Characters © J.K. Rowling.
Plot © Sami-Lee 2000-2004.
Harry sat in the school hall anxiously, Seamus on one side, Neville on the other. He'd only found out that morning that Draco wasn't only playing cello, he was singing. Harry had never heard Draco sing, and wasn't too sure about what to expect. He wrung his hands together nervously.
"What are you so nervous about, Harry? It'll be fine, I don't think they'd have let him sing if he couldn't." Harry nodded. Seamus was right, but Harry was still nervous. The performance started and Harry relaxed a little as each of the first, second and third performances ended. Draco was in act four – the string quartet. Harry had heard him play cello before, and though he played beautifully in the music room with no one else around, Harry worried about how he would play in front of a very large group of people. Considering the school had over 700 students, and almost all the parents of those students would be there, it was a pretty big event.
The curtains finally opened, and a lot of the students cheered. Then a solo guitar started playing. Not sure who it was who was playing so beautifully, Harry craned his neck and soon saw that, sitting on the stage, acoustic guitar perched on his knee, was Ron. "Wow." He commented, just before Draco joined in with the Cello and Harry realized that they were playing Pachbel's Canon in D. A moment later one of the girls a grade below them started playing the violin and Lavender soon joined in on second violin. Harry sat in awe watching both Draco and Ron.
The entire hall erupted in applause as the quartet finished. They had played brilliantly; there was no doubt about that. The next few acts were piano solo's, one Hermione's, which she played wonderfully. Harry wolf whistled when she finished playing and stood to take her bow. There were a few junior music class performances after that, and then the more advanced acts.
It was common knowledge that Lavender could sing, and she confirmed it again that night, belting out her own version of Delta Goodrem's "Born to Try". Lavender was followed by Ron's younger sister, singing "Fame" and not too shabbily either, and then it was Draco's turn. The entire school band assembled at the front of the stage. Once they were all seated, the strings started first, only with no cello, as the only cellist in the school was about to sing. Harry was wringing his hands in utter anxiety. He stopped. "I know that song..." He looked at Seamus. "I know that song!" and then in a whisper quiet enough for only Seamus to hear "That's our song." Harry looked like he was about to pass out. And at that point, as the drums and the violins started and the piano joined in, Draco walked out onto the stage. And he started singing. Incredibly.
"I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
While you're far away and dreaming
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
Every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure
I don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cuz I'll miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cuz even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
Laying close to you
Feeling your heart beating
And I'm wondering what you're dreaming
Wondering if it's me you're seeing
Then I kiss your eyes
And thank God we're together
I just want to stay with you in this moment forever
I don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cuz I'll miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cuz even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
I don't wanna miss one smile
I don't wanna miss one kiss
I just wanna be with you
Right here with you just like this
I just wanna hold you close
Feel your heart so close to mine
And just stay here in this moment for all the rest of time
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cuz I'll miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cuz even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
I'd still miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing..."
Harry wolf whistled as loudly as he possibly could. Seamus stood and started applauding and yelling, Harry stood and joined him and pretty soon most of their grade had stood and was cheering. Harry smiled.
When the concert finished, Harry was already backstage waiting for Draco. He almost jumped on the blonde when he saw him, and Draco laughed. "That good, huh?" Harry nodded stupidly, hanging off Draco's right arm. Draco shook his head and patted Harry's. "There, there, Felix." The two boys laughed as they headed down to the quadrangle. Everyone at school knew about Harry, and didn't find it weird that Harry was holding onto Draco's arm like a lost toddler. Draco's mother, however, did. The second they reached the bottom of the stairs and Draco's mother was standing at the bottom of them, Harry let go of Draco, and even took a step back.
"See you tomorrow, then?" Draco asked Harry, looking a lot less excited than he had a moment earlier.
"Yea, sure, I'll message you." Harry smiled for a moment, then gave in and just waved. He'd would never understand what he'd done to offend Draco's mother in the first place, but what she had just witnessed certainly didn't help the situation. He sighed and then headed off to find his own parents. He found them talking to Mr & Mrs Finnigan. Harry ran over, and slapped Seamus on the back; Seamus stuck his tongue out at him and then proceeded to chase Harry around the quadrangle for a while. Their parents gave them both disapproving looks. Harry and Seamus strongly believed in never acting ones age.
Once their parents had finished their conversation, Harry bade Seamus goodbye and Seamus reminded Harry that as president, he was required at next week's weekly Miaow Meeting, they both laughed. Harry followed his parents to his dad's four-wheel drive and climbed in. He was so tired, and it was only 9:30. He decided he'd have an early night, and promptly fell asleep in the car.
The next morning, Harry work up early. He looked at his clock, 7:42. "Argh." He groaned as he clambered out of bed and made his way slowly to the bathroom. He looked in the mirror. He'd never thought he was ugly, but he'd never thought he was great looking either. He shrugged at his reflection and rubbed his eyes. Then he undressed and got into the shower. Once he'd finished showering, dressed and played his Xbox for an hour, he decided Draco must be awake by now, so he messaged him. Hey Babe, I'm ready, what did you want to do today? He set the phone on the kitchen bench while he proceeded to make some breakfast. The reply came back seconds later. I'm up too, do you want to go somewhere? Harry launched himself on the phone, much the same as the way a cat pounced on a toy, and read the message. Sure he did. But where? He thought about it for a moment then came up with a brilliant idea.
How about we go to Wonderland? It's still early, we have plenty of time, it'll be fun. Harry couldn't really think of anything else to do anyways, and besides, the theme park was probably one of the few places he could be as stupid as he wanted and not have to blame chocolate. He even considered wearing his cat suit.
Harry left the house, luckily, wearing his favourite jeans, his favourite light blue t-shirt and his favourite Volcom hat.
