The Misadventures of J and K

June ~ a month that would soon become the strangest (K hits play button on Twilight Zone theme)

It was a day like all the rest, hot, sunny, humid, and Ohio. The one state that never seems to be able to make up its mind on what sort of weather it wanted and J and K would soon find that out as they boarded their school bus, heading to Cedar Point on their end of the year 5^th grade school trip. (having turned 11 just a few months ago)

K and J sat on the sticky bus seats, trying to get comfortable and of course, talking about their upcoming amusement park adventure. The first of many.

K turned to J. "So which ride do you want to go on first?"

"The biggest roller coaster there is!" J exclaimed.

"Hmm...I'd have to say Millennium Force tops it."

"Definitely!"

"Let's see...we're getting there just when it opens, so if we run really fast, we might be able to be the first in line for it! That'd be cool!"

"Front seat! That's the place I got the first time I rode it!"

"Did you? I was in the second seat in the first car....I heard that if you're directly in the front, you get bugs splattered all over you." K made a face but then grinned. "So, you got any new ides for Moldie Voldie?"

"Nope, but when you're going over the first hill, it looks like there is no track and it's so awesome! Plus, it's like you are just hanging there forever," J continued and then grinned. "Nope, no ideas. I need to do math homework to get ideas." She laughed.

K laughed as well. "Hehehhe....Sirius and James on a roller coaster."

"Muhaahahah, they would crap themselves."

K laughed. "That would be hilarious."

J grinned. "I know. We should mention that in this story somewhere, when we write it down."

"Oh yeah." K grinned. "Sirius would probably be like 'Ha! This is way better than a broom!' and James would probably be holding on for dear life."

"Yeah. Be like, oh you haven't been scared unless you were front seat of the Millennium force." J laughed.

"Trust me, I know. The first time I went up, I held on so tightly going up that hill, I felt like I was going to fall out! Then, when you go over the top, I put my hands up and looked straight down. I've never been so scared in my life!"

"I couldn't put my hands up the first time my first time...I saw no track!!! I was hanging on for dear life, but after that first hill I put my hands up.

"Oh god," K laughed and then grew anxious. "I can't wait until the third movie comes out! Prisoner of Azkaban...only three more days!"

"Three more days?! No way! The movie is in June, right?"

K just gave J a look. "This is June."

"Oh yeah," J laughed. "Brilliant!"

"And only six more months to Hawaii!"

J screamed which made a few people turn. She grinned widely. "Hawaii!"

The bus came to a halt and everyone clamored out. Shoving to the front of the crowd, J and K both managed to get right by the chain that roped off the park once their tickets had been processed. The chain dropped and they sprinted for the Millennium Force. First, of course! They immediately climbed into the first car and it soon filled up. As the coaster began moving up the steep track, K gripped the bars tightly.

"I hate this part," she said, her knuckles white from holding on.

"Oh my god! No way!" J cried, throwing her hands up in the air.

K looked around. "This is taking too long." The wind was a little rougher as they climbed and K felt like she was going to fall out backwards. "I don't like going upwards. What if I fall out?"

"This is faster than the Magnum!" J glanced over at K. "You're not gonna! And if you do, we can sue!"

They neared the top and at this point, K threw up her hands. "Okay, now this is the best part." K grinned.

J screamed, "Ohh yeah!!!!!" and K echoed her as they went over the top.

"WHOOOHOO!!!"

"YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

K grinned madly as they went through the tunnel where it took their picture and J stuck out her tounge. They flew over the rest of the tracks and then the ride came to a stop. "That was a blast!" K exclaimed as they climbed out. She looked over the railing as the very long line. "Too long. Let's go find somewhere else."

"Awesome! I'm hot, let's hit Snake River Falls!" J said as they walked down the steps and over to the place where they could see their pictures.

K found their pictures and laughed. "Look, there's you!"

"Oohh, I look nice." J grinned and K just laughed. "Look at my hair!" They laughed and exited, heading towards Snake River Falls.

They stopped to get ice cream and stood in the shade while eating it, people watching. Then, the most unusual thing walked by. A man in robes identical to Harry Potter robes. K rolled her eyes. "It's too hot to dress up. Besides, I'm not that crazy."

