black and white ✰ g.w.

CHAPTER TWO

Waking up the next morning, Olivia felt very much at peace, as she usually did when she was at the shop. Looking over at George asleep next to her, she couldn't help but smile. Even though she had woken up like this too many times to count since she had left Hogwarts, the feeling of content never went away.

She quietly got out of bed, dressed, and walked out into the kitchen.

"Morning," said Fred, sitting at the table with a plate of breakfast.

"Morning. I wasn't expecting you to be up this early," Olivia told him honestly, sitting at the table and using magic to fix herself some toast.

"It's quite easy to get up in the morning if you weren't up all night," Fred responded, giving her a knowing look.

"Precisely why I wasn't."

"Right. Of course you weren't."

"I would never."

"No, never."

"Never what?" George asked, walking into the room.

"Nothing, love," Olivia said. "Come sit, I'll fix something for you. Is toast okay?"

"Yes, toast is fine. Thank you, love," George yawned, sitting down at the table as well as Olivia made more toast from her seat.

"Still tired, eh? Get to bed late?" Fred asked his brother. George nodded, clearly still half-asleep. Fred looked to Olivia. "Interesting."

Olivia just shook her head.

｡☆✼★━━━━━━━━━━━━★✼☆｡

"Step up! Step up!" the twins shouted to the customers in their shop.

"We've got Fainting Fancies-" said Fred.

"-Nosebleed Nougat-" said George.

"-and just in time for school-"

"-Puking Pastilles!"

"Business going well I see," a familiar voice said in Olivia's ear after she had just got done helping a customer. Olivia turned to see her aunt Jade.

"I haven't seen you in forever and I don't even get a 'hello'?" Olivia responded, giving the woman a playful smile.

"Hello. Will that do?"

"It'll have to I guess. Are the kids here?"

"Ah, 'the kids,' as if you weren't one just a mere few months ago... but yes, they are here. Mum, Aaron, and I were placed in charge of them. Fraser and Duncan especially wanted to come here. At first I thought 'it's a shop founded by teenagers, how bad could it be?' but looking around, I must say, I am not only impressed by your boyfriend and his twin, but I am terrified to learn of the antics the children at Hogwarts will be getting into this year because of the things being sold here."

"Oh, me too, me too, trust me. I'm glad I've left, I can't imagine being a prefect and Head Girl now with these products at every corner."

Jade and Olivia continued to talk for a few more minutes, Jade catching sight of Fred and George and smirking at them, causing their eyes to widen in fear.

As the hour progressed, Olivia saw all four of her Hogwarts-aged cousins in the shop. As Jade had said, Fraser and Duncan seemed the most excited about it all and were the ones that purchased the most. Faustus was of course there as well, and while he wasn't as much into pranking and jokes nearly as much as some of his cousins, there were a few things that piqued his interest, one of them being the Umbridge on the unicycle. Evelyn, it seemed, had come along simply because she knew the Weasleys were going to be in Diagon Alley that day as well, and she had been able to find Ginny in a matter of seconds. The two girls were at the WonderWitch display with Hermione and Arabella when Olivia found them.

"Hello, ladies," Fred and George said together, seeing the girls.

"Love potions, eh?" said Fred.

"Yeah, they really do work," said George.

"Oh, yeah, trust me on that one, they do," Olivia said to the girls, remembering the testing process all too well and grimacing.

"Then again, the way we hear it, sis, you're doing just fine on your own," Fred said. "Both of you."

"Meaning?" Ginny and Arabella snapped.

"Ginny, are you not currently dating Dean Thomas?" George asked.

"It's none of your business," Ginny said.

"And you, Bella, the infamous Draco Malfoy?" Fred asked.

Arabella glared at her brothers. "You know, I'm quite glad you moved out," she said.

"Okay, come on now, stop being annoying," Olivia said to the two men, ushering them away. And then, to the girls, "I am so sorry for the unprofessional behavior of my..." she trailed off, looking back to the twins, unsure of what to call them.

"I believe the word you're looking for there is 'superiors,'" Fred said.

Olivia's jaw dropped slightly at his audacity. "Wh- I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that."

"I said-"

"You know, Freddie, I really don't think you should repeat that," George said, knowing the retaliatory nature of his girlfriend all too well.

Fred seemed to consider for a moment, perhaps just then realizing that they were surrounded by products made specifically for pranking. "Right. I'll just leave you, then..." He walked away to assist a customer.

A few minutes later, Olivia was approached by her grandmother and her uncle Aaron.

"Olivia," said Aaron, "I like the sign you lot have got outside - you know, the U-No-Poo one. Has David seen it yet?"

"He has," Olivia said. "Said it was very appealing and that Death Eaters especially would find it very amusing."

Helena laughed. "Sounds like him," she said.

Olivia's family and the Weasley party left the shop not long later.

"Oh, and by the way," Olivia called out the children, "in case I don't see any of you before term starts, good luck!"

[word count: 940]
[written: 8/30/20]
[published: 8/30/20]