Jemma's Place

"YOU have a daugher?" asked Mariana rather surprised: "Where is she?" she asked like she was gonna run in the room from kitchen or something.

Jemma laughed at Mariana's reaction.
"She's grown up. She doesn't live here anymore. She's, gosh, twenty eight now." she told a very surprised Mariana.
She couldn't believe that she had never told Mariana about this before. She guessed it had never come up though, really. Her daughter had left home many years ago. She still kept in contact with her, although it was hard sometimes. Her daughter had moved to France, as she had fallen in love with a French wizard. She was happy for her daughter, but missed her greatly. Her daughter was engaged...it was strange, her daughter being engaged while she was still not married. Still, that's the way life went...
"She lives in France now. She's engaged to a French man." she simply explained. It was the reason most people didn't realise she had a daughter. She wasn't exactly around a lot.

Mariana shook her head in order to try act normal again: "And and does she ever come visit you at least?" she asked still sounding a lot surprised.

Jemma found Mariana's reaction quite amusing and she was trying soo hard not to laugh. She found it hard talking and stopping herself laughing at the same time.
"Well, yes, she does come and visit. I go and visit her more often though, as I get regular holidays with a teaching job." she explained to Mariana, "She has a full-time job, like her fiancé, so it is hard for her to get a lot of holiday."

"I would love to meet her one day." said Mariana before a thought popped on her mind. "Can I ask you a question?It might be inpertinent a bit." she said trying to sound rather indifferent.

"Of course!" Jemma said, slightly laughing at Mariana's question. She had no reason to prevent her friends meeting her daughter. She wasn't hiding anything.
"Ok, go on then." she agreed. She wondered what Mariana wanted to ask her. She honestly had no idea.

"How did you have a daughter.I mean there must have been a father or something." said Mariana trying to sound nice.

Jemma laughed, but she knew what Mariana meant. Her family was quite hard to understand, they were nothing like the typical family. It had been until she was ten, which was when her parents split up. From then on everything had gone pear-shaped.
"Well, it's quite complicated," she began. It was a long story, but they had all day.
"I've never been married, as you probably know. I had a steady boyfriend, Liam, when I was younger, and well, my daughter, Sasha, wasn't exactly planned. I was only twenty at the time and Liam was twenty one. He didn't exactly react positivly when I told him. He freaked out and left." she told Mariana. She hadn't told this story many times, she didn't open up to people easily. She was trying not to leave anything out here though. She continued with her story.
"Looking back on it, I guess it was good that I found out Liam was such a....well that Liam wasn't the man for me. At the time I was devastated. Alone and pregnant. My mother was supportive though, and she helped me to bring Sasha up. She lived alone, as my parents split up when I was ten." she made sure to tell Mariana her parents were divorced. She didn't know that she had a daughter, so she might not know this either. "Anyway, us three girls lived together. My mum had a job which payed for us all. I stayed home to look after Sasha all day. When she turned eleven, she was accepted at Hogwarts. Unfortunately..." she hadn't realised her story would come to this point. She hated this point. She could hardly bear to say it out loud. Hell, she could hardly bear to think anout it. She usually blacked out this part of her life.
"My mother...she passed away two weeks before Sasha started school."
Jemma burst into tears.
She didn't cry often. In fact she barely cried at all. However, she barely ever talked about her mother. Her mother had done so much for her and Sasha over the years but she was gone so soon.

Mariana was listening to the story carefully rather intrested in it.Divorce was something she was always against especially when there are kids in the marriage who need both parents arround not just one of tham.She looked rather shocked with Jemma's life story making her unable to say anything in a time of few moments.
After Jemma started crying she finally snapped out and sat next to Jemzy giving her a frienly hug. "There,there Jemzy everyone pass away sometime." she said trying to raise Jemzy;'s mood up a bit. "If that makes you feel any better,you at least had your mother for long 30 years.My mom passed away when I was 5 and my dad aswell." she said still tapping Jemzy while she was giving her a hug.

Jemma reached out for a tissue, she always kept a tissue box on the table, although she rarely used it. She wiped her face, and she tried to catch her breath back.
"...Sorry...I just, well...I don't talk about her much...I...I try to black it out..." she managed to say, although with many pauses. She had known about Mariana's parents being dead, since it was on the Hogwarts records, although she hadn't remembered it until now. She felt like an idiot. Mariana could talk about her parents dying without crying, why couldnt' she?
She hugged Mariana in return, grateful to have a supporting friend like her. She had stopped crying by now, luckily, but her crying had made her nose all blocked up. She blew her nose, and looked in a mirror across the room. She looked like a real mess. Oh well, it was only Mariana. She wouldn't mind...hopefully.