A few days after I bought Artemis, Kavie decided that she needed to buy herself a little kitty. We headed back to the Magical Menagerie.
"How's your new kitten?" The elderly witch asked me as we walked in.
"She's great. We actually came back because my friend here wanted a cat too!" I smiled.
"Really? Well, any of our cats would be glad to have you as an owner." We both smiled and looked in some of the cages. Kavie ran over to one and looked amazed.
"It's a Whisker's wannabe!" She laughed. I walked over and had to agree. "I've got to have him!" She said to the witch. The witch walked over and smiled.
"He's quite a handful." She warned.
"But he looks just like my cat at home! Believe me, I can handle him." Kavie laughed. The witch nodded, took the cat out of the cage, and put him in the same kind of basket that I got Artemis in. She walked over to the register and rang it up.
"Four galleons." She stated. Kavie handed over the gold like it was a game of Hot Potato. We almost ran out of the shop, and back to the Leaky Cauldron. As soon as we walked in the room, I sat down on the bed, and Artemis curled up in my lap. We let Kavie's cat out onto the bed, and he came over and sniffed Artemis.
"What should we call him?" I asked.
"Um…I don't know. Friskas?" Kavie suggested.
"Yay! I love it." I laughed. "Hello, Friskas!" I petted him, and Artemis even licked him.
We spent the rest of the weekend spending time with our kitties and trying desperately to learn our spells. We FINALLY taught ourselves how to shrink the toilet back to normal size (which was great because I think the maids were getting mad at us… I mean, would you like to clean a giant toilet?). And, by some weird spell, both Friskas AND Artemis ended up orange with purple polka dots (and luckily, we managed to change them back…).
Monday morning came too soon, if you ask me. Even though we had like, no money left, we still wanted to hang around Diagon Alley. Oh well, I suppose there was also Hogsmeade. Hey! Wait! We don't have permission to go Hogsmeade! Oh, hey, I know the secret passage, don't I? MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hee… Hee…………We paid for our room at the Leaky Cauldron, and headed over to King's Cross. We grabbed a 'trolley' and wheeled our stuff through the barrier. Or at least, what we thought was a barrier. It kinda hurt… King's Cross is VERY confusing! We packed our stuff back onto our 'trolleys' and stared intently at the numbers. We were in between platforms 9 and 10! So, why couldn't we get through? It wasn't even 11am! I heard a very familiar voice from around the corner. Kavie glared at me. We were on the wrong side!
"I thought you read the books and watched the movie like, a thousand times!" She spazzed at me.
"I did! We're at the right wall, just on the wrong side!" I tried pitifully to defend myself. Kavie sighed and pushed her stuff over to the other side. I followed.
"Hello girls!" Molly Weasley greeted. She turned to Mr Weasley. "Arthur, these are the girls I was telling you about!" She said. Mr Weasley smiled.
"It's nice to meet you!" He grasped each of our hands.
"Um… hi?" I said.
"Hello. I'm Kavie, and this is Kacy." She smiled.
"I'm Arthur. It really is my pleasure to meet you girls."
"Everyone's already on the platform. You girls had best be there too!" Molly smiled. We nodded, said goodbye, and hesitated before running into the barrier.
Let this be right… let this be the right bloody wall! I thought. Luckily, it was. The platform was packed to capacity with bustling students bidding their parents farewell. Me and Kavie said goodbye to thin air, being as dramatic as we could.
"We'll miss you!" We mockingly cried (and pretended to wipe away tears) after we had put our stuff on the luggage compartment thing. We grabbed our kitties in their little wicker baskets, and headed onto the train. We searched for an empty compartment. The closest we came, was occupied by none other than our sexy lover boys. And Hermione. We guessed that Ginny had gone to meet her friends or something. Either way, she wasn't there. Ron spotted us and waved us in.
"'Ello!" I smiled. Okay, there. My pitiful attempt at being British. Anywho, Ron and Harry said hello, as did Hermione, who seemed very curious towards us.
"I'm Hermione." She stuck her hand out, waiting for one of us to take it. I decided I'd humour her.
"I'm Kacy." I said. I shook her hand. I noticed that Kavie was sort of glaring at her. "And this is Kavie." Hermione took one look at Kavie and pulled her hand away.
"It's nice to meet you." She said.
"Same." I said. Hermione and Ron were sitting side by side, and I sat beside Harry. Kavie sat beside me on instinct. Okay, seriously, I think Kavie wanted to strangle Hermione. I can just imagine what she was thinking… 'Get away from him! He's mine! If anyone on this train is gonna get Ron, it's me.' I tried to stop myself from laughing. I really didn't want to look like an idiot in front of Harry. I managed to control myself, but it wasn't for long. Ron, who had bought what looked like a life-time supply of sweets, got mauled by a chocolate frog, and the whole compartment was bursting with laughter. I couldn't help but notice, Harry seemed awfully happy in that little moment, considering that if the books really were true, his godfather died a few months ago. But it was good. While I love emo Harry, he looks a bit better when he's smiling. As we all sat around, talking and, in Kavie's case, glaring, I managed to slowly but surely inch my way closer and closer to Harry. Kavie's chance came soon enough, when Crookshanks decided to make a run for it after Neville Longbottom came in, looking for his toad, Trevor. Unfortunately, as he left, he forgot to close the door, and that was when the giant ginger cat made his move. Hermione chased after him, and Friskas, who had been curled in between the two of us, jumped to the other seat. He looked as though he was about to follow Crookshanks, so Kavie tried to catch him. She lunged forward just as the train hit a bump. Or stalled. It was very bad. She fell directly into Ron, who, for some odd reason, looked quite happy about it. Harry and I took one look at the two and laughed. As Kavie (and her bright red cheeks) sat back down beside me, she looked as though she was ready to bury her head in her hands and cry. Or giggle hysterically.
"I am sooooo sorry!" She apologized to Ron like she had just punched him in the face. He smiled.
"Don't worry. It's alright." He laughed. Awwwwww! Kavie's got a boy toy! Kavie's got a boy toy! Instantly ran through my head. I laughed as Kavie blushed even more (if it was possible). Right at that moment, Hermione walked in, Crookshanks purring in her arms.
"What are you all up to?" She asked. I mean, can you blame her? When she walked in, Kavie was blushing and Harry, Ron and I were laughing.
"Nothing." Harry grinned. God he was adorable! J.K Rowling should have really talked more about how Harry looked in the books… especially those eyes… those gorgeous eyes… anyways; I'll get back to the story. Hermione rolled her eyes (something I had a strong feeling she did a lot), and sat back down next to Ron. We spent the rest of the train ride talking about random things, Harry and Ron gave us a few helpful hints for whenever the time came we'd have to deal with Malfoy, and Harry even bought us some sweets. I thought all was going well, until the train stopped. Here we go... I thought to myself. My nerves seemed to have gone through the roof. Well, what a perfect time to embarrass myself! Right as I was walking out of the compartment, I managed to trip myself and fall flat on my face.
"Are you alright?" Harry suppressed a laugh.
"Yeah, fine." I nodded, desperately trying to hide my bright red cheeks. I stood up and dusted off my knees. Great. I've already screwed this up and I haven't even stepped inside the castle! Brilliant, Kacy! Bloody brilliant.
A/N: So... what did ya think? R&R people! I will love you forever! (oh yeah... when we said the Whiskers wannabe... one of Kavie's cats is actually named Whiskers... he's a big fluffy black cat... which is why weoriginally namedhis mini Snowball :P)