Jaina just arched an eyebrow, eating her ice cream. "Wow, black too."

"I would die."

"I would dehydrate."

"Definitely." K made a face. "Wierdo."

"Yeah, they're like those Amish people you always see here."

K laughed. "Yeah. Except without the beard."

J nodded, laughing. "Yeah."

They finished their ice cream and rode Snake River Falls. When the ride finished, they walked over the bridge and back out onto the walkway. "Now that was a nice cool off," K said as they walked, attempting to untangle her drenched platinum hair. "I wonder if that guy was going to go on any rides?"

"I hope his robe doesn't get stuck in the track," J snickered.

K laughed. "That would be bad. You know, he's probably one of those gothic people....always dressed in black and all that."

J nodded. "Yeah, just without all that black eye liner," she laughed. "Hey, let's hit the swings to dry off."

"Okay."

They walked over to the swings and got on. The ride went up and they proceeded to spin around. "You know what we should do next? Power Tower," K said as the ride continued.

J twisted in her swing. "Yeah! Up or down?"

"Um, up fast. Then we can look around going down."

J nodded. "Definitely. You have the Demon Drop for down."

"Yep. Guess what thought? My mom says she'll take us to the mall Monday!"

"Yes! I need some shorts." They got off and headed to wait in line for the Power Tower.

"Clothes is a definite." At that moment, it began raining. "Okay, this sucks." K looked around at the sudden dreary day.

"Hhmm.. and some sandals. I live in sandals," J mused, still caught up in her faze. Suddenly, the rain began coming down harder, in sheets. "Oh no!"

"This really sucks!" It began pouring. "Run for it!" They sprinted out of the line, running for anywhere that was sheltered.

"I hope the rides don't shut down!" J glanced at K as they ran. "Where are we running to?"

"A building!" K spotted a building and ran inside. K shivered, soaked through. "Grr...now I want that guy's cloak. At least he can stay warm."

"True." J rubbed her arms, hugging her arms around herself to try and warm up.

K looked around and spotted a strange sight. "Hey, look over there!" She pointed over to a small table in the back where two people in robes were talking. K and J were not happy, of course, especially to the fact that these people were completely dry. "That's not fair!"

"Yeah, why wouldn't they be out enjoying the park?"

"Wonder why," K said sarcastically, looking out at the downpour.

"Before it started raining," J added.

"Yeah." K and J found a booth and sat down, leaning back in the seats. K spotted a flyer and picked it up, looking over it. "Hey, look at this! The flyer announced that there was a Harry Potter convention going on in Cleveland. "So that's why they're dressed up!"

"Now it makes sense," J looked at the flyer and then at K. "But we're in Sandusky, not Cleveland."

K shrugged. "Who knows. Maybe they're that excited. Probably tourists."

J looked at her. "Everyone here is a tourist. Except us and all the people in the area," she coughed, smirking.

K laughed and looked over at the two people. "I would never dress up to go to Cedar Point," she coughed.

J snorted. "Yeah, I would only dress up for Opening day at the movies, book releases, video releases, dvd releases, theatrical trailer releases, big news conference releases, and Harry's birthday."

K smirked. "Oh, but of course. Those are the necessary days." She looked out and saw that it had stopped raining. "Ohio weather," she rolled her eyes. "Sunny then raining then sunny again." She looked over at J. "Want to go stand by the bridge by Snake River Falls and watch other people get soaked and laugh because they're cold?" She smirked.

J got an EVIL grin. "Muwhahahah, let's go!"

K laughed. "Oh yeah." They stood and headed to Snake River Falls. They watched as several people went up on one of the rafts, two of them were in robes. The raft went up and then came down the slide, sending a huge spray of water over the people on the bridge. "Okay, they gotta be wet from this. Sucks to be them." K snickered.

J laughed, EVIL laughter. "And they would have to walk around in their wet clothes all day long!" However, when the robed people came over the bridge, they weren't wet at all. "WTF?"

K glared at the robed people. "Ditto. That is so not cool." She looked at J. "I'm going over there."

