I walked into a new store they had put in in Diagon Alley, it was a music store selling alot of muggle music. I ran my fingers over the tops of some CD's and glanced at people looking at them funny. I looked to Ephram, he took my hand and smiled, I turned to him and hugged him for a minute or so. "What was that for" He asked as I pulled away. "I love you so much" I said as a tear fell onto my cheek. "I'm sorry" I said and wiped my cheek. "Dont be" He said as he pulled me into his chest.

"Gee's, there are some ugly muggles" B said looking around as we sat at the back of the bus. I tried not to laugh as a few of them turned around and looked at us. "Just stays on the ground doesn't it? These muggle buses?"
"Keep it down a bit, B" I warned her. "Oh this is our stop!" I got up and B pulled her wand out to stop the bus. "NO!" I snapped as an elderly couple stared at us, I siezed the wand from her.
"Teenagers" the old man muttered to his wife, rolling his eyes. I hit the bell and pulled B off the bus before she said something back to them.
- - - - - -
I tapped my wand clockwise around the bricks at the back of the Leaky Couldren. The wall seperated and opened to reveal Diagon Alley. It was almost refreshing to see the wizarding world again.
"Come on, let's see if we can find Stevie or Kira" I said walking into the Alley as the wall behind us began to close.

"I'll be fine, Grandma! See you later!" she began stating more rules but I quickly grabbed my things and took a handful of floo powder.
"Bye!" I sighed a bit rushed and before she could protest I dropped the floo powder and shouting, "Diagon Alley!"
Everything began to spin, but after traveling by it a lot this summer I was pretty used to it and before I knew it my feet hit the bottom of a fire place in a robe shop I had never been in before. I stepped out and looked from a nice silky red robe to the sut on my hands and finally to the expensive amount on the robe's tag before I ran out of the store.

OOC: Sorry I was gone - my family's been coming in for holidays and things have been hectic, lol.

We walked outside the store and sat under a table covered with an umbrella, it felt odd to be in Diagon Alley, it was like I didnt belong there.

OOC Hello, where is everyone? OOC

((My connection was gone again! Darn that Internet firm! lol It has some plusses too though. I got some of my homework done! hahaa, actually its a lie cause I was still behind the comp all the time playing Need For Speed Underground 2... Really good game... ))

"Can I have my wand back now?" I asked Will as we walked down the Alley. I still hadn't understood what I had done wrong, why Will grabbed my wand for me. Well it was kind of obvious I didn't know how to act in the Muggle world. I got an F in Muggle Studies. And the point of me being there wouldn't have helped me one bit. Muggles where weird and that was that.

OOC: lol, B!

I brushed myself off a bit and looked around for Stevie and the others but saw only Will and B in front of a book shop.
"Guys!" I called and waved a hand then ran over to them.
"Hey," B smiled and Will looked like he was about to say something back towards B but stopped and said hi.
"Seen Stevie?" I asked and they shook their heads.

ooc: Sorry, been stressed busy!

"We should head over to Florrish and Blotts, it's a lot cheaper" I commented. We headed around the corner.
"Look!" B said, pointing up ahead at a small coffee shop where Stevie and Ephram where sitting, talking.
"Okay, am I the only one worried about her?" I asked as we headed up the crouded street towards them.
"Worried?" Kira asked.
"Well, I mean, just look at this. He appears out of the blue, sweeps her off her feet and just happens to be an all round nice guy, I just don't trust him" I complained, keeping my voice low.
"Sounds a litte firmiliar" Kira muttered.
"Exactly, and what did Rachel turn out to be? A fraud!" I said, my anger rising slowly as I said her name. "She's been hurt enough and if this guy wants to mess with her, he can deal with me!"

"Well he is Pomphry's son" Kira said looking at him. "Hi Guys!" I said looking up and taking a sip of my coffee. "Hi" Will said uncomfortably. Ephram smiled, "Hey Will" He said and shook his hand, Will looked a bit apprehensive but shook it back.

