"Two days. You realize I'm getting married in two days?" Luna said loudly. We were in Hermione's apartment getting ready for Luna's bachelorette party.
"Yes. Thus the whole point of the bachelorette party," I said, taking a tray of food out of the oven.
"No more misguided wild days of our youth," Luna said dramatically.
"Wild days? Luna, you realize that we really don't do anything wild, right?"
Luna pursed her lips. "Yes, but we could have. But now," she paused, "I'm going to be Mrs. Colin Creevey. Who hates her mother in law."
I put some food on the table and started to put out plates. "I think that's normal though. Look at Katie. She doesn't like my mum."
"True. Then again, your mum was nice for a long time. Mrs. Creevey doesn't know what the word nice means. There's still hope for your mum. Me, I'm outta luck with the monster in law."
My mum was nice for a long time. It seemed like she changed a lot once my dad became Minister of Magic. It was almost as if she had to impress the world and if something wasn't perfect, it had to go.
"Cheer up. I'm sure if I ever get married, I'll hate my mother in law," I said, trying to cheer up Luna.
Hermione apparated into the room. "Hey," she said, putting a gift on the table. I had found Ron and Hermione's apartment a week ago, and decided to invite Hermione to the party. When I found them, I yelled at Ron for a bit for keeping their life a secret from me and then made up with both of them. Hermione being Hermione, she insisted that the party be held in her apartment. Whatever. That just means that I don't have to worry about my stuff getting broken. Luna really doesn't know a lot of people, so I invited some of my friends to make the party really crazy.
"Hermione! I didn't know you were coming!" Luna exclaimed. She ran over to Hermione, gave her a hug, and put a lei around her neck.
"Luna, it's my apartment," Hermione said with a confused look on her face. I just laughed. Luna is such a space cadet, but I love her for it. The theme of the party was a tropical paradise. Most wizarding families don't do bachelorette parties even though the men have a bachelor party, but I got the idea from a muggle magazine I had found lying on a table in the Leaky Cauldron one day.
"Do you know what your mother did?" Hermione said suddenly. I don't think I want to know.
"No?" I asked sheepishly.
"Sent me a letter."
"Well, that's not so bad."
"Yeah, only she called me a whore and completely disowned Ron from the family. It was full of wartcap powder. I had to go to St. Mungo's to get rid of the rash and the burning sensation that was all over my body."
"Oh."
"You know," Luna interrupted, "I'm glad Colin's stepmother isn't like that. Although I wouldn't put it past her. She already set my hair on fire with her wand twice. She claims it was an accident, but I heard her mutter incendio."
I swear, the weirdest things happen to Luna. One time in our fifth year she disappeared for two days and came back wet and dripping, saying she had decided to go join the merpeople in the lake for tea and they wouldn't let her come back to school until she taught the youngest child in the village how to sing. To this day I don't know how she escaped.
"That sucks," Hermione said. Just then, all of my sisters in law appeared, plus a few other people that we both knew.
We all sat around talking for a while.
"How are you doing your hair?" I heard Padma ask Luna as I went into the kitchen to get more drinks.
Katie came into the kitchen. "Guess what?" she said excitedly.
"What?"
"Now, you can't make a big deal about this, okay? This is Luna's night, not mine."
"Tell me!" I said impatiently, bouncing on the balls of my feet.
"Well, if you must know, something really great happened."
"Okay, so what happened?"
"George proposed to me last night!"
"Oh my god!" I squealed.
"What happened?" several people shouted from the living room.
"Uh….I made a cake right!" I lied quickly. Everyone went back to their chattering.
"I'm so happy for you!" I said, keeping my voice down.
"Thanks. We're getting married next week. It's just a small wedding at the Ministry."
"No big wedding?"
Katie's smile faded. "No. We wanted one, but we were afraid of what your mum would do if we had a big wedding. But a small civil union in the Ministry of Magic means she can't hurt us."
