Chapter two
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Nicole ran up to Dominique to tell her of her day at Diagon Alley. The conversation was going well when-
"Dominique!"shrieked Nicole.
"What?! What is it?"
"Your necklace, the needle its....its glowing" So it was the little golden needle around Dominique's was glowing bright green.
"Should we tell gramps" said Dominique. No sooner had these words left her lips the glow vanished.
"What the hell was that"said Nicole looking really freaked out.
"No clue I just hope it doesn't happen again it really is frightening"
"Yes, I know"
That evening dinner was great. Friday came and went and finally Saturday came.
"Are you sure you don't want to come Dominique it really is the most fun going to aunt Molly's house."
"No please stop insisting I don't want to go I'm rather tired, I'll be fine don't worry, you worry to much."
While nine a.m. drew nearer, Dominique and Nicole were in the middle of their fifth chess game, in which Nicole won quite easily.
"Honestly I have to get some chess lessons"complained Dominique.
Nicole laughed, she herd the grandfather clock in the hall strike nine a.m.
"Well I better be off then"said Nicole dressed in some low-cut jeans, black and blue strapless shirt, and some white and blue up-towns.
She hugged Dominique good-bye.
"See you at the Hogwarts express then"said Dominique
"Sure you don't want to come"she said as Dumbledore was about to travel by floo-powder.
"You are so stubborn"said Dominique
"No you are"said Nicole
"No you are"
"No you are"
"No you are"
"No you are, the burrow"shouted Nicole as she was being transported to the her aunt's house.
"Nicole so nice to see you again"said Arthur Weasley, standing up from the dinning room table to great his niece and Professor Dumbledore.
Well I see all is in order here I shall be going now"said Dumbledore, "Nicole do take care, I'll see you at Hogwarts then good-bye Arthur, good- bye Nikki"
"Bye gramps"said Nicole, and with that Dumbledore aparated back to his home.
"So how are you uncle Arthur?"asked Nicole.
"Simply divine Nicole, darling just divine"
"Splendid"
"We do have quite of a shock for you though"
"Well that's nice what is it" she said
"Bill and Charlie are here, they haven't seen you since you were two"
"Bill and Charlie? Really uncle, wow this is quite a shock I mean I have heard so much about them, so um where are they?"she asked
"They're out playing Quidditch with the rest of your cousin's, want me to help you with your luggage?"he asked her.
"Oh no dear uncle I can handle it" she said while taking out her wand, "movelious" she said pointing to her luggage, which at once carried itself up the stairs and settled itself in Ginny's room.
"There see, no sweat"she said
"Really clever, Dumbledore has taught you well, I was actually thinking of carrying those with my bear hands"he said chuckling.
Nicole laughed and then went outside, where a bludger was heading straight toward her.
"Watch out"yelled one of the twins, she couldn't tell which.
She quickly grabbed an extra bat that was on the ground and hit that bludger out of there, which was literally five inches away from her face.
"Not bad, not bad at all"said Bill coming down from his broom. Then he yelled to Ron,
"She your girlfriend Ron?"he yelled to him. Ron turned red, and the twins started laughing so hard they fell of their broom.
"What? Did I do something funny?"said Bill looking extremely puzzled.
"Bill this is our cousin Nicole"said Ginny.
Bill's ears turned red.
"Sorry, you know joke"he said.
Nicole was laughing as she said,
"Bill really it's okay"
"Nicole you want to play Quidditch with us we still need one more player a chaser"said Fred.
"I would love to play but I don't have a broom"she said meekly.
"That's alright you can borrow one of my broomsticks, you can borrow my Firebolt, I recently bought the new model the Silverstreak3000, fastest broom on the market so fast it leaves a silver streak behind, you can see where it gets the name"said Charlie
"Oh Charlie what do you work in again?"she asked.
"I work with dragons in Romania"he said.
"I heard you could've played for England"said Nicole
"Um yeah but Quidditch wasn't my only passion you know, the thought of working with magical creatures thrilled me"he said with a dreamy look on his face.
"Alright where's the broom?"she asked.
"Um let me think, I don't really remember I know its in Percy's room"he said
"Don't worry" she said taking out her wand, "Accio firebolt" she said pointing at Percy's window. Pretty soon the Firebolt came flying from Percy's window and into Nicole's hand .
