Chapter 2: The Meeting of Katherine
"Hellen… Hellen… Hellen, it's time to get up and get ready." said Draco quietly.
"Alright, alright. I'm up." I said tiredly.
I opened my eyes to see that Draco was already dressed and washed.
"How long have you been up for?" I asked sitting up in my bed.
"About 45 minutes." Draco answered with a classic grin of his.
I got out of my bed, walked to my dresser, and picked out an outfit for the day. I grabbed a pair of black dressy short shorts (because I only have short shorts), a light blue babydoll top, and a pair of black flats. I walked to the bathroom, and hopped in the shower. Within the next 10 minutes I was showered, dried, make-upped, dressed, and had my hair done.
"Hellen! What are you wearing? You look hot!" Draco said surprised at my outfit.
"Oh! This, it's nothing. Just something I had in my closet." I responded with a flirty smile.
"Breakfast's ready, you two." My mother yelled from the kitchen.
"OKAY!" We both yelled back at the same time.
We walked downstairs to the kitchen, where we sat down at the breakfast table. There were pancakes with fruit on top, bacon, eggs, orange juice, and coffee all on the table waiting to be eaten. My father was already at the table, reading the Daily Prophet and said putting the paper down, "Good morning, Hellen. Good morning, Draco."
"Good morning, father."
"Good morning, Mr. Potter."
"Draco, please, call me James. God, I feel old, my little girl is going out with boys already." My father said.
"Father!" I said slightly red in the face.
"I'm sorry, Hellen. It's just that you've grown so much and now you're going to meet Katherine, who we've not seen for so long. You're going out with a boy, and you used to be just a little girl." My father said.
"James! That's enough. Finish your breakfast, you two, because we have to leave in half an hour." My mother said quickly to us.
"Yes, Lily."
"Yes, mother."
"Yes, Mrs. Potter."
"Oh, father, just so you know, I'm going out with one 'boy' not 'boys'." I told my father coolly.
"Hellen! Don't start that bull shit with me. At least not now." My father said angrily.
"Fine but you have to let Draco and I go out tonight like we planed." I said.
"You can go out tonight as long as you are nice to everyone at the Weasley's today." My father said to Draco and I.
"Of course we will be." Draco and I said at the same time.
"Then you two can go out tonight. What are you going out for tonight?" My father asked.
"I'm taking Hellen out for her birthday, to her favorite restaurant in all of London, the Bayside Café." Draco said with a classic Draco Malfoy grin.
"gasp- Draco I didn't know you got a reservation at the Bayside Café, that's almost impossible." I inquired.
"I know but if you have a good amount of… oh never mind you don't need to know all my secrets." Draco said with a sly smirk on his handsome face.
"You know I'll find out all your secrets in time, Draco." I said with a sexy smile.
"Of course you will, Hellen, but you don't need to know all of them now."
I laughed at what Draco said and he gave me another one of his classic smiles. We finished our breakfasts, brought the dishes to the dishwasher, and then my mother said, "Okay everyone you have everything you need? Then let's go to the Weasley's"
My father, my mother, Draco, and I apparated to the Weasley's from our parlor.
The Weasley's
"Lily… James… Hellen… you're here at last! It's so good to see you all." said the sweet voice of Molly Weasley.
"Molly, it's so good to see you, too" My mother said back to Mrs. Weasley.
"Come on to the backyard; that's where everyone is. Oh Hellen you must be so happy to meet Katherine." Mrs. Weasley said.
I gave Mrs. Weasley a weak smile but didn't say anything. Mrs. Weasley had then spotted Draco and the smile she had on her face slightly weakened. Draco saw that and gave Mrs. Weasley a smile and a nod of his head. We followed Mrs. Weasley to the backyard where Mr. Weasley, Bill, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, Ginny, Hermione Granger, Severus Snape, Sirius Black, Tonks, Lupin, and Dumbledore were all sitting or standing around a few tables waiting for us.
"What are you doing here!?" said Ron to Draco.
"Yeah… What are you doing here, Malfoy!?" Fred and George joined in.
"I was asked to come here, Weasleys, so just calm down." Draco said calmly.
"Ronald, Fred, George that's enough!" Mrs. Weasley said angrily.
"Hellen, would you come over here?" said Dumbledore.
I walked over to Dumbledore and he said, "If you will wait here for a moment, I shall go get Katherine." Dumbledore walked into the Weasley's house and then came out with a girl. The girl had dark brown hair that was pulled into a ponytail through a baseball cap, brown eyes, and was shorter than me by seven inches without heels. She wore a boy-like tank-top, skater shorts, and skateboarding shoes. I couldn't believe my eyes; that girl was related to me!
"Hellen!" she yelled at me and ran over to give me a hug.
"Please… Please-let-go-of-me!" I said.
"Sorry, sorry I have a problem remembering that some people like personal space. Sorry." Katherine said letting go of me.
I just laughed it off with a forced smile on my face, and forced myself to say, "It's-fine!"
"Not being rude, but what are you wearing?" Katherine asked.
"Excuse me! I'm not quite sure I understood your question but did you ask me what I'm wearing?" I said dumbfoundedly that anyone would ask me such a thing; Draco shook his head at Katherine who didn't pay any attention to Draco.
"Yes, I did ask you that!" Katherine responded.
