[Honeyduke] Try not to Bruise It

[Bradyn Reed]

Bradyn and Fay had an overlapping work day, which was probably the reason Christi left to go spend money on whatever girlie nonsense her heart desired. As much as it amused him to no end, he couldn't help but notice the nervous look Fay got when she mentioned this. Must be a secret girl connection that he didn't understand, as he was actually a man. Surprising, isn't it?

Standing by the self of Honeyduke's chocolate bars, he was working on restocking some of the shelves. "Gah, we need a radio or something, Fay." He said rather boredly as he squatted down and started restocking the bottom shelf with the assorted chocolates in the box. It was almost torture, getting to touch all the wrapped bars and not have any unless he spat out some non-existent cash moneys.

"Oh, if I haven't said this like 20 million times tody, you owe me for making me take this job with your mum. But at least you're here today instead of her." He shuddered at the thought of some of the days he had to spend alone with her. When she took that week vacation with Fay and he and some other Hogsmeade worker -- probably a waitress from one of the pubs -- had to work it alone, it was just wonderful.

[ crappy start. title is from one of my Duran Duran songs :3 ]

[Felicity Locke]

Felicity swore that her mother did this on purpose. She must've used her weird mom powers to sense the fact that Bray absolutely loathed working alone with Christi. It was frightening to think that her mother could actually be in tune with the world around her. Her mother should use her powers for good!

"Then why don't you sing a song Bray? Cause I would certainly love to see that."

She grinned at him and threw a candy bar over to him. He was eyeing the stock all day for Merlin's sake. "Have this one, I get free dibs on all the candy. Maybe I could work out something with my mom for you? She loves to send me candy every week." Mm, chocolate bar every week, so good.

"How many times do I need to thank you for it anyway? You're getting payed and you get to work around candy. A lot of people would kill for this job."

Felicity walked over to the door and flipped the sign so the door said Open. Her mother would murder her if they just kept the store closed all day. She shook her head a bit at the thought of her mother, shopping like a maniac again. Any time today she would pop in with a random outfit or something for the two and demand they wear it. That was just her mother.

[Bradyn Reed]

Bradyn glanced over to Fay and grinned. "Maybe I will sing a song." He said, actually not being sarcastic. Sometime he was going to bring his stereo here when he came, considering he kept it in his room along with like half of his CD collection from home. A whole wall at his house was covered with CDs and his gigantic home stereo and it was nice to blast music and annoy the hell out of his siblings sometimes. That is, until mum comes and muffliato's his walls.

Catching the random onslaught of a candy bar, since naturally he would if he was any good of a keeper, he pumped his other fist in the air. "Oh, that'd be fantastic, until I'm fat. Then it would just suck." If he ate as much chocolate as Fay did, he'd be huge and she'd still be the same skinny little veela girl. How unfair.

Rolling his eyes as she tried to advertise what a sweet, oh dear that was a pun, job this was, he just shook his head. "Mhm, of course it is." He smirked then turned to face her. "I'd just prefer not to have your mother's little spasms about random things every now and then. And if she didn't call me sweet as pie at least once a day, that'd be all right too." But then again, Christi was probably the best boss he could get. She was so easily manipulated and also amusingly stupid. Although, sadly, Fay was starting to fix her.

[Felicity Locke]

"Mm, just try not to scare away the customers Bray."

Of course she was kidding, Bray had an amazing voice, hence why she had voted Bray be the lead singer in their old little band thing. Personally, she liked Bray's voice over Ash's, but it wasn't like it mattered now. She went back to organizing the candies so all of the colors were in some sort of order. She was half tempted to make a picture out of it, but she would probably get strange looks because of it.

"Don't worry, I won't let you get fat. Plus the candy thing is a sweet deal..no pun intended."

