I saw this coming I just didn't know it would take him this long to get around to it. He had been distancing himself from me since his brother`s funeral.
Finally a month afterwards George brought me to 'our' room in the joke shop and we took our usual spots on the upside down crates. I call it 'our' room because it is more like a fort than an actual room, it's where stuff is kept in the back of the shop but we've had our fair share of...fun in this here.
"Ange, I think we should take some time apart right now." Did I not totally call that one? But I wasn't letting Weasley here get away without a figh-er-discussion.
"Why?"
He sighed like this was obvious, "Because."
"No George, that's not going to pass anymore, for over a month you have not talked to me and if you are breaking up with me we are going to talk now." I'd had enough, I know he misses his brother but I have been through it all with him, you'd think I would have proven myself by now.
"Angelina, why can you not just accept that we aren't right? Maybe we should just move on!" Oh and he thinks he has the right to be angry? Well he has another thing coming.
"Because George no other girl would have taken your crap for the last while, that's why. I've really had enough of you feeling sorry for yourself, we've all lost someone. I'm sorry I can't replace your brother!" I was fuming, it didn't take much to tell you the truth but I could usually suppress it.
"My crap eh Ange? My twin, my brother, my best friend, the co-owner, my flatmate...is gone. He filled all of that and I have lost him and you are complaining about my CRAP!"
"Yes Geroge, I really am! I have lost a month of my life catering to you. Every night I am the one with you when you wake screaming. I have taken the subtle insults and the icy silences because you chose to blame me for everything that I'm NOT doing for you. True, you lost all of that and you expect me to fill all of those roles without letting me in! When was the last time you treated Fred like this?"
"DO NOT BRING HIM INTO THIS!"
"Why not George? The problem is that I can't be him."
"No Angelina, it's not. The problem is that with you I have trouble controlling my emotions and I hate it. I have never cried before except in front of you. I have never hurt as much as I did at Fred's funeral and you saw. And I never yell, ever yet here we are. I haven't treated you well recently and you shouldn't take it but you still stay. I don't want you to be with me, I am broken. You should be with a real man, not someone who can't keep from crying, god, I don't know what my problem is but I thought being away from you would solve it."
"Oh, so now you have no trouble talking to me. You've just been holding it in then; clearly this is entirely my fault."
"Yes, it is your fault. I am vulnerable around you just like Fred even though it's a different way I still feel it. It hurts so much to have lost him and I don't want to feel that so strongly again so losing you now is a hell of a lot better than losing you later on."
I don't want to cry but his logic is so messed up, I don't want to lose him either, I love him, I can't let him go.
"Aw, come here darling, Ange, don't cry love."
He opened his arms and I went to him thinking; this is how it should be always.
The next evening as I was locking up the shop with George he grabbed my hand and spun me around, we were standing in the busiest section of Diagon Alley but he felt it necessary to kneel down on the cobble stone path.
"Angelina Johnson would you, my beautiful girl, give the honour to the holiest man you know and marry him?"
My first reaction was shock
The next came us glee and I started bouncing and saying yes
And finally the good come backs came to mind like asking "the holiest man, I'm sure I wouldn't mind but where is he?" or saying "Oh, I thought you were asking for yourself." But no, like all come backs they came too late, I was already engaged.
"Love, I'm sorry about yesterday. I had gone to ask your father's permission to marry you and he brought up some good points...too good and that got me thinking. But never mind that...thanks for saying yes, especially in front of all these people."
George stood up and kissed me with an appreciative amount of enthusiasm. In the background someone yelled "save it for the wedding!" and all I could think was 'Welcome to the Weasley Family'.
I'm glad people are reading these and hopefully enjoying them, I like writing them :). Thanks Jon for checking this one and my last one. Again, because I can't help myself, PLEASE review!
