Harry and his Brainy Girls

Harry and his Brainy Girls

By: Sheltie

I don’t own Harry Potter at all

 

Chapter 196: Lisa Turpin

Lisa Turpin fidgeted with the holiday sweater she was wearing. It was bright red sweater with green pine trees and animated falling snow as you saw a sleigh being pulled by two reindeer going around and around the sweater.

“I can’t believe you talked me into this” she mumbled.

“Come on Lisa, you’ll have fun” Stephanie bubbled.

“I just broke up with my boyfriend two days, six hours, twenty minutes and thirty seconds ago” Lisa said.

“You’ve counted all that. Girl, you definitely need this more than I thought” Stephanie said then tugged Lisa out of the apartment.

/Scene Break/

Lisa had a smile on her face, but inside she was depressed and wanted to be home bundled in a big warm blanket eating that big tub of ice cream that was sitting in her freezer. But here she was instead since her friend Stephanie decided that Lisa shouldn’t be moping during the Christmas season. So Stephanie took it upon herself to cheer Lisa up. This was Stephanie’s first plan. Drag Lisa to a Christmas party.

At the moment the two arrived Stephanie vanished within the crowd. Last Lisa saw of her was she was sucking face with some guy. Lisa though was nursing her drink and wondering when she could leave. She had tried two times before and Stephanie had stopped her both times. She wondered if her friend had a built in radar or something.

“Huh, funny meeting you here Turpin.”

Lisa turned and gasped seeing a pair of bright green eyes staring at her. Then there was the messy black hair followed by the famous lopsided smile. All this was within the package named Harry Potter.

“Harry” Lisa said totally surprised.

“Hello Turpin, so what brings you here?” Harry asked.

“I, uh, well. My friend dragged me here” Lisa said.

“I heard of your break-up with Boot” Harry said.

Lisa frowned at this. Of course he had to bring that up.

“Yeah” she said trying to keep her depression out of her voice.

“So how have you been, I haven’t seen you since our last reunion?” Harry asked.

“Not up to much” Lisa said then took a sip of her drink.

“Really?” Harry asked.

“Well, no not really. Do you really want to know what I want to be doing instead of being here?” Lisa asked.

Harry nodded.

“I want to be home wrapped in a big blanket eating ice cream and mope over my break-up and watching sappy chick flicks, but here I am” Lisa said.

“I like the ice cream and the wrapped in the blanket part. The chick flicks I can do without” Harry said.

“Oh come on. You don’t need to be Mr. macho with me” Lisa said with a tiny smirk as she nudged Harry with her shoulder.

“I am telling you honestly. Not into them. Hermione tried to make Ron and I watch one. Ron fell asleep five minutes in. I tried to pay attention, but just couldn’t get into it. It was boring” Harry said.

“Hn, fine” Lisa said.

Harry then smiled as he got a bright idea.

“Lets get out of here” he said.

“Pardon” Lisa said.

“You and me, lets get out of here” Harry said.

“I would love to, but my friend has stopped me from leaving the few times I tried to escape” Lisa said.

“But you never had me with you” Harry said.

Lisa had to agree with Harry on this.

“Fine lets try” she said.

They were out. Lisa supposed that her friend Stephanie saw her with Harry and thought she had gotten over Boot. Once outside Lisa turned to Harry.

“What now?” she asked.

“Now we go to my place eat ice cream get wrapped in some blankets, and you watch your chick flicks” Harry said.

“You have those kinds of movies?” Lisa asked in disbelief.

“Hermione has her own movie collection she leave at my place” Harry said.

So they apparated to Harry’s place and once there they gathered the supplies. They got to the couch and both had big tubs of ice cream for themselves. Lisa had Rocky Road and Harry had Chocolate Fudge. They had blankets and Lisa ransacked Hermione’s movie collection grabbing all the sappy chick flicks there were.

Lisa popped the first one in and she began to watch.

Harry was on the side of the couch farthest away from the TV. He really didn’t care for the movie, but he was helping a friend and that’s what counted.

Lisa had tears in her eyes as she was on her third movie. Her ice cream tub was half gone.

Harry sighed and wondered how many more of these he’d have to endure. He was still eating his ice cream, but he was getting a bit bored. His head rolled back as it rested against the back of the couch. Lisa was so into the movie that she didn’t even notice what was going on til the credits rolled. She turned to see Harry half-asleep.

“Harry? Harry?” she called.

“Huh, what, is something wrong?” Harry asked jumping up right looking around. His glasses askew on his face.

This made Lisa giggle.

“No, nothing is wrong. You looked to be about halfway asleep” she said.

“Oh, right. Sorry” Harry said stretching.

“No it’s alright. I should get going” Lisa said.

“Alright” Harry said.

They cleaned up and then Harry walked Lisa to the door.

“This was nice Harry, just what I needed” Lisa said.

“Glad I could help out” Harry said.

Lisa smiled and on impulse moved in and got on her tiptoes since she was a few inches shorter than Harry and kissed him on the cheek. She turned away and left before a word could be said. When she got back to her place she groaned as she landed face first on her own couch.

“I can’t believe I just kissed Harry” she mumbled into the cushion.

Harry just stood there stock-still. He then smiled and walked off to get ready for bed. He’d have to invite Lisa over for New Years.

 

End