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A.N. So heres the next chapter. I hope you guys like it.
Together: Chapter Five
George awoke with a start from a bad dream. He flips over and looks at his clock and sees that it's only four o'clock in the morning. He groans and shakes of his covers and gets out of bed. He slowly makes his way down the hall way to the kitchen, he turns on the kitchen light. He looks around the tiny kitchen and decides to make a pot of coffee; knowing that he isn't going to be able to fall back to sleep. He sits at the small table while the coffee brews. After a few minutes the coffee is done and he pours himself a cup. He sips it black as he stares out the small window above the sink. It's still dark outside and George can see nothing. There;s no stars in the sky and clouds are covering the moon.
George sighs and takes another sip of his coffee. He's unable to get the dream out of his head. It wasn't anything scary, it was actually kind of happy but, in a sad way. It was about him and Fred, nothing really important, just the two of them talking. Just talking, about nothing really, everyday stuff. Stuff that George had taken has nothing important when Fred was alive but, now he wishes that he could go back and savor all the small meaningless talks they had. George sighs again and looks down into his coffee, there's a lot a things that he would go back and change. However, theres no point dwelling on the past, you can't go back and change it now anyway.
George continues to stare into his coffee cup. He stays like that for, he doesn't know how long, but when he finally looks up the sun is coming up. He looks at the clock and sees that he has been sitting at the table for two hours. Ron will be coming soon to open up the shop. Since Fred died Ron has been helping George with the shop, surprisingly Ron has been a lot of help. The shop would most likely be in ruined if Ron wasn't there the first few months after Fred's death helping. George gets up and puts his cup in the sink and walks back to his bedroom. He showers and dresses and then goes back out into the kitchen. He makes some breakfast and is sitting down to eat it when Ron comes in through the floo.
"Morning George.' Ron says grabbing a piece of toast off of George's plate and sits down at the table.
"Why hello there. Just help your self to my breakfast," George says. Ron smiles.
"Thanks." Ron says has he takes George's other piece of toast. He begins to butter it as he asks, "So are you ready for today?" George looks at him confused.
"What's so different today. It's the same as every other day." Ron smiles again and chuckles a little.
"You have to train Luna today."
"So, I've trained multiple people before. It should be easy." George says.
"That's were your wrong. Your not just training some normal person, you have to train Luna Lovegood. That girl is pretty strange." George gives him a scowl. "I mean it the nicest way possible. I've known Luna for years; she is one of the most bravest, smart, loyal person I know. However, she is still weird."
"I'm sure she'll be okay."
Ron laughs, "Good luck with that." He then stands up and goes down and prepares the shop to open. Leaving George to eat his breakfast. When he's done he cleans up and walks down the stairs into the shop.
In the shop he finds Ron talking to Luna at the counter. He walks over to them and sees that Luna is smiling and Ron is looking a little uncomfortable. Luna seems to be talking about one of her strange creatures. "You just need to get rid off them and you wouldn't blush so much. I can give you some protection spells if you want." Luna tells Ron.
"That's okay Luna I'm fine." Ron tells her. Luna is about to say something else when she notices George standing there.
"Oh, Hello George. I was just telling Ron why he blushes so much." Luna says with a smile.
"Oh! So there's something actually causing that? I just thought he has some kind of disease." George says laughing. Luna looks at him confused and blinks a couple off times.
"Ohhhhh I get it! That was a joke." Luna says. George and Ron look at her while she begins to laugh. "I get it!" She says laughing. Her laugh is loud and unabashed. George and Ron stare at her has she finishes laughing.
"Errr... I'm going to go sweep the floors before people start coming in." Ron says walking away, leaving George with Luna. George watches has Luna collects herself. She looks up at him and smiles.
"Sooo... What should I do first?" She asks him.
"I should show you around first so you have a feel of how we do things here." George says leading her to the front of the store. George shows Luna around and how to work the register. He then also shows her how to do inventory and where everything goes. George sees that Luna is focused on what he says and that she has a determined look in her eyes. After awhile they are back at the counter and George tells her that she is going to restock the shelves today. Luna seems more then happy to so, she takes the inventory list and heads into the back room to grabs the first box of stuff that needs to be put away. George smiles after her, 'Well that wasn't has hard has I thought it would be." he thinks to him self has he goes to help costumers.
About an hour into the start of the work day, George is helping a lady looking for a present for her grandson, when hears a crush coming from the back of the shop. George rushes back there hoping something didn't fall on some one. When he reaches where the crush was he sees that Luna is laying under a couple of boxes. One of the boxes is laying on it's side and theres a green liquid seeping out of it. He watches has the liquid touches Luna's hand and her skin starts to turn an orange color. Luna looks up at George and sees him smiling.
"I slipped and fell. I'm so sorry." Luna says with a little bit of panic in her voice. George begins to laugh has the orange spreads to her face. Luna stares at George confused, George continues to laugh. Luna then looks down at her self and sees that she has turned orange. She blinks a couple of times and then starts to laugh. After a couple of minutes they stop laughing and George helps he up. She then asks,"Is there a way to change me back?"
"I'm sorry to tell you this but, you're going to have wait it out. The potion only last a few hours." George says with a smile. Luna doesn't say anything and looks down. She starts to clean up the mess she made. George helps her and soon it doesn't even look like something spilt. George decides that maybe Luna should try something else, so he places her at the register.
All the rest of the day Luna gets stares as she rings up the customers. She doesn't even seem to relies that they are staring at her. She just smiles and gives them their change. George realizes that having Luna Lovegood working for him is going to be an adventure.
"This should be interesting" Ron says to him self as he watches Luna give some man his change.
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