Felicity rolled her eyes at Bray as he fretted over her mother. "Oh please, she's not as bad as she was, you have to admit. Plus I told her to lay off you for a while." She walked back over to him and rested her arm across his shoulders. "Plus I think she's going to do more of these little set ups, because she's having too much fun with her shopping trips." Fay dropped her arm and went back behind the counter and sat down. "Don't be surprised if she randomly pops in from time to time to throw clothes at you."

There was a small ring from the bell as someone walked in. Fay grinned over at the person, and tried not to let her eye twitch as the boy sent a wink her way. He leaned against the counter -- trying to act cool Fay guessed -- and smirked down at her.

"I can see why you work at a candy store. You're not so hard on the eyes yourself."

Please gag me now.

[Bradyn Reed]

Bradyn laughed at her little comments about having a bad voice. He could tell she was joking since usually they never said anything serious to each other. Well, only on a good day is that true. "Oh, I don't know, that'd be pretty hard." That, was actually true since he'd be a little creeped out if he walked into a candy store and one of the stockboys was singing freaking Candy Man. Yes, he would definitely walk right back through the door or maybe, if he was in a good mood, he'd join in.

"If that involved jogging like 20 miles a day through the forest with fifty pound weights, I'd rather be fat."

Smiling as Fay defended her mother, he laughed a little. "Oh, of course not. There was a time when I hexed her before, now she just amuses me." He shuddered a little at the mention of her little clothes frenzies and gave her a look that said 'she already has'. That was probably the reason he disliked working with just Christi, since somehow she always managed to sneak by him and when he turned around she had some nonsense outfit. Ugh, like May didn't do that enough already.

Hearing someone come in, he stood up and took the box with him, resting it against his hip. Ugh, it was one of the guys he categorized as 'veela droolers'. Like it was that surprising to find a pretty, young girl in Honeydukes, considering it's owned by a freaking veela family. Trying to come up with something cheesey to say, he placed the box back behind the counter.

There were many ways he could go with saying something stupid. He could do the 'lay of my girlfriend' approach, the 'oh gee thanks, but i'm not gay' approach, or he could just do the 'yeah, she is, bucko' alternative.

"Hey man, you're right." He said, leaning against the counter himself. "She's like a candybar. Half sweet, half nuts."

[Felicity Locke]

"But, I have to admit, it would be extremely amusing to see how many people we could scare off in an hour."

Felicity grinned a bit at the thought and laughed."Bray, your workout would be much worse. Most likely I'd have you running away from bludgers as I beat them at you. But, that would only be after you managed to outrun the frenzy of men I could sick upon you." She shrugged lightly and sent him an innocent grin.

At the look Bray gave her, she burst into laughter. "I should've known she already attacked you with it. Oh dear this is just too funny. What did she get you?" Many of the clothes Fay received weren't ugly or anything, on the contrary, they were very fashionable. Just rather..dressier than Fay was used to. And, it had a lot of the boys following her like drooling dogs.

Felicity scooted slightly away from the desk and reached over for one of those super large lollipops she had on her desk. She glanced over at Bray as he came over, and grinned wider at his comment. This was going to be too much fun. Fay stood, lollipop still in hand, and skipped over to the boy.

With a grin still in place, she walked over to the jellybeans, grabbed a handful and tossed them into the air. Fay swung her makeshift lollipop 'beater' back and them let her arm fly. The lollipop smacked against the jellybeans, sending a large swarm the kid's way. It probably hurt like hell -- based off of his facial expression and the fact that he was fleeing out the door-- and Fay felt triumphant.

With a hand on her hip, she grinned back at Bray. "I think that was the best idea I've ever had to get rid of those guys."

[Bradyn Reed]

"Sounds like you wish to make a wager on that, Miss Locke?"

Hm, making a little bet on that would certainly be amusing and might make the time before their impending doom, I mean Christ comes back and lets them off, pass faster. Laughing at his little exercise regimint he just put the bar back on the shelf. "Oh, of course, why didn't I think of that myself?" But the mental image of that situation certainly looked like some very weird muggle video game. Protein shake power burst go!

