Surprising meetings (anyone)

[kat]

Kat woke up at her brother tickling her.
„Ow, gerrof,“Kat mumbled and stretched lazily in her huge bed,“It’s Christmas break and I’m allowed to sleep in!“<br>„I know, but I was going to invite you to some Christmas shopping,“Jake smiled charmingly, leaning back on one of the bed-posts,“How about we hit the mall and then later you can take me to Diagon Alley. I absolutely love the stuff from that prank store – Weasley Wizard Wheezys.“<br>
„Yeah, and I have to suffer all the pranks,“Kat smiled at her older brother lovingly – ever since Kat had received her Hogwarts letter, her brother had became an absolute fan of the Wizarding world – maybe thanks to Jake Kat already knew about most every wizarding custom.
„Sure, let me get dressed,“Kat nodded and Jake left the room.

Kat pulled on a red sweater and faded jeans, that hugged her body and black boots. She grabbed an apple from the kitchen counter and run outside, where her brother already had the car motor warming.
„Let’s go,“Kat hopped into the car and strapped herself to her seat.

Brother and sister reached a shopping centre quickly and browsed through some shops together, when Jake said he needed some new computer parts and promised to meet Kat an hour later at a cafe in the center of the mall.
Jake handed Kat a credit card and Kat entered a women’s store shop. Kat was admiring a blue button-up blouse, when someone bumped into her back sending her on her butt on the shop’s floor.

Kat noticed a wand rolling on the floor, that had obviously fallen out of the pocket of whoever bumped into her.
„You ougth to be more careful with this,“Kat said calmly, handing the wand back to it’s owner, who seemed faintly fmailiar,“This is a muggle shop, you know. Do you go to Hogwarts by any chance?“<br>

[JordanCortes]

Jordan drowsily pulled the covers over her head, when someone pulled it back again. Justin Cortes stood, leaning against her wall, her comforter in his hand. She scowled and sat up.

"Okay! I'm up. Get out! I need to get dressed!" Jordan exclaimed, shoving her twin brother out of her room. She quickly scampered into a pair of black jeans and a ragged tinkerbell t-shirt. She pulled her long dark brown hair up into a pony tail, applied lip gloss and headed down stairs.

"Shopping today Jordan?" Chris, her older brother asked. She kissed him on the cheek and grabbed a banana, opening it she smiled and continued down the hall.

"You betcha! Be home around 8!" She called over her shoulder as she grabbed her jacket and raced outside into the sunshine. An hour later she was browsing the shelfs of "Dots", jamming to the music over the speakers. Mary Sue Claire, the owner of the store was scowling at her, and Jordan backed away. Running into someone, her wand slipped out of her pocket and rolled across the floor.

Jordan gasped and turned to face the person she had run into, an apologetic look on her face. The girl stood up, and handed her back her wand. Telling her that she needed to be a bit more careful. Jordan smiled and took the wand thankfully.

"Actually yes. You're Kat right? I'm Jordan, we hunted for Charles' cat together?" Jordan said with a warm smile, as she tucked her wand back into her back coat pocket and turned to Kat.

[kat]

„Oh, of course,“Kat smiled at Jordan now remebering where she had seen the girl,“Socks really was a clever kitty, for getting out of our hands for that long. Made me wonder if I’d want a cat for myself also. In the end I’m giving a little kitten to my brother for Christmas. Still have to buy it today.“<br>„Anyway, I didn’t really expect to see anyone from school here,“Kat continued cheerily, paying for the blouse after deciding she still wanted it and grinned apologetically at the older girl,“And now I’m babbling and probrably stalling you from whatever you wanted to do.“<br>Kat looked at Jordan once more, remembering how she had wanted to get this girl as a friend back at school, when she had noticed Jordan for a couple of times. Kat had been intrigued by her. Deciding that nothing bad can come from offering anyway, Kat offered:“Hey, if you aren’t in any bigger hurry, would you like to join me for browsing the stores here? I have to meet my brother in an hour for a second, but otherwise I’m free and I would really appreciate an other opinion as well for the kitten I want to buy.“<br>Not wanting to sound too pushy Kat quickly added:“If you don’t have anything else ahead of you of course.“

[JordanCortes]

Jordan smiled at Kat's invitation. Jordan didn't really have anything else planned for that day, so she nodded; gladly accepting the invite to tag-a-long.

