Chapter 2
The FUN begins
Harry had started to walk back from talking to his aunt when my dad came out of the house and said, "Ashley, Emily just phoned for you and she sounds urgent. You can finish things up with Harry after."
"OK Dad, be right there" I replied. I looked over at Harry, who's eyes shone with concern and a bit of happiness. "I guess we'll finish our conversation later, ok?" I asked him, with a hint of worry in my voice. "Oh, yeah. That's fine with me," he said, sounding distracted. I vowed to myself to find out what was wrong.
I walked into the house and heard Emily's voice on the phone. I walked over and sat in the big comfy chair that sat beside it. I said hello and I heard this really loud squeal. "Hey, Bemmer, what's up?" I questioned happily.
"Hey O, I was just wondering when you wanted me to come over for our sleepover and I also wanted to know if you met any potential friends so far?" Emily replied.
"Oh, you can come over in about an hour," I said happily, "And yeah, I did meet a potential friend. His name is Harry Potter." Emily squealed happily, "Wow, are you ever lucky. Is he your neighbor?"
"Yeah, and my mom and his aunt seem to know each other pretty well," I replied with a hint of excitement in my voice. We talked for a bit then she said, "See ya later Ashley!"
I still had an hour to wait before she came over. In the spare time, I walked over to Harry's house and knocked on the door. The rather large boy answered the door and when he saw me, his eyes widened and he tried to shut the door on me. I held it open with my foot.
"Is Harry there?" I asked him. He nodded and I heard a loud crash from behind the door. The large boy asked me to go away but I stayed so he ran away. I saw Harry lying on the floor, grinning sheepishly, while a coat rack was entangled in his legs. I burst into fits of silent laughter at the sight of him sprawled on the floor.
He got up and said, "Hi Ashley, that was my cousin Dudley." We went outside and talked for a few minutes before I heard a noise behind me. I whirled around and saw Emily.
"Oh my God, you finally got here. I haven't seen you in so long," I said. Then we both shrieked, causing Harry and Dudley to cover their ears in protest.
" God, how do you scream so bloody loud?" Harry asked.
"Now now Harry, don't use such vulgar language!" I said, as Emily burst into a fit of laughter.
"What's so funny?" Harry asked while Emily and I were on the ground from laughing so hard. Emily was even hitting the ground.
"Vul... Vulg... Vulgar!" she managed to say in between fits of laughter.
"So?" Harry asked, and so we explained how there was a guy in our class who was obsessed with the word vulgar and he had once told the principal not to be so vulgar and he didn't even get in trouble. The principal actually thanked him for being honest. "Oh, so that's why you were laughing so hard," Harry exclaimed. Then he and Dudley started laughing too.
"Well, we have to go now," I said, "My mom is calling us because we have guests. Hey, if you aren't busy later, Harry, you can come over to watch a movie with us, OK? See ya later!" Emily and I walked back to the house for dinner. Once we got there, I saw that my mom had invited the Wilson's over for dinner. "Hi, Honey," my mom said to me, "The other kids are swimming in the back if you want to go out there with Emily. I also invited the Weasleys so you guys can maybe play Quidditch or soccer in the back field. But you'll have to explain it again to Ron because he still doesn't understand. Okay" "Yup," I said happily.
As we walked into the backyard, I saw Toria and Jessy swimming in the pool. Emily and I got on our bathing suits and jumped into the cool clear water. "Hi guys!" I said to them. Victoria gave me a hug and we started to play Marco Polo. It was Emily's turn to be it when I saw Fred and George Weasley hop out of the fireplace. "Hey Gred, Hey Forge, How are ya?" I asked. They replied by splashing everyone.
Then Ron flew out of the fireplace and walked over after brushing the ashes off his clothes. He looked very dizzy. He mumbled to us, "Hey, Ash! Hi, Jessy! Hi, Victoria, how are you? Who's that?"
I replied, "Oh hi Ron! I'm good thanks and this is Emily."
"Ashley," Victoria said tapping me on the arm,"That's the funny flaming boy who likes the bushy girl, right? Do you remember him Jess? Remember when we egg..." she started but never got to finish because Jessy clamped his hand over her mouth to keep her from saying anything else.
"Uh oh, Jessy what did you do THIS time?" I asked him.
His face went red and I swear he was trying not to laugh. "Um, what do you mean by THIS time?" he asked not looking me straight in the eye.
"Kids, DINNER!" the adults cried from inside.
"Oh good, I hope we're having chicken!" Fred said, or maybe it was George. I knew that we were having chicken and when the twins saw the chicken they were happier than a dog with a new bone!
At the dinner table, everyone was talking and laughing. I was telling Emily about the new boarding school Jessy and I were going to. She seemed unhappy that she wasn't going because she had had a crush on Jessy for quite some time. Mind you, he is cute, sweet and generous, but also can be very annoying. He's still fun to be with and he has a huge crush on me. He's been trying to get me to go out with him for quite some time now. I like Fred so I keep telling him no. Maybe I'll say yes once we get to school.
