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1. Pixie Dust Is Not A Necessity
"Do you think we should turn back yet?" I called to my two best friends, Angelina and Katie. It was about two o'clock in the morning and while normally we're asleep at this time we were flying around the English Channel. It had been Katie's idea to go flying at this time, she had said it would be the perfect way to end the summer holidays, which it has to be said, is not a bad idea and it is kinda cool flying over the moonlight ocean. However, I can't help but think that some Muggles are going to see when their on those things that float long that water - boats I think their called if my Muggle Studies lessons are anything to go by - but Angelina had once again convinced me that no harm would come from this midnight fly. I wonder if she'll say that tomorrow - actually I guess I mean today - when we're all too tired at the Welcome Feast when we go back to Hogwarts for mine and Angelina's fifth year and Katie's fourth year.
"I dunno," Angelina called back from somewhere to the right of me. "What time is it?"
"I haven't got a watch on me." I replied, mentally cursing myself for not remembering to put on a watch. Well, more like mentally cursing myself for not remembering to buy a watch last time I was shopping, but it's not my fault my watch stopped working because someone - Lee - decided to spill a glass of pumpkin juice over it.
"Helpful." I heard Angelina sigh as we both slowed down so we were barely moving.
"You're not exactly being helpful either." I pointed out as we came to a standstill.
"Where's Katie?" Angelina asked scanning the dark summer night sky for her.
"I don't know." I said, also trying to find our missing friend.
"I don't see her." Angelina said a few moments later, hints of worry in the tone of her voice.
"Neither do I." I replied still trying to see if I could see any signs of Katie. I tried to convince myself that nothing had happened to her and that she had probably carried on flying having not noticed mine and Angelina's sudden stop, rather than fallen off her broom and into the ocean. We would have heard the splash of the water if she had, wouldn't we? It's not exactly the noisiest night tonight. In fact the only sounds were - or had been - the sound of the ocean's waves and the sound of the air in our ears as we'd been flying. So we should of heard if there'd been a splash.
"What we looking for?" said a voice from behide us.
"What do you think we're looking for? We're looking for … Oh, you are so dead, Katie Bell." Angelina shouted at Katie who was sitting on her broom, giggling, looking how she had when we left my house only now she was looking windswept.
"But I didn't do anything?" Katie said, still giggling.
"You made us think something had happened to you," I pointed out.
"But it didn't." Katie said as her giggle count began to reduce.
"It could have though." Angelina told her, purposely knocking into the side of Katie's broom.
"What was that for?" Katie demanded as she gripped onto her broom so she could keep her balance.
"To prove that something could of easily happened to you." Angelina told her in an innocent voice.
"Katie do you have a watch?" I asked her changing the topic before one, if not both, of my friends ended up swimming in the Channel.
"Yeah, why?" Katie replied.
"I don't know, maybe because I want to know the time," I told her sarcastically.
"Really Leash? I thought you might want to know the currency rate between Gallons and Muggle money," Angelina added laughing.
"So do you want the time here, France, Italy or Russia?" Katie asked like Angelina and I hadn't said anything.
"Well seeing as we're in England I would like the English time believe it our not?"
"But we could be on the French side of the English Channel," Katie reasoned.
"Yeah but Kates we're not going to France we're going back to Alicia's house so it would make sense to look at the English time," Angelina said slowly.
"Fine and we could of gone flying around the Eiffel Tower," Katie muttered pulling back the sleeve of her travelling clock, revealing four watches. I guess she wasn't lying when she said she could of told us the times for those countries, although why would you even have watches that tell you the time in other countries if your not in them? I just think it's a bit on the odd side if you ask me; but then again it's Katie so it really shouldn't be that much of a shock to us. "It's about three o'clock."
"We better go back then I suppose," Angelina sighed as all three of us turned our brooms around and headed back the way we came.
"I'll race you both," Katie called after a few moments.
"And what does the winner get?" Angelina called back; obviously she wouldn't do it unless she got something for winning … if she won in the first place that is.
"Well Ange we'll get Fred to give you a good old smooch, how does that sound?" Katie said giggling.
"Hmmm, tempting I guess." Angelina called back, her too giggling. "And if you win Katie we'll get Lee to give you a snog."
"I like the sound of that," Katie replied dreamily, making us all laugh.
"So Leash looks like you'll just have to snog George," Angelina said. I rolled my eyes at her but as it was dark she probably didn't even notice me doing this.
"Why do I have to snog George?" I moaned. Over the past year Katie and Angelina had been convinced that there was some sort of … romantic connection … attraction between me and George. The first time they told me this it had made me laugh but when they spent practically the whole year going on about this non-existent attraction between the two of us, it did nothing but drive me crazy; and it only got worse when Fred and Lee decided to go on about it too. Although I did find it odd that they only ever bothered me about it and never even annoyed George about it once, talk about un-fairness. I don't even think George knows anything about they've been annoying me about any way seeing as they shut up when he comes and I definitely won't say anything to him about it.
