Three hours later: Muggle London
"I think we should go there-" Hermione started to say as Ginny walked along side her with Gary by her side. She stopped halfway through her sentence though and shouted with surprise, "- Miro!"
Miroslav Hugo Krum grinned cheekily and walked out from under her dress with a very Viktor-ish grin. He then pointed at the 'big bwook' on the front of bookshop and smiled expectantly as if they were going to get him it.
Ginny rolled her eyes despite smiling inside at the child's cuteness, "We should just stroll around and get some ice-cream before we-" She saw from the corner of her eye, that her son was pulling at Viktoria's hair. "- Gary! Let go of Viktoria's hair-" He looked at her with an ashamed look and mumbled a baby apology to Viktoria who smacked him in return with a smile. "-before we go shopping,"
Hermione nodded in agreement. "It's quite hot today, isn't it?"
After picking up Viktoria, she held Miro's hand, "Okay, Viktoria? What ice-cream do you want?"
The young girl squealed in delight at the mention of ice-cream. Ginny had found out during her long stay with the Krum's that Viktoria Rose Krum absolutely adored ice cream, without it, the girl would... die? "Vawiwa!" she said, now wiggling with joy.
Hermione smiled and tried to keep her energetic daughter calm, "Not vawiwa," she said, correcting her. "Va-nil-la."
Viktoria scowled as Gary said, "Mommy? Cooooookeh"
Ginny noticed that Viktoria had gotten upset as all the attention of 'ice cream' had gone to him instead. She gave her a small pat in the back to tell her that she still had 'Ginny's' attention.
Miro raised his hand to get some attention. "Mommy! Mommy! Choclet! Choclet!"
Ginny smiled and rolled her eyes. "Kids..."
Hermione smiled along with her. "Vanilla, cookies and cream and chocolate it is."
The two adults and three babies walked over to the Ben and Jerry's ice-cream store who were all squirming with delight. Ginny couldn't remember the last time they had been this excited and wondered if ice-cream was the only way to get them this... excited.
The woman at the counter smiled at them as they got to the shop and waved at the children. She looked at Ginny then at Gary then at Hermione then Viktoria then Miro. "Oh my God! They are absolutely adorable!" she said, almost squealing. "I'm guessing that the cute boy in your arms-" looking towards Ginny with a happy expression, "-Is your brother and those two-" she said, looking towards Miro and Viktoria then Hermione, "Are your brother and sister?" She sighed. "They are all so small and cute!"
Ginny laughed at her comments. Muggles seemed to mistake her son for her brother because of her age. "Actually no," she said, making the woman thoroughly confused. "He's my son and those two over their are my best friend's twins."
The woman looked at them startled and seemed displeased for some reason. She mumbled something to herself before looking at them weakly. "Oh, I thought that... Oh.. You two look so young... Oh um..."
Ginny smiled. It was quite normal for wizards and witches to have children at her age. The muggles didn't seem to quite agree as they all got married quite late... They get married at like 25 or something, that's old!!!!!
"Nice day, huh?" The woman said weakly, changing subject. "What would you girls and guy like to eat?"
Miro smiled up at the lady, giving him his sweetest smile. "Wawilla, chocklet and cooooookey!"
Viktoria smacked his head, scowling slightly at his mistake. "Nawt wawilla! VA-wiwa!"
Before Ginny could say anything again, her son beat her to it.
"Nawt VA-wiwa," he said grinning as if he had just achieved something brilliant, "VAAAAAA-neeeeeeee-laaaaaaaaaa!" His pitch went up with each syllable he said.
Ginny shook her head as Viktoria and Miro covered their ear's in what seemed like pain. "So we'll be having plain vanilla, chocolate fudge brownie, cookies 'n' cream, strawberry swirl and..." She turned to face Hermione for a moment. "Hermione? What do you want?"
She looked surprised for a moment and shook her head. "Oh-No, I don't really like ice-cream..."
Ginny frowned. "Oh come on! Are you in a diet or something!"
The woman at the counter looked at her with a look of shock. "Lady!!! Look at you! You're skinny as a stick!"
Hermione smiled weakly and glared at Ginny who chuckled at her. "No thank you. I don't like ice cream..."
"If you insist... My treat" Ginny said before paying the woman in muggle pounds.
One hour later
Ginny had managed to get herself ten new tops and five new skirts and two dresses. They were all quite up to date and were actually clothes for her age. She couldn't believe she had actually been dressing up like her 'mum' over the past few months, it had made her look old. Most of her clothes had been picked out by her son, who had surprisingly good taste in fashion. She wondered who he had got it from...
