What happens after a pool day the muggle way. (Sequence of “Pool day the muggle way”)- Charlie Weasley imagine
It has being a couple of months after we were able to experience a pool day in the way that muggles have them. Everyone was able to enjoy it and were fascinated by the way muggle do things without magic. Unfortunately, all of us got busy with our respective responsibilities; Dora went back to work as an auror, the older Weasleys went back to their respective jobs, the Grangers and younger Weasleys went back to Hogwarts. As for Romina Tonks, she had gone back to her magizoologist training and had begun to interact with Hippogriffs. At this point of her training she was still not in Romania for it would take a year for her to be able to move there; she was going to move there when she was trained enough to work with dragons.
Working with the Hippogriffs was quite amusing and lovely in Romina’s point of view; she had to gain its trust in other to work with it. To the point in which the Hippogriff had become quite protective of her and it made things more interesting for the training process. In fact, it was a positive aspect not just for the training process but for Romina’s current condition. A condition that Charlie and herself made possible a few months ago while they were at the muggle pool with friends and family. Said condition was... pregnancy, guess that Charlie was pretty serious when he told her that he wanted to practice baby making.
Ironically, Romina had kept her secret from everybody since she knew they would probably become over protective and perhaps, Molly would forbid her to keep her training until the baby was born. Deep down she knew that the news would have to be told because at some point it would be difficult to hide. However, she had made the decision to tell everybody, including Charlie on Christmas eve. At least that was what she was planning to do until Andromeda told her that Dora was going to be going to a dangerous mission and would most likely not be home for Christmas. Therefore, she decided to write a letter to her sister informing her about her condition and making funny remarks about she was right; also telling her that she wanted her to be the baby’s godmother and crazy auntie.
Knowing her sister, Romina decided to not tell anybody about this since she wanted to tell everyone at Christmas. Dora felt quite frustrated about not being able to tell this secret to anybody since she was very excited about this news. She also wanted to tease Charles and her sister because she knew what they were up to that certain day. Even though she was not good at keeping secrets or waiting, she made the decision to wait until her sister was ready to tell the news. However, this did not stopped Dora from teasing her sister whenever she was able to write to her.
As Christmas was getting closer, Romina’s baby bump had started to show and she had to start to hide it since it was a secret. It had started to get harder for her to keep this secret from Charlie since they always said everything to one another. However, she was determined to keep up her plans and keep it to herself...and Dora. All in all, she was planning how to tell everybody during Christmas dinner. Everyone was going to be there which meant that she would not have to write letters to those that were not present.
Christmas day had finally arrived and Romina couldn’t be more excited about the reveal of her little secret. Even though she was already on vacations, Romi had not gone to the burrow because she knew that Molly would actually figure that out. For this particular day, Romina decided to wear a printed blouse with a contracting printed cardigan to hide the belly bump. After getting ready, she gather the gifts that she had made for everybody and left to the burrow.
When she finally got there, the twins and Ron came out of the burrow running along with Molly who was following them. Molly was scolding the twins for pranking Ronald which was not strange since the twins caused a lot of mischief. Subsequently, Bill walked up to the door and said “Are you going to stand there while holding that many things in your hands?”. Romina looked at him and chuckled “I wasn’t planning on doing that but I was rather shook when I witness the chaos”. He raised an eyebrow and then said as he was walking towards her to help her with the things she was carrying “Thought you would be used to it by now”.
Afterwards, they walked into the house and Romina was embraced into a warm hug by Ginny. Then she was greeted by every single Weasley, well mostly all of them and their friends; Hermione, Harry and Violet. Before anyone could say anything, Molly walked into the house with the twins and Ron and they all greeted her. Subsequently, she said to Romina that Charlie was in his room debating about which Christmas sweater to wear. Romina chuckled as Molly guided her to his room to “help” him decide.
When she got into his room he was not deciding what to wear, in fact, he was shaving without magic; he was using the muggle method to shave. Therefore, instead of saying anything, Romina decided to just stare at him in admiration as she liked to say. Not only she was admiring his determination to understand the way that muggles do somethings but she was surely checking her baby daddy out. As she saw him put the razor down, Romina made her presence known by saying “I am liking what I’m seeing but if your mom sees the mess that you are doing...I’m afraid you will be scolded until the end of times”. At that moment, Charlie jumped as if his life depended on it which cause Romina to laugh.
Once he turned around he gave her a surprised look and then jokingly glared at her as he said “Are you trying to scare your boyfriend to dead? because if that is your plan then you might as well keep on doing that”. Romina crossed her arms and gave him a teasing look then said “You work with dragons and yet you get scared when your girlfriend talks to you?”. Before he could say anything in his defense Bill came into the room and said “That is why Charles is always the twins target when Ron is not around. By the way, mom wants you both to come down so that we can eat but I see that my little brother is taking longer than usual to get ready”. At that moment, Charlie turned to his brother and threw a towel to him “Tell mom that we’ll be down soon and stop unless you want me to embarrass you in front of everyone including Fleur”.
Bill rolled his eyes and chuckled as he left the room and the couple began to talk about their last encounter among other things. As they were talking, he finished getting ready and both made it to the dinning room. Molly had made everyone’s favorite dishes and said that they would all start eating after the last guest arrived which caused everyone to grunt. A few minutes later, Dora, Ted and Andromeda Tonks ended up apparating in the burrow saying “We made it”. Romina stood up and hugged her family members while trying not to get emotional; when she hugged Dora she whispered in her ear “Wouldn’t miss the announcement for anything in the world”.
After dinner, everybody began to exchange gifts to one another which was very exciting for all. Once it was Romina’s turn to exchange gifts, she gave all of them little boxes. Inside of those boxes there were onesies that said “Little Weasley on the way”. After all of them had their boxes, she asked them to opened them at the count of three. Subsequently, everything that could be heard in the burrow were gasps and giggling that came from Dora. Everybody looked at Romina and she was smiling as she was making eye contact with Charlie who was very shocked.
“Are y-you?...Are we?...really?” was all that Charlie could say
Everyone began to ask questions to her and somehow managed to remained seated. Therefore, Romina took her cardigan off and raised her blouse to show everyone her baby bump. Subsequently, everyone began to cheer and eventually started congratulating the couple. Once they let go of Charlie he made it to where Romina was and he hugged her while asking why she kept it a secret for so long; to what she said that she wanted to continue her training with no interference. He gave her a stern look and said “You know that you won’t be going back at training until our child is born AND you are coming to Romania with me”.
All of a sudden, every single person went to where they were at and hugged them. Andromeda, Ted, Molly and Arthur were very emotional and felt very happy at that moment. Bill and the twins were making jokes about how Charlie will probably name the baby after a dragon. Dora had a smirk look on her face as she looked at Victoria, Ginny and Hermione as she said “Romina made me the baby’s Godmother. At that moment, everyone snapped and looked at her as she revealed how I told her before anybody else; making Charlie look a bit upset but he was rather too happy about the announcement to make it too noticeable.
At the end of the night, Charlie took Romina to his favorite spot of the burrow as everyone had already left or fallen asleep. He expressed that he was a little hurt that she didn’t tell him as soon as she found out which she apologized for. Then he kissed her forehead and her baby bump; it was the most adorable moment from the night. Well, that was until Charlie told her that he had something that belonged to her but that he needed to ask a question first. Therefore, Romina told him to ask her anything and that was when he kneeled down as he took a box out.
He looked straight in her eyes and asked her to marry him to which she obviously said yes! This was a Christmas that they will always remember for the rest of their lives.
