Ch 9 - Too Good For A Title
A/N - This is longer than the last two ^_^ Hope ya like it. And did ya noticed the chapter title? 'Too Good For A Title' ...well...actually its more like I couldn't think of one but hey! it works, right? lol! ANTYways, enough of my rambling! We'll get on with the story, that we shall. Oh no! I think I've got Kenshin-itis! I think I've been watching it too much! ....Wait...this is the Harry Potter section...Oh phoo! I'll shut up now and let you whoever is weird enough to (like I always do) read this Author Note read the story LOL! That probably made no sense! Oh well! Really, I'll shut up now. Enjoy the chapter!!^_^
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Lori and Melanie were in Melanie's room, both sitting on her bed. Trying to decide what to do. They wanted to prank someone, they just didn't know who they were going to do it to or what they were going to do.
"Ok, there's only a houseful of people, we could pick someone!" Lori said.
"Even at that, what would we do?"
"Draco. That's who..what I don't know."
"Why Draco?"
"Because, the last thing we did to him was make him turn into a ferret and the worst that happened was the aftermath of him having a tail."
Both girls cracked up at the thought of Draco with a tail. Then, the said person, came in, being as the door was open. "What are you two laughing about?"
"You." Lori said.
"Me? What'd I do?"
"You had a tail!"
"Shut up!"
"Why?"
"Because! I don't like that thought!"
"But I do!"
"Yeah! Me too, sweetie." Melanie said.
Draco shook his head. God what a year that had been.
"What is it Draco? Don't like seventh year?" Lori said in a voice that one tended to use when talking to a baby.
"Shut up already."
"Draco, you really should have learned by now that she never shuts up." Melanie said, and he sat on her bed next to her.
"What were you two talking about when I came in here?"
"You having a tail." The two chorused.
He slapped his forehead "Oi! Go figure!"
"Yep!" Lori said "Anyway, I'm gonna go see what the other two couples are up to." She bounded out of the room to spy on the other two couples.
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Lori made her way down the hall to find Ginny's room empty. And soon enough she found that Ron's room was also. At this she frowned. She went to the twins room "Hey! Fred! George! Ya in there?"
"Yes, Lori!" they chorused.
"K! Just checkin!"
The twins looked at each other. "Ok...that was...." Fred started.
"Interesting?" George supplied.
"Yeah."
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Lori made her way downstairs to find Ginny and Harry in the living room. She stopped on the stairs where she had full view of them, yet they had none of her. She grinned. This should be interesting. She thought as she listened to the couple's conversation.
"No Gin."
"But...I thought you just said–"
"Well...I did but..no.."
Ginny sighed "Fine, Harry."
Lori felt her face contort into a look of annoyance "Coming in on the very end of the conversation...that sucks." She stood and made her way back upstairs to her room.
On her way there she had to pass Ron's room and when she did she noticed that the door was open and decided to peek in. She smiled. Ron and Hermione were talking....or arguing rather....maybe she had come in time for this one...
Hermione was standing in the center of the room, both hands on her hips "Ron!"
"What?"
"I can't believe you!"
"What? I didn't do anything!"
"Right...of course you didn't...unless you count sending Viktor an extremely threatening letter!"
Lori blinked. "What?" She whispered to herself.
"He sent me a letter first you know."
"Was it in the least bit threatening?"
"Hermione, you don't get it!"
She let out a yell of frustration and turned to exit the room. As she did so, Lori went to the right side of the door, as if coming from downstairs and just now passing. She started to walk by and the door opened and a very angry Hermione emerged from the room, eye flaring.
"Whoa! Hermione! What's up?"
"Ask you cousin!" She said and stomped off.
Lori blinked but entered his room. "Ron?"
"What?"
"What just happened?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Why's Hermione so mad?"
"Oh...that...here." He thrust two pieces of parchment towards her.
She took the first one and noticed that it was from Krum. Before she read any further, she looked up at Ron "Krum? What's he doing sending you a letter?"
"Read it."
She did just that. When she was done, her mouth had fallen open and one word was said "Wow."
"Yeah. And Hermione came in and read my reply."
"This one here?"
"Yeah."
She read it and then "Did she read his letter?"
"No, of course she didn't! She read mine over my shoulder and didn't read his at all!"
"I can't believe he'd say something like that though."
"I can."
"That's only because you think that he's out to steal Hermione from you."
He gave her a look.
"Ok, so he basically said that but still..."
