Chapter 3: The Bad Band or Too Much Butterbeer
Allison POV…
I just got a letter from Lily telling me that she wants Albus and I to look at this band tonight. Great. I had plans to go home and crawl on the couch with a good book. Today has been hard, it seem that we had more patients then yesterday. I was running across the hospital when I got the letter. I bet Albus is jumping up and down with happiness. On the bottom of the letter, she tells me to dress nice. I think Lily is trying to play matchmaker here. I don't know how many times I told her, that I hate her brother, well not hate I do not like him.
"Healer Longbottom," I turn to see one of the nurses calling me. I nodded to let her know to go on. "Mrs. Peanut." That was all she could say as I ran down the hallway to the patient's room.
Mrs. Peanut was one of my longest patients here. She was nearing the end soon. I enter the room to find some of Mrs. Peanut's family there. I smiled at them and they let me through to see Mrs. Peanut.
"How are we doing, Eleanor." I asked the little woman in the bed.
"Not so good, Healer Longbottom. I feel that I don't have much longer."
I gave her a weak smile. "Alright. I place a nurse by your door and I'll let you spend some time with your family." I left her with her family and made my way to my office to see who I had this afternoon.
"Healer Longbottom," Again I was needed. "Healer Ham would like to see you." I roll my eyes after she left. Ham was my boss, but all he did was yell at me most of the time. He was this short plump man. His glasses were bigger then his face.
I enter his office, which smells like three-day-old milk. I try not to wrinkle my nose from the smell. There were file cabinets covering all of the walls. The room was dark; I don't think he use any light in this room. I make my way to his desk to find him over some file.
"Longbottom, take a seat." Ham said without looking up. I look at the only other chair in the room to find it full of file on it. I didn't really want to sit anyway.
"I'll think I'll stand." I told him loud enough for him to hear, but he wasn't listening anyway.
He closed the file. "Longbottom, I need you to look at patients 345 and 276 for me." Ham only looks at patients like they were numbers. "They been here for a week now, they should be gone by now."
"Yes." Ham went back to his file, I was dismissed. I got out as quickly as possible.
I checked on the first patient, who's healer was with him. He told me he had a bad reaction on a potion and he would be leave as early as tomorrow. I nodded and went to the other one to find he had left already. I glance at my watch to see I had two more appointments and then I could go.
The appointments went quickly. I left at a quarter to five, I had an hour before I had to meet Albus at the pub were the band was playing. I made my way to my flat to change.
I was looking at what to wear, when I heard the doorbell. I opened to the door to find Albus standing there with a smirk on his face. He had on muggle clothes on tonight. He had on a pair of black jeans with a blue tee shirt. It was too tight for him. His eyes traveled over my body, I felt like he could see straight through me.
"Is that what you are going to wear tonight?" He asked me as he had say in what I wear.
"No, I was about to change before you ring the doorbell." I left the door open and made my way back to my room. I threw on a pair of jeans and a green tee shirt that looked too much like Albus' eyes. I made my way out of my room to the sitting room. "What are you doing here? Lily said that I would meet you there." I asked as I grabbed my bag.
"I know, but I wanted to pick you up." Al opened the door and let me walk out. He closed the door behind him. "You don't live too far from the pub, why don't we walk."
I narrow my eyes. "I don't know. You are not going to trying anything are you?" I started to walk to the pub.
"No, I'll keep my hands in my pocket the whole way there." Albus put his hands in his pocket. We walked in silence to the pub. Albus opened the door to let us in. It wasn't that crowded, we found a table close by the stage, a waitress came up.
"What can I get you two?" She asked. She was looking at Albus as she said this.
Albus looked at me. "Are you hungry because I'm starving." I nodded. "Two beef and onion pie and two butterbeers." The waitress nodded and left us. "Why is my sister making us do her dirty work? I know for a fact that Lorcan and her are at home right now." The waitress brought us our food.
"Who do you think is having more fun us or Rose and Lysander?" I asked him. After he answer, we had a fun night together. I have not laughed so much. The band wasn't half bad.
After the band was done, Albus looked at his watch. He had a gleam in his eye. I knew he was up to no good. "We should go and tell Lily how the band was." He smiled.
"Now, it's after eleven." I expressed.
He nodded. "I know." He had on an evil grin. I smiled and nodded. We got up and left the pub. We apparated to the ally by Lily's and Lorcan's flat. We saw there was a light on in their flat. We grin evilly at each other. We make our way up to their flat.
Albus waves his hand to invite me to knock on the door. I do it gladly. The door opens and we find Lorcan standing there in only his pajama bottoms. He frowns at us. We hear someone speak from the other side.
"Your brother and your best friend." Lorcan growled. The next thing we see is Lily at the door. She also had on her pajamas. She looks at us questionably. "What are you two doing here?" Lorcan broke the silence.
"We came to tell you about the band we just seen." Albus answered. I nodded to agree. Lorcan's and Lily's faces looked what in Merlin's beard are you thinking.
Lily looked inside the flat. "It's almost eleven-thirty, this could not wait until tomorrow, I have to go to work in the morning and Lorcan has a interview to do tomorrow." Lily was looking at Albus while she was saying this, like she knew it was his idea.
"So." Albus pushed his way into the flat. "I don't know if I could remember if the band was good or not. So, I thought that I could tell you now." I follow behind him. He takes a seat on the couch.
Lily looked at me. "Why did you agree with this?" She questioned me from the walkway.
"I think I had to much butterbeer." I took a seat next to Albus.
"You can't get…" Lily rolled her eyes. "Never mind." Lily and Lorcan took a seat. "So, tell us about the band."
"Let's see they were not half bad. You should see them. Allison and I enjoyed them." Albus turns to me. "How much butterbeer did we have?"
"We both had one when we ate, you had three more before they were done with their first set." I put my hand on my chest. "I only had one since dinner." Albus was outraged.
"I counted four bottles on your side of the table." Albus crossed his arms.
"I had to have that many because the band was making me fall asleep. Then you asked me if we want to stay for the second set. For some reason, only Merlin knows, I agreed. Then we had about fourteen between us." I started to laugh. Albus soon joined me. We laughed until we were red in the face. We looked up and saw Lily and Lorcan faces, it only made us laugh harder. We came up about five minutes later, "Sorry." Lily and Lorcan try to hide their smile, I could tell they were trying not to laugh at Albus and me.
"The band was bad. You two can do your own dirty work." Albus told his sister and best friend.
Lorcan and Lily traded a look between them. "I guest we do." Lorcan told her. Then Lorcan turned on us. "You can leave now." Albus didn't look like he wanted us to leave. We got up and walked to the door. We said our good-byes and told each other that we would see them later at the Leaky Cauldron. Albus took me home.
I smiled at him. "This was a fun night, Albus. I'll see you tomorrow." I kiss him on the cheek. I closed the door but not fast enough because I heard.
"Good night, Ally." Albus never called me that. I was always Allison to him. Maybe Albus is growing up or maybe we had too much butterbeers. I blame the butterbeer. I went to bed but couldn't shake off the way my lips felt on his cheek.