TM Prompt 218
Write about a lie your parents told you
Mum always said if we caused trouble at Hogwarts we’d be expelled. That’s a laugh.
Dad used to say he didn’t tinker with Muggle things, until we got old enough to figure it out.
They both insist they don’t have favourites, but it’s not hard to see they like Bill and Ginny best.
We always wondered why they had so many kids when we’re constantly having money problems. Not that we don’t love our siblings but it would make sense that if you can’t afford three kids, why have four? Or in this case, five, since Fred and I were the fourth birth. And then Ron and Ginny. Fred was the only one brazen enough to ask outright, and Mum swatted him on the ear for it and said she wouldn’t trade us for anything in the world and that money problems are nothing to be concerned about. She could handle it.
Bill was the first to notice, probably because he’s the oldest, that every time the start of the school year came around that Mum and Dad would stop buying things for themselves. We were used to secondhand robes and such, but they didn’t get anything. Mum just patched up what they had with a simple “Good as new,” and that was that. We never liked to ask for things, and when we did, it was always met with a frown from Mum, but she’d say “We’ll manage,” and get us what we needed.
When Fred and I started earning money from our business we bought all sorts of things for Mum. We liked spoiling her after all the things she gave up for us. At first she protested, but eventually she got the message that we’re just as stubborn as she is and we don’t take no for an answer. And unlike Ron, we kept every Weasley sweater she ever knitted for us.
I supposed it’s not a real lie, her saying that she could handle the lack of money, because she did. And I know it’s true she wouldn’t trade in one of her kids if it meant more money (we tried selling Ron once, but she caught us and I think my bum is permanently scarred). But she lied when she said we shouldn’t be concerned about they family’s money, or lack of it. Maybe when we were kids it was true, but now it’s just as much our problem as it is Mum and Dad’s. Even though she insists it’s not.
Fred and I bought Mum and Dad a weekend vacation to France for Valentine’s Day. Nothing too extravagant because she’d complain, but it’s enough for them to get away from us annoying kids for awhile.
The rest of you lot can bugger off. Get your own Valentine’s Day gifts.
Mum always said if we caused trouble at Hogwarts we’d be expelled. That’s a laugh.
Dad used to say he didn’t tinker with Muggle things, until we got old enough to figure it out.
They both insist they don’t have favourites, but it’s not hard to see they like Bill and Ginny best.
We always wondered why they had so many kids when we’re constantly having money problems. Not that we don’t love our siblings but it would make sense that if you can’t afford three kids, why have four? Or in this case, five, since Fred and I were the fourth birth. And then Ron and Ginny. Fred was the only one brazen enough to ask outright, and Mum swatted him on the ear for it and said she wouldn’t trade us for anything in the world and that money problems are nothing to be concerned about. She could handle it.
Bill was the first to notice, probably because he’s the oldest, that every time the start of the school year came around that Mum and Dad would stop buying things for themselves. We were used to secondhand robes and such, but they didn’t get anything. Mum just patched up what they had with a simple “Good as new,” and that was that. We never liked to ask for things, and when we did, it was always met with a frown from Mum, but she’d say “We’ll manage,” and get us what we needed.
When Fred and I started earning money from our business we bought all sorts of things for Mum. We liked spoiling her after all the things she gave up for us. At first she protested, but eventually she got the message that we’re just as stubborn as she is and we don’t take no for an answer. And unlike Ron, we kept every Weasley sweater she ever knitted for us.
I supposed it’s not a real lie, her saying that she could handle the lack of money, because she did. And I know it’s true she wouldn’t trade in one of her kids if it meant more money (we tried selling Ron once, but she caught us and I think my bum is permanently scarred). But she lied when she said we shouldn’t be concerned about they family’s money, or lack of it. Maybe when we were kids it was true, but now it’s just as much our problem as it is Mum and Dad’s. Even though she insists it’s not.
Fred and I bought Mum and Dad a weekend vacation to France for Valentine’s Day. Nothing too extravagant because she’d complain, but it’s enough for them to get away from us annoying kids for awhile.
The rest of you lot can bugger off. Get your own Valentine’s Day gifts.