Chapter 2
"Morning Mum," Matt said groggily as he came into the kitchen. "Did Dad leave already?"
"Yea he had an early practice, at least Ron is on that team with him. Ron tends to knock some sense into him, in fact if it wasn't for him Harry probably would have quit Quidditch because it involved to much work and gotten really fat from sitting around all the time."
"Thanks for sharing Mum." He replied as he sat down next to her. He loved how his parents never referred to each other as Mum or Dad it was always by their names. It kind of reminded him that their lives didn't revolve around their kids. "I have no idea what to do for the next week, Ben went to visit his grandparents until school starts up again."
"Oh so that's why Ron convinced the coach to have practice all this week, I still can't believe he's afraid of Lavender's parents. They've been married for 17 years and he has not once gone back to see them since the wedding, or course he did have a rather embarrassing conversation with them, but still!"
"Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane, I think I'll just find something to do on my own…" He said as he started to ease his way out of the room, he really didn't feel like hearing all of his Mum's stories right now about his dad and his dad's best friend Ron.
"Hold on one second I've got an idea, you can take your sister Mandy to get her school things, I assume you still haven't gotten yours either." Hermione said with a smug look on her face. She knew that Matt would never have volunteered to take his sister shopping, but he had backed himself into a corner. 'This will teach him to ask his parents what he should do for the day.' Hermione thought to herself. 'I wonder if my parents ever manipulated me like this?' "Have fun and make sure to get Mandy home before dinner."
"All right I give, it's not like I have anything better to do." Matt replied in a defeated tone of voice. "But if she takes me shopping for clothes you owe me big time." He called as he headed upstairs to get dressed. Once he got back downstairs Mandy was already to go and Matt guessed he was planning on ditching him once they got to Diagon Alley since she was wearing a pink tank top with black shorts and sneakers, usually when they went alone she would wear something less girlish. He had realized a while ago she did this because she thought he didn't realize that she was dating, of course he did. He knew he had a pretty sister with green eyes that drove guys wild, he wasn't stupid. 'Oh well at least I won't have to spend the day with my little sister.' He thought to himself. "You ready to go?"
"Yea let's go." Mandy said as she followed her brother out the door and into his car. "You don't mind that I'm not going to hang around with you do you?" Mandy asked uncertainly. "I promised some friends I'd meet them at the Muggle mall, we have to get dresses for the dances this year since there's never anything good in Hogsmeade."
"I don't really care, I'll probably end up hanging around there too." He told her. "But you have to meet me by four back at the car so we can still go get our stuff for school otherwise Mum will have my head."
Mandy laughed and told him, "I promise."
Matt watched as Mandy ran over to a group of people who he assumed were the friends that he assumed were her friends then headed up to the Muggle movie theater. His mum loved Muggle movies and had gotten him into them. Once he was in the theater, he looked at all the posters, tried to decide which movie to see and finally decided on Daredevil, a movie about a blind superhero. He went to get in the line and buy a ticket when he saw the girl from the club. She looked in his direction and when she saw him started to come over.
"Hi, are you seeing a movie?"
"Yea, I was thinking about seeing Daredevil, what about you."
"I'm here with my friends, and their dates, to see Final Destination 2. Did I mention that I hate scary movies?" Hillarie said.
Matt laughed and said, "Mind if I come? I was just ditched by my little sister for her friends."
This time it was Hillarie's turn to laugh, "Aww poor thing, sure you can come with us. My friends probably won't even notice if you do." They bought their tickets and Hillarie went straight to the snacks line. "It's not a movie if you don't have popcorn." She explained to him with a smile on her face, "I've never seen a movie without getting popcorn."
"And yet you stay so thin." Matt joked. "You must see a movie every couple of years."
"HAHAHA very funny." She said sarcastically as she paid for her food and they went into the theater. By the time they got in her friends were already sitting somewhere and since they didn't want to interrupt everybody else they just sat on their own. The first part of the movie was all right, but as it progressed Matt could tell that she was getting scared. Her hand was clutching the arm of the chair tightly. She seemed to be okay a few minutes later, but then another part came on that freaked her out, it was the things popping out of nowhere that freaked her out Matt observed, and she instinctively threw her arms around his neck and buried her face in his shoulder. After a few moments, she seemed to realize what she had done and backed away from him a little bit. "Sorry." She whispered.
