It was Friday. George didn't do much the day before. He just stayed in and tried to avoid answering the door. He was thankful that Maya didn't try to come to his door and talk to him but he still felt guilty about what he said when they went to eat.

George looked at the time and went to get ready for the day. It was almost noon and he was planning to get to the burrow around 12:30.

He went and changed and tried to look presentable. He didn't want to look like a complete mess. He thought of different things to bring but couldn't think of anything. He decided to just go with bringing flowers. Once he finished getting ready he left his apartment and picked up floors first and then went to the burrow. He apparated to the burrow. It was a bit of a rough landing since he wasn't used to using magic.

George landed on the couch and groaned a bit mumbling "what a rough landing".

Molly and Arthur were in the kitchen when they heard a loud thud. Molly went to see what the noise was and saw George. Molly smiled and said "George! I'm glad that you were able to make it!"

George got up and forced a smile and said "Yeah, sorry for the noise"

"It is no problem at all" Molly beamed and went and hugged George.
George hugged back and softly said "It's nice to see you to mom"

Molly let go and smiled and looked at George and was studying him, making sure that George was okay. "Are you hungry dear, have you been eating enough"

George nodded and softly said, "Mom I'm okay, and I can eat once everyone else gets here, who else is coming here?"

"Well, I believe your brothers and sister will be here. Harry is going to come over with Teddy I believe. " Molly smiled and was just happy that George was home. "Teddy is so sweet and I think he will grow up to be such a great kid"

George smiled a bit and responded "Yeah, Ron told me about him, in his letter. It would be nice to meet him, I haven't seen him in a while."

Molly smiled happily and said "I'm just glad that you are here, Bill told me that you have moved into a muggle apartment. He said he visited a couple of days ago. How long do you think you will live there? And so you have enough food there?"

"I'm fine mom, it's a nice apartment and I don't know how long I will be there for" George softly said "I pay for it monthly and I don't know what I'm going to do next month or the next month"

"What about the shop? You and Fred worked so hard on it and it hasn't been opened in months-" Molly said and
was interrupted when Harry came into the burrow with Teddy and Ginny.

George was thankful for this interruption and went over to them and smiled saying "hey!"

Ginny looked at George and smiled at him, but was still concerned about him. "Hey George, it's good to see you"

Harry smiled at George too and Teddy looked at George and giggled happily. "Hey George it's nice to see you, how have you been?"

"I have been pretty good, you know life things and stuff" George grinned and said "yeah just life. Living and all that jazz"

Harry nodded a bit and said "I'm glad that you were able to come today, I didn't think that you were going to come when molly first talked about having a lunch"

George shrugged a bit and responded "just decided it has been a while since I have seen you guys, plus I just sit around and watch muggle tv. I started to watch this show called friends and it's really good."

"Aha yes, I believe Hermione has mentioned that show" Ginny softly said, "it's about Ross, Monica, etc."

Harry smiled and said "that's great that you are watching some tv. When do you think you are going to reopen the shop?" As he made sure that Teddy didn't fall out of his arms.

"I have no idea, to be honest" George responded with a bit of a monotone voice. "Whenever"

Harry softly said, "Ginny can you take Teddy for a bit?"
Ginny nodded and gently grabbed Teddy and went over to Molly and Arthur, who both were excited to see the blue-haired baby.

"What do you want, Harry?" George asked and crossed his arms looking at the younger boy.

"Look... I know you are getting this whole speech a lot and all" Harry gently, in a kind tone said "I care about you George, and I know it's been hard since Fred died and I will always be there for you. But are you okay? And don't lie for my sake"

George looked at Harry like he was deciding if he wanted to lie or not. "I just. it's been hard and I know it's been hard on everyone and people say that they know how I feel but they don't, I know my family lost a brother and my parents lost a son but, I lost my other half and I'm just tired of people saying they are sorry for my loss when they never even knew me or Fred to begin with. I just... I don't know what to do anymore" he sat down on the couch and ran his fingers through his hair.