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Ch 10 - Let's just say....a bit of innuendo would be an understatement
The next morning Lori had decided to go back to Mel's room to see what the first couple was doing. The door was closed. She decided it might be a good idea to knock. The next thing she heard was a nice *thud*. She frowned "What the hell?" She whispered.
When Melanie answered the door her hair was disheveled and she was fixing her shirt.
Lori raised an eyebrow at her friend but said nothing...even if she did notice the shirtless Draco behind her best friend.
"Oh Mel...here." Draco said, handing her her bra.
Melanie had a look of extreme annoyance on her face.
The whole situation, plus the look on Melanie's face made Lori crack up. "This is...great! Did you....did you two go all the way?" She said between laughs.
"Not that it's any of your business but...yes we did." Draco said, sounding rather proud of himself.
"Well...evidently its not too hard...to get her ya know? A lot of guys have done it."
Melanie fumed, leaned back in the room and grabbed the first hard thing she could find: an aluminum baseball bat (where it came from...no one knows) and started chasing Lori with it.
Lori's eyes widened and she darted off downstairs. "AAHHHH!!!"
"I AM NOT A SLUT!!" Melanie yelled.
"I never said you were!"
"YES YOU DID! ONLY IN DIFFERENT CONTEXT!"
Melanie's statements woke everyone in the house.
The twins were the first to get out of their room and into the hell of a chase between Melanie and Lori.
"What happened?!" They chorused.
"SHE CALLED ME A SLUT!"
"No! I didn't!"
"IN DIFFERENT CONTEXT!"
...The chase and yelling went on for awhile but now....
A/N - Sorry for the cliffie guys! I know what I'm doing but its not done and it'd make this chapter too long! Don't 4get 2 review! ^_^
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Ch 11 - The Nice Little Set Up
A/N - From here on out...Pyro from X2 shall be in this story but (for now at least) it isn't going to be a crossover. If it ever turns into one, I will tell you guys ^_^
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Lori was sitting in Melanie's room on her bed, a few brusies here and there, talking with the said girl.
"So? What now?" Melanie asked as happy-go-lucky as could be.
"You just chased me with an aluminum bat for the last thirty minutes yelling at me and now you're all happy-go-lucky? Somehow...this doesn't seem to fit..."
"Aww, Lori! You know I didn't mean anything by it!"
"Uhh..right..."
At this point Draco came in (he seems to do that a lot, doesn't he?) "What are you two girls up to?"
"Nothing much." Melanie replied.
"Just talking." Lori said.
"What about?"
"Oh nothing...just the usual." Melanie said offhandedly.
Draco raised an eyebrow at his girlfriend "What's usual for you two?"
"Just how totally hot you are!" She answered.
"That's only her part of the conversation." Lori whispered loudly.
Draco took on a fake look of hurt "What is it, Lori? I'm not hot enough for you?"
"Oh shut up you great conceited prat!"
"I'm serious!"
"Your serious huh? But how can that be? Only Sirius is serious and technically Sirius can never be serious so....Sirius really isn't serious."
"I'm glad I know Sirius or else that would have made no sense."
Lori grinned "Yeah...to bad ya do know him...I'd like to make you confused one day."
After a few minutes of no one but Lori talking, Melanie and Draco getting a phrase or word every now and then, Melanie said "Lori! Shut up!"
Lori looked at her friend "Why?"
The other two had a conversation as if she weren't even there:
"You know what we need to do?" Draco asked.
"No, what?"
"Get her a boyfriend. That way, when she starts talking too much, we can tell him to shut her up and he can kiss her."
"That's a great idea, Draco!"
"Thank you, I try."
"Hmm...let's see...is there anyone down at the office she'd go for?"
Lori had only heard from "That's a great idea, Draco!" and afterwards. "Huh? What the heck are you talking about?"
Melanie didn't seem to hear her, she was too busy trying to think of someone that Lori might like at the office of the Department of (something). "No...he's too....weird...James? No...too uppity....Scott? Maybe...no...he's too...depressing....Jason? No....Dave? No...Bert? No...Earl? No...." She kept listing names and saying no...and the reason of which it was no for about ten minutes.
"Mel, stop, your scaring me." Lori said.
"Aha! I know who! Just gotta get the two ta meet...but how?"
"Ok, since ya'll are like, soooo not talking to me, I'm leaving." Lori said and did just that.
