Chapter 28: Potter's Summer Vacation...
BUMP! BUMP! BUMP! ERRRRRRRRRT! The plane landed with a halt for some. The teens and adults happily got off the plane and practically ran into the airport to stretch their legs.
"Excuse me, are you two twins?" The stuartess asked Harry and James. Harry and James looked at each other and smiled.
"No, he's my son." James said.
"No way, he's like 16 and you're what 20?" The lady said.
"He is my father. He and my mother just look really young for their age. They're really thirty-four so are those two." Harry lied.
"What's your secret?" The lady asked.
"Magic." James said, trying to keep a straight face.
"Really, hocous pocous then?" She said.
"No, more like a potion." Harry said.
"Oh, right." The lady said sarcastically and walked away. Lily came over and smacked both them upside their heads.
"What, like she believed us?" James said.
"True, but can you two please behave?" Lily said. "Well, James behave more." She added.
"Why do I always get blamed?" James asked Harry.
"Because you're the father and I'm the son." Harry said.
"Good point." James said and they both started to laugh. James went over to Sirius and Remus and Harry went over to Hermione and Ron. Ron was looking at something to buy and Hermione was explaining what certain things were.
"Hullo." Harry said.
"Hullo to you too." Hermione said, kissing his cheek.
"Hiya Harry." Ron said, looking at souviners. He picked up a snowglobe of the Empire State building.
"Harry, can I speak to you?" Sirius asked pulling him away.
"Sure." Harry said. "What's up?" Harry asked when Sirius had brought him over to the other side of the store.
"Can you sit with me on the way to Vegas? Remus and I were having some fun but he got really boring after a while. Lily and Remus can sit together and Hermione can sit with James or I'll sit with James and you sit with Hermione." Sirius said.
"Sure, we'll switch. Hermione and Dad get along and we'll switch after a while." Harry said.
"Sounds great." Sirius said. Harry and Sirius made their way back to everyone else.
"We're leaving lets go!" Lily said, waving her hand towards Terminal 7.
"Flight 673 is departing from New York City to Las Vegas in 15 minutes." A woman said over the intercom. The group got onto the plane and did the nessicary switching and the plane took flight again. Harry looked at his watch, 6:15 p.m. and sighed.
"What?" Sirius asked.
"We get to sit here til midnight then we fly two more hours to Hawaii. Remind me why we didn't just apparate?" Harry asked.
"There weren't any wards setup around where we're staying. Plus Lily wants us to act as muggle as possible." Sirius said and the two erupted in laughter.
"Want to do some crosswords?" Harry asked, pulling out the minaturized crossword booklet from his pocket.
"Sure." Sirius said, Harry looked around and waved his hand over the booklet and it turned to its orignal state. Hermione and James were having a indepth converstation about what happened in the past. At the moment she was telling James about Harry and Merlin's duel. Soon after an hour of crosswords and stories the ride became boring. The food was served and a movie began to play. Harry and the gang watched Men In Black with the rest of the flight and eventually fell asleep when the movie was close to ending, which was around nine. He felt a warm sensation on his lips and then it was gone. Harry opened his eyes to see what it was and saw Hermione next to him smiling.
"We are in Vegas." Hermione said.
"Oh, are we?" Harry asked. He noticed she had been asleep too.
"Yeppers. So come on. We've got to get off the plane." Hermione said. "Then we can get onto the other one and get some sleep then get to Hawaii."
"Yay. Here I'll get your bag." Harry said, grabbing the bag from the overhead compartment.
"You don't have to Harry." Hermione said.
"Exactly, I don't HAVE to." Harry said, kissing her cheek. A few people smiled at the young love.
"I love you." Hermione said, kissing him.
