Disclaimer-J.K. Rowlings owns the characters, Hogwarts, and everything else. I own Mrs. Gallagher.
Turmoil at Hogwarts
Chapter 6-Christmas lights
Ginny asked, "Do you even know where we're going?"
Draco replied, "To the bus."
"Do you know where the bus is at?" Ginny asked.
"Well, no, not exactly. I'm sure it's on this street somewhere." Draco said.
"Well, yes. That's what Mrs. Gallagher said. But do you think it's just parked somewhere waiting for us to get on it?" Ginny asked.
"That's kind of what I thought," Draco said.
"I've been looking down the street and I don't see any buses. My feet are killing me," Ginny said.
"And I care because?" Draco said.
"You care because you're going to sit down on this bench with me so that I can rest my feet," Ginny said.
"No. Uh uh, we're going to go find the bus," Draco said.
"Uh, no, we're not. We are going to sit her for a few minutes so that I can rest my poor little feet," Ginny said.
"Fine, you've got four minutes," draco told her.
"Four?" Ginny asked, "Why not five?"
"Because five is not a lucky number for me," Draco said.
"You're superstitious?" Ginny asked.
"No, I just don't like the number five," Draco said.
"Are you related to Professor Trewlaney?" Ginny teased. "Do you think that you can read my palm and tell me what see. Or maybe you are better at looking into crystal balls."
"Shut up, Weasley," Draco said with a scowl on his face. "Fine, you've got five minutes if you will stop talking."
"Actually, I'm having a lot of fun making fun of you. And besides, we'll probably die if we sit here for five minutes," Ginny said.
"I told you to shut up!" Draco said, getting very angry at her.
"Okay, fine. I won't call you Draco Trewlaney." Ginny said and Draco gave her a dirty look.
"Are you ready to go now?" Draco asked.
"No, my feet are still killing me. I don't see how anyone could wear these shoes. I feel sorry for the poor muggle women who have to wear these." Ginny said. "Hey look, there's the bus."
"It's a good thing. I really didn't feel like walking anymore." Draco said. The bus pulled up to the stop and Draco and Ginny climbed the steps onto the bus, paid, and found a seat.
"I wonder how the bus knew where we were," Ginny said.
"Why don't you ask one of the muggles," Draco said.
"Hey, that's a good idea," Ginny said. She then turned around and asked a tall blonde lady who was probably in her early forties, "How does the bus know where to stop at?"
The lady gave her a funny look and said, "The bus stops at the bus stop."
"What's a bus stop?" Ginny asked.
"You know the bench that you were sitting on," the lady said.
"Yes," Ginny said and looked at the lady rather expectantly because she was thoroughly interested in the conversation.
"That was a bus stop," The lady said thinking that Ginny was the dumbest girl that she had ever seen.
"Oh, thank you," Ginny said and turned around and told Draco, "See It was a good thing that my feet hurt."
Draco said, "That muggle woman thinks that you're crazy."
"No she doesn't," Ginny said defensively.
"Yes, she does. Didn't you see her give you that 'Oh my goodness, you're really dumb' look?" Draco asked.
"She did not," Ginny said.
"Turn around and look," Draco said. When Ginny turned around she saw that the lady had a confused look on her face.
"She does think I'm stupid," Ginny said.
"So what. Are you going to cry now?" Draco asked.
"No, I think that it's funny," Ginny said and laughed.
"Why?" Draco asked.
"Because that lady is going to always think about me when she's on a bus. She'll always wonder why I had no idea what a bus stop was," Ginny said.
"Wow," Draco said sarcastically.
"And she'll never even think that I'm a witch." Ginny said.
"You're dumb," Draco said.
"Whatever you think, Malfoy." Ginny said. "Do you have any idea where to go?"
"No, do you?" Draco asked.
"No," Ginny said. "Well that's just great, now what are we going to do?" Draco said.
Ginny and Draco rode on the bus for about thirty more minutes. The streets were starting to have less and less houses and apartment buildings and more and more stores."
"Hey, look at that store," Ginny said pointing to a large store. "It looks like it has a lot of Christmas decorations."
The bus stopped and Draco said, "Come on let's go look in the store."
Draco and Ginny got off of the bus and walked into the store. It was a store that sold all sorts of items that would be found all around the house, and in one corner of the store there was a Christmas section."