"What were you going on about, Melanie?" Draco asked and shut the door behind Lori.
"I know who she'd like at the office."
"Ok...but how–"
"Are we gonna get them to meet. I know, I was trying to think of that too."
"Are you friends with the guy?"
"Yeah...why?"
"Here's an old idea: tell him to meet you somewhere at some time and tell Lori the same. They'll meet, she'll definately start talking and..well...there you go."
"Alright, I'll try it."
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The next day at work, Melanie found who she had been looking for. "John! Wait! Stop!"
He had been trying to get away from the blonde all morning.
"Why won't you talk to me?"
"I don't wanna know what your up to."
Melanie ran and got in front of him "Listen! I need to talk to you!"
"Now?"
"No. Tonight, meet me at the park under the huge oak tree at six. We'll talk then, k?"
"Don't you have a boyfriend?"
"Uhh...yeah...aaand?"
"Nevermind."
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When she got home, about four o'clock in the afternoon, Melanie ran through the house looking for Lori. At one point she ran into Ron.
"Shesh Mel! What's the hurry?"
She helped him up then took him by his shoulders "Where's Lori?"
"In her room, she just got home a few minutes ago."
"Thanks!" She darted off to her best friends room. When Melanie got to the room she burst in, scaring Lori half to death
"Mel! Don't do that!"
"Ok, there's something I wanna talk to you about....alone. Meet me at the park under the huge oak tree at six, ok?"
"That's thirty minutes!"
"Well...you better get ready, eh?" And with that Melanie left, running down the stairs to make like she was going to the park then creeping back up to her room.
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Lori went to the park under the huge oak tree to find no one there yet. She sighed "The one time I'm at a place on time.... And she missed it!"
After waiting for a few minutes she saw someone coming towards the tree. She couldn't tell who because it was too dark too see from that distance, although still light outside.
When the person came into view and was standing in front of the 18 year old girl, she realized a few things: 1.)This was sooo not Melanie 2.) It was a guy 3.) This guy was hot 4.) Melanie lied to her!
"Who are you?" he asked.
"I'm Lori...who are you exactly?"
"My name is John."
"Why are you here?"
"Melanie Zardou. I work with her, she told me to meet her here."
"So, Mel put you up to this, eh?"
"You know her?"
"Yep, my best friend...I should have known she wasn't gonna meet me here..." She sighed.
"Yeah...me too.."
"So...I guess she was trying to get me a guy." She sighed again "The girl thinks I can't find my own boyfriend...Oh well...at least she picks cute guys to set me up with."
He gave her a look.
"I'm kidding, geez."
He took out a lighter and as the two walked around the park he would flip it open, light it, kill it, close it, and start all over.
"What's with you and fire?"
"I'm a pyromaniac, what can I say?"
Lori looked at her watch. She then realized they had been there for two hours. "Whoa! We've been here for two hours...I should really get home."
"Yeah...I should to..."
"See ya around." She said and started to walk off.
"Yeah."
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When Lori got back to the Burrow....
"MELANIE LEIGH ZARDOU!" Lori yelled as she slammed the front door. Little did she know her aunt and uncle were home.
"Lori Marie! Do not slam doors or yell in this house." Molly scolded.
Lori's eyes widened
"And just where were you?"
"Work. Overtime." She said and headed upstairs. She ran to and burst into Melanie's room, just as she had done earlier. "Melanie!"
Melanie and Draco had been kissing when she came in. Melanie immidately broke it.
"What?"
"I noticed four things when I went to the park."
"And just what were these things?" Melanie said, grinning.
Lori counted them off on her fingers "One, the person I met was sooo not you. Two, it was a guy. Three, this guy was hot. And four you lied to me!"
"Well...it must have been a good thing I lied to you, you were gone for two hours."
"I've got a question."
"Ok...what is it?"
"What is with him and fire?"
"Didn't he tell you?"
"What? That he's a pyromaniac yes."
"No. I mean that he's a mutant. And he manipulates fire."
"No...but you just did."
Melanie sighed. "Just...go.."
"Go where you dork?"
"I don't care! As long as its out of my room!" Melanie said, pushing Lori out of the room. She closed the door. "Now...where were we Draco?"
"I seem to have forgotten."
"Let's see if this will refresh your memory." Melanie said, walking over to him and kissing him.
"Hmm...I think I remember now."