"I love you too." Harry said, adjusting the bags in his hands and then wrapped his right arm around his girlfriend's waist. The adults on the plane stared in awe as they saw two very young teens in love without a care in the world, or so it seemed. Harry and Hermione met up with the others in the terminal. Most people stumbled off the plane at the midnight hour and the family made their way over to the consestion stands to get a quick bite to eat. After they all had gotten some food they boarded their other plane a half hour early. Harry and Hermione buckled and got into a comfortable sleeping postition and fell asleep. But before they fell asleep, which was right after take off, they looked down at the Vegas Strip for the first time in awe. (For those who have never been to Las Vegas, USA the Vegas Strip is a road of casinos and such and it's the most famous part of Las Vegas.) The lights of the casinos glowed brightly in neon and other colours with constant energy, which came from the Hover Dam. (I've been to Las Vegas and I highly suggest if you have the chance of going there go, it's a wonderful expirence.) After the strip faded away into a short line of light the teens drifted off into a sleep. Harry was the first and Hermione had removed his glasses and set them in the pocket of her sweat shirt since she couldn't figure out, at the moment, what to do with them. Harry felt himself being breathed on the neck. He laughed because it slightly tickled. He opened his eye and couldn't see. He lifted his hands and felt Hermione's were on his hands and she was leaning on him. Harry felt his glasses in her sweatshirt pocket. He gently slid his hand into the pocket and grabbed the glasses and put them on.
"Harry?" Hermione asked quietly.
"Hmm?" Harry said.
"Oh, you're awake." Hermione said, as she snuggled into his chest a little bit. Harry looked out the window and saw ocean.
"We must almost be there, I can see land." Harry said. "Do you want to see?" Harry asked.
"Sure." Hermione said. Harry sat up with her pulled onto his lap and she giggled as they looked out the window. Harry looked at his watch and saw it was 20 of two and smiled.
"We are almost there. We can actually get off the plane!" Harry said smiling.
"Yay!" Hermione said. The two seemed to be the only ones awake in their area of the plane. They sat up in a comfortable position taking up only one seat talking. A stuartress came by and looked at them and smiled.
"Hello, I'm so glad to see two others like myself. It's such and honour to meet you." The young woman said.
"Umm, do you mean what I think you mean?" Harry asked.
"Yes, you're Harry Potter right?" The girl asked.
"Yes, nice to meet you." Harry said.
"My name's Kathy. I wanted to say hello earlier but you were sleeping. Hello, Hermione." Kathy said.
"Hello." Hermione said, shaking her hand.
"Please sit down." Harry said. Kathy sat down in Hermione's seat and smiled.
"Where did you go to school?" Hermione asked.
"I went to a place called Jacob's Academy. I just graduated last year. I heared a few of the people I know where being transferred to your school. Hog...Hogwarts?" Kathy said.
"Yes, let me guess Tori Michaelson, Chris Allens, and Kate Davidson?" Harry said.
"Yeah. How'd you know?" Kathy asked.
"We met them. They're really nice." Hermione said.
"That's interesting." Kathy said.
"I'm so excited. I'm actually meeting the Harry Potter." Kathy said.
"If you want just go and drop something cold on my Dad's head and you'll get to meet him too. It'd be funny and he'd laugh too." Harry said.
"Harry, just because he's trying to get you doesn't mean you get him first." Hermione said.
"Alright. Would you like to meet them?" Harry asked.
"Sure, but don't wake them." Kathy said.
"Ok, just when we get off we'll say hi." Harry said.
"Great, that reminds me, I have to get back to work." Kathy said and they all laughed. "We're landing soon."
"Alright, nice meeting you." Harry and Hermione said, as Kathy left. Harry and Hermione talked until the captain came onto the intercom and the plane stirred.
"Harry?" James asked.
"Yeah?" Harry asked.
"Have we landed?" James asked.
"Yep, we get to get off the plane!" Harry said.
"YAY!" Sirius and James said together. Everyone got off the plane and stopped by to talk to Kathy and went out of the airport. Harry went into an area that no one could see him and unshrunk his car. He pulled out of the area and everyone loaded their bags and got into the car. Harry drove and all the teens sat up front and all the adults in the back. Hermione brought her car too, but they were going to use that later. Harry drove to the cabin and they all were very happy to be off the plane. It was around five in the morning when they arrived at the cabin. It was just how they amagined it. The cabin was the old fashioned log ones with a ginormous (lol) fireplace with comforable couches that you could just fall asleep on. No one was in the mood to sleep now. They all were too rested from their 24 hour plane ride.
"Harry, Ron, and Draco are in this room." James said, pointing to one of the two rooms down the hallway on the second floor.
