"Sounds like a plan." He chuckled, "Though I wouldn't mind the first option either," He winked at her playfully, kissing her lightly.

Tay blushed and laughed. She kissed him back. "I wouldnt mind it either." She smiled at him and headed for the door.

Zhenya squeezed his hand. She loved that smile. So much that she decided that rather than go to a bookshop she would take him somewhere she knew he would like. Taking a deep breath in as they walked across the cold street, she wrapped her arm around his to keep a tiny bit warmer, and said "I think I'll take you somewhere I know you will like. And no, it's not an apple tree," she said, trying not to giggle. "And I'm always looking for a book," she replied with a smile. She was, but maybe she didn't need to drag him into an old bookshop to search endlessly for an old book. She was sure he would be bored. She led him towards a very popular shop - the joke shop.

"It's a joke shop," she said with a smile.

Okaaaay. Now where did she drag him into? Gary just let her bring him everywhere. Except to the Girls bathroom of course. Did she say that she would bring him to the place which might be his favorite? He thought she would bring him to the bookshop. The blonde guy tried to guess. But.. Apple tree? He just chuckled. He did love apples, but Apple tree? She was sooo funny. He didn't think that Apple tree might be his favorite though he could eat apples as many as he wanted. Hehehe.

"Wow!" A joke shop? Yeah, it could be his favorite. It had been a long he didn't throw any pranks since he was in Hogwarts. Well, he almost. Gary wanted to pull a prank to her, remembered that he wanted to give her a ton tounge toffee at Feast? hehehe.

Zhenya started laughing at the apple joke when she heard him chuckle. She would have to ask her mother to make an apple pie... but wait, she used sugar. "Do you like apple pie?" she asked him. Althoughhhhhhhh he did once say he didn't want to meet her mother. But that was... before they kissed and became a couple. Maybe he would change his mind. She just hoped that Dimitri had kept his promise.

She smiled at him when he saw the joke shop. Was she right? At least his favourite shop at Hogsmeade hopefully. It was perhaps her second favourite, after the bookshop.

From going to Hogsmeade for a few years, Angelina never been to Zonko's Joke Shop. By passing by it today she got the idea of passing in there for the first time. Who knows what she will find. Probably something good of course. There were a lot of people in the shop, kinda, she just passed up glancing at stuff. She might as well start at the back from where she is going, maybe she would run into a few friends.

Emerald looked over at couple who just entered her shop, eating bean bags and kissing. Staring at them disapprovingly she considered going over and chooing them out of her shop. Luckily though they left soon after. Rolling eyes Emmy turned to her attention to the normal customer in front of her. "No the tea-cups won't break if you drop the once. Repeated drops though they will probably break just like regular tea cups." Fetching a two boxed set with nose-biting teacups she listened to the girls next order.

Thinking Emerald asked "I just got a new batch of hiccup sweets, would those work? They will make your friends hiccup uncontrollably."

While Emerald was busy assisting the girl that wanted to prank more than one person the door to her shop opened again. In came a brunette who looked like her mission in Zonkos was browsing rather than buying. Shooting the girl a warm smile she called out "Hello, do you need help with anything?" If she didn't well at least Emerald had asked.

Sophie was walking around Hogsmeade, going nowhere in particular, when she spotted one of her Slytherin friends walking into Zonko's! She rushed towards the door and entered, looking for Angelina.

"Heeey!" She said happily, waving at the girl. "Wow, I haven't seen you in a while!!" The last time they had met was by the Duck Pond, a few month ago! "How are you doing??"

Saul didn't need prank items. Grunt. No. He didn't need nuthin'. Never needed nuhthin' never. He was only stoppin' in ter see Emerald cuz he had a question fer 'er, a question 'bout the students. One of 'em appeared to be runnin' a shop in Hogsmeade was all.

Clearing his gruff throat, Saul stepped into the shop and glanced about for Em, findin' 'er near the counter as usual. He made his way over there and leaned agains' it, restin' an elbow on the counter. He nervously adjusted his hat, as talkin' ter women always made 'im nervous, and gave her a nod.

"Evenin, Ms. McDougal." Pause. "How's things?"

While he looked for something interesting, suddenly she asked him about apple pie? Why suddenly she asked him about that, huh? "Why? Do you want to make apple pie for me?" he asked, kidding. Gary just smiled to her. It was good if she wanted to make one for him, though he was not a fan of sweet things. But apple pie sounded yummy.