"Mommy, me too!" her son said, looking up at her with puppy-dog eyes. He pointed towards her shopping bags and smiled.
Ginny smiled back at him. "I've already bought you a new toy and a few t-shirts and shorts. You still want more?"
Her son frowned, knowing that he couldn't win an argument against his mother. "No,"
"We better go to Diagon Alley now," Hermione said, as she quickly minimized her shopping. She stuffed them into her beaded bag and helped Ginny minimize her shopping. Picking up her daughter she and holding her son's hand, she said, "Let's go,"
Diagon Alley
Ginny walked out of the alley that she was in with her son, Hermione, and her twins. She had to admit, the alley had changed quite a lot during her self-imprisonment at Krum Mansion, even the garbage bags were placed in a different corner.
"Ginny, aren't you coming out?" Hermione asked, as she had noticed that she had stopped walking.
"Woops! -" She picked her son up. "Let's go!"
"Do you know where to get the best formal robes?" Hermione asked Ginny as they walked.
Ginny frowned. "No, yes, no. -" She looked at Hermione. "I haven't been out in ages, really, I wouldn't know what was the 'hit' of the season."
"What's the shop called... the one that Cho had mentioned quite a while ago?"
Ginny frowned again. Following Cho's advise last time had ended up with her being pregnant with Gary. There had been some bad points to the pregnancy but Gary had been worth it. He was adorable, and who would want to get rid of him? "'Valentino 4 Witches' was it?" she said.
Hermione beamed. "That was it! Nice memory, Ginny!"
As they continued to walk, people pointed at Gary and whispered amongst themselves. "Is that another Weasley? Merlin, does Molly and Arthur work! Aren't they too old to 'work out'?" ... "Another Krum?! Maybe Hermione had triplets! Look at the nose! It's exactly like Krum's! Why are they keeping it a secret though?" ... "Molly's too old to have kids... Maybe it's Ginny's?" ... "Maybe the youngest Weasley went behind Hermione's back- and you know..." ... "The kid's adorable! Whose is it though?" ... "Have you heard? Ginny's been disowned! Was 'that' the reason behind it?" ... "Poor Molly, she must be having a hard time with her child giving birth without being married! Absolutely disgusting and revolting how kids these days just go about and 'play'," ... "Aw! Isn't he cute?"
"Ignore them," Hermione said, giving Ginny a light touch. "You'll get used to the whisperings after a while."
"This was probably how Harry felt like back at school," Ginny mumbled without realising that she had said 'Harry".
"We're here!" Hermione said. She quickly conjured a twin stroller and seated her twins on. "Just in case..." she mumbled.
After about ten minutes of being in the shop and deciding between clothes, the shop door suddenly opened. Ginny's ears pricked as she heard a familiar chorus of voices enter the store. Shit! Shit! Shit! She quickly picked Gary up and turned to Hermione. "Hermione!" she said, impatiently with a mixture of fright and frustration. "They're here! They're here!"
"Who-" She turned her head around and saw who Ginny had seen. "Christ! Um-" She turned to face Ginny again. "I'll distract them. They haven't seen me in a while. I'm sure that Viktoria is bound to keep them busy. Go to the far end of the corner of something. I'll get to you when they leave."
Ginny smiled at her friend- best friend. "Thanks so much, Hermione, I love you,"
Ginny scurried away to the corner and watched with worry as Hermione walked over to her former family with her twins in their stroller. She heard a squeal and yell of greetings.
"Hey! Hermione! It's been a while!" she heard her brother's voice say. "Look! Isn't Shawn here adorable! He's my son! My SON!"
"Oh, um, yes he is," She heard Hermione reply. "He's cute... Yes, he's cute."
"Are they your children?" she heard her mother's voice say.
Ginny felt her heart stop at the sound of her mother's voice. It started to hurt as it remembered everything her mother had said to her. Why is my heart hurting? She could hear, Charlie, Fleur, Pansy, Harry and Luna's voice in the background with a few children giggling. Probably their kids...
"Oh! Twins! How does that work?" Ron asked rather stupidly. "Those two, in that seat with wheels. Muggle stuff?"
"What do you think?" She heard Hermione mumbled.
"Wot airr thearr names?" Fleur asked with delight. "So cute!"
"Miroslav" a slightly accented voice said, obviously Miro.
"Viktooooooooriaaaaa!" Viktoria screamed.
"Energetic kid isn't she?" Molly said.
