Finding Happiness

Chapter 12

"Rise and shine!" Mrs Weasley cheered. 

I groaned and rolled over to look at my clock 6:30AM, "Too early." I mumbled, closing my eyes and snuggling further into the duvet. Next minute, my curtain was flung open the sun's light streamed in.

"I want you to be up in five minutes. You are going to feed the pigs and chickens and weed my front lawn and then you can have breakfast." Mrs Weasley instructed.

I looked at her dumbfounded, "What?" 

"You heard me, UP!" She left the room and with a flick of her wand, my sheets and duvet were thrown off me. I groaned and rolled out of bed, I noticed there were some clothes laid out for me on the chair. Denim overalls and a long sleeved t-shirt with a pair of gumboots were sitting beside them.

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"You'll find the animal's buckets and list of food in the barn, don't let the pigs sniff their food or you'll never get it in the trough and with the chickens, just dump their food into their pens." Mrs Weasley handed me a hat and a drink bottle, "Gardening tools are in the shed for when you're done."

I rolled my eyes and made my way to the door.

"Wait, hand me your wand." The plump, red-haired woman held out her hand.

"I'm under aged, I can't use magic." I retorted.

"No need to have your wand on you then dear," Mrs Weasley smiled.

I pulled my wand out of my boot and handed it to her roughly then stalked out of the house. The barn was behind the house, it was small and looked slightly unstable, just like everything else in the yard. I opened the door and found the feed easily. 

Pigs

Pellets - 3 cups

Fruit and vegetables scraps - 3 cups 

Chickens

Grain - 2 cups

Pellets - 2 cups

Vege scraps - 2 cups

"These animals are treated like royalty." I muttered. I followed the instructions and carried the buckets of food to the pens. I chucked the chicken feed to them and immediately they began to scramble ((hahaha scrambled eggs... :P )) to the food. I then made my way to the pig pen. They were all standing at the gate, snorting loudly and waiting for me.

"Move." I growled trying to push through them, the mud was making it hard for me to move around them. "Stupid pigs!" I shoved one of them out of my way. A loud snort came from behind me, one the bigger pigs were trying to shove it's nose into the bucket.

"Stop it!" I squirmed away from it, but it dug it's head further into it's breakfast, making me drop it. The food spilled everywhere and the pigs piled around to eat it. 

I screamed in annoyance and stomped away from them, my eyes were stinging with tears.

"Maia dear, I told you not to let them get to it." Mrs Weasley's voice came from behind me. 

"I couldn't help it!" I glared, stalking around her and back to the house.

"You still need to weed the garden." Mrs Weasley called.

I sighed heavily and diverted my path to the shed, where I barged in angrily and grabbed the tools, "Where do you need me to garden?" I hissed. 

She gave me a warm smile, despite my attitude, "Around the front please dear." 

I walked around the building and could see the garden was full of weeds and overgrowth.

"Use the clippers to trim this," She pointed to the hedge, "And use these gloves when picking the weeds." She handed me the gloves and left. 

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The days continued on like this, chores, more chores and school work. The thing that annoyed me the most was that it was hard to stay mad at Mrs Weasley for too long. She would always give me a sweet smile and words of advice. 

Mr Weasley would return home for dinner, which I cooked, but be gone before I got up in the morning, he said the Ministry was busier than ever. The poor man still had scars on his face and his left hand was bandaged however, it didn't seem to affect him.

Hermione, Fred and George have been writing to me regularly, most of their letters only spoke of the hell Umbridge was bringing upon Hogwarts. 

McGonagall sent my school work three days after I arrived at The Burrow, it wasn't as challenging as fifth year, but it wasn't a piece of cake either. 

I felt better. Everything at the Burrow was keeping busy and distracted, I literally had no time to sit down and think.

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Short chapter, don't hate me. It was just a filler chapter and didn't contain much excitement, sorry.

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