Nez: Here is another chapter, for everyone's viewing pleasure!
Zan: We do not own HP!
Nez: They know we do not own Harry Potter already. You don't have to say it continually. It becomes a bit redundant.
Zan: I meant the steak sauce.
Nez: -smacks forehead- Baka potato ototo. (Stupid potato little brother.)
Chapter Four: Meet the Scones
Meanwhile, over at Chels's house, Nehszriah, Fuf, Chels, Tsuki, Akina, Luke, James and Remus were relaxing in the living room. Chels claimed that there was going to be more people coming, but with the head count already at eight and ten o'clock approaching, there were doubts in the air.
"So what are we doing here again?" James asked, taking a sip of his Mountain Dew and leaning back into the couch.
"Waiting," Akina sighed.
"Lovely," Fuf added. She, Luke and Tsuki were playing James Bond on the Gamecube, staring blankly into the television screen. Nehszriah and Remus were sitting at the table in the connected dining area, showing no mercy towards a bowl of trail mix.
"Who can we be waiting for besides Sirius?" Nehszriah whined, shoving another whole handful of trail mix in her mouth. She didn't even swallow before she continued talking. "I mean, he can miss whatever we're going to do, right?"
"Where are your manners?" Remus asked.
"Back at home, under my bed," Nehszriah said.
"Figures," Remus muttered.
"Where are they?" Chels growled. No one could really figure out why she seemed so nervous. Chels was pacing and muttering in a low tone to herself and it was starting to bug everybody else.
"Stop pacing. I can't snipe while you pace like that. It's very distracting," Tsuki said indignantly, having missed her target for the third time in the video game.
"Don't stop! Let me get her once more!" Luke giggled, having his video game character kill Tsuki's.
"They were supposed to be here by now!" Chels moaned. Right on cue, a minivan pulled up to the driveway and five people got out and came to the door. Chels nearly skipped over to the door and let them in.
"CHELS!" a small and petite girl with black hair squealed as she nearly tackled Chels. After her, four boys came in and cautiously skirted around the seemingly crazed girl.
"Ow, Patience, get off!" Chels groaned. The small girl just smiled and latched onto the arm of the tall thin boy with dark brown hair. The boy just stood there in what seemed like slight embarrassment.
"Hello Gomer!" the guy with black hair and glasses said as he went over to Nehszriah. She got up and gave him a high-five and he gave her a strong pat on the back.
"Hey Jay. How ya' doing?" Nehszriah coughed.
"Just fine!" Jay said with a grin.
With this, the Muffins introduced the Maraurders to who they all called the "Scones". There was Jay and Patience of course, then Mark, Patience's dark-haired boyfriend, Aaron, a tall curly blonde haired boy and Alex, who was shorter than the rest (except Patience) and seemed a bit grumpy, as if he lacked some much-needed sleep. Luke was also an acclaimed Scone supposedly, being male and animatedly bounced around to get something to eat for his fellow bakery products.
"What a surprise!" Tsuki exclaimed, jumping up happily.
"Alright!" Patience said cheerfully, finally releasing Mark. "The newest Muffin has arrived!"
"She's a Muffin?" Remus asked, a bit skeptical.
"Yes. We made her one last week already," Akina affirmed.
"You mean stole her from us!" Aaron cried loudly, pointing his finger at the girls.
"No they didn't," Patience said.
"Yes they did," Jay agreed. "You were the Female Scone!"
"But… I'm going to be a Muffin so Mark and I can have Crumpets!"
Now, being James and Remus were left pretty much out of the loop for all of this, they were both a tad bit disgusted and confused.
"C-C-Crumpet? What the..?" James stuttered.
"She made it up," Mark said. "I really don't care, but she did."
"Why a crumpet?"
Patience looked at James suspiciously.
"You don't know?" she asked.
James and Remus both shook their heads.
"When you cross a Muffin and a Scone you get a Crumpet!" Patience happily said.
"Yeah," Fuf added, having seen the guys' looks of pure confusion. "We don't really know how she came up with it, but she did."