It seemed that Viktoria's scream did the trick. All of the Weasley's attention had gotten to her as she started moving about and mumbling words. Ginny sighed with relief and looked at her son. "Oh, Gary... They were going to be your family you know... Never mind. Thanks to Hermione, we're safe,"
"Says who?" an all to familiar voice said in an annoyed voice.
Ginny froze, recognizing the voice that was way to near her. Wasn't he supposed to be in the other end of the shop? "R-R-Ronald?" she stuttered.
"Is that 'it'?" he asked, pointing at Gary with disgust. He shook his head and shut his eyes as if his eyes were hurting.
Ginny glared at him and felt insulted by his comment. "'That'? He's not an 'it'! How dare you Ronald!" Her motherly instincts told her to slap him hard but she kept her fist 'down' as she was holding Gary. "He's adorable! Don't you dare say that! Or I'll... I'll..."
Gary seemed to know exactly how she felt and what was going on as he glared at her former brother with her. He looked quite scary in truth, almost Slytherin like...
"You two ganging up on me now?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. "Ginny, Ginny, Ginny-"
"I know my name!" She hissed. IDIOT!!!
"Let me get to the point!" Ron mumbled, looking at her straight in the eyes. "Why didn't you get rid of him? Or left him at an orphanage or something? You could have left him in some muggle area. Filthy little kid if you ask me-" His eyes went wide for a moment. "- He looks like a Slytherin! A FILTHY ROTTEN SLYTHERIN!!!"
"How dare yo-"
"Look at him! He's revolting!" He continued, pointing at him again. "Got no looks of a Weasley, which is quite unfortunate, apart from his eyes. Horrible genes from the father- Ginny... I'm ashamed and very disappointed in you."
Ginny raised her hand to slap him but a hand stopped her.
"Fighting doesn't solve your problems," an angelic voice said behind her.
Ginny blinked as she felt someone behind her. Zabini?
"What do you want, Zabini?" Ron asked, angry that he was being interrupted by someone.
Ginny turned around and found that Zabini looked surprised. Gary started wiggling.
"You're quite rude. Be a bit more of a gentleman will you? You're a nasty piece of work," Zabini said with a disappointed look.
"Why you!" Ron raised an arm and seemed to look as if he was going to hit both herself and Zabini, but a thick accented voice stopped him just in time.
"Vhat do you vant Veasley?"
Ron blinked and turned his head around with a frown. "Krum," he mumbled.
Viktor scowled and walked up to him. His height helped him a lot as Ron had to look up at him, it gave him an advantage. "You leaff Ginny and Gary alone-" He looked at Zabini for a moment and raised an eyebrow. "And him,"
"When did you get here?" Ron asked, completely missing Viktor's point.
"Just now," Hermione said, coming over with her twins. She looked at Ron as if she was about to say something. "Y-You're family is out waiting for you. Shawn Weasley is wailing for you by the way. Pansy can't stop him from crying."
Ron gave Ginny and Zabini one last glare. "I'll see you another time." he muttered.
He gave Viktor a glare but looked away immediately as his scowl beat him by a few hundred miles.
"Thanks, Hermione, Viktor," Ginny mumbled, sighing. She turned around to thank Zabini but he was gone. Strange, I thought that Blaise had been here?
"Haff you ladies chose vhat you vant?" Viktor asked with a small smile. "I vant to pay for it,"
"Oh, you don't need to," Ginny said, feeling bad that Hermione and Viktor was always helping her.
"I insist," he said before giving Hermione a kiss on the cheek. "Taking care of Miro, Gary and-" He looked at Viktoria with a chuckle and took her from Hermione's arms, "-Viktoria, is hard work, no?"
Ginny chuckled. "True," she said. "Thanks so much! I owe you two a lot!"
"No problem,"
"I just saw Harry and Luna's daughter," Hermione said. "Named her Lunily, mixture of Luna and Lily. I think it's sweet."
Ginny nodded, half ignoring her. She didn't really care about anything that had to do with Luna.
Hermione and Viktor had walked off somewhere with their kids to look for more clothes and had left Ginny to look for hers on her own. Being alone with her son for now, she thought about the angelic Italian. Had he really been here or was I imagining things? she thought. She blushed furiously into the colour of her hair as she thought about him some more. Why the hell are you blushing? she asked herself. He's not even good look-
"Mommy!" Gary mumbled, pointing towards a beautiful green dress. He smiled at her in a way as to tell her to buy it.
"Oh, all right," Ginny said. "You want me to try it on?"
He nodded frantically.
A/N
Chapter 8! How was it? I know that it was shorter than the last one, but I have my reasons.
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