"Sure! I'd love to! But, later some time today I am going to have to leave and head to Diagon Alley. New things in Weasley Wizard Wheesy's that I absolutely must check out." Jordan exclaimed with delight. Her yees shimmered at the thought of pranking people again, she needed to get back into the natural swing of things. She had lost her pranking touch as the events started to unravel in her life.

"You have a brother? Older or younger? Please, don't say younger...it's not as fun with a younger sibling, you can't annoy them. They annoy you." Jordan said as she sifted through some clothes on a rack, sighing with defeat in finding nothing fashionable she turned back to Kat and shot her a mischevious smile.

"Want to head over to the pet store? I saw some cute kittens on the way over here, I think I might buy something for Snooks, my kitten, she's been deserving a present for a long time now." She suggested, as she shifted the weight of her messenger bag to the other shoulder.

[kat]

“Weasley shop – yes, I don’t mind. I wanted to pick up some of those for my brother as well,” Kat smiled happily,” Jake is a fan of their products, although I’m the only poor person who has to suffer from them. My brother is a complete muggle.”<br>
Kat smiled thinking of her brother:” Jake – yep, he’s older. 11 years older to be precise. He took care of me after our parents death, but he is awesome. My best friend kind of.”<br>
Kat watched as Jordan sighed after finding nothing from the rack and nodded at her question:”Yep, the pet store sounds great. Snooks – cool name. How long have you had her? What does she look like?”<br>
Kat stepped out of store and noticed her brother talking to some blond woman: “Wait for a sec, will you? I’ll let my brother know I will meet him back home.”<br>Kat trotted off towards her brother and throwing her hands around his neck jumped on his back.

Jake stumbled forwards because of the sudden weight on his back but managed to hold his balance:”Ugh, Kat, you are getting a little heavy for this!”<br>“Sorry, Jake, I just wanted to let you know I’ll meet you later at home. I met a friend from school and we’ll hang out together,” Kat slipped off of his brother back and examined the woman quickly before reaching out her hand,”Hi, I’m Kat, his little sister. Take care of him, will you? Let him buy you lunch,” Kat smiled as the woman laughed and ruffled her brother’s long hair, whish were pulled into a long pony-tail at the nape of his neck lovingly, after reaching out her hand and standing on tip-toes to reach. Kat’s brother was quite long, and with the leather jacket, long hair and a scar on his cheek from an old motor-bike accident could look quite dangerous to a stranger. Especially since he also did have a black belt in karate.

“Anyway, that’s my friend there,” Kat pointed to Jordan and his brother waved to the girl, before turning back to Kat:” You better take care of yourself. See you later. While I take this lovely lady for lunch as you ordered.”<br>Kat let his brother kiss his cheek and then joined Jordan’s side once again as Jake took the woman’s arm and pulled her in direction of a cafeteria.

“Sorry, had to let my brother know of my plans. He would have worried about me otherwise. The pet store?” Kat offered with a bright smile, pointing towards the sign showing the way to the pet store.

[JordanCortes]

Jordan smiled as Kat came back. She took her friends arm and led her to the Pet Shop, anxious to get in there as soon as possible. As they approached the glass windows of Pet Stop, Jordan turned to kat with a smile.

"No offense, but your brother is scary!" Jordan exclaimed in nervous laughter. She couldn't see any resemblance at all between the two, it was strange really. Jordan shook it off, and pushed open the door to the store where the sounds of barking and mewing filled the air.

Jordan looked around a moment, until she spotted what she was looking for. Cat Nip. Snooks absolutely loved cat nip! It made her all hyper and she enjoyed it immensly. For it was when Snooks was on Cat nip that she was most playful. Snooks was only 1 year old, and she was a Maine Coon, so she was rather loveable, but sometimes, most the time, not playful at all. Which really bothered Jordan, she had gotten a kitten to play with, not to cuddle with...or at least not so much.

"What kind of kitten you going to get your brother?" Jordan asked as she payed for the cat nip, and stuffed the nip into her messenger bag. She scanned the shelves for anything else she could get, and so nothing so she turned to Kat.

