AN: I OWN NOTHING!
So sorry for the late update! I have been so busy it's awful! The only reason I could get this done is because I had to leave school early…
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Jay POV
I wrung my hands nervously at the sight of the crowd outside of The Blaise, waiting for the doors to open for the first time. Due to the small town, four girls opening a café together to honor a classmate obviously made a good story, hence the local news crew and photographers outside with the crowd.
"You nervous?" Lily asked, coming up beside me.
"Just a little." I grumbled.
"Don't worry, you look great, and we are going to be right beside you" Hadassah said, brushing off imaginary dirt from her outfit.
"Yeah, your going to be sick of us by the end of the day." Sabrina laughed, slinging an arm over my shoulder.
"What? Never." I joked, nudging her arm off.
Hadassah was wearing a black pencil skirt, gray tights, black ankle boots, and a dark blue blouse.
Lily was wearing a black, fitted scoop-neck short sleeve shirt tucked into a purple skirt with fabric roses all over it and a black waist belt.
Sabrina was wearing black jeans, a white blouse with little teal bows covering it, and a thin black leather waist belt with a black bow for the buckle.
Finally, I was wearing black leggings, a royal blue baby doll top that dropped low towards the back, covering my butt; and gray knit boots that were folded over.
"OK, let's do this." I sighed, gathering m thought up before walking out to the waiting crowd.
"Miss Barton! Can you give us the full story of what inspired you to create this café?"
"Who is going to run it while you are away at boarding school?"
"Do you hope to one day make this a chain of cafés?" Several people yelled their questions at me, hoping to write down any interesting replies.
"Um…" I said, attempting to get my thoughts together. "The full story is confidential, but it is honor of a friend, My family will tend to the café while I am gone, but I will do what I can from school, and lastly, no, this will be a one of a kind café." I said, gaining confidence as I spoke.
"Now, that's is enough questions for now, The Blaise is officially open!" Lily yelled, swinging the doors open so we could get away from the quickly moving crowd.
Several Hours Later.
"UUGGHHHHH…." I Brina groaned, flinging herself backwards over the couch. The café had been busy all day, and we had just finished cleaning.
"People are such pigs." Hadassah said, wrinkling her nose as she scraped the final piece of gum off of a table.
"We should make a gum alert, every time someone puts gum under a table and alarm goes off and we make the person scrap everyone's gum off all the tables." Sabrina mumbled through closed eyes.
"That's totally a good idea, not like anyone would suspect any magic involved in making that." Lily said dryly, rolling over the top of the couch and landing on top of Brina.
Suddenly, the clock chimed midnight.
Brina shot awake, effectively knocking Lily off of the couch.
"It's Christmas Eve! Presents!" She shrieked, running into the back room and returning with an armful of gifts. The girls had decided to make it a tradition that every year we opened our gifts on Christmas Eve together, then spend the rest of the day using said gifts.
"OK, mine first!" Sabrina yelled, chucking presents at us as she crash landed beside Lily, who only groaned in response.
We all tore into are presents, I had to admit, I was pretty excited, I had a really big box that was…..kitty litter?!
"Oh, haha! You jerk!" I groaned, chucking the box at the cackling girl.
"No, no, that's not it, I promise there's a good one in there." She laughed, throwing the box aside. I kept searching through the bag (which I suspected had a extension charm.) Until I finally felt something.
"OHMIGOSH I FREAKING LOVE YOU!" I screamed, setting the coffee machine aside and tackling her into a hug, Lily and Hadassah not far behind.
"Um, just one question, popcorn?" Hadassah asked, showing us the jumbo bucket.
"Hehe…I was discreetly hoping for a movie night?" Brina said sheepishly.
Hadassah had gotten us all matching lockets with the layers for four pictures. (AN: HAS ANYONE SEEN THOSE? It's like a little picture book!) One side had a picture of the four of us laughing by the great lake, our shoes and socks kicked off and splashing in the water. Thanks to magic, you could see it as if it was a full sized picture.
"What's the other side for?" Lily asked, noticing the blank spaces.
"Well, if anyone marries, they can put a picture of them and their husband together, the third is for whatever you want, and I thought for the fourth, we could give the lockets to our kids and they could put a picture of them and their friends!" Hadassah informed us excitedly."
Lily had gotten us all spy/pranking kits that were packed with grappling hook launchers to muggle smoke bombs gave off colored smoke.
Finally, I had gotten each of us a diary in a house color with our name engraved in it.
"It's kind of like a diary," I explained, passing them around. "Except what you write will show up in the other three, and if you tuck a picture in it or something, it will show up in the other three, so it's basically a scrapbook, a way to pass notes, and a journal all in one."
"This is bloody brilliant!" Sabrina laughed, giving me a quick hug as Lily and Hadassah geeked out over the spells it must have taken.
