Last Summer // George Weasley

54. Work

Song: potions by day wave

The next morning went by quickly. The shop wasn't as full as when you first opened but people were starting to get back to their normal lives after the war so the store had a steady flow of customers. Bill, Fleur and Charlie were helping at currently and everyone else was going to come in the afternoon.

"Excuse me" a small boy tugged at your shirt
"Hi" you smiled and knelt down next to him "can I help you"
"I lost my mummy" he said a worried look on his face
"That's not good, where did you lose her"
"Our there" he pointed out to the street and you nodded.
"Let's go then" you said taking his hand in yours and walking outside. The two of you sat on the steps
"What color hair does your mummy have" you asked

"Uhm brown" he told you and you nodded
"What's your name" you asked
"Patrick" he told you and smiled up at you
"Well Patrick nice to meet you im Samantha"
You and Patrick sat on the step for a while looking for his mum and talking about everything
"I have a cat" Patrick told you
"No way! I do too"
"Really?!" Patrick smiled up at you
"PATRICK" a women with brown hair ran up to you dropping to her knees and wrapping Patrick in a tight hug.
"Oh Patrick where did you wander off too" she asked still clutching her child
"I wanted to go to the sweet shop" he said to his mum
"You can't just wander off honey" she told him and you stood up
"Thank you so much for helping my son, how can I ever repay you"
"Oh it was nothing" you smiled "Patrick and I had a lovely time talking about our cats"
You waved goodbye to Patrick and his mum and headed back into the store.

•George's POV•

The store had a steady stream of customers coming in and out all morning.
"Bill can you run to the back and get more skiving snack boxes"
"Sure thing brother" Bill said hurrying to the store room. You looked around and saw Charlie ringing up a customer and Fleur talking to some girls by the love potions, but couldn't find Samantha. You searched the store and stopped when you saw her walking outside with a small boy. The two of them sat on the front steps and you watched her a small smile creeping on your face

"What's your name" you heard her ask him
"Patrick" the small boy told her
"Well Patrick nice to meet you im Samantha" she smiled down at him and he smiled back at her. The two of them sat on the steps talking for a while and you couldn't look away
"Got those snack boxes" Bill said coming up behind you making you jump
"Sorry" you looked at your brother who was looking between you and Samantha And smiled

"What's she up to" he asked
"No idea" you smiled "I can't wait to marry her"
"I know" Bill smiled "everyone can see it, I'm happy for you"
"She's going to be a great mother"
"I'd have to agree with you" Bill said now watching her with the little boy
"She's going to be the mother of my children, can you believe that" you said in disbelief making Bill laugh
"Yeah, I can" he said patting you on the back and going back to work.
A few minutes later Samantha came back into the shop and got back to work.
"Hey" you whispered in her ear walking up behind her
"Hi" she smiled
"What was going out there"
"Oh he lost his mum" she told you "so we waited for her"
You wrapped your arms around her smiling from ear to ear
"you're Brilliant"
"Because I didn't leave a small boy all alone" she laughed and you shrugged
"I can't wait until we have our own kids" you kissed her cheek
"Me too" she whispered and you let go begrudgingly and got back to work.

Later in the day Ginny, Ron, Harry Lee and Hermione showed up to help.
"Here you go" Ginny said handing you Mari. Samantha hurried over to see everyone and squealed when she saw her kitten
"Mari" she took her from me and snuggled her face into the kitten "I'm going to take her upstairs" she told everyone and ran up the stairs disappearing into the flat.

"How's it going today" Ron asked looking around
"Pretty good, decent amount of business" you told him. Ginny and Hermione were looking around the store while you caught up with Ron and Harry. Samantha came back downstairs and got behind the register. An older woman around mums age walked into the store looking around, she looked at the shelves for a few moment but looked more like she was looking for someone not something
"Can I help you ma'am" I asked smiling at the customer
"Oh uhm..." she looked me up and down "do you own the shop"
"I do" I smiled proudly "along with my brother and my fiancé" I said motioning towards Samantha. The woman said nothing but stared at her a weird look in her eyes
"That's wonderful" she finally said quietly " absolutely wonderful"
"So is there something I can help you with" you asked again and she looked back at you
"Oh uhm no" she slowly backed away like you had scared her "I'm sorry... I need to go" she hurried out of the store without another word.

You closed the shop door and locked it turning the open sign to closed letting out a long sigh. Hermione was sweeping the floor and Samantha was finishing up inventory
"Thanks for helping us today you guys" you said to all of your friends.
"Of course man" Harry smiled "seems nice to be doing something normal like this"
Everyone else nodded in agreement
"I think I owe all of you some dinner" you said
"Well yeah" Ron said hopping down from his spot on the check out counter making everyone laugh.

"Well let's meet at the leaky cauldron in an hour" you said and everyone agreed before heading home leaving you and Samantha
"Hey today was great" you said as you two walked upstairs "thank you"
"Of course Georgie" she smiled at you and your heart raced, every. Single. Time.