"Crumpets," Remus sighed, definitely staring to worry for the small girl's sanity.
"Yup! Then if you cross a Crumpet and a Crumpet you get a Scone, a Muffin and two Crumpets!" Nehszriah chimed in. Remus took a healthy step sideways, putting space between the two of them.
"Quick!" Tsuki cried, abandoning her video game and pointing at Nehszriah. "A Scone and a Crumpet!"
"Two Scones and two Crumpets!"
"A Muffin and a Crumpet?"
"Two Muffins and two Crumpets!"
"A Muffin and a Bagel!"
"Gick!" Tsuki did it now. Nehszriah's brain overloaded and shut down. She fell on the floor, luckily having her head land on a pillow and she started to slightly twitch.
"Now what was that about?" Alex asked. He knew the whole "Scone" thing, but failed to process the scientific ranting.
"An Ode to Miss Miller," Fuf sighed. "She was our Biology teacher in Muggle school and she seemed to have left a mark on them."
"That explains a lot," Aaron said. Alex and Mark agreed with him. Jay would have too, but he had retrieved a cleaning broom from the cupboard and was poking Nehszriah with the handle from a relatively safe distance.
"Gomer," he whispered. "Wake up Gomer. Gooooomer," Nehszriah was still twitching, except in slower intervals.
"So…" Remus said, trying to change subject. "How are you guys?" He turned towards Aaron and Alex and gave a bit of a strained smile, hoping they didn't perceive him as crazy like Patience or Tsuki, who was now scribbling Muffin and Scone Punnent squares in her notebook.
"Ah, could be better," Alex said.
"Yeah," Aaron replied. "I'm a bit nervous about tomorrow though. I have a bad feeling about it."
"About what?" Akina asked.
"Do you have something big going on tomorrow?" James asked.
Aaron raised his eyebrow.
"Didn't you tell them?" he sighed at the Muffins.
"Tell who what?" Sirius asked, coming in the open front door and only having heard Aaron's last comment.
"Sirius!" Tsuki squealed. "Come see what I did!" She dragged him off to the side to show him the little scientific scribbles she made.
"Umm…" Chels nervously laughed. "We were going to surprise them tonight."
"Surprise us with what?" Remus asked.
"Tomorrow is our Coming Home Dance and we are going to invite you three as our guests!" Akina said cheerily.
"WHAT!" Nehszriah cried, sitting straight up and scaring the hell out of Jay. She looked very concerned with what Akina said.
"We are bringing them and that's that," Chels said sternly.
"Eh… uh… ack…" Nehszriah sputtered. Every time she started something though, she seemed to give up near instantly. Having enough of the mind games, she folded her arms and pouted like a small child.
"We are taking them with us?" Alex asked.
"Yes," Chels said. "Now guys, take our guests and make sure they get situated for the dance." She, with the help of Nehszriah and Fuf shoved the Scones and Maraurders out the door and shut it behind them.
"CHELS!" Luke yelled as he tried to force the door.
"They locked us out. Damn them…" Aaron growled. "I'm going home. Meet up you guys tomorrow." He sulked off an disappeared quickly.
"I guess it's time to go home now!" Mark said optimistically. Everyone piled into the van and Mark drove them over to his house. There they ate pizza, watched movies and slept for the night and in the morning, the Scones tried to explain to the Maraurders basic Muggle dance etiquette. That really didn't go over too well, particularly the dress code. (Meaning the whole suit thing did not appeal to our heroes.)
Zan: -runs around covered in steak sauce- SHE'S GONNA EAT ME!
Nez: -w/fork- Yummy potato!
Zan: -cries- It's like the Butter Incident all over again!
Nez: -winks- Like I'd really eat him.
Okay… let me see… Chapter Five is being thought up of right now, Six is mostly written out on paper, Seven I know what I'm going to write and man, it took forever to write this chapter. -frowns- My creative fluids must be running thick on me. Well, please review for me. I much appreciate it. I promise, at the end of Chapter Five, I shall reply to any reviewers. Domo Arigato! -bows-
