6

Telling The Secret

Lorette woke up the next morning, as the sun was playing on her face. She looked over to find she was alone in the room. She layed back and recalled her dream.

Her dream took place at a tiny spring with a minuteness waterfall. The spring was surrounded with plants and flowers of all kinds. Daffodils and tiger lily's, water lily's, pussy willows, and beautiful blossom trees engulfed the area just as in a heaven like experience. As she knelt down to drink the fresh water falling from the water fall, she heard someone behind her. She turned and found the person to be her godfather, Remus Lupin. He walked towards her with open arms and a smile on his face. They paced themselves towards each other. After a short moment they were in each others arms at last. He whispered "Lorette"....."Lorette"....."Lorette"....

"Lorette!"

Lorette snapped back out of her dream and found that Zack had been calling her.

"Are you alright?" he asked seriously.

"Oh! I'm fine, sorry about that, the heat took me off day dreaming again."

"Okay, well it's time to go, you sure your up to it?"

"Yeah! I'm fine!"

"Alright well lets go" he said turning and leading her out of the tent.

She followed him asking, "How are we getting there?"

"Were using floo powder."

"Floo what?" she asked confused.

"You've never heard of floo powder?" he said surprised. "Well you throw the powder into a fireplace, step into the fire and say the name of the place you want to get to."

"Ummm alright," she said nervously.

"You can go first so that you know how to do it."

"Okay," so she walked over to him and picked up a handful of floo powder from the pouch Zack was holding.

She looked back for a moment before throwing the powder into the fire, as the sparkling dust hit the flames she was engulfed by a green roaring fire. She looked down to see if Scrimage was there, and he gave her a what looked like a gimped thumbs up. Then she called out "Diagon Alley!" and dissapeared in a puff of blue smoke.

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Hearing a squeaking noise, Lorette looked down to find a rat staring back at her. She slowly walk away from the animal, and she knocked over a bookcase displaying a few new books that were in stock. Next thing she knew, she heard quick steps coming ottwards her with a rush of fluttering robes.

"What are you doing? Look at this mess!" the girl said.

"Who are you?" she asked the annonymous speaker as she looked her over. The girl ignored her and got quickly to cleaning the small mess of scattered books. Lorette knelt over and helped her. The girl had a big head of curly brown hair. She had beatiful sparkling navy blue eyes. And she was a head shorter than Lorette.

A puff of red smoke appeared and a face appeared in the fireplace. "Hello Hermione."

She turned to Zack and a surprised smile appeared on her face. She quickly ran over to him and wrapped her arms around him. Shortly after he looked over her shoulder and asked her, "Aren't the books supposed to be on bookcases?"

"Oh they were until she came in and knocked everything over!" she told him pointing her finger at Lorette.

"Lori? She wouldn't do that!" he said trying to reassure her.

"Oh you think?" what do you call this she said looking over the mess and then returning her eyes onto his.

"I didn't do it on purpose, there was a rat in the fire and I backed up slowly and next thing you know there's books flying everywhere."

"Oh I'm so sure, you know you should tell the truth before you get into more trouble, we know you did it on purpose!"

"No I didn't!" now she was getting very frustrated and she was lsing her temper.

"Stop it both of you!" Zack interupted before they began a cat fight. "If Lori says she didn't do it then she didn't do it," he added. " Lori you appologize for knocking the books over, and Hermione appologize for blaming Lorette."

The two girls looked at Zack with frightened looks on they're faces. He motioned them to do what he told them to do. They walked over to each other held out hands and both appologized for the way they acted.

"Now, Hermione would you get us the books needed for this school year?" he askd politely now calming down from the previous situation.

"Both of you? she's a bit old to be a first year isn't she?" she looked over Lorette.

"She's going to be in the same year as us."

"Oh Great!" she said and went into the backroom mumbling about how everything happened to her.

"What was that all about?" Lorette asked as Hermione dissapeared into the rows of books.

"She get's really jealous easily." he told her smiling at her.

"Jealous? of what?" she asked unsure of what that meant.

"Of you offcourse!" he said

"Me? What's there to be jealous of? She's the one with the attractive boyfriend!" she said surprised.

"Boyfriend?" he looked at her with a confused look in his eye. "She doesn't have a boyfriend."

"What about you?" she asked curiously.

"Me? You thought I was?" he chuckled at the remark. "If you should know she's jealous of yoru looks, and who wouldn't be."

"My looks?"

"Yeah, your hair, and smooth skin, your tall posture, those beautiful blue eyes, your red lips."

She was now blushing like a tomato. "Your sure to get everyone's attention."

"How would you know?"

"Because I like you, and if I like you the other guys will too!" He said turning away because he was embarrased.

She smiled at him and quickly wrapped her arms around his neck. He slowly and gently put his arms around her waist, they leaned in and held each other until...

"Zack what type of cover would you like--" she dropped all the books she was holding and eyed them angrily.

"What are you two doing?" she asked furiously.

"Nothing," Zack answered back.

"It doesn't look like nothing!" she now had tears in her eyes. "You knew I liked you and now she comes along and you two are making out infront of me! I hate you!" she yelled staring at Lorette.

"We weren't making out! We were only hugging," Lorette fought back.

Hermione took out her wand and yelled "Apparate!" and she disapeared in a puff of orange smoke.

"Well let's go get your supplies." He looked annoyed and Lorette didn't argue. They left the store after picking all they're books up and paying for them at the front.

"Will she be alright?" Lorette asked carefully choosing her words.

"She'll get her mind back eventually, she always does this, doesn't she realize I'm only her friend and that's all we'll be!"

"Well let's not talk about this anymore, let's go get some ice cream, my treat," she quickly added.

"Alright."