Ch 11 Winter Break
"So what are you doing for Christmas, Melissa?" Lavender asked.
"I'm going to stay here," she said. Ron, Ginny, Hermione, and Harry looked at her.
"You are? Why don't you come to my house? Partivi is."
"No that's ok. I am just going to stay here and study."
"Melissa you never do anything fun. You are coming home with me and I am not taking no for an answer. I'll see you later," Lavender said as she jumped up and left. Melissa stared after her gaping.
"I am never going to be able to study," she said as she dropped her head on her book.
"You aren't going to Sirius's place?" Harry asked.
"No. I hadn't wanted to bug him or Remus," she said. " But now I am going to Lavender's house instead..." She sighed. "I am going to bed. Night," she said.
"Night," they said back. The next morning they all got off the train at the platform. Lavender and Partivi had hooked their arms through Melissa's and walked off the train. Several guys whistled at them and walked over to them.
Hello gorgeous!" A guy said and checked out Lavender. "Do you hotties have boyfriends?"
"No."
"No."
"Yes."
"That's ashame, but what he doesn't know can't hurt him. Right? By the way what's your name, beautiful, mine is Matt."
"Not interested," Melissa said. Harry laughed.
"So playing hard to get are we?"
"No. Your just easy to avoid," she said. His friends laughed and Lavender and Partivi snickered.
"Whatever, I bet your a bad lay anyways," he said. She leaned forward and let her hair fall across the side of her face. She whispered something that made his eyes go wide his friends gape and the girls to gasp then giggle. He blinked and one of his friends grabbed his arm and dragged him away. The other guy wrote something down.
"Call me," he said. The three of them watched him walk away. Melissa balled up the number and drop it in the garbage can next to them.
"Pay up. I told you I could get the first guy to look at us's number," Melissa said. Both of them grumbled but handed her two gallon each.
"How did you do that?" Lavender asked. "It was like you knew one of them would."
"It's a game that Rachel, I and some of our friends use to play. Guys see a pretty girl and think that they can play games. So we decided not to be taken advantage of and play the game ourselves," Melissa said.
"You are so smart," Lavender said in awe. Partivi nodded vigorously.
"You really are," Partivi said.
"Look my mum is there," Lavender said. They walked to Mrs Brown and started to leave. Melissa turned around and waved at the Weasleys,Harry,and Hermione. They waved back and she left.