Secret Love [Blinny] | Wattys2017 |

20: Eighteen Years Later

"Mum! Dad! Wake up!" A loud voice yells as someone is shaking me awake.
"I'm up, I'm up." I say, throwing my hands up as if too surrender.
"Dad!" Our son, Thomas, whines, shaking Blaise's, his dad's, arm quickly to wake him up.
"Five more minutes." Blaise says jokingly.
"No! Now!" Thomas yells, thinking that Blaise is being serious.
"Alright, alright, I'm up." Blaise says, sitting up in the bed as he rubs the sleep out of his eyes.
"I'm going to wake up Cami." Thomas says before scampering out of the room.
Over the past eighteen years Blaise and I have had a total of four kids. Our first, who is turning eighteen this year, Amelia Molly. Then our eldest boy, Fred James, who is fifteen. Then Thomas Rosen, who is twelve. And then our youngest daughter, Cameron, who likes to be called Cami, Marie, who is ten.
Blaise and I got married the summer that Amelia was born, as we wanted to make sure that we would be together for her an all of the rest of our kids, as we both wanted a decent sized family of our own.
Harry and Draco broke up at the end of our last year at Hogwarts, on good terms. Then Harry and Ron became official three months after that and have since adopted a boy and a girl, Albus Severus and Lily Luna. Albus is a year younger than Fred and Lily is the same age as Cami.
Hermione ended up marrying a squib named Hank Evergreen. The two of them have three children together. The oldest is Matilda Isabelle, who is Fred's age. Their middle child is a scrawny boy named Benjamin Beau who is thirteen. And their youngest is a tall girl named Lavender Jean who is nine.
All of us have ended up way different places than I would have guessed in my fifth year and their sixth. But I wouldn't change it for the world. All of us are happy with our own families.
Hermione and her family moved out to America to be closer to Hank's family so we don't see much of them anymore, which is sad, as Hermione used to be one of my best friends, and she still consider her to be that. Harry and Ron have stayed local and decided to build near the Burrow to make sure that my parents get any help that they need, and so they can get it quickly as they are getting up there in age.
Blaise and I have taken over Zabini manor and his parents live in a smaller manor down the street aways.
"Babe?" Blaise asks, snapping me out o my thoughts.
"Huh?" I ask, caught off guard.
You were zoning out." Blaise says, and he doesn't even seem annoyed.
"Yeah I know. Let's go and get breakfast ready, the kids go back to Hogwarts today." I say, slowly climbing out of our shared bed, Blaise doing the same, managing to doing it even slower than I did.

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"You behave this year okay?" Blaise says to Fred, as he misbehaves just as how my brother Fred and George did before Fred passed away during the war.
"Yes dad." Fred says and I can tell that he's going to get in trouble anyways.
"Just don't do anything too bad, and don't get Albus into trouble with you, uncle Ron and uncle Harry don't care all that much but we do."
"Yes mum, geez, I get it." Fred groans, as if he's already heard us saying this type of stuff, which he has.
"Fred! Hurry up!" Albus yells to his cousin before vanishing onto the train.
"Go." Blaise says and Fred immediately runs to the train to meet his cousin, who is one of his closest friends, and they're both in Gryffindor, Fred like me and Albus like his dad's.
"It's crazy." Harry says as him and Ron walk up to us, Ron holding Lily's hand as neither her or Cami can go to Hogwarts until next year.
"Hi Lily!" Cami greets her cousin excitedly.
"Hi." Lily answers, seeming just as excited but she is the most reserved and shy person in the family so she tends to hide her excitement for whatever reason.
"What's crazy?" Blaise asks Harry, and ever since Amelia was born everyone has treated Blaise as if he's been a part of the family forever.
"The fact that almost all of the next generation of our huge family are old enough to be in Hogwarts. Too bad Hermione and Hank can't be here with their kids." Harry says sadly, and it's clear that he truly misses Hermione, we all do.
"Yeah, I miss her like crazy. Her and Hank enrolled their kids into Illvermorny." I say, still mad that she wouldn't give her kids the same amazing experience at Hogwarts that all of us got.
"Whatever man, I just wish that they would visit us more." Ron says sadly, Lily and Cami talking animatedly about wanting to go to Hogwarts.
"Yeah, me too." Someone says from behind us, causing all of us to spin around and we all see that it's Hermione herself, but she's alone.
"Hermione!" Ron, Harry and I shout happily in unison as Blaise wears a soft smile.
"Hey guys." She says, waving at us weakly and that's when I notice that she's about thirty pounds too thin and has deep circles under her eyes.
"What's wrong?" Ron asks before I can get the words to form in my throat.
"What? Nothing's wrong." She says, clearly lying to all of us, and we all see through it.
"Cut the bull Hermione, we all can tell that somethings wrong. You wouldn't be here otherwise." Blaise says, and over the years him and Hermione have developed a mutual respect for each other like I knew that they would.
"Alright, alright. Hank and I are getting a divorce, he's been abusing me ever since we moved to America. I'm getting full custody of the kids and they will be starting at Hogwarts as soon as possible." Hermione explains, and all of our jaws drop.
"Hermione." I say softly, as I don't want o believe what she's telling us.