Melinda turned around and gave Chris a wide smile. "Yes...much bettter. I'm not so fond of blood, either..." She told him, then walked towards where he was sitting. "Now, would you like some help to get downstairs?" She asked, taking his hand as she stood up again.

Chris looked at the shirt. "Umm yeah it kind of gross. Really? Well I actaully had to face my fear of it this past term Not saying I can look at it, but that was what my boggart was." He told Melinda. "I think I should be ok." He said as he stood up with her and took her hand and smiled.

"A boggart? I would have loved to see that." Melinda told Chris with a smile. In fact, she just wanted to have the full year Chris had and not the lessons given by mail with JoAnne.

She wrapped her left arm to Chris, just in case the boy would suddenly don't feel alright to walk fine.

"Yeah it was pretty awsome. And yet creepy at the sametime. Mine was myself having a nose bleed." Chris told Mel and chuckled slightly.

He then felt Mel wrap her arm around him. "Mel I promise I will be fine." He told her.

"Yikes...that must have been quite the trauma for you." Melinda said, letting out a small laugh, then grinned at Chris.

"But what if I want to hug you?" She asked, sort of an excuse to use.

"Yes and no. It was a bit weird to see though. But yeah at first it was just scary." Chris said told Melinda and smiled.

"A hug? And are you going to hug me the whole time we are going down stairs?" He asked raising an eyebrow slightly.

"Boggarts are supposed to do that. Plant the fear on which you have to deal with..." Melinda told her, then smiled wide.

"Yeah...don't complain." She told him, giving him a playful glare.

"Yeah I know they are very strang ceatures. And actaully a lot harder to deal with then you would think." Chris said to Mel. "You like have to think of something funny and still say the spell. It gets very confusing." He said nodding but then chuckled.

"Alright whatever. You are giving me a hug as we walk down the stairs. Really not one of your smartest plans." He told her. "Hey don't give me that glare." He said smiling wide.

"Again...that'd be great to see and do. Face a boggart." Melinda said, sad about the situation she had been placed in her last year at Hogwarts, leaving it.

"Fine...I just feel the need to take care of you. This one is my fault and you know, I like to just...be a great nurse." She told him, letting out a long and thoughtful sigh.

"Yeah cause great and scary are the samething." Chris said laughing. "No I think you would have liked it." He said nodding.

"Awe you feel the need to take care of me?" He said smiled. "Well fine I guess I will stop complaining and let you 'hug' me." He said putting air quotes around hug.

Melinda laughed along. Chris was being just like when they were still that cute and inseparable couple at Hogwarts: Funny, clingy and loving, way too loving...

"...well, thank you." She said to him and smiled to him wide, as he got hold of him with her hug...and they both started to walk downstairs towards the backyard.

Chris smiled wide when Mel laughed. "You know I missed hearing that, and seeing your smiled. To make this short sweet and to the point I pretty much just missed you." He told her still smiling.

"Well this is going to be a trick." He said using a lot of sarcasm. "Melinda you can let go of me."He told her and smiled once they were in the backyard.

Melinda stood there, quiet for a second. Her smile was the only thing you could see from those words Chris had said to her; and boy, she was wearing a big smile at that moment. "I so have missed those years we spent at Hogwarts and at the manor...I just can't stop thinking that it could still be the same with us if I had not accepted grandma's protection, if you call it that way..." She said, making more of a sarcastical gesture than the horrible reality.

When Chris asked her to let go of him, she smiled and did so. "...now, let's just get ready," She said, as she held the broom in her hands then hopped onto it, to soon tap the floor then rise into the air and infinite space they now had. "This is...amazing. It's been a month since I don't ride a broom like this..." She said, noticing it was going over the limit she had put herself into the last time she rode a broom.

"I know I miss it to. Like what would it be like if you weren't in France. I mean would we still be together or would you be traveling some where with Daniel?" Chris said teasing Mel. "Maybe you two would even be engagged." He said stil joking.

Nick watched as Mel and Chris came down. He had ran ahead of them. He got tired of waiting. He had a bluger in his had. "Yeah Chris heads up." He said hitting the ball towards him.

"Whoa." He said and in one move grabbed the beater bat-that was right next to him-and smacked the ball back. It went far back.

"Thanks Chris." Nick said as he went to go get it.

Chris then turned back to Mel. "Yeah it kind of is. I would suggest taking it slow for a little bit getting use to it. Or if you want to blow that idea go for it." He said smiling.