We pulled up some seats and sat down at the table, I looked over to Ephram for a moment but as he looked to me I stared down at the table.
"S-So, you're in your seventh year arn't you?" I asked Ephram.
"Yea" He nodded.
"Uh huh, how come we haven't seen you this whole time at Hogwarts?" I asked, looking at him sharply. Kira shook her head at me in disgrace.
"Well, I have studied abroad" He replied in a calm voice.
"I bet" I nodded "So are we just going to sit around sipping tea all day or are we going to get this stuff?"

"We're done" I said a bit oddly as Will gave me a look. Ephram took my hand under the table and squeezed it. "Oh" Kira said and looked to Will. "So Ephram...where are you from?" Kira asked. "Well, I was born in the United States, and I lived there for a while, then moved to London, thats why I have an American accent." He said and smiled.

I looked at Stevie, she was looking at me with a slightly worried expression on her face, as if I was crazy.
"Oh really?" I said, leaning over the table "See, I had a girlfriend from America once, uh huh, she turned out to be a death eater in disguise". Kira buried her face in her hands in embarrasment, then kicked me under the table. "But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?"
"What are you saying?" Empram asked me.
"Nothing, nothing at all" I said, leaning back in my chair.
"Will, your acting like a freak" Stevie muttered.

"Stop. It. Now. Will," I said quietly through clenched teeth and smiled up to Ephram who looked completely umcomfortable.
"Well if you all are done, I say we go," I got up from the table and tugged at Will's sleeve and shook my head, for he was still staring at Ephram.

We all got up and began to head up the street, Kira grabbed my arm, pinching it tightly as we walked infront of the others.
"Ouch! What's that for?" I snapped, pushing her hand away from me and rubbing my arm. She rolled her eyes,
"That's for interigating Ephram" She said sourly.
"Do you trust him?" I said in a low voice, staring at her, she didn't reply. "Look, we all thought Rachel was great and--" Kira looked at me "Okay, so you didn't all think Rachel was great and you where right. I just don't want her to go through the pain that I am going through"

"Will, you can't just assume everyone who comes into our lives is going to be just like Rachel, and turn out to be a death eater," I sighed. It had never been like this before when we all met up at the summer, it had never been so awkward and so unhappy.
"You have to admit Kira, he comes from America, he just shows up out of nowhere, it's fishy," Will said, I just shrugged, it was true. I would of said something but Stevie, Ephram and B had caught up with us.

EDIT -- Double post...

I noticed that Kira had gone silent quiet quickly as we continue to head up the street. Suddenly there was a scream as a firework came spilling out of a building up ahead. It flew up into the air and exploded into a crude word.
"Weasley's Wizard Weezes" I sighed, shaking my head as I noticed the store up ahead. "Guess your uncles are hard at work".
"Hmm, maybe we should stop by and get some gifts for our favorite Slytherins" B laughed. However everyone else seemed to take it serious as we headed over to the shop, pass several mothers hiding their children from the rude word that was now fizzling out. We opened the door to see that the store was quiet crouded and noisy, not to mention the amount of magic exploding every where.
"Least it has atmosphere" I laughed as we headed down a few of the aisles. I saw a very tasty cup-cake sitting on the self "Oh yum!" I grinned grabbing it, as I did it exploded in my face.
"Exploding cup cakes, Granger" Fred grinned walking over to us "Would have thought you learnt not to trust any thing in here"
"Thanks, I'll remember that" I said to him sourly as I wiped it off my face.
"Kira, just got an Owl from Ronnikins, he's looking for you" Fred said, looking to Kira.

I looked at Fred and George suspiciously, "Is he here?"
"O'course he's here, where else would he find you?" George smiled and picked up something that looked like a firework. I turned to Will then stared a bit confused and looked out the window to see my dad walking into the shop.
"I'll be right back, I guess," I said to the four of them and walked through the door over to him.
"Kira!" he exclaimed and took me by the hand and dragged me over to a corner slightly, "Listen, we... you left to soon thismorning, we need to talk."
"About what??" I asked and got loose from his grip.
"Kira, your mum..." he started.
"What about her?" I asked, when it came to talking about my mum I was never too happy, it didn't even seem like she existed anymore, and I was doing a good job of making it seem that way.
"She's moving back, her and your brother and -"
"WHAT? NO! He's coming here??" I shouted so loud you could here me over the next firework George set off.