"Yeah, and do what? Kick them in the shins? You're only 4'2"." J snorted. "Okay, you do the talking, I'll do the 'I'm 4'11" and can kick your ass' thing."

K rolled her eyes. "Yeah, yeah." She laughed and walked over to one of the robed people. She tapped him on the shoulder. "Hey, what is the point of going on a water ride and coming out dry?"

The robed person just looked down at K. "Oh look," the man grinned. "It's one of thos midget Muggles! Awww, how cute. Nice Muggle." The man laughed with his robed friend and started walking away.

"Hey!" K protested. "You didn't answer my...hey...wait a minute... MIDGET MUGGLE?!!"

J snorted. "Midget?" She tried to hold in her laughter and failed horribly, laughing and pointing. "MIDGET!" She paused. "Wait...Muggle? They are way too much into that role-playing thing."

K made a face. "Not funny." She paused, thinking. "Um...yeah." She forget about the midget thing. "I'm not that obsessed. Well...maybe, but ...no, I wouldn't go around calling people Muggles."

J just smirked. "No, you just go around looking for Platform 9 ¾."

"I do not." A memory flashed back in her mind of when they had been in the train station in Winser and were bored so they looked around for Platform 9 ¾. "No I didn't."

"How about that time you went to Little Whinging to look for 4 Privet Drive?"

K crossed her arms. "That was you."

"No, I looked for 22 Grimwald Place in London."

"Oh yeah." K spotted an ice cream stand. "Ice cream!" K ran over and got a big dish of chip mint. She did some more people watching and saw a robed figure walk by eating a towering cone of multi-colored ice cream. "Hey! Where'd he get that?"

J snorted. "Who would want that much ice cream, it'll make you fat! I want Dippin' Dots!"

K rolled her eyes and pointed up above her head at the Dippin' Dots sign. "We are at Dippin' dots."

"I knew that." J looks around. "I want cookies and cream."

'Then get it." K looked at J. "Where are we supposed to meet up with everyone again?" She snickered. "I think we lost our chaperone when we ran for Millennium Force."

J bought some ice cream and began eating it. "Umm by the Sky Ride I think."

"Okay." K finished off her ice cream. "So where do you want to go next?"

J finished off her ice cream as well. "Magnum? I remember riding that the first time it came out when I was 6." She coughed. "I was tall enough by then."

K eyed J. "Hey, I was tall enough when I was 9. Be nice." She started walking towards the Magnum. "We should hit up Millennium Force again later."

J coughed, "Were not." She smirked. "Yeah, if the line isn't too long."

K rolled her eyes. "Was too." They got in line for the Magnum. Thankfully, it wasn't too long and there weren't any robed figures. "I would laugh if those robed people weren't allowed on the rides because of their robes."

J snickered. "Yeah, what would they do if they had to take off their robes? Do you think they wear anything under them?" She laughed.

K laughed. "Never know. Why don't you ask?" She pointed to a robed figure walking by.

J rolled her eyes. "Not again."

"What?" K looked at J.

"Are they following us? Or cloning themselves?"

K laughed. "Who knows, but it's fun to laugh and point."

"No, it's rude to point and laugh. It's fun to snicker and talk behind people's backs!"

"It's fun either way," K shrugged. They were nearly to the end of the line. "So you ready for Prisoner of Azkaban?"

"I can't wait! I love Sirius! And James!"

"Of course. But James isn't in the movie." She grinned. "But Draco is!"

J frowned and then brightened up. "Yeah, he's super cute!"

"Definitely." K nodded. "The hair down thing definitely works for him."

"Oh yeah, and you were worried that it wasn't canon. Just because he's totally hot now!"

"Super hot." K laughed and saw that they had reached the cars. They slipped into a seat, pulling down the bar. Two robed figures sat down in front of them and K glared. "They better not block my view of the hills."

J frowned. "How are we supposed to see the track?" She pouted.

"Yeah, really." K pouted as well. Then the roller coaster began moving and started climbing up the first hill. The grin came back on K's face and she threw her hands up into the air. "So far so good!"

