Chapter 2:
"Look who's up and about!" Luna smiled as Ginny and Allison sat at the table with her.
"Hey, Moonshine." Allison said as she was quickly ordered a butter beer.
"So," Luna said, "Gin and I here were talking earlier… and we think that it's high-time you got a boyfriend."
"Perhaps I should go back to the Sick Bay." Allison replied dryly.
"Look, you are a sixth-year, and you still haven't been caught snogging with a boy yet." Gin pointed out.
"So? I've snogged before!" Allison protested quietly.
"Who?" Luna asked.
"…"
"See! How long has it been since you dumped Thomas?" Luna asked.
"Hey!" Allison warned, "Don't bring that bastard up, Moonshine. You know he irritates me."
"Yeah." Ginny agreed.
"Look," Moonshine (Luna) continued, "he cheated on you. So what? Big flipping deal! It was Gin for God's sake!"
"Don't drag me into this!" Ginny piped up.
"I'll drag whomever I damn well please into this." She shot back, "The fact of the matter is that Gin and I have boyfriends and you don't."
"What're you getting at?" Allison asked.
"She doesn't get it, Moonshine," Ginny sighed, "just leave her alone."
Moonshine was not one to give up.
"Look at Wood over there." She pointed out.
Allison turned and saw that Oliver Wood had just walked in.
"He's twenty-one!" Allison exclaimed, "I'm only seventeen, barely legal!"
"… How do you know that he's twenty-one?" Luna asked smirking.
"The Qudditch stats." Allison mumbled.
"You watch that?" Luna laughed.
"Hey!" Ginny warned, "I like it too!"
"Qudditch," Luna said the took a swig of butter beer, "is for idiots." She looked at Allison's untouched butter beer, "You gonna finish that?"
"Have it." Allison said pushing it towards Moonshine.
"Sweet!" she cried and chugged it.
Allison watched as Ginny (Gin) and Luna (Moonshine) each had two more. She waited patiently as they belched and giggled their out of the Three Broomsticks and into Zonko's. The shop was now partially owned by the Weasley twins as part of their newest franchise.
"Hey big bro'!" Ginny said after a particularly loud belch.
Fred (or was it George?) looked up from behind the cash register and smiled.
"What brings these three ladies into a shop like this?" he asked.
"They're on a mad sugar rush." Allison told him leaning against the counter, "It's like they're drunk."
"Ah." He commented coming over.
"So…" she said, "which one are you?"
"Depends."
"On what?"
"On who you want me to be," he answered.
"Who-ever you are in real life." Allison replied.
"Good answer," he said chuckling, "Then I'm Fred."
"Where's the other one?"
"In back. Actually," Fred told her, "we just came up with an idea," he guided her to the back room, "tell us what you think."
George was hard at work on a red piece of candy.
"Oh! Hey Allison." He said looking up at her.
"Hi George." She replied.
"Look at this," he said showing her the candy he'd been working on.
"What, exactly, is it?" Allison asked, seeing the last of the magic wriggle its way into the translucent treat.
"Well… try it!" he said grinning.
"Oh no! Not after last time!" Allison stated recalling the reason she was with Madam Promfrey in the first place.
"You only breathed fire." Fred shrugged.
"Just tell me what it does and I'll try it." Allison sighed. She was never one for learning from past experiences. You screwed up, just try again.
"It's a spin off of animal crackers-" George started.
"Except you turn into one." Fred finished.
"And it's a candy!" George added.
Allison bit her lip, "How long?"
"Huh?"
"How long will I be an animal?"
"Oh, George said, "That depends on how fast you get to the center."
"What's in the center?" Allison asked.
"Antidote." Fred told her.
"Promise me there's antidote in this?" Allison asked, taking the candy and holding it in her hand.
"Cross our hearts!" they both smiling in that way that only they could do, and Allison popped it into her mouth.
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So… what do you think? Should I write more?