All Your Heart's Desire

[Charlie Jones]

With the given Christmas money, Charlie had gone off on her own from the Hogwarts caravan in search of junk food and novelty items. She weaved in and out of stores, occaisonally slipping into the quidditch store to check out all of the items that she of course she couldn't afford.

When she arrived at the local Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, she walked around the tubs of questionable candies, and the joke protraits. When finally coming into the back, she browsed through faulty wands, never quite noticing the person behind her.

[Hiro McVeil]

Hiro knew where to go when it came to trips to Hogsmeade, the local joke shops, honeydukes and the three broomsticks. After hitting Zonko's Hiro went straight here where he was almost escorted into the back due to his connections with the owner, he had been in so often they were on a first name basis.

"Hey Colin what's this do?" Hiro asked waving an item around a little. It didn't take long for Hiro to realize it was some form of noise maker, a very loud noise maker.

[Charlie Jones]

Charlie had been examining the details of a chess board that like to wreak havoc, when the noisemaker sounded right in her ear. "DUDE!" She growled defensively, ready to give the person behind the noisemaker a piece of her mind when she spun around to see it was Hiro. Still... "DUDE! That thing's freakin' loud!" She put her hand on the niosemaker, if only to stop the rukus.

[Hiro McVeil]

Hiro had stopped shaking the thing almost immediately. He didn't hear a word of what Charlie said due to the ringing in his ears though. He wouldn't have known anyone was there if someone hadn't grabbed the item.

"SORRY COLIN!" Hiro tried to aplogize over the ringing.

[Charlie Jones]

"Hiro, dude!" Charlie tried again, letting go of the noisemaker and crossing her arms. She wasn't mad at all, because the truth is that she would have done the same thing, and perhaps on purpose. "Dude, loud much?"

[Hiro McVeil]

Hiro placed a hand on one of his ears and rubbed it as if it would help get rid of the noise, all other noises were muted to the point where he didn't pay attention. He had no idea that Charlie was standing in front of him instead of Colin.

[Charlie Jones]

When Hiro didn't seem to respond, Charlie almost freaked out. Was he a mute now? "Hiro!" Charlie snapped her fingers at him and began jumping around-- though that was obviously useless. "Hiro! Can you hear me? HIRO!!" She picked up one of the noisemakers, looking for any warnings of deafness.

[Hiro McVeil]

"Yes, yes I'm putting it down." Hiro spoke loudly after dimly hearing his name and misunderstanding. "You know you shouldn't leave stuff like this out." He said to 'Colin'.

[Charlie Jones]

At the sound of his voice, she was overly relieved. "You aren't no mute!" Without thinking, she gave him a hug. Though that didn't last when the relief subsided. Letting go of him, she almost pushed him away. She cleared her throat embarrassingly and leaned on the wall to play it off. "You're talkin' nonsense, Hiro. Are you okay?"

[Hiro McVeil]

"Umm..?" Hiro had just placed down the item when 'Colin' hugged him. The whole moment was akward but that might have been because Hiro had no idea who was hugging him. THe ringing was dying down now and he was able to hear more including 'nonsense Hiro okay?'.

"What? No! At least have warnings." He said trying to make Colin see it his way.

[Charlie Jones]

"What?" Charlie scratched her head, a look of utter confusion across her face. "I'm not warn-- whatever, c'mon," Charlie nudged him, still a bit cautious about her last physical contact with him. "Let's get outta here. The owner dude's lookin' at us."

[Hiro McVeil]

There was a moment of confussion when 'Colin' became Charlie, or rather Hiro realized that Charlie was there and talking to him the whole time. Being hugged by Charlie was a lot better than being hugged by Colin and he let out a small smile before speaking.

"We should probably get out of here." Hiro said since he only fully understood Charlie's last sentence.

[Charlie Jones]

"Yeah," Charlie said, and started to help him out the store. But not before getting a purchase in. "Here," she slapped down her knuts and sickles, "It's exact change." She bought only a replicate of the classic "Potter Stinks" pin. The rest of the things she wanted would be for later on, when she would get more money.

[Hiro McVeil]

One of Hiro's biggest petpeeves was being escorted around, next to people testing his vision by waving their hand infront of his blindfold. Fortunetly he assisted in getting that man arrested and sent back to azkaban but that was another story. However when Charlie helped him out of the store it didn't bother him.

"So know anywhere else we could cause trouble?"

[Charlie Jones]

"Dunno..." Charlie said as she stuck the pin on her jeans. Fortunately, people now took the infamous pin as a joke, and it only boosted the Weasley's wealth.

"How's about we go food hitchhiking. Or--no! Let's mess with the dummies in the clothes stores." She shrugged, seeing as there wasn't anything to do beyond shopping. "Dunno," she repeated, "What do you do in Hogsmeade?"