So here is Chapter 6. I'm sorry it took such a long time to be updated, but you know how busy the life of a college student is. I promise that I will try not to abandon any of my stories, I know I personally hate when that happens. So here we go. Oh and in the case of the two songs that are in this chapter, I went with the Glee version for both of them. I always pictured Lucy's voice being very similar to Lea Michele's. Sorry if you don't like Glee and/or Lea Michele…it's my favorite TV show and I'm really addicted to her voice. I guess you could look up different versions of the song and use that as Lucy's voice, but just know that it is written as Lea Michele's. Okay? Cool. Haha. And now that I have had my paragraph long ramble…
Chapter 6
Adelaide and I walked into the living room and came face to face with my grandparents, Uncle Charlie, Aunt Angelina, Uncle George, Victoire and Teddy.
"You two aren't leaving are you?" Grandmother asked us, with a saddened look on her face.
"Yes we are heading out. Molly has given her opinion on the matter of me being here and since it is her wedding I think it's best to obey her," I replied, "I really don't know why she sent me an invitation if this is the way she reacts to my being here."
"She didn't send you an invitation….I did," Grandmother stated, causing Adelaide and I to stop in our tracks and turn around and face her.
"What? Why would you do that?"
"I had a feeling that you didn't tell your family in that letter that you didn't want anything to do with us anymore. I thought that it was time for you to come back to the family. You have been missed," Grandmother explained.
"So she never wanted me here to begin with?"
Grandmother didn't respond but merely just looked at me with tears in her eyes.
"Of course not," I replied shaking my head, "Well it was great seeing you all. We are just going to go now."
Adelaide and I made it a couple more feet before we were once again stopped. This time it was by Victoire.
"Wait, you just got here. We haven't had a chance to really catch up yet!" Victoire stated, stepping towards us.
"We can set up some time to talk before I go back to the U.S. However, I really do think its best that we leave and let Molly and Abenner get on with their party. So…see you all later."
With that said Adelaide and I stepped into the floo and headed back to Uncle Harry's house.
"Let's raid the fridge for some food and then get to bed," Adelaide suggested.
It wasn't that late, only about 7:30, but the jetlag and the emotional exhaustion were hitting me hard. I nodded my head in agreement and we headed to the kitchen to see if we could scrape something together for dinner. Our dinner ended up being a salad and some leftover pizza. After this we headed up to the guest room, got changed, and climbed into bed. Adelaide pulled me into her arms and I ended up crying out all of my emotions before falling asleep. The next thing I knew I smelled coffee, bacon and eggs. Groggily sitting up, I wiped the sleep out of my eyes and saw Adelaide standing there with a tray of food and a smile on her face.
"Since your family is off at the wedding, I decided that it would be perfect to lie in bed all day and do nothing. Your Uncle showed me where everything I needed is and said that we have free range of the house," Adelaide said placing the tray of food down in front of me and climbing back into bed next to me.
"Have I ever told you that you are the best?" I asked, still in shock that someone so amazing is my girlfriend.
"Only every single day…but I don't tire of it, so you shouldn't stop," Adelaide replied and I stuck my tongue out at her in reply.
The food ended up being amazing. I swear there is nothing that Adelaide can't do…well scratch that. She is really horrible at bowling. This thought put a smile on my face and caused Adelaide to look at me confused.
"What?"
"I just was thinking about how horrible you are at bowling."
"Oh shut up…I'm not that bad!"
"You almost knocked someone out when you accidentally threw the ball backwards instead of bowling it down the lane like you are supposed to!" I replied, hardly able to get the words out because I was laughing so hard.
"Okay…maybe I am that bad…but you have no room to talk! Remember that time that we went mini-golfing and you somehow managed to lose your grip on the golf club and it flew into the little pond!"
"I just got a little too excited with my swing. It's perfectly reasonable!"
"Uh huh," Adelaide replied rolling her eyes.
The rest of the morning and early afternoon was spent this way, just talking and laughing about all of our memories together. Before we knew it our stomachs were once again growling from hunger.
