"Warrior of the Stars"
By: Gemini
Chapter 9: Karaoke, Love Confessions, and Forgotten Memories
Authorress's note: Hey! Thanks for reading my story! I hope you have the chance to check out my other better written ones. Please review!
Disclaimer: Ummm. yeah *grins* No, I don't own anything. J.K. Rowling does along with the WB
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Jasmine took a drink of her root beer, and looked longingly over at Ben's vanilla coke.
"Touch it and die," he warned her. "I'll sick my hobo on you!"
"You have a hobo?" Harry asked, sitting down, sipping his fizzy drink.
For a moment, Ben's eyes went as what we would call "Shifty eyes" and he got up and ran out of the room for a moment.
A few of the British students laughed, and the American's just shook their heads as they had known Ben forever.
"Gotta love Ben," Alex laughed, shaking her head. She grinned over at Sabre, who raised an eye brow in an amused fashion.
"Love you too!" Ben told her, draping his arms around her stomach from behind. She squealed as he started to tickle her and she pulled away immediately, reaching for the paper towels.
"You baka! You made me spill!" Ben grinned and looked over at Donovan who was talking to his little brother. Draco walked over to Alex and picked up her glass so she could wipe underneath it, and she smiled at him.
Ben felt something burning in his stomach as he watched them, and he thought 'Two can play at this game.' He walked over to Lizzy and started to tickle the poor girl, who had no idea what was going on. She started to tickle him back, and as he wasn't suspecting it, he jumped backwards, knocking into Krista.
"Hey!" she yelled, reaching up and smacking him, and catching her laptop in her other hand. "That's not cool! I'm downloading music over here!"
"OH!" Jasmine jumped up. "Get the song 'Butterfly'!! Alex and you have to sing that with me!"
"I don't have to get it," Krista told her, shaking her head. "It's been on my computer since last weekend when you made me download it."
Jasmine blushed, a bit, and Ron turned to Harry and sighed.
"Adorable, don't you think?" he sighed.
Harry nodded before he could stop himself. He grinned over at Krista who was yelling at Donovan for something or other. "They're gorgeous," he told Ron.
"Almost exact opposites," Ron agreed, cocking his head to the side, looking at the two of them.
As Ron and Harry were talking about Krista and Jasmine, Craig was thinking of a way to approach Sabre. He looked at her longingly from across the room, and before he knew what was happening, he was on his way over there.
"Stupid feet," he muttered as he reached her.
"Pardon?" she drawled, turning to see him.
Her soft cool accent filled his ears, and he felt his heart skip a beat. His hand reached up and pulled a piece of hair away from her eyes, tucking it behind her ear. He couldn't help but grin as a blush crept onto her cheeks. "I was talking about my feet." he trailed off as she looked at him with an eye brow raised. "Never mind."
As she stuck a spoon into her soda mixture, she shook her head slightly. "You Americans are so strange," she told him, grinning.
"And you British aren't?" he asked her, raising his eye brows. She unexpectedly laughed.
"You have a point," she admitted. She heard a giggle and turned to see Alex trying to get Draco to drink something out of her glass, as he shook his head vehemently.
"Want a sip?" she asked Craig, who was staring intently at her. She blushed again.
"Sure," he said, grabbing her glass and took a gulp. He didn't expect a rush of two different flavors that normally wouldn't be thought of in the same soda, and he gagged.
She giggled despite herself, and he grinned sheepishly. "I made Malfoy drink that stuff before one night when he was sick. He just vomited the stuff back up, probably the reason he won't let drink any of the stuff Shara is trying to give him."
The name puzzled him for a moment and it must have showed because she laughed again. "Sorry. She reminds me of someone I know named Shara." Craig cocked his head to the side and looked over at Alex.
"I guess she could be a Shara," he agreed.
The male Alex stood, getting everyone's attention. "Ok, guys. Gather round, gather round, are we ready for this evening's entertainment?" he asked.
"Almost!" Krista replied, as she down loaded yet another song.
He grinned. "Ok. Who wants to go first?"
"We do!!" Jasmine jumped up and down. Alex grinned, and shook her head, while Krista just sighed.
"And what song are you three singing?" The male Alex asked her.
"Butterfly!"
Adam leaned over to Donovan, "Gosh, we've heard this song so many times!" he yawned.
"Shut it, Adam!" Jasmine told him, sticking her tongue and grinning.
A soft techno came in the background with a Japanese touch to it, and a few of the students found their heads bopping back and forth to the beat.
