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Tearing her eyes away from the house for a moment, as Adam gave her hand a squeeze, Lori gave him an appreciative smile and nodded before picking up her bag and placing her magazines in there. They came in handy as swatters -- if needs be anyway.
Once her door was opened, she clambered out and then shut the door herself before heading in the direction of the door, walking down the path. Past the garden that needed weeding, past plants that needed watering, past a life she could have been living.
And then ... she knocked on the door, her hand immediately returning to her side, her other arm protectively on her bag handle.
There was a door knock. Great, it was probably the council again. Dakota Bridges looked around her living room and slmost laughed. The council wouldn't take this place away from her, not with seven kids, and they wouldn't put any of them in care, because they were all too troublesome. There were toys everywhere, paper plates because crockery ones were useless and broke, plastic cups, dirt, mould, sleeping bags and the six children, all under ten years of age.
She placed a finger on her lips to indicate the children needed to be quiet, but kids these days? Well they didn't care, were they really going to just listen to her while she told to be quiet? She had never had control over them.
The brunette got up, adjusted her denim skirt, and ran a finger through her hair, her greasy unwashed for days hair, and headed for the door, opening it and rolling her eyes. "So the council send kids round now do they? Well you aint having my house, and you aint having my kids, so bugger off okay?"
After locking the car, Adam took one last look over the house and then at Lori, who was already halfway to the house. He didn't make an effort to run, but his walk probably
was quicker than usual. He wanted to be there when Lorelai's mother, or father, or whoever answered, and he caught up to her just as her hand dropped from knocking. Silently, he took it in his, the other hand still clutching his wand inside his pocket. He wasn't taking any risks. It could be anyone's house, the SatNav was a stupid muggle device, who's to say it hadn't been wrong?
A moment later the door was opened to reveal a surprisingly young woman, who looked rather forlorn and like she hadn't washed for days. The house looked in need of a bit of a clean as well, but Adam didn't say anything. He felt a wave of pity sweep over him, for this woman he didn't even know, who was living here. And Lori could've been living here, if things had been .... different.
Adam wasn't sure how he felt.
When the woman spoke, he squeezed his girlfriends hand tightly, but didn't speak at first. She thought they where the waddyacallits? Bailiffs? Yeah, the council peoples anyways.
"One, I'm legally an adult," as soon as Adam said that, he regretted it. He didn't know if she was a Muggle or not! Oh well, time to pretend that he was eighteen.
"And two... we ain't here for that."