Moments in Time
II
Drunk
The potion turns an unmistakeable gold, and Molly groans. Percy is barely a year old and she is pregnant again.
What had she been thinking? She hadn't – she was drunk.
Disaster
She hears the words but cannot make sense of them.
"Arthur is hurt. Badly. Go to St. Mungo's."
She cannot believe it until she sees him lying so still.
Turned off
The boys are settled and Arthur is kissing and stroking her and she wants him so badly tonight.
A voice calls: "M-u-u-mmy! Charlie's been sick!"
The moment is gone.
Past, Present, Future
They tried to keep their children safe from the war.
Now their children are as involved in fighting as they are.
Perhaps their grandchildren will live in a safer world.
Dysfunctional
"How many children?"
"You do know what causes that, don't you?"
"You're pregnant again?"
Molly is tired of being made to feel there is something wrong with their family.
Men
Monica is the authority on men, and she holds forth to Molly and Sally.
"Men only want one thing," she says confidently. "However nice they seem."
Molly hopes she's wrong.
Behind my back
Arthur is being very evasive about where he was last night, and where his July bonus went.
The gold necklace he gives her on Ginny's first birthday is beautiful.
Study sessions
The girls giggle and whisper and pretend not to know that Arthur and Carlos and Daniel are looking their way.
Molly wishes Arthur was looking at her, not at Monica.
Cut it out
Arthur kisses her throat hard, and his hand is further up her skirt than is decent in public.
Auntie Muriel is looking their way.
"Cut it out!" Molly hisses.
Dreamt
It may not have been the big wedding she had planned as a silly little girl, but that did not matter.
Today was better than she could have dreamt.