The Next Generation: Albus Severus Potter

A Very Weasley Christmas Part Two

"Katie is here."

I almost choked on air when Nessa breathed those three simple words to me; why the fuck was her mother here?

"Vanessa?" I heard a voice call out.

Nessa turned around with her hands on her hips. Shit, something bad was going to happen...

"What, Katie?"

"Come on, we are going to go and meet your father."

Nessa protested, but before I could try to save her from her pain, her mother grabbed her hand and they apparated out of the Burrow.

Rose suddenly popped up next to me.

"Now that she is gone..."

"What? Why do you say that?" I asked Rose.

She rolled her brown eyes. "Because, Al! It's obvious, isn't it? She was one of the reasons that you nearly killed yourself, right?"

"No, Rose, she wasn't. If you want to know, it was you."

"Me?" Rose questioned, her eyes wide.

"Well, not just you, more like the whole entire fucking family."

"They did nothing, Al! I did nothing!"

"Rose! You're the best in our class-"

"Nessa isn't that far behind me."

"My whole family- our whole family- defeated Voldemort, for heavens sake! My dad is the fucking boy-who-lived! My mother was the chaser and team captain of the fucking Hollyhead Harpies! My Aunt is the girl-who-lived, and my Aunt, your Mom, is the smartest witch of her age! My Uncle, your Dad, is the fucking Weasley King! I am the offspring and related to the Golden Quartet, Rose.

"James is Quidditch captain and he is popular with the ladies! Did you know that ever since I can remember, James has teased and taunted me?"

"He is your brother, Al. He is supposed to do that," Rose stated.

"It was fine until I was twelve. That's when it began to hurt. It kills me inside! He says a lot of mean things, Rose! And then there is Lily! Lily, the brightest witch in her year, and on the Quidditch team! She's in her third year! And then there's me! I'm not on the Quidditch Team, nor am I in the top five percent of our class.

"You don't get what I feel, Rose! I can feel the pressure and it's getting closer now- you're better off, without me. (If you know where that song lyric is from, you're pretty awesome)"

There was a complete and utter moment of silence; I had not realized that everybody was gathered in the room to hear the spat me and Rose had just had.

Rose and I never fought as young children; we always got along.

Well, like a lot of things, everything fucking changes. It isn't very fair.

Then again, the world isn't very fair.

"Wait, you tried to kill yourself?" Lily asked suddenly, being the first to break the awkward silence.

I gulped. There was no way that I could deny the shitty truth; I had already admitted it to Rose. How did she know about it, though?

"Multiple times," I smally stated.

I thought about the times when I was thirteen; that was not a very good day for me. I remember it was with a knife, but I stopped myself because I was a coward and afraid of Death back then. When I was fourteen I overdosed, but Mum and Dad just thought that I had fainted or something. Then Teddy had caught me trying to kill myself with the killing curse; he had stopped me. Some days I wish that Teddy didn't stop me.

I found myself rubbing my sleeves; Lily came up to me. "Oh, Al, are you okay?"

"I'm Fine," I lied to her and everybody here. I also lied to myself.

"Can we open presents now?" Hugo asked.

"Sure," Grandma said.

I was in for a long fucking night.