A/N: I am so sorry! I have been in over my head with homework, Livestock shows, Band and other stuff… I am so sorry! I feel so bad about not getting this up sooner, hopefully you can forgive me. Well enjoy.

Chapter six: Of Puddles and mud.

OoOo Mira-Bella oOoO

Some people say that the only way to believe something is to see it with your own two eyes; but I beg to differ. Maybe it's a simple matter; maybe I just never grasped the concept of it. If I were to be completely honest and not fabricate the truth at all, then I would say that this was the most impossible thing I had ever experienced in my fourteen years of life. Considering that I had been working on this for years, I just didn't want to believe it.

If I were to be even more honest, I would say that Ali couldn't grasp it either. We both stood gaping at what was clearly right in front of us. What was solid, real and just as possible as space travel. It was all so extraordinary.

Who, in their right minds, would have thought that two fourteen year old girls would invent the newest form of time travel? Girls who hadn't even graduate. This was actual time travel, the kind that didn't involve an hour glass and years of complicated enchantments. It was one simple spell.

"Can I help you to young ladies?" An older man asked as he walked over to us, a strange smile plastered across his face. He was wearing a tucked in pink polo shirt that said the name of the shop on the breast pocket. He looked at us with appraising eyes; I think he wanted to call the cops. I looked down as I remembered that we were still wearing our school robes. Any muggle would think us to be crazy.

"Um, no thank you sir, we were just looking for somewhere air-conditioned." I invented off the top of my mind, "We are going to a costume party in a bit and we arrived a little too early." I said smiling. I noticed that he quickly believed my excuse and I relaxed. Muggles are so easy to trick, it makes me glad to be a witch. Muggles can't even see what is right in front of them.

"Well if you to ladies need anything just holler." He said smiling one last time before walking away.

"Bri, how is it that you can come up with excuses like it isn't even a problem?" Ali asked me as she started laughing. We quickly made our way over to a booth near my parents; I scooted in on one side as did she on the other.

"I think it has something to do with being related to him." I nodded my head in the direction of my father. We could hear him and mum faintly. He was telling her how he had assumed she was a witch; apparently she had been stirring her hot chocolate without touching the spoon.

"They were so cute together, even at that young of an age." Ali said to me, she was smiling.

"Yeah I know…" I said. I couldn't quit looking at my father; it was strange that I somehow looked just like him. Of course, I had always known that, I had seen all of mum's pictures; but seeing it made it real. My hair was the same shade of blond and I had the same innocent look. But maybe that comes with being a Malfoy. Who wouldn't trust the face of a Malfoy!

This was the first time I had ever seen him in person, I knew good and well that I didn't want to change this moment. It was so perfect, and I knew I was risking everything by staying here. But I just had known that he was real, that this was real. A few minutes wouldn't hurt anything.

"Bri, I think we should get going, Teddy and Jason are probably wondering where we are…" Ali said as she went to scoot out of the booth. I knew she was right, but I still looked at her with a pleading look on my face.

"Five more minutes, that's all I am asking." I said tuning my gaze back to my parents. I was taking a mental picture, I wanted to save this in my memory, I wanted to see this vision when I closed my eyes, and my patronus memory is that very moment.

I saw mums face light up as he told her about Hogwarts. The amazement in her expression was enough to make the most depressed person in the world happy, if only for a minute. I watched as my father smiled, it was identical to mine, I smiled. I felt a strong desire to talk to them and had it not been for Rosalie, I would have.

The five minuets I had asked for flew by so fast and I couldn't stop Ali when she slid out of the booth and pulled me out of my seat across from her.

"No…" I whined as I tried to pull my arm from her grasp. "Five more minuets…" I said trying to convince her, but I failed miserably.

"No Brianne, we have to go, we wouldn't want them to see us and we need to get back." For once she was being the rational one of the group. It was refreshing.

"Okay," I said pulling out my wand once we were out of site. "Mutisutcart" It was the spell backwards. I even did my wand motions backwards.

I felt the light weight feeling again, like I was being squeezed through a tube of light blue, gold and silver light. I could only hope that it was taking us back. For all we knew we could end up a thousand years into the future, that wouldn't be the best thing.

I felt my feet land on solid ground, and I slowly opened my eyes. I hadn't even known they had been closed. I grinned, we were back all right, and from the look on Teddy and Jace's faces, we hadn't been gone too long.

OoOo Hermione oOoO

"I remember seeing them come in…" Draco said quietly as he looked at a spot on the floor, was completely interrupting what was being said. And Harry seemed a bit annoyed by being interrupted. The way he had said the words had suggested that he was awestruck, so did the look on his face. He looked as if he had seen a ghost. "I remember glancing up," He said just as quietly, "and seeing a girl trying to drag another from the Ice cream parlor." He looked up at everyone.

"And you are just now mentioning this?" Harry asked skeptically, what were the odds of him seeing the two of them. Hermione rolled her eyes; she knew exactly where this was going.

"I only just realized it." He said defensively. It wasn't Draco's fault that he was an unobservant child. "If I had realized who those two girls were, you would have known long ago." His voice was noticeably rising in irritation.

"Sure we would have…" Harry said sarcastically. They all wanted to know why he suddenly felt the need to pick a fight; Harry of all people.

"Look…" Draco said angrily as he went to stand up. Hermione grabbed onto to his arm and pulled him back down; Harry lifted his arms in surrender.