"Lets play" she said zooming in the air.
Bill and Charlie were clearly surprised at seeing how good Nicole could fly.
The game began. At first it was a bit hard because Nicole's hair kept on covering he face.
Wisely she raised her wand pointed to her hair and said, "tightnesstemperium", immediately her hair went into a tight bund. After she solved that wee problem there was a other. Those nasty bludger's kept on following Nicole everywhere she went. No matter how hard she tried she couldn't shake them of. It was like if they were cursed to follow her.
Cursed?, she thought. That's it, it's the only way, but who?, then she had a brilliant idea. Why not play the same game with the person who was doing this to her. She made a sharp turn, the bludger ready to strike when she pointed her wand at the bludger and yelled,
"Repalbakwardis", instantly the bludger turned around and headed straight toward some bushes below, where it hit something with a great big âE~Thud', that came with a soft moan.
They all flew down to see who it was.
"Hermione?!"exclaimed Ron, looking at an unconscious Hermione.
"Mobilicorpus" said Nicole, pointing her wand at Hermione. Quickly Hermione shifted in to a position as though she's being carried by an invisible stretcher. They walked inside the Burrow, where Mrs. Weasley was extremely shocked to hear what happened.
They laid Hermione down on Nicole's bed, and waited for her to come out of it, which took quite some while.
By the time she came around, Ron and Nicole were in their sixth chess game, in which Ron was beating Nicole by an inch."What....where am I?"moaned Hermione weakly. Ron exploded.
"What were you thinking you could've gotten her killed"he yelled at her, "what did she ever do to you for you to do that to her"
She looked extremely hurt.
"Ron calm down I'm sure it was just an accident"Nicole cut-in, "I really don't think she'd want to kill me right Hermione?"
"Well um of course it was, it was actually all a joke, I really didn't mean it to get out of hand"said Hermione with the most sarcastic smile on her face.
"See Ron I told you"said Nicole sweetly as she got up, patted him on the shoulder, and left.
"What kind of joke was that Hermione, honestly!"he said, "so where's Victor?"he asked feeling his cheeks growing hot.
"Oh" said Hermione her cheeks growing red to. "Well he met up with an old friend, a girl, Althea, he hasn't seen her in 12 years and well I decided they had a lot of catching up to do, so I decided to pay you a surprise visit"
"So in other words he dumped you"said Ron.
"Yup"she said sulkily.
They went downstairs were the rest of the family was.
"So Hermione how are you feeling"asked Fred sweetly, to sweet.
"Um fine thank you"she said rather uncertainly.
"So we heard you're a joker now, I thought that was our job"said George.
"Listen you guys really its okay"said Nicole.
"I can handle this thank you "snapped Hermione coldly at Nicole. Nicole looked a little taken back.
"Hello all and welcome to a special edition of Wizard World News, to nights top news, when good witches go bad, here is George with more info, on this story, by the way George you are looking extremely handsome in that outfit"said Fred impersonating a news reporter.
"Why thank you Fred, so do you" both twins were wearing identical clothing.
"Anyway, today's top news is that smart witch Hermione Granger A.K.A ms. Perfect almost murdered the super intelligent, beautiful, radiant, kind- hearted, beautiful, talented, and did I mention beautiful Nicole Parker, who happens to be our cousin"said George.
"You clearly got to the point"said Fred.
"I'm going to bed"announced Hermione.
"Good night"said Nicole sweetly. Hermione gave her a cold look and left upstairs.
"So what do you guys want to do tomorrow?"asked Nicole
"I dunno"said Ron shrugging his shoulders and popping a chocolate frog in his mouth.
"How bout' dancing"suggested Fred.
"Dancing?" questioned Ron while some chocolate dripped down from the side of his mouth.
"EW, Ron you have chocolate dripping down your chin, honestly dude learn how to eat in the presence of a lady"scolded George.
Nicole laughed, "here let me get it" she said going over to Ron, grabbing a napkin cleaning his chin, and then plopping down on his knees.
"Brilliant idea Fred, dancing? Haven't done that in an awfully long time"exclaimed Nicole.
"Sounds great only one problem though, do you think mum and dad would let us go especially a day before we have to go to school"said Ron.