"Next to the boys are the girls Hermione, Luna, and Ginny." Lily said with a smile. "We are in the other hall on the left. Our room is on the left and Remus and Sirius are on the right." She added.
"Now go unpack and then come downstairs for some quick breakfast and just to find something to do." James said. Harry and the others nodded and went into their rooms. In the boys' room three comfortable looking beds sat along the wall with three dressers neatly placed in between the beds' nightstands. The wood was a light pine and one desk sat in front of the middle bed. Harry took the bed closest to the balcony then Ron took the middle bed and Draco took the one closest to the door. Harry set Hedwig's Cage on the desk and it grew to full size. Ron unshrunk Dustin's cage and he slipped out and onto the bed. Harry unshrunk Godric's cage.
"I'm sorry." Harry said.
'It's alright.' Godric thought.
"Good, go run into Hermione's room and find Rosie." Harry said. Godric smiled, if possible, and ran into the hallway, his claws tapping on the wooden floor. Draco was putting his clothes into his dresser along with Ron. Harry started to do the same and finished early and went downstairs with Godric's food bowl and water dish.
"Finished unpacking?" Sirius asked.
"Yup. You?" Harry asked, scooping up Godric and Rosie.
"I unpack fast." Sirius said he was unpacking groceries.
"Where did they come from?" Harry asked, putting Godric and Rosie on the counter and grabbed the milk. He filled the water dish with milk and they drank happily. In their cages they had gotten food and water.
"Magic." Sirius said.
"Interesting. I have a question and if you don't mind me asking about it, but why didn't you ever get married?" Harry asked.
"I was engaged to a Emily Miller. She was a muggle born like your mother. She was beautiful and so funny. Emily and I were set to be married after your parents were coming out of hiding so they could come to the wedding. James was goning to be the best man and Lily the maid of honour. Then your parents were attacked and I was carted off to prison and last I heard she was killed." Sirius said.
"I'm sorry for asking." Harry said.
"No, it's quite alright. Remus's old girlfriend was Emily's best friend too and she was killed as well. We were going to have a double wedding. I felt so bad for him he thought I killed Lily and James and he lost the love of his life." Sirius said.
"I'm sorry to hear that." Harry said.
"Me too. But the past is never changeable-" Sirius said.
"If you remember we changed time to save your life." Hermione said.
"Yes, but you get my point." Sirius said.
"Don't worry Sirius. One day you will find someone and spend the rest of your life with her." Harry said.
"I know Pronglet. But I don't want to forget her that's one reason why Julia and me broke up." Sirius said. Harry and Hermione gave one look to each other then both hugged Sirius. He hugged back and sighed.
"Look we are suppose to be having fun." Sirius said.
"I know." Harry said.
"Lets look for a game to play over there." Harry said, pointing to a cabinet. Harry and Hermione went over to the armour and open the doors and saw many different board games. Clue, Twister, Life, Trivia Game, and checkers.
"Have you ever played Twister before?" Hermione asked.
"No, what is it?" Harry asked. Hermione grabbed it and went into the family room in front of the fire. Sirius was watching from the kitchen. Hermione laid out a plastic cover that had many different coloured dots on them and a spinner. James, Lily and Remus all came out of the stairway.
"Twister!" James shouted.
"I want to play." James said.
"Alright, I'll spin and you four can play." Remus said.
"How do you play?" Harry asked.
"You'll see it's simple." Hermione said. Remus flicked the spinner and it stopped.
"Left foot yellow." Remus said. Hermione, James and Lily all put their left foot on a yellow dot. Harry then put one next to Hermione's dot. Remus spun agian.
"Right hand green." Remus said. They followed the directions and kept following the directions. Everyone had finished unpacking and were watching in fits of laughter the people trying to not fall. Harry was only an inches above the ground while James was leaning over him. Hermione was twisted in with Harry and Lily. Lily had her arm under Harry's back and her other arm on the other side of James.
"Left hand blue." Ron said. Remus was laughing too much to spin so he gave the spinner to Ron.
"Ron, shut up." Harry said, manuvering his arm over Hermione's leg and onto a blue dot. Ron had begun laughing hysterically at the postition of the four. James had to slip his left arm out from Lily's arms. Hermione had to untangle herself from Harry and Lily. Last Lily had to curl around James to get to her dot.
