Through The Veil「 The Veil Trilogy Part Ⅱ 」✔

[18] Twin Talk

Since the twins found me, I knew they wouldn't directly take me back home.

So I wasn't surprised to find myself in the forest near the Burrow with both of them looking at me pointedly as if allowing me to tell them before they asked.

I took in a deep breath, "you guys must have heard everything already, right? Why are you waiting for me to tell you either way?"

"Yes, we heard everything Perfect Percy said to you," Fred replied, "almost everything since we had turned up a little late."

"Then?"

"We want you to know that he's being an idiot as usual," George added, "and also want you to know that to all the rest of us, you are family. There's no difference between Ginny or you since both of you are our sisters."

I wanted to hug them because they were so genuine towards me that it hurt. But not in a bad painful way, it hurt with the fact that deep down a part of me still felt I wasn't worthy enough for all their love and care.

They seemed to have read my mind as they spoke up, "Katerina, for the love of God, stop being so delusional. Of course, you're family and to us, it's now almost as if we are triplets instead of just twins. It feels like we've always had you as a sister, that we grew up with you and you have been with us from the very start. We refuse to believe anything else."

And that was the breaking point for me as I stepped forward and hugged the two, grateful for the fact that I had such caring brothers.

For a second, it made me forget that Percy used to be a part of the caring brothers too until he screwed everything up by pointing me out as not a real family member.

It had hurt.

A lot.

Because just like the twins said, for me too it seemed as if I had always lived with them. They were my family and I couldn't even think of being anywhere else without them.

"Now get yourself together because we have to go home and we don't want Mum to get worried about you," Fred remarked as I let go of them.

"And please don't start your emotional crying right now because then your face would get all blotchy and red and Mum would think we hurt you and we'll get a punishment for that," George mumbled.

"Hey!" Despite myself, I laughed, shoving him in the ribs.

I could see he had said that to make me laugh and it had worked. The twins knew me so well that at times I found it rather alarming.

"Come now, let's go home."

I walked off to the Burrow with both of them, feeling somewhat lighthearted even though I had felt very awful after what Perce had said to me.

Mum and Ginny were in the kitchen as we passed and I saw Ginny look at me and it made me think of Perce again. She looked a lot like him and she too had made it very clear to me that I wasn't a part of their family.

It had been two years since then but it still stung whenever I thought about it.

She had retrieved her gaze immediately so I continued walking to the stairs and up to my room. The twins wanted to make sure I was alright so I convinced them that I was just tired and needed a nap to cool myself off.

As they had believed me, they let me be and I went up to my room in the attic, closing the door as I collapsed on the bed, closing my eyes.

A nap definitely didn't sound bad at the moment.

All I hoped was that I wouldn't get bothered by any further nightmares.

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