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The next morning Mrs. Weasley went upstairs to wake everyone and Melanie's room came first. When she opened the door she found Draco in Melanie's bed...shirtless...and...clothesless. With a lump in the bed next to him. Her eyes widened. Even though they were not, she treated the two just like her own children "MELANIE LEIGH ZARDOU!"
At this, Melanie screamed "AAHHH!" and sat up, sheet around her.
Because of Molly and Melanie both yelling, everyone woke up with a start and ran down the hallway to see what was going on. When they got there everyone's jaw dropped...except Lori, who simply tried to contain her laughter...unsuccessfully.
"No! People! Away! Leave! Oh sheet." Melanie complained.
Now everyone was laughing, save Melanie and Mrs. Weasley....even Draco was laughing...even if he was in Melanie's bed naked....3 other girls in the doorway. ((PPL! Don't think completely wrong here! He HAS a sheet! ~ From my sister - Like he would want Pothead and Weasel to see his package...puh-leaze.))
The next thing anyone knew, Mrs. Weasley was yelling "DRACO ANDRETTI MALFOY!"
Draco immediately stopped laughing. "How did she know my middle name?" he whispered to Melanie.
"She just knows these kind of things..." She whispered back.
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It was about an hour after the nice little...incident....
Anytime Lori would look at Melanie or Draco she would immediately crack up. This would ensue either or both of them yelling "SHUT UP!" And her laughing harder.
Everyone was scattered throughout the house: Mrs. Weasley was in the kitchen, Hermione and Ron in his room, Ginny and Harry in the living room, Lori, Melanie, and Draco in Mel's room.
"Ok...why does he always have to be in the room that we are when we're talking?" Lori asked, obviously referring to Draco.
"Because...everyone else is with someone else and too busy to notice him." Melanie answered.
"Yes Lori. They are all much too busy to notice poor little ol' me." ((I know! Its OOCness but that's sorta been throughout the story...right?))
"Poor? That is something you not. Little? Yet again, something you are not. So...sorry to ruin your fun...but...that sorta doesn't work for you Draco."
"Oh shut it."
"Fine, fine.....DracoAndrettiMalfoy!" Lori rushed the names together and ran out of the room.
"I'll get her for that...."
"And just what do you expect to do to her?"
"I'm not sure..."
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A/N - This is longer than the last two ^_^ Hope ya like it. And did ya noticed the chapter title? 'Too Good For A Title' ...well...actually its more like I couldn't think of one but hey! it works, right? lol! ANTYways, enough of my rambling! We'll get on with the story, that we shall. Oh no! I think I've got Kenshin-itis! I think I've been watching it too much! ....Wait...this is the Harry Potter section...Oh phoo! I'll shut up now and let you whoever is weird enough to (like I always do) read this Author Note read the story LOL! That probably made no sense! Oh well! Really, I'll shut up now. Enjoy the chapter!!^_^
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Lori and Melanie were in Melanie's room, both sitting on her bed. Trying to decide what to do. They wanted to prank someone, they just didn't know who they were going to do it to or what they were going to do.
"Ok, there's only a houseful of people, we could pick someone!" Lori said.
"Even at that, what would we do?"
"Draco. That's who..what I don't know."
"Why Draco?"
"Because, the last thing we did to him was make him turn into a ferret and the worst that happened was the aftermath of him having a tail."
Both girls cracked up at the thought of Draco with a tail. Then, the said person, came in, being as the door was open. "What are you two laughing about?"
"You." Lori said.
"Me? What'd I do?"
"You had a tail!"
"Shut up!"
"Why?"
"Because! I don't like that thought!"
"But I do!"
"Yeah! Me too, sweetie." Melanie said.
Draco shook his head. God what a year that had been.
"What is it Draco? Don't like seventh year?" Lori said in a voice that one tended to use when talking to a baby.
"Shut up already."
"Draco, you really should have learned by now that she never shuts up." Melanie said, and he sat on her bed next to her.
"What were you two talking about when I came in here?"
"You having a tail." The two chorused.
He slapped his forehead "Oi! Go figure!"
"Yep!" Lori said "Anyway, I'm gonna go see what the other two couples are up to." She bounded out of the room to spy on the other two couples.
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Lori made her way down the hall to find Ginny's room empty. And soon enough she found that Ron's room was also. At this she frowned. She went to the twins room "Hey! Fred! George! Ya in there?"
"Yes, Lori!" they chorused.
"K! Just checkin!"
The twins looked at each other. "Ok...that was...." Fred started.
