All right, let's get this party started! Welcome to the first chapter of 'A Punk Among Preps'. I do hope that you'll all enjoy it very much. The idea just popped into my head one day so I thought that I should write it down. Okay, here we go! And by the way, I love reviews!
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} Just in case you were wondering, I don't own Harry Potter or any other related characters. The only character that is really mine is Gia. You cannot sue me for anything cause I didn't do anything wrong. So there, ha ha!
"Come on you two, my parents just died three days ago. Can't this wait?" Gia sighed and leaned her head against the window of the limo. She looked up at the rain-streaked sky.
"This matter cannot wait Ms. Harper. We must act out your parents last will and testament immediately if you want to keep the company." Gia tucked a strand of purple hair behind her ear. Claude, her father's lawyer, let out a loud frustrated sigh and opened up his briefcase to pull out a manila folder.
"Let's go over your parents last requests." Claude told her in a slightly gentler voice. Gia shook her head and looked at Claude. He had a serious look on his face and was clutching the folder. She then looked over at Gladys, her mother's lawyer. Her simple strait black hair was pulled back into a tight bun and it sharpened her face. Gladys nodded.
"We really must do this now Gia or else all of your parents hard work will have gone to waste. You don't want that now do you?" Gia shook her head and looked down at her lap. She smiled as she saw her cat, Hoshi, sleeping peacefully. He was a rather large cat and his fat body barely fit onto Gia's lap, but that didn't bother her one bit. She let out a little sigh.
"All right, go ahead and read their will." She said in a slightly small voice. Claude nodded and opened the manila folder. He pulled out a small packet of paper and flipped to the second page. He cleared his throat.
"I, Auto Harper, being of sound mind and aging body here by leave my company and entire life savings to my only daughter, Angelina Harper. To inherit my life's work, my daughter, Angelina Harper, will have to accomplish the following:
Finish her education of magic at the elite Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. After completing her education, must work at any ministry job for exactly one year before taking on the title of president of Harper Inc. Must find a suitable husband.
If these requirements are not fulfilled, she has no right to claim control of the company." Gia furrowed her brow together.
"Find a suitable husband? What sort of request is that? Do they think that I'll be a spinster the rest of my life?" Claude shook his head.
"I'm sure that he just means for you to find someone who won't steal your money and leave you with nothing but your cat." Gia looked down at Hoshi. He was currently on his back with a cat-like smile on his pointed chin. Gia giggled down at him. Gladys shook her head.
"Do you think that this is some sort of laughing matter, Gia? This is very serious, people's jobs are on the line if you don't complete your education!" Gia rolled her eyes.
"You don't have to get all dramatic on me, Gladys. I realize that this is serious and I don't need anyone to remind me." Gladys pursed her lips together and sat back in her seat. She reached into her purse and pulled out a single vile with a deep purple liquid in it topped off with a cork. She took the cork off and took a swig of the purple liquid. Gia cocked her eyebrow.
"I've never seen you drink, Gladys." Gladys shot a death glare over at Gia.
"You haven't seen me do a lot of things." Gia tilted her head to the side in amusement.
"Like what?" she asked in a monotone voice. Gladys leaned forward and motioned for Gia to come closer. She did with a happy look on her face.
"Well, when Claude and I were working late, we got really drunk and..."
"I think Ms. Harper has heard enough of your drunken tales!" Claude called out in a sheepish voice. Gia bit back a fit of laughter and sat back in her seat. Claude obviously had something to be embarrassed about. Gia rolled her eyes and held Hoshi steadily on her lap. The limo came to a sudden halt and the engine was shut off. Gia looked outside the window to see the towers of her parent's mansion. It was a huge castle like house that was located on one of the only nice islands in Manhattan. Her parents, Auto and Penny Harper, had bought the island when Gia was only three years old. At that time her parent's company, Harper Inc., was making a huge killing at the stock markets and the island was bought as a sort of celebration. Gia sighed as her driver opened the door for her and held out his hand to help her on her way out of the car. She swung her booted feet over the side and stood up with a slight sadness in her stepped out of the limo after her and noticed her sadness. Gia held Hoshi close to her chest and let out a heavy sigh. Claude caught up to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. She looked at him and he offered her a sympathetic smile.