"Ron!"exclaimed Fred,"don't turn all Hermione on me"
"And besides who said they have to know"said Nicole.
"Nicole!, I'm surprised at you"said George, "you should know better than that"
"Excuse you, you shouldn't be talking"said Nicole
"Well excuse us mis. Attitude"said George
"What's wrong with you I've never seen you act so, so.."said Fred
"BAD" finished George.
"Jesus you act like if I said something horrifying "said Nicole
"Its just that we are so surprised"said Ron.
"We like it" said the twins in union.
Nicole laughed, "so are we going to do it, oh do you think we should let Hermones, I mean Hermione in on it?" asked Nicole angelically.
"Hermones ?"said Fred
"Hey that's a good one, thanks Nikki"said George.
Bill and Charlie came in. Charlie sat down next to Ron and Nicole.
"So you guys want to head out of town tomorrow, since tomorrow is going to be the last day we get to spend time with you guys"said Charlie.
Nicole's eyes twinkled making her look prettier than ever. But to someone who new her very well (Ron) there was pure mischief in her eyes.
"Actually we were, you see dear cousin Charlie," Nicole began, getting up from Ron's lap to sit in Charlie's lap. "You see um aunt Molly won't like it if we um well"she said licking her lips,
"Um she won't like us going out to late, so we were kind of wondering if you could perhaps convince her for us"she said finishing with a brilliant smile.
"Um"Charlie coughed, and started squirming around in his chair feeling a bit uneasy. And then got a little to comfortable by touching Nicole in the rear end.
"I ...I .. I ..um sure no problem, consider it done"he said.
"Great"said Nicole jumping off his lap turning around to see a wide eyed Fred, George, Ron, and Bill. She laughed and said, "well I think I'll go up to bed now" she said kissing everyone in the room goodnight.
Next she headed in to the kitchen,
"Night uncle Arthur, goodnight aunt Molly"
"Good night sweet heart"said Arthur.
"Good night Nikki"said Molly
She skipped up stairs and entered Ginny's room. Ginny was still awake.
"Hey" said Ginny
"Hey Ginny I thought you'd be asleep now"
"No I was um thinking"
"Really, about what?"Nicole asked her.
"Well um you look like a person who know's a lot about guys so I was kind of wondering if you could give me advice" she said blushing.
"Oh I see you have a crush on someone and you'd like to know how to get his attention"said Nicole.
"Well um yes"
"What's his name?"
"Harry"
"Harry? By any chance do you mean Harry Potter" Ginny nodded, "honestly! Ginny, I don't know, but I heard that guy is really stuck up and obnoxious, I don't know the guy but I heard it from someone who goes to school with him"
"Your right you don't know him, who ever told you such horrid lies, who ever say such a lie"said Ginny bewildered.
"Um you see I have this pen pal whom I've been writing to, he goes to Hogwarts and is in the same year as Harry, he said he is really quite ugly his nose is twisted and that he has greasy hair"
"What's your pen pals name?"asked Ginny really frustrated now.
"Draco Malfoy"
"Malfoy I should have known he is Harry's worst enemy, jealous if you ask me"
"Really"said Nicole
"Yes"
"Malfoy is jealous that Harry gets all the attention, even though Harry doesn't really want any of it, he really has his feet stuck on the ground and he loves Quidditch"
"well if that's the case try to get him to like you"said Nicole eyes twinkling at the mention of âE~quidditch'.
"No for real that's what I've been trying to do the past four years I've been there"said Ginny
"You didn't let me finish, try to get him to like you because of you, don't try to pretend to be someone your not, get him to like you, or else you really will make a big fool of yourself, and that's the best advice I can give you"Nicole said.
"Wow that was really deep thank you Nikki"
"Your welcome of course, I'll think I'll go take a warm bath"she said undressing herself.
"All right good night Nicole"
"Good night Ginny"she said while putting a towel around herself. She quietly tip toed inside the bathroom, cautious not to wake up her aunt and uncle who were right next door. She slid the shower curtains out of the way and to her great surprise she found Ron squeezing a rubber ducky? Her eyes widened, gasped, Ron turned around and saw her.
"What the-?, Nicole what are you doing here?"he asked his cheeks turning scarlet, his ducky in his left hand.
"Shhh your mum is next door" Nicole said.