Ah, what should he buy from here? The blonde guy looked confused. Actually he decided to retired from pranks since he moved to Hogwarts. Dungbombs.. No. Stink pellets.. No. He didn't have any idea what should he buy, and who should been pranked by him. "You know.." suddenly he said. "I almost pull a prank to you at the feast." he confessed, but he didn't look guilty. Bad boy! Hehehe. Then he decided to take punching telescope for his cousin.

Would she make him an apple pie? She could... "I can make apple pie," she lied. Her mother could teach her in one day, surely. She could make him the best apple pie ever and hopefully he would like it. "I'll make you one, one day," she told him smiling. She would learn the best apple pie recipe. And if he didn't like it... then she would be able to eat it all.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?
"You tried to pull a prank on... on me?" she asked, pointing to herself. Her? Why would he do that to her? She is his girlfriend. "You would pull a prank on your own girlfriend?" she was getting worried now, what prank was it? When was it... she didn't even remember. "At the feast or on the train? I know it was you that tripped me over Gerald Rush," she said, trying not to laugh. She was trying to be serious, but knew she wasn't being very convincing.

Merlin's beard! What actually he had say to her before?

Huh, stupid mouth. Sometimes he couldn't control what he had said. Seemed like his brain and his mouth didn't work synergistically. But he managed himself to be cool, since she seemed a bit mad. "I'm sorry." He grinned. Well, lucky that she didn't take the sweets or drink the pumpkin juice that he offered to him. If yes.. Well, maybe they weren't together right now. But he thought he wouldn't tell her about them. After he paid the telescope, Gary asked her where they would go next. Trying to turned the topics. "What's the next destination?"

Still fighting the urge not to laugh, Zhenya said "This isn't over Gary," and had to turn away to smile. She couldn't help it. She had been putting up with pranks from her brother and her uncle, and even the cousins she had back home in Russia. She wasn't very good at pulling them, but she had a nice stack of pranks at home to surprise Archer with one day...

She shrugged. Where could they go to next? Laughing, she said "We could go to the salon?" She was sure he wouldn't go there. "How about the Quill shop? I've never actually been in there. We can go to Madame Puddifoot's after too. I always go in there when I come here."

She smiled! Oh, good to know that she didn't get mad to him. Huh, he just hoped that she didn't realize about the toffee and the pumpkin juice that he tried to offer to her. Well, he tried to pull a prank to her when they still hate each other, right? And now they were officially in a relationship. No, he wouldn't pull a prank again to her, unless if she started to be annoying

"Salon? Do you want to cut your hair?" suddenly he asked. Gary had ever told her about his long beautiful hair. And he admitted that she looked better in his long hair, and now she wanted to cut it? That's up to her, but he didn't know if she was suitable with her new haircut. Or quill shop? "Maybe I could get some quill there, then we visit Madam Puddifoot's. Okay?" He smiled and held her hand again. Okay, the journey was still continued!

As the afternoon neared evening the number of customers in Zonkos thinned out and soon there were only a couple of them left. Emerald had stopped rushing about the shop to chat with customers 10 minutes go. Her feet were aching and if they needed assistance they could come to her.

Emerald had just sat herself down on the chair behind the counter when the door to the shop opened and Saul Bunyons in his usual cowboy hat sauntered towards her. When he came to a halt in front of her, she greeted him with a beam. "Evening, yourself Mr Bunyons." Glancing around the shop she commented as she looked over at him. "I'm good, the sales have been picking up lately. How are things on your end, Saul?" Emerald countered back.

Saul smiled a little, in spite of himself, if only 'cause Ms. Emerald always was nice ter talk to.

"Things are things," he answered, cryptically as usual. "Got some customers in, askin' bout th' coupons." He nodded toward the stack on her own counter. "And," Saul leaned in for this part, "I been hearin' some whispers 'bout th' other shopkeeps in town." He gave her a serious look, waitin' to see if she'd take the bait on that bit 'o gossip.

Narumi nodded and said Okay! Oh yes those sound great as well. Thinking once more she added Thanks for helping me! So I think I will take two of the tea cups and some hiccup sweets,please!

Saul, the cowboy Bunyon's always spoke in riddles this afternoon was no different. Emerald ignored it since it has been a long day and she was in no mood to play games with the older man. Peering down at her own coupons stack she nodded "So have I but not that many seem interested in using the discount." Which in itself was a little weird but it wasn't her problem.

When Saul leaned in closer to mention the whispers about the other shopkeepers in town Emerald's curiosity spiked. Nodding she said seriously. "I've heard the whispers too. Do you think there is any truth to them?" Seriously how could a teenage girl if the whispers were true be allowed to run a shop in Hogsmeade?