"Ronald, spin it now." Hermione said.
"Fine. Right foot red." Ron said, taking a drink of tea.
"Argh! Ron!" James said. James slipped his foot under Harry's back and Harry bent his foot back and under Hermione. Lily had to lean over Hermione to repostition her self to get to the dot.
"Left hand yellow." Ron said. After all the switching Harry was laying down again and Hermione was leaning over him. Harry leaned up and kissed her and they both laughed. An half hour later they were still going.
"OUCH! James." Hermione said.
"Sorry you should have put your hair up." James said. Harry waved his hand real quick and her hair was put up into a pretty bun.
"Thank you, Harry." Hermione said.
"No, problem." Harry said. James moved under Lily and over him. Lily moved and Harry almost fell because she had twisted bewteen James and Harry.
"Harry, are you gonna make it?" Ginny asked.
"I hope." Harry said.
"Left foot green." Ron said. Harry moved and Lily moved but when they did James almost fell and made Lily fall.
"Awe, Lils we were pulling for you." Remus said.
"Thanks." Lily said sitting down in between Remus and Sirius. The three eventually became too tangled and collasped together. The three laughed wildly and sat together on the couch. Harry and Hermione sat together and James and Lily sat together. Ron and Luna sat together too. By now the sun had risen and they were enjoying themselves in silence company.
"So," Harry said, yawning. "What are we going to do today?"
"We can settle in and explore town a bit. You kids can go where ever while us adults go to the market and get some food and tour panflets." Lily said.
"I just realized something. Technally you all aren't adults. We are all teens." Harry said.
"Wow, I never thought of it like that." Sirius said.
"Hmm, neither did I." Hermione said, snuggling her head back into Harry's shoulder.
"That sounds good though. We all will go and get dressed and ready to have a day of exploring the town. Aren't we in a small town of Hawaii?" Draco asked.
"Yeppers. You six can go and get ready while we get ready." Lily said.
"I have a question. Can we rent a dune buggie or two?" Harry asked.
"That sounds good. We all can go to the rental shop and get two dune buggies. We'll take one and you'll take the other. It seats six plus other space in the back for bags and such." James said.
"Sounds good." Harry said. The six teens went into their rooms and each found shorts and a t-shirt. Harry put on his swim trunks and a beater. Ron and Draco put on their trunks and a t-shirt. They all went into the hallway and waited for the girls. Hermione came out with her two piece bathing suit on underneath jean shorts and a tank top. Ginny had on her two piece bathing suit with shorts and a t-shirt on. Luna had put on her two piece bathing suit with jean shorts and a yellow shirt. Harry had brought a book bag with him with towels, drinks, snacks, and some magical objects that were hard to see by muggles.
"Ready?" Harry asked.
"Yep. Lets get sunscreen first though." Hermione said. With a wave of their hand they felt like a lotion had been put on them.
"Does that work?" Harry asked.
"Sure." Ron said. He grabbed Luna's hand and began to walk out into the family room. Harry put an arm around Hermione's waist and followed them. Draco held out an arm.
"May I escort you?" Draco asked.
"Yes, kind sir." Ginny said, linking her arm with his. Once everyone was in the family room the family set off for the dune buggie shop. Once they got there they had a sit down on the curb, while the adults went and got two dune buggies. The dune buggies they were getting were the ones you could drive on the beach and the roads. Two dune buggies came at them and they all jumped back on the curb. James and Sirius smiling at them.
"Like we would hurt you lot." James said, hopping out of a bright yellow one. Sirius laughing hopping out of an identical yellow one. Sirius threw the keys to Harry.
"Where is Mum and Remus?" Harry asked.
"They're inside." Sirius said. Just then two people walked over to the group.
"Alright, we'll meet you back at the cabin around lunch time?" Lily asked.
"Sounds good." Harry said. The boys sat up front while the girls sat in back. Harry pulled out onto the road carefully and started towards town. Their cabin was in the outskirts of town along with the dune buggie shop and other rental shops. Harry noticed there was a radio in the buggie. He stopped at the red light and turned on the radio. Some music came on at a low rock tune.
