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Chapter 3

"Oh Godric." I slipped due to the change of surface and Silvaine caught me, and I realised why once taking a look around my blindingly white surroundings. "Here, put this on!"

Vez tossed a huge coat at me as I shivered in the cold snow, feeling numb already; I put the cloak on and followed him into the house he just entered. Without the snow flying everywhere I realised it wasn't a house, in fact it was a pub, and upon noticing the large flag over the counter, I realised where we were.

"What are we doing in Switzerland!"

I could also tell by the fact that most of the signs in the bar were in Romansh, one of Switzerland's four native languages. I didn't like the cold; I hope the Safe House isn't here, it rained so much in Indonesia, I was hoping for some good weather, not that I would be allowed outside.

"I'm just coming to fetch something, relax." Vez chided at the look on my face, walking us to the bar. He spoke to the barkeep in what I could only assume was Romansh because I could speak German, French and Italian and that was the other official languages of Switzerland. I looked around the bar; it was relatively full for midday.

"You two, wait here with her. I'll be back shortly." He disappeared with the bald man, Silvaine and Selina nodding at his command. Silvain loosened up once his…well his great grand uncle left the room, leaning onto the bar counter, leering at the blonde waitress nearest us."

"It's not just chocolate that the Swiss have perfected." He smirked and I rolled my eyes, looking for Selina to do the same but she had already disappeared, my eyes found her soon enough, laughing up at a buff guy that was throwing darts.

"I seriously think your sister is a nymphomaniac."

He shrugged, "I've given up trying to tame her. As long as she's happy, I'm OK."

"How does she do it, I mean, have sex with a complete stranger."

"You're young, you'll learn."

"You guys are only two years older than me."

He laughed, "You'd be amazed what kind of growing you can do in those two years. Look, it depends on the person, some people, like my sister, bore easily. They need to be constantly challenged, and sometimes you don't get that from a monogamous relationship, or at least she hasn't found one yet."

I thought about that, was I boring. Did he get bored of me? How could he bore of me if I wasn't even around? Was it because I wasn't around?

"Look…I've been meaning to talk to you about something. Last Christmas…when I…when I, you know…"

"Exposed yourself and then proceed to insist I give-"

"Yeah, yeah that." He said, covering his eyes in shame. "Anyway, I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have done that, I was a bit drunk and well…I'm a bit of a dick really."

I smiled at the confession, "Well, I'm sorry for, you know, freezing-"

"Yes, yes, I try never to think of that. Anyway I guess we both did things that we regretted."

"Oh I don't regret what I did, you deserved it."

He shook his head, a small smile on his face, "Well I try not to be a dick now, ever since then. So, you know, thanks for…you know."

I nodded, we had spent the last month together, even having about an hour debate about what was the best sandwich in existence, and yet this was the first time he was saying this.

"Oh! You dropped something!" The waitress with the extremely short skirt looked at him quizzically as he pointed to the floor, I don't think she understood English but she understood his gesture and bent, obviously without using her knees, looking around quizzically at what she dropped as Silvaine tilted his head, getting a good look at her long exposed legs.

I glared at him and he shrugged, "I said I try not being a dick. I didn't say I was successful. Look, it's Vez."

Vez grumbled at the name that he detested, "Come one. Let's go. Where's Selina?"

"Right behind you. What's in the briefcase?"

Her brown eyes took in the large black leather briefcase which Vez now had in his hand. "Rainbows and sunshine. Let's go."

I rolled my eyes and followed, now I know why I liked him so much, he reminded me of my other snarky and sarcastic guardian.

My feet hit the ground and for the second time I found myself falling, Vez catching me this time and setting me again on my feet.

"Oh Godric!"

I twirled around, ripping off the large cloak as I took in my surroundings. We were on a beach, a beach that had the sun shine down on its soft white sand, which was very unlike the one in Indonesia that was just raining continuously. I kicked off my shoes,

"Hold on a second, before you get any fancy ideas about running into the ocean, I think you'd like to see what's inside."

I looked at him quizzically and he had a small smile on his face, which made my confusion grow. I turned and ran to the beach house that was a few feet away, pulling the door open.

