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Arthur and followed Molly upstairs where she kissed every child good night and turned off their lights.
Jade lay in her new bed. The sheets were soft and smelled like flowers and summer sun. The room was dark. Burrow was far from the village so there were no lights or traffic sounds from the street -like she was used to hear all her life.
Window was closed but Jade left the curtains opened because she wanted to wake up early the next day – so that no one would have to wake her. She didn't like waking up with someone standing close to her bed and looking at her from above. It scared her. She couldn't remember why, but it's been like that since she was a little kid.
Molly didn't close the door completely letting little bit of light from the corridor slip into the room.
Jade climbed down from the bed and walked across the room. She stopped right in front of the door. Should she close it? Would it be too odd to close the door? Would Weasleys get angry? Maybe that was some rule – that door had to stay opened at night? Maybe it was just a habit?
Jade wasn't even sure why she went to close the door. It wasn't like she wanted it closed, but she didn't trust them completely. It was her first night in the house of complete strangers.
They looked nice and it was wonderful day with everyone being kind and smiley but she wasn't sure.
Murderers can be nice too – they wouldn't wear a sign around their neck saying "killers" would they? But killers don't have children, killers don't bake cinnamon buns. "Now, you're being ridiculous Jadelynne Larkspur Mraz!" Jade said to herself. "You shouldn't read that much!"
It was true, foster families didn't have many children's books because their kids never read that much so Jade usually picked some book from the library in the living-room. The shelves were usually filled with detective-stories and serious grown-up books, this is why she had silly ideas like that – murderers. Definitely not.
Jade left the door opened, just like Molly left it and she turned on her heel and marched back to bed.
She didn't sleep. At least not much.
She might trust them enough to assume they weren't going to do anything bad, but still, it was her first night in house full of strangers.
Around six in the morning she heard Ginny's tiny voice from the direction of her parent's bedroom.
"Mom! Mom! It's already morning! You said we'd bake bread!"
There were some noises coming from Molly's bedroom and Jade quickly slammed her head against the pillow pretending to be asleep.
"Shush Ginny, everybody's still sleeping, you'll wake the whole house. Honey, the bread is already in the oven I've put it there an hour ago. You had long day yesterday and I didn't want to wake up, but you can help me take it out and put it on the window to cool ok?" Their voices faded away as they went downstairs.
Jade listened carefully but it seemed nobody else was up. The sun was starting to shine through the window so she got up and opened it. Fresh air hit her face and woke her up completely. It was going to be a beautiful summer day. It was first of May and although she could see the drops of yesterday's storm on the grass it was already pretty hot.
She put on the tee from yesterday – it was already dry, hanging on the back of the chair and a pair of blue cotton shorts she found in the drawer. It was already too hot for sneakers so she just went barefoot. She met Ginny in front of the bathroom, happily jumping upstairs to change from her PJs.
"We made bread!" she announced proudly but didn't wait for answer, just continued skipping up to her room.
Jade smiled at her and went to the bathroom. She washed her face and brushed her teeth.
There were ten cups with ten toothbrushes her was light blue. That's all she knew. Than there was the little pink one – probably Ginny's. than orange and two purple although one was slightly paler if you looked really hard. The white and yellow toothbrushes looked almost new – just like hers – as if someone changed them a couple of days ago or as if they weren't used very often. One red and one green in the same cup and finally one grey. Jade tried to imagine which belonged to every member of the family but she failed. She shook her head and left the bathroom.
Stopped at the 3dt stair from the bottom hesitating whether she should go or not. But it was too late to get back to her room because Molly already saw her.
"Jade! Honey what are you doing up so early? Did Ginny wake you up?" smiled Molly and kept steering pot full of porridge.
"No, I just couldn't sleep…any longer." Finished Jade but Molly caught a slightest hint of exhaustion in her voice.
"Oh my… did you sleep at all at night?" worried Molly and put a bowl full of porridge in front of the girl.
She handed her a jar full of peach jam and a mug with brown sugar.
Jade helped herself with the sugar and jam but waited for Ginny and the rest of the family to come down and have breakfast together.
"Is there anything else you'd want?" asked Molly, setting a glass of ice cold raw milk next to her bowl.
Jade looked at the stairs but no one came down.