Another ½ an hour past and the movie was starting to get a little scary again and Matt decided to take a chance. He draped his left arm around her and she seemed to relax a little bit. By the end of the movie, he was holding her so close that her head was practically resting on his shoulder. When the movie ended neither of them moved until Hillarie's friends came over and said that they were leaving.
"Okay I'll be right out." She replied as she got up from her seat and looked over at Matt. "It was a good movie, a little too scary for me though."
"Yea…" Matt replied now looking at the ground.
Hillarie realized that he apparently wasn't going to ask her out so she decided to take the initiative. She pulled out a small piece of paper, wrote something down on it and handed it to him. "I better go." She said as she left the theater and went after her friends.
Matt looked down at the piece of paper she had given to him and saw that it was her phone number. 'Great now all I have to do is work up the courage to call her!' Matt thought to himself. 'And I only have a week before I leave for school, how am I going to explain why she can't call me at school? Never mind that how am I going to tell her I'm a wizard?!' As he continued thinking about what he would say if he did call her he wandered around the mall until the time when he was meeting Mandy. When he got to the front, he found her waiting with quite a few bags.
"I see you went a little overboard." Matt said as he pointed to the numerous bags in front of her. "Ready to go?"
"Yup, can you help me carry these?" Mandy asked him as she put on her sweetest face, she knew that he would help her with anything if she did that. He gave in and they carried her bags out to the car. "So what did you do?" she asked him curiously.
"I went to go see a movie. Now enough with the questions we need to get to Diagon Alley and home before Mum figures out we didn't spend the whole day, unless you'd like to explain to her why you didn't want her coming to pick out your dresses." He said impatiently, he knew that would get her to stop asking questions.
The pair got all of their supplies from Diagon Alley and headed home quickly. Mandy left the bags with her dresses in Matt's car so that her mother wouldn't see them figuring she could just sneak out later and bring them in the house. "So did you two get all of your shopping done?" Hermione asked as soon as they walked through the door.
"Yea," Mandy replied casually as she went up to her room with the supplies they had picked up.
"By the way Mandy one of your friends called, apparently you two got the wrong bags because she has one of your dresses." Hermione informed her pretending like it was perfectly normal.
Mandy blushed a deep shade of red, "Oh yea I didn't mention that we were going to stop by the mall before getting our stuff for school did I…well uh I met my friends and we picked out some dresses for the balls at Hogwarts." Mandy explained to her mother guiltily.
"Am I correct in assuming you talked your brother into taking you?" Hermione asked. "Never mind it doesn't matter, just be honest with my next time or you're in big trouble."
"Okay Mum," Mandy said quickly as she scurried into her room, she wasn't going to wait for her mother to change her mind.
Hermione walked quietly back into the den where Harry was resting on the couch. "I'm a cool mother right?"
Harry looked up at her and smiled, "Of course you are, Mandy is 13 though and she doesn't want anything to do with either of us. Teenage girls are like that remember?"
"I know but I wanted to be close with her, you know like they are on television and in the movies."
"Do remember the chat we had about those things not being real?" Harry joked. "You should really stop watching things like that, all they do is make you depressed. You could always use the time you waste on those shows pampering your husband."
Hermione smiled at sat down in his lap. "You know I believe that's supposed to go the other way around." She said and was about to go on when Harry pulled her into a passionate kiss. When they broke apart Hermione said, "How do we still have so much passion after being married for 17 years."
"It's because I'm so damn good looking and you can't keep your hands off me." Harry explained as he lay down and pulled her on top of him. "Just a few more days and we'll have the whole house to ourselves."
"Yes and we'll be all alone to do things like this…" Hermione said seductively as she began kissing his neck. "And this…" she continued as she worked her hands under his shirt and gently stroked his chest with her fingernails. Knowing he was becoming very turned on by this she stopped and got up, "Of course we'll have to wait another week."
Hermione started to leave the room feeling very smug when Harry pushed her against the wall and pulled her into another passionate kiss. He stroked his hand gently along the side of her face with one hand and with the other; he pulled her closer to him. "Uh uh," he told her. "It's my turn to leave you unsatisfied." He said as he walked calmly from the room and into the kitchen.
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