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"Where were you?" Charis said as I walked out of the store my hair ruffled and my face flushed.
"Oh nowhere, I was just looking around" I said smiling at them.
"Were you now?" Lyra said giving me her special look. Every time she thinks she knows something she cocks and eyebrow and her eyes say "I know something you don't know"
"Because me and Charis thought we saw you head into the closet with the tall read head whom I believe is a Weasley" Lyra said smirking at me.
I put my hands up. "You caught me"
"Isn't your sister married to a Weasley?" Charis asked.
"Ooooh scandalous making out in the closet with you sister's brother-in-law" Lyra said smiling widely.
"He doesn't know who I am" I said as I pushed open the door to Magical Menagerie the bell on the door tinkling causing a flurry of noises to come from the animals.
"Let me make an assumption that he doesn't know how old you are either" Charis said as she looked at the ingredients on the back of a package of owl treats.
"nope" I said popping the p as I looked at a cage full of mean looking white rats.
"So what happens when he figures out who you are?"
"He won't figure out…this was a one-time accidental thing" I said trying to ignore the butterflies that were exploding in my stomach as I thought of George.
"Sure" Lyra said not believing it at all.
I rolled my eyes and walked to the back of the store where there was a line of cage against the wall. My heart practically melted as I saw what was in one of them.
"Awwwe" I said as I watched the little black kitten rub her side against side of her cage. I stuck my finger in and stroked her soft downy fur.
"She just came in"
I turned to see an older lady behind the sales corner, her graying hair was in a tight bun and she had soft friendly brown eyes. "I'm sure someone's going to nab her real quick….the darling thing"
"Does she have a name?" I asked smiling as the kitten looked up at me with big blue eyes.
"No that's up to whomever buys her, but I've been calling her Cristabel…it means beautiful"
"Cristabel" I murmured.
"Uh oh" Charis said looking at Cristabel.
"Looks like Elle found another friend" Lyra said putting her finger into the cage next to mine.
Lyra was referring to the problem I had with getting attached to animals, First Ajax then the mutt named J.J that my clean freak mom despised and lastly the fluffy white bunny Daisy that I got from a muggle pet store.
"Would you like to see her?" The lady asked me.
I nodded my head vigorously and watched as she unlatched the cage and took out the kitten that seemed to purr happily at being handled. Me and my friends giggled at the kittens face when it was plopped into my lap. She nudged her face into the crook of my arm and let out an ongoing purr.
"How much?"
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"You got a cat!" Fleur said angrily as she threw her hands into the air.
"Yah" I beamed. "Isn't she adorable?"
"What if zat thing doesn't get along with Duchess?" She asked motioning to the big fat fluffy cat that was sniffing the cat carrier.
"Oh they'll be fine, plus it's only a month until I go to school, I would let mom and dad take her until then, but you know mom she'll probably end up throwing poor Cristabel in the street…" I said trailing off; I knew I didn't have to remind Fleur of Mom's neat freak ways especially since Fleur seemed to inherit that trait.
Fleur opened her mouth, but was cut off by Bill.
"I'm sure everything will be fine" He said winking at me. I gave him a grateful look as he continued. "And Victoire seems to like her" He motioned to the three year old who was attempting to get the latch of the carrier open.
I walked over and sank to the floor next to her assisting with the latch. I pulled out the black kitten and put her on the floor next to Victoire telling her to be gentle.
"You know the weekly Sunday dinner at my parents' house is tomorrow and since you're staying with us I would love if you'd join" Bill told me as he ate his dinner at the table.
I froze. "Uh who exactly is gonna be there?" I asked. Bill's family was the Weasleys and the Weasley's included George.
"Oh everyone not Charlie he's still in Romania, but you know Ginny, Harry, Ron, Hermione, George, Percy and his girlfriend Audrey, and of course my parents, oh and we can't forget Teddy"
I pretty much blocked out Bill after he said George. Well I definitely wasn't going tomorrow.
"Oh I wouldn't want to intrude" I said forcing a smile.
"Oh don't worry about it my mom loves company" He said smiling brightly.
"And when we told her you were visiting she practically shouted at me to invite you…in fact I'm sure she did shout at me"
I laughed, but it sounded fake even to me.
Oh god…
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