"Hey you want to shower with me?"he asked innocently.
"We're not eight years old anymore Ron"she said quietly moving to the door and leaving. She closed the door behind her and to her great surprise she was face to face with a wide eyed Hermione.
"Hermione!"she exclaimed.
"You..you.. You with your cousin!"exclaimed Hermione.
"My cousin?"Nicole questioned. (Slowness), catching up, she gasped and said,
"Oh no your not assuming, EW , of course not, uh nasty, honestly Hermione that's disgusting"said Nicole, "what the hell you thinkin' girl"
"Well it sure looked like you were doing something, I mean you know" said Hermione blushing furiously.
Nicole looked straight in to Hermione's eyes and then cautiously, {just in case Hermione bit her head of* (American expression)said,
"Is it just me, or do you have a thing for Ron"
"ME!?"she exclaimed
"No my mother, of course you jeez "said Nicole
Five seconds later Hermione answered, "of course not, Harry and Ron are like my brother's"
"Harry? Harry again honestly what had this kid done to be so popular, everywhere I go Harry this, and Harry that'"said Nicole
"What!"said Hermione, "you?, you the great Nicole who know's everything doesn't know about Harry Potter and you know who"she finished.
"Voldemort, his name is Voldemort my grandfather taught me that by avoiding a name you'll just create more fear to the thing or person and my grandfather never spoke of Harry Potter in the house and forbade us to look in any book with his name in it so no I don't know his story and Ron never told me that his best friend is Harry Potter or you for that matter"Nicole finished.
"Oh my God!"Hermione screeched, she opened the bathroom door, slid open the bathroom curtains and began to yell at Ron,
"You!, you his best friend and you didn't tell your cousin your best friend's story"
"Hermione calm down my mother told me not to tell her because,"said Ron
"Because I thought she should find out by me"cut in Mrs. Weasley who was standing by the door.
"Ron get dressed, Hermione go to bed, Nicole come with me"
"Yes aunty"said Nicole hoarsely. She felt like she was about to be executed for some reason.
They went into the parlor.
"Sit"said Molly Weasley pointing to a chair neat the fireplace.
"Um this is kind of awkward aunt Molly what is it"said Nicole.
"I can see why Dumbledore didn't tell you about Harry"
"What does Harry have to do with anything?"asked Nicole growing a little angry.
"I don't know how to put this in a simple manner so I am just going to say it, since you are going to star- go to Hogwarts this year, I am sorry I can't put it in a easier way the reason your parent's were murdered was because they didn't tell him where little Harry and his parents were hidden"
Nicole stayed silent, "can I go to bed now?"she asked after a while
"Yes sweetie go on"said Molly looking gray.
Nicole slowly walked upstairs, and sat on the top of the steps where she was shortly accompanied by Ron. After a short conversation Nicole got up and bid Ron good night.
"Nicole wait, I have to talk to you about something"said Ron
"What is it?"she asked
"Well you see, don't freak out or anything, but I really like you,"
"Well I like you to Ron"said Nicole smiling
"That's just it I like you, but not the way I am supposed to, and sometimes I scare myself with some of the things that I think about...you"
"Oh dear"
"Your not mad at me or anything"
"Oh no but, what about Hermione she seems er nice"she said uncertainly.
"Well I will admit that I used to have a crush on her but not anymore"
"Sure don't act like it"she said under her breath
"What?"
"What about other girls at Hogwarts"
"Nah they're just no"he simply said
"Oh" she said clapping her hands, "I know, my friend Dominique she is really pretty, I'm sure you will like her"
"Well if you say she's pretty she must be thank you Nikki" said Ron putting his arm around her shoulder and walking her to Ginny's room.
Nicole went straight to bed, she laid down and started thinking. She remembered when Dumbledore first told her about her parents death. It was only a short while ago before that she had always thought her parents had died in an accident at work. Dumbledore decided she was old enough to handle the truth.
"They were murdered" he had said, "both your parents were murdered by Voldemort"
Dominique and Nicole had both broken down into tears.
There were tears in here eyes now, because of this boy her parents were dead.
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Nicole ran up to Dominique to tell her of her day at Diagon Alley. The conversation was going well when-
"Dominique!"shrieked Nicole.
"What?! What is it?"