"I've been searching for a man, all across Japan, just to find, to find my Samurai!" Krista sand gorgeously, and a cat-call was called out.
"I'll be your samurai!" someone indistinguishably yelled.
"Someone who is strong, but still a little shy, yes I need my samurai," Jasmine sang, her voice completely different from Krista's.
The three of them sang the next part together. "Ay ay ay! I'm your little butterfly; green black and blue make the colors in the sky. Ay ay ay, I'm your little butterfly; green black and blue make the colors in the sky."
Alex slightly higher voice came in with the next part, "I've been searching in the woods and high upon the hills, just to find, to find my samurai."
The song went on for a little while like that, with them ending as a chord on three different notes.
Everyone applauded, and Harry stood to sing the next song. It was by Linkin Park, and called "One Step Closer."
He poured his heart into the lyrics, as if he felt passionately about what he was singing. And he did. "Everything you say to me sends me one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to break."
Jasmine's mind somehow connected to Harry's while he was singing and she caught some of his thoughts that were so deep in pain she wished she could break the connection and start sobbing where she was sitting. Somehow through this connection memories that she had forced herself to forget started to flash through her head. Herself being kidnapped before her father had died, by a creepy man that claimed to be a long lost uncle. She was taken to *him*. She couldn't remember any more as Harry's song ended and she locked eyes with him, her eyes to the brim with tears and his glassy green.
Ron walked up to Jasmine and he grabbed her hand. "Can I talk to you?" he asked quietly, looking in her eyes, which had somehow cleared of any traces of tears. The sadness was still there and for some reason, he didn't feel all that moved by it.
Chalice stood on stage seeing a song Ben obviously knew as he stood up to start to dance and sing along with her. It was called "Bumble Bee" by a Japanese band called Bambee, which reminded most of the students of Aqua.
Ron led Jasmine out of the room as the techno beat pulsed through the room. "Jas?" he asked her.
"What's on your mind?" she asked him.
"You actually."
She blushed a bit and he grinned, thinking 'She is soooooooooo cute!' at which her blush deepened.
"Thank you."
He looked confused for a moment. "For what?" he asked.
"For saying I was cute." The moment she after she said it she could have smacked her hand to her forehead. "Sorry. It's something me and most of my friends can do. It's called Kything, and I could only read your mind because you were thinking so strongly about me. I'm sorry!"
"It's ok." 'What am I thinking now?' he challenged her with his mind, trying to send it to her. She laughed. 'So I can kythe?' he asked, again with his mind, to which she nodded.
He leaned over and hugged her, breathing in her scent. "You smell good," he murmered.
"Thanks," she blushed. "You do too actually." She sniffed again. "My dad used to wear that stuff."
He didn't let her go, but rather held her longer. "I'm sorry about your father," he whispered. "I don't know what I'd do without my dad."
Jasmine sighed happily, and she felt a bit wary as she said the next thing. "It's nice in your arms," she started. "It helps the pain."
He pulled away a moment and searched her eyes. "Jasmine?" he asked her.
"Yeah?" she replied, looking up at him.
"I know this is going to sound really sudden, but I feel the urge to do this now, before anything else happens."
"What's on you mind, Ron?" she asked him, bringing a hand up to his face.
"Would you be my girlfriend?" he blurted out, the tips of his ears turning red.
Jasmine laughed and he hid his face, before she moved it back with her hand. "Of course," she whispered.
He laughed, and grabbed her around the waist swinging her in a circle. "Thank you!" he whispered, placing her back on the ground, grinning foolishly. "Now I'm ready to sing a song in front of them all," he told her, running a finger down her cheek.
She grasped his hand, and shook her head, trying to forget the memories she had tried so hard to forget as they walked out of the room.
Chalice went to sit down next to Derek who grinned at her.
"Always see it one T.V. or raining in the magazines, celebrities who want sympathy! All they do is piss and moan, inside the rolling stone talking about how hard life can be! I'd like to see them spend a week living life out on the street, I don't' think they'd survive. But they can spend a day or two walking in another's shoes, I think they'd stumble and fall. Lifestyles of the rich and the famous! Always complainin, always complainin. If money is such a problem, well they've got mansions, maybe we can rob them!"
Alex laughed along with a few of the British students. She grinned over at Draco who was rolling his eyes muttering about "Ratty Weasleys." After Ron finished his song, she leaned over and grabbed Jasmine's hand, and kythed, 'It'll be alright sissy!'