"Interesting?" George supplied.
"Yeah."
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Lori made her way downstairs to find Ginny and Harry in the living room. She stopped on the stairs where she had full view of them, yet they had none of her. She grinned. This should be interesting. She thought as she listened to the couple's conversation.
"No Gin."
"But...I thought you just said–"
"Well...I did but..no.."
Ginny sighed "Fine, Harry."
Lori felt her face contort into a look of annoyance "Coming in on the very end of the conversation...that sucks." She stood and made her way back upstairs to her room.
On her way there she had to pass Ron's room and when she did she noticed that the door was open and decided to peek in. She smiled. Ron and Hermione were talking....or arguing rather....maybe she had come in time for this one...
Hermione was standing in the center of the room, both hands on her hips "Ron!"
"What?"
"I can't believe you!"
"What? I didn't do anything!"
"Right...of course you didn't...unless you count sending Viktor an extremely threatening letter!"
Lori blinked. "What?" She whispered to herself.
"He sent me a letter first you know."
"Was it in the least bit threatening?"
"Hermione, you don't get it!"
She let out a yell of frustration and turned to exit the room. As she did so, Lori went to the right side of the door, as if coming from downstairs and just now passing. She started to walk by and the door opened and a very angry Hermione emerged from the room, eye flaring.
"Whoa! Hermione! What's up?"
"Ask you cousin!" She said and stomped off.
Lori blinked but entered his room. "Ron?"
"What?"
"What just happened?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Why's Hermione so mad?"
"Oh...that...here." He thrust two pieces of parchment towards her.
She took the first one and noticed that it was from Krum. Before she read any further, she looked up at Ron "Krum? What's he doing sending you a letter?"
"Read it."
She did just that. When she was done, her mouth had fallen open and one word was said "Wow."
"Yeah. And Hermione came in and read my reply."
"This one here?"
"Yeah."
She read it and then "Did she read his letter?"
"No, of course she didn't! She read mine over my shoulder and didn't read his at all!"
"I can't believe he'd say something like that though."
"I can."
"That's only because you think that he's out to steal Hermione from you."
He gave her a look.
"Ok, so he basically said that but still..."
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Ch 10 - Let's just say....a bit of innuendo would be an understatement
The next morning Lori had decided to go back to Mel's room to see what the first couple was doing. The door was closed. She decided it might be a good idea to knock. The next thing she heard was a nice *thud*. She frowned "What the hell?" She whispered.
When Melanie answered the door her hair was disheveled and she was fixing her shirt.
Lori raised an eyebrow at her friend but said nothing...even if she did notice the shirtless Draco behind her best friend.
"Oh Mel...here." Draco said, handing her her bra.
Melanie had a look of extreme annoyance on her face.
The whole situation, plus the look on Melanie's face made Lori crack up. "This is...great! Did you....did you two go all the way?" She said between laughs.
"Not that it's any of your business but...yes we did." Draco said, sounding rather proud of himself.
"Well...evidently its not too hard...to get her ya know? A lot of guys have done it."
Melanie fumed, leaned back in the room and grabbed the first hard thing she could find: an aluminum baseball bat (where it came from...no one knows) and started chasing Lori with it.
Lori's eyes widened and she darted off downstairs. "AAHHHH!!!"
"I AM NOT A SLUT!!" Melanie yelled.
"I never said you were!"
"YES YOU DID! ONLY IN DIFFERENT CONTEXT!"
Melanie's statements woke everyone in the house.
The twins were the first to get out of their room and into the hell of a chase between Melanie and Lori.
"What happened?!" They chorused.
"SHE CALLED ME A SLUT!"
"No! I didn't!"
"IN DIFFERENT CONTEXT!"
...The chase and yelling went on for awhile but now....
A/N - Sorry for the cliffie guys! I know what I'm doing but its not done and it'd make this chapter too long! Don't 4get 2 review! ^_^
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Ch 11 - The Nice Little Set Up
A/N - From here on out...Pyro from X2 shall be in this story but (for now at least) it isn't going to be a crossover. If it ever turns into one, I will tell you guys ^_^
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Lori was sitting in Melanie's room on her bed, a few brusies here and there, talking with the said girl.
"So? What now?" Melanie asked as happy-go-lucky as could be.
"You just chased me with an aluminum bat for the last thirty minutes yelling at me and now you're all happy-go-lucky? Somehow...this doesn't seem to fit..."
