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[igloogirl]

Gabriella walked out the door to Ollivander's and smiled as she watched Angel pull out a jar of pickles. That seemed to be Angel's new favorite food. "Are they any good?" Gabriella asked, nodding at the pickle jar. At least Angel wasn't eating them with peanut butter; that was just bizarre.

[calcetines]

Angel chuckled a little bit as she ate a pickle in about two seconds flat. "They're excellent," said Angel, reaching into the juice for another one. "They would taste better with peanut butter, though." It was just one of those weird pregnancy things, just like having to go pee all the time. And her changing emotions, simple things could make her extremely angry, or cry, even. Angel hated the fact that she was pregnant just because she was stupid enough to have sex with Wolfgang, but to her, abortion was not an option.

[igloogirl]

Gabriella made a slight face, then chuckled a bit since she should be the last one to say anything about weird eating habits. She conjured up a jar of peanut butter and opened it, holding it out to Angel. "Have some peanut butter," she said with a smile.

[calcetines]

Her eyes widened a bit as she swallowed a mouthful of pickle. "Thank you," Angel said, putting the jar of pickles under one arm so she could open the peanut butter. She then began her typical routine of dipping pickles into peanut butter and eating it. She swallowed the first mouthful. "That's good," Angel said quietly with a smile, then went back for more.

[igloogirl]

Gabriella chuckled quietly at this. Pickles with peanut butter would probably not appeal to her in her human days, nor did they appeal to her now. Then again, no food did so she could hardly judge. "Shall we get going then?" she asked as Angel was getting another pickle.

[calcetines]

"Sure," said Angel. "I can eat while I'm walking." She held the peanut butter in her left hand and kept the jar of pickles held tightly beneath her left arm, which left her right hand free to dip and feed herself with. She missed Hogwarts deeply, but there was no turning back now. Her dropping out was official now. And the official had said with OWL scores like hers, she did not even need to do NEWT. But Angel wanted to. She prepared herself another peanut-butter coated pickle and ate it.

[igloogirl]

Gabriella nodded and started walking, side by side with her cousin. She didn't know exactly where they were going, but she had a general idea. It was a little weird to be walking with someone who was eating pickles and peanut butter; they got some weird looks; but Gabriella liked being with her cousin. "So how have you been?" she asked, trying to make a bit of conversation.

[calcetines]

"All right, I suppose," said Angel. "It gets a bit lonely back at my flat, but I'm not complaining. It's home, right?" She prepared herself another pickle, then shot a nasty look at someone who was staring at her for doing so. She doesn't have two fetuses in her uterus, she has no right to look at me like that, thought Angel as she swallowed.

[igloogirl]

Gabriella nodded, supposing this made sense. It seemed Angel was all grown up with a life of her own, though Gabriella knew she would change some decisions if she had the chance. Angel had always loved school, after all, it was only because of the twins that she had dropped out. "You know, I still haven't visited you there," Gabriella commented. She would like to see the flat.

[calcetines]

This was true. So far, Angel had not had any visitors, except for Isaac. She still did not like to think about that visit. Not that it had been unpleasant, but he had forced her to take a sack containing ten thousand galleons in it. She had not used any of the money, but had stuck it inside her mattress via a large hole in the bottom. "Would you like to stop by after lunch?" Angel offered. She did not have to return to Ollivander's until closing- Just to make sure the clerks locked everything up properly.

[igloogirl]

Gabriella grinned at this, thinking she would very much like to see Angel's flat after her cousin ate lunch. "Sure, that sounds great!" she replied. "We'll make it a full day." After all, it was a weekend so Gabriella didn't have anything else to do. Students that were of age were free to come and go from Hogwarts.

[calcetines]

Angel grinned, spending the day with Gabriella was probably the best thing that had happened to her since landing her dream job at Ollivanders. At the moment, she did not have any problems in the world, apart from the facts that her father hated her and that she was carrying the twin boys of a father that didn't want anything to do with her. Angel tapped the brick with her wand, opening the archway into Muggle London.

[igloogirl]

Gabriella noted that Angel looked a lot happier now as she followed her cousin out of Diagon Alley and into Muggle London. "So, where is this Italian place that you speak of?" she asked, glancing around her place. Gabriella had never spent a whole lot of time in Muggle London before.

[calcetines]

"Just a block over," said Angel. "I suppose I could use the exercise, I'm supposed to walk or swim for about an hour a day now." She had never really been that much into physical activity; She had just been lucky enough to get the Potter genes when it came to putting on weight. Angel had always been really thin, no matter what she ate.

[igloogirl]

Gabriella nodded, thinking that made sense for more than one reason. Angel was pregnant, but she also needed to build up her strength. After the fateful Halloween, she hadn't seemed to have a whole lot of it. "Well, this can count for a few minutes of it," Gabriella replied with a grin. They were nearly there already, Angel had never walked slowly. Gabriella didn't either.