"Well I guess we better get up and get some lunch," I stated, grudgingly getting out of bed.
"Yeah, and we might want to make ourselves look presentable. We are meeting some of your family for drinks at four. It's the time between the wedding and the reception," Adelaide stated, following me down to the kitchen.
"How do you know this?"
"I talked to your Uncle and Aunt this morning while I was making us breakfast," Adelaide replied.
"What time is it now?"
"About two."
"And where are we meeting them?" I asked, pulling some bread out of the cabinet.
"I don't know. Your Uncle said that he would come pick us up."
Adelaide and I made ourselves look presentable, both opting to put light sundresses on. At about 3:50 my Uncle Harry came through the floo into the house.
"Are you ready to go? We are going to take my car," Uncle Harry stated, walking into the kitchen and grabbing his keys off of the rack.
"You have a car?" Adelaide asked raising an eyebrow.
"Of course, I was actually raised by muggles you know," Uncle Harry replied with a laugh.
"Oh…right. Let's go then."
About ten minutes later Uncle Harry parked out front of a bar. We all got out and walked in. We found my grandparents, my mum, Aunt Ginny, Aunt Hermione, Uncle Ron and Victoire waiting at a table for us.
"I'm so glad you guys could make it. How was the wedding?" I asked while sitting down in a chair next to my mum with Adelaide sitting on my other side.
"It was beautiful," my mum replied, "I still can't believe my eldest daughter is married. However, we are not here to talk about that, we are here to talk about you and Adelaide. So first question, how did you two meet?"
"Well we actually met in detention. I had skipped class because I ignored my alarmed clock and decided to sleep in. Lucy had it because she talked back to a teacher…" Adelaide explained, to which of course I had to add.
"Okay, he was giving the wrong answer to a question and I merely informed him that he was inaccurate. He didn't quite like this and said I was being too mouthy," I explained.
"It was only the two of us in detention and the professor had to live to take care of some business so the two of us got to talking. We somehow got into the topic of fashion and music and realized that we had to same taste. I guess you can say the rest was history," Adelaide explained with a smile, "By the end of my sixth year and Lucy's fifth year I plucked up the courage to tell her that I was actually in love with her. I was just praying that she wouldn't run off and never talk to me again."
"Of course that is not what happened. I knew I was in love with her about a month into our friendship and the whole time I was so terrified that she was going to find out and hate me. When she finally told me how she felt I think I like grabbed her face a planted a massive kiss upon it," I reminisced with a smirk.
"So when did you realize that you were a lesbian? I mean I never had even an inkling and we were really close growing up," Victoire asked, sipping her cocktail.
"I don't think it was something I ever really questioned too much. I just knew how I felt for her. I wasn't really concerned about labels."
"So how did you two come to the decision to run away to California?" Uncle Ron asked.
"Well we bonded over our love of music, like stated. However, we both knew that we didn't want to just be limited to the practically non-existent music scene in the Wizarding world. We wanted to make a bigger splash," Adelaide explained, "I mean as selfish as it sounds, we thought we were bigger than just the small secluded world. We didn't want to be held back. If you have ever heard Lucy's voice you understand what I mean. Her voice is truly magical."
"You are just saying that," I replied, blushing at her compliment.
When I looked over at her she was staring at me with love in her eyes. I could tell that she really truly believed what she was saying. I swear I could try all of my life, but I don't think I will ever be good enough for her. She is just so amazing.
"Will you sing for us?" Aunt Hermione asked, "They have a stage and I am sure the patrons here wouldn't mind."
"Er—I don't think so. I mean I don't want to interrupt their drinking and private conversations," I replied, scratching awkwardly at the back of my neck.
"Well they will be let down then, because we already asked the bartender and he was thrilled to have the famous Lucy Weasley and Adelaide Burke from the famous band The Muggles play for his bar," Uncle Harry stated with a wink at my girlfriend.
"You knew about this?" I asked, turning my gaze toward her.