"Aww, Lori! You know I didn't mean anything by it!"
"Uhh..right..."
At this point Draco came in (he seems to do that a lot, doesn't he?) "What are you two girls up to?"
"Nothing much." Melanie replied.
"Just talking." Lori said.
"What about?"
"Oh nothing...just the usual." Melanie said offhandedly.
Draco raised an eyebrow at his girlfriend "What's usual for you two?"
"Just how totally hot you are!" She answered.
"That's only her part of the conversation." Lori whispered loudly.
Draco took on a fake look of hurt "What is it, Lori? I'm not hot enough for you?"
"Oh shut up you great conceited prat!"
"I'm serious!"
"Your serious huh? But how can that be? Only Sirius is serious and technically Sirius can never be serious so....Sirius really isn't serious."
"I'm glad I know Sirius or else that would have made no sense."
Lori grinned "Yeah...to bad ya do know him...I'd like to make you confused one day."
After a few minutes of no one but Lori talking, Melanie and Draco getting a phrase or word every now and then, Melanie said "Lori! Shut up!"
Lori looked at her friend "Why?"
The other two had a conversation as if she weren't even there:
"You know what we need to do?" Draco asked.
"No, what?"
"Get her a boyfriend. That way, when she starts talking too much, we can tell him to shut her up and he can kiss her."
"That's a great idea, Draco!"
"Thank you, I try."
"Hmm...let's see...is there anyone down at the office she'd go for?"
Lori had only heard from "That's a great idea, Draco!" and afterwards. "Huh? What the heck are you talking about?"
Melanie didn't seem to hear her, she was too busy trying to think of someone that Lori might like at the office of the Department of (something). "No...he's too....weird...James? No...too uppity....Scott? Maybe...no...he's too...depressing....Jason? No....Dave? No...Bert? No...Earl? No...." She kept listing names and saying no...and the reason of which it was no for about ten minutes.
"Mel, stop, your scaring me." Lori said.
"Aha! I know who! Just gotta get the two ta meet...but how?"
"Ok, since ya'll are like, soooo not talking to me, I'm leaving." Lori said and did just that.
"What were you going on about, Melanie?" Draco asked and shut the door behind Lori.
"I know who she'd like at the office."
"Ok...but how–"
"Are we gonna get them to meet. I know, I was trying to think of that too."
"Are you friends with the guy?"
"Yeah...why?"
"Here's an old idea: tell him to meet you somewhere at some time and tell Lori the same. They'll meet, she'll definately start talking and..well...there you go."
"Alright, I'll try it."
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The next day at work, Melanie found who she had been looking for. "John! Wait! Stop!"
He had been trying to get away from the blonde all morning.
"Why won't you talk to me?"
"I don't wanna know what your up to."
Melanie ran and got in front of him "Listen! I need to talk to you!"
"Now?"
"No. Tonight, meet me at the park under the huge oak tree at six. We'll talk then, k?"
"Don't you have a boyfriend?"
"Uhh...yeah...aaand?"
"Nevermind."
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When she got home, about four o'clock in the afternoon, Melanie ran through the house looking for Lori. At one point she ran into Ron.
"Shesh Mel! What's the hurry?"
She helped him up then took him by his shoulders "Where's Lori?"
"In her room, she just got home a few minutes ago."
"Thanks!" She darted off to her best friends room. When Melanie got to the room she burst in, scaring Lori half to death
"Mel! Don't do that!"
"Ok, there's something I wanna talk to you about....alone. Meet me at the park under the huge oak tree at six, ok?"
"That's thirty minutes!"
"Well...you better get ready, eh?" And with that Melanie left, running down the stairs to make like she was going to the park then creeping back up to her room.
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Lori went to the park under the huge oak tree to find no one there yet. She sighed "The one time I'm at a place on time.... And she missed it!"
After waiting for a few minutes she saw someone coming towards the tree. She couldn't tell who because it was too dark too see from that distance, although still light outside.
When the person came into view and was standing in front of the 18 year old girl, she realized a few things: 1.)This was sooo not Melanie 2.) It was a guy 3.) This guy was hot 4.) Melanie lied to her!
"Who are you?" he asked.
"I'm Lori...who are you exactly?"
"My name is John."
"Why are you here?"
"Melanie Zardou. I work with her, she told me to meet her here."
"So, Mel put you up to this, eh?"
"You know her?"
