Who Knew: This is it

No more, promise me

ABBY'S POV

I wake up the next morning to see the sun shining. I get out of bed and go to the bathroom. I do my morning routine and go back to my room. Today's gonna be really hard. Ryan's funeral. I look through my cupboard to find a black dress. I wanted to wear jeans, but I decided to wear a dress, otherwise it would've been disrespectful. I wore a black dress, black flats and but a black denim jacket on top. I made my hair wavy and didn't put any makeup on. I went downstairs. As soon as I stepped downstairs, Dad embraced me in a hug. "It's ok sweetheart." He says. I wrap my arms around him, and try as hard as possible not to cry. He lets me go. I smile weakly at everyone. I sit down next to Bill and Fred and Mum gives me a bowl full of cereal. I eat it and just sit there, drinking my mango juice, thinking about what's going to happen. I really don't wanna do this, I don't wanna say goodbye to Ry. "It's time." Dad says. I breath in deeply and breath out. Charlie puts his arm around me. I smile gratefully at him. I apparate to the cemetery. I see Viktor, Liam and Connor standing there, looking upset. I go over to them. "Abby!" Liam says. Vik and Con look at me, and they smile. I hug each of them. "I would ask you how you're doing, but you're feeling the same as us." Connor said. "Yeah." I say. I wanna catch up with them, but not now. I hear a couple more cracks, so I turn around and see my family. They all smile at me and I smile at them. Vik, Con, Liam and I take our seats. After a while, they lower the coffin into the ground. I burst into tears. Connor, who's sitting next to me, puts his arms around me and I lean into him. He puts his chin on top of my head. "It's ok." He whispers, but I can hear he's crying too. Vik and Liam come over and we all hug and cry together. I can feel everybody's eyes on us. After a while, we all pull away. I sigh and wipe my tears. Ry's body has been dug, and people are starting to leave. "I can't believe this happened." Connor says. "Me neither." We all say, simultaneously. "It was because of Ryan that we met each other, and he won't even be able to see this friendship grow." Viktor says. "Abby, you will still keep on visiting us won't you?" Liam asks. "I'll try my best, guys. I'll definitely write though. Not to Durmstrang, since you guys have left, but I'll write to each of you personally, don't stress." I tell them, smiling softly. "Why don't we come over to yours, so we can catch up, and just hang out. We need to do something to get our minds off this." Liam says. "Yeah, yeah that'll be great." I say, smiling. "Just gonna go tell my family." I tell them. They nod and I walk over to my parents. "Mum, Liam, Connor and Viktor are gonna come over, if that's okay. Or I can take them to Shell Cottage." I ask. "Yeah, take them to Shell Cottage, so that you guys can have some peace." Mum says, smiling. I nod and walk back to my friends. "Apparate to Shell Cottage." I tell them. We all disapparated from the cemetery to Shell Cottage.

"So this place is gonna go to your brother and his wife?" Liam asked me. "Yeah, they're moving in next week, after I go back to school." Abby explained. "I'm allowed to use it for now." I tell them. "Ah." They say. I smile. "Does anyone watch 2 Broke Girls?" Connor asks. "What the hell is that?" I ask. "It's this really funny muggle TV show. We should watch it." Connor says. "If it's anything like EastEnders, I'm gonna kill you." I say, remembering yesterday, and how everyone fell asleep to EastEnders. "It's nothing like EastEnders. It's MUCH better." Connor says. I nod, and smile; we seem to be getting along fine, but there's still a part missing, Ryan. That was never going to come back. Harry, Ron and Hermione better come back with all the horcruxes destroyed, because I want Him to die, I want to avenge Ryan's death, my foster parents death, I want Him dead!

It's been an hour, and we've watched 3 full episodes of 2 Broke Girls. "Who's your favourite?" Liam asked me. "Erm, Max, she's so badass." I say, laughing and sipping on the hot chocolate Connor made us. "I like Max because she has big boobs." Liam says, and all of us burst out laughing. "Haven't changed a bit." I say, smiling. "How could I?" Liam says, smirking at me. I shake my head and chuckle.

