"YOU DID WHAT?"

Audrey grimaced as Hannah showered her face with spit. It wasn't that Hannah had horrible dental hygiene or anything, but spit was still spit.

They were in Madam Malkin's fitting room, where they accompanied Susan as she looked for something to wear on her friend's wedding. Audrey and Hannah sat on the bench outside Susan's fitting room, while the latter was unceremoniously throwing dresses that didn't fit or didn't suit her over the curtain rod. Susan stopped hauling one of the dresses midway when she heard Hannah shout. She yanked the fitting room curtain open, quite forgetting that she was only in her brassiere and slacks (and that her usually immaculate auburn locks looked like a vulture's nest).

"What's going on?"

The two looked at her with very different expressions. Audrey looked a little bit frightened, while Hannah looked vicious. She raised an eyebrow at her best friends. Audrey looked sideways at Hannah.

"I suppose you want to tell her." Hannah sighed and closed her eyes for a bit. When she opened them they were a fiery brown. "Alright then." She suddenly stood up, folded her arms and paced back and forth.

"So, Audrey here made a stupid, stupid bet with her band mates."

"And?"

Hannah threw her hands up in frustration and let out half a scream. Madam Malkin immediately went to see what the commotion was all about and popped her head in the fitting room area.

"Something wrong with the fit girls? I can always make alterations, you know," said Madam Malkin with a worried, crinkled face.

"Nothing's wrong at all Madam Malkin! We'll just carry on here!" shouted Susan as she tried to dismiss the elderly seamstress with a wave of her hand.

"I'll just be outside if you need me, then, dears." With that, Madam Malkin left the girls to their conversation.

Hannah sat down again, but her arms remain folded. Audrey looked at her friend with a pained expression. Susan was getting annoyed now, and whipped out her wand. The two suddenly looked up at her.

"If you don't tell me what's going on THIS INSTANT then I'm afraid I'll just have to-"

"I have to make Percy Weasley fall in love with me or else I quit my job at the Blotts!" cried Audrey. She then covered her face with her hands. Hannah looked at her sympathetically, and then put her arm around her best friend. Susan squatted so she could look closely at her Audrey, while patting the latter's knee.

"Can you please tell me everything, Aud? Right from the beginning?"

Audrey set down her hands on her lap and sighed. "So the band was there in the flat, right? T'was around 9 I think, or 10 o'clock. Anyway, things were fine until they brought up the article-"Hannah and Susan looked at each other with guilty looks on their faces, then continued to listen to Audrey.

"-then one of them suggested that we have a bet, to see if I had problems dating and all that bull, y'know and it all went down to either me getting Quill and Co. here or me losing Flourish and Blotts and I-I didn't know what to do! And now I have to woo this enormous prat with an ego to match the size of the London Eye!"

"Then get off of it! Put an end to this! Is there any reason why you-"Susan stopped halfway when her eyes popped. "Oh no, please tell me you didn't."

It was Hannah's turn to look at her best friends. "Am I missing something here?" asked Hannah with furrowed eyebrows. Audrey looked at Susan, and then slowly nodded.

"Oh Merlin," moaned Susan as she slumped to the floor. She started chewing on the tips of her hair, as she did every time she was under pressure or worried. It was a habit she got not long after she splinched herself at the Apparition lessons back then. Hannah looked at Susan intently, then at Audrey, when realization suddenly dawned upon her face.

"It's the Unbreakable Vow, isn't it?"

"We got a bit drunk! And then, it sort of, happened," said Audrey miserably.

Flashback

"Let's make it official, shall we? Okay, so the Weird Sisters, excluding Audrey, bet that Audrey can't make Percy Weasley fall in love with her in a span of two months. If she can, then we'll make Quill and Co., London happen. If she can't, then-"

"I quit my job, yeah." said Audrey firmly.

"Right. Pass me one of those lemon biscuits Kirley then, there's a good lad."

"Why don't we make things interesting? Open up a bottle of wine or something!" suggested Gideon.

"Well I think I might have some elf-made wine there in the cupboard-"Before Audrey could finish her sentence Orsino already summoned the said wine.

"Accio wine!"

Soon, the Weird Sisters were in varying degrees of intoxication, and even Audrey had trouble keeping herself from giggling like mad.

"Alright, alright, we MUST have an unbreakable vow to start things properly, I think," suggested Myron.

Audrey stopped giggling and pouted. "Do we need to? Do we? Do we?" she said as she clutched Myron's hand and playfully tossed it up and down.

