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Chapter 3- Squabbles
Sunday morning Dennis made sure he was awake early enough to catch DJ at whatever time in the morning she had breakfast. When he got to the Great hall there were about thirty people eating already. They're all bloody mad, Dennis thought as he sat near Hermione Granger, wondering what she was doing up so early. "Good morning Dennis," she said cheerfully, breaking from reading whatever current book was taking her interest.
"Mornin'," Dennis said, stifling a yawn. "What on earth are you doing here right now?"
"I need to study when the library opens, so I'm catching an early breakfast," Hermione said, not even looking up this time. There were only a few people at the Hufflepuff table, and none of them were DJ. Dennis set himself down and started to eat. Most people began to filter in around nine o'clock, but there was still no sign of the girl that Dennis was looking for.
Colin came in quarter after nine and sat down next to his brother, piling food onto his plate. "Good morning," he said before shoving a fork full of hash browns into his mouth.
"Hey," Dennis said, concentrating now on looking through the group of Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws that had just entered.
"Did you want to practice today?" Colin asked. Harry had talked to him back in the common room the night before about shaping up.
"Sure," Dennis said. He normally would have been excited that Colin was finally getting his head out of his arse long enough to do something with his brother, but was a bit preoccupied at the moment.
Just as he was waiting for one blonde haired girl to turn around so he could see her face, the owls came in, blocking his view. One actually came down and landed in front of him, an envelope in its beak. This was a tawny school owl, so it didn't wait for any kind of treat, being used to jobs like this being expected of it. Dennis opened the envelope and extracted the parchment that was in front of several pictures.
I thought you might like to have copies of some of these.
DJ
"Who's this from?" Colin asked, grabbing the note from Dennis's hands.
"This girl who asked me to pose for her," Dennis answered, taking out the pictures to see how they had turned out. There were few of them in which he was moving in the photograph. Most of the pictures had been developed in the Muggle method.
"Those aren't bad," Colin evaluated. He had always loved taking pictures, ever since he could get his hands on a camera, and these were actually very professional looking.
"She's pretty good. Are you dating her?" he asked.
"Dating? No," Dennis said, shocked that Colin had asked this. "I don't really even know her too well, she's really closed up."
"Hmmm," was all Colin said, as he looked through the rest of the pictures. "I like this one," he said when he got to a picture of Dennis climbing a willow tree that edged the lake. "What's her name?"
"DJ."
"That's her name? What does it stand for?" Dennis was happy that Colin was finally paying some attention to him, even if it was about someone else.
"I don't know," he said. "So are we going to practice after breakfast?"
"Yeah," Colin said, still looking at the photographs in his hands.
"Great," Dennis said, a large smile on his face. Colin had been Dennis's best friend growing up and he didn't want that to change. Dennis forgot about the goal of finding DJ and went back to his dormitory to get his stuff ready to practice.
The Creevey brothers went out onto the pitch and let loose one of the bludgers. They aimed at one another and hit them back and forth for almost an hour before taking a break. Dennis wasn't too happy with this, though, since the break occurred due to the arrival of Julia. They landed and Colin left Dennis to take care of containing the bludgers. Colin went over and gave Julia a kiss, then sat down and started casually talking to her until Dennis came over.
"How are you doing Dennis?" Julia asked sweetly. Dennis hated how sugary some girls sounded, especially when said girl was dating his older brother. They just seemed so fake.
"Fine," he shrugged.
"How do you like your third year?" Julia asked.
Colin just watched the conversation vaguely interested as he played with Julia's brown hair that was pulled up into a ponytail, showing the blonde streaks she had put in herself.
"Fine, I guess, not any different than second really," he answered, wishing Colin would keep his hands to himself. "I, uh, gotta go find something," he said and left abruptly.
Just as he entered the grounds Colin caught up to him. "What is your problem?" Colin asked turning his little brother around by the shoulder.
"My problem is you!" Dennis shouted.
"Me? What did I do?" Colin shouted back.
"Nothing, Colin! That's just it: YOU'VE DONE NOTHING!"
"Then what is it? You jealous that I have a girlfriend and you don't?"
"No!" Dennis said, turning back toward the castle and started walking away.
"Don't walk away from me," Colin demanded while walking toward Dennis.
"I will if I want to," he said, only turning his head a bit to be heard, as if he needed to with all the shouting.
"Stop being an arse!" Colin grabbed the collar of Dennis's robes and jerked him around once more, this time not letting him go. "I'm your brother and I want to know what's really wrong."
Dennis saw that Julia was watching from the pitch's entrance, a look of concern dawned on her face. Dennis felt anger boil up inside him again. He pulled up both hands and pushed Colin hard on the chest to get him away. "If you don't know what's wrong, why should I tell you?"
"Because I'm trying to-"
"Is everything alright?" a voice from behind Dennis. He turned around and saw DJ.
