philophobia-the fear of falling in love
or becoming emotionally connected
to someone...
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This is a story you've heard before, passed down through generations, about a young girl and a young boy who utterly despise each other.
Then, somehow, t...
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xxi||muggle day
Strolling down the streets packed with scurrying shoppers and eager teenagers are four wizards and two witches, blending completely in with the rest of the bustling muggles on the street. James and Sirius' eyes are wide and excited and Maria is looking around in awe at the Christmas lights that are hung in each shop's window and the snow sticking to the ground is somehow gone in the road that cars are driving down, trying to get to their last minute ships before Christmas. Lily leads the way, Maria looking between her and James and seeing their two hands secretly interlocked makes her heart swell with happiness as she walks between Remus and Sirius, Peter in front of them but a bit behind James and Lily.
Sirius' arm is linked securely through Maria's — making sure they don't lose their best friend's younger sister in the swarms of what seem like rogue muggles — and Remus, being a lot taller than Maria and even taller than Sirius, is strolling alongside them with a small smile on his face seeing his best friends so bemused by the common muggle street.
A while later, they finally reach a rather large building with no windows and the five furrow their eyebrows as Lily pushed open a door and looks back at them with a raised eyebrow.
"This looks like somewhere someone would get killed." Sirius deadpans. "By a fucking muggle."
"Come on! It's a surprise." Lily urges and Maria drags Sirius into the building that's filled with loud music and sort of zooming sounds as well as loud bumps on wood every few seconds. The six of them stroll through, their shows hitting the red and blue patterned carpet as they approach a desk where a man is stood wearing a red top with a name tag reading 'Joe'.
"Hi!" Lily greets cheerfully and the man lazily looks up from the computer screen. "Um, shoes for six?"
The man grunts and goes into a room behind him before coming back out, his hands filled with six pairs of strange, silver and red shoes that Lily takes in her arms, handing him some muggle money and thanking him.
They stroll over to some cushioned seats and Lily sighs as she drops the shoes onto them. "Take a pair."
"Excuse me?" Maria asks Lily who is now taking off her shoes casually and skipping on some of the strange looking red and silver ones. The quintet share a look before shrugging and sliding on the shoes. Lily takes their shoes and gives them to the man making Sirius gape at the red headed girl.
"Woah—my shoes!"
"Shh!" Lily hisses, sort of thinking it was a bad idea to bring five wizards into a crammed muggle place. Lily grabs James' hand and tugs him over to another room, the other four following — intrigued. They stroll into the room and music is being played through some speakers, there are ten rows of shiny floor with some pins at the bottom, at the end of each row there's some comfy seats and a sort of container filled with all different coloured, shiny balls with strange holes poked in the top.