"Oh, don't worry dear, you don't have to wait for them, Arthur is still in bed, he likes to sleep in – on his days off from work and Ron never wakes up before eight and Ginny probably forgot about her breakfast and is upstairs playing with her Harry. Just eat while it's hot." Said Molly and walked out of the kitchen – probably going to check on Ginny – what was taking her so long.
She found her standing in front of her dresser in cut off blue shorts but shirtless.
"What's wrong honey? Don't you have any clean tops? I've put your clean laundry on your chair yesterday." Said Molly and looked around the room to see any evidence of clean clothes forgotten by her youngest.
"Nah, I've put it away yesterday, I just wanted to find some tee with stars, but I can't find any." Cried Ginny desperately and started to dig in her drawer again.
"A tee with sta… Oh you mean like Jade has?" asked Molly finally understanding what it was about.
"Yeah, like Jae has!" exclaimed Ginny, content that her mom understood the dilemma.
"Well, Jade has Fred's old t-shirt, I think George's should be somewhere too, I'll look for it later if you want it that much. Why don't you wear the white one for now." Suggested Molly and went downstairs to finish breakfast for the rest of her family.
Meanwhile, Jade finished her porridge and put the dirty bowl into the sink, where it started to wash itself.
Every little bit of Weasleys household fascinated Jade immensely. There was the clock showing where everyone was. Jae felt a little bit jealous because she wasn't there and again, she felt like she didn't belong. But she shook the feeling off and continued her explorations. In the living room she found a pair of knitting needles with first few lines dark blue (probably) sweater knitting on their own. Jade looked at it for a while when she realized she was no longer alone.
She turned around and saw Molly leaning against the doorframe, smiling.
"Would you like to learn knitting some day? I could teach you. Ginny doesn't like it, she says it's too boring, but it helps me to clear my mind sometimes." Explained Molly. Ginny came downstairs and started eating her porridge.
"Would you like a bit of bread Jade?" Asked Molly and put freshly baked and sliced bread on the table. It smelled heavenly and Jade felt like she could eat it all.
"Yes, please." She said shyly and sat down next to Ginny while Molly spread butter on one slice.
"Would you like some cheese or ham of marmalade?" asked Molly, trying to remember what exactly they had in the fridge what would be suitable for breakfast.
"Just butter, thank you." Said Jade and took the plate from Molly.
"Are you sure honey?" asked bewildered Molly. Jade just nodded so Molly went to get a cup of coffee ready for Arthur when he wakes up. "Just butter…ts ts ts, just butter" she murmured to herself as if she couldn't believe it.
Jade loved the bread, it was still warm enough so the butter was melting and she still had some milk in her cup. It was the best breakfast ever.
"Good morning everyone! " exclaimed Arthur as he stormed down the stairs into the kithen.
"What smells so good? Hmmm, fresh bread! " he buttered one slice and went to his wife for a morning kiss and cup of coffee she had ready for him.
"Love you" he whispered as she poured a bit of cream to his cup.
Molly smiled and blushed a little. After all these years together she was still truly madly deeply in love with her Arthur, and it still made her blush when he said how much he loved her.
"So everyone ready for some quidditch?- today is perfect day for flying!" asked Arthur looking around the table. "Wait, where's Ron? We need fourth player for our team!"
He set his coffee mug down on the table, stuffed the rest of the bread to his mouth and walked upstairs.
"Let him sleep!" called Molly after him but she new there was no stopping her husband.
Soon he came back, carrying Ron on his shoulder.
The boy was still wearing his pajama pants and his hair was a mess – and he was still asleep.
Arthur set him down on the bench which was along one side of the table and Ron's head almost fell into his porridge. Ginny was quick enough to push the bowl aside but it caused Ron's head hit the hard wooden table with all the force.
"Outch!" screamed Ron and startled looked around him.
The fact that he woke up sitting at the kitchen table didn't confuse him at all. He just took his spoon and started his breakfast as if nothing happened – wishing everyone "Goof mohnin" with mouth full of oatmeal .
Jade laughed at him but he didn't care. It was normal. Dad always woke him up early when he was home from work.
And Ron didn't mind, because early mornings meant one thing. One thing that he loved more than sleep or food.
Flying.