of the tree at the end of the Burrow's garden, facing away from the house and into the countryside. She had found this spot on her second evening at the Burrow, and ever since it had become the one place Luna could go to be alone.

Luna was by no means ungrateful to the Weasleys; for the first time in almost two months she was well fed, and thanks to Ginny taking her shopping; she also had much more to wear than she had done before, having only owned clothes that had survived in the wreckage of her house.

However, Luna had quickly realised that getting to be alone in the Burrow isn't easy; if Molly wasn't asking her if she wanted or needed anything, Ginny would be asking her to go shopping with her and Hermione, and even if neither of them were on her case, she still found that there wasn't a single room in that large house that wasn't empty.

This had become obvious to Luna over her first breakfast at the Burrow.

(Flashback)

Luna woke up to the smell of bacon cooking. This immediately reminded her of the fact that she was not facing the wall of her room in the Leaky Cauldron; it was the wall of Ginny's room in the Burrow.

When she climbed out of bed she saw that Ginny was still asleep, so she quietly picked up some clothes and went to the bathroom and got changed in there.

The smell of the bacon frying made Luna's mouth water as she reached the bottom of the staircase, and she moved into the kitchen to find Molly standing by the oven.

''Good morning Mrs Weasley.''

''Oh Luna dear, you scared me. I'm usually up an hour or so before the others begin to wake up.''

''I'm sorry I scared you Mrs Weasley. I used to be the first one up also.''

Molly gave Luna a sad smile at her use of the past tense; she admired the girl in front of her so much. She had lost her entire family and yet here she was, smiling and polite, not to mention what she had done for George. ''Luna please call me Molly. Oh and could you please do me a favour and get the eggs out of the fridge?''

''Of course, it's the least I can do.''

Over the next fifteen or so minutes, Luna and Molly had cooked up a large selection of breakfast food and just minutes after they had finish, several sounds of movement could be heard on the upper floors of the house.

''Morning dear.'' Arthur kissed his wife on the cheek once he had reached the kitchen.

''Did you sleep well Luna? I know that spare bed can be uncomfortable.'' Percy asked, having entered the kitchen immediately after his father and was moving to take his seat at the table.

''Oh no, I was extremely comfortable thank you.''

''Yeah well anything's going to be comfortable after nearly two months in the Leaky Cauldron, I swear they had bricks in the mattresses in that place.'' Ron's drowsy voice was heard as he came down the last few stairs, still wearing his flannel pyjamas.

Two minutes later it was Ginny's turn to arrive down the stairs. ''Ron are you feeling alright?'' Ron simply stared at his sister, completely confused.

''I've come to breakfast late, and you haven't eaten everything.'' Luna, Percy, Arthur and Molly chuckled at Ginny's comment; Ron himself just went to grab some more bacon with his fork and piled it on to his plate.''

Last, but not least, George finally showed up several minutes after Ginny and took the last seat at the table, the one next to Luna that had been conveniently left vacant by the others.

As Percy asked his father what he would be doing on his Saturday off, George began filling his plate with one of everything available while also taking every available moment to take a glance next to him and make sure Luna was really there.

Luna caught one of those glances, and gave George a big smile before turning back to the food on her plate. George struggled to eat due to the large grin that was stuck on his face. He looked up at the sound of a stifled giggle, and saw Ginny looking directly back at him with a knowing look on her face.

''So Luna, for today I was wondering if you wanted to come on a trip to Diagon Alley with me; we can have lunch while we are there and if there is anything you need I'll be happy to get it for you.'' Molly asked Luna from across the table.

'Oh mum, I was going to ask if she would shopping with me.'' Luna switched her attention from Molly to Ginny. ''I noticed that you don't have many clothes with you. So I thought we could go out and buy you some more.''

''Well Ginny that's a lovely idea, but maybe for today Luna should just take things easy and come with me. Shopping with you can be quite and event sometimes. You can go tomorrow.''

Luna suppressed the need to shout out to Molly and Ginny that she was still in the room as she watched the two of them basically plan her week for her.

George save her a sympathetic look and squeezed her hand, something that Luna couldn't stop herself from smiling at.

She supposed that having something to do would be better than having nothing to do, even if she hadn't actually decided for herself what she was doing. After all it was only two days.

(End of flashback)

That had been a week ago. For the last seven days Luna had found herself being asked to do something every morning at breakfast; everytime by either Molly or Ginny.

Luna wanted to appreciate the Weasley's generosity so much but she couldn't see that actually happening until she was given one day to herself, and despite how dull it was staying at the Leaky Cauldron; Luna couldn't help but miss the time to herself staying there had given her.

The sound of feet moving in the grass told Luna that someone was coming towards her. She looked around the tree trunk to see her favourite Weasley walking towards where she was sat, and suddenly Luna forgot any reason for not wanting to be at the Burrow.

''Hey Lovegood, I'm glad I found you out here. I was worried you'd made a run for it.'' George said as he sat down in the grass in front of Luna.

Luna chuckled, it seemed as though George had learned to read her mind over the last week; he always seemed to know what she was thinking.

''I just like to sit here by myself. I don't know if you've realised, but there are a lot of people in your house.''

George chuckled. ''Yeah I guess if you haven't grown up with it, living here can be a lot to take.''

''I'm sure I'll get use to it soon.''

''Don't worry, I'm pretty certain Mum's going to be easing up on you from now on.''

''What makes you think that?''

Luna knew he had done something; as soon as she had asked that question, that cheeky grin of his had appeared.

''I may have mentioned something to her.''

''You didn't say anything to upset her did you?'' Luna suddenly felt very guilty.

''No, I was going to say something but she figured it out herself.'' One look at Luna's confused face told George that he was going to need to elaborate on what he had said. ''I started off by asking about what you two had been doing during the week, I was going to lead her into a conversation using that question, but I didn't need too. She realised herself that she had been taking up a lot of your time, then she went off to talk to Ginny. So I'm thinking you'll be able to make your own plans from now on.''

''Thank you George, it was very nice of you to talk to your mum for me, even if you didn't really need to in the end.''

''Your welcome, besides I couldn't have her pushing you out the door now could I.'' He winked at her and then got to his feet. ''I'll leave you to it then; you come here to be alone and I come wandering along, distracting you from your thoughts with my handsome face.''

Luna laughed sweetly as she looked up at George's cheeky expression. ''I don't mind if you distract me.''

''I thought you said you came here to be alone.''

''I did. But I don't mind sharing it with you.''

George smiled down at her. ''I'm going to hold you to that Lovegood. I'll see you inside.'' As he walked past her, he ruffled her hair with his hand and looked back at her with a smile that could have made Luna dizzy if she was stood up.

Living at the Burrow definitely does have its perks.

Next chapter: A certain date brings up isssues for Luna, can a certain Weasley help. Of course he can.

R & R