Chapter 5
When Uncle Harry, Louis, Adelaide and I walked back into the Burrow the family room area was completely empty. The kids must have been told to go make themselves busy outside, because the only noise coming from the house was a very heated debate coming from the kitchen. The four of us made our way towards the noise, and stopped in the doorway to watch as the argument unfolded. It turned out that the occupants of the kitchen were Aunt Fleur, Aunt Ginny, my father, my mother, Molly, Abenner and my Aunt Hermione.
"The two of them are going straight to hell! Do you understand that? You shouldn't support this!" Aunt Fleur yelled towards my Aunt Ginny.
"I personally do not believe that God has anything against homosexuals. I think he is more worried over murders, child abusers and psychopaths," Aunt Ginny responded, with just as much fire in her words.
"Even so, she is going to ruin this family's wholesome reputation," Aunt Fleur replied.
"Just because my daughter is dating Adelaide doesn't make her any less wholesome," my mother defended my honor, making my heart swell. She then turned towards my father, "Are you just going to stand there and let her trash your daughter."
"She is no longer my daughter. She chose to leave this family. I fought in a war in order to allow her to have the lifestyle and peace that she was raised with. She just threw that all away. Her being a lesbian is just the final nail in the coffin. I'm done with her," my father replied, his tone dripping with ice.
I stood there paralyzed at my father's words, only slightly realizing that Adelaide had put her arm around me and pulled me close. My mother walking across the room and slapping my father across the face was what pulled me out of my motionless state.
"I'm sorry that I couldn't be the perfect daughter. I'm sorry that I apparently did not appreciate everything that you fought for," I stated, walking into the room and surprising all of the adults, "I fought for my dreams though, and I succeeded. You would know about this, if you took the time to come see my band in concert or even wrote to me. Also, who I love should not make a difference. That is the one thing that I will never apologize for. There is nothing wrong with Adelaide and I being together."
"Louis I want you to go outside and join your cousins. I don't want you hearing this," Aunt Fleur stated when she realized that her son was standing in the doorway.
"Mum, I'm not a little kid anymore," Louis replied, but his mother gave him an indignant stare and he turned and obeyed her orders.
There was silence for a couple moments after Louis left, before my sister spoke up. She was sitting on the window-seat in her fiancé's arms.
"You have some nerve to come back here. Not only that, you come here with you girlfriend. Do you not understand that you are doing nothing but tearing this family apart?"
"I'm not doing anything other than being myself!"
"Well then that is clearly the problem. You don't fit into this family, so you should clearly disappear again. It worked out well for you the first time apparently," Molly stated, her words feeling like a sword stabbing my heart.
"You will not talk to your sister that way Molly!" my mother scolded, but my father was nodding his approval.
"No, Molly is absolutely right," my father stated, "This girl standing here is not my daughter. The girl I knew was sweet and innocent and loyal. She would never run away from the family that did so much for her."
"You really are an idiot of an older brother," Aunt Ginny replied, "This girl is your daughter and she needs your support and your love. Are you really that stupid that you would be willing to disown her because she followed her dreams and she is with another girl?"
"If you don't mind me stating…Percy you currently have the mindset of people like the Malfoys or the Blacks. I thought you were above disowning people because they aren't your idea of perfect," Aunt Hermione chimed in. My father really did NOT like being compared to the Malfoys and quickly got up and childishly stormed out of the room.
Aunt Hermione came over to me and pulled me into a hug, "Before you go back to your tour in the US, we are going to sit down and catch up. I would love if Adelaide could come too. Does that sound good?"
"That sounds amazing Aunt Hermione," I replied, eyes tearing up at my aunt's words, "But if it is going to cause a rift between you and Uncle Ron than I don't want to…"
"Trust me your Uncle Ron doesn't care. You aren't dating Scorpius Malfoy, unlike our daughter, so you are okay in his book. Now if you will excuse me, I probably should go get Ronald away from our daughter. I think she has been scolded enough on the matter. Don't worry; I'm going to talk to her about outing you. I'm very sorry that she did so and she will be apologizing to the two of you, even if I have to drag her in and move her lips for her."
With that said my Aunt Hermione left the room, leaving me with my mother, Aunt Fleur, Aunt Ginny, Molly, Abenner and Adelaide. My mother looked fairly calm given the situation, Aunt Fleur looked liked she wanted to slap me in the face, Aunt Ginny looked like she wanted to slap Aunt Fleur in the face, Molly looked generally pissed, Abenner looked lost in his own world of thought and Adelaide just grabbed my hand and squeezed it as a show of her support.
"Aunt Ginny, thank you so much for sticking up for me," I stated, wanting to show her just how much I truly appreciated her support, "Mum…I really appreciate your support as well. I hope that we can have a nice dinner together sometime before I go back. I really do think that it is best that Adelaide and I go back to Aunt Ginny and Uncle Harry's house now though. I am clearly splitting this family apart at the moment and that is the last thing that I want to do."
"Oh save the saint act, you always were the attention whore in the family," Molly stated while rolling her eyes.
"Molly that is enough out of you," my mum stated, giving Molly the full brunt of one of her stern motherly stares, "This may be your pre-wedding party, but your sister only came to be supportive. Do not blame this on her. As I and everyone else in the family can recall it wasn't Lucy who came out it was Rose who did it for her."
"It doesn't matter who said it! She still showed up, after ditching this family for several years, right before MY wedding. Not only did she do that, she had the nerve to come with her girlfriend!"
"I don't care if she showed up with a llama wearing a tutu! She is still your sister and she came to support you! You are being unbelievably selfish and so very like your father at the moment that it isn't even funny. This is not how I raised you!"
"You raised me to appreciate everything that I have. To appreciate the freedom that I have in the Wizarding world to not be judged on my blood type and to not have been ruled by an evil man…this freedom that Lucy just threw away."
"If I recall correctly every story I have ever heard about the Wizarding war has to do with love overpowering evil in the end. Love like what is between Lucy and I. I'm sorry that I asked her to run away with me. We were young and foolish and had big dreams. We worked hard though, and made those dreams come true, and what kept us together that entire time was the love that we shared," Adelaide stated, joining the conversation that she was trying so hard to leave just to the family, "I think you are right Lucy, it is time for us to leave. It's not because you are tearing this family apart though. It's time for us to leave because they don't deserve for you to even try and be nice or supportive to them if they can't even see how truly amazing you are."
It's so cheesy to say…but my heart melted at my girlfriend's words. Adelaide squeezed my hand once more before looking at my mother and smiling.
"It was a pleasure to meet you and I look forward to having dinner with you sometime soon and chatting."
"It was great to meet you too Adelaide. I look forward to it as well. After the wedding tomorrow we will meet up for drinks. I don't want to wait any longer than that to get to know you. I also have to play the overprotective parent and make death threats as well."
"Looking forward to it, ma'am."
With that said, we took our leave. Even though I found out that part of my family doesn't support me, I still felt like I was floating on air. That was all thanks to the amazing girl with her arm wrapped around my shoulders. This floating feeling lasted until we walked into the living room and found more of the family to face…