[kat]

Kat laughed at the remark about her brother – a lot of people thought that Jake was scary, but Kat never understood them. To her Jake was always gentle and tender, always guarding over her. ((I took Jake’s description of my real brother actually))
So she just laughed and shrugged the comment off.

Kat watched as Jordan headed to some shelf and watched as the other girl took some Cat Nip. Jordan’s questions about what kind of cat she wants made Kat look around the store.
There were dozens of puppies and kittens in cages and play-pens, so customers could see them better.

“Uh, I’m not really sure. The cat doesn’t have to be extremely pretty, but I think I’d prefer someone who actually needs to be bought and taken as a pet,” Kat walked around the cages observing fish in a tank for a moment, “Maybe I should try some animal shelter later – there are the cutest animals there and sometimes the are just killed. It’s awful really.”<br>
Kat stopped at the play-pen with some little kittens and crouched down to watch the kittens more closely:”Oh, look at this gray one! She looks absolutely adorable! What do you think? I don't really know very much about cat's.”<br>

[JordanCortes]

Jordan looked at the kitten. She picked it up and held it, dangled a piece of her hair over the kitten's face. Watching the kitten bat at it with its little paws. Jordan giggled and handed it back to Kat, it was still batting.

"It's a keeper. Playful, cute, and really soft." Jordan told her with a smile as she looked through some kitten toys. There was a ball of yarn, a small one mind you, some cat nip that isn't too much for a kitten that size, an electronic mouse, and so many other goodies for the cats. Jordan picked up a small ball of yarn and nodded. She would buy this for Kat, or her brother rather, but she would still have it a gift.

[kat]

“Great!” Kat smiled watching as Jordan played with the kitten and accepted it with a smile, when Jordan handed the kitten back, “We have a winner then.”<br>
Kat looked around the store and picked up some food for kittens as well then taking them up to the counter with a little basket to put the kitten in and paid for the stuff at the counter: “Did you wanted to buy anything else?”<br>
Kat smiled placing the kitten in the basket and tucking the basket safely under her arm, leaning it on her hip: “Or any other wishes to go to?”<br>
Kat eyed the other girl and bit her lower lip – a bad habit of hers, before smling again and petting the kitten with a finger: “You’ll have to come by one day you know, to see how he’s doing. You are welcomed to stay the night as well, if you live far. My brother won’t mind.”<br>

[JordanCortes]

Jordan laid the ball of yarn on the counter, paid for it and handed it to Kat.

"A present. For Christmas I suppose. Or maybe just for being my friend. Yes, let's say for both." Jordan explained with a smile. She then tucked some hair behind her ear and shook her head so the bangs that she had moved out of her eyes.

"Oh! That would be wicked! I would love to come and visit. And you can come over too! Oh, but I have a sister. Maybe you know her...Katie Davenport?" Jordan asked, wondering what Kat's reaction would be to the two girls being related. Everyone else seemed surprised. She wondered if Kat would also.

[kat]

“Oh, thank you!” Kat smiled accepting the yarn with a smile.

Kat listened what Jordan said about her sister and smiled, although with a raised eye-brow: “Yep, I know your sister. We have met – not really talked though. And I didn't know you were related.”<br>Kat smiled at the other girl – she was surprised, but not shocked. Jordan and Katie didn’t seem very much alike, but then again – the same could be said about herself and Jake - her brother.

“A friend of mine – also in Gryffindor – Dwyane – and Katie don’t stand each other, but I have nothing against her. You can bring her as well, with any other relatives you might have. Our house is big enough to fit us all in,” Kat smirked at the girl, “Well, freely if you don’t bring more than 10 persons.”<br>
“Actually – my brother has to drive away because of work anyway tomorrow for 4 days and since I can’t cook I’ll pretty much have to feed on the stuff you can order home or eat out. It can get lonely in the house all alone, so why don’t you guys come over then? Assuming Katie would want to come also. but then again - you can drop by whenever.”

Quickly scribbling her address on a piece of paper Kat handed it to Jordan and tilted her head to the side, waiting to hear Jordan’s reply.