When Roxanne woke up in the morning, she was very confused. She knew exactly where she was, and she remembered perfectly the events of the day before, she simply didn't know what time of day it was. She knew that she hadn't woken up for no reason, she didn't have to pee, so the only conclusion that she could come to was that she had slept her needed eight hours and her body was ready for the day.

But it sure didn't look like it was past four in the morning. It was grey outside, so dark that Roxanne could've sworn that she hadn't slept for more than two or three hours. She turned her head to look around, blinking the sleep out of her eyes and forcing her mind to focus as she did so.

She reached over and nudged Alyssa to see if she was awake.

"Five more minutes and then I'll go to school," Alyssa mumbled in her sleep and then turned over. Roxanne couldn't help but smile at how cute her new friend was.

"Alyssa, wake up, what's the time?" Roxanne whispered loudly.

"Ergh, phone in bag, go away," she grumbled and swatted away Roxanne's hand. Roxanne groped around for Alyssa's bag and yanked it towards her when she caught hold of it.

"Ouch!" Alyssa yelped as her strap whacked her in the face as her bag flew by.

"Sorry!" Roxanne exclaimed.

"Why do you hate me?" Alyssa groaned and covered her face.

Roxanne finally found something that she assumed was Alyssa's phone. She held the object in one hand and poked her friend with the other.

"Is it this one?"

"Yes," Alyssa said and covered her face again.

Roxanne frowned down at the rectangular object sitting in her palm. It was smooth and dark, reflecting her confused face back to her. There was one button on the surface at the bottom, another at the top of the phone, and two more on the left side. Roxanne wasn't an idiot, these phone things had numbers on them to press so you could contact people.

But where were the numbers?

Roxanne turned the thing over a few times and bit her lip as she became more and more confused by the thing she was holding. She tried slapping it and hitting it against her hand but nothing happened. She wanted to ask Alyssa for help but that would only attract attention to the fact that Roxanne was painfully clueless to muggle things.

Well, even more attention.

It finally occurred to her that hey, those buttons were there for a reason. Roxanne pressed the one on the surface and almost dropped the phone as it lit up before her and gave her the time. She couldn't seem to stop staring at the screen, it seemed so futuristic to her, she'd never seen anything like it.

At the bottom it said to swipe to the right. Roxanne looked at Alyssa to make sure she wasn't watching before putting a finger to the screen and swiping right. She gasped when the screen responded to her touch and a bunch of numbers replaced the date and time.

"Well, what time is it?" Alyssa asked.

"Er, erm," Roxanne said as panic began to set in again. Shit. This was not going well. She had to take a deep breath and tell herself to stay calm before focusing on the phone again. If swiping right brought up the numbers, then swiping left would put it back to what it originally was.

"Oh, it's ten thirty," Roxanne said, sighing in relief.

"What? It's completely dark outside, it can't be," Alyssa replied, shooting into an upright position. She snatched the phone out of a surprised Roxanne's hands and checked the time herself.

"Oh God, I haven't slept that late in a long time," Alyssa said rubbing the sleep out of her eyes and yawning.

"Wish I had some toothpaste with me but oh well, hygiene can wait until tomorrow. But for now, breakfast is in order, come on," Alyssa said. She threw off her coat and stretched out her limbs before gathering up her things. Roxanne hurried to keep up with her and ran after the girl who was walking off in an unknown direction.

"We're going to have breakfast?" Roxanne puffed once she'd caught up.

"Yep, and that means Tim Hortons, follow me," Alyssa said with a grin.

And when they finally managed to track down a Tim Hortons, it became very apparent that plenty of other people were thinking along the same lines as Alyssa. The lineup was incredibly long. Roxanne was worried she would be stuck in the lineup for an hour before getting served.

Which brought up another problem, Roxanne wasn't sure she had packed any muggle money before leaving her home. While she and Alyssa stood in line for their turn, she dug through the pockets of her bag before pulling out her wallet and looking through it. She sighed when she saw that she had a green twenty dollar bill, a purple ten dollar in it, and a blue five dollar bill with a few toonies and loonies thrown in.

The money seemed pretty straight forward, Roxanne knew the paper was dollars, and judging from the writing on the toonies and loonies, they were also dollars, and the smaller coins were cents. She could do this, she could do this.

