The next two weeks were uneventful for the most part. I got the invitation to Seamus and Susan's wedding.

"You're going to a wedding?" Luna said incredulously. "Interesting."

"Yeah. I don't know what to wear though, and it's in two weeks."

I was sitting at a restaurant with Luna in muggle London. She has this weird fascination with muggle hamburgers, which she says are not the same in the wizarding world. She was working for her father now, writing articles for The Quibbler. I'm slightly jealous. She has a job, Colin has a job with The Daily Prophet, it seems like everyone has something to do now but me.

The waiter came by with our bill and left it on the table. I looked at it, and put down my half. I really need a job. What with lunch and the wedding, I'm not going to be able to do anything at all for the next three weeks. I could work for Fred and George, but the last time I did that I got my hair blown off and it didn't grow back for three weeks. I definitely don't want to go through that again.

We left the restaurant and went to Diagon Alley.

"I know a shop that you might be able to afford…" Luna started but stopped. I hate talking about money. She always has so much, and I have so little.

"Don't worry about it. Let's just go to this place, okay?" Luna nodded and led the way to a shop called Patil Occasions.

"Patil?" I said. "You don't mean Padma and Parvati, do you?"

We walked into the shop. There must have been a thousand dress gowns in there. The walls were a pale blue color and the shop was brightly lit.

"Wow," I breathed. Padma came up to us, slightly out of breath.

"Hey," she said. "Can you wait a moment? We're kind of slammed here."

She walked away and we started looking around. We quickly found pale yellow dress robes that looked good on me and were actually in my price range. I was going to ask Padma her opinion but she seemed too busy helping a woman capture her son who had decided to climb on top of the clothing racks. We walked up to the counter to pay. Parvati looked frustrated.

"Crap! I didn't add the last sale correctly!"

Luna and I just glanced at each other. The store was really busy, considering it was a Tuesday afternoon, when most people should be working.

"Uh, Parvati," I said. She looked up at me. "Ginny! How're things?"

"Alright, I'm just buying a dress for Susan Bones's wedding."

"Oh, you're going too? That's great!" She rang up my dress robes and I paid her.

"So, you guys sure are busy," Luna commented. Good job on stating the obvious.

"Yeah, and we're so short staffed, it's ridiculous." She looked down at the figures she was adding, then looked back up at us. "You guys wouldn't happen to want to work here, would you?"

Holy crap. Here it was, the opportunity I was looking for.

"Yeah. This looks like it could be fun."

Parvati laughed a little. "Okay. Come back tomorrow and we'll get you trained to work here."

I thanked her and we left.

"So," Luna said as we walked toward Fred and George's shop. "Nice lead in, wasn't it?"

"Brilliant. Couldn't have done it better myself."

Luna grinned. "I know."

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"Hey you guys," Lee said as we walked into Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes. He was working on some paperwork up at the counter. The store wasn't nearly as busy as Patil Occasions was.

I walked behind the counter and gave him a hug. Luna started looking around at the products on the shelves.

"Guess what?" I said, bouncing on my heels.

"What?"

"I've been offered a job!"

"Really?"

"Yeah, at a clothing store."

Lee started to laugh. "You? Working in a clothing store?"

I started to get angry. "Hey, I need the money. I notice that I haven't been offered a job here again."

Lee stopped laughing. "You'd really work here? After last summer?"

I thought about it for a moment. I really did want to work with my brothers, but then I remembered the situation with my hair last year.

"She can't work here," George said as he came up to the counter carrying a large pile of Extendable Ears.

"Why can't she work here?"

George put the pile down on the counter. "It's too dangerous."

"Oh, gee, thanks for putting my life on the line then." Lee looked a little upset. I think he just wanted me to work there so I could start introducing him to female customers.

"You know what I mean. Would you really want Ginny helping us test out our products? Last summer should have taught us all a lesson. Especially when Mum went ballistic on Fred after she saw Ginny's lack of hair. And that was after working here for one day!"

Lee thought for a minute. Some of their products really were dangerous. Fred came home from work one night during Christmas with a faucet sticking out of his forehead. Good thing mum and dad were at a party that night, because Ron and I ended up having to take Fred to St. Mungo's to get it removed.

"I suppose you're right."

I picked up some of the Extendable Ears and started to play with them. "It's cool, don't worry about it. I see enough of these two at home anyway."

George grinned. "Why are you here then?"

"To tell you that I've been offered a job."

"That's amazing! Where at?"

"Patil Occasions."

"The dress shop? You hate clothes!" George exclaimed, then he started laughing.