"Oh, I always wear these clothing." I said.
"Oh so you're one of the preppy girls that wear the tight little outfits and then go to the club, so all the guys look at you! Wait a second, are you one of the preppy girls, or are you just a wannabe?" Katherine said as Draco still shook his head trying to stop her.
"Excuse me but are you saying that I'm a wannabe, because if you are then I have a problem with you!?" I said still dumbfounded.
"Oh it's not that I'm saying you're a wannabe but if you are I can help you find your own group instead of pretending to be something
your not." Katherine said with a sympathic smile.
"I am not a wannabe. I am quite comfortable in my group. I am the group everyone who dresses like me are the wannabes. I never have nor will I ever be a wannabe." I said trying very hard to control my anger but I was slowly losing that, too.
"Hellen, I think you have anger issues and I know people that can help you with those issues. It's okay to have anger issues but you need to solve them otherwise you'll just have even more anger issues." Katherine said blankly.
At that point I snapped, and I bellowed at Katherine, "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR BULL SHIT! HAVE YOU EVER JUST LEARNED TO SHUT UP! I AM TIRED OF PEOPLE TELLING ME WHAT TO DO! THAT IS WHY I AM LEAVING. YOU AND I WERE NEVER MENT TO BE CLOSE. I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN IF YOU ARE GOING TO TALK TO ME LIKE THAT BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO BE VERY NICE TODAY AND TRY TO BE FRIENDS WITH YOU. BUT I CAN SEE THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! EVER!"
"Wow! Er… you do have anger issues!" Katherine said in slight shock.
I turned and started to leave muttering swears loudly under my breath. I muttered swears that almost no one except Draco knew.
"Hellen! STOP!" Draco said pulling me to a stop and then pulling his arm from my grip.
"FINE STAY HERE! WHY DON'T YOU MAKE FRIENDS WITH HER!?" I yelled at Draco.
"HELLEN! Calm down for a goddamn moment! For a person as smart as you, you never use your brain when you should. You need to sit down and have something to drink!" I said leading me over to a table to sit at.
I got me a drink of water and sat down next to me. He asked me, "You good now?"
"Yes, I'm fine." I said.
"Good!" I said putting his hand on my shoulder.
I finished the glass of water and put the cup on the table next to me. Mrs. Weasley said, "Everyone! It's about lunch time. What would you all like for lunch?"
We decided to have sandwiches for lunch. There was ham, turkey, bologna, and tuna. Katherine and I both ended up having turkey sandwiches. What I didn't realize was that we both ate the same way (we were stuck sitting next to each other during lunch). Everyone stared at us as we took off the top piece of bread ate that, then ate the turkey and everything else on the sandwich, and then ate the bottom piece of bread.
"What!?" We both said/asked to everyone.
"You both eat your sandwiches the same way. All of it, the exact same way. The bread, then the inside of the sandwich, and then the other piece of bread." Draco said looking at both of us.
Katherine looked at me and I looked at Katherine; we both looked at each other's plates seeing the crusts of our sandwiches. Katherine started to laugh because it was true that we had eaten the same way. I was so horrified that we were acting the same and then I looked at Draco who also laughed when he saw my face.
"Hellen… you do eat the same as Katherine and you two act the same way even though you're completely different." Draco said with a sly grin.
"Oh shut the bloody hell up, Draco!" I said flirtingly.
Draco shook his head at me and laughed again. He made me laugh at myself.
Over the next few hours, Katherine and I started to warm up to each other. We laughed and talked about things that had happened before we met each other. Katherine had just finished a story about her friend, Elizabeth, and how she had totally messed-up in potions, melting the cauldron, when Draco interrupted, "Er… Hellen, it's 5:30 P.M. and our reservation is at 7:00 P.M. I know how you like to have extra time to get ready, so should we get ready now?"
"Oh! It's already 5:30, Draco? Then yes we should go get ready." I responded.
"Mrs. Weasley, would it be alright if we used a room with a bathroom to change in?" I asked Mrs. Weasley.
"Yes, the guest bedroom and bathroom are on the first floor on the right." Mrs. Weasley said.
I and I got up from the table, went inside the house, and went upstairs to change.
About an hour later, I and I came back out to everyone to say good-bye for the night. I was wearing a black, Italian-made suit, a light blue tie (that brought out he blue in his handsome, cool gray-blue eyes), with polished, black Italian leather shoes. His hair was brushed back, slightly gelled but only enough to hold it back. I wore a light blue halter dress that was full length, silver heels, a diamond set of jewelry I had given to me. My hair was up in a loose-ish bun and I wore just a hint of make-up on my lips and eyes. When we came outside through the backdoor everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at us. A few people said "Wow!" or "Oh my god!"; others just stared at us.
"Wow! You two look great! When will you be coming back?" My father asked.
"We should be back tomorrow morning for breakfast, father."
"'Tomorrow morning?" My father repeated.
"Well, we'll be out late tonight, so we'll just get a hotel room when we get tired." I said.
"Okay. Then see you tomorrow." My father said giving me a hug and Draco a hand shake.
"Love you and have fun." My mother said giving me a hug and Draco a smile.
"Bye, Hellen and Draco," Katherine said.
"Good-bye," Draco and I replied together.
Draco took my hand and escorted me out of the backyard off to dinner.
