Characters © J.K. Rowling.
Plot © Sami-Lee 2000-2004.
Harry met Seamus that Saturday morning at the bus stop, and spent the bus trip being whacked over the head for singing theme songs in Japanese all the way to the city. Now, travelling into the city when you went to school there, was something not a lot of students did, so Harry and Seamus didn't except to see anyone they knew. When Harry finally stopped trying to sing like an 11-year-old Japanese girl, Seamus decided it was time for a conversation. "So how come you're not seeing Draco today?" Seamus didn't mean to pry, but it was common knowledge now that Draco and Harry were barely separated.
Harry didn't even stop to think about Seamus' question. "Because I wanted to do something with you! We haven't done anything in ages, and lets face it, we just have so much fun together, how can I not want to do something with you!" Harry beamed and Seamus laughed.
"You have a point there, Felix." Seamus blinked, then winked and Harry smiled again as the two boys headed to one of Harry's favourite stores.
Seamus wasn't as keen on Japanese Anime as Harry was, but he did like it. All the same it was still embarrassing to walk into a store and have your best friend, at 15 years old, run up to the nearest shelf, grab a giant mecha toy and start making it fly around making noises that sounded like... well, Seamus wasn't quite sure what they sounded like. After about 3 minutes, Harry stopped making the mecha fly and suddenly hugged it against his chest then looked around all suspicious-like muttering something that sounded to Seamus like "I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away..."
Harry eventually stopped playing with the Evangelion unit and joined Seamus over by the DVD's. "Anything interesting?" Harry asked, grabbing a copy of the 3-disc box set of FLCL. "Oh! I'm getting this." He scanned the shelf again while Seamus watched him, shaking his head.
After several purchases and a long walk between all the Anime stores in Sydney, Harry and Seamus decided it was time for lunch. "And no chocolate!" Seamus added, as he left Harry at the counter and went to find a table. Harry smirked as he took his order, which included a chocolate sundae. The boys ate their lunch almost in silence, until Harry got to his dessert. "I thought I told you no chocolate." Seamus whined, then he snatched it off Harry and helped himself to a very large mouthful. "Ch'cl't ishb'd f'cts" He said, spitting ice cream all over the table. Harry turned up his nose.
"What?" He laughed as Seamus almost choked trying to swallow the huge wad of ice cream he'd put in his mouth. He managed to swallow it and then wiped his mouth.
"I said, chocolate is bad for cats." And the two boys collapsed into a fit of not-so-giggly giggles.
The boys finished of their Saturday with lots of chocolate, popcorn, chips, lollies, coca cola, creaming soda and anything else with large, large quantities of sugar and nice, long, loud, extremely painful Karaoke session.
"I can fly hiiiiiiigher than eeeeaaagleeeee.... You are the wi..ininind beneath my wiiiingss.... The wind beneath my wiiings... fly fly fly.... Fly fly.... Miaow..." Seamus was on the floor; laughing so hard he had to hold his stomach. Harry stopped singing, dropped the microphone on his bed and joined him.
Harry woke up on Sunday with a horrible stomachache. But smiled broadly when he remember what fun he'd had with Seamus yesterday and at the thought of Seamus probably feeling just as sick. He crawled out of bed just in time to hear the phone ring. "Mum?" There was no answer so he tried once more just so he wouldn't have get up. "Mu-um!!!" Still no reply. He sighed and hauled himself up, grabbing the phone in the process. "Hello?" He was really still half asleep and the fact that he felt totally horrible and was trying to stand AND talk on the phone didn't help. But Harry smiled none the less when he heard the other person's voice.
"Harry?" Draco hardly ever called Harry; he usually messaged him. Harry wasn't quite sure why, be he thought it might have something to do with Draco's mother hating him. "Hey, what are you doing today?"
Harry told Draco how sick he was and relayed the previous days events. Draco laughed and said it served Harry right, Harry agreed. So Draco decided he would come over and keep Harry company while he was sick.
Draco turned up 45 minutes after he got off the phone to Harry. Harry had used the time to shower and wash his hair and now felt surprisingly better. It was only when he opened the door to a totally sopping wet Draco that he realised it was raining.
"Well Harry, it is October." Harry nodded sombrely, peering out the door behind Draco before pulling it shut. "I just hope it doesn't rain tomorrow." Harry turned back to Draco and looked at him quizzically. "Harry, don't tell me you forgot that tomorrow is the school swimming carnival..." Draco smirked and Harry frowned.