"I'm sorry," he muttered. Gia nodded and Claude began walking quickly towards the house with Gladys now on his tail. He was probably talking about the house. Gia was being forced against her will to sell her parents dream house and they all knew that she wasn't one bit happy about it. She stopped at the front door and looked up to her family's crest that was hung above the door. The serpent that belonged to her mother was intertwined with the crow that was her father. Around them were white lily's, the official family flower. And at the very bottom, was her official animal given to her by her great-great grandmother; the black leopard. That had always been Gia, secretive and mystical. Plus, she was also a little on the wild side. You could tell by just looking at her once. Her hair was cut short and dyed with both purple and red streaks. She was tall and lanky and very tiny for her age. She liked to wear her leather boots with her neon green fishnets to cover her skinny legs. Covering about half of her fishnets was a sea foam green skirt with black writing adorning the bottom. She was always wearing her mother's old eighties thin leather jacket with a few silver studs decorating the back. She had her name sewn into the back in silver thread. She took a careful step into her house.
'I don't want to sell the house,' she thought to herself. 'This is where I grew up.' She shut the door behind her and eyed the entrance hall. This was the first time that she had ever noticed how large it was. There wasn't a chair or a carpet to spare in this luxurious mansion and this shocked Gia to her core.
"Are you ready to start packing, Miss?" one of the maids asked Gia. She nodded and slowly began to follow the maid up her winding staircase.
Gia sat on her trunk with her legs primly crossed. She ran a hand through her red and purple hair and sighed. For the first time in history, Gia's room was empty. Her bookshelves were gone and her clothes packed in the trunk that she now sat upon. Her bed had been taken apart and gone into storage along with all of her books. Each box was filled to the brim with Gia's many stories and books. She had always been an avid reader and writer.
'This isn't right,' she thought to herself. 'This isn't exactly what I had expected in life.' She took one quick look around at her maroon walls before a knock came to the door.
"Come in!" Gia called out. The door cautiously opened to reveal her best friend, Addie. She quickly came into the room and shut the door behind her.
"Hey, I came up here to see if you were all right." She took a moment to chew on her lower lip.
"Are you going to be okay?" she asked out of concern. Gia shrugged her shoulders and looked at her best friend through her purple bangs.
"What do you think? My parents just died four days ago and now I have to go to bloody London to carry out their will." She sighed and leaned her cheek upon the palm of her hand.
"My life sucks..." she muttered to herself. Addie squared her mouth and came to kneel at Gia's side. She brought her friend into a tight embrace.
"Your life does not suck." Gia pushed her away roughly. She tucked her knees close to her chest and buried her face in her arms.
"Yes it does." Came her muffled reply. Addie pursed her lips together. Addie put her arms around her friend's shoulders.
"I am so sorry that this had to happen to you. I feel so terrible about your parents dying. But everyone takes their bumps in life, you'll see, things will get better for you." Gia looked up at her with a cocked eyebrow and a skeptic look.
"I highly doubt that going to this school will improve my life one bit." Addie let go of her friend and shrugged her shoulders.
"It might, you never know what could happen in jolly old England!" Addie proclaimed with a smile on her lips. Gia smirked at her friend's antics. There came another knock on the door and the two girls looked up. This time, the only thing the door reveled was Claude in a white button down shirt and in a pair of jeans. He smiled at the two girls.
"By chance, are you ready to go, Gia? Your plane leaves in three hours and you know how bad airports can get with security." Gia nodded her head and stood up without another word. Addie looked up at her with wide eyes.
"I can come with you," she offered. Gia shook her head with a little smile on her face.
"The only reason you want to come with me is so that you can meet some really hot guy." Addie pouted out her lip and nodded to her friend.
"That and that I'm really worried about you." Gia rolled her eyes and took the handle on her trunk she walked towards the door dragging her trunk behind her. When she reached the door, Claude happily took away the handle and dragged the trunk the rest of the way down to the car. Gia stood with a hand placed on the frame of her door and rubbed the mahogany wood gently with her fingertips. She looked back at Addie who was leaning back on her hands and had a wide smirk on her face.
"Will I see you for Christmas?" she asked. Gia shrugged her shoulders and took the doorknob into her hand.
"We'll see..." with one final turn, Gia shut the door to her room for the last time. As the door shut, Addie let out a small whimper. She lay back on the floor and crossed her arms across her chest.
"I honestly cannot believe that she would not take me with her. That's just plain rude..."
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Darn, it says that I only wrote nine pages! Oh well, I'm proud that I finished it and my other chapters are really long so they'll make up for this one. I love reviews and I love the people who send them to me! Demon of the Wind