Now she just had to figure out how to order.

"Alyssa, how do I order?" Roxanne asked quietly. She didn't want to attract attention to her ignorance.

"You've never been to Tim Hortons?" Alyssa asked surprised. Roxanne shook her head, she preferred to surround herself in magic considering how absolutely useless she was when it came to muggles and their complex technology.

"Do you drink coffee?"

"'Course," Roxanne replied. Who didn't? How were you supposed to function in the morning and tolerate people without coffee?

"How do you take it?"

"Three cream, three sugar," Roxanne replied promptly.

"Damn, that's sweet, anyway, do you have any aversion to meat or meat by products?"

"Not at all."

"Great, leave the rest to me," Alyssa said with a smile.

"You'll tell me how much I owe you, right?" Roxanne asked anxiously. She had never been very comfortable with people buying her things. It made her really uncomfortable when she would jokingly ask her friends for things and they would actually buy it for her. Roxanne came from a wealthy family, she was never short of money to buy anything and to her it felt like asking others to buy her something when she could afford it as selfish.

"Sure," Alyssa said.

Roxanne had never seen employees look so harassed before in her life. They were all rushing around filling out orders as fast as they possibly could, the thing fuelling them being the fact that they wanted to get rid of everyone as fast as possible. And Roxanne felt bad for adding to their list of customers, but she didn't know where else to go and she was hoping that she wouldn't be too much of a burden.

Luckily for Roxanne, Alyssa knew exactly what to do, and within a few minutes of putting in their order, the two of them were walking away with breakfast sandwiches in one hand and coffees in the other.

The two of them spent a quiet morning together. They ate their breakfast and drank their coffees and talked about anything and everything. Alyssa went on about the movies that she loved, which Roxanne had never seen but she liked how excited Alyssa got when she spoke about the things that she genuinely enjoyed. Roxanne told her about some of her favourite books, which she didn't bother lying about, Alyssa would just assume that it some made up novel anyhow, why even bother? And besides, Alyssa wouldn't make fun of her for her choices, her cousins barely let her finish a sentence.

"Those sound so interesting, too bad they're fake," Alyssa said with a laugh.

"Ha ha ha," Roxanne gave the most false laugh that she could muster. "Fake, right."

Alyssa took out her phone and managed to get the airports wifi working before sidling up closer to Roxanne and shoving the phone in her face. Roxanne wasn't sure what wifi was but if sounded important judging from the whoops coming from Alyssa.

"Er, what are you doing?" Roxanne asked, her head tilted backwards and away from the screen that was so close to her face.

"Well, since I can use the wifi, I figured we could watch something," Alyssa said brightly. "Any preferences?"

Roxanne shook her head.

"Alright then, I'll pick something," Alyssa said. Within a few minutes, she had pulled up a site and had begun the video.

"What's this about?" Roxanne asked.

"It's this show about this man called the Doctor who travels through time and saves the world with his companion in a big blue police box, which is really a time machine," Alyssa said brightly. Roxanne was afraid she would come across as weird yet again but Alyssa didn't even blink an eye, it seemed after only one day and the girl had already gotten used to Roxanne and her lack of muggle knowledge.

"A police box?" Roxanne asked skeptically.

"Oh, it's bigger on the inside," Alyssa appended.

"And this is successful?" Roxanne asked. It didn't really sound like much, she was fairly certain that the Department of Mysteries was probably working on something like this.

"Oh yeah."

"It doesn't really sound all that interesting, I think my cousins department at the ministry is doing something like this," Roxanne said thoughtfully. Alyssa burst out laughing at that, although Roxanne wasn't quite sure what was so funny, she was being perfectly serious.

"You're so funny Roxanne," Alyssa said.

"I am?"

"Of course, someone tried to create the TARDIS at your school, that's hilarious," Alyssa said with a grin and a slap to Roxanne's back.

Right. Muggles didn't normally create travelling time boxes as experiments or by accident. She could see what the joke was now.

Roxanne decided to shut up from that point on and just watch what was playing on Alyssa's phone. She was amazed at how something so incredibly small could contain so much information and power in it. Muggles were truly amazing, she didn't understand why wizards still insisted on living in the Middle Ages while the rest of the world had moved forward.

