Adalyn Black - A Harry Potter Love Story

Chapter 20

A/N: I decided that I'm going to keep writing in third person because I think that I'm just better at that. Also it just feels more natural. I'll change the earlier chapters to third person when I'm done with the book. Also there is a bit of cursing in this chapter. Not words that are too bad though.

Recap: Addie took a deep breath and pushed open the doors to the hall.

Every single head turned to the doors. To be fair Addie did show up an hour late to the Thanksgiving feast and she hasn't been seen by anyone but her friends and family for almost a month. Tears filled in Addie's eyes and she turned her head into Tonks's shoulder and let them flow.

"Hey!!" Tonks shouted. "Go back to your meals unless your name is Hermione Granger, Aurora, Ron, Percy, Fred, and George Weasley, Angelina Johnson, Katie Bell, Oliver Wood, Luna Lovegood, Makenna Dykstra, Cedric Diggory, Melissa Lestrange, or Avery Johnson. There's nothing to see here."

"Oh sure," Marcus Flint, the Slytherin Quidditch Team captain, sneered. "The Hogwarts Princess hasn't been seen by anyone for a month and someone who doesn't even know her, comes in holding her like she's your daughter and tells us that nothing to see."

Tonks's hair turns short and choppy and red. She was in fact related to Addie, but Addie and the rest of the school wasn't to know that. "Oh ya? You're sure that I don't know her?"

He smiles a sickly smile and says, "Of course I'm sure."

"And you're sure that no one has seen her for a month."

"Ya."

"Well I think that you should get your facts straight then."

"What do you mean, you little idiot?"

"Oh, I'm the idiot?"

"Ya you are."

"SHUT THE HELL UP!!! ADDIE IS MY COUSIN AND BASICALLY MY DAUGHTER AND SHE'S BEEN THROUGH MORE HELL IN THIS PAST MONTH THAN YOUR RICH LITTLE ASS HAS BEEN IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE!"

The hall was silent and Tonks, with Addie in her arms, walked to the Gryffindor table. Addie was thinking about what Tonks had said about Addie being her cousin. She couldn't believe that. She looked up at Tonks. "You're my cousin?" she whispered.

Tonks nodded and said, "Yes Addie. I'm your cousin."

"I have the best cousin ever!" she exclaimed.

"I thought you'd be upset."

"I was when I first heard you say that because I didn't know why you wouldn't tell me, but I realize that you probably couldn't."

All of Addie's friends came over to her. She got tons of "I'm so glad you're back!"s and "It wasn't the same without you!"s and stuff like that. She was looking at one person the whole time: Harry. She couldn't get the words that he said to her body out of her head. "I want you to listen to me very carefully Addie. When I first saw you on the platform I fell in love. I know all that stuff they say about love at first sight is fake, but it wasn't. Not for me. I think I love you and even if you don't like me back, I still love you. You're perfect and I love you so much. I was going to ask you out after the feast and even though you might've said no, it's what I get for trying right? At least you would know how I feel about you. I want you to do what you want to do. Don't let us make your choices for you. Do whatever you think is right and if that's leaving, than that's what I want you to do. I love you." She felt like she loved Harry, she really did, but she didn't want Harry to know that she knew what he had said in the hospital. At least not yet. She's let it wait and if Harry really did love her than she would know. If he really did love her, she would know by the end of the year and she knew that. She knew that if Harry truly loved her, she would see that again before that. Addie felt the need to tell Tonks. After all, they were family, and friends.