Looking away when Fay was laughing her little bum off about his mother attacking him with clothes, he just frowned. "Nothing, hmph!" At that moment, all the little outfits and things that made him feel too gay were tucked neatly under all his sweatshirts, jeans and real clothes in his trunk. Oh, that reminded him, he had to put them someplace else before Dar found them and made a little show out of it to everyone. 'Ooh, look what Bray has!', no thank you.

Seeing Fay pick up a giant lollipop in the corner of his eye, he just had to smirk. Apparently, she was going to demonstrate his little nuts theory. The poor kid, I'd hate to see what she's going to do to him with that suckerstick. Sure enough, there was soon a splay of jellybeans shooting all over and he ducked behind the desk for a moment, laughing his arse off now.

Standing back up, he leaned his arms on the counter. "If life was like a cartoon, I'd be holding up a sign that said '10' on it." Just to complete the little joke, he did the little hand motions with the price list on the counter. "But since it's not, nice shot. You been practicing?"

[Felicity Locke]

"Betting on the job Mr. Reed? Tsk, tsk, what would mother say to that?"

Felicity grinned and waved her finger at Bray, pretending to scold him like a little child. Huh, it was like back when he was playing with that riddiculous toy car. Mm, good times. "Now that I think of it, that sounds amazingly fun. We'll have to try it sometime Bray."

Oh the clothes must've been horrid for him to make that face at her. She would have to ravage through his dorm to find it. Or pay Dar off to do it. A little smirk came over her face as she thought of it. Several idea ran through her head of what she could do with that type of power, and none were too flattering toward Bray's ego.

Felicity bowed as Bray burst into laughter. A large grin was stretched over her face as well. "I thought the shot was pretty wicked myself." She glanced down at the lollipop, and noticed that half of it was hanging off. "But I think I might've destroyed my weapon." Fay shrugged and placed it back on the counter.

"Yea, I've gone out onto the field a few times, but its really no fun unless you actually have a target to hit. Moving targets are the best, but I can never get anyone to help me." She pouted slightly.

[Bradyn Reed]

Bradyn smirked at Fay. "You're just saying that because you know you'll lose. You couldn't scare more people away than I could." He said, trying to push her buttons. He could use a little more pocket money, and it would certainly entertain him. Though, it might not entertain Fay's mum if she found out.

"You're evil, you know that?" He said with a little frown, still having the video game in his head and it didn't sound particularly fun for his head. The little scenarios usually ended with a bludger hitting him in the head. Concussion; Game Over! Noticing the sadistic look on her face, he frowned again. "What, are you picturing it over there? Am I wearing your mothers horrible clothes in it, too?"

Rolling his eyes as she pointed out that she destroyed the lollipop he just picked it up off the counter and couldn't help but laugh at it. You'd think those stupid jelly beans were bullets or something. Taking the half that was just hanging off by a thread and ripping it off, he broke it in two and stuck part in his mouth. "Mm, I'll destroy the evidence. Don't worry." Bray was just that much of a good citizen.

"Oh ho, that's terrible. You know what's impossible? Practicing Keeper by yourself, so shut up." He said and rolled his eyes. It was rare that he got to practice and usually his only volunteer was May. Ugh, he usually refused those since his sister got a little slap-happy for competition.

Hearing the bell tinkle, he glanced up and saw a group of younger Gryffindors come in. A few of the girls glanced over to them and he gave them a little wave and the guys just stared with their mouths open at Fay. Really, don't people realize how stupid they look sometimes?

[Harrison Greg]

What was it with the younger students of this school being intent on walking slower then a flobberworm? Harrison had been stuck behind thing particular pack of Gryffindors since the entrance hall of Hogwarts and they were so intend of walking fifteen abreast that there was no way that he could get around them. At first he hoped they would do the typical thing and go towards the lake to taunt and throw stones at the giant squid but when they were intent on walking on the same gravel path of Hogsmeade as him Harrison could not help but suddenly feel like their babysitter.

