Chapter 1: The Boy
The boy sat in his chair, the glow of the computer screen illuminating his face as the only light in the room. He was about sixteen, with medium-length, dark brown hair, and arresting silver-grey eyes. He stared at what was written on the screen.
"Crap," he muttered under his breath. "Complete crap."
'You know what to do,' a voice said in his mind.
He smirked. He knew indeed what to do. He selected all the text on the screen and hit the Delete key. He took a drink of the soda he kept on his desk and reevaluated his thoughts. He found that he was actually tired. As well he should be; he hadn't slept in days. And tomorrow…
"Shit!" he whispered. Tomorrow was the first day of school in this alien place. And not just any school, oh no. For Daimaen Sander was a wizard. Tomorrow would begin his first of his last two years at school, and for this and (he hoped) the subsequent year, he would be attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
He wouldn't have minded so much (and really didn't mind as much as he thought he did) if it hadn't been his mother's boyfriend's idea. "In fact," he often told himself, "it would've been better if the little tramp hadn't left my father at all." Daimaen's mother and father were both wizards, but his mother had seen fit to leave his father for a Muggle, whom, as it happened, she had been sleeping with for the last three months of their marriage. That man was also where Daimaen's younger brother had come from.
Daimaen always liked his father better, and still remained in touch with him, but Finn (an ironic name at best, as the man's hair was raven-dark) decided it would be best that the boy remain with his mother for the time being. It was through Finn's father's cousin that they were related to the Malfoys, which could only be seen in Daimaen in the boy's grey eyes and sardonically arrogant demeanor. Oh, and his hatred of Muggles, although he truly had a reason for it instead of just the usual prejudice.
He would sleep, then. Yes, good, abandon his foolish thoughts of writing for a night at least. Or what remained of it, anyway.
So he slept.
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References/Notes:
>> ""...His mother had seen fit to leave his father for a Muggle, whom, as it happened, she had been sleeping with for the last three months of their marriage."" -- I guess my love of the movie/book Secret Window kind of crept into Daimaen's life, hehe. The mother's boyfriend is not named Ted, though. I'm pretty sure he's a Cameron, or maybe Bradley (never Brad). Or, you know, maybe it was Knuckles' family...