From Eden - Regulus Black (Complete)

Chapter One Hundred and Seven -

i'm sorry i took so long. i'm trying ya'll, but exams are coming and i'm freaking out because i did nothing the whole semester lol now... i know it's not much, but i thought this chapter to be a bit cute lmao - leave comments, please. i love reading comments and i really need something to laugh at

FUNERAL COMFORT

The reactions of the women of her family to her explanation to the ring passed several times on her head as she watched the service to Orion Black in hopes of keeping her entertained and looking somewhat pensative as everything happened.

Rose Evans' gasp was loud as she put her hands over her mouth, actually surprised that Anne was already engaged, even though she seemed to have forgotten her daughter (same age) was also engaged and her older daughter (by a single year) had ben engaged and had broken it off already. She started a rapid line of questions about Anne's fiancée, asking every detail about the story of the ring once she said it was a family-heirloom.

Lily had let a loud squeal come out before a high-pithed scream before she hugged Anne to tight that she felt like she could barely breathe, almost as if she was being squeezed by Nagini or something worse. She had started rambling about Anne's relationship with Regulus and how Regulus was an amazing match. "... Did you know that he refused to kiss Anne in front of James with anything more than a peck?! He's so respectful," she had said. "And then this isn't the first jewel she got her and he's right and a Lord as well. He's very smart, skipped a year, Mum!"

Petunia ran forward to hold Anne's hand to see the ring better so close to her face that Anne refused to believe she could see anything other than a blur of colour, but she insisted that she could see real stones if she was close enough and then Rose insisted that it was indeed a talent of Petunia. She had deemed the stone 'amazingly good', 'outstanding' even. Proudly, she said that Anne deserved a good stone and that she needed to have a good marriage, and more proudly she said that she was happy that Regulus was someone important in the wizarding world. If anyone saw, they'd think Petunia already knew she was family with Anne by the way it seemed like she was the one entering the family as well.

Quietly, Mia watched with high-chin, knowing all details well enough. She was proud of her granddaughter, but she was proud that she was witnessing a mother-daughter moment of Anne and Lily as Lily listening to everything eagerly, squealing and nodding keen to every detail.

Now, seeing Orion being taken away by the men in the family made Anne know that the wedding was coming closer and closer and that the war followed – though she didn't know if before or after the happiness she had promised herself to indulge.

"We must go," Severus said, touching her shoulder once the coffin and the immediate family was gone from the room and people started moving to go back to their houses. "Do you want to go home or do you want to go to my house until Regulus calls for you?"

"Yours, please," she said.

"It's not much," he warned as if she hadn't seen in on the Room at school already.

"I lived inside and shared a cupboard, I think you're fine," she said, rolling her eyes. "Come on, I need to get these shoes off."

The parlour was full and people were struggling to go out with floo in a graceful manner while tipsy and tired. Anne was sober, but her feet did hurt enough for her to stumble once she stepped into the fireplace and she had to hold herself to the structure around the fireplace in Severus' house once they gone through, kicking off her shoes in a hurry and moaning loudly in relief as her feet touched the carpet.