Draco agreed that it was a splendid idea, and an hour and half later they were getting off the train at Wonderland. "Right, where to first?" Draco asked excitedly.
"First, my dear Dray, we need chocolate!" And with that Harry made his way down to the huge candy store. He stocked up on chocolate, strawberry milk and coca cola and shoved it all in the backpack he'd brought with him. Draco looked at him strangely and then followed him to their second destination. It was a warm day and Harry had decided that the best ride to do first would be the Snowy River Rampage, which was a large rubber tyre that floated, well, followed the water, down a man made river, with jets that spurted water over the passengers. This way, they'd be nice and wet and the sun would dry them out soon enough anyway.
They reached the end of the line and the sign above them read '30 minute wait from this point'. Draco huffed. "Don't be silly, Draco, that's a short wait for this place!" Harry said, very sing-songy. He then proceeded to stand in the line, humming annoyingly for the entire 26 minutes and 19 seconds that they were in the cue. Then the fun began.
Having not paid attention in the cue, it took Draco several minutes, and until he was actually strapped into the ride, to realize that he was going to get wet. He then proceeded to whine and complain until the tyre came around a wide bend and Draco copped a face full of water, which completely ruined his hair. He sulked for the rest of the ride.
Harry laughed at Draco, when the ride was over. His hair was plastered to his forehead; in fact, Harry thought he looked a lot like a drowned cat. He decided that this was cause to make a bunch of words into a song and dance around like a moron! "Draco looks like a dumb drowned cat, doo dah, doo dah. Draco looks like a dumb drowned cat, oh doo dah day!!" Draco scowled at Harry until his attention was caught by something else. Harry had suddenly run into a store, which just so happened to sell cat ears. "How cool! Now I won't have to borrow Seamus' old smelly ones!" He cheered, grabbing a pair and rushing up to the counter. He wore them for the rest of the day.
As they walked up to the section of the park where all the adrenalin rides were, Draco waited until there was no one around, then he admitted something to Harry which had been bothering him. "Uhh, Harry... Have I ever told you that I don't like scary rides?" He asked timidly, as Harry noticed the biggest roller coaster in the park and started running toward it. Harry stopped when Draco spoke.
"Aww, come on Dray, I promise nothing bad'll happen, you'll be fine, it'll be fun, you can hold my hand!" Draco laughed at Harry, and took his hand anyway, letting him lead him over to a rather short cue in front of a rather scary looking rollercoaster. He desperately clung to Harry's hand, both because he was scared and to stop himself biting hi nails. Harry giggled.
As their turn came up, Harry rushed forward and jumped in, placing his bag on the other side of the platform and then pulled Draco down into the seat next to him. He closed his eyes. Harry was getting all pysched up next to him, and it just made Draco feel even worse. He didn't want to ruin it for Harry, but he really didn't want to be on the ride anymore. He opened his eyes and turned to Harry to tell him so. Too late. The rollercoaster jerked a bit, then started going backward.
Draco froze for a moment, then turned and had a look behind him. The rollercoaster was being pulled up a large hill backwards. That seemed odd. At that moment the ride attendant did his little speech:
"Welcome to the Demon. Please keep your arms inside the carriage at all times. No exceptions. Now, have fun and we'll see you back at the platform in 90 seconds!"
Draco noticed that the roller coaster was now almost at the top of the hill, it stopped for a moment when it finally reached the top. Then it released and Draco screamed as it plummeted back through the platform, up another hill around an upside down twist back down, through a loop-the-loop and then up another hill identical and parallel to the first. Harry was laughing his head off, apparently enjoying every little second of it. It stopped at the top and Draco sighed with relief. Too soon, the roller coaster released again and went plunging back down the hill, through the loop-the-loop, through the backward twist and back into the platform – BACKWARDS.
Draco was ready to kill Harry. He jumped off the ride and almost ran down to the gift shop, where he stopped and tried to catch his breath. Harry came down after him, still laughing. "It's. Not. Funny. Harry." Draco was trying very hard not to be angry at him. Harry didn't respond, instead, he walked over to the counter and spoke to one of the girls for a moment. Draco cringed when he noticed that Harry was flirting with her a little. It hurt even more when he remembered that Harry was still attracted to girls, but forgot about it when Harry came back over and held the small bag out for him.
"Go on, take it, it's for you." He smiled, his eyes still laughing. Draco took the bag and opened it, he pulled out what looked like a medium sized card and opened it, inside was a photo, obviously taken from a hidden camera as the roller coaster took the first drop. Harry was laughing, and Draco was sitting next to him, his hands ivory white from the force with which he was gripping the grip-bar, his face holding an expression of pure terror. In fact, he did look kind of funny.
He looked at Harry. "Thanks, Harry." He smiled and hugged him. Harry was shocked at first that Draco would hug him on public, Draco usually seemed so uptight about the whole being gay thing and showing his affection in public. But Harry graciously accepted the hug and hugged him back, patting him on the back. When they broke the hug, the two boys just smiled at one another, then they laughed again as they left the gift shop and headed over to get some lunch.
Ok, so that's another chapter. We notice Dray getting a little jealous up there, uh oh. Could this mean the start of their own little roller coaster ride? You'll just have to wait for the next chapter to find out!! (Warning, this is going to get ugly.)
Anyways, comments, criticism and suggestions are all welcome, except that the suggestions probably wont do much as I already know how the story goes. I have it all mapped out in my head and it's turning out that the only thing in this that resembles my life is the way Harry acts, lol.
Hope you enjoyed it, stay tuned to see Harry and Draco's first fight, Stoned Ron and a bit more blood. (Hmm...)
Cheers,
Sami.
Miaow.