I wrote this because I was supremely bored today and had nothing better to do. Please, tell me if it's absolute crap.
"Paper bags and plastic hearts
All our belongings in shopping carts
It's goodbye
But we got one more night
Lets get drunk and ride around
And make peace with an empty town
We can make it right,"
"What's that noise?" Harry looked around their group, confused and attempting to locate the source of his bewilderment.
"Sorry, Harry. I was humming…" Hermione admitted sheepishly. She prayed he would drop it, but Harry was nothing if not curious.
"What song?"
Hermione blushed. Her taste in music wasn't exactly what anyone would expect out of 'our dearest Hermione.' "Um, it's called The Great Escape, by a band called Boys Like Girls."
Unexpectedly, Harry grinned. "I know that song! Which is weird, because I'm not exactly your average pop culture junkie."
"You know it? But, it's American!" Hermione was incredulous.
Harry shrugged. "You know it," he pointed out matter-of-factly.
Hermione grinned and started singing again, belting the chorus with an idiotic smile on her face. Harry joined in almost immediately.
"Throw it away
Forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
We wont hear a word they say
They don't know us anyway
Watch it burn
Let it die
Cause we are finally free tonight,"
By now they were getting scandalized looks from the students passing their tree by the lake. The others around them just looked amused.
"Hey! I know that song!" The group looked up to see none other than Hannah Abbot running toward them. Harry and Hermione had continued singing, and Hannah simply joined in, adding her delightful soprano to the still-growing mix.
"Tonight will change our lives
It's so good to be by your side
And we'll cry
But we wont give up the fight
We'll scream loud at the top of our lungs
They'll think it's just cause were young
But we'll feel so alive,"
Harry, grinning evilly, stood and pulled Hermione to her feet. Just as they started the chorus again he did the oddest thing (in the opinions of the confused people looking on). He started head banging.
Hermione and Hannah laughed and joined in, Hermione throwing a hand up and jumping up and down. The weirdest thing about it was that she didn't look at all odd. It seemed that Hogwart's resident bookworm attended a few concerts in her day.
"Throw it away
Forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
We wont hear a word they say
They don't know us anyway
Watch it burn
Let it die
Cause we are finally free tonight,
"All of the wasted time
The hours that were left behind
The answers that we'll never find
They don't mean a thing tonight"
The party of three danced uproariously to the guitar interlude that was playing at top volume inside their heads, looking like complete head cases all the while, and not caring one whit. Then their volume dropped significantly.
"Throw it away
Forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
We wont hear a word they say
They don't know us anyway,"
Suddenly, the three were yelling again. Their friends just sat back and laughed.
"Throw it away
Forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
We wont hear a word they say
They don't know us anyway
Throw it away
Forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
We wont hear a word they say
They don't know us anyway
Watch it burn
Let it die
Cause we are finally free tonight…"
Hermione sighed and fell to the ground, Harry following a moment later. Suddenly, Hannah looked awkward and tried to leave, but Harry grabbed her ankle and she toppled to the ground. Harry grinned sheepishly, but Hermione was laughing loudly and it was rather infectious. Hannah couldn't help but join in.
"Are you guys done being freaks yet?" Ron asked from his spot leaning against the tree, his girlfriend Luna held close to his chest.
Hermione sat up and shook her head defiantly at him, "NEVER!" She yelled dramatically, before falling back down to the green grass. "Damn, well now I just want to go on a road trip!"
"Well, who says we can't?" Harry piped in. Hermione whipped her head around to see if he was kidding or not.
"Hermione, babe, Voldemort's dead, it's a two days after graduation, exams are over, and there's absolutely no point in us staying here one moment longer. Why not go on a road trip? We could buy a car with the money you know I have, and just drive. Maybe sell the car and catch a boat to America, where we'd just buy another one. Travel the world, see everything. Let's do it. Right now."
"Oh my god, you're not kidding!" Hermione was shocked. Harry was ecstatic. He turned to look at Hannah.
"What about you? Do you want to come?"
Hannah grinned at the opportunity to be included. Wherever Harry went, adventure was sure to follow. She nodded enthusiastically.
"See, Hermione, that's two out of three, you're coming." It was said as if it was final, but there was still a question in her best friend's eyes.
Hermione sighed exasperatedly, but truly she was glad he'd convinced her. "Alright…" She grinned, "Hannah, is there anyone you want to bring that would blend well in both worlds?"
Hannah's face lit once again. "Can Michael come? Michael Corner?"
Harry's face fell dramatically, and he pouted comically, "Is he your boyfriend? Gosh darn it! I'm so jealous!" He flicked his eyes at his best friend and begged with his eyes for Hannah to play along.
Hannah grinned obligingly and winked at the Boy-Who-Just-Won't-Die, "He tries, but he could never match up to you, Harry, my sweet."
The 'sweet' in question laughed raucously at the look on Hermione's face, which she probably wasn't aware of, and pulled the offended girl into his lap. "Don't worry, sweetheart," he whispered in her ear, "No one could ever take your place in my heart."
Abruptly, and in frightening unison, the three stood. Well, Harry and Hannah stood, and Hermione was plucked up into Harry's arms with never a by-your-leave, and they all strode purposefully across the grounds to go seek out Michael Corner and then to flee campus for good.
Three days later would found the four new friends in the very first Mazda Senku ever to roll off the assembly line, practically flying down a highway somewhere in Europe. They would never know exactly where.
And for miles after they'd passed, you could still hear the stereo blaring,
"Throw it away
Forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
We won't hear a word they say
They don't know us anyway
Watch it burn
Let it die
Cause we are finally free tonight."
Mazda Senku: www dot the auto channel dot com / news / 2006 / 02 / 15 / 210851 dot 5 dash lg dot jpg