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Post by scobee on Jan 21, 2007 16:49:46 GMT -5
"To the Quidditch shop, I thought." Ryan said trailing after Brax. He had thought that they would just go there together, but maybe Brax’s parents wanted to call it a day or something. "I want to look at the stuff in there since I actually know what it is used for now." he continued, holding his kitten in his hands. He had to keep it in his arms, having not boughten it a cage or anything at the shop where he had gotten it. He just figured that he would go to a muggle pet store and get some toys and things for it. After all he had nothing at his house that could accommodate the little fur ball, so he would have to eventually go to the pet store for food anyways and then he would just pick up the other stuff as well.
Ryan glanced back as Brax pointed out that his dad wasn’t with them. He wasn’t shocked though since his dad had told him that he would just catch up to them in a few minutes or so. “No, he’ll catch up.” he said, “He was just going to talk to the shop person for a moment or so and will meet me in the Quidditch shop in a few minutes.”
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Post by spicer on Jan 21, 2007 17:13:23 GMT -5
“The quidditch shop sounds like fun,” Brax said looking over in his parents direction as if to ask them if they cared stopping there. Once he saw that his parents didn’t mind he beamed and took off in it’s direction. “Ya they have a lot of cool stuff there.” he added still smiling. He liked to look around in it. There were so many cool things to look at. “The brooms are really cool looking, along with all of the other quidditch supplies that they have there.” Hearing where Ryan’s dad had gone, he said, “Oh ok.”
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Post by scobee on Jan 21, 2007 17:32:33 GMT -5
"Yep." Ryan said excitedly hurrying after Braxton. He had been waiting to go to the store since he had found out last night about Quidditch and all it's different positions. He thought that he would be pretty good at a number of the different positions since he had played many different muggle sports and from what he understood some of the positions were similar to each other. He wouldn’t know for sure though until he got to play some of the different positions and see how they actually were played.
Jason waited around until one of the shop personal came free so that he could ask them about the owls that he wanted to buy. He needed to know what kind of food they ate and what things were needed to take care of them before he bought the owls. Having all of his questions answered to his satisfaction he asked the attendant to get down the two owls that the boys had liked down and made his way up to the cash register. Paying for them he also got each owl some treats and a rather nice cage to hangout in, then asked the clerk to hold the owls for him until they were ready to leave Diagon Alley. He really didn’t want to have to carry them with him, even if it was acceptable in the wizarding community. No, he would just pick them up on there way out.
Making his way up to the Quidditch shop he entered about ten minutes after the rest of them had and looked around to see where his son had gotten off to.
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Post by spicer on Jan 21, 2007 18:50:54 GMT -5
Braxton entered the quidditch supply store and looked around. His parents had opted to stay outside with his little brother, who was a little hyper at the moment. Waiting for Ryan to enter he then showed him where the different kinds of brooms were. There were all different kinds of makes and models from the lower class ones to the professional grade brooms. “It’s to bad that we can’t have brooms the first year a Hogwarts,” Brax said admiring one of the professional brooms. Of course his brooms that he used were nothing compared to these, but they were still fun to ride.
Seeing Ryan’s dad Braxton’s parents said hello and told him that the boys were just inside looking at all of the different gear.
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Post by scobee on Jan 23, 2007 21:35:36 GMT -5
Ryan entered the store after Braxton. What caught his eye first was the brooms and all of the different makes and models. He didn’t know what to look at first. He had been talking to his dad the previous night and they had come to the decision that he should probably wait to get a broom until he would be allowed to take it to Hogwarts or at the very least know how to ride one. Either way Ryan wasn’t too happy at the decision but had to admit that having a broom and not being able to use it was a waste of money and the only thing it would do would be to depreciate.
“Ya it is too bad. Especially since my dad thinks that it would be best to get one later than right now since we can’t take them.” Ryan said still a bit bitter at the agreement he had made with his dad. His dad had promised him though that he could get any broom he wanted once his first year at Hogwarts was over and he actually knew how to mount one.
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Post by spicer on Jan 23, 2007 22:08:16 GMT -5
“Ya,” Braxton said in agreement with Ryan. “That’s probably better, especially since new brooms come out regularly and you wouldn’t want to buy one and not use it just to find out later you could have had a better one.” He was just saying this to make Ryan feel better about not being able to have one. After all it would be a long time before he ever got a new one, so he really wasn’t to worried about not being able to get a new one right at the moment.
