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Chapter 6

Muggle Shops

"Morning!" came James voice as he opened the door to Albus' room.

There was no response from the sleeping Gryffindors. James laughed at the sight before him, they had apparently decided to continue communicating after he'd yelled at them for being loud. Paper littered the floor with message after message, talking about anything from pets to the muggle world. Scorpius had fallen asleep the opposite way on his bed and Albus had slept the other way on the same bed. Both where snoring, Albus a bit louder than Scorpius. James got an evil expression on his face and slowly left the room. He could hear his parents talking and making breakfast downstairs as he went into the bathroom.

"Al...get your feet out of my face." muttered a very tired Scorpius, not even bothering to move.

"sorry..." Albus muttered back and moved his feet a little ways off, "Was James in here?"

"I... can't... remember." said Scorpius in a yawn.

The door opened suddenly and a very cold splash of water woke them up. James had decided water-balloons would be great to wake them up. Albus was apparently used to this, because he proceeded to beat James with a pillow as Scorpius sat there in shock. He eventually fell out of it and looked at James and Albus. Scorpius looked at a pillow, wondering if James would mind if he joined in.

"Scorpius, help!" said Albus, as James had now picked him up.

Downstairs all that could be heard where the silent bumps as James was tackled to the ground by Albus and Scorpius. Harry was headed upstairs to get them all for breakfast at this point. He hesitated to open the door, in fear of cold water or a pillow hitting him. He opened the door to see that James now had Scorpius in a playful head lock and an Albus on his back. Scorpius then began to tickle James's sides which caused all three to hit the ground. Harry leaned against the door frame as all three fell out of view.

"Hi Dad!" came two voices in a laugh.

"Hi Mr. Potter." came Scorpius's voice with a chuckle.

"Breakfast is ready." was all he said before he waved his wand to dry the room.

"We should get dressed." yawned Albus as they all stood up.

"Curses, has anyone seen my glasses?" asked James rubbing his eyes.

"Here." said Scorpius, picking them up from by the door.

"Amazing, there not even broken." said James as he walked out of the room.

"Hey Albus, do you have any muggle clothes I could wear. I only have wizard based clothes." said Scorpius as he looked through his bag.

"Sure, what do you want to wear? It's supposed to rain today." said Albus who pointed to his closet and dresser, "Go ahead."

"Okay." said Scorpius, not sure what to wear.

He looked at the clothes Albus was going to wear, a simple blue shirt with inverse stitches and black jeans. James opened the door, and it became rather apparent the difference in the Potter brother's styles. It also occurred to them, he'd never seem them in full muggle clothing, the styles where very strange. James was wearing a black shirt with white sleeves and a white symbol on the front. His pants where black with a type of rope on them and he was wearing nice shoes and his normal finger-less Quidditch gloves. Albus outfit had been completed with white sneakers with different things drawn on them.

"I am going to just say it, how am I supposed to dress?" asked Scorpius, looking between the two.

"... Hold on." said James and he left the room and came back with a magazine, "Those are some of the different muggle styles, but feel free to wear what ever you want, just use it as a guide."

"Here's some pants." said Albus, pulling out dark blue jeans, "This shirt will go with them."

"No, that shirt is boring." said James and he ran off again, coming back with another shirt with a print on it.

"It's annoying."

"Is not."

"Is too."

"Not."

"Is."

"NOT!"

"IS SO!"

"I think I'll just wear this." said Scorpius, pulling out a simple black shirt from his own bag and picking up his black and white shoes.

"Okay." said Albus, who put the shirt back.

"This is SO much better than Al's style." said James in a low whisper to Scorpius.

"There is nothing wrong with my style!" yelled Albus.

Breakfast wasn't as exciting, but Harry was a good cook. Apparently him and Ginny switched off everyday they could. On bigger events, the house elf, Kreacher would cook. This had been the first weekend in a long time that Harry and Ginny had no work to go too. After breakfast they went outside, indeed clouds where thick and there was no rays of sunlight, but the sun could be seen as a glowing orb off in the distance. A sporty van was parked in the driveway, Scorpius wondered how often it was used. Seating was a bit of a problem. Albus had claimed his seat next to where ever Scorpius sat, but James and Lily where trying to claim who could sit on his other side. Eventually Lily and James sat in the back seat while he and Albus got the front back seat.

"He's Albus' guest, he can sit next to Scorpius." Ginny was stating as Lily and James discussed a seat switch.

"I was fighting out of spite." said James.

"Rose wants us to come over tomorrow." said Albus, "Actually she wants us to come over everyday, but she was on a homework splurge, so it was dangerous for us."

"Sounds fun, I need to return her book as well." said Scorpius.

"If you like muggle books Scorpius, we could stop at a book store." said Harry.

"There's that one Hermione always goes too." said Ginny, with a smile, "That one on the main."

"Do you want to go there?" asked Albus.

"... Sure, if its doesn't get in the way of your plans." said Scorpius.

"There are no plans." said James, "We just go."

"I don't think we ever really plan out anything too much." said Lily.

"We wing it." said Harry as he drove.

"Motto of our family." said Ginny.

They stopped at the book store first after they parked. Scorpius had used muggle money only once when he'd gone to on a family trip to visit his mother's sister. His cousin had taken him to a candy store and he'd seen how the money mainly worked. He had decided on several books, stories, lists, and guide ones. He was aiming to take muggle studies at one point in his school career and this was a good start. They left the shop a half an hour later. Scorpius, if given the chance, would have stayed all day. However, he wanted to get some muggle clothes. He had one muggle outfit and it wasn't his style, it seemed to proper and dressy, another reason he'd borrowed some of Albus' things.

