Chapter 2: Visitor
(Harry P.O.V.)
"You must be Mr. Dursley, so nice to meet you. I've heard so much about you!" My heart started beating a mile a minute. Bella was here, at Privet Drive shaking my Uncle's hand. Was I dreaming?
"American! Well now isn't that fascinating. You must be one of Dudley's friends from school." My aunt had obviously scuttled her way to the door. One part of me wanted to sprint to the door and scoop Bella up into a big hug, and the other part was so nervous it wanted to hide under the cupboard.
"Oh actually I'm-"My Aunt cut her off.
"Do come in, come in please. Any friend of Dudley is always welcome in this house. I'm Petunia Dursley! A Pleasure it is to meet you!" She had turned on her sickly sweet voice that she only used with Dudley and when company was over. It always made me want to pull my ears off.
Shaking, I walked over to the mirror that hung on the middle of the wall in the kitchen. I was failing miserably at trying to make my hair stay down, which it never seemed to want to do.
Out of the corner of my eye I could see that Dudley and his two friends had stood up to get a good view of the visitor, and by the looks on their faces, Bella was far prettier than Olivia Stewart. Dudley's mouth was open in shock, and he had a dumb look plastered on his face. The other two boys had their eyes bulging out of their heads.
Uncle Vernon had come into the living room enough where I could see him. He clapped Dudley on the back. "Now, Dudley, why is it you've never mentioned anything about this lovely lady to us before."
I heard Bella begin to speak but Aunt Petunia cut her off. "Yes! What a beautiful girl you are, Isabella. I am just shocked that Dudley hasn't introduced us before."
The only sounds coming out of Dudley in his defense were very short utterances that were indecipherable.
"Oh Dudley! A girl like Isabella is nothing to be embarrassed about or ashamed of! No need to be shy-"
"That's very kind to say Mr. Dursley, but I'm afraid I had never met Dudley until just now."
I tried one last time (unsuccessfully) to get one piece of hair to flatten before taking a deep breath and stepping into the living room.
"What do you mean you hadn't-"
"She means she doesn't know Dudley," I said walking into the room. Everyone's eyes fell on me, including a pair that I'm quite fond of. Deep green, surrounded by long eyelashes. She was even more beautiful than I remembered, and that is saying something. She had on normal muggle clothes. A dress with a very intricate pattern and a pair of sneakers. Her wild mane of black curly hair was pulled out of her face so that I could see her clearly. When she saw me, she gave me a huge smile that made my heart lurch. All nervousness vanished, and was replaced with how much I had missed her.
Before I could say anything else, she closed the gap between us and threw her arms around my neck and her legs around my middle. It only took a second for me to catch her with my arms around her back. Dudley's mouth opened even wider.
"Still remember me?" She whispered into my ear.
I laughed, "Now, how could I forget?"
We stayed like that for a second longer before she loosened her grip and fell back to the floor. We both looked out to my relatives, whom I had never seen look so shocked. Oh this was going to be fun.
"Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, Dudley and friends. This is my girlfriend," Dudley made a sound that resembled that of a small choke. "Isabella Riddle."
Dudley seemed to finally find his voice, "This can't- I don't- what game are you playing at? Is this some kind of joke? Is he paying you?"
Bella tried her best not to laugh and keep up her 'meeting the family' attitude, "No game, no joke, and I'm not being paid. I'm actually really surprised you are surprised. You act like you didn't know that your cousin is quite the charmer when it comes to the ladies." It took all I could to not burst out laughing. Dudley looked like someone had come along and erased all the memory on his video game. His two friends stared at me as if I was some kind of Greek god. This was for sure one of the best moments of my life.
"Him?! You've got to be kidding?" Dudley said, horrified.
"I'm just glad I was quick to snatch him up before someone else had the opportunity." She had put her arm around my back and pulled me closer to her. She gave me a small wink that only I could see. Then she quickly turned her attention to my still very stunned Aunt and Uncle.
"I'm very sorry for barging in unannounced, but I was wondering if you would mind if I borrowed Harry a little early before school starts up again. We've both been asked to stay with a friend for the remainder of the holiday, and I was sent to come get him." I looked down at her very excited.
Uncle Vernon was clearly not, "Now see here young lady! I will not allow him to go gallivanting around the countryside doing god knows what unsupervised with a bunch of hooligans!" then he turned to me, "The last thing we need in this family is for you to get some girl pregnant." My face turned red, both with anger and with embarrassment.
Before I could say anything Bella replied coolly, "Oh no need to worry about that, Mr. Dursley," She said taking my hand and leading me towards the door, "there will be plenty of adult supervision and we are always safe." She said with a wink. This made me turn even redder. I heard Dudley and Vernon make identical choking sounds while Petunia stared at us in disgust. The other two boys were still gawking at me.
"It was so very nice to meet you all! Thanks for being so great and letting him come! We will take care of his things later don't you worry. Goodbye!" she said rather quickly, pulling me out the door behind her.
"Now that was absolutely brilliant!" I said beaming down at her. "Thanks for all the talk in front of Dudley by the way. I wish I could have gotten a picture of the look on his face. Good thinking just rushing out like that. Leaves them too confused to question it that much."
She smirked, "I'd say it was all part of the strategy but I really just was in a hurry to do this." She grabbed the front of my shirt and hastily pulled my face down to meet hers. She kissed me urgently, like she had been holding it in for a long time and couldn't keep it back any longer. It was even more spectacular than I remembered.
When she pulled away I only let her get far enough away to where our foreheads rested together. Both of us breathing heavily. I was sure she could feel my heart beating fast from where her hands were still gripping my shirt.
"I missed you." I said before really thinking about it.
She took one last long breath before pulling her head away, and taking her hand off my shirt before grabbing one of my hands and pulling me down the walk way in front of the Dursley's. "I missed you too."
"Now, how are we going to get to the burrow?"
"I'm afraid that we have to help out an old friend first, but it shouldn't take long. Then I'm assuming he will get us there."
"Dumbledore," I said as a statement rather than a question. "What does he need us to do?"
"Knowing him, it could be anything." I snorted in agreement.
I let her lead the way down the rest of the way to the street, and then we continued on down Privet Drive. I turned around to glance back one last time at the house that I wouldn't be seeing again for a while. I could just make out the outline of three boys in the window, gawking in our direction.
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