It was only now that he realized that Ryan had never been on a broom before. No wonder he sounded a little bitter about not being able to have one. If he was in that position he would want to get out and try it right away. “You’ve never been on a broom have you?” Brax asked with a smile. Thinking that if Ryan wanted to try, and his parents would let him, he could come over to his house and just use the ones Brax always flew on.
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Post by scobee on Jan 25, 2007 1:26:16 GMT -5
This was true. Ryan wouldn’t even know how to ride a broom until he got to Hogwarts and had a lesson in it. So, it was pretty pointless to get a broom that would, more than likely, sit in his room for months until it was out of date and no longer the new model on the market. He could see his dad’s point and what Brax was saying and cheered up a bit when he remembered that his dad had promised to get him some Quidditch stuff, even if it wasn’t a broom. He had been thinking about what position he wanted to practice at and had narrowed it down to a few, but thought that he would get as much equipment as his dad would let him.
“No. I haven’t” said Ryan ripping his attention away from a fantastic looking broom to look at Braxton as he spoke to him. He didn’t even really know that brooms flew before yesterday and had just thought that it was some kind of a Halloween tale about witches soaring around on them.
Ryan’s dad had stopped outside of the store briefly to talk to Braxton’s parents and play around a bit with Brax’s little brother. His little brother reminded Ryan’s dad of his youngest son that was currently in Australia with his second wife. His youngest son was around the same age as Brax’s little brother so being around him reminded him of his son. He had been planning on bringing him out this trip but when he found out that Ryan wanted him to accompany him to Diagon Alley he thought it best not to introduce him or let him in on the wizarding community just yet. He would learn about it soon enough and, hopefully, from Ryan and not from him.
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Post by spicer on Jan 25, 2007 14:46:46 GMT -5
"I didn't think that muggles rode brooms," Brax said with a smile before adding, "You should really try it one time. They are a blast. Maybe if you are going to be around for the rest of the summer I could ask my parents if you could come over one weekend and I'll show you how it is done." He knew that his parents wouldn't mind if Ryan came over, but what he didn't know was how far away Ryan actually lived or if he was going back with his dad to Australia. There were always ways to travel long distances, the floo network, side along apparation, etc., but with him belonging to a muggle family this complicated matters. Braxton wasn't sure if wizarding methods for travel were even possible in the muggle world. I mean surely there would be a wizarding community somewhere close to where Ryan lived. Right?
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Post by scobee on Jan 25, 2007 18:43:18 GMT -5
“That would be great.” Ryan said grinning at Braxton. He would love to go over to Braxton’s house or have Brax come to his house sometime. It would probably be better if he went to Brax’s because he highly doubted that his mom would be thrilled with them flying around at his house, but they could always just hangout and do muggle stuff if Brax wanted to come over. That way no one in the neighborhood would suspect that he was a wizard or be any more the wiser to the magical world. “I’ll have to ask my mom, too, if you can come over then we could see where each other lived.” he said excitedly thinking that he would ask his mom the moment that he got home if it would be alright if Brax came over sometime. He doubted that she would care. She normally let him have whoever he wanted over.
Ryan’s dad had been making his way up and down the isles looking for the two boys when he finally found them looking a section containing oddly shaped and colored balls. Which he assumed to be the different types of balls that Brax had been describing at dinner the other night. He knew that one had a name that closely resembled waffle, but he wasn’t sure what exactly it was called. Walking up behind that boys he said, “Hey guys, finding anything interesting that you can’t live without?”
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Post by spicer on Jan 25, 2007 23:28:54 GMT -5
“That sounds like fun,” Brax said with a smile looking at all of the different quidditch stuff. He thought that there was a lot of cool things in the store. He especially liked the keepers gloves that he had found. He really liked the look of them and planned on asking his dad and mum to buy them for him for Christmas. He liked all the different positions, so it wouldn’t hurt to get some just to have when he played goalie with some of his friends. Hearing Ryan’s dad come up behind him he smiled and said, “Kind of.” He had found stuff he liked but knew he couldn’t get it so technically he could live without it.