This feeling only increased when they too seemed content of going to Honeydukes and as they slowly filed into the shop Harrison noticed that the males of the part were gawking at one of the shop assistants. Rolling his eyes the older Gryffindor pushed his way passed them and headed over towards the boxes of award chocolate when he noticed who the other male counterparts were staring at. Felicity Locke.

A weary smile passed over his face and he quickly looked back to the boxed chocolates and pretend to be trying to work out which one he should give to which girl. Christmas was always the time that Harrison choose to show the masses that he did love them in their own special way and although this meant buying half the shops supply then that is what he would have to do, as Blake always said ‘You have to do your bit for the fans.’

(Ok so I really did not do much in this post…sorry…I will add more if yee wish?)

[Felicity Locke]

(( No, no it's fine xD ))

"I'm not exactly sure if I should take that as a compliment or not Bray."

Felicity smirked as she said it and turned back to the counter. Her mother would probably murder her if they started to scare away kids. This is the busiest time of the year! We get the most customers, don't screw it up Felicity! Christi's voice mimicked in her head, and Fay could just imagine her mother waving a finger at her.

"Me? I don't know what you are talking about Bray. I'm an angel, of course." She said, while sending an innocent smile off Bray's way. Fay would have to convince her mother to show her what she had gotten Bray before he could see it. This was just too good to be true.

"I'm not imagining anything Bray, you're just being paranoid again."

Felicity grabbed the other half of the lollipop and broke it in half just the same. She popped one half into her mouth and jumped a little from the shock of the sweetness. God, what kind of things were these kids eating?

"Well why didn't you just ask someone to help you? I could've you know. Just because I'm not a chaser doesn't mean I can't throw a Quaffle." She muttered while rolling her eyes at the boy.

The bell rang overhead and Fay looked up from what she was doing. Why did kids always come here in groups anyway? That just made things more difficult. None the less, Felicity brought out a grin and walked over to the open-mouthed boys. "Do you need help finding something?" Some boy managed to splutter out something about chocolate and Fay had to try to not laugh.

"Well, the chocolate is over there. The prices are listed next to the candies. And if you have any troubles just find me, alright?" She walked over to Bray after that, hoping that they wouldn't actually need her help. Fay glanced at the Claw boy and grinned a bit at his expression. It always tended to peeve him off when people acted idiotic around her. To be honest, she had grown rather used to it.

The boys seemed to be fighting over the chocolate now, and Felicity let out a sigh. She made her way over there only to see two boys fighting over which candy she would like best. Her eye twitched slightly.

"Honestly, why don't you just buy those girls some chocolate. I bet they would appreciate it more than I would." She shoved some chocolate into their hands and held her palm out for the money. After the bewildered boys payed, she pushed them off toward the girls. The group left shortly after, thank god.

"I swear, sometimes people are just so.." Fay trailed off, blinking at the person next to her. Leave it to Felicity to forget another customer eh? "Oh..erm..I'm sorry. Do you need help?"

[Bradyn Reed]

"An angel with devil horns, that's you."

Bradyn just rolled his eyes and shook his head. "I don't know why, but I think you'd be a terrible keeper." He said drly. "Maybe because someone who always uses a freaking bat to make something move can't use her wimpy girl arms." He was only teasing her of course, but he was prepared to use the counter as a shield in case her little jelly bean wrath extended to include him.

When Fay let him encourage his laziness by taking care of the pack of rabid customers, he just leaned back against the counter with his arms folded across his chest. There was just something about needing help to find things in a candystore that seemed moronic, and looking was the best part to him.

Hearing the bell tinkle after a little bit of arguing between them that he just blocked out, he turned back to Fay and laughed. Shifting the bit of sucker to the other side of his mouth he smirked at her obvious exhaustion. Gasp, helping people, just so much work. "Just so annoying? I feel you there." Bray said with a little sigh until he noticed that the shop actually wasn't empty and Fay must've noticed that too based on the look she was giving him. "I mean... they're great." Maybe I don't hate this job that much.

