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"Katie, get ready for the party!" Mum screamed at me as I walked down the stairs sleepily the next day.
"Mum, it's not for hours!" I protested.
"There's no time like the present!" Mum exclaimed as she hurried off into her office.
"There's no time like the present," I muttered mockingly. "I swear that woman has a desk calendar with annoying cliché phrases for everyday of the year!"
"What are you complaining about now Katie?" Ginny asked as she ventured into the kitchen for breakfast.
"Mum just said the most annoying cliché phrase," I replied, sitting down and piling my plate high with pancakes.
"It's her job as a mother," Ginny commented, eying my plate which was now a tower of pancakes.
"Mha gwuss sho," I had just stuffed a huge bite of pancakes into my mouth, "butch whchy doche che chave chou be sho goosh atch itsch?"
"What was that Katie?" Fred asked as he and George waltzed into the kitchen, both in a particularly good mood due to the pranks coming up later in the day.
"I believe she said, 'Fred and George are my favorite people in the world and I offer to be their personal slave for the entire school year'," George offered.
I shook my head frantically.
"No? Then I think she said that she'd take us to Hawaii and we can go scuba diving and catch fish," Fred supplied.
I shook my head again even more frantically and struggled to swallow.
"No, she obviously said, 'I guess so, but why does she have to be so good at it," Ginny informed them.
I nodded and waved my arms to show that Ginny was correct.
"Obviously you are not correct, dear Ginny, because she suddenly got more frantic with your suggestion. She must be trying to draw our guesses back towards Hawaii and Giant Squid," George pointed out.
"I didn't say anything about Giant Squid, and you didn't either," Fred observed.
"Really? I must have been thinking it then," George replied. "So scratch the Giant Squid comment."
I finally swallowed, "I'm NOT taking you two to Hawaii! And there will certainly be no Giant Squid in my future! I also have no wish to be you personal slave all year either!"
"Oh, so then you did say what Ginny thought," George said in a mock unbelieving tone.
"Ginny, you have been spending too much time with Katie if you can understand her mouth-stuffed-completely-full-with-pancakes-talk!" Fred exclaimed.
"Yeah, you're probably right," Ginny replied, laughing. "But Katie's mouth-stuffed-completely-full-with-pancakes-talk is only slightly different from the Weasley twins' mouth-stuffed-completely-full-with-pancakes-talk. So it's more like learning a new dialect rather than a whole new language."
Fred and George sent her a glare and then each attacked their own pancakes.
"Whoa, guys! Leave some for us!" Alicia exclaimed as she and Angelina entered the kitchen.
I pointed to the island in the middle of the kitchen where more pancakes sat without even pausing. Alicia rolled her eyes and took two small pancakes to eat.
"You're a stick. You need to gain more weight or you'll be pushed all over the place in the matches with bad weather!" Oliver exclaimed as he walked into the kitchen, closely followed, to our displeasure, by Sarah.
"Some of us enjoy being small enough to sit in a chair," Alicia retorted.
"Some of us enjoy not being anorexic too," Oliver replied just as quickly.
I snorted with laughter and sprayed everyone with pancake bits.
"EWWW!" Alicia squealed. "Katie, that's disgusting!"
I looked up only to see that Sarah had pancake chunks all over her face and in her hair. I went down again in bouts of laughter. I was laughing so hard that I ended up crying onto Fred's shoulder as he laughed hysterically too.
"I'm going to go and take a bloody shower!" Sarah roared. "Why can't you be normal?"
A flash of anger crossed through Oliver's eyes, but I grabbed his hand as Sarah left the room and gave it a squeeze.
"She's not worth it. Besides, you'd blow our cover," I soothed before going back to eating my pancakes.
"You're right. Sorry Kat," Oliver replied guiltily.
"I shink shat ihch wasch schweetch."
"She said she thinks that it was sweet," Ginny supplied at Oliver's confused look. "Katie, next time swallow before you talk."
"Yesch Mum," I muttered, forgetting to swallow once again. ('Yes mum')
Ginny just rolled her eyes and the others laughed.
"Katherine Ann, lunch is ready!" Mum called up the stairs.
"I'll be down in a second Mum!" I called back. We were having a late lunch to tide us over until dinner.
