The Weasley Child

chapter 11

"Did Hermione tell you when Ginny and her would be back?" I ask Ron on the way home from my appointment. Even though going to the doctors with him was incredibly awkward, i'm slightly thankful it happened. He seems to be a little more comfortable around me now.

"Nah." He says twirling his wand around in his hands. "I don't get why she would want to go back there anyway."

"School is everything to Hermione it seems. Why wouldn't she want to go back?" I say knowing i'm right. Hermione is one of the brightest witches to ever go through Hogwarts, it only seems natural that she would want to finish her schooling.

"I guess, I dunno." Rons ays reminding me so much of Fred in that moment. Whenever Fred knew I was right he would try and drop the topic in the same way not wanting to admit I was right. Unfortunatley for Ron I'm not going to give up on this.

"You really seem against the idea of going back." I say pausing to see if he will say anything. I stare at him for a second while we sit at a stop light and when I don't see any reaction I continue. "I don't get why of course. Hogwarts was some of the best years of my life, almost every amazing memory I have seems to have occured there."

"It's just a school. Everyone keeps making it out to be some magical place, but it's not. You enjoyed it because you were well-liked among everybody, you got perfect marks, you had more friends than most people, teachers didn't go out of their way to punish you, you had guys all over you." Ron says quietly in a firm tone. The car is silence for a second as I let his words sink in. "Do you have anything to say?" Ron asks after we have been driving in the silence for a minute or two.

"Ron, you're being so stupid right now!" I say so irritated that I smack my hands down on the steering wheel. "So what if maybe I had one more friend than you! And since when did you start caring about marks anyway? Most of all, you had Hermione with you all six years you were there! I just don't get this." At this point I am beyond frustrated

"Kerri, calm down. I'm sorry." Ron says sounding slightly scared at my reaction. "Plus so what if I had Hermione there the whole time. That doesn't matter at all."

"I'm done with this conversation." I say as I put the car to a stop in front of the Burrow. "The doctor told me i need to relax anyway, so i'm sure this isn't a good idea. Thanks again for coming in with me though, i appreciate it." I say getting out of the car and slamming the door shut. As I reach the door I consider pausing to wait for Ron, but remebering how irritated I am I walk through the door closing it behind me.

"Kerri, darling!" I hear Mrs. Weasley exclaim as soon as I had closed the door behind me. I take a deep breath and put on my most convincing smile before I turn around.

"Mrs. Weasley!" I exclaim allowing myself to be dragged into one of her warm hugs.

"How was the appointment darling? Did Ron make things....uncomfortable?" She asks struggling for a words. As she says this I hear the door leading outside click closed, and I know this means that Ron has entered the house and heard what Mrs. Weasley just said. For a second, I want to say he made things difficult and I was frustrated, but I truly was thankful to have him there with me, so I knew I just couldn't say that.

"No, he was very helpful. It went well." I say as Ron steps into Mrs. Weasley's view.

"Oh, Ron darling!" Mrs. Weasley exclaims as she turns slightly red, in fear that Ron had heard what she said.

"Kerri, you forgot these in the car." He says handing me the photos the doctor had given me.

"Oh, is that my little grandchild!" She says pulling me over towards the couch. "Now let me see these!" She says as I sit down next to her.

"Well, here you go!" I say awkwardly handing over the pictures. I feel so weird having her ask to see the pictures of my baby. The baby who isn't really a person yet, who can't even be seen, who only has one parent.

"Oh my..." Mrs. Weasley says covering her mouth with the hand not holding the picture. "My beautiful grandbaby." She says as tears begin to run down her face. "Beautiful." She adds clutching my hand in hers.

As we both sit there staring down at the pictures of my child i suddenly understand why the doctor gave me these pictures, and I suddenly don't feel like it is so silly anymore. "I know." I say as tears begin to roll down my cheek as well.

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"So how do you know Taylor?" Fred asks me as we step onto the dance floor together.

"We've been bestfriends, well forever!" I say laughing as he spins me around to the fast paced song that is being played by the orchestra. "How do you know Matt?"

"How do you know that Taylor isn't my best friend?" He asks giving me such a badly faked hurt look. I just roll my eyes at him and he begins laughing. "Alright you've caught me. Matt and I were in the same dormitory at Hogwarts."

"Ah, I see." I say now remebering seeing Matt and Fred together on several occasions at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall. "So I guess that means you were in Gryffindor." I say trying to keep the conversation going.

"Well of course!" Fred says making that hurt face again. "Don't tell me that you never noticed me in those glorious Gryffindor colors flying around on the quittich field." He says shaking his hair so that his hair moves out of his face.

"You know what, now that you mention it I do reconize you! I remeber cheering aginst you in all those quittich matches we played against you!" I say laughing, the one thing that never dies between Hogwarts students is the competition between the houses in quittich.

"You hufflepuffs..." Fred says shaking his head and laughing.

I cock my head to the side and turn to him with a surprised look on my face. "You knew I was a hufflepuff?" I say as I start laughing. "Oh so did you check me out in my glorious Hufflepuff colors walking around the schools?" I say mocking him.

"I can tell you for a fact that I was not even close to the only one doing so." He says giving me a wink so quick that for a second I think I imagined it. I can feel the heat rise to my face after he says that and I begin looking around the room trying to focus my eyes on anything but him. "Hey,hey,hey." He says taking my face in his hands. "What are you doing? I sure hope your not embarassed and are going to avoid me now, because I don't believe this song is over yet." I look up into his eyes and bite my lips to try and keep myself from smiling. As his hands slide around my waist once again I don't even care anymore, i let myself smile and I even laugh a little.

"What's so funny Miss Beckfort?" He asks.

"You don't have to worry about me leaving before the song is over, because I don't think I want to leave you for the rest of the night." I say as I feel the heat rise to my face once again, I honestly can't believe I said that! I normally would never put my feelings out there in the open like that in such circumstances, and I normally wouldn't even feel that way with a guy I had met only minutes earlier.

"I was hoping you'd say something along those lines." Fred says brushing a stray hair out of my face. "Because there's something special about you, I can just tell."

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There we go! sorry it's not as long as some of my other chapters, I got home from vacation four hours ago and have spent the last four hours working on this! Sorry most of it is a flashback too..i promise there will be lots more to come soon!!

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