"You know what? It's a job. I need money. I could like clothes," I said, a little offended. I could like clothes. You know, if I had six sisters instead of six brothers.

"I'll just see you guys later. Come on, Luna." Luna put down the pack of Wizard Crackers she had been looking at (and they were good ones too, not like regular Wizard Crackers that had chess sets in them. These had fireworks, toys, and really nice candy in them) and we walked out of the store.

"My brothers suck sometimes."

Luna laughed. "I'm sorry." Luna was an only child, so she didn't really know what it was like to have to deal with annoying, irritating, and overall pains in my butt brothers.

AAABBBBAAA

"This dress is too big, I really need a size eight," Mrs. Malfoy said to me. I had been working at Patil Occasions for three days now, and I was starting to realize that maybe this wasn't going to be as fun as I had thought it was going to be.

"Mrs. Malfoy," I said, tugging the dress off of her head. The woman didn't need a size eight, she needed a size twelve. "I really don't think a size eight is the best fit for you."

"I think it is. I've never had this much trouble in this store before. Maybe I should just leave."

Padma could sense some trouble and came over to help. "Mrs. Malfoy, I'm so sorry, this dress is labeled wrong! This was a size four. Let me get a size eight for you. Ginny, will you help me find one in the back?"

We went into the backroom, where all of the extra clothes that didn't fit out on the floor were kept. "You know that is a size ten, right? And that she didn't fit in it?"

Padma pulled out her wand. "Uh huh, I know." She used her wand to change the number on the tag, make the dress wider, and gave it back to me.

"Don't be so surprised. She's one of our best customers. So, I just fix the clothes, she spends hundreds of galleons, and then I move on with the rest of my day."

I was amazed. This was outright lying. Then I realized that she was Malfoy's mum, and she deserved everything that she got.

I walked back out front and helped Mrs. Malfoy put the dress back on.

"See? A size eight is the right size for me! You were just being stupid." She walked over to Padma at the register, paid for the dress, and left the shop.

"She's so…so…evil!" I yelled. Padma looked around the shop. There was no one in right now. Then she started to laugh.

"I can see where Malfoy got his good graces from," she said sarcastically. I laughed too. I started to walk around the store, putting back the things Mrs. Malfoy had picked up to look at and then had thrown on the floor.

"How are your wedding plans coming along?" I asked Padma. She was going to be married in December to a man named Ritesh. He was a year older than her and had been in Hufflepuff when he went to Hogwarts. I'm surprised that she actually fell in love with him, considering it was an arranged marriage. Most wizarding families don't do arranged marriages, but Parvati and Padma's parents are from India, where they do have arranged marriages. They decided to stick with the custom when they moved here before the twins were born.

"Oh, good. I don't think Parvati is too happy though." Padma started to straighten a display in the window.

I know why Parvati is unhappy. Her parents had arranged for her to be married too, but when she met the man they wanted her to marry, she immediately knew that he wasn't the man for her. It didn't help that he was twenty years older than her and that she had been secretly dating Ernie Macmillan for two years now.

"Well, give her time. Maybe she just feels like she's losing you to Ritesh."

Padma nodded. "I know. I don't really want to leave home. But Ritesh is the one for me, Ginny. I can't live without him."

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"This is ridiculous!" Parvati said. She had taken over in the store so Padma could meet Ritesh's mum for lunch to discuss stuff for the wedding. I was still thinking about what Padma said. She had found the man she was waiting her entire life for, and now she gets to marry him. I love Harry with all my heart, and we still can't even get our act together so we can go out on one stupid date.

"What's ridiculous?" I said.

"My parents. They still want me to marry Anwar." Anwar was the man Parvati was supposed to be getting married to.

"Oh. What does Ernie think?" I always thought their relationship was unexpected. Ernie's very reserved and follows the rules, but Parvati is loud and feels that most rules are made to be broken. I still can't figure out how they got together.

Parvati looked around, went up to the front of the store, put a "closed" sign on the door, and pulled all of the shades down.

"Ernie proposed to me. We're going away so that we can get married and my parents can't find us."

"Oh my god," I said.

"We're leaving in three days. Don't tell anyone, especially my sister."

I nodded. Now I'm part of a secret wedding. This is either really cool, or one of the worst ideas I've ever heard.

A/N: Could someone tell me how to get line breaks to show up on here? I keep trying different ways, but they don't transfer over from my typed up version to the site. I know that this story doesn't seem that bad, but the drug use in chapter two and a fight that takes place in a later chapter pushed the rating up to M. Please take a minute to review!