"MINNIE!" I ran forward, enclosing her in a tight hug, ecstatic at seeing her, she laughed, hugging me back. Both of us letting go and giving the other a once over, she looked like she was back to working order after that whole stunning ordeal four weeks back. She also seemed satisfied in my progress as her smile widened!

"Ky!" I turned, engulfed in another hug by Mona Zia.

"What are you guys doing here!"

"I'm asking myself the same thing." I looked to the familiar voice, which floated down the stairs as its owner walked down, her red hair blowing in the wind from the open door. Mrs Weasley came bustling out of what I think was a kitchen, a bowl floating behind her that shook as the spoon swirled its contents magically behind her.

"The birthday girl is here." She came forward, hugging me.

"Birthday girl?"

I looked confused at them all.

"Well we didn't get to celebrate last month, so we decided to postpone." I turned, smiling at the extremely familiar voice. She smirked at me, her brown hair up in a lose bun.

"I thought you were going to the Burrow."

"I couldn't exactly spoil the surprise." At that thought a sudden panic gripped my heart, more people were about appear out of nowhere, weren't they?

Mi seemed to catch on as she added, "It's just us girls. Professor McGonagall and I had been planning a sleepover for your birthday. Considering the circumstances we postponed it. We're expecting the others around six."

I nodded, not really caring about whom The Others was but as long The Others was not called Harry Potter…

"Selina, Silvain and I have somewhere to be. Will you be OK?" I turned to Vez, nodding my head vaguely processing what he said as my thoughts were lost in yesterday.

"Did you manage to get the cake, Mr Saber?"

He turned to Minnie and handed the briefcase to her. There was a cake in there? Upon my quizzical look she smiled,

"An old friend from school makes the tastiest cakes; she relocated to Switzerland a while back as her husband owns a pub out there."

I nodded again, trying to smile wide at the fact that Minnie went through all that effort just for my birthday cake and not thinking about jet black haired cheaters.

"Before I forget, this is from us." Selina handed me a gold wrapped rectangular gift and I took it.

"Thanks." I smiled again, Vez frowning slightly at me. He narrowed his eyes at me.

"You sure you'll be OK?"

"I will relish in the absence of your constant hovering." Selina rolled her eyes and Silvaine followed her outside as Vez gave me another thoughtful look before he exited.

"Well, we'll be at the beach, if you need anything Professor McGonagall, Professor Sprout, Mrs Weasley, just call."

"Of course dear."

Mi grabbed me and pulled me out the door as we headed to the ocean. She smiled at me and I smiled back, "That fake smile won't work on me, but don't worry, I am nothing if not persistent."

I rolled my eyes as Ginny gave us a quizzical look. Thirty minutes later I fell onto the blanket we had laid on the sand, drenched from the ocean water but feeling lighter than I did in, well, than I did in the last two days.

Ginny fell on her tummy next to me, her white bikini contrasting well with her flame red hair. Mi lay down on her other side, her blue one piece clinging to her as she just got out of the water. I sighed, the rays of sunlight massaging my skin. I pushed the black sunglasses up, which matched my black bikini that Mi had bought for me and looked at the blue sky.

"I could totally be a beach bum."

Ginny laughed into the blanket, "You're a bum, period."

I giggled, and Mi joined in, everything was funnier in the sun.

"Did you guys put on sun block?"

I rolled my eyes and I could tell Ginny did the same into the blanket. I was too lazy to get up and put on sun block.

"Don't roll your eyes Ginny, we'll see who is rolling their eyes when you're the same skin colour than your hair."

I sighed, knowing Mi was going to make a thing of this so I nudged Ginny and she grumbled to her feet, heading to the bag Mi had brought with our stuff in it.

"What's this?" I lifted the sunglasses up again to see what she held out. "Oooooh, it's from Silvaine."

"And Selina." I added but she was too excited to care as she took in the gold wrapped gift I received minutes ago.

"You can open it if you like." Before I could even complete the sentence she was tearing open the wrapping.

"Godric!"

I sat up, tired of lifting the glasses and just adjusting it on my head. Mi looked at the object in Ginny's hand with distaste whilst I reached for it. She put in my hand and the bottle felt cool against my palm.

"Danahagh." Why did that sound so familiar? "Whiskey?"

"I can't believe they bought you whiskey! You're not of age."

I read the label whilst Mi continued her spiel; Ginny on the other hand felt quite the opposite towards the bottle of liquor.