"Yep, and they have my guitar waiting here for me, your Uncle dropped it off earlier," she replied with a smirk.
Adelaide then stood up and grabbed my hand and pulled me toward the stage where there was a microphone set up.
"Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I am Adelaide Burke and this is Lucy Weasley and we are from the band The Muggles. If it is alright with you guys, we are going to play a couple songs for you," Adelaide said into the microphone.
She then turned and was handed a guitar from a man who worked at the bar. It was then that I turned and saw the entire bar waiting in anticipation to hear us play. I took a deep breath as Adelaide fiddled with her acoustic guitar for a couple seconds, making sure it was in tune. She gave me a nod and then began to play a familiar tune. I immediately fell into my normal stage presence and began to sing…
When I look into your eyes
It's like watching the night sky
Or a beautiful sunrise
Well there is so much they hold
And just like them old stars
I see that you have come so far
To be right where you are
How old is your soul
Well I won't give up
On us
Even if the skies get rough
I'm giving you all my love
I'm still looking up
And when you're needing your space
To do some navigating
I will be here patiently waiting
To see what you find
Cause even the stars they burn
Some even fall to the earth
We've got a lot to learn
God knows we're worth it
No I won't give up
I don't want to be someone
Who walks away so easily
I'm here to stay
And make the difference that I can make
Our differences they do a lot
To teach us how to use
The tools we got
Yeah, we've got a lot at stake
And in the end you're still my friend
At least we did intend
For us to work
We didn't break
We didn't burn
We had to learn
How to bend
Without the world caving in
I had to learn
What I've got
And what I'm not
And who I am
No I won't give up on us
Even if the skies get rough
I'm giving you all of my love
I'm still looking up
I'm still looking up
I won't give up on us
God knows I'm tough enough
We've got a lot to learn
God knows we're worth it
I won't give up on us
Even if the skies get rough
I'm giving you all my love
I'm still looking up
Everyone in the bar stood up and started clapping when Adelaide and I finished the song.
"Okay we have one more song for you guys, I hope you enjoy," Adelaide said into the microphone and once again began to play a familiar song.
We could just go home right now
Or maybe we could stick around
For just one more drink
Oh yeah
Get another bottle out
Let's shoot the breeze, sit back down
For just one more drink
Oh yeah
Here's to us
Here's to love
All the times the we messed up
Here's to you
Fill the glass
Cause the last few days have gone too fast
So let's give 'em hell
Wish everybody will
Here's to us
Here's to us
We stuck it out this far together
Put our dreams through the shredder
Let's toast cause things
Got Better
And everything could change like that
And all these years go by so fast
But nothing lasts
Forever
Here's to us
Here's to love
All the times the we messed up
Here's to you
Fill the glass
Cause the last few nights have gone too fast
If they give you hell
Tell 'em to forget themselves
Here's to us
Here's to us
Here's to all that we kissed
And to all that we missed
To the biggest mistakes
That we just wouldn't trade
Here's to us breaking up
Without us breaking down
To whatever's coming our way
Here's to us
Here's to love
All the times that we messed up
Here's to you
Fill the glass
Cause the past few days have gone too fast
So let's give 'em hell
Wish everybody will
Here's to us
Here's to us
Here's to love
All the times the we messed up
Here's to you
Fill the glass
Cause the last few nights have gone too fast
If they give you hell
Tell 'em to forget themselves
(Go fuck themselves)
Here's to us
(Here's to us)
Here's to us
(Here's to us)
Here's to us
Here's to love
Here's to us
(Wish everybody will)
Here's to us
Here's to love
Here's to us
Here's to us
I turned when I was done to look at my family and gauge their reactions. They were all staring at me with gaping mouths. Now that I think about it though, I never really sang much in front of them.
After being thanked by the bartender, Adelaide and I walked back over to my family.
"So er—how was that?" I asked, picking back up my beer.
Thank you so much for reading the chapter and this story, if I even still have people that read this. I would love to know what you think!