Disclaimer- I don't own anyone but Brooke and anyone else that I say that I own.
It was the summer of '04 and I was walking around one of the malls in England. My mom had dragged me along with them on a business trip. The reason was something along the lines of 'I don't want you sitting on your computer all summer vacation'. Luckily she had a meeting that day so she gave me some cash and I decided to see what kind of clothes they sold at England malls.
Entrance to the mall
"Come on you guys" Hermione said dragging Harry and the Weasley boys "It's not all that bad"
"I've never been to a mall before" Ron said looking around "Look moving staircases"
"Those are escalators" Hermione rolled her eyes "Honestly Ronald". Mr. Weasley was having a ball here, with all the 'muggle contraptions', as he called them.
"Are there"
"Any joke shops?" Fred finished George's sentence
"There's bound to be one" Hermione replied
"Wicked" the red headed twins said together
"Do they except galleons here?" Mr. Weasley asked
"No, we use pounds" Hermione said as she watched Harry and Ron go up to a food cart.
"Pity, I don't have pounds" Mr. Weasley said
"Don't worry, I did a spell so all of your galleons were turned to pounds" Hermione said
"Ok, everyone gather around" Mr. Weasley said getting everyone's attention "Here are the rules" that was followed by a bunch of groans "No magic" he said this directly to the twins who gave him a innocent smile "I want everyone to meet back here in four hours, is that clear?" everyone nodded "Alright then, you may go do as you please" he said and walked over to a electronics store.
"See you three later" Fred said
"We're going to go find a joke shop" George said.
England stores have better clothes, it's not all pink and frilly I thought picking up a shirt that I liked. After I brought a new shirt and pair of pants I walked out of the store. Hmmm a joke shop, I've never actually been to one before. I walked in and a scary looking clown dropped down. I let out a scream and an older man came out from behind a shelf laughing. "Sorry 'bout that didn't mean to give you a heart attack" he said in a heavy English accent.
"That's alright" I said catching my breath
"Ah, an American I see. Well if you need any help I'll be behind that counter"
"Thanks" I looked around fake puke, what a classic joke.
"Here it is" Fred said with his brother following close behind him. No one else was in the shop except for an old man and a young looking girl with black hair. They both looked around; George didn't see Fred eyeing the girl as she made her way around the store. When he saw her pick up fake puke he walked over to her. "Fake puke, isn't that a tad old?" he asked making her jump.
"What is it with you English people and giving people heart attacks?" I asked turning around facing a grinning red head.
"Sorry didn't mean to scare you" he apologized with the grin still planted on his face.
"Fred, look at this. They have Hogwarts jelly beans" a boy that looked exactly like the boy who was standing in front of me said holding up a small bag of jelly beans "Oh wait, its Jean's Jelly Beans"
George saw the grin on Fred's face and raised an eyebrow. He walked over and stood next to Fred. "I'm George nice to meet you" he said to the girl with long black hair.
"I'm Brooke" she smiled "Fred right?" he nodded
"So I see you're into playing pranks too?" Fred asked
"Well, I'm not that great at it" I explained
"I" George saw the look on his brother face "We could teach you if you want"
"Uh, sure" they chose out some different items from the shelves. I wasn't sure why they were laughing at, every time they picked up something they would show it to one another and laugh. After they both chose things they both reached into their pockets and then looked up at me with puppy eyes. I rolled my eyes but smiled. "I'll pay for it" I said and took the toys away from them. The clerk put all of the stuff in the bag and we walked out of the store. "Ok so how exactly are you going to teach me how to be a prankster?" I asked standing in between them. Can I be any shorter? I thought having to look up at them.
"You'll see" Fred said looking over me to his brother who gave him a smirk.
"So dear brother, who shall we trick first?" George asked
"Ron" they said together
"Uh who's Ron?" I asked while I looked through the bag of
"Our brother" they said together
"Ok will you two stop with the freaky twin thing?"
"What freaky twin thing?" they asked together and laughed when I glared at them.
"Oi! Ron" Fred called when we walked into a clothing store. I saw two boys, one with dark brown hair and the other with red hair like Fred and George.
"What do you want" the red headed boy rolled his eyes
"Oh nothing, can't we just spend time with our brother?" George asked and they both put their arms around his shoulders. I held in a giggle when Fred handed George a bag of itching powder and he poured it down his shirt.
"I guess" he said and started to scratch his back "Well erm mind introducing me to your friend?" he asked turning around to look at me. He gave me a confused look when I burst out into laughter at him scratching his back. "What's her deal?" he whispered to Fred.
"I don't know" Fred smirked at seeing his brother really starting to scratch his back.
"What's the matter brother?" George asked. Ron just glared at him, just as he opened his mouth to shout at them, Fred and George grabbed me and ran out of the store.
"How can he be so gullible?" Fred laughed
"George, he's Ron remember?" George said catching his breath
"True" Fred said
and then looked at me with a smirk and winked. What the? Why did
he just wink at me? I just gave him a small smile.
"Frederick
and George Weasly" a girl with curly brown hair stormed out of the
store with Ron and the guy with dark brown hair.
"Uh oh here comes Hermione" Fred said getting George out of his trance.
"Why hello Hermione" Fred said in a very fake cheerful voice. She didn't buy it for one second and glared at him putting her arms over her chest
"What did you do to Ronald?" she pointed to the scratching boy behind her.
"We didn't do anything, it was the work of our new and dear friend Brooke" George said and they both gestured to me.
"What? I didn't do anything" I said trying to defend myself. Now Hermione had a confused look on her face.
"Fred, George why are you talking and walking with a muggle? You haven't told her anything have you?" she whispered, I pretended I didn't hear what she was saying. My mom always said that I had good hearing.
"Well she was in a joke shop and had no idea what she was doing, so we decided to help her out" George said
"And no we didn't tell her anything" Fred smiled sweetly
What the heck is a muggle, and is there something I should know about them? Fred is staring at me again! Just smile
"Go on take off the itching spell" Hermione said as quiet as she could. Ok this is getting weirder by the minute. Did she just say spell?
"Hermione it wasn't a spell, it was some type of muggle itching powder" George replied
"Guys" the boy with dark brown hair hissed. Everyone turned to him and Ron looked with wide eyes "My scar hurts; we need to get out of here"
"Harry, what's going on?" Ron's voice squeaked. The lights flickered off everywhere in the mall. I started shivering why is it so cold in here? I let out a shaky breath that you could see in the air.
"D-Dementors" Harry said. I turned around and screamed when I saw these very tall floating creatures. Someone covered my mouth and dragged me around the corner and up against a wall.
"Shh" Fred said with his hand still covering my mouth.
"We need to get out of here" Hermione said quietly looking around for an escape
"Dad" Ron said and everyone turned to him confused "He's
still around here some where, we can't go without him" Fred and
George gave each other a look like they were talking to each other
through their eyes. "Where are you two going?" Ron asked as they
ran out from behind the corner. Hermione, Harry, and Ron started to
follow them. It took me a minute to register that I was now standing
in a dark corner of the mall by myself with those Dementor things
floating around. As I came out from behind the corner one of the
hooded figures stood in front of me.
"Brooke!" Fred called
out and I felt very dizzy, it felt like the Dementor was sucking the
life out of me. I collapsed and I felt my head hit the cold floor.
I hope you guys liked it! The title doesn't really fit the story in later chapters but it's the first thing that came to mind. Please review :)
