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"My birthday is June 30th. I know you didn't but you didn't know me on my last birthday and I didn't really expect a Christmas present anyway. When is your birthday? I want to do something for you on that day." He informed her, petting her hair slightly from where she'd basically melted into him.
"Well if you come to America with me you'll definitely meet them. They'd murder me if I didn't let them see the girl I'd told them about. I hope you don't mind that I told them a little about you but they asked how things were going and if there were any cool people here." Thinking about his next answer he decided that the best way to answer would be to try not to categorize all his friends.
"A lot of them are like us, they go to the same school as I did when I lived there. Then there are the ones who are squibs, they're probably the coolest. I do have muggle friends though, but all of them proved trustworthy enough to know about magic and they tend to help play off any magic that an outsider may be privy to. I hope that you'll like them though." Reid left out that most of his friends consisted of people who were famous in their own right, wanting that to be a little surprise. "They also help to keep the fangirls away," he said shuddering at the word fangirls. "Unfortunately they aren't always successful, so please stay close to me this summer. Occasionally we've had to call the police or security and I don't want you to be taken away with them."
"I'm glad," he whispered, holding her closer, still disbelieving that she was really there, that they were really standing like this in public where prying eyes could spot them. It felt so peaceful though, nothing like the summer would be. He just hoped she would deal with it well and not break up with him because of it.
"June 30th? Reid, that's in like, a couple weeks!" Rachel exclaimed, eyes widening as she realised that she would now have to find the perfect gift in under a month. Even the cookbook had taken three weeks to think of! She was DOOMED.
When was her birthday, he asked. Lucky guy had A WHOLE YEAR (almost) to think of a present.
"April fifth," she replied absent-mindedly, her brain working a mile a minute as it tried to come up with a good present. Guh - this was SO not fair.
AHA! Distraction - good.
"You told them about me?" she asked slightly rhetorically, a huge grin smothered all over her face at the thought. That means that he's liked her for a while just as she's liked him. Laughing at his 'cool people' comment, Rachel couldn't help but inquire,
"And? Are there cool people here Reid?"
What he said next made Rachel's brain go slightly fuzzy. She'd had NO IDEA that wizards tended to perform in muggle films... Running through a list of muggle celebrities in her head, she wondered how many of them were actually wizards in disguise. Jake would so LOVE this.
"I'm sure I'll like them - after all, they're your friends right? Which means you like 'em, which will mean that I will like them. . ." she nodded with a smile, not really imagining Reid's friends as the type of people that she wouldn't like.
There really weren't very many people Rachel Rider could say she didn't like... Those two Huffie sixth year girls, her parents (but that was something ENTIRELY differnet) and... Well, that was kind of it. Ooh and that Slytherin girl that she'd disagreed with in that DADA class in her second year - but other than that, none.
"I'll stay VERY close - don't you worry. Those girls will not know what hit 'em!" Rachel replied fiercely, a slightly comical determined look in her eye. No girl was going to get close to Reid Hemingway this summer - that was for sure. Well, unless he had kissing scenes in the movie. But for those, she'd politely excuse herself from the set and go sight-seeing or something.
Or she'd stay and make the actress's day a living hell No no! Sightseeing! Shopping!
Standing there in Reid's arms did wonders for her mood. She could not seem to hold onto any negative emotion for long and the fifth year was SURE that someone had slipped her a Calming Draught in her water earlier today because there was just NO WAY she was this relaxed. Well, as relaxed as she could get. No matter where she was or in who's arms she was in. . . Rachel Rider would always remain slightly insane. In so many more ways than one.