"I'm sorry to interrupt you girls celebrations, but I must say, what a dear little café you have built." A voice sounded from behind us. We all whipped around to see the Marauders along with Dumbledore all watching us with amused expressions.
"How did you get in here?" Lily asked, shocked.
"Evans, we're wizards, Alohamora?" Potter said with an amused voice. Lily flushed and mumbled something under her breath.
"And if you four haven't forgotten, I believe there is to be a meeting tonight, yes?" Dumbledore chuckled.
"CRAP! I forgot all about that!" I shrieked, jumping up and dove behind the counter to begin making drinks for everyone. As a second thought, I ran back, grabbed my coffee maker, and returned to making the drinks.
"Why are you four here so early?" Hadassah asked the Marauders politely, attempting to make conversation.
"Well, we are staying at a hotel in town for the holidays…" Black trailed off with a smirk. WAIT WHAT?!
"YOU'RE WHAT NOW!?" Lily shrieked, before blushing as she remembered the headmaster was in the room. Pft, teachers pet.
"Yup, and we just couldn't bear to stay away from our favorite girls, so we thought we would pay you a visit. And we ran into Dumbledore on the way over here." Remus finished with a triumphant smirk. That little…..
I was interrupted from my thoughts as the bell rang, signaling a new arrival. Next thing I knew, a little girl with purple hair, along with the Prewitt twins had entered the café.
"Hello, I like you're place! Oh! Are youmaking drinks? I'll have a hot chocolate please! Extra whip cream!" The girl cried, skipping over to a stool at the counter. I speechlessly handed her the drink, shocked that she was allowed in the meeting.
"OK, no way, nu huh, aren't you a First year? No way are you allowed in this meeting kid." Black said, voicing my thoughts.
"First of all, I'm a second year, the name's Tonks, and Dumbledore invited me, so HA!" She sniffed, turning her nose up in the air. I was liking this girl…
"Professor, you can't be serious!" Peter spluttered.
"He is, Mr. Pettigrew, young Tonks has many skills that can be very useful, and plus she won't be doing anything dangerous, just being a look out." A voice said from the door way. I once again turned to see Professor McGonagall and Mad-Eye Moody.
"Bloody fantastic." Peter grumbled, glaring at the gir, who poked out her tounge in response.
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"Um, can I have everyone's attention please?" I called, to the now gathered crowd, who silenced after a minute or two.
Potter and I were standing together on the stage that was for Karaoke night. (Which was actually just an excuse to have an announcement stage for Order meetings.)
"Thank you, so as you all know-"
"Why is a student leading this? Shouldn't it be someone, I don't know, more capable." Mundungus Fletcher (Is that how it's spelled?) called. This appeared to start a chain reaction of mumbles throughout the crowd. After a minute or two Potter seemed to have had enough.
"Hey, if you got a problem there's the door, now shut up!" He yelled. After that you could hear a pin drop.
I cleared my again.
"Um, thank you, I would like to welcome to the first meeting of the Order of the Phoenix. You have all been selected because you posses certain capabilities that can be very useful. As we all know, there is a war coming, and it's not going to be pretty. The purpose of this group is to put an end to Voldemort and the Death Eaters."
"And why should we listen to you? Why not let the ministry do it?" Once again, Mundungus Fletcher interrupted.
"If you are so thick that you even think for a second that the ministry is going to help, then you are just being thick." Potter snapped, obviously having taken a disliking to the man.
"The truth is that the ministry doesn't want to acknowledge Voldemort as a threat, they won't do anything, and plus, to do this, we might need to work outside the law a little. You should know that this is going to be very dangerous, so we only ask you to sign this paper if you are completely willing to go through with this. If not, we understand, and you are free to leave." Potter finished, before jumping off the stage and passing the sheet around to be signed.
In the end, the majority had signed, only a few walking out, on whom Dumbledore cast a memory charm.
"I can't believe he signed up." I said in disbelief as Fletcher signed his name, Tonks excitedly waiting behind him to sign.
"Hide your cash register at the next meeting." Potter mumbled under his breath.
"OK, so the next meeting will be held next week, same time and place. If we have any assignments, we will contact you, but they won't start until next week, you're dismissed." I called to the crowd. Some immediately apparated away, but a few others lingered to catch up with their friends.
"So, ladies, what now?" Sirius asked as the Angles and Marauders joined us.
"Excuse me?" Hadassah asked.
"Come on, it's Christmas Eve, and aren't we all friends? Plus I saw popcorn and Scream 4 on the counter." Lupin said with a laugh.
I sighed and looked at the girls. Lily and Hadassah were seeming to be debating, but Brina was practically vibrating over the thought of watching the movie.
"Eh, what the heck?" I said, gesturing them over to the TV set up by the couches.
"YES!" Sabrina screamed, sprinting to the kitchen to pop the popcorn.
This was going to be an interesting night….