Hi. So I did promise a filler chapter and here it is. Jenny will be going back to Hogwarts in the next chapter, but I felt like I needed to put in this scene.
Chapter 6.5
Jenny pulled her car into the driveway of her parent's home with a smile on her face. In a couple of weeks she would be on her way to Scotland to hopefully find who she was. Her smile quickly faded when she remembered what she now had to do, tell her family she was leaving in 2 weeks.
"Can't I just send them a text once I get there?" She said to Lola who sat on the passenger seat next to her. The dog just gave her a funny look. Jenny laughed and opened the door.
"Well then, time to face the music." She spotted her nieces and nephew looking out of the window. Waving to them, they all leapt from the sofa and not 2 seconds later the front door opened and 3 very excited children ran out to say hello.
"Auntie Jenny!" Came their excited voices. At 7 Ben was the oldest of the children, with his sister Lois following him at 5, and Jodie at 4. Jenny smiled and opened her arms as the 3 children ran into them. Oscar's wife Amelia stood in the doorway chuckling at the sight, with Jake's fiancée Emma behind her.
"She'd be a good mum." Amelia said quietly so only Emma could hear.
'That she would." The other woman agreed.
That afternoon once Susan's delicious dinner had been consumed and Jake and Oscar had made too many jokes, of which they had both been told off by their other halves and mother, Jenny knew she had to make her announcement.
"Everyone?" She called out, the table turned to her. "Sorry I've just got a short announcement."
"You've finally found a guy!" April blurted out. The whole table just gave her a look.
"No April, but I have met someone, well two someone's actually." The table looked confused, Jenny looked at Susan who simply smiled and gestured for her daughter to continue.
"They're teachers at a boarding school and they think I could be an ex student of theirs, she went missing around the same time I turned up here."
"That's great Jen, does this mean you know who you are now?" Oscar asked. Jenny smiled.
"Well maybe. They want me to come and teach at the boarding school to see if it jogs any memories."
"That's fantastic." Emma said, with the table agreeing with her.
"You did take the job right?" Jake asked. "I know you love the school you're at now, but this is such a great opportunity."
"I took the job." Jenny said. The table cheered. "The jobs in Scotland." She said.
Jenny watched as 8 pairs of eyes stopped and stared at her. Susan and Nick looked at each other.
"I'll get desert." Susan mouthed to him.
"Scotland!" April yelled.
"But that's so far away!" Ben and Lois cried together. Jodie just burst into tears and leapt from her chair and ran to Jenny.
"Please don't leave Auntie Jenny; we don't want you to go away!"
"Oh Jodie," Jenny said picking her niece up and hugging her. Jake and Oscar looked at each other, like they wanted to say something but didn't know what. Amelia looked at Emma, Emma looked at Amelia. April was livid.
"You can't just up and leave to Scotland! What about everyone down here? Don't we mean anything to you?!" Jenny looked like she was about to cry too.
"You guys just told me this was a fantastic opportunity for me!" She yelled back.
"Yes, before we knew it was in Scotland! Can't you just get a DNA test or something?" April yelled her face turning a nasty shade of purple and red.
"April," Susan scolded her daughter. "This is not how we should be acting. We should all be supporting Jenny in her decision. This is an opportunity she simply couldn't pass up."
"You knew about it!" Jake and Oscar chorused together. Susan glared at her 2 other children.
"Jenny came to me Thursday afternoon and we spoke for a long time before she made up her mind."
"Is it something we did?" Lois asked Jenny.
Nobody had noticed Ben and Lois had also left their seats and were now either side of Jenny.
"Oh sweetie, no it's nothing you guys did or didn't do." She cried somehow moving Jodie so that all 3 children were sitting on her lap in a big group hug. The children all cried into their aunt's shirt as Jenny felt her tears falling down her face. She scolded herself; she had promised she wouldn't cry in front of the kids.
"Then what is it then? Cause it's got to be something that we didn't do that means you want to up an leave to Scotland!" April said, her voice cold and accusing.
"April!" Susan and Nick shouted at her. Jenny stopped trying to hold back the tears and simply let them fall.
"Excuse me everyone." She said depositing the children on the floor and rushing out of the room, in a flood of tears. Lola barked an angry bark, and bounded after her mistress, whilst Amelia and Emma took care of their sobbing children.
"April Rebecca Mathews, you will apologise to your sister immediately that was a horrible thing to say to her. You know just how much Jenny has wanted to know where she came from, and she finally gets an opportunity to try and find something about herself, and what do you do? You yell at her until she cries." Nick let his temper get the better of him as he let his daughter have it. April looked sheepish.
Meanwhile upstairs in her old bedroom, Jenny lay on her bed face down in her pillow sobbing. Lola lay next to her mistress nudging her nose underneath Jenny's hair trying to comfort her. Lola turned when she heard a knock at the door, and it opened to reveal a very upset looking April. Lola growled at her.
"Mum I don't really want any company right now." Jenny said her sentence getting muffled by the pillow and her tears.
"Jen Jen?" Came April's voice. Jenny raised her head at her sister nick name for her. April had ordered that no one else in the family could call Jenny Jen Jen, that was her special nick name. Glancing at her sister through tear stained eyes, Jenny saw that April had tears in her eyes too.
"I'm so sorry." April said letting her tears flow as she hurried to her sister and pulled her into a bone crushingly tight hug. Both sisters sat for a few minutes crying into each other.
"I didn't mean anything I said." April sobbed. "I just don't want you to go so far away." She cried.
"Oh April, I don't like the idea of being away from everyone either, but mum's right, I can't let this opportunity go with out taking a chance." Both sisters look at each other.
"How long?" April asked.
"2 weeks." Jenny replied. "But we can Skype everyday, and I'll call you all the time, all of you I promise."
"It won't be the same." April said. Jenny was just about to respond, when April stopped her. "But I'll take it. And you had better call me everyday, promise." She chuckled through her tears. Jenny managed a sad laughed.
"I promise, everyday." April laughed.
"Come on, we'd better go down before everyone thinks I've killed you to stop you going away."
"You wouldn't dare." Jenny smiled.
"I love you so much Jen Jen, you're the best sister I could ever want."
"I love you too April. Now come on, otherwise the boys are gonna eat all the desert." Both sisters laughed.
So there we go, I wanted to have a small scene with Jenny and her adopted family to show how much she care about them.
As always please read and review as normal, and I'll be back to normal chapters soon.
Beth xx
