Nicole giggled, she jumped form her bed, and ran downstairs to Dumbledore.
"Grandpa?"
"Yes dear, what is it"
"Is it okay if I can take the Hogwarts express with Ron?"
"And Dominique?"he asked.
"Well I don't know I haven't had a chance to talk to her since she left to the library"she said, "I'll ask her when I see her."
"Well then I don't see why not"
"Thank you Gramps, you're the best really you are"
He laughed heartily and told her to finish packing. She went back upstairs, and tried on her new robes. A scarlet one with a very low cut âEV' neck that made her chest rather visible, it came with a scarlet cloak and hood to match. Dominique had a similar one only that hers were in royal blue.
A while later Dominique was home.
"Nicole I'm home" Dominique yelled from downstairs. Dominique ran to hug Dumbledore.
"Hey gramps"
"Hello Dominique" Then she rushed upstairs, where she found Nicole doing different types of hairstyles with some tricky little charms Dumbledore had showed them when he found the bill from the beauty parlor.
"Nicole I met the most amazing guy at the library today" she said hastily wiping out her hair away from her face.
"Really this is a first, what did he look like" said Nicole.
"He was tall, red hair, and beautiful gray blue eyes"
"Oh sounds good, what's his name?" Nicole asked.
"Hmm, well, uh now that you um mention it I dunno "she said fidgeting with her necklace.
"You finally meet a hot guy at the âElibrary' of all places and you don't even bother to ask his name, honestly women this is so typical of you"
"Well we just talked and talked, about nothing really and well he caught me of guard, but he was... he was so goddamned cute, I was just about to leave about three hours an a half ago when I spotted him. We only talked for an hour or so, he had to leave because he to ran errands for his mum, see he's a mummy's boy, I like a mama's boy"
"What did you do in those two hours after he left?" Nicole asked
"Well, you know me I probably just wondered of day-dreaming" she said casually.
"Why do I even bother asking"said Nicole rolling her eyes
"Hey you want to take the Hogwarts express with my cousins?"Nicole asked.
"Um no, I think I'll pass, I'll just go with gramps" said Dominique.
"Suit yourself, damn could you please stop fiddling with that thing please" said Nicole frustrated, pointing at Dominique's necklace.
"Sorry I just feel more secure when I do, I ...I feel like if my mum and dad are with me," she said, "at least you have relatives I have nothing"
"Now you know that's not true, you have gramps and me as family" said Nicole rather uneasy.
"Its not the same you and gramps are not blood, you have blood relatives who can tell you about your mum and dad, especially your mum, its not the same for me, you know that" said Dominique with such passion that it nearly brought Nicole to tears.
"I'm going to go take a nap now, okay" said Dominique after an awkward silence.
Nicole simply nodded and went down stairs.
She found Dumbledore in the parlor pacing back in forth, deep in thought. She crept behind him, and was about to jump on his back when,
"Nicole Scarlet Parker you'll have to do better than that to trick this old fool"
"Sorry" she said chuckling softly.
"So what is it that you wanted to ask me now?" he asked
"Can I go to Diagon Alley, Dominique is taking a nap"she added quickly.
"Oh then in that case let me get the floo powder"he said.
"Alright let me get my key first" she said running upstairs.
Soon she was standing in front of Gringotts Wizard Bank getting out her money for her shopping.
Pretty soon she bought 20 galleons worth of Quidditch items. She loved Quidditch.
She was about to go in Flourish Bolts when she bumped in to a tall handsome stranger.
"I'm so sorry"she said rather shyly.
"No-no I'm sorry" he said looking her up and down almost as if he was studying her, in her white caprice with a baby blue one strap shirt and white and blue up-towns she was something to study.
"Really it was my fault, I wasn't looking where I was going, I'm very clumsy you know" he said.
She was silent and started to blush under his gaze.
"I insist you let me buy you an ice-cream"he said.
Soon they where sitting on a small white table outside an ice-cream parlor.
"So what's your name?"she asked him.
"Oliver Wood, and yours?"he asked her.
"Nicole Parker"she responded.
"That's a pretty name"
She giggled, "Thank you, so um how old are you?"
"Seventeen, you?"
"Fifteen"
"Oh so where do you go to school?"he asked her.
"I don't I get home-schooled by my grandfather"she told him.
"Oh that's cool, this year I'm going to my old school to assist the flying teacher,"he said. Nicole dropped her spoon.
"You see in order for me to get to this amazing Quidditch school, I have to get some hand on experience teaching others, so they decided to send me to my old school"he continued.
"Really,"she began, "I, well my grandfather, really, said I can assist the flying teacher in his school, you see he's the headmaster"she finished.
"Really what's the name of the school?"he asked.
"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry"she told him. Now it was his turn to drop his spoon.
"Your kidding right, that's the school I'm going to be assisting in"he said, "and blimey! You said the headmaster is your grandfather, you have got to be kidding, I did not know that Dumbledore had a granddaughter, and a hot one at that"he said rather quickly.
Nicole looked bewildered.
"He's not really my grandfather it's just that he has been taking care of me and my friend Dominique since we were babies that's what we call him"she said blushing thinking of the last statement he said.
"Well,"she said, "don't you think this is a peculiar little world"
"Yes, very peculiar indeed"he said looking deep into her eyes leaning over to kiss her when-
"Oy! Oliver," Oliver turned around and saw Ron waving at him. Ron walked over and spotted Nicole.
"Nicole! What are you doing in London?"he asked.
"You know her?"asked Oliver his cheeks reddening.
"Of course I know her, she's my cousin"said Ron
"Oh" he said his cheeks returning to it's normal state.
"Ron this is quite a surprise what are you doing here?"Nicole asked.
"Oh I came to pick up some things for mum"he told her
"Oh I see, so you know Oliver here"she continued
"Of course he was a former Hogwarts student and he was captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, keeper, you know"said Ron.
"Really"said Nicole looking impressed.
Ron's cheeks turned red from fury at seeing this. He turned around and spotted a brown bushy haired girl, and at once knew who it was seeing that she was a carrying a whole bunch of books.
"Hermione"he yelled over at her.
She turned around, spotted Ron, smiled and walked over to him.
"Hey Ron I didn't expect to find you in London today"
"Running errands for mum"
"Real mummy's boy that one"cut in Nicole.
"And you are"said Hermione sounding rather annoyed.
"This is my cousin Nicole, Nicole this is one of my friends Hermione Granger"said Ron.
"um pleasure"she said rather nastily.
"No, no pleasure's all mine"said Nicole sweetly, which for some reason annoyed Hermione even more.
"So how old are you?"asked Hermione
"Fifteen, you?"
"Fifteen also, how come I've never seen you at Hogwarts before"Hermione said suspiciously
"Oh I get home schooled by my grandfather"
"Oh that's nice, anyways"Hermione said looking at her watch, "I have to go Victor is waiting for me"
"Victor is with you?"asked Ron
"Why yes, I really have to go now" she turned around and left.
"I should go to, I promised Dominique that I'd go to her charm class tomorrow she's a bit weak at that"said Nicole.
"Sure you won't stay for another cup of ice cream"said Oliver
"As tempting as that sounds I really can't, I'm sorry I have to go , tell aunt molly I said âEhi'"she said quickly and with that she left. Making her way out of Diagon Alley, with lots of curious heads looking after her, mostly boys of course.
"Are you sure she's not part veela "asked Oliver rather sheepishly to Ron.
"To be honest with you, I'm not quite sure myself"he said while staring at a, now distant red-head.
"Are you mad man she's your cousin" scolded Oliver.