Chapter 5

Recap:

I grabbed that button, and that said 'Werewolves Rights', because once you thought about it; they were, and deserved to be treated the same. But as I was about to grab it to buy, so was some one else.

I looked beside me to see a guy who looked about my age with sandy brown hair and chocolate colored eyes, of which were right now looking down a bit at me, since he was taller.

"Hello."

STORY START

Yeah. I now became aware of the fact I still hadn't let go of the button. I let my hand flop to my side.

You know those really awkward moments that everyone tries to avoid? Yeah, well this is one of those moments. But this guy seems nice..maybe I could say hello, or I could snatched the button and walk away.

I'll go with my first choice.

"Hi."

REMUS P.O.V.

"MOONEY!" That was all I heard before getting knocked to the grungy wood floor of the Leaky Cauldron.

"Sirius, James?" I struggled against their heavy weight.

"Huh?" they ask in unison.

"I CAN'T BREATHE!" I felt the weight lift and was picked up by two pairs of strong arms.

"Sorry Mooney. Couldn't resist." Said a grinning Sirius. James nodded in agreement, his messy hair, if possible, getting even messier.

"No problem, just a little sore." I gave them a knowing look. In reality, I was beyond sore. Deep violet bruises lined my arms and legs with pain to challenge those of the many cuts and gashes on my chest.

"That bad, huh?" I nodded and looked away. "Sorry we couldn't be there, James couldn't get out of the house and I'm under constant surveillance by the old hag."

"That's okay Sirius, I understand. Is that a new shop?" I said while pointing to a store that had a few books and tie-dyed tapestries in the windows.

"I don't know, guess so. You want to get some ice cream with James and me?"

"No thanks Padfoot, you and Prongs go ahead." I said while walking over to the shop.

The first thing I noticed was the lack of people in the shop. That and the laid-back attire worn by the staff. I wandered around through the isles until I found an isle filled with buttons.

Looking closer on the buttons, I found the theme of the store:

Minority rights. I suddenly liked this store a whole lot better.

Sifting through them, totally oblivious to my surroundings, I started to reach up for a button that read: 'Werewolves Rights' when another hand also went up to button.

I whipped my head around to see a girl standing beside me. I found a pair of emerald green eyes turn to stare up at me, black hair framing her pale face.

For a second, I thought I was looking at James. But then I remembered he's at the ice cream parlor, that and the fact that he wasn't as feminine as the girl I was staring at. But she could definitely pass for James's sister.

"Hello." She seemed to come out of her stupor and let her hand fall to her side.

"Hi."

Al's P.O.V.

"Sorry. Here you can take this." I gave him the button. He pushed it away from him, towards me.

"No that's okay. You can take it." Very….gentlemanly? Is that a word? How 'bout gentleman-like, yeah, I like that better. But I still insisted that he have the button. Hey, I was just trying to be polite!

"Um, are you-" Ugh, I hate my clumsiness. I was about to politely say thank you, when I took just ONE step towards the middle of the isle a stray button got in my way. This was how it went:

"Oh shi-" Down I fell, into the shelf of button. I took the whole isle down.

I found myself in a humungous pile of button and miscellaneous products. Hearing uncontrolled laughter to my side, I turned to see the guy sitting across from me tears in his eyes laughing.

Once you thought about it, it was pretty funny. I joined in the laughter as he stood up and offered his hand to help me up.

"Are you okay?" He was still chuckling a bit.

"Yeah I'm good, just my grace in action." I looked around.

Whoah. I made a mess. Just then, the what seemed to be the store owner came up to us.

Oh no. I'll have to pay for all of this, I don't think Hagrid brought enough money for me.

"Hey dudes…whoah…buttons.." The guy sported a little tag that said store manager on it, but it seemed that he didn't know what's going on. "Wow, this stores really messy..I wonder who the manager is.." The guy and I looked at each other, he seemed to be as confused as me.

"Um sir, aren't YOU the manager?" I pointed to the tag on his robes.

"Wow..I guess I am..hey you," he pointed to a guy looking at posters, "you're fired!"

"Uh..I don't work here." The guy looking at posters slowly started walking towards the exit.

"Oh..then I'm short a few workers..hey look buttons.." Okay does anyone else think this guy is high? I do, am I'm probably right. Wait, the guy beside me takin' my button!

"Sir I would like to buy this." Uh, what! The guy said I could buy it. Now I'm confused.

"Uh..here, have this button.." The manager gave the guy beside me the button he was going to buy back. Yep, the manager's high. Plus the button was supposed to be mine!

We both looked at each other and shrugged, then we left the weird store. "Here, seeing all the stuff we've been through in this memorable day," the guy was talking dramatically, "I thought I would buy you the button, but seeing as the manager was high, I got it for free so here you go!" He handed me the button. "By the way, my name's Remus."

"Yeah all of this over a button, by the way thank you, it's a wonderful..er..gift. And my name is Alexsis, but you can call me Al."

"AL! There ya are. I thought I lost ya!" I heard Hagrid's booming voice and turned around.

"Well, I got to go, hope to see you later Remus!" I waved and took off towards Hagrid's direction.

"See you Al!"

Remus P.O.V.

"See you Al!" Wow, she was nice. Wait isn't that Hagrid, the new Hogwarts gamekeeper?

Suddenly, my vision went black. Sirius and James. "Guess who?" Duh.

"Hey guys."

"Who was the girl Moony? She was cute."

"Oh, that was just a girl I met. Her name is Alexsis."