"I hate any kind of school carnival." Harry whined, and collapsed onto the floor like a bratty child.
"At least you wont have to dress up if your swimming." Harry laughed. "What?" Draco questioned. "You're not swimming? But Harry, you're so good at it."
"Yeah, well, not for a school thing." Harry sighed. "Besides, tomorrow's the 31st, I think I just might dress up..." Harry started laughing again and headed into the living room to tell Draco his plan.
When Harry finished, Draco couldn't stop laughing, "That's great! Lets ring Seamus and tell him now." Harry nodded and grabbed the phone and the two boys took turns in talking to Seamus, who was simply delighted with the plan.
The next day, the students had to meet at the pool and arrange themselves for roll call. It wasn't uncommon to have many students away on the various sports days, and this particular sports day was no exception. Upon arriving, Draco saw that most of the students had sprayed their hair with their team colour, were wearing their team colour or had even dressed up as mascots that had something to do with their team colour; Seamus had come as a bee. Draco wore a light blue T-shirt, but it was the only thing that showed that he was on the blue team. Lavender decided this just wasn't good enough.
"Draco, could you do me a favour and please cover your eyes for a moment, I need to change my top." She smiled cutely and Draco complied, covering his eyes with his hands. It was at that point he heard a sound that sounded like a spray can. He opened one eye, and saw that he was surrounded in what looked like a blue mist. He opened his mouth, and coughed as it filled with hair spray.
Seamus couldn't help it; he instantly dropped into his seat and cracked up laughing. Draco pouted. "How bad is it?" He asked.
"I think it looks good." Replied the giant cat standing behind him. Draco jumped and squealed and Seamus started laughing even harder. Lavender turned back to Draco to find out what he was squealing about and also screamed when she saw the giant cat, tripping over her bag and landing in Hermione's lap. "What?" Harry asked from inside the Felix-the-Cat suit. "Miaow?" And Harry, Seamus and Draco all started laughing.
"Harry? Is that you?" Lavender asked, poking the cat suit. Harry brushed her off.
"No poking, I can still feel you know, it's not that padded." He took the giant head off and pulled a pair of cat ears out of Seamus' backpack. Draco then proceeded to use some acrylic paint to make Harry look just like a cat, without needing to put the head back on. Lavender giggled. "Do you think I look cute, Lav?" Harry enquired, and Lavender nodded, Harry blushed. As a finishing touch, Seamus tied a large piece of blue cloth around Harry's neck like a cape, and he became the mascot of the day for the blue team. ("My hair is BLUE!" cried Draco)
Apart from the fact that Fred and George were the only people they really spoke to who swam, the boys managed to have a fairly productive day, with Harry and Seamus leading cheers, Draco dancing around like a blue-haired freak and Lavender and Hermione bringing them drinks.
In fact, Harry liked his new cat outfit so much, that he wore it to McDonalds after the carnival. "Harry," Hermione asked as they walked down the main road, "If you don't mind me asking, what on earth, besides Seamus and Draco - who I'm sure had a part in this, possessed you to dress like a cat?" Harry laughed before presenting her with an answer.
"Well, nothing really, though it is Halloween, and even though it's not celebrated in Australia (A/N That's right folks!) I thought I'd dress up as a cat for the day. And it was fun. And I got to be a cat. And I got to miaow." Harry and Hermione both started laughing, and the others all decided to join in for the hell of it. It was about a 20-minute walk to McDonalds from the pool, down a main road; and, being in the mood he was in, Harry decided that just walking along in a cat suit wasn't embarrassing enough. So he started singing.
"She told him she'd rather fix her makeup
Than try and fix what's going on
But the problem keeps on calling
Even with the cell phone gone."
Harry looked at Hermione stupidly as he sang the first verse; he wasn't actually so bad when he put a little effort into it, even though he was being silly. But the song sounded fun; it had a very boppy ring to it. Hermione smiled at Harry, who then turned to Lavender and sang the next verse.
"She told him that she believes in living
Bigger than she's living now
But her world keeps spinning backwards
And upside down."
Lavender giggled as Harry somewhat-serenaded her. "Oh, do shut up Harry..." Neville pleaded, but Harry just looked at Seamus and winked. Draco smiled and shook his head. Seamus winked back and joined in, trying to harmonise, and failing only slightly. In fact, for a couple of teenage boys, one dressed as a cat and one as a bee, they sounded pretty good...
"Don't say so long, and throw yourself wrong.