"Yes, my little love crumpet, we absolutely must," said Myron with so much solemnity that Audrey started laughing again. Myron caught Audrey's hand, and signaled Herman to be their bonder, to which the latter happily obliged. Herman pulled out his wand, and pointed it at their locked wrists. The whole band was watching them now, laughing and drinking, with no clue at all as to what was happening.

"Do you, Audrey Eli-Ele-Eleanor-ugh, that was quite a mouthful-Tremlett, swear to do the-hiccup- bet, and promise to-hiccup-seriously attempt to woo the poor Weatherby-hiccup-I mean Weasley boy until he-hiccup-falls in love with you?"

"Yes I do!" said Audrey cheerfully. The band giggled around the two. A red misty line soon appeared and swirled around their wrists.

"Do you promise that if you lose the bet, you quit your job at Flourish and Blotts?"

"You betcha!" The red line grew thicker and brighter.

"Alrighty, then, you have got yourself a proper bet!" The red line then slowly dissipated, leaving only faint traces of the spell.

"Let's drink to that, people!" shouted Merton.

Their little party raged on, as well as the storm outside. Audrey laughed and laughed and found herself wondering whether she was ever going to stop or not. Yet when she caught a glimpse of her wristwatch, she yelled, startling Merton and Herman who both sandwiched her.

"I have to get going!"

"Awww, but we've just started!"

"Shut it, you git! She has to go now, you know, for Weatherby!"

"For Weatherby!" they all shouted as they raised their glasses in the air. They then each took a long drink and continued to laugh.

"Give him our love, Audrey baby!"

'Right. If they're saying things like Audrey baby then they're positively pissed,' Audrey thought.

But then again, so was she.

Audrey put on her black dragon-hide boots (which she had attempted for four times before she had them both properly on) and flattened her hair a bit (which resulted in having the effect opposite of what she had intended). When she was sure that she had everything she needed (wand = check, money = check, sanity = not so much), she turned on the spot and apparated deliberately outside the Leaky Cauldron rather than within the threshold, where she could rid off her drunkenness with a bit of a rain shower. It was a miracle she didn't splinch herself, she thought. After a few minutes, Audrey got herself a clear head with the price of chattering teeth and soggy boots. 'I can do with a drying spell, no problem,' she thought. 'Let's get it on, then.'

With her head held high and her fists clenched at her sides, she marched inside the pub.

"So the truth of the matter is, then, you get to maybe lose your job, get a new one, or die?"

Audrey, Hannah and Susan were now at the counter, where the latter was paying for her dress (a body-hugging deep-green tube with a v-cut and a flowy skirt).

"That sums it all up, yeah."

"I think we all know that you'd rather die than to lose your job, Aud. But then again with this-"Susan flittered her hands for lack of a better term.

"I know," muttered Audrey. 'How could I have possibly let myself go like that?! How could I have been so enormously STUPID?' she thought angrily.

"It's not entirely your fault, if that cheers you up," said Hannah.

"Oh that cheers me up a WHOLE lot, thanks Hannah," snapped Audrey.

"I'm only trying to help you, Audrey! You're the one who got yourself into this mess, so don't jump on my throat for only trying to make you at least a bit better!" shouted Hannah, hurt that Audrey was giving no sense of gratitude at all that even though her stupidity, they still sided with her.

Susan clutched her parcel and looked nearly on the verge of tears. Audrey didn't know what to do at that moment and went to hug Hannah and Susan with all the strength she could muster. The two hugged her back and they broke apart only when Susan complained about not being able to breathe. The three laughed and wiped away tears from their eyes.

"I don't know how I can ever make it without you two. You know that, right?"

"Bloody hell, we do!"

"We're always here, Aud. Always."

The trio then stepped out of the shop and a burst of sunlight greeted them, temporarily blinding their eyes. When they had adjusted to the sudden brightness, Audrey said, "Huh. I guess it stopped raining."

And indeed, it did.

"Sleepover at your house, Susan! What say you, m'lady?" said Hannah gleefully.

"Oh, all right then. Just make sure you don't fight with Bluebell, or else-"

"I'm not the one starting fights with your cat Hannah, and you know it."

Audrey closed her eyes and smiled. For a little while she could enjoy moments of peace like this. Well, at least until Monday came.

A/N: Hi guys! So the Weatherby thing is totally from Goblet of Fire, and I wanted to use it because I would like to think that people would really quite confuse Weasley and Weatherby when used on Percy.

And the part with "Always." You all know where that came from. *sniffs

"You and Me" – The Wannadies made this story possible, by the way :D