"Come on," Ginny told Draco and they walked to the corner of the store where the Christmas section was located.
"Do you know what muggles houses look like when they're decorated?" Draco asked Ginny.
"Not really, but I know that they have lots of electric lights," ginny said. "Hey look at that tree. It only has white lights. That's so pretty. Do you like those better than the lights with lots of different colors on them?" Ginny asked Draco.
"Uh, sure," Draco said.
"Oh, look at this! Here's a book that tells all about how to decorate a house. See it tells about all of the different kinds of lights. Look at these, they're called icicles. Aren't they pretty?" Ginny said excitedly.
"Yes, they're okay." Draco said sounding a little bit bored.
"Can we decorate in only white lights?" Ginny asked Draco.
"Yes," Draco said. "I don't care."
"Oh, goodie! Come on," Ginny said and grabbed his arm and started pulling his into an isle. "Here, these are icicles, we'll need some of these," Ginny said while grabbing four boxes. "Could you go get one of those basket things that the muggles are pushing around?"
"I don't know where they are," Draco said.
"Okay. Wait here and hold these lights," Ginny said and handed the lights to Draco. Then she ran to the front of the store to get a shopping cart. Draco looked at a few of the different kinds of decorations while she was gone but it didn't really matter to him which kind s of lights they used.
"Okay," Ginny said when she arrived in the section with a cart. "You can put those lights in here."
Draco dumped the four boxes of lights in the cart and he picked up another box of lights. Do we need these?" He asked Ginny.
"Umm, yes we'll need some of those to go around the windows and wherever else we want to put them. Thanks Draco," she said and smiled at him.
Draco was very surprised that she smiled at him and even more surprised that Ginny had called him by his first name. He then said, "You're welcome, Weasley."
"Call me Ginny," she said.
"Okay...Ginny," Draco said and smiled.
Ginny and Draco spent another hour and a half in the store picking out lights and other decorations. They bought a wreath for the door, electric reindeer that bent their heads up and down like they were eating, a few Christmas trees made out of lights that were in a spiral, and some more reindeer and a Santa Clause on a sleigh. All of these decorations except for the wreath were made of white lights.
They used the little card to pay for their purchases but they had too many items for them to be able to carry around easily so Ginny asked one of the clerks if they could leave their purchases in the store and come back to get them in a couple of hours. The clerk said that that would be fine so they left the store.
"Where do you want to go now?" Ginny asked.
"Let's go eat." Draco said.
A/N-First of all I'm so sorry that I haven't updated this in a long time. But it's Christmas break now so hopefully I'll have a lot more time to write. I know this chapters short, but I think I'm going to have to start writing shorter chapters. I never have any time on the computer. That's why it took me so long to update this. I'm going to start writing shorter chapters but I'll update much more often. I have three more chapters written right now, so hopefully I'll be able to upload one in another day or so. The next chapter is called Confessions. It's better than this one. That's my opinion anyway.
Thanks to all of my reviewers. I love you all!!
JeNn, I always thought of Lee as a good guy too, but I just couldn't help myself I had to make somebody be the bad guy, and well, Lee was perfect. I feel kind of guilty now. Maybe I'll write my next fic about him.
Summer Thyme, I love reading your reviews. You are hilarious. But, anyway, sorry I kept you from studying for your Earth Science, I'm sure that is much more interesting than reading my fic. If I was in your place I wouldn't have been studying either. I hate Science. That's my worst subject. I hope that you did okay on your test though, cause otherwise I would have felt guilty.
Night Spirit, I've got to tell you that you didn't confuse me that badly. So what did you think of Ginny and Draco shopping together?
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Krissy, I guess that you noticed that I have trouble with transitions. I'll try to work on being less abrupt, okay?
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Ryven, Draco didn't make a fool out of himself when they went shopping. I kind of figured that he would be a little bit uninterested in the whole idea of shopping for muggle Christmas decorations.
LilyAly, I knew exactly what you meant. You had a really good question though. I don't know what would happen if one of the students in the group didn't celebrate Christmas. In J.K. Rowlings books they celebrate Christmas, so I figured that that was what I would have them celebrate too. Plus, I don't know much about any other faith, so I would have a lot of trouble trying to write about it.
Luna, first of all I want to say thank you for your compliment on my story. I wrote the next chapter. What do you think?