"Your necklace, the needle its....its glowing" So it was the little golden needle around Dominique's was glowing bright green.
"Should we tell gramps" said Dominique. No sooner had these words left her lips the glow vanished.
"What the hell was that"said Nicole looking really freaked out.
"No clue I just hope it doesn't happen again it really is frightening"
"Yes, I know"
That evening dinner was great. Friday came and went and finally Saturday came.
"Are you sure you don't want to come Dominique it really is the most fun going to aunt Molly's house."
"No please stop insisting I don't want to go I'm rather tired, I'll be fine don't worry, you worry to much."
While nine a.m. drew nearer, Dominique and Nicole were in the middle of their fifth chess game, in which Nicole won quite easily.
"Honestly I have to get some chess lessons"complained Dominique.
Nicole laughed, she herd the grandfather clock in the hall strike nine a.m.
"Well I better be off then"said Nicole dressed in some low-cut jeans, black and blue strapless shirt, and some white and blue up-towns.
She hugged Dominique good-bye.
"See you at the Hogwarts express then"said Dominique
"Sure you don't want to come"she said as Dumbledore was about to travel by floo-powder.
"You are so stubborn"said Dominique
"No you are"said Nicole
"No you are"
"No you are"
"No you are"
"No you are, the burrow"shouted Nicole as she was being transported to the her aunt's house.
"Nicole so nice to see you again"said Arthur Weasley, standing up from the dinning room table to great his niece and Professor Dumbledore.
Well I see all is in order here I shall be going now"said Dumbledore, "Nicole do take care, I'll see you at Hogwarts then good-bye Arthur, good- bye Nikki"
"Bye gramps"said Nicole, and with that Dumbledore aparated back to his home.
"So how are you uncle Arthur?"asked Nicole.
"Simply divine Nicole, darling just divine"
"Splendid"
"We do have quite of a shock for you though"
"Well that's nice what is it" she said
"Bill and Charlie are here, they haven't seen you since you were two"
"Bill and Charlie? Really uncle, wow this is quite a shock I mean I have heard so much about them, so um where are they?"she asked
"They're out playing Quidditch with the rest of your cousin's, want me to help you with your luggage?"he asked her.
"Oh no dear uncle I can handle it" she said while taking out her wand, "movelious" she said pointing to her luggage, which at once carried itself up the stairs and settled itself in Ginny's room.
"There see, no sweat"she said
"Really clever, Dumbledore has taught you well, I was actually thinking of carrying those with my bear hands"he said chuckling.
Nicole laughed and then went outside, where a bludger was heading straight toward her.
"Watch out"yelled one of the twins, she couldn't tell which.
She quickly grabbed an extra bat that was on the ground and hit that bludger out of there, which was literally five inches away from her face.
"Not bad, not bad at all"said Bill coming down from his broom. Then he yelled to Ron,
"She your girlfriend Ron?"he yelled to him. Ron turned red, and the twins started laughing so hard they fell of their broom.
"What? Did I do something funny?"said Bill looking extremely puzzled.
"Bill this is our cousin Nicole"said Ginny.
Bill's ears turned red.
"Sorry, you know joke"he said.
Nicole was laughing as she said,
"Bill really it's okay"
"Nicole you want to play Quidditch with us we still need one more player a chaser"said Fred.
"I would love to play but I don't have a broom"she said meekly.
"That's alright you can borrow one of my broomsticks, you can borrow my Firebolt, I recently bought the new model the Silverstreak3000, fastest broom on the market so fast it leaves a silver streak behind, you can see where it gets the name"said Charlie
"Oh Charlie what do you work in again?"she asked.
"I work with dragons in Romania"he said.
"I heard you could've played for England"said Nicole
"Um yeah but Quidditch wasn't my only passion you know, the thought of working with magical creatures thrilled me"he said with a dreamy look on his face.
"Alright where's the broom?"she asked.
"Um let me think, I don't really remember I know its in Percy's room"he said
"Don't worry" she said taking out her wand, "Accio firebolt" she said pointing at Percy's window. Pretty soon the Firebolt came flying from Percy's window and into Nicole's hand .
"Lets play" she said zooming in the air.
Bill and Charlie were clearly surprised at seeing how good Nicole could fly.
The game began. At first it was a bit hard because Nicole's hair kept on covering he face.