I hung back as everyone else walked down the stairs to go and eat lunch. I hurried into Sarah's room and quickly found all of her makeup. It wasn't hard to find because it was spread out across the vanity table. I pulled out a bottle of paint thinner and added some to all of her make-up. I also poured some of Madame Puddifoot's mascara remover into her water-proof mascara tube and shook it up. Then I quickly left the room.
"Yum, we're having hamburgers?" I asked as I walked into the kitchen.
"Yes, now Katherine Ann, please grab the ketchup and mustard and bring them outside."
"Okay Mum," I replied, suddenly smirking as an evil idea popped into my head. (AN/ Courtesy of OtherwiseKnownAsOli)
I went over to the refrigerator and opened it, pulling out the ketchup and mustard. I opened the ketchup bottle and added a little pinch of baking soda. Okay, okay, you caught me! I poured half of the container into the bottle and screwed the lid back up. Then I shook it up very well and opened the mustard. I added a little of my dad's really hot spices to it and then closed it before shaking it up too. Then I took both bottles outside and handed them to Sarah.
"Here you go Sarah, you can use them first since you're all ready for them," I said sweetly.
"Why thank you, Katrina," Sarah replied, not at all suspicious of my abnormal behavior.
Sarah opened the bottle of ketchup and it exploded all over her; right into her face and all over her white shirt and everything.
"Oh my goodness!" I exclaimed in completely fake concern as everyone but Mum started to laugh hysterically.
"Yes, I'm okay," Sarah replied. "Why did it explode?"
"I think it must have been too much air in the bottle," I replied.
"Oh, yes, that's probably it," Mum exclaimed. "Don't worry dear, I have some excellent stain remover that we can soak your shirt in."
"Thank you, Mrs. Bell," Sarah said in a tone that suggested otherwise.
"You can change after lunch," Mum added.
"Here, I'll open the mustard," I offered generously. "That way if it explodes too, you won't get covered in both."
I opened the mustard, which of course didn't explode, and handed it to Sarah before going to sitting down and taking a hamburger for myself.
"That was brilliant!" Fred hissed.
"How did you do that?" George demanded.
"I added some baking soda in it. That makes it explode the next time someone opens it," I replied mischievously. "And I would suggest not using the mustard. It's particularly spicy."
The twins, Alicia, and Angelina laughed and Angelina hissed to Oliver not to use the mustard.
"I'm never taking ketchup from either of them again," Ginny muttered darkly and we all laughed again.
"AHHHH!" Sarah screamed as she took a huge gulp of Pepsi from her glass. "It's HOT!"
"What do you mean 'it's hot'?" Dad asked. "Do you normally eat you hamburgers cold?"
"Not that kind of hot!" Sarah gasped as she took another swig of her Pepsi. "It's spicy-hot!"
"Why would it be spicy?" Mum asked confusedly. "Mine's not. Is yours Katherine Ann?"
"No, mum, my hamburger isn't hot." I replied innocently.
"Mine isn't either!" Everyone else echoed.
"That's strange," Mum commented. "Take another hamburger; it must have been the meat in yours."
Sarah took another hamburger and opened the ketchup carefully. It didn't explode and she put some on her hamburger with a look of triumph on her face. Then she opened the mustard and put some onto her hamburger. We all watched in a mixture of curiosity, horror, and suspense as she raised the hamburger to her mouth and took a huge confident bite. She spat it out a second later and downed the rest of her Pepsi in a single gulp.
"THAT ONE IS HOT TOO!" Sarah exclaimed as she grabbed Oliver's Pepsi and started to chug it too.
"I can't figure out why that is," Mum commented confusedly.
"I don't know either, Mum," I replied as I finished my lunch. "But it's about time for us to go and get ready. You said the girls could commandeer your room to get ready for the semi-formal tonight, right?"
"Yes, of course!" Mum exclaimed. "Go and get ready!"
Ginny, Alicia, Angelina and I jumped up and left the table. I gave Oliver a smirk as I went by and he winked at me and smiled encouragingly.
"Oh, and when Leanne gets here, just send her on up!" I called back to Mum as we went into the house. Leanne had decided to come over directly to my house and get ready with the rest of us girls.
"Okay, I will do that Katherine Ann!" Mum called back happily.
Ginny, Alicia, Angelina and I made our way into our rooms and collected our things that we would need to get ready with. I grabbed my shoes, make-up, bath things, and my dress and some hair things along with my shower robe and an assortment of nail polish.
