Hello...finally done with exams...phew...so now here's the post...


Is That Him?

Down in the living room and the kitchen that evening it was all hustling and bustling Fleur had come with Victorie and the room was full of chatter and fun and frolic around the little baby. There was a knock on the door and Ginny went and answered it
“Hey Harry” she said and hugged
“you guys can get cozy and lovey dovey once you are inside now move aside” said Ron
“I am freezing” and pushed both of them and a laughing Shaun entered
“Ron!” exclaimed Ginny as she was about to go out of balance but he wasn’t listening. He walked after Hermione and was immediately busy with her and Harry had to roll his eyes.
“Ginny this is Shaun, my room mate” he said
“Hello Ginny”
“Hey Shaun, nice to meet you” she said and stepped aside to let them enter, closing the door behind she walked in and went and stood next to Hermione as Harry and Shaun started talking to Mr. Weasley and Bill and Gorge. They had moved to the living room.
As everyone got in and settled Ginny looked around and saw Sara wasn’t there. She got up to look for her when she turned and saw Sara coming down the stairs. She entered the room.
“Hey Sara” said Ron and came forward. He went and hugged her. Ron, the Weasley brothers and Harry had become like brothers to her in this family. He moved away and spoke “this is my room mate Shaun Macmillan” and Sara looked at Ron and then everything went dizzy as she heard the complete name
yes it is him, no doubt about it, Aussie...The Eagle as an Animagus...her and Rahul's best friend... she looked into the those same green eyes that she had seen all her school time, that dark hair that had grown messily over during their 5th year and she and Rahul had to push him into the saloon to get it cut, the same set of brows which were raised in surprise perhaps on seeing her and then were knit in deep thought as his eyes looked into hers, the same face that came every other night along with Rahul’s revisiting those fun school memories which then would turn into some troubled scenes in her dreams.
“Sara?” Hermione began but before she could say anything there was a blur of black in front of Hermione and Sara. Shaun hugged her.Sara was stunned by it but hugged Shaun back. Hermione and Ron who were both at each side of Sara were confused and others were at loss of words but Sara’s words gave Hermione the answer.
“I missed you so much” she murmured and tears started flowing, her eyes shut tight and hugged him tightly.
Shaun held her close to him as if he wouldn’t let her go, his could see flashes of his disturbed dreams in front of his mind’s eye and he held her tighter. Tears leaked through his eyes.
The scene at the Burrow was watched with confused eyes. It seemed like after hours Sara and Shaun broke apart their hug. Each wiping their tears they looked down and then around. Sara turned pale
“I am- I am sorry”
“Sorry?” began Molly but was cut by Ron
“Shaun, you know her?” he asked him
Shaun looked at Ron and nodded
“my best friend from school” and instantly Ron remembered Shaun talking about her, the night Shaun told him and Harry about his dream.
“why didn’t you ever tell us about yourself Shaun?” asked Harry
“All this while Sara had been here, if we would have known this Sara would have had her own friend in his foreign land. It would have been much easier for her” he said
“you know ” began Shaun
“No, Harry. Its alright.” Sara cut in “I am glad I got to know you people here first and stayed with you and am friends with you all. You did make my life easy. I really do mean what I said” she said looking around at each and everyone of them.
“If Shaun and I would have met earlier then today maybe then we both would have dwelt on our past and not think about the present” she said looking at Shaun who looked at her and then at the floor.
“So, you and Shaun were best friends along with?” Ginny started but was cut by Sara’s nod.“but you never spoke of anyone else Sara other then…” trailed Ron
Shaun looked at Ron and then at Sara. It was Sara’s chance to look down
“its because I didn’t want to talk of any of my other friends because I would miss them terribly and I would have been even worse then what I was for all those days you saw me being sad and pathetic” she said.
George protested.
“hey you weren’t pathetic” said Bill. She looked up and chuckled a bit her eyes still holding some tears
“exactly you were just sad that’s it. Everyone stood there in silence not knowing what to say next or do and just then
Now that everything seems to be on a good note lets go have some dinner” piped in George
“George!” exclaimed Angelina
“no he is right Angelina. I am hungry too” Sara giggled a bit and for the first time it seemed to look that Sara had smiled a bright smile, bright enough to erase all their doubts about her being ever sad again. As they all walked into the tiny kitchen cum dinning room Sara had something else on her mind, how would she tell the news about Rahul to Shaun. It would break him again. But she tried not to think about it yet.
Everybody seemed to be looking happy and chattering while Shaun kept silent in his own thoughts as he went and sat down on the table beside Ginny. Sara sat down opposite Shaun beside Ron. She gave a small smile as she sat opposite Shaun and he returned her smile.
The dinner went by in sweet laughter and teasing among the siblings and their partners and a proud voice of the mother speaking rapidly in her French accent about her sweet little daughter. Things couldn’t have been better then this at the Christmas eve. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were the most happy to see their family dinner table full of chatter and clatter and laughter. Everybody met in the living room again and sat down to sit and talk. Bill was very much into deep conversation with Mr. Weasley while Fleur and Mrs. Weasley and Angelina were busy in the kitchen and George was entertaining his niece Victorie putting her on his stomach and tickling her as he lay on the couch. Harry, Ron, Shaun, Ginny, Hermione sat on the couch and were in deep conversation while Sara sat on the rug covered floor leaning side ways on to the couch and quietly listened to what they had to say. They would laugh at Ron’s comments in the middle of the conversation and when Shaun would look at her, she would smile.
The evening drifted into night. It had begun to snow again. Sara looked out of the window. She got up and excused herself and walked out of the room and then out of the house in her jacket and scarf to look up at the night sky and to see the snow falling. She held out her hand and felt the soft cotton like snow flakes, a small smile played on her lips and somewhere in the back Molly had started the radio and the Christmas Carols began playing. It was a night of bliss and tranquility which Sara would never forget. It was night where somewhere in the back of her mind she thought everything would at last become alright...

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