Wisely she raised her wand pointed to her hair and said, "tightnesstemperium", immediately her hair went into a tight bund. After she solved that wee problem there was a other. Those nasty bludger's kept on following Nicole everywhere she went. No matter how hard she tried she couldn't shake them of. It was like if they were cursed to follow her.
Cursed?, she thought. That's it, it's the only way, but who?, then she had a brilliant idea. Why not play the same game with the person who was doing this to her. She made a sharp turn, the bludger ready to strike when she pointed her wand at the bludger and yelled,
"Repalbakwardis", instantly the bludger turned around and headed straight toward some bushes below, where it hit something with a great big âE~Thud', that came with a soft moan.
They all flew down to see who it was.
"Hermione?!"exclaimed Ron, looking at an unconscious Hermione.
"Mobilicorpus" said Nicole, pointing her wand at Hermione. Quickly Hermione shifted in to a position as though she's being carried by an invisible stretcher. They walked inside the Burrow, where Mrs. Weasley was extremely shocked to hear what happened.
They laid Hermione down on Nicole's bed, and waited for her to come out of it, which took quite some while.
By the time she came around, Ron and Nicole were in their sixth chess game, in which Ron was beating Nicole by an inch."What....where am I?"moaned Hermione weakly. Ron exploded.
"What were you thinking you could've gotten her killed"he yelled at her, "what did she ever do to you for you to do that to her"
She looked extremely hurt.
"Ron calm down I'm sure it was just an accident"Nicole cut-in, "I really don't think she'd want to kill me right Hermione?"
"Well um of course it was, it was actually all a joke, I really didn't mean it to get out of hand"said Hermione with the most sarcastic smile on her face.
"See Ron I told you"said Nicole sweetly as she got up, patted him on the shoulder, and left.
"What kind of joke was that Hermione, honestly!"he said, "so where's Victor?"he asked feeling his cheeks growing hot.
"Oh" said Hermione her cheeks growing red to. "Well he met up with an old friend, a girl, Althea, he hasn't seen her in 12 years and well I decided they had a lot of catching up to do, so I decided to pay you a surprise visit"
"So in other words he dumped you"said Ron.
"Yup"she said sulkily.
They went downstairs were the rest of the family was.
"So Hermione how are you feeling"asked Fred sweetly, to sweet.
"Um fine thank you"she said rather uncertainly.
"So we heard you're a joker now, I thought that was our job"said George.
"Listen you guys really its okay"said Nicole.
"I can handle this thank you "snapped Hermione coldly at Nicole. Nicole looked a little taken back.
"Hello all and welcome to a special edition of Wizard World News, to nights top news, when good witches go bad, here is George with more info, on this story, by the way George you are looking extremely handsome in that outfit"said Fred impersonating a news reporter.
"Why thank you Fred, so do you" both twins were wearing identical clothing.
"Anyway, today's top news is that smart witch Hermione Granger A.K.A ms. Perfect almost murdered the super intelligent, beautiful, radiant, kind- hearted, beautiful, talented, and did I mention beautiful Nicole Parker, who happens to be our cousin"said George.
"You clearly got to the point"said Fred.
"I'm going to bed"announced Hermione.
"Good night"said Nicole sweetly. Hermione gave her a cold look and left upstairs.
"So what do you guys want to do tomorrow?"asked Nicole
"I dunno"said Ron shrugging his shoulders and popping a chocolate frog in his mouth.
"How bout' dancing"suggested Fred.
"Dancing?" questioned Ron while some chocolate dripped down from the side of his mouth.
"EW, Ron you have chocolate dripping down your chin, honestly dude learn how to eat in the presence of a lady"scolded George.
Nicole laughed, "here let me get it" she said going over to Ron, grabbing a napkin cleaning his chin, and then plopping down on his knees.
"Brilliant idea Fred, dancing? Haven't done that in an awfully long time"exclaimed Nicole.
"Sounds great only one problem though, do you think mum and dad would let us go especially a day before we have to go to school"said Ron.
"Ron!"exclaimed Fred,"don't turn all Hermione on me"
"And besides who said they have to know"said Nicole.
"Nicole!, I'm surprised at you"said George, "you should know better than that"
"Excuse you, you shouldn't be talking"said Nicole
"Well excuse us mis. Attitude"said George
"What's wrong with you I've never seen you act so, so.."said Fred
"BAD" finished George.
