A/N: I am so sorry about not updating in so long! I have been so busy with school work. I will try update more in the near future. Also, Perdrey love may not start for a while since it will be SLOW and gradual as expected of Percy. Please review with any ideas for future or constructive criticism. Thanks for sticking with me. P.S. Following means you will be up to date. 04/04/2014
Audrey checked the store for any stragglers left behind before she locked up and left. Four hours since Percy was here. It feels longer. She thought to herself before kicking something on the ground. She knelt down and lifted up a key ring with a key and tag on it.
She stood up and held the tag up to the light to read it.
Name: Percy Ignatius Weasley
Address: 18b Harvey Terrace, London.
If found, please return to owner IMMEDIATELY.
"Well that was easy." She chuckled, pocketing the keys. "I'm going, John, I'll lock up!" she shouted to the elderly man that owned the store. He nodded to her and Audrey waved goodbye. She locked the door behind her then walked to the bus station. She put in her earphones and hummed softly as she waited on the bus to arrive.
"Keep it down." A balding middle-aged man muttered, giving her a dirty look.
Audrey sighed and turned off the music which ultimately stopped her humming.
Once on the bus, she took the key out of her pocket. "How can a guy have such neat writing…? She asked herself quietly. "It's unnatural…" She thought about her own brother's writing, a memory springing to mind.
10 year old Ian sat hunched over a piece of paper. He had his tongue stuck out in concentration as he wrote.
"What's that?" I ask him. He finishes off the word he is on then hands me the page. "It's too messy to read, Ian." I tell him and he snatches the page back.
"It's for the tooth faery. She is taking my tooth to her castle tonight. I want her to put my tooth on the tallest tower." Ian tells me. I laugh at how silly that sounds.
"The tooth faery doesn't -" I am cut off by mum.
"The tooth faery can't read very well so Ian's letter is perfect." She says, giving me a stern look.
A voice brought her out of her reverie.
"Percy always has been a bit OCD. His writing has to be of a certain size, shape, font and elegance." A ginger haired man said. He looked maybe a year younger than her but the wary look about his face had aged him badly and was as familiar as his hair. Audrey had to actually look up to speak to him. "George Weasley, younger brother of the prat you are about to visit."
"Ahh, it's a pleasure to meet you, George. I'm Audrey Greene, the person who is returning the keys the prat dropped." She held out her hand and George shook it. "Is your brother always so anti-social?" She asked jokingly.
George rubbed the back of his neck. "Yeah, more than usual, lately." He told her and glanced out the window. "If you get off at the next stop then you will be a minute walk from his apartment." He then grinned slightly. "I'm not sure what he and Penelope do in there so be ready to wait for an answer."
Audrey wrinkled her nose in disgust but laughed slightly anyway. "Thanks for the mental image."
"No problem." George chuckled. "Can you also tell him that mum expects him around for dinner tomorrow?" He asked. "He has missed multiple family dinners already."
"I'll pass on the message!" She called to him then got off as the bus stopped.
"Thanks, I will hopefully see you around!" George shouted back.
Audrey made her along the street watching the door numbers. 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. She paused then walked to the door. It sat open and the door just to the left said 18c and to the right was 18d. Audrey made her way up the stairs in front of her, guessing that the descending stairs were to the laundry room or else the storage room. Upstairs there were two more doors. One with 18a on it and one with 18b. 18b had a lot of noise coming from it.
Audrey hesitated then decided to wait until the crashes, bangs and wallops all stopped. She waited for a long time then finally reached over to the door, still sitting on the ground. Knock, knock, knock, pause, knock, knock, knock, pause, knock, knock, and knock. And so she continued.
Audrey never did find out how long she sat there but at some point she heard her phone ring and for the next 47 minutes and 29 seconds she listened to her sister's worrying.
"I will be home once I finish this errand. Love you, Amy." She said before hanging up and standing up.
Going against all that she knew was right and respectable, she took the key out of her pocket and unlocked the door. She gently pushed it open inch by inch. Once she peered in, the man of perfection whom she had met, lay among the wreck of his apartment.
"Oh, Percy… What happened?" She asked softly.
A/N: I've been told suspense is good but I will try make next chapter bigger, thanks for reading.