Fred and George spent the next few hours trying to work out how Fred's Muggle could possibly be related to the Stafford's and yet not know they were of magical descent. "We'll have to find out more about her" George said, "Maybe I should invite her over?" Fred asked "She gave me her card and we have dad's old....fellytone....in the basement and we unlike him know how to use it" Fred took the grin on his twin's face to mean that they should indeed invite Miss Stafford to meet them and so got up and walked down to the basement where they kept their supplies.
George stood at one end of the room holding up a glowing cable, the other end of which was connected to the telephone which Fred was using to call Laura. "Hello?" Fred asked ina slightly raised voice "Is that Laura? It's Fred Weasley, we met earlier?" Laura obviously wasn't expecting him to call so soon and was flattered if not slightly confused by the call "Yeah I remember, how could I forget" she said, Fred blushed slightly at this earning a supressed laugh from George. "A-anyway," Fred added "I was wondering if you would like to come to mine and my brother's shop this evening? I-I mean, we live above the shop so technically you'd be coming to the flat not the shop....why would you want to do that...." Laura interrupted his ramblings before he could embarrass himself more, "I'm with a friend at the moment, is it ok if she comes along too?" Fred looked slightly disheartened, it would be more difficult to discuss things with a friend there....but he wouldn't want to seem suspicious so "Yeah, that's fine." Fred said "I'll meet you at the bench we were at earlier at say...6 then?" He asked her. Laura had a whispered, hurried conversation with her friend before agreeing to the arangements. All that was left to do now was wait.
Time seemed to drag by, but sure enough, the time came and Fred found himself to be slightly nervous. He was scuffing his heels along the ground when they arrived, Laura and her friend. "Hey Fred" Laura said..."I'd say long time no see....but I'm afraid it wouldn't fit" She laughed, she had a pretty laugh Fred thought to himself. He looked up and smiled at her "Oh, this is my friend...I don't think you'll have met" Laura stepped aside and Fred's jaw dropped....this was just getting weird.
After snapping out of his daze for long enough to shake hands with someone looking equally confused as him, Fred led the two girls back to the entrance to Diagon Alley (Laura was rather confused as to why she had never seen the pub before, and how she couldn't see it until they were being led through the door by Fred). As they stood before the blank wall, Fred asked the two girls to turn around, whilst their backs were turned, he tapped the brick which opened the gateway to Diagon Alley and said "Ok, let's go" Laura didn't even question the miraculous appearance of a whole street, she merely shook her head and blinked vigorously.
"We're back!" Fred called as he took the girl's coats and hung them on the door with his own. "Pleased to meet you I'm George Weasley, Fred's told me so much about you" George said to Laura as he came into view from the store room, he extended his hand and shook Laura's before turning to her companion "hello, pleased to....." George broke off as he saw who he was talking to....he turned to Fred who simply shrugged...he didn't know how they knew each other either.