Chapter 2 – Shopping!
Abi's POV
"Get up, Abi. We're going shopping."
"Huh? But I'm tired," Abi replied.
"We need to go before your Dad gets up...otherwise he'll see," her mother whispered.
"See what?" Abi asked, sleepily.
Her mother bit her lip. "You'll see."
Abi dressed quickly, into a plain white top and combats, too tired to care what she put on. She also wore a black and white bracelet; the one she never took off.
She then followed her mother downstairs, curious to find what awaited her. Her mother stood by the fireplace, and took out a small jar, filled with a curious green powder. She handed some to Abi, who looked at her with curiosity.
"Stand in the fireplace, and say 'Diagon Alley'. Then sprinkle the powder in the hearth," her mother explained, "Hurry."
She did as her mother instructed. "Diagon Alley," she cried, sprinkling the powder into the hearth. A wind picked up, and sprayed the powder everywhere. A green flame rose up, shrouding her vision in emerald. She felt herself being sucked into the fireplace. Her every particle groaned and shrieked as she was pulled this was and that. She screamed. The wind was dragging her along, the fire pushing her up. What was going on?
She fell flat on her face on the cold stone pavement. She opened her eyes; she hadn't realised they had been shut. They adjusted to the bright light in time for her to see her mother landing gracefully on her feet beside her.
"Get up." She said, dusting herself down, then holding out her hand to help Abi up.
"What just happened?" Abi asked. "Where are we?"
"Diagon Alley," her mother said. "We need to buy your school supplies."
"How did we get here?"
"Floo Powder," her mother replied. "Unfortunately you can't apparate yet, so we had to use it. Nasty stuff. I've never liked it."
Abi looked at her mother in disbelief. She didn't like it? What about herself! She'd landed in a puddle on the floor. The water was soaking through her combats, making it look like she'd wet herself. Abi grimaced. This was not a good day.
Livvie's POV
"Let's go."
"What?" Livvie asked.
"We're going shopping." Alexandra explained.
"OK." Without another word, Livvie grabbed her coat and her purse. She absolutely loved going shopping. She followed Alexandra out the door and jumped into the car.
"We're here."
They had stopped outside a small pub.
"We're at pub, Alexandra, not a mall. We can't go shopping here," Livvie said.
"Follow me," Alexandra replied, locking the car and going inside. Livvie ran to catch up.
"Tom," Alexandra said to the barman, "Can we use the back entrance?"
"Of course," Tom said with a grin. "Step right this way, ladies."
They trailed after Tom, until they got to a brick wall. Livvie shot Alexandra a questioning glance.
"Alright ladies, I'll leave you to it."
Alexandra brought out her wand, and tapped some of the bricks. They start moving. Livvie jumped back. What was going on? she thought. Soon, the bricks created a gap wide enough to reveal a row of shops.
"Wow," Livvie breathed. It was amazing. So many people, most in long robes, wearing crooked hats. So this is what the world of magic was really like, Livvie thought.
Nonie's POV
"We'll buy you some new robes," Nonie's mother cried, "What colour would you like?"
"Neon," Nonie replied.
"You can't have neon robes, Nonie! They don't make them like that!" her father said.
"Yes they do! There's a really cool shop called Rave Robes! They sell the most snazzy robes ever there! Please let me have some!"
"Fine," her father sighed. "If you really must. Though you have enough neon clothes already."
Nonie rolled her eyes. In her opinion, you could never have too much neon. She had neon hats, robes, shoelaces... lots of neon.
"Can we go now? I want my neon robes!" Nonie asked, excitedly.
Her parents looked at each other. Nonie was always so impatient when it came to neon stuff. And chocolate. And many other random, weird things.
"Ok, darling. Are you sure you're ready?" her father asked.
"Yes," Nonie sighed.
"Let's go then."
"Finally!"