"Fine," Colin said. His whole demeanor changed as he looked at DJ. "Just some sibling stuff."
Julia came down and stood by Colin, "what's going on?" she asked, as if she hadn't just witnessed the entire scene.
"Nothing," Colin said, his eyes still not leaving DJ. Julia looked from Colin to DJ and back to Colin again. She smiled sweetly while addressing DJ, "I don't believe we've met before," she said.
"No we haven't," DJ replied shortly.
"My name is Julia, and yours is?" Julia persisted and extended her hand.
"DJ," she answered shortly, and didn't accept the invitation of civility. DJ disliked superficial actions even more than Dennis did.
"Oh, how nice, what does DJ stand for?"
"Dandiprat Julia," she said. Julia's curiousity slipped away from her, though her smile just got bigger. Dennis started to laugh under his breath, trying to hold it in.
"Oh, well, I guess it was nice to meet you," she said, grabbing Colin's elbow. "Come on, Colin, weren't you going to show me those pictures?"
"What pictures? Oh, right," Colin said snapping out of it. The couple walked away.
"That was good," Dennis said, now laughing out right since Julia and Colin were out of ear shot. DJ just looked at him, not even a smile showed. "Come on, that was brilliant, and how did you get him to totally forget what he was saying to me?"
DJ just shrugged and started walking toward that lake. Most of those who had been watching the small squabble between the Creevey brothers had now returned to their Sunday afternoon activities. Dean and Parvati had been the only two in the entire vicinity that hadn't stopped snogging to see what the shouting had been about. Dennis wasn't sure whether to walk with her or not, so he opted to do so unless she said something. They walked the length of the lake before DJ put down her book bag and got out her camera again. "Oh yeah," Dennis said, remembering the photographs. "My brother really likes your pictures. He says they look professional."
"Really?" DJ asked, sounding disinterested.
Dennis scratched the back of his head while trying to think of something that would be of interest. "So…" he started, deciding to think on his feet. "You like…stuff?" Doh, he thought, never go impromptu again. Always use note cards.
DJ turned around, having just shot a picture of a rabbit hopping away from them. "Stuff?"
"Uh," think Dennis think, "yeah, stuff."
"Sure, I like stuff," she said turning back around.
"What kind of stuff?"
DJ shrugged. "I like photography and everything of the likes I suppose."
"What else?"
DJ sat down and waited for the film to rewind, since she had filled another roll. She thought for a second. "You know the Muggle film Mary Poppins?"
"Yeah," Dennis said, having seen it many times in his youth.
"I like the lullaby she sings," DJ said decisively. This was the most he got her to talk, so he decided he was finally on a roll.
"What else?"
"Nothing really," she said.
"What about you?" Dennis laid back on his hands.
"Not much. I like Quidditch and some books, but I'm really selective with that. Colin and I used to hang out all the time, but now he has Julia."
"She seems a bit stuffy," DJ admitted. "What's your brother's name?"
"Colin," Dennis answered. "Although he should change it to prat, the way he's been acting lately."
"Really?" DJ was becoming a bit distant again and her eyes seemed to change expression, though Dennis couldn't put a finger on what the expression was. He didn't take the time to dwell on it since he was on a roll talking about Colin.
"Stupid git, doesn't care about me at all! All he cares about is finding a place to snog Julia, forget that has any other obligations. Then it makes me look bad because he's slacking while I'm trying to pick up on the work he's missed out on the pitch." Dennis got up and started pacing. "I wish I never had a brother!" he said bitterly.
By this point the look in DJ's eyes was clear and venomous. "Don't you say that," she said, standing, gathering her things and storming off.
"What'd I say?" Dennis asked confused, but he didn't bother going after DJ to find out. Maybe he'd see her at dinner and apologize for whatever it was he did wrong. For now, he had a three foot essay on the ways to house train a Crup.
A/N: I hope you like this chapter. I used a line from the Simpsons. It's something that I quote from everyone's favorite, Ralph Wiggum, and the 'doh' following is that of America's weirdest father Homer Simpson himself. Kudos to those of you who recognized it. Colin's being a pretty mean guy right now, I know, but he's really just oblivious to anything but the girl who has him wrapped around her finger. I worded everything carefully, so pay attention to that please, and realize Julia's not completely horrible, I'm just giving you what Dennis sees. She is, however superficial in a not so good fashion.
PLEASE REVIEW! And if you really like this, go ahead and check out some of my other stuff. Be patient here, because this is from Dennis's POV and DJ isn't an open person, you'll have to find out later what her deal is. Hope you hang in there with me, though.
Thank you:
JamieBell: I hope to get more people on this 'bandwagon' soon, but for now, here's a shout out to you! She is NOT a mary-sue….you're going to make me cry! And no she's no vampire, but you should take that idea and run. That theory made me laugh. I hope you have fun at camp, if you're too tempted to stay away and get on before, or that you had fun!