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Chapter Seven

Time Flies

BUZZ! BUZZ!

The sound of Jade's alarm clock cut through her dreams faster than a sharpened steak knife. She jumped out of bed, ran over to the clock and quickly shut it off. Looking in the mirror she smiled, her mid-back, blue-black hair was a mess, she quickly snatched the brush off of her bedside table and promply bushed out the horrible mess of tangles.

It seemed like just yesterday when she had first met her best friends Fred and George. When she had first met them she was also brushing her hair. Six long years had passed and she was now in her sixth year at Hogwarts and the twins were in their seventh and final year. Jade had just twisted her hair up and held it in place with a pencil when she heard her aunt call,

"Come on down for breakfast Jade!"

Jade ran down the stairs and into the kitchen everyone was at the table except her and Rachel, she sat down just as Rachel entered the kitchen.

"Are we going to see Fred and George today?" Rachel asked stiffling a huge yawn.

"You sure are, as a matter of fact you are going to stay with them for the rest of the summer until school starts." Rachel's father said. "But first you two might want to take care of your horses and maybe take them out for one last ride."

After the two girls finished their breakfast they walked out to the stables behind their house. Jade owned a black stallion with four white socks and Rachel owned a fiesty white mare. Both of the horses had been trained so that only their owners can ride it, but they were also trained to let people come up to them so they can be fed and taken care of. They both saddled up their horses and rode off, though they were both so close they both liked to ride their horses in different areas.

Jade rode off towards the woods while Rachel headed towards the beach. Once in the woods Jade sought out her favorite spot, she jumped off of her horse and she petted him.

"Kaz, you will be good while I am away right?" She said to the stallion. The horsed neighed as if to say yes and she just stood there in the clearing petting him. Thirty minutes later she walked back into the house to pack up her stuff.

It was just after 2 o'clock when Jade was called back downstairs by her aunt and uncle. After making sure that her hair was still up she walked into the living room with her stuff and she asked,

"How long will it take us to get there?"

"Not long, if I understand correctly you and Rachel leaned how to Apparate the other day." said Mr. Radcliffe.

Jade smacked her forehead with the palm of her hand. How could she have forgotten that she had been given special permission from her aunt and uncle to learn how to Apparate earlier than usal. Twenty minutes later Rachel was downstairs and they were ready to go.

Jade sat on her new bed and a huge cloud of dust came out of nowhere and filled the air. Jade coughed, she loved Sirius like a brother but how could he live in a place that was so dusty.

"We have some major dusting to do." She heard Rachel say through the thick, brown dust. Jade waved her wand and most of the dust dissapeared, at least now she could see her cousin.

There was a meow and Jade walked over to Austin's carrier and opened it. The lilac tabby took one look at the room and gave a meow of dissaproval. Jade picked him up and said,

"I'm sorry Austin but it is only until we go back to school alright." Austin purred in response and licked her nose with his sandpaper tounge. Jade kissed him back, when she had first gone to Hogwarts he was just a kitten but now he was much older but still as cute as ever.

There was a crack as the twins appeared in Jade and Rachel's room. Instantly the girls ran over to them and hugged the two boys. Fred tried to pull the pencil that was holding Jade's hair up out of her hair, but Jade knocked his hand away.

"Don't even think about it." She said looking at him sternly.

"Jade we haven't seen you with your hair down since you were in your first year." He argued back.

"You will see my hair down when I want you to see it down." Jade said. "Hey how's the joke shop going?"

"Great!" George said, "We just invented some new things this summer." He reached into his pocket and pulled out some Extendable Ears.

"Are those the Extendable Ears I heard that you guys were working on?" Rachel asked.

"Sure are." Said Fred with a grin. "Took us the better part of the summer to perfect them."

"Those will sell by the barrel in a joke shop. You could get rich just by selling those to other students alone." Jade said putting Austin down gently on the bed.

"You're not kidding." George said, "This year is going to be better than ever will all of the stuff we now have to sell."

"I wouldn't doubt it." Rachel said taking a seat on her bed and coughing as a cloud of dust came up.

"When's Harry gonna be here?" Jade asked waving her wand and making most of the dust dissapear again.

"Should be sometime soon." Said Fred. "In the meantime, Mum wants us to make this house fit enough to live in."

"And that means we have to help clean it." George finished.

"That is just what I wanted to do this summer, clean." Said Rachel sarcastically.

"Well it could be worse at least there isn't a curtain full of Doxies that we have to get rid of." Jade said.

"Yea that was terrible. I never want to clean our attic again."

"Actually there is." Fred said.

"Is what?" Jade asked.

"A curtain full of Doxies that we have to get rid of." Said George.

Jade and Rachel looked at each other in horror. This was going to be a long summer.