The place we stopped at was pretty nice, but no one was there except these
to guys. One our age and one older. I saw him eyeing me as I walked in, so
I decided to have a little fun. Now. my a Carmen's version isn't
"frolicking thru the flowers". Its more like "flirting with random
strangers". A great thing to do at the mall. So we got a table sort of
close to him and I gave him a little face. Carmen saw what I was doing and
had to stuff her napkin in her mouth to stop from cracking up. He was
backed and winked. I smiled, but it was more of a "I'm about to burst out
laughing" smile, but he didn't seem to noticed. I kept looking at him the
whole time throughout our dinner. He was a guy with dark red hair and kind
of tall. Not my type but he looked like a nice guy. So when Carmen noticed
we didn't have any ketchup, and I noticed that my flirtee did, I took that
train.
I slowly walked over to him and in the nicest voice I could without
laughing, I asked him for his ketchup.
"S-s-sure," he stuttered as he handed it over to me. I smiled and the
introduced myself.
"Chanelle Tyson," I held out my hand.
"Rod Tisley," he shook my hand.
"Going to Hogpillows?" I asked him.
"Yeah, my first year. My brother's a senior." he nodded over to the
guy eating his food. His borhter looked up and nodded.
Just then, a group of 20 years old walked in, Half headed to my old
table and the others came to the one I was at now.
"You ready, Jake?" a girl asked.
"Yeah, but new plan. I have to take my little brother with us." said
Rod's broher, now dubbed as Jake. That's when I got an idea.
"Rod can come with us" I suggested. At this, Tom at the other table
looked up and shook his head.
"It think that's a great idea, Tom," called Jake. "Plus, you owe me.
I watched over your dog that one day."
"But that's a dog, this is another human being. I've already been
punished." protested Tom as he glared at us.
"I'll help you,honey," this one girl said who was all over Tom. Tom
smiled down at her and then reluctanly agreed.
"Thanks," Jake called as he paid the bill and left with the other
people. So now we had two new faces with us.
"Ok, its time to introduce ourselves. Like those games to get to know
each other. I'll start!" Carmen said enthusiatically. "I'm Carmen Leigh
Allred. I'm 13 and about to go to my first year at Hogpillows. My interests
include grammer, boys, gymnastics, boys, Chanelle's and my version of
"F.U.N., and boys."
Tom's friend stood up next but then we were shunned out of the
resturant by the owner and forced to pay immediately . We continued
outside.
"I'm Shania Twain. I'm a senior and Tom's girlfriend and I can't wait
to graduate from the dump so I won't have to be around you thirteen year
olds anymore."
Rod, Carmen, and I were taken aback by this. Rod then cleared his
throat and began.
"I'm Rod Tisley. Its gonna be my first year. I like Quidditch,
Witchney Spears, and new people."
I'll spare you the rest since you pretty much know my interests, but
Quidditch brought up new thoughts. I forgot about that aerial sport played
on broomsticks. I talked to Rod about it a lot as we finished out shopping
(I got an owl and named it Flurry). Soon it was dark and time to end this
day. We met up with Rod's brother and exchanged farewells.
"See ya at the airport next week. Meet us around 8:30 so we can get
good seats." Rod told us.
"Wait!" I said. "I thought it was a train." Tom rolled his eyes.
"I told you. Harry Potter took place a fifty years ago. The train
stopped running 15 years ago. Now its JUMBO JET!"
Interesting. So we went back to our Motel 8 and went to sleep.