"Jesus you act like if I said something horrifying "said Nicole
"Its just that we are so surprised"said Ron.
"We like it" said the twins in union.
Nicole laughed, "so are we going to do it, oh do you think we should let Hermones, I mean Hermione in on it?" asked Nicole angelically.
"Hermones ?"said Fred
"Hey that's a good one, thanks Nikki"said George.
Bill and Charlie came in. Charlie sat down next to Ron and Nicole.
"So you guys want to head out of town tomorrow, since tomorrow is going to be the last day we get to spend time with you guys"said Charlie.
Nicole's eyes twinkled making her look prettier than ever. But to someone who new her very well (Ron) there was pure mischief in her eyes.
"Actually we were, you see dear cousin Charlie," Nicole began, getting up from Ron's lap to sit in Charlie's lap. "You see um aunt Molly won't like it if we um well"she said licking her lips,
"Um she won't like us going out to late, so we were kind of wondering if you could perhaps convince her for us"she said finishing with a brilliant smile.
"Um"Charlie coughed, and started squirming around in his chair feeling a bit uneasy. And then got a little to comfortable by touching Nicole in the rear end.
"I ...I .. I ..um sure no problem, consider it done"he said.
"Great"said Nicole jumping off his lap turning around to see a wide eyed Fred, George, Ron, and Bill. She laughed and said, "well I think I'll go up to bed now" she said kissing everyone in the room goodnight.
Next she headed in to the kitchen,
"Night uncle Arthur, goodnight aunt Molly"
"Good night sweet heart"said Arthur.
"Good night Nikki"said Molly
She skipped up stairs and entered Ginny's room. Ginny was still awake.
"Hey" said Ginny
"Hey Ginny I thought you'd be asleep now"
"No I was um thinking"
"Really, about what?"Nicole asked her.
"Well um you look like a person who know's a lot about guys so I was kind of wondering if you could give me advice" she said blushing.
"Oh I see you have a crush on someone and you'd like to know how to get his attention"said Nicole.
"Well um yes"
"What's his name?"
"Harry"
"Harry? By any chance do you mean Harry Potter" Ginny nodded, "honestly! Ginny, I don't know, but I heard that guy is really stuck up and obnoxious, I don't know the guy but I heard it from someone who goes to school with him"
"Your right you don't know him, who ever told you such horrid lies, who ever say such a lie"said Ginny bewildered.
"Um you see I have this pen pal whom I've been writing to, he goes to Hogwarts and is in the same year as Harry, he said he is really quite ugly his nose is twisted and that he has greasy hair"
"What's your pen pals name?"asked Ginny really frustrated now.
"Draco Malfoy"
"Malfoy I should have known he is Harry's worst enemy, jealous if you ask me"
"Really"said Nicole
"Yes"
"Malfoy is jealous that Harry gets all the attention, even though Harry doesn't really want any of it, he really has his feet stuck on the ground and he loves Quidditch"
"well if that's the case try to get him to like you"said Nicole eyes twinkling at the mention of âE~quidditch'.
"No for real that's what I've been trying to do the past four years I've been there"said Ginny
"You didn't let me finish, try to get him to like you because of you, don't try to pretend to be someone your not, get him to like you, or else you really will make a big fool of yourself, and that's the best advice I can give you"Nicole said.
"Wow that was really deep thank you Nikki"
"Your welcome of course, I'll think I'll go take a warm bath"she said undressing herself.
"All right good night Nicole"
"Good night Ginny"she said while putting a towel around herself. She quietly tip toed inside the bathroom, cautious not to wake up her aunt and uncle who were right next door. She slid the shower curtains out of the way and to her great surprise she found Ron squeezing a rubber ducky? Her eyes widened, gasped, Ron turned around and saw her.
"What the-?, Nicole what are you doing here?"he asked his cheeks turning scarlet, his ducky in his left hand.
"Shhh your mum is next door" Nicole said.
"Hey you want to shower with me?"he asked innocently.
"We're not eight years old anymore Ron"she said quietly moving to the door and leaving. She closed the door behind her and to her great surprise she was face to face with a wide eyed Hermione.
"Hermione!"she exclaimed.
