Introducing: the gay guys of NYC! WoOt! ~The Redheaded Duck~

The girls spent the morning with Elisa's stalkers washing her already shiny hair with Herbal Essences Extra Shine formula. Back in the Great Hall, as they were waiting to leave for Hogsmeade, Corinne looked at the Slytherin table with a dispirited look in her eyes and said, "You know, Elisa was the only one brave enough to ask out a guy." Elisa actually felt guilty for a moment, and was about to admit that it had been James who asked her, but her thoughts of confession were interrupted by a light touch on her shoulder. "Ready to go?" he asked.

"Sure." She got up gracefully, and whispered to her friends, "We'll meet up in 3B ok? Laters!" Just then, she thought she heard music coming from somewhere.

I remember those days hanging out at the village green

Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans

Cold beer, hot lights

My sweet romantic teenage nights

"Elisa? You ok?" She snapped back to reality, and saw the concerned faces of her friends and James. "Yeah, I'm fine. Let's go."

The walls of the restaurant were lined with pictures (moving, of course) of witch and wizard chefs. The tables were covered in checkered tablecloths, and the place smelled like great pasta sauce. The couple sat in a secluded booth in the back, and for the next couple of hours, sat and ate and talked. Elisa never realized how comfortable she could be with a guy, especially one she didn't know very well. She now knew things about him that she was sure James never even told Sirius, and she spoke to him as she did with Lindsay, her closest friend of the three.

Just as she was telling James how she and Lindsay would yell "Versace! Prada!" through the streets of New York, in hopes of catching a gay guy (you knew they we re gay of they suddenly yelled "WHERE?" ) on their summers at home, she heard a very familiar voice.

"Bam!" Boomer (Lindsay) and Bam (Elisa) had been the nicknames they gave each other when they first became close friends. "Boomer" had originally been a not-so-flattering nickname for a Muggle friend of theirs, but when she was slightly less than responsive to it, Lindsay took it, saying it was too good a name to pass up.

And now, who else but Lindz would do this, Elisa thought, interrupt my date with James Potter. She tried to be mad at her, but knew it would never work, so she just gave up.

Remus soon followed Lindsay (it's about time, Elisa thought), then Lorelei and Sirius, and finally Corinne and Lucius Malfoy. Elisa saw Lindsay scan the room to find their location, (so she screamed my name without even knowing if I was here or not?) and lead the group toward the back where she and James were sitting. Lindsay grabbed a chair, even though someone was already sitting in it, pulled it over to their table, and ate one of their garlic sticks, all the while looking as if this was something she did every day.

And knowing Lindsay, she probably did.