"I told you, Daniel is more...fond of JoAnne than me and yuck...no possibility of me and him to be a couple." Melinda said, shivering at just the thought of that possibility. But then she noticed the teasing tone Chris was using, and then came the glare she would give him for those comments. "Don't you dare think that...again." She warned.

Melinda giggled when Chris threw the bludger very far back, then of course had to concentrate back on the game. "Yeah, maybe...but I think I like this new speed. I think I'm going to buy a broom...though I know I'd have to hide it..." She said, shaking her head.

"Oh come on Melinda I was just joking. But I guess it wasn't really funny." Chris said. He made a innocent face. "I promise to never, ever think that again. I just that it would be funny and it wasn't. I'm sorry." He said acting all sad.

"Yes but just be careful please." Chris said smiling. "Why would you have to hid it?" He asked wrinkling his eyebrows.

That sweet face of Chris...AWwww...Melinda just couldn't resist to that wrinkled, cute and gorgeous face. "Oh, of course I forgive you. For me, there's only going to be you." She told him and smiled wide. Mel wasn't lying...after all, they were going to be together, weren't they?

"I'll be careful. This broom..is in the best hands. And I have trained for these kind of brooms since I was little, but just a short time ago, I had the guts to ride one." She told him, quite trying not to look towards the ground.

"Well, grandma had some things clear on the arrangement we made. I am not supposed to do magic, at all...from the moment I start on that chef school I'm about to start in two weeks." She explained, though feeling kind of sad. "I don't want to cheat...you know." Mel said with a giggle.

Chris smiled his wide smile. "Ah yes the same for me." He told Mel. He didn't care at the moment if they never really did end up together. All he knew was he loved Mel.

"Well I just don't want you getting hurt. I'm not superman and I can't save you. Well at least not today." He said with a chuckle.

"Oh but that would be funny to see those peoples faces. But it would be wrong very wrong." He said and smiled to Mel.

The superman, superhero comment. It just made her laugh so hard. Melinda remembered calling Chris her hero after that time at the lake, when she almost had a heart attack.

"I'mma put all my effort into it. No magic, my only rule." She mentioned then smiled.

Chris smiled when Mel laughed. "So I'm guessing you remember that eh?" He asked her.

"Yes I know you wouldn't use magic. Yet like I said it could be kind of funny. Unless someone saw you then it would be good a lot." He said nodding. "So how are you liking the broom?" He asked.

Melinda nodded, still trying not to laugh while she was still up in the air, nor talk. She just didn't want any bugs sneaking into her mouth. That would be hilarious, yet horrendous to taste. "That day...is just memorable." She yelled, in a very fast speed, avoiding to choke from the air against her face.

"Are you kidding me? This is the best ride ever. I now can't wait to play..." She said, stopping while waiting for Nick to come back.

Chris chuckled when Mel say the day was memorable. She was right it was a pretty awsome day, well exceptfor her have a heart acttack. But beside that it was good.

At that moment the bluger came flying back towards Chris. Expecting it he caught it. "Good try Nick." He said laughing.

"Yeah yeah thanks." He said stopping his broom. "Hey can you get the quaffle?" He asked.

"Here." Chris said throwing it towards him as he but the bluger back.

It sure had been interesting to see Chris catch the bludger. "If you hadn't expected that...you'd have your second injury of the day, but you wouldn't have been able to wake up tomorrow morning for your ride to back to Hogwarts..." She commented, quite worried. It was sure way too risky to play Quidditch.

It was a call. Melinda had to steal the quaffle. She swore into the air towards the flying ball and took it before Nick did. "...I said, this has been my game for the past two months on these escapes to Greece..." She told both Kaplan boys, with a smirk on her face.

"If I didn't catch it." Chris said and snorted. "Yes I know I probably wouldn't have been able to get out of bed for like a whole year. Which would suck cause I would miss Hogwarts to much. Mostly the food though." He said and chuckled. "But I promise to stay out of the way now." He said and sat in one of the chairs. "Better?" He asked.

Nick watched as Melinda came and stole the quaffle before him. "Wow your fast." He said with a sly smile and bent down on the broom. Heading right towards her, not to hurt her of course.

"To be exact, a month..." Melinda cleared, remembering that hit she got once, though it had not been as severe like when old tales told that the trauma could last way too long. "The food...oh, yeah it was the best." She commented, getting back the flavour of the delicious turkey and bread she used to eat when she was there.

"Much better...thank you." She told him, bowing her head in agreement.

It was time for Nick to play fair against her. "Come and catch, kid..." Melinda challenged with a wide smile, then threw the quaffle as far as possible.