"Hm. Well, we'll see." We went back out into the living room and started to open presents.
Luna grabbed the smallest package. She opened it and blushed. Then she held up some see through underwear. "Where did you guys get this?" she asked.
Hannah Abbott, and her sister, Sarah (who was in Ravenclaw with Luna) blushed. "There's this store in downtown muggle London," Sarah started. Luna shook her head. "You know, that's okay, I don't want to know. But thanks for the present."
I laughed. Poor Luna. She has so much to learn about muggle London.
We went through the rest of Luna's presents (which included massage oils, more lingerie, and some bath stuff) and about thirteen bottles of firewhiskey when someone knocked on the door.
"Who in the world could that be?" Luna said as she hiccupped.
I went to the door and Sarah followed me. "I'm sorry," she whispered with a huge grin on her face. "But I had to do it."
I stopped abruptly. "You didn't."
"Strippers!" Sarah yelled as she threw the door open. Two muscular men strode in, dressed as muggle police officers.
"Oh my god!" Megan, Padma, and Hermione squealed at the same time. We couldn't see the strippers' faces.
"Ladies, we've had a call about the noise here," one of them said. "I'm afraid I'll have to search you all."
Everyone started laughing and we all gathered around the couches. They conjured up some music through the walls. The men started to strip, but kept their heads bent low.
"You know, one of those guys looks awfully familiar," Katie whispered to me. I couldn't look at the men. They were down to a tee shirt and boxers.
"Which one of you is the bride?" the other stripper asked. Everyone pointed to Luna. The stripper pulled her up from the couch and started dancing with her. Soon everyone but me was dancing.
Luna pulled the stripper's hat off. I screamed.
"Fred Weasley!" I yelled. The music stopped.
"Ginny?"
"What are you doing here?"
"He's stripping, obviously," the other stripper said as he pulled his hat off.
"Lee!" I exclaimed.
I looked around. Everyone was looking down at their feet. My sisters in law were red with embarrassment.
"Uh, I think I have to go home now," Megan said. She disapparated. Everyone else took the opportunity to leave as well. Soon it was just Lee, Fred, Katie, Hermione, and I in the room. Fred and Lee started to put their clothes back on.
"I saw my brother strip!" I yelled. "Do you understand how traumatizing that is?"
Lee laughed. "Acutally, that's gotta be really gross."
"Exactly!"
"Great way to ruin a party, Ginny," Fred said sarcastically. "I only made twelve galleons tonight."
"You. Own. A. Store. Why do you need money?" I said, barely controlling my temper.
"Because."
"Wow, great answer," Katie said suddenly. "Does George know you guys are doing this?"
Fred and Lee looked quickly at each other. "I suppose we should tell her."
"Tell me what?" Katie demanded.
"George told us about a month ago that he was going to propose to you," Fred started. "Lee and I decided that we needed to get you guys a really good wedding present, what with the baby and all."
"Okay," Katie said slowly, the confusion showing on her face.
"So, we decided to get you a house," Lee finished. Katie's mouth opened with shock.
"Wait, you guys strip so that you can buy Katie and George a house?" I asked.
"Yeah," Fred sighed. "We usually strip for muggle parties. This was our first magical party. Our last too, I would imagine."
I went into the kitchen to look for my wand and to try not to throw up. This was one of the weirdest nights ever. I went back out to the living room and used my wand to start cleaning up the apartment.
"That's one of the nicest things I've ever heard," I commented.
"Thanks," Lee said. "I think it's time for us to leave though." He said his goodbyes and left.
Fred came over to me and gave me a hug. "I'm sorry you had to see that. Please don't tell mum." He gave Katie a hug and left as well.
"I can't believe it," Katie said softly. "A house for us. Amazing." She walked out of the door.
"Can someone obliviate me please?" I begged.
A/N: I'm so sorry for waiting four months to update. Thank you for sticking with the story! I hope that having four chapters will 1) Make up for me waiting to update and 2) Get me more reviews!