[Harrison Greg]

He would give this store one thing; they were efficient and very quick for turning its customers in and out of the shop as quickly as possible. Of course Fay had the help of her feminine qualities but heck it meant she got the sale and Harrison had to admire her for that. Trying to stop himself from laughing at the looks of the faces of the younger Gryffindors he turned his attention back to the wide verity of chocolates and busied himself in his own thoughts.

However it is very hard to think of your own thoughts when the shop keepers are content on having conversations across the length of the shop, I mean how are you meant to focus, it is a natural reaction to listen into other peoples conversations. But it seemed that Fay realised that someone else was in the store and inquired if he needed any help. A cheeky smile filled his face and Harrison folded his arms and looked at the beautiful features of Felicity Locke.

“You can help by finishing off that sentence, the suspense is killing me.”

However it seemed that Bradyn had beat her too it and finished off the sentence. Glancing over at the other Ravenclaw Harrison gave him a nod the head in acknowledgement. With a small smile to show that he actually agreed with what he was saying, they were just lucky they did not have to put up with them in the common room either. Blowing his fringe out his eyes Harrison looked back to the shelving and pretend to peruse the selection once more while trying to make casual conversation.

“So what are you two doing here anyway? You can not tell me you actually have jobs?”

[Felicity Locke]

Devil horns? Oh that was just cruel. Felicity pouted in his direction and sniffed a bit. "You don't have to be so mean Bray." She looked down at her feet and sniffed again. It was just too much fun messing with Bray.

"Well, maybe I could improvise and just beat you with my bat. How about that Sunshine?"

The two were probably attracting all sorts of strange looks from customers as they had their little battle. Even across the room they managed to shout insults at each other, and if one didn't know the two they would assume that they were having a fight. Felicity licked the other half of her sucker and stuck it onto Bray's shirt. "Wimpy girl arms my ass."

Fay was actually taken by surprise to see Harrison astanding there. She blinked for a moment, then shook her head. "Well I was going to say-" But Bray cut her off by finishing her own sentence. She shot a glare over in his direction and stuck her tongue out at him. "Idiotic was the word I was looking for actually. But annoying works too I suppose."

"I'm offended that you didn't think I actually worked for my money." Felicity placed one hand on her hip as she said this. "My mum owns the store. I just happened to drag Bray into the business so I wouldn't have to work every hour of every day." She glanced back at Bray and sent a large grin his way.

[Bradyn Reed]

Smirking at Fay's dramatic performance, he gasped and let his face stay in the horrified look for a moment. "Did I crush your poor ego into nonexistence? Oh, dear me, terribly sorry."

Recoiling at the idea of her beating him down with her bat, he stuck his tongue back out at her. "Yes, that would be effective training. Until Coach Harding comes and breaks us up." He wasn't looking forward to meeting Harding, since the only thing his sister has told him about him was 'He reminds me of you. Only meaner.' Psht, like he was ever mean, on purpose.

Giving a real gasp when she stuck the nasty little sucker to his shirt, he gaped at her for a while. "Ugh, gross... You are evil!" Bray said with a little pout at her as he started trying to pull it off to see what nasty little stain she gave him. The worst part was, Christi would probably come in, see his stain, and throw random clothes at him and force him to change. Damn, evil Fay that must've been her plan.

Recognizing the leftover guy as one of the idiotic Gryffindors that was convinced everyone liked them, he sighed lightly but just covered it up by more frowning at his ruined shirt. Hearing Fay's sugar-coated version of why they were here, he just rolled his eyes. "It's indentured servitude and forced labor; that's what it is." He said, grumpy now and still thinking of an idea to get Fay back.

"Oh, Harrison, you babysit your ickle housemates now?" He said, turning the conversation away from themselves and most definitely away from how 'beautiful' Fay looked today. No comments that might make Bray nauseous for Mr. Greg today. "I think I'd rather have a girl's job at a candy store than that."