Hello, I'm Sweetblonde14 and this is my first time writing a Charlie and OC story. I hope you like it!
Top Ten Reasons Why Weddings Should Be Avoided
Chapter 1
We are proud to inform you that you have been
invited to the wedding of our son,
Bill Weasley
and, his fiance,
Fluer Delcour
The ceremony will be at the Burrow on June 25 at 2:00.
Charlie Weasley sighed at the invitation in front of him. 'So Bill has found himself a wife.' He was quite shocked actually. There were very few women out there who would be willing to date a man with long hair and an earing. Ginny had wrote to him about her. She said she was a snob and besides her looks there wasn't anything else to love about her. He ran his hair through with his fingers. Bill described her as an angel that fell from Heaven.
Charlie got up from his desk and walked out into the sunshine that shone brightly that day.
"Charlie!"
Charlie turned around to see his friend Corey coming towards him.
"Hello, Corey," said Charlie.
"Top of the morning to ya," said Corey jokingly. Corey was Charlie's best friend and he was Irish as well. "Whats new in the life of Charlie Weasley?"
"My brother Bill is getting married," Charlie said flatly.
"Well thats great news," said Corey. There was a long pause between Charlie and Corey. "Whats with you Englishmen? Aren't you suppose to happy when your brother gets married?"
Charlie sighed. "I am happy for him, but the rest of my family isn't. My sister says she's a good for nothing snob and my mother just doesn't like her for God knows why. I haven't met her. All I know is that she is very pretty."
"What about you? Why do you look so upset?" Corey asked.
"When I arrive home for the wedding and I don't bring a date, Mom will say 'Oh Charlie no date'? Well thats okay because there will be some pretty ladies at the wedding that are dying to meet you,'" said Charlie. Both of them started to laugh.
The two friends starting walking towards where the dragons were being held. "Listen," said Corey. "Are you doing anything tonight? Because if you weren't I was hoping you would come with me on my date tonight with Tara and I."
"Why?"
"She has a friend that she insisted on bringing and I insisted that I would bring you as well," Corey waited for his answer. When he didn't get one he continued on. "Please come Charlie. Do it for the girl. You might really like this girl and do it for me too. Do it mostly for me though."
"Fine," Charlie said grudgingly. "But you owe me. You know I don't like doing stuff like this."
"I know, that's why I asked you to do it mostly for me." Both then walked to check on their favorite creatures... the dragons.
"Please El," said Tara. "Do it for me. I know you don't like to date, especially when its a blind date but he's Corey's friend and I think you'll like him. Besides, I really want you to meet Corey and when I told him that I was going to invite you to come with us on our date he insisted that he would bring his friend as well. Its not I like planned it like that or anything."
"Why didn't you ask me before if I wanted to meet this Corey of yours?" Said Elinor. Elinor and Tara had been roommates since their years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They met on the train. Tara was a very outgoing person, she had loved to sneak out at Hogwarts while Elinor was a very shy person in school. But with Tara as a friend they were never ignored in any way. They were put in Gryffindor together and they were inseperable. Tara wanted to see her friend find a guy that she would fall in love with. So many times while at Hogwarts she set Elinor up on a date. Elinor thought that she was being set up yet again, like Tara always did.
Tara worked at a bank in Romania and Elinor was healer. Elinor took a good look at her roommate. Tara was about five feet and six inches tall. She had long dark brown hair and the softest shade of brown in her eyes.She was slender and had a wonderful smile. Guys went head over heels for her. Elinor, on the other hand, was five feet and 2 inches. She had curly red hair and blue eyes. She was slender as well but she was not a graceful as Tara was and had quite a temper. There was only one guy who really liked her and that was Paul from back in the states, and she did not return the affection.
"You can't tell me that you don't want to meet him? After all I might marry him someday and not only will you be my maid of honor, but you will be the godmother of our first child too," Tara informed her.
Elinor frowned. "What makes you think that you're going to marry him? Did he ask?"
"Not yet," said Tara with a sigh. "Oh El, I do wish that you were in love just like me. Its Heaven. We've talked about it at least. Oh please go, El, you would make me the happiest girl in the world if you said yes."
Elinor sighed. "If it will make you happy, I'll go, but that does not mean that I like this anymore than I did before."
"Oh El, you are so stubborn," said Tara.
Elinor ignored Tara and looked at her watch. "Sorry I can't stay any longer and chat but I have to get to my new job."
"What's your new job El?"
"I'm working with dragons as well now. I take care of them when they're sick. I also will take care of the dragon caretakers as well, when they get burnt or something like that," said Elinor.
"Oh, well, have fun," said Tara with a smile. Elinor said good-bye and apparated to her new job.
Charlie whistled happily as he went to check on the dragons on that day. His last visit was Norbert, Hagrid's dragon. He had promised Hagrid that he would check on him everyday. Charlie walked to his cage. Norbert had grown since that day with Hagrid. They put a muzzle over his mouth to protect those that might get in the way of a fireball.
"Hello fella," said Charlie to Norbert. Hagrid wasn't the only one that liked him. Soon they would be letting him go into the wild. When he was younger he need someone else to take care of him but now he was an adult. "I'm gonna miss ya when you leave." Someone behind him cleared there voice.
Charlie turned and a woman about his age was standing behind him. She had red hair and the bluest eyes he had ever seen. But as he kept looking at her there was something familiar about her.
"I'm sorry to disturb you but I have to give this dragon a shot," she said.
"Go right ahead." He gestured her to come closer. She was timid at first but she soon grew accustomed to the dragon. "First time?"
"Um yea, I'm the new healer around here," she said.
"I'm sorry, but you look familiar, what's your name?" He asked.
"I'm Elinor Harris," she said. "And you are..."
"I'm Charlie Weasley," he held out his hand for her to shake. "I'm here studying dragons." She took his hand and shook it. "You went to Hogwarts didn't you?"
"Yea, and I remember you Charlie Weasley, you were on the quidditch team for Gryffindor, you were the seeker."
"You used to hang out with that Tara! I remember you, I remember you very well. Tara used to do all the talking for you and her," he said.
Elinor blushed. "She didn't do all the talking," she said. "I do recall that you dated her at one time. You broke her heart, too."
"Well, let's just say we didn't see eye to eye. She wanted to get married right out of school and I wanted to focus on work. She was bloody mad when I told her that I didn't want to marry her and that we needed to break up. Are you to still friends?"
"Yea we share an appartment," she began to prepare the shot. "And don't talk about her like that. Just becuase she's a bit of a romantic..."
"A bit," interrupted Charlie. Elinor gave Norbert the shot.
"Look," she began. "Can we please stop talking about Tara? She's my best friend and what happened in the past is in the past. Okay?" She offered her hand to him.
"Okay," he said and he shook it. Just about when he was going to say something else to her there was a shrieking noise.
"CHARLIE!" Said Megan. A tall pretty blonde came out of nowhere with a really tight shirt and pants on, to Charlie's side and to his arm. "I've been looking for your everywhere," she looked at Elinor. "Who's this?"
"This is Elinor," he said. "We went to school together. Elinor, this is Megan."
"Hi Megan," Elinor said politely.
"Hi Elinor," Megan smiled. "Charlie, it's time for lunch and I thought you and I would have it together." Megan turned her attention to Elinor. "Excuse us." Megan pulled Charlie away from Elinor and out the door.
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