J threw up her hands. "I love this part. Wheeee!!!!"

"AHHH!! OH YEAHH!!!!!" They flew around the curves and down the hills, going through a tunnel and then into the camera tunnel. "WHOOHO!!"

J grinned. "Smile for the picture!" She blew a kiss to the camera. "Oh yeah!"

K made a face for the picture and laughed as they came out of the tunnel. Then they noticed something very odd and scary. Both the robed figures in front of them were gone! "Where'd they - AHH!!!" The ride finished up and they climbed out of the cars. "Um, where'd those two people go?" K looked around, very confused.

J began freaking out. "Oh my god! They fell off!!"

K looked around. "You sure? Their bar was still down." They walked down the stairs and back onto the main walkway. K spotted two people in robes and noticed that they were the people that had been on the ride with them. She pointed. "Isn't that them?"

J, however, was still freaking out and didn't hear her. "Oh my god, they fell out and died!! They're going to sue Cedar Point and close it down!!"

K patted her on the shoulder. "No, they didn't. We were in the tunnel, there's no where fo rhtem to fall off to." She spotted a duck pond and her face lit up. "Duckies!!" She ran for the duck pond.

"NO WAY, they died and - DUCKIES!!" J ran over to the pond, totally distracted now. "Here, duckies duckies, duckies," she cooed.

"Hey, look at that one! I want a picture!" K pointed to a duck (actually a goose) that was standing on one leg in the water.

J ran away suddenly, yelling. "Ahhh!! The duckies are chasing me!!"

K laughed. 'They are n -" She stopped as she saw the ducks chasing Jaina and then began coming after her. "AHH!! Evil duckies!!" K ran away as well but ran smack into Mrs. Brown, their chaperone.

J looked at her. "Um...hi. Ducks are chasing me!"

Mrs. Brown just looked at them sternly. "Where have you two been? We've been searching for you for hours."

K just blinked. "Um, riding roller coasters."

"Being assaulted by DUCKS!"

Mrs. Brown just gave them a look that clearly said she thought they had too much sugar. "Okay, you two, we have to go meet up with everyone. Let's go."

K pouted. "Awww...come on...we still have to -"

Mrs. Brown gave her the evil eye and K just shut her mouth.

"Just take me away from the ducks!" J continued, babbling. "Wait, look at what they're doing now! They are slashing! YES! Other species slashing!"

K looked and laughed. "Harry and Draco are far cuter. And much more slashable." K nodded as they walked to the meeting place.

J nodded. "H/D forever! They are the best people to slash...well, maybe Pietro from X-men, but he has no one to slash with."

K snickered. "Himself." She looked at J. "So, when we get back home, do you want to come over and go swimming?"

"Yeah!" J grinned. "Where are we gonna swim?"

"The pond, where else?" K looked around at the other kids as they boarded the bus. "Do you think they saw the robed figures too?"

J shrugged. "Probably, they were everywhere. Should we talk to someone about it?"

K nodded and sat down on the seat, J sliding in next to her. K turned around to look at the girl behind her. "Hey, did you see the robed people?"

"Robes? As in Amish people? Yeah, saw tons of them, but nothing else," the girl said and turned back to talking with her friend.

K snickered. "It's too hot for that." She turned around and sat back down as the bus pulled away. She looked at J. "That was weird though."

"Yeah, those people were everywhere. How could no one see them?"

"They did see them." K shrugged. "Maybe they were just Amish people...they go to the parks too..." She thought hard. "I think."

J shook her head. "No, they totally didn't look like Amish people."

K is still thinking hard. "True...they didn't have beards or those clothes they wear..." K shrugged. "Probably just fanatics before the convention."

J nodded. "Yeah probably, but why role play?"

K shrugged. "Overly obsessive?"

"You could say that again," J snorted. "But they were adults."

"There were some kids our age, but hey, there are adults into Harry Potter too. My mom is...but she doesn't dress up.

"Yeah, oh well, it was fun at Cedar Point. Just look at my pic from Millennium!" J held out her picture and K looked at it.

"Yeah, good one."

They continued to chat as they rode back to the school.