Chapter 2-- First impressions
The whole ride to the house was in silence, but not for the lack of trying on Kevin's part. In stead of one sitting in front and one in the back, Kevin thought it would be a good idea to make them sit beside each other. Boy was he wrong. They where looking out each of there own windows not talking, and sitting as far apart as the back seat would allow.
"So what have you been up to lately Lil" Kevin asked as he glanced in the review mirror. He was met with silences. So he decided to take a different approach.
"You know Lilianna, Oliver there was one of Hogwarts best Quidditch captions. And now he plays first keeper for Pudulmear United."
"Really? Well at least he's good for something" she sneered
"Little girl you better take that back" he growled, looking at her for the first time since they had left the airport.
"What truth hurts? And who you calling little?" he was about to retort back, when Kevin butted in.
"Now Lilianna you have to understand that quidditch is what Oliver loves to do. It's kind of like the way you where with swimming. Are you still in swimming?" he asked curios to know if she was the same old Lil. But before she could say whether she was or not a snort come from Oliver's side of the car. Lilianna's head snapped towards him.
"What!" she asked angrily.
"You're still taking lessons. That's pathetic"
"Uh oh" Kevin said under his breath. 'baby bro your in for it now.'
"Excuse me! What did you just say?"
"I said tha-"
"I'll have you know I not only had all of my lessons by the time I was 6, I also have my browns medallion, and my life grading certificate. I was in swim club for over 9 years. I made it all the way to TAG by the time I was 15 ( AN: TAG very fast time in competitive swimming, and I wish) and would have probable have made it to the Olympics this year if it wasn't for you." she got closer to him with every angry word. By the time she was done they where fore head to fore head.
"So you're blaming me when your probable not good enough to make the team, and are in denial about it."
"What, they couldn't find anyone on the street to play goalie, so they had to get some snot nose Quidditch freak, that thinks he's better than anyone else, and has a quaffle shoved so far up his ass they let him play for the men's team."(AN:if u don't get that little jarb just e-mail me and I'll explain) she shot back, her eyes filled with all the anger, and frustration that had built up. For a while all they did was stare each other down, before Lilianna broke the silence.
"Don't go saying stuff about my swimming ability until you know me, got it."
"Dido for me don't go trashing my quidditch playing abilities till you've seen me play" not moving way from the other, they stayed nose to nose, trying to intimidate the other until they reached the house. Pulling up the long drive way Kevin stopped suddenly sending them sprawling to the floor. Looking over the seat Kevin found two teens tangled together glaring at him and each other. He just laugh and got out of the car.
"Come on Lil mom wants to meet you." Kevin said as he practically dragged her out of the car and in to the house.
"Hey what about my stuff"
"Its taken care of." he tossed over his shoulder as he pulled her in to the parlor where his mother and father where waiting. She stumbled over her own feet almost laded on the floor.
"Kevin we don't throw future sister-in-laws around." his mother scolded in a upper-class British accent.
"Sorry mum" he said head bowed.
"Oh Kylemore look at her she's a beautiful young woman now. She looks just like her mother don't you think Kylemore." chuckling at his wife, he had to agree "Oh come hear dear, we haven't seen you sins you where a baby." Mrs. Wood cooed over her, as they twirled her around in front of them.
"Oh look at us your probably exhausted and want to change out of those… travel cloths." Lilianna looked down at her some what fitted blue jeans and hoody, her beat up three year old blue addidas sandals that she wore all the time where showing her toes off. Not seeing what was wrong with it, she looked up confused
"What do you mean travel cloths?" the woods looked at her, than each other before Oliver cut in.
"Didn't you know mum, you engaged me to a tomboy" they turned to see Oliver leaning against the entrance way with his arms crossed in a casual way. Lilianna not liking the smug look on his face decided to do something about it. She walked as sultry as she could towards him, which was hard considering she had never done so in her life but still succeed in getting his full attention. As soon as she got close enough to him, she slugged him so hard he didn't have a chance of stopping her. He doubled over holding his jaw. When he stood back up there was a very red out line of her fist on his jaw, she had hit him so hard. She turned around facing her soon to be in-laws like nothing had happened.
"Your right I think I will go freshen up. Can someone show me where I'm staying?"
"Yes dear the house elf will show you." Mrs. Wood said still in shock.