After dinner, Jessy, Emily, and I got settled so that we could watch a movie. I found out that Jessy was sleeping over too. He didn't seem fazed at all by this because the three of us have had many sleepovers together because he is one of my best friends. I know I know, it sounds weird but it's true. We popped in a movie called "Hide and Seek". It was really gay. We had just got to the part in the movie where the father goes to open the bathroom door, when BAM! The front door flew open and someone was standing there
When Emily and I realized who was at the front door we burst into laughter. Jessy just looked at us like we were crazy and we could tell he was trying not to laugh too hard. There at the front door stood Harry.
Anyways we were laughing because he was wearing an set of those, um what are those muggle sleeping dresses called. Oh yeah, I remember, they're called nightgowns. His was was a baby blue colour with silver clouds on it and the word DREAM in an electric pink colour right in the front. The stitches were gold and he had on slippers that matched. They said Harry in a cloud on them in a gold print. He had his hair in two pigtails and they were braided. It was hilarious!
Harry just stood there looking bewildered and blushing a bright red colour After we had calmed down a bit I introduced Harry to Jessy. Then I asked Harry why he was wearing the nightgowns. Harry said, "I wanted to get in touch with our feminine side. Is there anything wrong with that?" "Uh, not really," I said while scooting away from them and hiding behind Emily. I must have looked really scared because Jessy started to laugh again. Soon we were all on the floor laughing like crazy.
we finished watching Hide and Seek. In the end, we found out that the dad was a skitso... skitsofre... a person with more than one personality.
Then we decided to get some more people and play I've never. We got some butterbeer and got Ginny, Ron, Fred, George, Percy and Charlie to play too.
"Ready?" I asked, "I'll start. I've never put on a hula costume and did the CanCan before while guests were over!" Fred and George looked at each other and slowly took a drink from their goblets. So did Percy and Charlie. Ron slowly turned bright red in the face and drank so fast that you could barely see it.
Then he turned to me and said, "You said you wouldn't tell!"
"Oops!" I replied.
"Fine!" he said with an evil glint in his eye, "I've never liked Fred before!" I looked at him with a glare that would have made Mrs. Weasley proud and slowly drank. I noticed Emily doing the same with her face redder than a rose.
"Oh really?" George said, "I never heard that before Miss Black! I'm flattered!"
"Yes so am I," Fred teased, "What was it about us? Our charming smiles? Our beauty and grace? Our sexy bodies? Our..." He stopped as I smacked him across the face for his bitchiness. "Owwwwwww!" he joked, "That hurt so much, Ash!"
I chased him with a pillow and hit him over the head with it. He fell to the floor laughing. I tripped and landed on top of him. "This is like heaven for you, Ashley," Fred joked.
I got back up with the help of Ron and tried to chase George, too. Ron grabbed me by the waist and pulled me back saying, "Don't hurt them in the house, Ash. Your mom will get mad."
He began to tickle me and everyone joined in. I was laughing so much that my sides hurt when we all heard a loud cough.
We looked up and saw my mom. "Sorry mom!" I said while still laughing. We went back to our game of I've Never.
It was Emily's turn. "I've never done ballet in a tutu before." Jessy turned bright red and drank quickly. I drank too because Jessy and I had taken ballet when we were younger. I was so bad and klutzy that they kicked me out.
All of the Weasleys were staring at Jessy with their mouthes open. "What? Why? How?" they all stuttered.
"My parents signed me up so I could be more graceful. I'm kinda klutzy," he said and blushed even redder.
"Now thats scary!" Ron said, " I'm officially scared of your parents. They're nice and all, but making a guy take ballet is just scary!"
Fred went next, "I've never eaten a raw egg before." Jessy, Ginny, and I all drank because Fred and George had dared us to.
Ginny went next and totally got back at all the guys, " I've never made out with a girl." All of them drank, even Percy! Ginny, Emily, and I were laughing so hard at the thought of a girl kissing Percy. We finally calmed down but realixed that we had gotten bored of the game and the Weasley's had to go. Victoria had to go too.
Once everyone had left and we had cleaned up, Harry, Jessy, Emily and I stayed up most of the night talking. When we finally fell asleep I had my head on a really comfy pillow. I had a weird dream that was about the day that I met Ron and his family. I was three and walking the dog with my mom and he was playing in his yard searching for bugs while his mother was gardening. He came over to me and asked to pet my doggie. Then he asked me if I wanted to go swimming in his new pool. I said sure after talking it over with my mom. We played for the rest of th day and I even showed him how to make a friendship necklace. I still have the one he made for me and he sleeps with the one I made for him under his pillow.
I awoke to the sound of laughing. I opened my eyes and saw Emily and Harry laughing at me and my... pillow? I looked beside me and saw that I didn't have a pillow, I had been sleeping on Jessy's shoulder. He even had his arm around me. He wasn't awake yet so I poked him.
"No more purple macaroni!" he screamed. I poke him again and he woke up.
"Huh?" he said, "What happened?" He realized his arm was around me and he moved his arm away and started to blush a deep red.
"So, What shall we do today?" Emily asked me.