[Summer: DA] At the Ice Cream Parlor

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Kam's mouth was set in a grim line as Madelin followed him through Diagon Alley. Although she was a squib, she wasn't unaware of all the magical things, just jealous. Making rude faces at the shop owners and children passing the streets, she trudged behind him, complaining at every new stop they made.

"What in Merlin's name is it you want then?" He cried out, rounding on her with a deadly glare.

"Mum said you're not allowed to yell at me." She spat through gritted teeth, her blonde hair catching the sunlight making her look even more vicious. Oh how he missed Hogwarts.

Kam narrowed his eyes, and spotted an Ice cream parlor, one that had been boarded up previously, but had recently opened still keeping it's original name. "What about Fortescue's ice cream parlor, then?" He said, pushing his way through an extremely large family, hoping to lose Madelin along the way.

No such luck.

"Fine. Dad said he gave you enough sickles to pay for everything." She said smugly.

Kam rolled his eyes, and stopped at the parlor, tossing some silver sickles into the man's hand after ordering two chocolate and raspberry ice cream cones. Madelin eyed them with disgust and crossed her arms over her chest.

"You know I don't like raspberry. Get me another one, I won't eat that."

Kam grit his teeth, his nostril's flaring. "I haven't got enough money, take it or leave it."

Madelin's eyes narrowed as she snatched the ice cream from his hands and jumped onto a chair, eating it slowly. "You're such an idiot. You know I hate raspberry." She repeated scathingly.

Kam smirked slightly to himself. "I must've forgotten." Before beginning on his calmly.

[Carrie McEwan]

Carrie had been sat outside the Ice-Cream Parlour for a good half an hour or so, as she slowly ate her second helping of vanilla ice cream and attempted to read over her DADA homework instructions. She had just reached the next paragraph, when she became distracted by two squabbling siblings who sat down at the table next to her own.

The girl, who uncannily reminded her of her own brat of a sister, was annoyingly moaning and caused Carrie to give a slight roll her eyes. Where have I seen this before. The thing was, Carrie had arrived at Diagon Alley that very day to escape the devil child that she had been stuck at home with for two weeks. She had told her dad she needed to get "vital supplies for school" and it would "definitely take longer than a day to get it all". And being the master of persuasion she was with her dad, she was now spending a whole week at the Leaky Cauldron. A whole week free of Sarah.. a very pleasant thought.

Turning her attention back to the two, she grinned to hear the quarrel over the ice cream and couldn't help but laugh out loud when the guy, presumably a Hogwarts student, had purposely ordered a flavour that the sister didn't like. Realising that she could either look very strange for laughing on her own, or very rude for eaves-dropping, Carrie turned to the guy with a smile. 'I'll have to use that trick.' She said approvingly, hoping that the girl would not pick up on what she meant.