James and Isobel

I don't own any of the characters, or bands you might recognize.

AN: Sorry if I haven't said it before, but thank you to everyone who reviewed, or added this story to their favorites, or story alert. And The Magic of the Night pointed out I haven't mentioned their ages, both James and Isobel are 17.

Chapter 4

Weird Band Names

"So what you do is you go to the store and build your own bear right there" James explained. "It's really ingenious. Think about if you did something similar at the shop you can have the customers customizing their own jokes. Like an automated voice on a trick wand or…" James went on and on to his Uncle George and his favorite cousin Fred. They immediately began discussing other ideas.

It was the family dinner at the burrow. They all ate outside on stretched out tables. All together there were twenty six people. Twenty five of those people were family. The one odd person out was Travie Rogers, Dominique Weasley's long time boyfriend. Everyone was talking all at once and about everything.

James and Fred were flinging stunned beetles into people's food when they weren't paying attention. Al and Rose were having a fake wand fight. Harry, Ron, Ginny, George and Angelina were arguing about Quidditch scores and who really is the best team in the league. Hermione, Bill and Percy were talking very heatedly about goblin rights. Teddy was amusing some of the younger kids by having a baby turkey tap dance across the table.

Travie cleared his throat. It didn't work, people continued to be loud. So then he grabbed his fork and tapped it against his glass. Still everyone didn't seem to hear him.

"OI! Everybody shut up!" Dominique yelled.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at her.

"The floor is all yours, sweetie" she said.

Davies stood up and he suddenly felt very nervous with everyone looking at him. "Um…I just wanted to let everyone know that Dominique and are will be getting married next summer." He sat down and didn't look at anyone. All the women were gushing over Dominique. The younger girls all asked if they could be a bridesmaid or a flower girl. Bill was throwing Travie a dirty look muttering to his brothers about how he couldn't wait until their daughters were old enough to be engaged. James and Fred wondered if Dominique would be as pissed off as Victorie was when they pulled a prank during her wedding.

A week went by and Isobel was indeed looking at James like she would a boyfriend. They hung out together a lot. She was surprised he didn't have a cell phone but he did have a home phone and they talked to each other all the time.

They were currently in her room and James was looking around at things. The walls were painted white with blue and black butterflies everywhere. Apart from the bed she had a desk with a computer on top, a long black dresser, a walk in closet (not that he looked inside), and a bookshelf full of books and movies.

Isobel started laughing when he said he didn't know what an iPod was. Then she realized he was serious and stopped.

"My school doesn't allow us to bring electronics either," because they won't work there, "and when I'm out of school I don't really bother with them either."

"Oh well I am going to have to change that" Isobel said. She put her iPod on speakers and let the music play.

James nodded his head to the music. "What band is this?" He didn't really know any muggle bands besides the Beatles and who doesn't know the Beatles?

"Escape the Fate, you were wearing one of their tee-shirts when we went to the mall Sunday."

"I saw the shirt at a store and thought it looked cool. I didn't know it was about a band. I bought a Falling in Reverse shirt too are they a band too?"

"Yes" Isobel giggled.

They went though the iPod together and James couldn't believe the name of some bands. "What the heck is a Hoobastank?" and "Panic exclamation point At the Disco? Is the exclamation point really necessary?" he continued to look through the list. "Goo Goo Dolls?" nothing else needed to be said about that one.

"Stop making fun of their names, if you listen to the music you'll see they're awesome" Isobel said.

"Sure, whatever you say" James muttered.

"Okay, that's enough" Isobel got off her bed and grabbed the iPod from James. She changed the music to one of the more modern bands and told James not to touch it.

"So what do you normally do all summer?" Isobel asked.

James was now playing a game on Isobel's cell phone. "I hang out at my uncle's joke shop. I play…football with my cousins. I have a lot of cousins. When we all get together it is pretty hectic. We have prank wars that last all day or until one of our parents gets mad."

"You play football?" Isobel asked.

"Yeah, I'm on the school team" James said.

"That's awesome, you could help me out" Isobel said. She smiled and clapped her hands together. "We're having a fundraiser for orphaned kids on Saturday, and we're low on volunteers. You can be our football coach."

James looked a little uneasy. What did he get himself into?

Isobel saw his frown and said "Well, I mean if you're busy or something you don't have to do it."

"I'd love to help out. I was just thinking about something…else. I can volunteer"

"Awesome, you should bring some of your cousins too. I want to meet your family."

James paused he had already almost slipped up today when he was about to say Quidditch. Luckily he had a muggle-born friend who told him about football or else he'd have been lost. But could he introduce her to his family without telling her about magic? "My family is huge and they'd probably drive you away" he said.

"My family hasn't driven you away yet, so I doubt yours can drive me away" Isobel said.

It's not like her step-mother hadn't tried. Arianna made it clear from the moment James introduced himself to her that she did not like him.

"You should come to my father's birthday party. It's next week" James said. "I talk about you so much I'm sure my mom is dying to meet you."

"What do you tell her about me?" Isobel asked apprehensively.

"I told her you're the prettiest girl I ever saw, and that when you smile all of England becomes a brighter place."

Isobel shoved his shoulder and he laughed. "Seriously, what do you tell your family about me?"

"You don't believe I tell my mom all the corny stuff?"

"No"

"I really just bring your name up a lot 'Isobel says this' or 'Isobel says that' my brother thinks I'm obsessed. My mom did ask me if we are dating and I told her yes."

"You can let her think we're dating, I don't mind."

"Or you could be my girlfriend for real" James said. He put his arms around her so he could gauge her reaction.

"Okay" she muttered and she nodded.

James leaned down and kissed her. He tightened his arms around her pulling her closer and she put her arms around his neck.

"Hem, hem"

They froze and then jumped apart quickly. The one rule for James visiting is the bedroom door stays open at all times.

That's why Arianna was standing in the doorway with her eyebrows raised.

"Hello Mrs. Abbey, how was your day?" James said to break the tense silence.

"My day has been fine so far James. I just came to remind Isobel that she has badminton practice in twenty minutes and I wanted to know if she wanted a ride."

"Oh, yeah I totally forgot" Isobel said.

"I should be going then, I'll see you later" James said. He didn't dare kiss her again while her step mom was watching so they said their goodbyes and he went home.

Thanks to cracked dot com for giving me the idea of using weird band names