"I want a change." I say. "Huh?" Connor asks, and the boys look at me confused. "I'm tired of having ginger hair. I want a change. I'm not the same person I was before, I'm a new person, and I want to look different. "Right... And how are you gonna do that?" Liam asks me. "She's going to dye her hair. Obviously." Viktor says, looking at me. "Obviously." I say, smiling at them. "Oh God." They say, all 3 of them rubbing their temples. "I'll do it with magic." I tell them. "NO! One thing we've learnt, is to never dye your hair with magic. Do it the muggle way." Liam tells me. "Ok...."

We all went to the bathroom and I magicked up some hair dye. It was brown and I got some blonde, just for some highlights. "Abby, are you sure you know what you're doing?" Connor asked me. "Yes! I've watched enough videos to dye every single one of yours heads alright?" I asked them. They nodded. I opened the packet, grabbed a bowl and put the brown hair dye in. I got a smaller bowl and put the blonde hair dye in. I put some warm water in each of them. I told Vik to mix one and I mixed one. And it looked applicable. I grabbed the brush, stuck it in the brown hair dye and sighed. "What if it doesn't look nice?" I asked them. "Should we go to the hairdressers?" Liam asked me. I shook my head. I took the brush out of the dye and put it onto my hair.

I sighed. I took off my towel and looked in the mirror. My hair was... Brown. Or had some blonde highlights, but it looked amazing. I had kicked the guys out so I could show them the final reveal. I looked different, but it looked good different. I went to a bedroom and just blow dried my hair, which resulted in it to be wavy. I took off the ugly bathrobe we found in the bathroom and walked downstairs. I sat down in from of the vid without saying a word. "ABBY! Oh my God you look different! It's a good different though, you look well hot!" Connor says. I laugh. I look at Vik, and he's just gaping at me. "What's the problem? Don't you like it?" I ask him. "Not like it!? I LOVE it!" He says, and I smile. I look at Liam and he's practically drooling. I chuck a pillow at him, a bit too hard and he falls off the sofa. We all burst out laughing.

"Abby?" Liam says. I turn around to see everyone's fallen asleep. "Yeah?" I whisper, trying not to wake the others up. "Promise me one thing." Liam asks. I sit up and look him in the eyes. "Anything Liam." I say. "Promise me you'll keep you sweet little ass safe back at Hogwarts." He says, smirking a bit. "Definitely." I say, smiling. "Promise me one thing." I tell him. "Whatever you want me to promise. Apart from 'Don't you dare get a girlfriend,' because I'm just irresistible." He says and I chuckle. "No more funerals, promise me. I've lost Ry, I'm not losing you guys either." I say. He looks me in the eye. "Abby, I'm not gonna promise you something that I can't keep." Liam says. "Why the fuck will you not be able to keep that?" I ask. "Because, I don't know what's gonna happen, neither do you. Abby, Ryan got killed because he wasn't needed anymore. They just got rid of him. What if they decide that I'm in their way. I'll drop dead in a heartbeat!" He says. "They won't be stupid enough to spill that much magical blood. I understand where you're coming from. They're lurking anywhere, but you're a pureblood." I say. "I understand where YOU'RE coming from, but who are you tryna convince, me or yourself. Because, to me, it sounds a lot like you're tryna convince yourself. Abby, I understand that you don't wanna lose us, but the fact is, there could be a death eater out there as soon as I leave the bloody house, and they could kill me. So I'm not gonna promise you that we'll all stay alive by the time you come back from Hogwarts. But I can promise you one thing. We're gonna do whatever we can to protect each other, just for you. And we're gonna protect you as much as we can, just for us. We've lost Ry too; there is no way in hell we're letting your beautiful face die." He says. "Well, you better look at this 'beautiful face' long and hard, because in going to a place where I'm gonna be SO screwed." I say. We both smile at each other, put our heads on our pillows and close our eyes.

-That's another chapter of Who Knew! Each chapter I write, is just a chapter closer to the end of these series. I know it's not the end of the chapter but I just wanna thank everyone for following me along this crazy emotional roller coaster, thanks to everyone who voted and commented. And thank you guys so much for reading this story, because you all are amazing as hell!-

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