The news came to a shock to everyone. No one knew anything about the lawsuit. Apparently, someone had gotten food poisoning, but no one knew who it was. The only thing we worried about was the lawsuit itself. The man had gotten very seriously ill. Ill enough that the money we would have to pay him could jeapordize the business if we didn't maintain things well enough.
The good news was that we didn't lose very much business. Most of the regulars still came, including Mrs. Dursley. To try and attract people to make up for the customers we lost, we started advertising our performances. For the last couple of weeks, only Technical Success, myself, and the occasional friends of acquaintances that stopped by had done shows. But finally, we convinced Elle to come and this was day. I was so excited that I made everyone clean the Brew two or three times before she arrived. She came around two o'clock.
Ellie came in with Scorpius holding her hand. Draco came in behind them, holding a baby carrier. Thankfully, they were all dressed in Muggle clothes. Elle had on a nice, silky black blouse and black dress pants. Draco had on an aqua colored polo on and some jeans. Scorpius had on a little green sweater vest. They had Vincent Colin dressed in a cute little blue onsie. I ran to them and hugged her.
"Hey, Ellie! Thank you so much for coming!" I squeezed her. She stiffened.
"Yeah... let go of me before I change my mind..." She mumbled. I let go and stepped back.
"Sorry. Awll! You all look so cute!"
"Thank you, Frecky!" Scorpius hugged my legs. I laughed and ruffled his hair.
"You're welcome, honey. And thank you so much, again. With this lawsuit we need as much positive publicity as we can get."
"I'm so sorry to hear about that." Draco spoke up. Elle stepped forward.
"Who did this, anyway!?"
"Well, we're not sure, but we're managing it okay... erm, so how is Vincent Colin?" I asked. Draco lifted the baby carrier higher for me to see.
"Good." Elle lifted him out of the carrier. He cooed and blurbed.
"The colic is gone." Draco added.
"But he's going through a hair pulling stage." Just as she said it, Vincent Colin took a big chunk of her hair and pulled. She whimpered. I knew she was very tender headed, so it must have hurt a lot. Because of the crying, Vincent Colin began crying. Draco grabbed him. As soon as the baby saw his father, he started smiling again. Elle rubbed her head, teary eyed.
"Can I hold him?" I asked, despite what I just saw. Draco looked surprised.
"Are you sure?"
"Of course! I love babies!" I smiled. He handed me the child. He focused on my curly hair before grabbing it and pulling. Luckily, I was very hard headed so it didn't hurt. He squinted his eyes and pulled again. He did few more times before, as if my reaction wasn't satisfying him, began squalling. I bounced him a couple of times, sticking out my tounge and blowing raspberries. He stopped and looked at me curiously, so I did it again. He stook his tounge out as well.
"Plllllllllllllt!" He tried, getting drool all down his chin. I laughed and did it back.
"Pllllllllt!"
"Plllllllt!"
"Plllllllttttttttttttttttt!" We continued to do this back and fourth until Ashley came up to us. He had been in the back the whole time and didn't know they had come in.
"Hey, Elle. Hey Draco." He greeted. They both nodded. Scorpius excitedly bounced up and down.
"Hi, Ashley!" He waved. Ashley chuckled.