"Yep, my best friend...I should have known she wasn't gonna meet me here..." She sighed.
"Yeah...me too.."
"So...I guess she was trying to get me a guy." She sighed again "The girl thinks I can't find my own boyfriend...Oh well...at least she picks cute guys to set me up with."
He gave her a look.
"I'm kidding, geez."
He took out a lighter and as the two walked around the park he would flip it open, light it, kill it, close it, and start all over.
"What's with you and fire?"
"I'm a pyromaniac, what can I say?"
Lori looked at her watch. She then realized they had been there for two hours. "Whoa! We've been here for two hours...I should really get home."
"Yeah...I should to..."
"See ya around." She said and started to walk off.
"Yeah."
~*~*~
When Lori got back to the Burrow....
"MELANIE LEIGH ZARDOU!" Lori yelled as she slammed the front door. Little did she know her aunt and uncle were home.
"Lori Marie! Do not slam doors or yell in this house." Molly scolded.
Lori's eyes widened
"And just where were you?"
"Work. Overtime." She said and headed upstairs. She ran to and burst into Melanie's room, just as she had done earlier. "Melanie!"
Melanie and Draco had been kissing when she came in. Melanie immidately broke it.
"What?"
"I noticed four things when I went to the park."
"And just what were these things?" Melanie said, grinning.
Lori counted them off on her fingers "One, the person I met was sooo not you. Two, it was a guy. Three, this guy was hot. And four you lied to me!"
"Well...it must have been a good thing I lied to you, you were gone for two hours."
"I've got a question."
"Ok...what is it?"
"What is with him and fire?"
"Didn't he tell you?"
"What? That he's a pyromaniac yes."
"No. I mean that he's a mutant. And he manipulates fire."
"No...but you just did."
Melanie sighed. "Just...go.."
"Go where you dork?"
"I don't care! As long as its out of my room!" Melanie said, pushing Lori out of the room. She closed the door. "Now...where were we Draco?"
"I seem to have forgotten."
"Let's see if this will refresh your memory." Melanie said, walking over to him and kissing him.
"Hmm...I think I remember now."
~*~*~
The next morning Mrs. Weasley went upstairs to wake everyone and Melanie's room came first. When she opened the door she found Draco in Melanie's bed...shirtless...and...clothesless. With a lump in the bed next to him. Her eyes widened. Even though they were not, she treated the two just like her own children "MELANIE LEIGH ZARDOU!"
At this, Melanie screamed "AAHHH!" and sat up, sheet around her.
Because of Molly and Melanie both yelling, everyone woke up with a start and ran down the hallway to see what was going on. When they got there everyone's jaw dropped...except Lori, who simply tried to contain her laughter...unsuccessfully.
"No! People! Away! Leave! Oh sheet." Melanie complained.
Now everyone was laughing, save Melanie and Mrs. Weasley....even Draco was laughing...even if he was in Melanie's bed naked....3 other girls in the doorway. ((PPL! Don't think completely wrong here! He HAS a sheet! ~ From my sister - Like he would want Pothead and Weasel to see his package...puh-leaze.))
The next thing anyone knew, Mrs. Weasley was yelling "DRACO ANDRETTI MALFOY!"
Draco immediately stopped laughing. "How did she know my middle name?" he whispered to Melanie.
"She just knows these kind of things..." She whispered back.
~*~*~
It was about an hour after the nice little...incident....
Anytime Lori would look at Melanie or Draco she would immediately crack up. This would ensue either or both of them yelling "SHUT UP!" And her laughing harder.
Everyone was scattered throughout the house: Mrs. Weasley was in the kitchen, Hermione and Ron in his room, Ginny and Harry in the living room, Lori, Melanie, and Draco in Mel's room.
"Ok...why does he always have to be in the room that we are when we're talking?" Lori asked, obviously referring to Draco.
"Because...everyone else is with someone else and too busy to notice him." Melanie answered.
"Yes Lori. They are all much too busy to notice poor little ol' me." ((I know! Its OOCness but that's sorta been throughout the story...right?))
"Poor? That is something you not. Little? Yet again, something you are not. So...sorry to ruin your fun...but...that sorta doesn't work for you Draco."
"Oh shut it."
"Fine, fine.....DracoAndrettiMalfoy!" Lori rushed the names together and ran out of the room.
"I'll get her for that...."
"And just what do you expect to do to her?"
"I'm not sure..."
~*~*~