The Forgotten and Unloved

Chapter Three

The day after Orchid received her letters from Bill and Charlie, she had worn the nicest thing she owned-which meant it hadn't been to big or tattered since they were hand-me-downs.

Bill and Charlie arrived to the Burrow just after the rest of the Weasley family left. They knew they didn't have to knock so they just went right in to discover their little sister Maria Orchid Weasley sitting on the sofa in the living room. Of course, neither of them had seen Orchid in at least two years and they loved to see how she had grown.

Orchid had flaming red hair, like the rest of her family, but it was probably the curliest of the large family with it going in all different and wild directions.

As Orchid saw her eldest brothers in the doorway taking in her appearance, she jumped up and ran to hug them. "Bill, Charlie! Oh I've missed you so much!"

The brothers laughed at their little sister. "Look Charlie! She's so tiny!" Bill teased Orchid playfully.

Orchid released her hold from her older brothers and stood back, "Well if that's the case," She said. "I can't wait till mum sees your new style, William." Orchid used Bill's real name, William, to get him back. The style she was referring to was the fact that Bill had in a shark tooth earring and shaggy hair.

"Ooh!" Charlie said. "She got you good." He laughed some as Orchid smiled mischievously.

"I wouldn't be laughing if I were you, Charles." Orchid said. "Just wait till mum sees your haircut. She'll just love it, won't she?" It was true, Charlie's hair was long enough to put in a ponytail, their mother certainly wouldn't approve at all.

Bill and Charlie looked down to their little sister. "Maria Orchid Weasley," Orchid grimaced as Charlie said her full name. "I have never been so proud of you! Your comebacks have gotten so much better." Bill and Charlie started wiping sat their eyes as if they were crying.

"Oh shut it." Orchid said with a hint of a smile. "Let's go get my school supplies shall we?" She walked back up to the older boys and hooked her arm around one of their arms each.

Bill looked at her and said, "You want to apparate?" He asked her.

"Well of course." Orchid said. "I haven't been past this muggle village in two years, I'll take any adventure I can get."

Charlie laughed, "A true Gryffindor right there." He gripped Orchid's arm a little tighter. "Let's apparate shall we?"

Orchid nodded her head right before a crack sounded out in the small room of the Burrow, leaving the house silent for another rare time.