Jasmine smiled at her as she stood on stage, and picked a song on the computer. Unlike the previous fast beat song, this song had a soft opening of piano. She closed her eyes and let the hair fall into them as she started to sing. "I'm so tired of being here, suppressed by all my childish fears. And if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave, because your presence still lingers here, and it won't leave me alone." She choked back a sob. "These wounds won't seem to heal; this pain is just too real. There's just too much that time cannot erase."
Draco watched the girl in front of him as she poured her heart out through the lyrics, and for the first time in his life, he felt remorse. Memories flooded to him just as Jasmine had earlier. "You used to captive me by your resonating light. Now I'm bound by that life you left behind. Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams, you voice it chased all the sanity in me." Draco had been a lot younger than, maybe a year before he was due to go to Hogwarts. An experience he tried his best to forget. Lucius had killed another man, this one dragging Draco along to hopefully "harden" the young boy's heart. It had worked. There was four kids, all huddled with their mother in the corner of the room, and Draco had just stood there stoically as his father had killed their father. He racked his brain for a name. Alan. Alan.Dammit! But he remembered her. Her and her sister, who sat there, sobbing; one of them, the younger one, had jumped up trying to stop his father.
"I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone, but though you're still with me, I've been alone all along." A tear slipped down her cheek, and one did Jasmine's as the song ended. She walked out of the room quickly, Ben and Donovan both watched her go, both jumping up to run after her, but before they could, they saw Draco already on her tail.
Manndee stood to try and break the deafening silence of the room. She took a deep breathe, and searched for Alex's mind. 'It's ok, sweetie!' she tried calling out, but was met with a wall.
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TBC: sorry guys!! I couldn't just give it all to Jasmine and Sabre. I needed something for Alex and Draco too.. Well, happy reviewing!!!! This is dedicated to my dad ((who is not dead!!)) who recently moved out and I miss very very much. Love you all! Oh, the song we sing in the beginning is called "Butterfly" by Smile.Dk, Chalice sings "Bumble Bee" by Bambee ((an AWESOME song)) and Ron sings "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" by Good Charlotte. Alex *me* sings "My Immortal" from Evanescence. Just for anyone who likes moody dark rock with a very pretty female lead, then download this song and "Bring me back to Life." You'll recognize them if you've seen DareDevil!! ((I recommend that movie btw. it was *so* awesome!!))
By: Gemini
Chapter 9: Karaoke, Love Confessions, and Forgotten Memories
Authorress's note: Hey! Thanks for reading my story! I hope you have the chance to check out my other better written ones. Please review!
Disclaimer: Ummm. yeah *grins* No, I don't own anything. J.K. Rowling does along with the WB
~*~
Jasmine took a drink of her root beer, and looked longingly over at Ben's vanilla coke.
"Touch it and die," he warned her. "I'll sick my hobo on you!"
"You have a hobo?" Harry asked, sitting down, sipping his fizzy drink.
For a moment, Ben's eyes went as what we would call "Shifty eyes" and he got up and ran out of the room for a moment.
A few of the British students laughed, and the American's just shook their heads as they had known Ben forever.
"Gotta love Ben," Alex laughed, shaking her head. She grinned over at Sabre, who raised an eye brow in an amused fashion.
"Love you too!" Ben told her, draping his arms around her stomach from behind. She squealed as he started to tickle her and she pulled away immediately, reaching for the paper towels.
"You baka! You made me spill!" Ben grinned and looked over at Donovan who was talking to his little brother. Draco walked over to Alex and picked up her glass so she could wipe underneath it, and she smiled at him.
Ben felt something burning in his stomach as he watched them, and he thought 'Two can play at this game.' He walked over to Lizzy and started to tickle the poor girl, who had no idea what was going on. She started to tickle him back, and as he wasn't suspecting it, he jumped backwards, knocking into Krista.
"Hey!" she yelled, reaching up and smacking him, and catching her laptop in her other hand. "That's not cool! I'm downloading music over here!"
"OH!" Jasmine jumped up. "Get the song 'Butterfly'!! Alex and you have to sing that with me!"
"I don't have to get it," Krista told her, shaking her head. "It's been on my computer since last weekend when you made me download it."
Jasmine blushed, a bit, and Ron turned to Harry and sighed.
"Adorable, don't you think?" he sighed.
Harry nodded before he could stop himself. He grinned over at Krista who was yelling at Donovan for something or other. "They're gorgeous," he told Ron.
"Almost exact opposites," Ron agreed, cocking his head to the side, looking at the two of them.