Not really knowing what a house elf was, she decided to go with the flow anyway "Thank you, oh and before I forget, is there somewhere I can use a phone?"
"A what dear?" asked a confused Mrs. Wood
"A telephone, its something you can use to talk to people that are not in the same place as you are, as if they where." still looking confused at her Oliver cut in.
"We learned about those in muggle studies there what muggels use instead of using the floo network" Oliver said
"Oh I see, well I'm sure Samantha will take you down to the village, they should have one there."
"Thank you, but may I ask who Samantha is?"
"Samantha is our youngest and the only girl."
"Oh, well thank you I look forward to meeting her." seeing a small, funny looking creature warring a purple dishcloth wrapped around it's body like a Greek dress, and had what she guessed was the Wood's crest embroidered on it, standing in the entrance of the parlor.
'That must be the house elf' Lilianna thought. Excusing her self she followed the elf from the room.
Once she was out of ear, and eye shot she bent over holding her hand to her chest.
"God! what is his cheek made of steel?" she said as she blew on her hand.
"No Miss Lilianna May Fana speak freely?"
"Of course you can, what kind of question is that"
"Well Fana can't believe master Oliver let Miss Lilianna get away with what Miss Lilianna has done."
"What do you mean"
"Well master Oliver never let anyone hit him and do nothing about it."
"Really?" before she could ponder that last thought longer Fana opened the door to her room. And what a room it was. It was the biggest room she had ever seen. There was a king size mahogany canopy bed with delicate silk sheets, that she was sure you couldn't get in Canada. The walls were pink, a colour that reminded her of the cherry blossom trees she had grown back home.
Looking around the room she noticed besides the big bed there was a vanity and two doors. Considering the size of the room there wasn't mush furniture. Going in to the room she went first to the door right off the main door. It was the biggest walk in closet she had ever seen and was way to much space for her clothes even if she had all of them with her. The second door was a privet bath with a Jacuzzi bathtub and separate shower stall and probably the size of her old room back home. When she turned around to ask Fana a question, instead of Fana was a girl about 13years old standing out side her door.
"Oh hello and who might you be?"
"I'm Sam"
"Why hello Sam. And what are you up too"
"Watching everybody go about there business"
"Oh are you aloud to do that, and where are your parents?"
"I can wonder around it's the only thing I can do, and no one notices me anyway. And my parents are down stares there suppose to be meeting a lady that's supposedly going to be my sister-in-law. That is if she shows up." she side off handily looking at the room behind Lilianna.
"Oh really and what do you mean by if she shows up"
"Well if she knows anything about my brother she'll know that the only thing he cares about is Quidditch," 'so I was right' she thought in her head.
"And if she's the kind of girl that my parents have been associating Oliver with she's going to be the biggest snob in the world"
"Oh well than you must be Kevin and Oliver's little sister.
"Yes" she said slowly.
"Well I'm the snobby lady that's going to be marrying your brother ,that is if I have no say in the matter." she added bitterly not liking the situation apparently any better then the man she was suppose to marry did.
Sam stood there staring mouth agape at Lilianna. Apparently she was not what Sam had had in mind. Lilianna reached over closing Sam's mouth before she chocked on a fly.
"I'm so sorry I didn't mean all what I said. I had no idea that you where the lady, I'm mean that is oh I should really think before I open my mouth shouldn't I"
"Yeah but hey that's ok I have that same problem"
"You do? But aren't you suppose to be a lady"
"Who ever told you that is a liar and disserves to be shot" Lilianna said in a very bad fake British accent making Sam laugh.
"Your horrible at accents"
"A but there's one I have down pact"
"And what s that" Sam asked
"Why my Canadian eh!" this had her laughing harder.
"Do Canadians really talk like that"
"Well we use Eh! For hey some times but no not usually"
"Hey your nothing like I imagined my brother's fiancé would be like"
"Well I'll take that as a complement" Sam just laughed again.
"Well I have one question for you"
"What?"
"Are you doing anything now"
"No why" she replied slowly.
"Well I was wondering if you could show your snobby soon-to-be but not by chose sister-in-law around. When I got hear I was dragged strait in to the house and never got a chance to even see the grounds, or the village."
"What! Your joking. What were you doing coming up the drive?"