We all turned and looked towards the corner where Kira was as she screamed at something that her father had said. I turned to Fred who was showing a sneaky looking man one of his fireworks.
"Fred, do you know what they're talking about?" I asked, pulling on the back of his cloak as I stared over at Kira.
"Hold on a sec Granger, I'm doing business" He said "So this is our top line of fireworks, as you can see it has inbuilt propellers to help ensure..." His voice faded away as I turned back to the others.
"Wonder what it's about" B said shrugging. I nodded and looked around, then noticed someone at the window. She had short light brown hair and thin lips, but a part of her seemed very firmiliar.
"Hey B, is that Courtney Weasley? Kira's mum?" I said, tapping B on the shoudler and indicating near the window.
"Her mum? I've never met her" B said, looking out the window.
"She used to babysit Stevie, Kira and I when we where really young..." I said in a low voice, as I turned back to look at her I noticed she was staring at Kira and Ron in the corner. "It's defenetly her!"

ooc: Lol, I just spend ages looking for number 5, then relised it had finished I've caught up and hopefully I'll be round heaps more this year!

Me and Mitchell where walking up one of the streets of Diagon Alley. It was really, really busy with students and everything.
"Oh no, it's the Weasel shop, it's a wonder they can seal anything at all!!" I laughed and pointed to the Weasley's Joke shop. As we walked past the window we saw inside at Will and B. Next to them was a tall boy and a blonde girl, as she turned I saw who it was and laughed some more. "Look what Potter's done to herself! She looks stupid if you ask me!"
"She looks hot" Mitchell said. I hit him hard in the stomach.
"Potter isn't hot!" I shouted angrily "Next you will be saying the mudblood is your best friend".
"Watch your language" Said a women with brown hair.
"Who asked you?" I said angrily.
"Don't talk back to my mum!" Said a boy next to her, he had short red hair and freckils and his wand pointed at us.
"Wanna duel do ya?" I said, taking out my wand and pointing it at him.

"Who are you to challenge my brother?" I shouted towards Harriet, and my dad pulled me back.
"Your brother??" I heard someone ask and turned to B, Will, and Stevie who all looked confused.
"I think I can handle her, Kira," I heard my brother mutter and I glared at him as Harriet looked back and forth between us.
"What's all this commotion outside of our shop?" Fred asked walking out, George following him.

"Put down your wand you git" Fred yawned staring at Harriet.
"B-Brother?" Harriet said, still staring at the boy "Who have a brother? Since when was there more then one Weasley runt?". Fred, George and Ron seemed to take offence to this term as they all jumped slightly on the balls of their feet.
"Unless you want to be spending the rest of the year shaving get a move on" George said to Harriet, holding up his wand threatingly. Harriet lowered her wand and folded her arms. "So Courtney, it's good to see ya, been a few years, hey?".
"Yes, it has" She said, then looked to Stevie and I, "Stephanie and William, just look...look how tall you have gotten...". I smiled polietly, then relised I was blocking Kira, so I took a side step to reveal her to her mother.

I stared at her, she had cut her hair from what I remembered, but she mostly looked the same. She smiled and I smiled back, but quickly realized what I was doing and took a side step back behind Will.
"Kira," my dad rolled his eyes and grabbed me by the sleave revealing me to my mother again who hugged me and I just gave her a slight pat on the back.

ooc: I don't know your brother's name so I'm just going to use the name Luke, if you want it to be something else just say and I'll edit it!

I looked to Stevie as Kira awkardly pulled away from her mother's hug, Stevie had looked back at me. We both knew that her mother had left after Ron and her got a divorce.
"H-How are you, Luke?" I asked the boy with red hair who was nearly as tall as me, even though he was younger.
"Fine" He said simply.
"Er... so... what--?" I stumbbled out trying not to be rude.
"What are you doing here?" Stevie asked taking the words from my mouth.