Closest To Heaven That I'll Ever Be. *Complete*

11. When We Were Young

I hadn't even taken my coat off when I heard Pansy calling me from the kitchen.

"Get your ass in here Addalie!" She screeched.

I ran to the room but I wasn't expecting the site before me as I did. "What in the world?" There were about 30 letters sitting on the kitchen table and about 14 owls hooting around clearly waiting for a response. Pansy was ducking as a few owls floated around her. She looked a bit terrified.

"You tell me! I got home this evening and I was immediately bombarded with these owls. That one," she pointed to a grey and white owl. "That one bit me when I tried to open the door to let them out. The letters are all addressed to you by the way." She said pointing to them.

I scooped up the letters and took them all outside in the hopes that the owls would follow, which thankfully they all did. Well al bar one which Pansy proceeded to chase out.

I tore open one letter and began to read.

Addie,
You have not gotten back to me. Please!
I just want to talk to you.
Harry xx

There were quite a few like this, each one begging me to write back or to let him know my answer. To what question I didn't know but it did take a while for me to finally find the first with the actual details I need.

Addie,
I am not sure where to even begin this letter.
I was so surprised to see you at the match that day. With Slytherin's no less. Most shocking was that you were there with Theo and ..... him.

Addalie, I have wanted to talk to you for the last few years. Ever since that day after the battle. I tried to run after you but you managed to escape me. You took off running and I have been running ever since trying to find you.

I couldn't believe it when I heard that not only had you not disappeared but you have been living in a village I visit daily.

There is so much I want to say to you. But I want to say it face to face. I want to see you. To apologise for being a bloody git all those years and for taking you for granted.
Hermione and Ron do as well. We were so happy to see you!

We have talked about you everyday since you left us. Discussing where we went wrong and what we would do if we ever got the chance to speak to you again.

Please will you agree to meet us to talk through everything? Tomorrow after work, in the little cafe opposite your shop. Give us a chance. Please? Seven years of friendship and love is too great to simply throw away.
I sincerely hope that you agree to meet. I want to see you again. I need to see you again.

All my love,
Harry xx

What the bloody hell?

"Everything ok?" Pansy asked coming out on the patio to sit with me. She was looking at me curiously as if trying to read my face.

I handed her over the first letter, which she read, followed by every other one after that. "He is a persistent little bugger isn't he?" She sighed putting down the last letter.

"I don't think he has even been told no in his life." I mumbled.

"He says he is going to be there regardless and from the sounds of it he is not letting you out of it." She didn't sound too pleased a the thought of him harassing me like this. "Want me to call the troops and get them to collect us from work tomorrow so you don't have to deal with it?"

It was a damn good suggestion. Actually if truth be told that was exactly what I wanted. But I knew that ignoring the situation wouldn't make it go away.