It was almost three hours of just watching the one show, which Roxanne had to admit, was in fact pretty interesting and entertaining, before Alyssa had to turn her phone off and find somewhere to plug her charger in.

"What do you wanna do now?" Roxanne asked in the silence.

"Do you have any of those books that you talked about?" Alyssa asked, perking up.

"No, they're all in my suitcase," Roxanne replied glumly. She was pretty sure showing a muggle some of her school textbooks probably violated the Statute of Secrecy but really what was going to happen? It's not as if Alyssa would've believed what she was reading anyway.

"Bummer," she said sagging in disappointment. "I've got an idea."

"Alright, let's hear it, then," Roxanne said. Anything would be better than sitting in total silence. The only other option that Roxanne could see for conversation was serious talks that would lead to talks about feelings and Roxanne didn't do feelings, it was why she became a Healer. It didn't require feelings, just knowledge. Although to be fair, she didn't exactly mind the warm, tingly feeling inside of her whenever Alyssa smiled.

"It's this game I used to play when I was a little girl with my friends. What you do is you take off your shoes, put them in a pile, and then you split up into two teams and the leader has to figure out whose shoes are whose, grab them, bring them back to their team and everyone has to shove them on as fast as they can," Alyssa said.

"There's only two of us so teams aren't really an option," Roxanne pointed out.

"True, but we can throw in stuff like jackets and sweaters along with the shoes to make it more interesting," Alyssa pointed out.

Roxanne wasn't crazy about the idea but it was either this or nothing, so she went along with it. She gathered up everything that she had and threw it in a pile along with Alyssa's stuff and slipped off her boots. She and Alyssa stood an equal distance from the pile and faced each other.

"GO!" Alyssa yelled and practically dove for the pile of clothing. She either dug through it or just grabbed the first thing that she could find and started shoving it on. Roxanne hurried to catch up with her friend but was having trouble squeezing into a sweater that was one size too small.

Definitely not hers.

For something that was a children's game, it was strangely addictive and brought out the competitiveness in Roxanne that usually only came out when she was at a Quidditch game. Her uncles claimed to have never seen anyone get as angry during a match as Roxanne. Not to mention foul-mouthed.

The game went on and on, and by the time that they had exhausted that childish game, Roxanne was spread-eagled on the floor wearing a sweater that was squeezing her boobs, boots that were pinching her feet, and gasping for air because she had been laughing too hard.

She looked like she was trying to wear the clothes that she had when she was thirteen and just hitting puberty.

"I think this is enough for one day," Roxanne said and tugged the sweater over head and drew her arms out. She flung it to Alyssa, who in turn lobbed her own boots at Roxanne's face.

"What do you say to some good old-fashioned sock slides?" Roxanne asked once she had gotten back all of her property.

"You are a genius."

And for the next two hours, the girls slipped and slid across the airport on their socks and held onto each other for balance. They finally stopped their sock slides once Roxanne's stomach gave a loud gurgle. Alyssa immediately pulled out her wallet and started walking away.

"Where are you going?!" Roxanne yelled after her retreating figure.

"To get us some dinner, wait here!" Alyssa yelled and then she was gone. Roxanne meanwhile put her shoes back not, grimacing at how dirty her socks now were and very aware of the dirt and germs stuck to the soles of her feet.

Alyssa was back within a few minutes, her hands overflowing with food, which she put down in front of Roxanne before taking her own seat across from her new friend.

"I still owe you for breakfast," Roxanne said through a mouthful of food.

"Don't worry about it," Alyssa said waving her off.

"I insist."

"Seriously, don't worry about it," Alyssa said.

"if you say so."

They ate in comfortable silence for a while. And then Roxanne didn't know why but she started talking about her family and the many disasters that went on during Christmas time and pretty much any other holiday. The abridged version of course but still, it felt nice to be able to tell someone about how crazy her family was.

It made Roxanne feel even better when Alyssa laughed in all the right places and actually listened to her. Roxanne remembered how she would tell these exact same things to her friends, at some point they had become immune and weren't even surprised when she told them the stories, just nodded and went about their business.

