Lie To Me

Part 47

Kit King
"Maybe I should just sleep in the shed or something."
"Kit you're coming inside."
"I don't want to. They'll kill me."
"Oh don't be daft."

Ron grabbed my wrist and pulled me along to the house.
As soon as we got to the door my legs felt shaky and my palms started to sweat.
"Deep breath and come on." Ron sighed before pulling me in.
As that familiar Weasley smell filled my senses I couldn't help but smile.
This was my home for a summer and hopefully they'd accept me in again.
If they didn't, well, it would be spending a fortune on staying at the Leaky Cauldron for a summer.

"Ron! You're late where have- Kit." Molly said and my breath hitched in my throat.
"What the hell are you doing in my house?" Arthur said rounding the corner, holding his wand up to me.
"Arthur I-"
He started to mutter a spell and I pulled my wand from my pocket.
"Expelliarmus!" I yelled and his wand slipped in his hand but didn't fully leave his grip.
"Kit!" Ron yelled.
"Levicorpus!" Arthur cast and I waved my arms around as I started to rise off the ground.
"What the hell?!"
Arthur began to walk out of the house so of course my levitating self had to go with.
"Arthur what are you doing?!" Molly yelled.
"Protecting my family."
I let out a low growl, "Liberacorpus." I muttered before I came crashing down to the earth again.
I rolled around for a few seconds, holding my side where there was now a shooting pain.
But then i remembered that Arthur was desperate to get me away from the house.

I pushed through the pain and stood up, holding my wand out.
The whole family was now out watching the ordeal between Arthur and I.
Including Fred.
"Get away from this house. We know that you knew what your parents were doing. Your family destroyed us." Arthur said and I nodded.
"I know. I know what they did. It's awful and I'm so sorry for the pain they caused. But Arthur, I had nothing to do with that. I didn't even know. I swear on my own life that I didn't know." I said, pleading.
I was already exhausted and in pain.
I didn't want to do this.
"Both Fred and Ron told me how you and the Malfoy boy knew about it."
"That wasn't true!"
"Ron said-"
"I made it up Dad. I didn't know whether they knew or not. I just told Fred that so he would break up with Kit. Kit didn't know about the fire dad. When Fred told her she was devastated. He told me she cried."
I rolled my eyes as Ron revealed that I had cried over the house burning. It seemed silly when someone else said I cried over a house.
"She did Dad." Fred piped up and I couldn't look up at him. I would just cry if I looked at him now.

I looked up and straight at Arthur.
"Arthur, I promise I knew nothing about what my parents did. I haven't really known about anything that's been going on around me. I've been lost and broken and I've had no purpose, ever since...well, ever since,"
The tears started to fall but I had to push through it. They had to see that I was being truthful.
"Ever since Fred broke up with me, I was in a trance. A sort of slump. I-I helped Draco fix this stupid cabinet in school that let death eaters in, but I didn't know what I was doing. I promise that any pain my family have caused you has been of their own selfish accord. I've had no idea what they've been doing. I disowned them and they want nothing to do with me ever since I protected Dumbledore. So, please, Arthur, Molly, I'm exhausted physically and emotionally and I have no where else to go."

I let the tears fall freely.
I felt drained and exhausted.
So exhausted that I could barely stand on my feet anymore.
I wished I would be absorbed into the ground or whisked away by the wind and taken to some place where i could just rest.
But that wasn't reality.
This was reality and I had to face it.

"Oh Arthur this is ridiculous! She's just a child! Come here." Molly said wrapping a knitted shawl around me. She began leading me back to the house, her arms around my shoulders.
"I'm sorry Molly. I didn't-"
"I don't need any explanation. I knew you had nothing to do with it from the minute Fred told us. I knew it wasn't you."
"I-I saw this place like my home last summer. I would never do that to you." I sniffled.
"I know dear I know. Now, go and have a bath, change into these clothes and we'll figure out where you'll sleep." Molly said and gave me a tight hug before ushering me upstairs.
I sighed to myself, knowing that I truly couldn't stay. I didn't realise how hard it would be coming face to face with Fred.
But the more I thought about having to live with him the more nervous I got.
Then again, I had to stay, I had nowhere else, I had no one else.