Don't spin today away, 'cause today will soon be..."
Draco started laughing. Ron rolled his eyes, apparently knowing what was coming. Neville sighed. Hermione stared and Lavender giggled some more as Harry threw an arm around Seamus and they started singing once more...
"Gone, like Frank Sinatra, like Elvis and his mom,
Like Al Pacino's cash, nothing lasts in this life.
My High School dreams are gone,
my childhood sweets are gone
Life is a day that doesn't last for long."
Harry and Seamus were having a ball. Everyone else couldn't stop laughing at the two boys now in front of the rest of the group, wandering along, arms over each others shoulders, singing at the top of their lungs, and not a drop of alcohol in them. What the others didn't know though, was that Harry had eaten several chocolate bars during the course of the day, and chocolate, after all, was bad for cats.
"She said, he said, live like no tomorrow
Everyday we borrow brings us
one step closer to the edge. Infinity.
Where's your treasure, where's your hope
if you get the world and lose your soul?
She pretends like she pretends like she's immortal."
The reached McDonalds in a laughing fit, and were met by a fair few strange looks. Harry and Draco offered to go up and order for everyone. The poor girl at the desk could barely look at Harry without laughing, not to mention Draco's blue hair. The ordered all the food and took it back over to the table. The 7 friends talked and laughed long after they finished eating, and headed their sperate ways late into the evening.
When Harry arrived home in his kitty suit, his mother couldn't help but laugh at him, then she hugged him and told to clean up as dinner would be ready in about 10 minutes. Harry did as he was told, and told his mum and dad all about the day they'd had over dinner. After he finished eating. Harry resorted to his room and got his journal out. It'd been a fair while since he'd written in his journal, so he wrote in it steadily for more than two hours, about Draco, about cats and chocolate, about singing Switchfoot songs all the way to McDonalds and about Ron and Hermione.
Later that evening, Harry went on his computer, did some homework and read some bad fan fiction. He was glad that there was hardly anyone on his MSN, he didn't really feel like talking to anyone anyway. Until Seamus logged on, and he received a very excitable "HELLO!" Harry smiled and typed back. The conversation went as follows:
() I am Felix, hear me roar ... Miaow says: Heya Seamus.
(6) I wanna bake a cake made of rainbows and smiles! says: How fun was today, hey? We should do that everyday!
() I am Felix, hear me roar ... Miaow says: lol, we should, lets make a club!
(6) I wanna bake a cake made of rainbows and smiles! says: Yea! And I'll be president!
() I am Felix, hear me roar ... Miaow says: I don't think so! I founded it! :P
(6) I wanna bake a cake made of rainbows and smiles! says: lol, fair enough.
() I am Felix, hear me roar ... Miaow says: Seamus...
(6) I wanna bake a cake made of rainbows and smiles! says: Yes, Harry?
() I am Felix, hear me roar ... Miaow says: What is with your name?
(6) I wanna bake a cake made of rainbows and smiles! says: Well... uhhh... I don't know... shut up. I'll see you tomorrow.. don't forget Draco has rehearsals all week, he has that thing on Friday night, remember?
() I am Felix, hear me roar ... Miaow says: Oh yea, I keep forgetting, bloody hell. Ok, looks like you're stuck with me all week, hahaha. Lets try and not get detention, ok?
(6) I wanna bake a cake made of rainbows and smiles! says: Deal, see you on the bus tomorrow! Ciao.
Ok, I think I owe a few people some explinations.
1. ) This is getting really, really weird. This is due to the fact that I'm just having so much fun writing Harry and Seamus, and they're just so funny. Plus that's what I was actually like at school, yes, it's true.
(As for the cat thing, it was a personally joke that me and my mate were talking about yesterday, and he told me to make Harry do it, because it'd suit him.)
2.) The song Harry was singing is called "Gone" and is by a group called Switchfoot. If you havent heard of them, go get their songs, they rock.
3.) This will get a lot more serious. I promise, Harry and Draco's relationship is about to get a whole lot more intense. But the humour aspect will still be there too ;)
4.) I'm sorry if the layout is screwy, I'm uploading these mostly at work with my MAC just to get them up, and then I'm fixing the formatting up at home in the evenings. I'm really working to try and keep these all updated now, but please don't sue me if I start getting a life back and stop, lol.
5.) Thanks to everyone who's reviewing, it's because of you guys that I keep writing this stuff, lol. Thanks.
Cheers,
Sami.
Miaow.