Then I walked into my parents' room and lay my things on the window seat. All of the windows in the upstairs and much of the downstairs of the house were charmed to let in all the light possible but also that you couldn't see through them. This allowed our house to be bright and sunny but no breach in privacy.
"I call the first bath!" I exclaimed as Alicia and Angelina walked into the room, shortly followed by Ginny and finally Sarah.
I promptly grabbed all of my bath things and sprinted into the bathroom. I shut the door behind me and turned on my favorite faucets.
Each faucet on my parent's tub had a different kind of water. All of the faucets on one side were various scents. On a second side they faucets were all bubble bath. The third side held different temperatures of water and the fourth side had different types of bath oils and things.
After my nice, relaxing bath I pulled on my robe and put my hair up in a towel before sending my clothes down the laundry chute and gathering my things. I left the bathroom and entered the room to find the Leanne had arrived and had already taken her shower at home before flooing to my house.
"Alicia and Sarah both called next," Angelina explained as Alicia shot past me into the bathroom and slammed the door before I was even fully out.
"Oh," I replied, noticing that Angelina also had wet hair. "Did you decide to take a shower in your room then?"
"Yeah, those two would have taken too long," Angelina replied, grinning as Sarah shot her a death glare. "Ginny's in her room getting one now."
"Hi Leanne!" I greeted my fellow Gryffindor warmly and gave her a hug. "Are you having a nice summer so far?"
"Yes I am," Leanne replied happily. "My parents and I are going to go to Italy in a couple of weeks!"
"That sounds fun," I replied as I sat down on the window seat. "How long are you going to be gone?"
"Three weeks," Leanne replied. "We're going to go to Vatican City and see the Pope. Did you know that he was a wizard?"
"I'm not all that surprised," I replied honestly. "You'll have to tell me all about your trip when you get back."
"Oh, I will Katie," Leanne promised.
"Hey girls!" Ginny greeted as she walked through the door with a robe on and a towel around her head. "Hey Katie, there's something you ought to see out in the hall."
"What's that?" I asked as I got up and opened the door cautiously.
I peered out into the hall to see Fred, George, Oliver and the newly arrived Jeremy playing Frisbee golf in the hallway.
"Hey guys!" I called. "Can I play?"
"Sure come on Katie!" Fred yelled back as Oliver stared at me open mouthed.
"Come and get me when Alicia is out of the bathroom!" I exclaimed and ventured out into the hall to join the boys in their Frisbee golf game.
"Ollie, close your mouth before you swallow a fly!" I teased and Oliver instantly snapped back to his senses.
We all laughed as Oliver turned a delicate shade of red.
"Erm, okay, let's say that the first person with ten points wins," George explained.
"That sounds good," I agreed as I seized the Frisbee from Fred and chucked it at the three point target and hit it dead on. "So that's three points for me, right?"
The boys just stared at me in disbelief that I had just scored three points in Frisbee Golf on my first try.
"Kent and I used to play all the time," I explained. "Speaking of Kent, have any of you seen him?"
"Yeah, he's in his room," Oliver replied. "I think that he wants to be ready when Jess gets here for the semi-formal."
"Oh," I said simply as Alicia stuck her head out the door of my parents' room.
"Katie, come on! You need to stop throwing that Frisbee thing and come in here!" Alicia called.
"Fine, let's just say that I won Frisbee Golf today, shall we boys?" I asked as I kissed Oliver on the cheek and went into my parents' room, locking the door behind myself.
"What was she doing?" Angelina asked as Sarah walked out of the bathroom.
"Throwing that infernal Frisbee," Alicia replied in disgust.
"You were playing Frisbee Golf and you didn't tell me!" Angelina exclaimed. "I thought I had taught you better, Katherine Ann Bell!"
"I was winning too," I added. "We can play Frisbee Golf later, Ange."
"Fine, but I'm going to hold you to that promise," Angelina pouted.
"You do just that," I laughed and we started to get ready for the party.
AN/ Okay, so what'd you think! There's only one or two more chapters left. I know, sad isn't it? Well, ifyou're afraid of being deprived of my writing go and check out Lily's List, my newest fic, a Lily/James story. And look for the sequel to this story, which will be coming eventually.
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