"I was just kidding, Draco, You don't have to get your designer long johns in a twist." He said smirking. Everyone was laughing by this point. Draco's face turned red with frustration.

"Oh look! It's raining," Luna said excitedly. "Let's go jump in puddles! I hear it keeps the Whackspurts away" Luna said jumping up in excitement. She looked genuinely enthused about the thought, though I think it was more of her way of changing the subject. Everyone laughed as they watched her dart out of the library door. Blaise soon followed her.

"Who really jumps in puddles?" Tom asked questioningly. He seemed to find it as a silly idea, but then again, he might have been looking for ideas…

"Luna." Everyone else said in unison.

"Hey Gin," Hermione asked quickly standing up. She had a childlike grin on her face.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" She asked mirroring her sister's expression.

"If it involves joining Luna, and jumping in puddles, then yes." Hermione said as her grin grew wider.

"Count me in!" Taylor said jumping up. The three of them hurried to catch up with Luna and Blaise. Cherokee, Seamus and Draco soon followed as well.

Hermione stepped into the rain. She closed her eyes as she let the rain fall onto her. It felt so calming to have the cold droplets of water fall onto her skin. It made her feel like a little kid again; so innocent and carefree… not to mention soaking wet.

After a few minutes she felt a pair of strong arms wrap around her middle.

"You my darling are going to catch a cold." Draco whispered into her ear. She smiled.

"It will be worth it, Drake. You need to learn to live a little." Living was something that in the past few weeks she had learned to not take for granted. She knew it was something that could be taken away in a heartbeat. The human body wasn't as invincible as some think it to be. It's as fragile as the skin of a porcelain doll.

She pulled herself from his grasp and went to join her sister, Taylor, Luna and Cherokee. They were all just as wet as she was.

Hermione slowly bent down and dig her hand into the mud. She rose slowly and threw it at Ginny who shrieked.

"YOU DID NOT JUST THROW MUD AT ME!" She said laughing. She grabbed her own clump of mud and threw it in Hermione's direction, but she ducked. The clump of my hit Draco square in the face… This was going to be world war three…

Soon he was throwing mud as well as everyone else… His first aimed at Harry; and as it hit him in the face Draco shouted in defiance, "I DON'T WEAR LONG JOHNS!"

OoOo Ginny oOoO

Ginny and Harry apparated into Grimmauld place soaking wet and covered in mud. As childish as the idea sounded now, it had been fun. They had all joined in and enjoyed every moment of it.

"I call first dibs on a shower." Ginny said the minuet their feet hit the ground. She didn't feel like having to get dry mud out of her hair. Even if it would just become soft again, but still, she had already ruined her new shirt. It was a lost cause.

She darted up the stairs to the bathroom.

"Okay." Harry said trying not to laugh, "I can just use the other bathroom…"

She rolled her eyes as she shut and locked the door behind her." She made her way over to the shower, the one they had had installed as turned the knobs so that water flowed from the shower head, as she waited for it to heat up she de robed.

She stepped into the steaming hot water and let it hit her face. She didn't care that it was scalding hot, all she knew what that compared to the cold rain it felt good. She stood there enjoying the feel until she finally decided she needed to get the dirt out of her hair.

When she got out the smell of her lavender shampoo filled the bathroom, it was so relaxing that she felt as if she would fall asleep standing up. She quickly got dressed and made her way out of the bathroom.

~ A few minutes later ~

"Harry!" Ginny called out as she walked down the stairs. She had on her Pajamas and her strawberry blond hair was in a pale pink towel. She couldn't find Harry anywhere; she had already searched the upper two levels.

"Harry!" She called out again and heard something fall in the kitchen. "Harry, what in the name of Merlin's saggy left…" She trailed off when she opened the door a smile spreading across her face.

"Ummmm…" He said looking at her sheepishly. "Can you come back in ten minutes…?" He asked.

"Suuuure…. When I do you have to tell me what, this," She motioned around her, "is…" She walked out grinning.

OoOo Hermione oOoO

"I can't believe you started a mud war." Draco teased when they got back in the house.

"Oh shut up." She said laughing. "You are just as guilty as I am; you participated just as much as I did." She said changing out of her muddy clothes. If she really had been a mudblood, it would have a whole new meaning.

"But I didn't start it…" He smirked playfully. Hermione threw a book at him.

"You really have no sense of what's fun." She said rolling her eyes as she pulled on a clean shirt, and headed for the bedroom door. "I am going to go check on Brianne." She smiled sweetly and left the room.

OoOo Tom/Voldy oOoO

Tom stared intently at the unopened box of fireworks. His evil little mind formulating complex plans… "Fluffy VonMeow…" He said thoughtfully as he looked over at the cat… "I wonder what would happen if I was to put these in a…" Ohhh this plan was just so good that he couldn't even finish his sentence.

OoOo A/N oOoO

1. Do you forgive my lateness?

2. Was it good?

3. What was your fav part; mine was the whole first two paragraphs.

4. What is Harry up to; I have a general idea… But I want to know what yall think…

5. What is Voldy going to do with the fireworks; that is what I haven't deciphered yet…

This whole chapter literally wrote its self, it just employed my hands… This isn't what I had in mind at all. But I like where it's going : P and just so you know, I am going to go back and edit Love happens, I am reading my own story, I found a few things I want to fix, spelling errors, inconstancies, stuff like that... Okay, REVIEW PLEASE!

~Taylor (Slytherin at heart)