"Well I was, never you mind what I was doing." She dodged.
"Well this marriage is certainly going to be an interesting one"
"Oh you never mind about that now. Will you show me around?"
"Well I don't know."
"Well I'll tell you what, if you show me around hear, you can also show me around the town. How dose that sound."
"Really wow I'm never allowed to go down town. Sure"
"Your not allowed down town not even with your friends?"
"Not only being a girl but the only girl and the baby of the family to boot I'm not allowed anywhere unless it's with one of my brothers. And how much fun can you have with brother's."
"Yeah I'm not the only girl or the oldest so my older sis paved the way for me, and the town is so small that you basically know everyone anyway."
"So you promise if I show you around hear you'll take me to town."
"Yeah I promise and besides going out with another girl will do you good"
"All right hurry up this place is big so come on" she said enthusiastically as she started dragging Lilianna down that hall.
"Wait wait wait, let me change first ok"
"Why you look fine"
"Your mother would have a fit if she saw me going around in my jeans and hoody, It'll take two seconds, I promise."
"I guess your right, can't tarnish mothers reputation like that with out even benign introduced first to everyone officially, but hurry up this place is big"
Oliver was trying to work out his frustrations by practicing as hard as he could. Kevin was trying his damndist to give his little brother a fair work out. But not doing to good a job, well in Oliver's opinion.
"Come on harder you can through harder." Oliver yelled. His frustration apparent in every aspect of his movements. 'Who the hell dose she think she is' he scowled.
" Come on throw it dam it" ' how the hell did she catch me off guard, she has to have magic that's the only explanation she used a spell. Yeah next time she won't catch me off guard no way no how. I'm the best Quidditch keeper Hogwarts and the NQL have ever seen.'
"Come on you can get at least one past me" he said smugly.
"Dude I got everyone by you" Kevin said pointing to all the quaffle's on the other side of he hoops.
" What! no way" he denied
"Look down"
'what the hell'
" Bro did she get to you that much"
"
What are you talking about? I'm distracted because, because,
because its nun of your dam business. So shut up. Come on keep
throwing" his mood growing fowler by the minute.
"Alright."
Kevin sided
She will not get to me I wont let her. She's just a girl for Christ sake' 'yeah a girl that could kick your ass any time she wanted to.' A little voce in his head answered him. 'shut up' he retorted.
" And last but not least this is our Quidditch pitch" he heard his little sister say, wondering who she was talking to he moved a little to see who it was and got the shock of his life, there standing by his sister was Lilianna but it wasn't the Lilianna from before this was a different Lilianna. She was warring jeans so tight he thought she must have had to use Vaseline to get in to them, and a pink long sleeved top with a neck line dipping low enough to get a good amount of cleavage showing, and hugged her curves very nicely. Creating a trickle of blood from Oliver's nose.
' wha-' one minute Oliver was in the air the next he was falling to the ground. Obviously his brother had not noticed his brother was preoccupied and continued throwing the quaffle at him, which nailed him in the head knocking him off his broom. Sam went running over to him Lilianna not far behind. Oliver was lying flat on his back eyes closed not moving.
"Oliver are you ok?" his sister asked worriedly
"Yo bro you ok. I didn't see you looking at Lil till the last minute."
"I was NOT looking at her" he shot up glaring at his brother like he hadn't fallen sixty feet
"Yeah you where"
"I was not"
"Where too"
"Was not"
"Yeah-
"Guys can we pleas act like adults for a one minute pleas." Lilianna kneeled down to look at Oliver's head, fearing he might have a concussion. Wanting to become a sports doctor (or medi-witch in the wizarding world) she had read up on some of the injuries.
Once she had his head in her hands a jolt shot throw both of them. They both shot back from one another.
" Yourfineyou'reprobablygoingtohaveaheadache,wehavetogo,comeonSam" Lilianna said in one very fast and confusing sentence as she grabbed Sam's hand and started walking extremely fast for the front of the house trying to not look like she was running away but wanting to get as far from Oliver as possible.
"Did
you catch any of that?" Kevin asked a confused look on his
face.
Oliver stared after her, not knowing what had just happened.
He watched her fade from view noticing nothing around him including
his brother who was trying to get his attention by waving his hands
in front of his brothers face.
" Oliver? Oliver? Hello"
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