"So where should we go next?" asked Harry as they walked down the street.

"Scorpius? What are you doing?" asked James as he'd stopped and looked at a window display.

"Why would someone wear that?" he asked James.

"You'll learn someday." said James, pulling Scorpius away from a women's underwear store.

"Learn what?" asked Ginny to her son, her and Harry had been walking a head.

"Nothing." said James.

"I don't get it either." said Albus, Lily even rolled her eyes and walked on.

"You see, someday when you two get girlfriends. . . you'll know why." said James, an arm around each of them.

"Does this have something to do with you being a womanizer?" asked Albus.

"I am not a womanizer!" James promptly left them and walked to stand next to his dad.

"He is." said Albus, Scorpius and Lily nodded.

"Oh Scorpius, I made the charm for you." said Lily, pulling out a Gryffindor charm.

"Thanks Lily." Scorpius took it happily and put it on.

"Your actually going to wear that?" asked James.

"Yeah, why not." said Scorpius, "I'm happy to be in Gryffindor."

"It's tacky." said James.

"It is not!" Lily looked furious.

"It's not stylish though." said James.

"What would you know about style." Lily grumbled all the way to a clothes shop.

Clothes shopping had been rather fun. Albus and Scorpius had wondered off together and had messed with some of the orders of clothes. Half way shopping afterwards, Scorpius had put them back and James had decided that Scorpius had OCD. Scorpius had argued he did not have an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. After a long argument, Scorpius decided he did and so did James. This was proven, because every-time you dropped something on the ground in front of James, he placed it back in its proper place. Harry had decided to partake in this and an all out OCD war had ensued. They left the store with heavy bags, lighter wallets, and Harry and James being pulled by their ears by Ginny.

"It was just some fun Gin." said Harry.

"Yeah mum." said James as she let go.

"I thought it was funny." said Lily.

"It was cute until the fashion dolls where being tossed." said Ginny, rubbing her temples.

It was lunch time when they'd gotten out. There was a cafe down the road always and they decided to go eat there. Scorpius was eager to wear his new clothes tomorrow, he liked his choice in clothes, Albus had been curious about a few shirts he'd gotten. He was looking at one at that moment when he said.

"I just never thought you'd wear something like this." said Albus, eyebrow raised.

"I like it." said Scorpius, looking at it.

"Obviously, or you wouldn't have bought it." said James, then after a moment, "What is it?"

"It's one of those T's with like the weird drip guitar things on it." said Albus.

"You mean a Fender Big Drip shirt?" asked Lily looking at it, "Oh, that's so cool."

"You know it's actual name?" asked James in shock.

"You know nothing about style Jimmy." said Lily with a smirk, "Your style is more Novelty shirts and polos. Al wears mostly plan shirts, but he does have some worded ones, but he is more of a Raglan shirt person. I guess Scorp likes Fender. . . and Green Project... and many others. You also tend to wear Red Tab jeans and baggy pants... Scorp and Al have the more fitted jean types."

"I like the Green Project shirts... they are not fitted. There normal." said Albus.

"What's your style... besides preppy." said James.

"It is not preppy. Besides I'm turning ten, my style is just falling together. But I like hoods and dresses, not specific style really." said Lily.

"Can we not discuss fashion and eat?" asked Harry as he sat down.

"How would you describe your fashion Daddy?" asked Lily.

"I call it... something to wear..." said Harry and he continued eating.

"He refuses to conform to the muggle or the wizarding fashion." said Ginny.

"Hey mum, dad? Can we go get some shoes. My trainers are getting to small." said James, then at his mothers look, "My muggle ones. I also want to get some boots."

"I need to get new flats." said Lily.

"Trainers." said Albus.

"Is there that big of a difference between muggle shoes and wizarding ones?" asked Scorpius looking at his shoes to Albus.'

"Not much, there's just more variety." said James.

It was a long day of shopping and they finally returned home around dinner time. Ginny and Harry went to go make dinner. Scorpius came downstairs a head of Albus. He was rethinking Albus' birthday gift at this point. So he decided he was going to ask James, he seemed to know Albus' style... even though he didn't like it.

"Hey James?" asked Scorpius sitting on the couch.

"Yeah?" asked James putting down an essay he was writing for Potions.

"I ordered a gift for Albus' birthday before I left to come here. I'm not sure if he'll like it now." said Scorpius.

"What did you get him?" asked James, "I mean no matter what it's better than mine. I got him a crap load of silly string. . . nevermind... he'll like it. Everyone else... will hate me."

"What's silly... never mind. I got him one of those Vintage Military jackets, it's magically enhanced to fit to the wearer."

"...He'll love it. He's wanted one for sometime. I don't think he tells many people though." said James with a smile.

"Really? He never told me... maybe he did... no." Scorpius was in thought, he couldn't even remember what had possessed him to buy it.

"You want to play Rock Band later?" asked Albus coming down the steps.

"What is it?" asked Scorpius.

"You'll get the hang of it, but you have to choose. Vocal, guitar, drums, keyboard?" asked James, as there mother called them for dinner.

"I can play any..." he was confused.

"It's a game, you'll get it." said Lily.

TO BE CONTINUED

Clarifications.. Rock Band?? Well in the future I think the keyboard will be introduced.. because it's like set in the future ... the vintage jacket?? IT ROCKS!! You have no idea... they cost alot... but I got mine for 2 at a vintage store and it's amazing. You can not even understand unless you own one. There perfect.