two weeks later,
Erica is back to full health and both Charlie and Remus have left again, the kids have come back to no.12 Grimmauld Place for some kind of fake holiday I just made up for an excuse...
on with the story!,
I was walking down the hall when dad stopped me, I sigh, I've given up on any hope of dad noticing me and after the "episode" as Charlie likes to call it, I came to my senses and haven't had one since. I do still sleep with the dragon though...
"Erica, I assume you've heard of the parent-child ball the Order are throwing to lighten everyone's mood a bit?" we questions,
"y-yes?" I sigh, now slightly interested
"and I assume you also know I would need to take a child?"he asks
"yes..." I barely whisper
"well, I was wondering if you, well um.... if you'd maybe...um..." he stutters
"yes!?" I probe, getting more impatient as my excitement builds
"if you knew where Harry was, I thought he might enjoy it and neither of us have anyone else to go with so I thought... well, you know..." dad trails off, I bite my lip and nod slowly, trying to swallow the lump in my throat.
"u-upstairs, with Gin-nny ..." I stutter out, he nods and walks away.
I sit in one of the spare rooms looking at old photos of me and dad, one of my favourites was always, me when I was very young, no older that three, wearing a baby blue, knee length cotton summer dress, waltzing across the drawing room with dad at a similar event from the days of the old order, just a few months before Lily and James went away to hide... a year before Harry was born...
I know he prefers Harry but you'd think that he'd rather take his nineteen year old daughter to one of those events than his fifteen year old god son... I mean, I suppose I do have more flaws than harry,
I'm not good looking
I'm too skinny
I'm too quiet
I'm not athletic
i's a massive book worm
I'm boring
I'm anti-social
I'm not special
I'm not loved, not by anyone...
I watch, thinking about all my flaws, as the people in the picture move around happily, dad and I waltz around, surrounded by, Lily and James, Albus and Minerva, Molly and Arthur, and many other order children that were born there, there were the close nit ones like me, Charlie, Bill, Tonks and then there are a few others who's parents died long ago or who we just haven't herd from in years...
my vision blurs and by the time I've wiped away any stray tears, there are a few slashes of the salty water on the slightly yellowing picture. tucking the photo under the bed, I leave the room.
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Erica Black~Never Enough (1)
Fanfiction(Set in the order of the phoenix) I was never good enough for my dad, he always favoured the boy who lived, my god-brother. He didn't bother to hide it either, no one in the order likes me apart from madeye, Remus and tonks. Grimmauld place is my ho...