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Post by scobee on Jan 26, 2007 0:47:41 GMT -5
Ryan turned around when he heard his dad’s voice. “Ya, there is a ton of stuff that I would like.” Ryan said with a grin. He just had to laugh silently to himself at Brax’s response of ‘kind of’. Though when he thought about it, it made complete sense. Brax did seem to come off really quite modest and not ask for much or try and convince his parents that he needed something. He figured that it was because Brax knew that his parents wouldn’t let him have it, but it made Ryan think about what he really wanted and what he didn’t, even though he could get it all he would probably just pick a few things to get now and get more later.
Jason just smiled as Brax answered. He thought it was rather cute that he used kind of instead of a flat out yep. He wasn’t use to that response, with Ryan it was generally loaded up and all ready to be purchased by this point. “So what has caught your guys eye?” he asked still smiling. He knew that Ryan would tell him, but he wasn’t so sure that Brax would.
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Post by spicer on Jan 26, 2007 22:32:32 GMT -5
“There are a lot of cool things,” Brax said with a smile. He really liked the keeper’s gloves and some of the brooms, but he wasn’t one to really point out everything in the store he liked. He had showed Ryan, but that was because he was his buddy, adults were a whole different story.
“Some of the brooms and stuff are pretty cool,” he admitted just because he didn’t want it to seem he was ignoring Jason’s question.
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Post by scobee on Jan 27, 2007 0:41:10 GMT -5
Ryan’s dad just smiled. Brax really was something. He figured that is must have been the difference in environment growing up that had caused Brax to be such a good kid and not expect everything or whine for things that were unnecessary. Not saying that Ryan wasn’t a good kid, because he was. He just seemed to expect everything to go his way and to get anything that he wanted, which was usually the case. “Ya they are pretty cool.” Jason agreed looking over a some of the brooms that were currently on display.
“I think I need a Quaffle, Beater’s Bat, Bludger, Goalie gloves, guards, and a snitch to start off with and there are some cool uniforms of the teams in here that I like, though I don’t know which is for which team.” Ryan said a hundred miles an hour pointing to all of the things that he thought he wanted.
See this is what Ryan’s dad was thinking. How hard would it be for once in Ryan’s life to just say something a bit more modest then, ‘I would like the entire store.’ Was that to hard to ask? Apparently it was, so he would have to settle for Ryan’s enthusiasm for shopping on his parents money. After all he had a feeling he was part of the reason Ryan acted the way he did. He hadn’t really ever taught him differently, since whenever he came to visit he would buy him anything he wanted and today would be no different. Well except for the broom. He was drawing the line at getting something that Ryan wouldn’t even be able to take with him or use for some time. “Is that all?” Jason asked in an exasperated voice, but with a smile still on his face.
“I think so,” Ryan said looking around and turning to Brax asking, “Is there anything else I am missing?”
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Post by spicer on Jan 27, 2007 0:52:42 GMT -5
“No I think you have about covered it all,” Braxton said with a stunned expression on his face, but quickly turning it into a smile. When Ryan had started listing off everything in the store, well except maybe the attendant and the cash register, a stunned look couldn’t help but creep over his face. He just wasn’t accustom to getting everything and anything he wanted. He was lucky to get something new on special occasions and then even then he couldn’t demand the entire store and live to tell about it.
“Just one question,” he said smiling, “How are you going to play with all of the gear without a broom? Oh ya and the attendant wants to know if you want the cash register and the spare bricks as well,” he added the last sentence laughing.
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Post by scobee on Jan 27, 2007 1:46:34 GMT -5
Ryan hadn’t really thought about the whole ‘no broom’ thing until Brax had brought it up again. It was a good point. He didn’t have a clue how he would practice or play the game without one, since the entire thing was played on brooms. He had been thinking though that he could just play with them a bit on the ground, but what fun would that be? He could kick a soccer ball if he wanted to play a game on the ground. No he would just have to convince his dad to get him a broom before they left Diagon Alley and hope that Brax would show him how to fly one. “Nah I don’t need the cash register or bricks. Unless for some weird reason they improve your Quidditch skills.” Ryan said with a laugh thinking that Braxton was just giving him a hard time about all of the things that he wanted. He didn’t actually think that Brax was serious, but to be right honest nothing would surprise him at this point about the wizarding world. “Oh ya I forgot,” he said turning to his dad, “I need two pairs of goalie gloves and now a broom.”
“We have already discussed the broom issue.” Ryan’s dad said, prepared to hold his ground on at least this agreement.
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