A.N: Here is the next chapter. If the formate is strange it's because I typed it on an iPad.
Together Chapter Eight
Luna walks down the alley staring up at the overcast sky smiling and humming. It's only the first week of October and it's already raining. Luna doesn't mind it though, she quite likes the rain. She loves the way it makes everything look different, like it's a whole different place. A place where things are dark and mysterious, a place where you don't always know what's around the next corner.
Luna stops in front of the shop door and looks up at the shop and smiles. Since she started working at the shop she's been much happier. She enjoys her work, she loves seeing the children faces when they walk in and see all the wonderful things they have. She likes that she sees her friends more often and that she has made some new friends as well. Ever since that day she woke up on her coach with an hangover, her and George have become good friends. They hang out during her launch break and sometimes after work they will go get a drink or a bite to eat. She even got him to go for a walk at the park with her once. She found that she can tell him things that she can't tell her other friends, things about her parents and such. Things that the others wouldn't understand.
Luna opens the door and walks in, the first thing she hears is the sound of a baby crying. She wonders why there's a baby in the shop so early and who's child is it. She follows the sound into the office and finds George standing with a crying baby in his arms trying to sooth it. Luna can see that he is having no luck at soothing the baby and hurries over and takes it from him. She immediately starts to rock it back and forth and it starts to quiet down. George stands there watching with amazement.
"How did you do that?" he asks. Luna smiles down at the baby. She sees that the baby is very pretty with light blond hair and blue eyes.
"I have a way with children." Luna says looking up at George as she continues to rock the baby. "Who's baby?"
" It's Bill's daughter, Victoria. Bill dropped her off an hour ago so he could go do some errands. I haven't been able to calm her down since he left." George explains running his hands through his hair. Luna shakes her head at him.
"It's really not that hard. I find that rocking them back an forth works."
"Oh really. And how many babies do you know?" George asks.
"Well actually, I've only held a baby once. A long time ago when me and my Dad went and visited my Aunt in America. I babysat my cousin for a night and found it rather easy." She tells him.
"I wish I found it easy. I never know what to do around babies." George says with a laugh. He goes and sits down at his desk. As soon as he sits down though the bell on the door rings, signaling that they have a customer. George groans and stands back up and walks out of the office. Luna follows behind him laughing.
Out in the shop is a little old lady with white hair browsing the shelves. Luna and George wait behind the counter. George rest his elbows on the counter and Luna stands next to him with Victoria in her arms. The lady grabs something from one of the shelves and comes up to the counter to pay. Has George rings the lady up Victoria begins to wiggle making her hard to hold.
"Victoria, calm down." Luna tells the baby calmly. Victoria looks up at Luna and smiles, happy now that she's being paid attention too. George looks over at Luna and Victoria and smiles, finding it a little funny that Luna is talking to Victoria like she understand what she is saying. The lady also looks over and smiles.
"Your daughter is very pretty." She tells Luna and George. Luna and George look over at the lady. George blushes and Luna just smiles.
"Um.. she's not our daughter." George tells the lady.
"Oh! I'm sorry. She just looks so much like the both of you." The lady says. "But if you don't mind me saying, you two would make very pretty children." She says as she grabs her stuff and exits the shop before George or Luna could say anything else.
George blushes a little and looks over at Luna who is laughing. " Old lady's never know what they are seeing." George says and Luna just continues to laugh and walks back into the office.
Later after lunch and after Bill picked up Victoria, Luna is working the register when Ginny comes running into the shop. "He did it! He finely did it!" Ginny yells, Luna smiles and runs out from the behind the counter.
"He did it! He did it!" Luna and Ginny yell together jumping up and down. The people around them look at the strangely and stop what their doing. The girls don't notice and continue to jump up and down screaming. George comes running out of the office worried that something happened.
"What happened? Is everyone okay?" George asks worriedly. The girls don't hear him and continue to jump around. "Hey! Would someone like to tell me what's going on!" George yells at them. The girls stop and look at him.
"He did it!" They yell at him and then begin to jump around again. George watches them confused. Who did what? He wonders.
"Um.. guys, just so you know, I have no idea what you're talking about!" He yells. Luna stops jumping and comes over to him.
"Harry finely asked her to marry her." She tells him excitedly. George looks from Luna to Ginny and then to Ginny's hand. On her hand is a beautiful engagement diamond engagement ring.
"He's actually done it." George says as he runs over and hugs his sister. After a few minutes of jumping up and screaming Ginny leaves to go tell other people and Luna and George go back to work. During a slow hour Luna goes into the office to talk to George.
"You know, you owe me ten galleons." Luna tells him sitting down across from him. George looks up at her and frowns.
"I know. I just want to know how you knew he was going to ask during the first week of October." He says as he reaches into his desk for the money.
"I have my ways." She says in her dreamy voice of hers. George hands her money and knows that she is hiding however she knows behind her dreamy eyes and voice.
"Ron is not going to be happy about this." George says with a laugh. Luna smiles.
"Well, Ronald will just have to get over it." She says standing up and walking to the door.
"Oh, Luna are you coming to the shop's Halloween party?" George asks.
"Yeah. Me and Ginny are going to look for costumes tomorrow. Why?"
"Just making sure. It's always fun, I just wanted to make sure you weren't going to miss out." He tells her. She smiles and says she wouldn't miss it for the world and then goes back to work. George goes back to his paper work.
The next day after work Luna is collecting her things to leave to meet Ginny when Ginny walks into the shop. She has a small apologetic smile on her face as she walks up to Luna.
" Hey Luna." Ginny says. Luna looks at her and wonders what's happened.
" I'm guessing that you can't go shopping with me today." Luna says. Ginny looks surprised that Luna knew what she was going to tell her.
"Yeah, you see, I totally forgot that I had practice when we planed when we were going to go." Ginny says, hoping that Lune would understand. " I'm sorry." She adds. Luna smiles at her understanding.
"It's okay. I'll just go another day or something."
"Oh, just go without me. You probably already know what you want to be. I would just slow you down anyways, I have no idea what I want to be yet." Ginny tells her. Luna thinks for a second and makes up her mind.
"Well your right, I know what I want to be. I just have to go find the stuff to make it. I guess I could go by myself."
" Great! I'll make it up to you I promise." Ginny says happily, glad that her friend is not made at her. " I have to go. I'll see you later."
"Bye Ginny." Luna says as Ginny leaves the store. Luna stands there for a couple of seconds looking at the door and then she sighs before going back to gathering her things.
"You know, I could go with you." George says. Luna spins around and realizes that George had listen to their conversation.
"You don't have too. I'm sure you other stuff to do." Luna says. It's not that she doesn't want him to come with her, she just doesn't want to interrupt his planes.
" Nah, I don't really have anything to do. I've been cooped up to long. There's been why to much paper work. I need to get out." George says as he sits on the counter.
" Well, if you really want too...then let's go." So together Luna and George lock up the shop and head out on their quest to find the perfect costumes.
Out on the alley George and Luna make their way through the crowd with no destination in mind. After a few minutes of mindless wondering George asks Luna what she wants to be.
" I'm going to be a butterfly." She tells him. George is a little surprised that she's not going as one of her weird creatures.
"Cool. I'm going as a pirate." Luna smiles and says that he would make a good pirate. " Rrrrrrr..." George says making a hook with his hand and waving it at Luna. Luna laughs and pulls George into a shop.
George and Luna spend the rest of the day collecting things for their costumes and goofing off. When Luna finely goes home she's glad that George went with her instead of her going by herself. She had a lot of fun and is now really excited for Halloween.