VampGirl: WTF? Who gave her candy canes?!
CJ: ;;Hides candy canes behind his back;; Fred! Bad alien!
Fred: T-T
CJ: And I am in this one! Do the happy dance!
VampGirl: Me too! Yay!
me: Wheeee! I do not own Harry Potter!
SAYING OF THE DAY: Beaware! Stupid people are Breeding!
O.O
The boy with the scruffy, black hair, tapped his fingers along his trunk. Harry Potter had been waiting for twenty minutes for his exchange family. Dumbledore had signed him up for the project, hoping to give the boy a break from Voldemort. Harry didn't think so highly of the idea. America? And some state that wasn't even well known? He could have been, at least, shipped to California or New York.
"Hey! You the exchange kid from England?" a voice said, out of breath. Harry turned to a girl with dark brown hair. She had grey-blue eyes and was a few inches taller then him.
"Yeah. My name is Harry. Harry Potter." he replied, waiting for the usual gasp. She just smiled.
"I'm Vicki Atwood. Nice to meet you. Here. Let me help you with your stuff." the girl said, taking one of Harry's trunks. Harry blinked and then grabbed the rest of his stuff.
A woman with coke bottle glasses and a man with balding brown hair rushed forward.
"Hello. I am Bob and this is my wife, Susan. You will be staying with us." The man said, shaking Harry's hand.
"Can we go home yet, dad? I need to see if Maggie E-mailed me yet." vicki said. She was tugging at her shoulder length hair and digging her toe into the airport tiles.
"We are seeing that your brother gets on the plane, safetly." Susan said, her voice slightlty annoyed.
"I'm going to the van." Vicki growled. She picked up Harry's trunk and made a signal that harry follow. The boy picked up his things and followed the tall brunette.
"Sorry if I seem rude, but I am 14 and don't like being seen with my parents. It is just a teen thing." Vicki apoligized. She exited the airport and walked to a big, grey, conversion van. She opened the back dorrs and swung Harry's trunk up inside. She did the same with the other.
Vicki then opened a side door and hopped inside.
"Like rock?" she asked.
"Uhh. I guess." Harry replied. Vicki shrugged and switched on the radio on. Hard metal blared out. Harry winced, not prepared for the intensity.
"I'VE TOLD YOU THIS ONCE BEFORE, CAN'T CONTROL ME IF YOU TRY TO TAKE ME DOWN YOU'RE GONNA BREAK I FEEL YOU'RE EVERY NOTHING THAT YOU'RE DOING FOR ME I'M THINKING YOU OUTTA MAKE YOUR OWN WAY I STAND ALONE!" Vicki sang out, headbanging with the music.
"What is this?" Harry asked.
"Godsmack. Not my favorite band, but they are awesome. Let me play Disturbed. They are the best." the brunette laughed, putting a black Cd into the player. Intense guitar and bass thumped loudly. The singer began screaming and Harry raised an eyebrow at Vicki, seeing if she really liked this stuff. She did. She bopped her head up and down with the beat.
"How can you listen to this stuff?" Harry asked.
"Rock is part of me. I'd rather listen to it then face the real world. A lot of the songs are how the singers hate everyone and everything. that is how I feel so much. Sometimes I kinda want to die. But then I think of how much I love my friends and I am happy." Vicki laughed. She grinned like she had just told a funny joke. Harry shivered and stared out his window.
Even though America and England were only an ocean away, things were much different.
XD
That night, Harry lay in the bed he had been lent. He couldn't sleep at all. He slipped out of bed and creeped down the hall. He, gently, opened the front door and slipped out. The warm night held and slight breeze and harry shivered.
Golden eyes stared from nearby bushes. A low growl rumbled, softly. A black panther slipped from it's cover into the light of a street lamp. Harry gasped. A caw made him turn to look at a raven. The bird flapped it's blue-black wings.
A bark called to Harry. A lab-like dog padded forward. It's deep brown eyes stared at the boy. All three animals called out to him. He realized they were, almost, telling him to return inside.
