Into The Light (Golden Trio Era) {2}

Spending Time With Ron

"Oh! You two are home earlier than expected." Mrs Weasley's voice sounded from outside the kitchen window, the girls pull off their travelling Cloaks, "yeah we finished our errands faster than expected." Avery admits to Mrs Weasley as they hug hello. "How's the shop doing?" Mrs Weasley questions, "Brilliant, the busiest shop in all of Diagon Alley." Molly beams at the news knowing that her sons were doing well for themselves. "Ginny is up in your room and Ron is de-gnoming the yard. Mikayla and Avery split up deciding not to start inventing until after dinner. "How about you organise all the ingredients and put them in my trunk? you can put everything that in it under my bed for now. I'm going to help Ron." Mikayla planned, as she handed Avery over her little blue bag.

Mikayla scans the yard, spotting Ron near the chicken coop, she began to run towards him quietly, jumping on his back once she reached him, causing them both to fall on the ground and burst into a fit of laughing hysterically. "Bloody hell, you scared the shit out of me, Mikayla." Ron states as he places a hand on his chest. "Sorry mate, did you miss me that much that you decided to de-gnome the garden?" Mikayla asked him as she helped him off the ground, "not just you, it's weird only having Ginny and Mum here during the day." Mikayla smiled sadly, she never thought how Ron would be effected by her and Avery being gone all day, especially with the twins gone as well. She knows that Hermione and Harry will be at the burrow in a couple of days, but still 38 days of a 57 day break, and not to mention her other obligations such as trials, parties and photoshoots, she'll barely be spending time with her best friend who is basically her brother.

"Fred and George will be coming to dinner tonight, it's mam's condition that they shared at least one dinner with us a week and she won't mention them dropping out." Ron says breaking the silence, "good, I'll get to speak to them about my work days.." Ron furrowed his eyebrows at Mikayla, "I think I've bitten off more than what I can chew, under the circumstances I usually like to stay busy, but right now I just want to spend time with you, Harry, Hermione, Avery and Ginny. I may not have any blood relatives left but I do have the family that I've made over the past five years, and they're pretty amazing." Mikayla sniffles before being wrapped into a hug with Ron, "I love you M, and I'll always be here for you if you ever need to talk." Mikayla held back her tears that ready wanted to spill, "and I love you Ron, and I hope you know that no matter what you need to talk about that I'm here to listen, even if we're in a stupid fight, I want you to feel like you can come to me." Mikayla heard a handful of sniffles, feeling Ron shaking a little, he was crying. "Oh Ron, shh, I'm here mate." Mikayla rubbed circles in his back to calm him down, but having him crying in her arms broke her heart and tears began to fall down and race down her cheeks. "Merlin help us, we're crying beside a chicken coop over our friendship." Ron chuckled as he pulled out of the hug, wiping his eyes with his jumper. Mikayla mimics him whilst laughing, "let's finish de-gnoming, furthest throw gets a galleon." Mikayla bet, Ron shook hands with her making the bet.

After removing 15 gnomes, Ron won the bet and Mikayla handed over the money. "We should clean the coop and collect the eggs for your mum, just to be extra nice." Mikayla suggested, Ron agreed with the blonde, grabbing shovels from the shed. "We should bring the eggs in first." Ron plans, Mikayla nods smiling at the redhead. "Right, you hold them and I'll get the eggs." Ron plans, Mikayla raises an eyebrow as to why Ron didn't want to hold them, but decided not to question him on it. She picked up the first hen, holding her against her chest, Mikayla lightly petted the chicken's head as Ron picked up two eggs. As they moved down the line, Mikayla noticed how nervous Ron was around the chickens. "Do you not like chickens or something? You seem really jumpy." Mikayla states as she lifts up a chicken she recognised as Bonnie, "one clawed me on Tuesday, sliced my hand. It was lucky Mam had some of your potion." Ron admits, Mikayla smiles sadly. "Well in future, I'll be here to help you with the handling." Ron looks up to see that the chicken seamed extremely relaxed in Mikayla's arms, "I don't know what it is about you but creatures of all kinds trust you so easily." Mikayla smiled at Ron's observation, "it's because they can sense if you're calm around them that they aren't in any danger." Ron nods his head knowingly.

Once they were finished with collecting the eggs, Ron ran them into his mum, and Mikayla put on some gloves in preparation of their next task, she also grabbed the wheelbarrow. Ron returned, pulling on his gloves, handing Mikayla a shovel, and they began scooping. As Mikayla was scooping up chicken poop with her shovel, and putting it into the wheelbarrow, she could tell that Ron was coming up with a mischievous plan at her expense. She internally decided that whatever it was that she'd allow him to do it, to give a little cheering up from all his loneliness. Mikayla felt a great slap of muck and chicken poop hit her mouth and neck, she gasps in shock, "RONALD WEASLEY!" she gasped in hysteria, before picking up poop and muck out of the wheel barrow and lunging at Ron, slapping on the top his head, rubbing it into his hair whilst he was laughing trying to get away from her. He picked up a handful and put it down her back as she was picking up her shovel to continue working. "Nooo!" Mikayla squealed laugh as she threw some, hitting Ron's stomach.

Things escalated quickly within two minutes, Ron and Mikayla were on the ground, wrestling in the mud and poop, laughing, shouting and rolling around. It got to the stage that they were covered head to toe in poop, tears streaming down their faces in hysterical laughter, on the verge of wetting themselves as they laid on the ground holding onto their sides. "What ARE you two doing?" Mrs Weasley let a shout, Mikayla and Ron remained lying in the dirt, they turned to look at each other with wide eyes realising that they were going to get in trouble. Mrs Weasley came darting towards the pair, who adjusted themselves into a seating position. Mikayla could see Avery and Ginny in stitches laughing looking out the kitchen window.

"Our guests will be arriving any minute now!" Molly exclaimed, looking at the pair, "relax mum it's only Fred and George, they'll think it's funny." Ron told her, Molly brought her hands to hips, "I'll have you know Ronald, that it'll be more than Fred and George joining us. Remus, Tonks and Moody are having dinner with as well." Mikayla looked at Ron taking in his appearance, before bursting into laughter. "You look like shit mate." she spits out, causing Ron to chuckle along with her, "you're no prize yourself." Molly looked at the pair in disbelief. Mikayla stood up struggling to hold in her laughs, "sorry, Mrs Weasley, I don't mean to be disrespectful by laughing but I honestly don't know how you're keeping a serious face looking us. We look absolutely ridiculous." Mikayla gasps, helping Ron off the ground once she was done, Mikayla saw that Molly has holding back a smile. "Both of you showers now before-" Mrs Weasley cut herself off once she heard loud laughs, Mikayla turned to see everyone was looking in their direction. "They all seem to get a kick out of this... I wonder if the twins want a hug. You in Ron?" Ron nodded his head eagerly.