"It's super expensive; I think dad only bought it once, the day I was born. Because you know they were waiting for a girl and all that. It's not that weird that they got it for you though, the French are open minded about such things, Silvaine sure does look open minded." She giggled and tossed herself on the floor whilst I stared at the bottle, a sudden urge to open it. The memory of alcohol infused kisses came to my mind and I broke the seal with a bit of a twist and Mi gasped.

"You're not going to drink that!"

"Of course not. I'm not drinking this. We are drinking this." Why should he be the only one that gets to have a bit of fun?

"What? No, we can't, the party starts in a few hours and we're not supposed- Ginny!"

Ginny giggled after taking the swig, mopping her chin. "Ugh, I feel like I just drank vinegar!"

I laughed as she wiped her tongue and tipped the bottle back, letting the cool liquid flow down my throat and then stopped, a burning sensation replacing the cool one. I coughed a bit, that definitely wasn't Butterbeer. I held it out to Mi who gave me an annoyed look, grabbing the bottle and tipping it back. She swallowed, and then took another swig. I raised my eyebrows,

"What? When I do something, I always do it properly. It actually doesn't taste that bad. Better than Firewhiskey."

I smiled, taking it back from her and gulping down a bit too much and sputtering a bit as Ginny laughed at me, relieving me of the bottle. I didn't realise that the high pitched giggling was my own laughter until I saw the astonished look on Mi's face, which made me laugh harder.

I tossed myself back on the ground, the movement causing my inner brain to sway a bit. Inner brain? That thought made me laugh harder still.

"That's enough Ginny." I heard Mi say, somehow she was sounding further away than before. I looked up,

"Mi, where you?"

She looked at me confused, "I'm right here Ky."

"Oh. Haha. Where did you go?"

"I didn't go anywhere…where are you going!"

I looked at her confused, didn't she just say let's go and swim? I slipped, stupid beach sand! This time there was no Saber to catch me and I fell hard on my butt. Ginny laughed, her face as red as her hair as she clapped like a mentally challenged seal at my fall, I laughed with her, taking a fistful of sand and flinging it at her face as payback for laughing at me.

She dodged the sand easily, or did she even dodge? Did she move? Anyway the sea sand didn't hit her at all; it hit Mi however who didn't even flinch as she glared at me.

"Oooooppppsss." I laughed again.

"Ky? Hermione?"

"OVER HERE MONA ZIA!" I waved frantically at Mona as she stood at the entrance of the beach house, but suddenly my waving stopped as my hands were clamped to the side by an irate Mi, who pushed me to the floor.

"Keep her here!"

I nodded at Mi, "Don't worry; I will keep Ginny right here."

Mi didn't listen and was already gone off in the direction of the house. I looked at Ginny at the same time she looked at me, so we both started laughing.

"When did you get so funny Red?"

"About the same time that you got so funny Black!"

"That's racist." I pouted, "It's cause I'm darker toned than you, isn't!"

"What? I'm talking about your hair, you bum."

"Now you're picking on my bum, I'll have you know this bum won a Slytherin award last year."

She laughed, why was she laughing, I was being serious. Anyway I laughed too, the sun really did make everything funnier. Mi came back, red faced,

"People are going to be arriving soon and she's drunk! Oh Godric, how could I let this happen! She had so little though."

I looked at Mi, wide eyed, "I know, right."

"Who would have thought she's such a light weight."

I nodded at Ginny, "I know, right?"

"What are we going to do! We need to get her sober!"

I looked at Mi, shaking my head in agreement, "I know, right."

"We could get her a Sober-Up tonic. I know the village over here has a magical shop, an apothecary fronting as a normal muggle shop, mum stopped there on our way to get some supplies."

"Nothing that passes these lips is not brewed by Sev." I laughed, smiling at the memory when Sev said that last year. I missed him, I feel like he should buy a cell phone so we can keep in contact. Unless Voldemort checks his call history then it will blow his cover. Imagine Voldey typing on a cell, haha.

"OK, come on Ky. Stand up."

I let Mi pull me up, laughing, "You think he'll like android or Apple?"

A/N: A drunk Ky…so much of possibilities! Filler chapter, could do with a bit of light heartedness, no?

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