Harry turned and fled into the house. After he had shut the door, he peered out the window. A dementor was floating down the street. All three animals attacked it. The cat and dog, snapping at it's lower body. The raven stratched at it's 'face'. The dementor screeched and floated away as fast as it could.
Harry opened the door, slowly. He stepped outside and checked to see if the dementor had truely left. It was gone. The lab bounded towards him. It wagged his tail and jumped up on Harry.
The panther yowled and knocked the dog aside. It flicked it's long tail before disappearing into the night. The raven flapped it's wings and flew away. The dog barked and ran away, leaving Harry confused.
Harry stared at where the three creatures had vanished. He shivered and returned to his room. He laid in bed and felt, surprisngly calm. His encounter had cleared away some of his doubts. He felt good knowing their was magic here, even if it was from evil creatures.
And what was with the animals? They had appeared out of no where. They then saved him. He wasn't allowed to use any sort of magic while in America. If he had faced the dementor, he wouldn't have lasted. His wand resided at the bottom of his trunk, in case of emergency.
His door creeked open and the panther slipped into the room. It sat in the middle of the floor and flicked it's tail. Harry slid out of bed and crept towards the giant cat. It began purring like a lawnmower. It bumped against his outstreched hand. It's golden eyes stared deep into his own. Harry understood.
The three animals searched for their final brethern. They were meant to defend innocents against evil. That is why they seemed so human. They were created to know good from evil.
The cat yowled and fled the room. Harry followed, but the cat had vanished. He sighed. Now there were questions unanswered. Why was it that the one place in the world he went to, magic was flourishing in a way that he had never heard of? Fate seemed to have a sense of humor.
BD
Harry walked with Vicki up a sloped path that led to high school. He caught sight of the building and raised and eyebrow. There were two different buildings made of brick. The school seemed like a place of buisness, instead of a learning center.
"Here we are. School sweet school. Alright. I'm going to meet my friends. You can come if you want to." Vicki said.
"Sure." Harry replied. After all, he had no clue where he was going.
Vicki led him to the cafeteria, packed with students, all laughing and joking with each other. A short girl with long, curly, purple-red hair ran up and hugged Vicki.
"Harry, this is my best friend, Maggie Fournier. Maggie, meet Harry Potter." the tall brunette said, a huge grin on her face.
"Hey! I thought I was your best friend!" a voice said. Harry turned to see a boy with brown hair cut in a similar fasion to his own. He had on glasses and a grey sweatshirt.
"Your my best guy friend, CJ." Vicki said, rolling her eyes.
"Oh well." CJ turned and left.
"What the-" Harry said.
"Yeah, you might want to watch out for Dogbreath." Maggie said, sarcasim in her voice.
"Dogbreath?"
"Friendly nickname. I'm Scaredy cat and Maggie is Bird brain." Vicki said, laughing, "Or moose, according to my friend who moved and is now a preppy bitch who is trying out for cheerleading and has stopped calling me."
"O...K. What time does school start?" Harry asked.
"7:45 on the dot. We leave this hell hole at 2:45. But today is going to be boring because it is the first day and we, the freshmen will be all that is occupyibng this hell with flouresent lights." Maggie grinned. She flipped her long purple-red hair over her shoulder and left for class.
Vicki grinned. "You'll get used to it. Every student in this building has a screwed up sense of humor. We find people tripping down the tower steps hilarious. Maybe someone will throw a chair down the stairs. Some one did last year. I hear it was a laugh riot. Teachers hated it, but everyone thought it was funny as hell."
Harry had a feeling that this was a year to remember.
T-T
me: So how was that? Got some action in there and I feel happy as a lark.
VampGirl: Yay! I am a badass! And my hair is more red now. I am not short.
me: Compared to me, you are.
CJ: She got you there!
Fred:He dropped you off, I followed him home Then I, I stood outside his bedroom window Standing over him, he begged me not to do What I knew I had to do cause I'm so in love with you
Oh, my love Please don't cry I'll wash my bloody hands and We'll start a new life I don't know much at all I don't know wrong from right All I know is that I love you tonight Tonight (My Bloody Valentine-Good Charlotte)