"Because you're both madly in love with each other," Katie said in her irritating sing-song voice that made me want to throw something at her. But seeing as we where flying across the ocean and I didn't have anything to throw at the girl I decided I'd have to do it later.
"Are we? I must have missed that little fact which is strange seeing as I have never even thought of being in love with George Weasley."
"She's still in denial," Angelina told Katie.
"How can I be in denial, if theres nothing to be in denial about?" I asked them.
"Easily, you just don't know you're in love with him yet."
"That's because I'm not." I sighed but if they heard me they decided to ignore me.
"Alicia Jayne Weasley has a nice ring to it don't you think Leash?" Angelina asked me, fake pure innocence ringing out in her voice.
"Shut up," I muttered. "Why do you like annoying me?"
"Because it's fun," Katie said simply.
"And because you're only getting annoyed because the things we're saying are true and you just won't admit it."
"You two seriously need to get a life and reading all those romance novels," I told them.
"We do have a life," Angelina told me.
"And you read those romance novels too, seeing as there your books," Katie pointed out.
"Yeah but they don't make me go into some crazy romantic."
"We're not crazy romantics!" Angelina and Katie shouted at the same time.
"What ever you say. Now I thought we were racing." I told them as I sped off in front of them, the hood of my cloak falling off my head as I did so and my blonde hair flowing carelessly behide me, riding along the breeze that filled the night's sky.
"Hey! That's not fair!" Katie called after me as she too, sped up trying to catch up to me."
"Yeah it is there are no rules!" I called back to her laughing.
"Who cares I'm still gunna beat you both!" Angelina called as she caught up to Katie.
An hour or so of racing later we touched down in the back garden of my family's Cornish house. It was still dark, and luckily we hadn't been spotted flying into the garden. Now the only thing we had to do was sneak into the house and into my bedroom, all without waking my parents or my brothers. I knew that my dad wouldn't mind the fact that we'd gone for a midnight fly along the English Channel if Sirius Black wasn't on the loose, in fact he would of probably of asked to join us but I gathered that the fact of Sirius Black escaping from Azkaban would probably end up getting me in trouble with him, and seeing my father angry isn't something that I like to see, seeing as it hardly ever happens and is scary when it does happen. Although my mother would probably go into hysterics at the thought that we could have been killed by Sirius Black rather than the fact we could have drown if we fell of our brooms if the others hadn't noticed. Robbie would react like our Dad did but he wouldn't get angry he'd just go into over-protective younger brother mode for no reason like he always does, while Adam would think it was a shame I didn't get blown up by Black because he's such a caring brother.
"I so won that," Angelina declared in a whisper as we headed towards the back door.
"No I think Leash won actually," Katie whispered back to her as I knelt down on the floor besides an over turned flower pot.
"Nah I think Ange did win." I whispered to them, knowing that they would go and make me have a snogging session with George if they thought I had won.
"Told you," Angelina whispered triumphantly as I carefully lifted the flower pot up and grabbed the back door key from underneath it.
Though it may seem stupid to keep the backdoor key in such an obvious place it's actually not, because if a Muggle touches it they remember something else they need to be doing, therefore forgetting about getting the key and if any witch or wizard touches it who isn't part of my family they end up with boils growing all over them and then they forget why their here, and it is quite funny to watch as the boils suddenly start popping up on them.
I stood up off the ground and put the key into the lock and turned it until I heard the small click, signalling that the door was now unlocked. I pushed the door open, trying to be as quiet as possible and we all crept inside carefully shutting and locking the door behide us, and I placed the key inside the sole of one of my trainers that were lying in a heap by the door. We tiptoed silently up the stairs, past my parents' bedroom, past Adam's bedroom, the bathroom and Robbie's bedroom finally reaching my bedroom; depositing our brooms in the corner of my bedroom as we entered.
"So when you going to get Fred to snog me?" Angelina asked as she took off her travelling cloak as she got into the sleeping bag that was on top of the fluffy white rug that was placed by the wardrobe.
"Er … how does tomorrow sound?" Katie enquired as she also took off her travelling clock before getting in the sleeping bag that was on top of a fluffy pink rug, that I had got out of the attic before Angelina and Katie had arrived at my house two nights ago.
"Perfect," Angelina whispered enthusiastically, as I hung my clock on the hook on the back of my bedroom door.
"It was a bit of a rubbish prize if you ask me," I muttered, making my way across the room, and climbed into my bed.
"How is it?"
"Well, we just raced across the ocean so you could snog Fred."
"You wouldn't of minded if you had to snog George."
"Give it a rest, will you." I mumbled into my pillow, throwing the covers over my head.
"George and Alicia sitting in a tree, K-I--S-S-I-N-G - " Katie started chanting, I didn't get to hear the rest of the chant as I feel asleep before she could finish.
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