AN: Here you go, another chapter! I appreciate all the reviews, and I hope to see more!
*Chapter 20*
"Good thing I wasn't hungry, you know," Alicia said as she poured herself another mug of tea in Angelina's kitchen Monday evening. "After all, I was completely right and it looks like I won't be eating my words at all!"
After breakfast on Saturday, Angelina and George had barely left her flat until Monday morning, when the real world called and reminded them of their responsibilities and lives. Until then it had been an amazing haze of shagging and snuggling and sleeping.
Katie and Angelina chuckled. Angelina had invited them over for dinner since George would be busy until later at the shop.
"Yes, well, you may have been right, but I'm still the one that got shagged," Angelina quipped. They cackled like women do when they share all the juicy details of romance with each other and each one knows exactly what the other means. Angelina had been gushing for an hour about how fantastic her weekend is, how amazing a lover George was, and how she had never felt so taken care of in her life.
"Angelina, I could not be happier for you," Katie said. She reached across and took Angelina's hand in hers. "You deserve to be taken care of. Both you and George do. I know I was pushy back when I wanted you two to get together, but it was really because I knew you needed to be together. I'm so glad, too. Think of how fantastic it will be now that we're all in love and on our way to happier futures!"
She squeezed Angelina's hand, and Angelina squeezed back. She hadn't really thought about the future yet, but she supposed it didn't seem so bad now to think about it. She had once only been concerned with getting through the next day, but now she wondered if maybe she could think about next year, or even the next five years. She was attending Ron and Hermione's wedding in a month, and shortly after the New Year would be Harry and Ginny's turn. Katie and Oliver's wedding was in February. She was sure by then she'd have even more weddings to attend. Lee and Alicia were more serious than ever, and it seemed as if Lee would pop the question any day now. They were getting older, the war was put behind them, and more and more of her classmates were bound to be getting engaged as time went on.
So where did that leave her? She wasn't quite sure. Alicia handed her some tea. Had she noticed her getting a bit panicked? If she had, she didn't show it. They continued chatting about their boys and their lives until George came home around ten and the other girls immediately found reasons that they needed to be home. George couldn't help but chuckle at their not so subtle exits.
"They didn't need to rush off like that," he said. "I must need a shower if I'm scaring them off within minutes of getting in."
"Oh you know how they can get," Angelina said as she cleared up the mugs from the coffee table. "Like hens, those two, when they get in a dilly talking about boys and life and all that mess."
"Boys, eh? I knew you had more than one of us to talk about," George laughed as he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her neck. She set the mugs down in the sink and let him hold and kiss her. The whole time she'd been sitting there talking with her friends, she had been panicking, thinking about what the future meant and all the things she ought to consider. Was she going to be with George forever? It certainly felt like it. Should they get married sooner than later when all their friends were? What did the future even hold for them?
As she let herself be held and rocked there in her kitchen, she pushed away the panic. She had no idea if George had even thought about their future past the next weekend, so why should she get worked up about it tonight? Instead tonight she was going to enjoy going to bed with her boyfriend and waking up in the morning to his handsome face.