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Top Ten Reasons Why Weddings Should Be Avoided

Chapter 2

Charlie gave himself one last look in the mirror. He had to admit that he could clean up nicely. They were going to a five star restraunt and the bill was given to Cory to pay.

"Ready?" Cory asked. Cory looked very nice after a long day of dragons.

"Yea, I'm ready." Cory and Charlie got in Cory's red car and Cory drove it to a small building of apartments. Cory was breathing heavily. "Are you okay?" Charlie asked.

"Yea, I'm fine. It's just I really hope you like Tara, she's really nice and funny and pretty. I think I'm going to ask her to marry me. What do you think?" Charlie looked at his flushed friend. He had once dated a Tara but he just figured this was a different one.

Charlie smiled at his friend. "I think she would be the luckiest girl in the world if she said yes." Cory started laughing.

"I think I would be the luckiest man in the world if she said yes." Both men started to laugh. "Come on, lets go get those girls."

"Elinor!" Said Tara. "Look at you! You look great!" Elinor looked at herself. She had a black dress on, the silk hit every curve on her body. She had to admit that she did look great. Her hair was let down and the her curls lightly touched her shoulders. Tara had on a red silk dress that made her look irresistable. Elinor looked pretty and nice, and Tara just looked hot.

There came a knock at the door. "They're here!" Squealed Tara. She opened the door and Corey walked in. Elinor wasn't surprised to see that he was very attractive.

"Hey babe," Corey said. "You look great!" They kissed.

"Corey this is Elinor," said Tara gesturing toward Elinor.

"Hi Elinor," said Corey holding out his hand for her to shake. She gladly took it.

"Where's your friend?" Tara asked.

"He's coming," Corey said. "So are we ready to go?"

"Yeah," Tara said. "After I meet your friend of course."

"Hey Corey we better hurry because I only had twenty- five cents and that only gives us five min..." The man that had just walked in the door was stunned when he saw Elinor and Tara, and Elinor and Tara were stunned to see Charlie Weasley walk in.

"Oh my god," was all Tara could say. Elinor, though, found her voice just after a couple of seconds.

"Hi Charlie," she said. "How are you this evening?"

Charlie looked away from Tara and looked directly at Elinor. "Good, and how was your first day on the job?"

"It was excellent." Elinor and Charlie smiled at each other.

"You guys know each other?" Asked Corey in confusement.

"Uh... yeah," Charlie said. "We went to school with each other, Tara, Elinor, and I."

"We dated for a year," said Tara.

"Why didn't you tell me that you dated Tara?" Said Corey to Charlie.

"Becuase I thought your Tara was a different Tara," replied Charlie.

"Don't you think we should get going?" Tara reminded them.

"Yeah we should," Corey replied. Tara and Corey walked out together and Charlie and Elinor followed. In the car was an uncomfortable silence. "So Elinor you work with dragons, like Charlie?"

"No," she said. "I'm a healer. I take care of the dragons and the people that work with them. That's when I saw Charlie."

"Charlie loves dragons," said Corey. "It was hard for me to pull him away from them today to come out with me."

"Well he would probably want to spend more time with Megan." She replied turning to look at Charlie.

Corey laughed. "Charlie you didn't tell me that Megan attacked you again today?"

"Must have slipped my mind," he replied.

"Megan has always had her eye on Charlie since day one, but she still can't seem to get a date out of Charlie. He's tough to impress."

"I just don't like Megan and her outgoingness," he commented.

After eating they went out into the garden that this five star restaurant had. Corey and Tara went off leaving Charlie and Elinor alone.

"How many brothers and sisters do you have?" Asked Elinor.

"Well you already know Bill and Percy," he said. "I also have twin brothers, Fred and George, and I have a brother named Ron, and the youngest is my sister Ginny."

"Wow," said Elinor "you have alot of siblings."

"Yea," he laughed. "What about you? I don't remember if you had any going to Hogwarts when we were there."

"Thats becuase I'm only witch in the family. I'm a muggleborn. I have an older brother, Nolen, and a younger sister, Beth," she said. "I remember your mom." Elinor smiled. "The first time I was going to Hogwarts I couldn't figure out how to get on to the platform. I remember my mom just dropped me off and your mom took me under her wing to show me how to do it."

Charlie laughed. "Now I remember. My mom liked you so much she wanted to adopt you becuase she said that it was irresponsible to let your child alone at a train station. Does your family still live in England?"

"No, actually, they live in the US. They moved there during my fourth year." There was silence. "I wonder what Tara and Corey are doing?"

"He's probably proposing to her right now," said Charlie casually.

"He's what!" Said the very shocked Elinor.

"He told me he was going to propose soon, and this is a very romantic place, I wouldn't be surprised."

"Where did Corey learn how to drive?"

"He's a muggleborn too, and besides his immediate family, no one else knows he's a wizard. His parents thought that it would be good for him to learn how to drive."

"That's how my family is to," sighed Elinor. "Except they don't want anybody to know they have a weirdo in the family. I haven't been close to my family because of me being a witch. They find it... not normal."

"I do remember now that you never did go home for Christmas when you were at Hogwarts," he said. "Is that why?"

"Pretty much," she said. "Come on, lets go find Corey and Tara."