Harry sat down next to George and softly said "hey it's okay, it's okay you don't know what to do anymore. I get what you mean, people say that to me too. The whole I'm sorry for your loss and how great they were when they didn't even know them, to begin with. I guess the only thing you can do is to live and... well you don't have to move on but.. to try and be happy."

"I don't know how to be happy without him, Harry," George said in such a pathetic and sad tone. "All my happy memories are with him and I barely can get by with my grief"

"Grieving is a good thing George" Harry gently said "grieving isn't a bad thing George. Grief.. but what is grief if not love persevering" He looked at George and said "don't think about grief as just sadness and despair, it's much more"

"I guess" George mumbled to himself and looked down at his hands.

"Hey" Harry softly said, he took out a card and put it on George's hand and said, "Bill told me he visited you a couple of days ago. And I just think you should have it"

George looked down at the card and it was a business card for a therapist in London. "Harry-"

"Look" Harry softly said "everyone deals with their emotions in their way and I'm not saying you have to go, but sometimes it's easier to deal with them when you have someone to show you how. Just think about it okay? You don't have to go through this alone" Harry had to mature quickly because of the war and hunting for Horcruxes and it shows.

George looked at Harry and then he looked back at the card and nodded softly said "okay... okay I will think about it" he stuck the card in his pocket" he looked around and said "I think everyone is here now"

Harry smiled and replied "we should go and join them"

George nodded a bit and got up with Harry. He went and joined his family. The rest of lunch went well. George talked to his siblings and even made some jokes and he smiled. He didn't realize how much he needed to be around his family, but what Harry said was still running in the back of his head. He felt like the business card burning a hole in his pocket and everytime he causally stuck his hands in his pocket he felt the sharp edges of the card. He lost track of time and when he looked at the time he said "shit"

"Language dear" Molly said and looked at George. They were all sitting at the kitchen table and were talking.

"What did you forget George?" Bill asked and looked at his brother

"I have to go, I promised a friend I would hang out with them" George quickly said and he got up and grabbed his jacket and said "I will visit again, I promise" left.
He got to his apartment building and looked at his watch '5:40'
"Crap crap" George muttered to himself and he quickly punched in his code and went into the lobby and looked around and said "Good job George you missed them-" and then he heard Maya talking.

"We should wait a couple more minutes," Maya said, trying to convince the rest of the group to wait for George.

"Maya he is not coming, we should just go" Sam argued with her.

George grinned and quickly walked over to them and said "I'm here I'm here, sorry for the late wait, caught up with family  things"

Maya smiled brightly at George and had a cherry tone in her voice and said "great! I'm glad you can make it George"

George smiled at Maya and softly said "yeah me too"

"Great, we can go now!"" Sam said he was ready to go and he led the rest of the group as they left the lobby.

George went over to Maya as they left the lobby and he smiled at her.

Maya smiled back and softly said "I'm glad that you were able to come"

"Me too" George grinned and responded "I'm sorry about what happened before, I shouldn't have snapped at you like that. It wasn't fair"

"Hey it's okay-" Maya started to say

George interrupted and said "no it isn't, I shouldn't have snapped. That isn't any way to treat a friend and nothing can excuse it. Okay?"

Maya nodded a bit, seeing that there is no use in arguing with George. She softly said "we are friends?" Was the main thing she took away from what George had said.

"Of course we are," George grinned and put an arm around her shoulder. "We are friends"

Maya smiled at George, she had to look up to him as he was 6'3 and she was only 5'2. "Great! Friends, now get your arm off me" she knocked his arm off her shoulders

"Yes ma'am" George said and he put his first two fingers to his forehead and saluted her.

"You are a strange one Weasley" Maya said but she had a big grin on her face.

"Oh you really have no idea Gilbert'' George smiled at her responding "you really have no idea Maya" and he was genuinely happy at this moment, and since Fred's death, maybe things will get better.