It was nice to have an audience, it made her feel less boring than she thought she was.

"Your family sounds absolutely amazing," Alyssa said with a wistful sigh. "I wish my family was half as interesting as yours."

"Well, maybe next year you can come and spend Christmas with me," Roxanne blurted out without thinking. Her eyes widened considerably when her offer registered with her brain. Oh Lord, what had she done? She thought Alyssa was gorgeous and funny and kind but when she pictured asking her out, this wasn't exactly what she had in mind.

"Why, Roxanne, are you asking little ol' me out?" Alyssa asked, holding a hand to her chest.

"Depends," Roxanne replied coolly.

"On?"

"Whether or not you're going to say yes."

"Yes," Alyssa said with a grin.

"Great!" Roxanne exclaimed. Wait until her family heard that she was going out on a date.

"How about we set up a date after New Year's?" Alyssa asked. "What's your phone number?"

"Erm, how about you give me your number and I'll call you," Roxanne blurted out. "My phone broke and I haven't had a chance to get a new one."

"Alright," Alyssa said and searched her bag for a pen. She quickly wrote down her number on Roxanne's left forearm. "But you better call or I'm going to hunt you down myself."

Roxanne wasn't sure whether to take that seriously or not. Had it come from her cousins, she wouldn't have doubted for a second that they were serious and capable of doing such a thing, Alyssa however? She wasn't so sure about that.

It got even darker outside, which Roxanne hadn't even realised was possible, but at least it looked like the storm was slowly beginning to clear up.

The two girls decided to go to sleep early considering their flight was leaving at eight the next morning. Alyssa took her phone off of the charger and packed it away, but not before setting an alarm and then she and Roxanne set up their jackets just like yesterday before settling down to sleep.

Roxanne was the first one up the next morning, which was just as well considering the airport was bustling with people. Roxanne quickly shook Alyssa awake before smoothing out her hair and packing up her stuff. Alyssa checked her phone through sleepy eyes before packing up her own things.

They grabbed a breakfast while they waited for the half hour left before they were supposed to board. Roxanne checked to make sure that she was supposed to be on the flight leaving and only relaxed when her boarding pass got checked and she was sitting in her seat.

Unfortunately for Roxanne, she was not going to be spending the ride sitting next to her hopefully-soon-to-be girlfriend but she wasn't going to let that drag down her good mood. She may have missed Christmas, but she still had New Year's, that was better than nothing.

Roxanne spent most of the flight fast asleep, which she figured was better than holding onto her seat for dear life through all of the turbulence and thinking that she was going to die any moment. Admittedly, she did have to use the bathroom, which only intensified her feelings of terror. She couldn't help but think how ridiculous it would be to die in an aeroplane lavatory.

She couldn't stomach any snacks, otherwise she would've made very good use of those paper bags provided in case she needed to throw up. And when the plane finally touched down and Roxanne got off, she was only seconds away from kissing the ground that she walked on.

She expected her parents, brother, as well as the rest of her extended family to be waiting for her when she got off the plane, but instead, all that Roxanne found was her cousin Lily, who was glaring at her with crossed arms.

For someone five foot four, Lily was an incredibly intimidating figure.

Roxanne ran over to Lily and grabbed her by shoulders. "Lily, I need a cellular device."

"Wow, it's great to see you too Roxanne, I'm fine, thanks for asking. You are so very welcome for coming to pick you up and yeah, it's been a really long time," Lily said sarcastically.

"Hi, yeah, missed you lots, I need a cellular device," Roxanne said.

"You mean a cell phone?"

"Yes, exactly, hi Alyssa!" Roxanne exclaimed, hand jumping to her head as Alyssa popped out of nowhere.

"Hey Roxanne, just wanted to see you before I left and make sure that you didn't forget to call me," Alyssa said with a grin.

"Promise I won't forget," Roxanne replied making an X over her heart.

"See ya!" Alyssa said and then walked away.

"Oooooohhhhh," Lily said with a devilish grin and a cross of her arms.

"Don't."

"Roxanne."

"Shut up."

"I see you kept yourself busy," Lily went on.

"There was nothing else to do in the airport—" Roxanne started defensively.

"Except who to do."

"Lily."