Welcome To My World
By TriGemini
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the other characters in the book, J.K. Rowling does.
Chapter Two
The greatest thing about the first day of summer vacation is the fact that a person does not have to wake up early for anything in particular. Except of course, when one has made plans and has to keep to them. Instead of doing other enjoyable things, such as, relaxing or reading. Anyways, since it was the first day of summer vacation, Hermione had already made plans with a couple of her old friends from the neighborhood. They were Asia Matthews and Trini Chang. The two girls had lived in the same neighborhood as Hermione since they were very young. Therefore, she couldn't wait until they came to pick her up so she could see them again. The girls had made plans to go shopping in the downtown district of London. All of Hermione's favorite stores were all there. So in reality in would be one entire day of just shopping with her friends. Although, if a person really wanted to go on a shopping spree it would take days to actually finish in downtown London, since there were so many shops and boutiques. It was difficult to get to all of them in just one day. Hermione at this point, was giving herself a look over before leaving her bedroom. She was wearing a light peach floral-spray print blouse, with a peach-colored miniskirt that went down to her knees; also, she wore peach-colored flats that matched her outfit. Her hair was in a long braid that hung behind her back with a peach-colored ribbon woven through it. Under most circumstances, it was quite unusual for her to care about how she looked. However, she did remind herself that she was going shopping with her friends. Not to mention, they also had a dress code at the Rainforest Café, where they were going to lunch, as well. Therefore, she had to wear something that was appropriate for that venue. A few seconds later, there was a loud knock on her bedroom door. Hermione went to go open it and found her mother standing on the other side of it. Amelia Granger for a dentist looked extremely well dressed for this particular afternoon, as well. Then again, Hermione remembered that her parents were going to a business luncheon and at those affairs, everybody dressed up.
"Hermione…dear, Trini and Asia are downstairs in the living room waiting for you," said Mrs. Granger. Hermione smiled at the news.
"Thanks mum. We'll be back before eight tonight, all right!" said Hermione.
"All right, just be careful while you're in downtown London. You know how it is during the summer season," said Mrs. Granger lightly warning her daughter about the dangers there were downtown. Hermione rolled her eyes at this piece of information. She sometimes wondered if her mother thought her to be eleven or something. Seeing as how she's faced worse while being at Hogwarts, in either event Hermione shrugged it off. She knew in reality that her mother was only trying to be cautious. Like every parents, they just wanted their children to be safe. With that thought in mind, Hermione walked towards the staircase, so that she could head downstairs. From there she would go directly into the living room where her two friends were waiting.
As she finally descended the stairs, she went into the living room to find her two good friends. One of the girls was named Trini Chang, and she was Chinese. She had long silky raven hair that she always wore loose and almond-shaped eyes that were dark-brown. On this particular day, she was wearing a white lacy blouse, with a yellow jean jacket over it, a black silk miniskirt, and with black flats. Her other friend was Asia Matthews; she had auburn hair that was worn in a chignon and had sea green eyes. That day, she was decked out in a bottle green sundress, which suited her perfectly. In a way people always thought it was a strange combination her looks with her name. However, she always said, "The reason my parents named me Asia, was because they were living in Hong Kong when I was born." After gazing at her friends a bit, Hermione finally spoke up,
"Hey, are you two ready to go?
Both Asia and Trini nodded their heads, got their stuff, and headed out the front door of the house. As soon, as they were out the door, Hermione stopped midway and asked,
"Where are we going first? Shopping at Travers or should we start off with lunch at the Rainforest Café?"
"Let's go shopping first," said Trini with excitement.
"Yes, shopping first for awhile than we can go to lunch," said Asia in agreement and matching the same excitement that Trini had, as well.
"However, that still leaves us with the choice of deciding where to shop first. Do we go to Travers, or do we want to start somewhere else?" asked Hermione as she looked at her two friends. Both girls in returned just shrugged. For Hermione guessed that they really didn't care which store they went to first, as long as they actually got some shopping done before the day was over. Suddenly Hermione was struck with an idea and said,
"Let's do this. First, we'll go to Weston's, and then we can head over to Travers since those two shops always take the longest to go through. Not to mention, they're very close to each other, also. Then we can to lunch at the Rainforest Café, and afterwards we can do some more shopping still, all right!" said Hermione.
Both Asia and Trini agreed to the idea. Therefore, the three girls decided to off to Asia's car. Once they got in and started on their merry way to downtown London. Hermione on her part believed that today was going to be perfect and so would the rest of the summer days that would follow. What she didn't count on was that soon enough, she'd be getting a big surprise.
A/N: The only characters I own so far are Trini and Asia. Not to mention, some others that will appear later. Anyway, it's not much of a start. I will try to update, as soon as I can.
