Hope is a Four Letter Word {George Weasley}

Chapter 9

  hey, so I'm sick but as I lie and do nothing, I have decided I might as well get out my laptop and give you all an update anyway so I hope you enjoy! 

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I sat at the small desk in my room, going over some paper and clipping the files together. I was put in charge of organising the files for the hospital and as always, I had left the entire thing until last minute and now I was under pressure to get it all done. 

I hate when I do this to myself but I also hate feeling like I'm doing too much work. It makes me feel like I'm back in school again and that was one thing I am desperate to avoid. School seems so natural when you're in it and then you start back from your summer holidays and trying to start back your usual routine of doing homework every night just seems like too much work. 

That's what I like about my new job. There's a lot more time on the deadlines for things to be sorted and there's not too much to sort either. I have about three people working with me as it is and that leaves us all with little work. Normally we have one or two hours each day where we all sit around, drink coffee and have a little gossip to ourselves. 

We don't normally talk about anything bad, because none of us are horrible, but we discuss what gender someone said their baby's going to be, where someone's husband or boyfriend brought them on their date and on my part, every single detail of Astoria and Draco's wedding. 

The girls I worked with were all near enough my age and all but one of us was single. Clare, who had a boyfriend, was far from being engaged herself, though. Her boyfriend was one tough case and she must really love him to put with him. He's always making stupid comments or lying to her. Their relationship isn't normally ongoing thanks to all his screw-ups but she always seems to take him back. 

So, hearing the news of Astoria's dress, my dress, the venue of the wedding and the honeymoon is the highlight of the girls' days. They 'ooh' and 'aw' as I tell them exactly what the resort they're staying at for the honeymoon and their eyes glimmer with envy as I describe the dress Astoria has decided on. 

Alas, today I did not get any gossiping done due to this deadline. Missing my normal gossiping session seems to have added to my pile of stress that was slowly building. Not only was I stressed about this deadline, but tomorrow I had to go to work then straight after meet up with Astoria to go look at the flowers, check out the venue where they were holding their reception and collect the cake. Then after we get the cake, we have to attend the engagement party which had been pushed back due to Astoria's aunt's flight being delayed. 

I was finding myself slowly regretting taking on the role of being her made of honour. Now, not only did I have to act all nice and friendly at the wedding, I also had to plan the majority of it with her, whilst trying to handle the few things she shouldn't be doing seeing as she was pregnant. 

I knew Draco was stressed as well and he didn't seem at all pleased when I landed at the wine tasting instead of Astoria. She still hadn't told him but I advised her to do it pretty quickly because Draco only thought she was being silly when I told him her excuse, that she 'wasn't in the mood for drinking'. She had told me that she was going to tell him two nights before the wedding, which was in two days. 

That's right. Four days until this damned wedding. And everything was everywhere as I tried to hold a grip on all of it. I hadn't really been involved with picking out the guests as that was none of my business but I happened to know a lot of people had been invited and that the fact there was going to be three hundred people watching them go down the aisle and an added one hundred watching them dance for the first time as a married couple was enough to stress anyone out.