"I like this song it's calledIn Too Deep by Sum 41." Heriome said from behind Harry. A car pulled up next to the dune buggie. There was a girl who was in the convertible who waved at Harry. Harry waved back uneasily. She blew him a kiss.
"Excuse me, but who are you?" Harry asked.
"My name is May. Who are you, you're cute?" May said.
"Err...thanks...you are too?" Harry said. Hermione reassured him metally that it's alright.
"Thanks, want to go out sometime?" May asked.
"Sorry I can't." Harry said.
"Why not?" May asked.
"Because I have a girlfriend." Harry said.
"Well isn't she back in Europe?" May asked.
"What if she is?" Harry asked.
"Then you can have one date right?" May said.
"No, because I love her too much to even have that thought cross my mind." Harry said.
"Are you sure?" May asked.
"Yes, I'm sure." Harry said, leaning his head back and kissed Hermione full on the lips. May made an offended face and she made her friend drive off since they had sat through the red light and most of the green light.
"Thanks." Hermione said.
"You're worth the fight." Harry said, turning right. Harry pulled into a parking lot in front of the beach.
"LAST ONE IN IS A DEATHEATER!" Ron yelled. "No offense." He added to Draco.
"None taken." Draco said, jumping out of the dune buggie and running towards the ocean. All the girls were following him. Harry ran out and caught up to them. He started to pull ahead with Hermione and Ron. The trio pulled clean ahead and splashed into the water. The other three splashed in after them.
"Feel that. It's the Pacific Ocean!" Harry shouted to his friends. Everyone laughed and went back to the beach. Harry and Hermione went back to the buggie to get towels. Everyone stood and talked about surfing and such. A group of American teenagers came over to them and had surf boards with them. Harry and Hermione got back and wondered what was going on.
"Hello, I'm Sam." A girl said with her blonde hair dripping with salt water onto the hot sand.
"Hello, I'm Harry and this is my girlfriend Hermione." Harry said.
"This is Greg, Clark, and Cleo." Sam said, pointing to each one.
"Hello." The two choursed greeting the three.
"So do ya'll wanna learn how to surf?" Cleo asked.
"Sure, but we don't have boards." Ron said.
"Oh, that may help. You can rent them." Greg said.
"May help just a little bit. Tomorrow, we will have boards. Today we were just going to have some regular fun at the beach." Harry said smiling.
"Sounds good. We usually hang out at Mel's Diner. The locals usually hang there." Clark said.
"We are staying up at Ridge Cabin." Harry said, pointing towards the cabin. The teens went to the diner and talked until quarter til noon and magical and muggle teens alike split up. Harry and the others found themselves early. The teens went inside and went onto the sofa to relax for a little bit. The adults came in with bags of food, guides, and other random things.
"Hey." Harry said.
"Hello." Lily said. Everyone greeted them as well. They unpacked all the food bags and other nessesities and ate lunch. The teens told the adults about their day so far and the teens got to hear a whole bunch about what was on the island for them to enjoy. After lunch they were going to go and rent wave runners and go out into the water for a while. Everyone piled into the dune buggies and drove off to the rental shop again and rented the last six wave runners and went off to the beach. Once there the adults stole four and drove off.
"You can go first Ginny. You too Draco." Harry said. The two got onto the bikes and drove off. The four teens stood there for a moment until Hermione let out a sigh of anger.
"WE have magic." She whispered.
"WE know that, sweetheart." Harry said.
"No, we can go off really quick and get four more." Hermione said.
"Good idea." Ron said. Harry and Ron went under the pier and waded into the cool water were no one could see them and made four wave runners appear. They got on two and pulled the other two with some rope. Harry and Ron went over to their girlfriends and pulled them onto the other two wave runners and threw the rope onto the beach. They rode after the rest of the group.
Later...
"That was fun." Ron said, as the group of people walked into the family room. Everyone agreed and sat down. They talked aimlessly for hours and went to their welcoming beds and fell into a well deserved rest. The next morning everyone awoke some earlier than others and had breakfast. Harry had gone outside and magicked six surfboards. The teens were going to meet up with the american teens they met the day before to get surfing lessons. The adults were coming to the beach as well to watch and enjoy themselves.
Okay, I know it's been forever since I've posted, but I hope this is a remedy for it all. Don't grab your pitchforks and chase me thank you.
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