As Ron and Harry were talking about Krista and Jasmine, Craig was thinking of a way to approach Sabre. He looked at her longingly from across the room, and before he knew what was happening, he was on his way over there.
"Stupid feet," he muttered as he reached her.
"Pardon?" she drawled, turning to see him.
Her soft cool accent filled his ears, and he felt his heart skip a beat. His hand reached up and pulled a piece of hair away from her eyes, tucking it behind her ear. He couldn't help but grin as a blush crept onto her cheeks. "I was talking about my feet." he trailed off as she looked at him with an eye brow raised. "Never mind."
As she stuck a spoon into her soda mixture, she shook her head slightly. "You Americans are so strange," she told him, grinning.
"And you British aren't?" he asked her, raising his eye brows. She unexpectedly laughed.
"You have a point," she admitted. She heard a giggle and turned to see Alex trying to get Draco to drink something out of her glass, as he shook his head vehemently.
"Want a sip?" she asked Craig, who was staring intently at her. She blushed again.
"Sure," he said, grabbing her glass and took a gulp. He didn't expect a rush of two different flavors that normally wouldn't be thought of in the same soda, and he gagged.
She giggled despite herself, and he grinned sheepishly. "I made Malfoy drink that stuff before one night when he was sick. He just vomited the stuff back up, probably the reason he won't let drink any of the stuff Shara is trying to give him."
The name puzzled him for a moment and it must have showed because she laughed again. "Sorry. She reminds me of someone I know named Shara." Craig cocked his head to the side and looked over at Alex.
"I guess she could be a Shara," he agreed.
The male Alex stood, getting everyone's attention. "Ok, guys. Gather round, gather round, are we ready for this evening's entertainment?" he asked.
"Almost!" Krista replied, as she down loaded yet another song.
He grinned. "Ok. Who wants to go first?"
"We do!!" Jasmine jumped up and down. Alex grinned, and shook her head, while Krista just sighed.
"And what song are you three singing?" The male Alex asked her.
"Butterfly!"
Adam leaned over to Donovan, "Gosh, we've heard this song so many times!" he yawned.
"Shut it, Adam!" Jasmine told him, sticking her tongue and grinning.
A soft techno came in the background with a Japanese touch to it, and a few of the students found their heads bopping back and forth to the beat.
"I've been searching for a man, all across Japan, just to find, to find my Samurai!" Krista sand gorgeously, and a cat-call was called out.
"I'll be your samurai!" someone indistinguishably yelled.
"Someone who is strong, but still a little shy, yes I need my samurai," Jasmine sang, her voice completely different from Krista's.
The three of them sang the next part together. "Ay ay ay! I'm your little butterfly; green black and blue make the colors in the sky. Ay ay ay, I'm your little butterfly; green black and blue make the colors in the sky."
Alex slightly higher voice came in with the next part, "I've been searching in the woods and high upon the hills, just to find, to find my samurai."
The song went on for a little while like that, with them ending as a chord on three different notes.
Everyone applauded, and Harry stood to sing the next song. It was by Linkin Park, and called "One Step Closer."
He poured his heart into the lyrics, as if he felt passionately about what he was singing. And he did. "Everything you say to me sends me one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to break."
Jasmine's mind somehow connected to Harry's while he was singing and she caught some of his thoughts that were so deep in pain she wished she could break the connection and start sobbing where she was sitting. Somehow through this connection memories that she had forced herself to forget started to flash through her head. Herself being kidnapped before her father had died, by a creepy man that claimed to be a long lost uncle. She was taken to *him*. She couldn't remember any more as Harry's song ended and she locked eyes with him, her eyes to the brim with tears and his glassy green.
Ron walked up to Jasmine and he grabbed her hand. "Can I talk to you?" he asked quietly, looking in her eyes, which had somehow cleared of any traces of tears. The sadness was still there and for some reason, he didn't feel all that moved by it.
Chalice stood on stage seeing a song Ben obviously knew as he stood up to start to dance and sing along with her. It was called "Bumble Bee" by a Japanese band called Bambee, which reminded most of the students of Aqua.
Ron led Jasmine out of the room as the techno beat pulsed through the room. "Jas?" he asked her.
"What's on your mind?" she asked him.
"You actually."
She blushed a bit and he grinned, thinking 'She is soooooooooo cute!' at which her blush deepened.
"Thank you."
He looked confused for a moment. "For what?" he asked.
"For saying I was cute." The moment she after she said it she could have smacked her hand to her forehead. "Sorry. It's something me and most of my friends can do. It's called Kything, and I could only read your mind because you were thinking so strongly about me. I'm sorry!"