"You..you.. You with your cousin!"exclaimed Hermione.
"My cousin?"Nicole questioned. (Slowness), catching up, she gasped and said,
"Oh no your not assuming, EW , of course not, uh nasty, honestly Hermione that's disgusting"said Nicole, "what the hell you thinkin' girl"
"Well it sure looked like you were doing something, I mean you know" said Hermione blushing furiously.
Nicole looked straight in to Hermione's eyes and then cautiously, {just in case Hermione bit her head of* (American expression)said,
"Is it just me, or do you have a thing for Ron"
"ME!?"she exclaimed
"No my mother, of course you jeez "said Nicole
Five seconds later Hermione answered, "of course not, Harry and Ron are like my brother's"
"Harry? Harry again honestly what had this kid done to be so popular, everywhere I go Harry this, and Harry that'"said Nicole
"What!"said Hermione, "you?, you the great Nicole who know's everything doesn't know about Harry Potter and you know who"she finished.
"Voldemort, his name is Voldemort my grandfather taught me that by avoiding a name you'll just create more fear to the thing or person and my grandfather never spoke of Harry Potter in the house and forbade us to look in any book with his name in it so no I don't know his story and Ron never told me that his best friend is Harry Potter or you for that matter"Nicole finished.
"Oh my God!"Hermione screeched, she opened the bathroom door, slid open the bathroom curtains and began to yell at Ron,
"You!, you his best friend and you didn't tell your cousin your best friend's story"
"Hermione calm down my mother told me not to tell her because,"said Ron
"Because I thought she should find out by me"cut in Mrs. Weasley who was standing by the door.
"Ron get dressed, Hermione go to bed, Nicole come with me"
"Yes aunty"said Nicole hoarsely. She felt like she was about to be executed for some reason.
They went into the parlor.
"Sit"said Molly Weasley pointing to a chair neat the fireplace.
"Um this is kind of awkward aunt Molly what is it"said Nicole.
"I can see why Dumbledore didn't tell you about Harry"
"What does Harry have to do with anything?"asked Nicole growing a little angry.
"I don't know how to put this in a simple manner so I am just going to say it, since you are going to star- go to Hogwarts this year, I am sorry I can't put it in a easier way the reason your parent's were murdered was because they didn't tell him where little Harry and his parents were hidden"
Nicole stayed silent, "can I go to bed now?"she asked after a while
"Yes sweetie go on"said Molly looking gray.
Nicole slowly walked upstairs, and sat on the top of the steps where she was shortly accompanied by Ron. After a short conversation Nicole got up and bid Ron good night.
"Nicole wait, I have to talk to you about something"said Ron
"What is it?"she asked
"Well you see, don't freak out or anything, but I really like you,"
"Well I like you to Ron"said Nicole smiling
"That's just it I like you, but not the way I am supposed to, and sometimes I scare myself with some of the things that I think about...you"
"Oh dear"
"Your not mad at me or anything"
"Oh no but, what about Hermione she seems er nice"she said uncertainly.
"Well I will admit that I used to have a crush on her but not anymore"
"Sure don't act like it"she said under her breath
"What?"
"What about other girls at Hogwarts"
"Nah they're just no"he simply said
"Oh" she said clapping her hands, "I know, my friend Dominique she is really pretty, I'm sure you will like her"
"Well if you say she's pretty she must be thank you Nikki" said Ron putting his arm around her shoulder and walking her to Ginny's room.
Nicole went straight to bed, she laid down and started thinking. She remembered when Dumbledore first told her about her parents death. It was only a short while ago before that she had always thought her parents had died in an accident at work. Dumbledore decided she was old enough to handle the truth.
"They were murdered" he had said, "both your parents were murdered by Voldemort"
Dominique and Nicole had both broken down into tears.
There were tears in here eyes now, because of this boy her parents were dead.
A/N: okay, ppl, this is my story! no, it aint. this is denisse talking 4 liz bcuz liz has no bloody idea how to post. okay, these funny lil letters come out sumtimes...dunno if u can see them but i sure can. just try to read whats being typed and ignore those funny things. liz'll appreciate that. and she'll also LOVE reviews. anyways, that nut is gonna kill me when she finds out i've been typing all this junk. oh well! bye everybody! REVIEW!