Turning to the girl again Emerald beamed. "Of course. That will be 1 galleon and 20 sickles for the lot. Do you need anything else?" Fetching a bag she placed the big pack of hiccup sweets and the two boxes of nose-biting tea cups in there and placed the bag on the counter for the girl to take when she left.

"Strange, innit," Saul commented rather idly. He wasn't here to talk about coupons or discounts. He did think a good number o' the chillren were fools fer not takin' it though. Fools who couldn't see the nose on their face.

He nodded slowly as she seemed to agree. "I can definitely see th' truth in 'em," he murmured darkly. "She ain't got a gray hair on 'er head. And that shop--- Merlin, waddit it established in 1768? How's she even runnin' such a place!" Saul was just bewildered by the gossip he'd heard. Things weren't adding up... and he wasn't just talking about numbers.

Sliding down the counter a little as a girl stepped up to pay, Saul respectfully tipped his hat at the child and zipped his lips. Didn't want ter be overheard. Hogsmeaders supported Hogsmeaders, fer the most part.

When Angelina just walked into the shop when she heard a familiar voice. Turning around she saw her Hufflepuff friend Sophie. Smiling wide she said, "Hey Sophie!" She waved back at her, "It has been a while!" It truly has been. It seems like last week she just saw her though. "I've been good, yourself?"

While looking around the shop she heard a voice call out to her asking her something. Turning towards the voice she smiled at the lady and said, "No I'm fine, thanks. Just looking around."

Sophie smiled up at Angelina. "I've been good, too! Full of homework and stuff, but good!" She looked around. She had never been in Zonko's before! "This is such an interesting store! What are you going to get?"

Sophie was no prankster, so she was probably not going to get anything from this store. It was fun looking through the things, though. They had such different objects there! "I wonder what all of these things do!"

Glenn walked into Zonko's and saw her two friends. She bounded over to them, "HELLO!" She smiled and glanced at the shelves of objects. She had to remember when she was in her final year, to buy some dungbombs and let them off at school. That's what muggle students did, right? Make one final prank to remind everyone of them when they went.

Glenn looked over at Sophie, "I think I can guess what the dungbombs do..." She laughed and looked out the window. Brr. She didn't want to leave the store when it was so warm in here!

"Uhmm." Emerald agreed. Saul hadn’t come to see her to talk shop or about discounts which customers did or did not use. He was there to talk about the gossip going around about the red haired girl in the shop not too far up the street.

Lowering her voice as more customers trickled into the store Emerald murmured to Saul "I know, no gray hair. It’s definitely peculiar, if she was the one who established the shop back in the day, she’d be over 300 years old. That can’t be possible can it, because she looks like she is 18?" Touching her own brown curls she didn’t look forward to getting grey hair. If she did she’d go to Monte and beg him to dye her hair black or something.

Getting a thought Emerald asked tentatively "She couldn’t be one of them cold ones, right Saul those who are blessed with immortality?" The thought in itself was scary. But the ones she spoke of weren’t uncommon back in the day. Shivering suddenly she hoped Saul had a more logical idea.

Angelina smiled at Sophie and said, "Me as well," she wasn't a homework fan. Looking around Zonko's with Sophie she said, "I'm not sure, hopefully something good and can use at Hogwarts." Angelina wasn't much into pranks but once in a while, like today, she got into it.

Turning towards the voice she heard, Angelina saw Glenn. "Heeyy!" She waved at Glenn with a smile on her face. Looking over at the dungbombs Sophie was looking at, Angelina raised on eyebrow at Glenn wondered exactly what they did. She has heard about them, but didn't know much of them.

Sophie raised one eyebrow as she eyed Angelina. "Oh? You're thinking about pulling a prank on someone then?" She giggled. "Hopefully not on me or any of my friends!" She knew Angelina was about to get something there, so she would be kind of prepared if the Slytherin ever tried something on her, right? Heh!

Then she heard Glenn! "Gleeeenn!!!" She beamed. She hadn't seen her friend in a while! She chuckled. "Yeah, I can guess what they do..." She made a disgusted face. "Have you ever tried using one somewhere?" She couldn't imagine Glenn doing such a thing! "Oh, by the way, we can start working on our DADA project when we get back to the Castle! And our letter to Treyen-Mr-Head-Boy!" She nodded at her own words. They should definitely work on those things sooon! "Maybe we can send him a Christmas card or something?" Since the holidays were so close and all.