"It's ok." 'What am I thinking now?' he challenged her with his mind, trying to send it to her. She laughed. 'So I can kythe?' he asked, again with his mind, to which she nodded.
He leaned over and hugged her, breathing in her scent. "You smell good," he murmered.
"Thanks," she blushed. "You do too actually." She sniffed again. "My dad used to wear that stuff."
He didn't let her go, but rather held her longer. "I'm sorry about your father," he whispered. "I don't know what I'd do without my dad."
Jasmine sighed happily, and she felt a bit wary as she said the next thing. "It's nice in your arms," she started. "It helps the pain."
He pulled away a moment and searched her eyes. "Jasmine?" he asked her.
"Yeah?" she replied, looking up at him.
"I know this is going to sound really sudden, but I feel the urge to do this now, before anything else happens."
"What's on you mind, Ron?" she asked him, bringing a hand up to his face.
"Would you be my girlfriend?" he blurted out, the tips of his ears turning red.
Jasmine laughed and he hid his face, before she moved it back with her hand. "Of course," she whispered.
He laughed, and grabbed her around the waist swinging her in a circle. "Thank you!" he whispered, placing her back on the ground, grinning foolishly. "Now I'm ready to sing a song in front of them all," he told her, running a finger down her cheek.
She grasped his hand, and shook her head, trying to forget the memories she had tried so hard to forget as they walked out of the room.
Chalice went to sit down next to Derek who grinned at her.
"Always see it one T.V. or raining in the magazines, celebrities who want sympathy! All they do is piss and moan, inside the rolling stone talking about how hard life can be! I'd like to see them spend a week living life out on the street, I don't' think they'd survive. But they can spend a day or two walking in another's shoes, I think they'd stumble and fall. Lifestyles of the rich and the famous! Always complainin, always complainin. If money is such a problem, well they've got mansions, maybe we can rob them!"
Alex laughed along with a few of the British students. She grinned over at Draco who was rolling his eyes muttering about "Ratty Weasleys." After Ron finished his song, she leaned over and grabbed Jasmine's hand, and kythed, 'It'll be alright sissy!'
Jasmine smiled at her as she stood on stage, and picked a song on the computer. Unlike the previous fast beat song, this song had a soft opening of piano. She closed her eyes and let the hair fall into them as she started to sing. "I'm so tired of being here, suppressed by all my childish fears. And if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave, because your presence still lingers here, and it won't leave me alone." She choked back a sob. "These wounds won't seem to heal; this pain is just too real. There's just too much that time cannot erase."
Draco watched the girl in front of him as she poured her heart out through the lyrics, and for the first time in his life, he felt remorse. Memories flooded to him just as Jasmine had earlier. "You used to captive me by your resonating light. Now I'm bound by that life you left behind. Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams, you voice it chased all the sanity in me." Draco had been a lot younger than, maybe a year before he was due to go to Hogwarts. An experience he tried his best to forget. Lucius had killed another man, this one dragging Draco along to hopefully "harden" the young boy's heart. It had worked. There was four kids, all huddled with their mother in the corner of the room, and Draco had just stood there stoically as his father had killed their father. He racked his brain for a name. Alan. Alan.Dammit! But he remembered her. Her and her sister, who sat there, sobbing; one of them, the younger one, had jumped up trying to stop his father.
"I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone, but though you're still with me, I've been alone all along." A tear slipped down her cheek, and one did Jasmine's as the song ended. She walked out of the room quickly, Ben and Donovan both watched her go, both jumping up to run after her, but before they could, they saw Draco already on her tail.
Manndee stood to try and break the deafening silence of the room. She took a deep breathe, and searched for Alex's mind. 'It's ok, sweetie!' she tried calling out, but was met with a wall.
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TBC: sorry guys!! I couldn't just give it all to Jasmine and Sabre. I needed something for Alex and Draco too.. Well, happy reviewing!!!! This is dedicated to my dad ((who is not dead!!)) who recently moved out and I miss very very much. Love you all! Oh, the song we sing in the beginning is called "Butterfly" by Smile.Dk, Chalice sings "Bumble Bee" by Bambee ((an AWESOME song)) and Ron sings "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" by Good Charlotte. Alex *me* sings "My Immortal" from Evanescence. Just for anyone who likes moody dark rock with a very pretty female lead, then download this song and "Bring me back to Life." You'll recognize them if you've seen DareDevil!! ((I recommend that movie btw. it was *so* awesome!!))