Quick Author's Note: Okay well first of all thank you to my readers and my one and only reviewer. snort. How sad. And thank you to...blah blah shitty blah the usual shin dig. Oh and thank you to my one and only La who has not reviewed becaaaaause...she does not yet have a puh lace at this site.And plus she's in the story. People would want autographs and shit. Hahahaaa...man I am so not funny. Oh well yes. The reason I made this stupid author's note thing...because FanFiction has changed the Document Manager so it actually splits things into paragraphs I am no longer too lazy to have actual paragraphs instead of just spaces between every line. Yeah so I'm reformatting my story right now, and for anyone that cares it's gonna be fucked up for about a day, the chapters and stuff. Well. Deal. Yeah. And also. A note on the very end of this chapter. The lyrics? For those who don't already know, they're from a song by Boxcar Racer called There Is. I've gotta give them credit. Not just because it would be illegal in some weird unknown to me fucked up way not to, but because they rock. Download There Is. Hear them roar. Yeah. Okay then. On with le story.
Air Again
The fire swirling brightly around her soon died away and she found her eyes in her head. Staring around the room she felt completely at home for the first time in a while.
"Laura?" she called out hopefully "J.J?"
Ginny took a few steps out of the fireplace and dusted herself off. The junky living room was virtually deserted, but her eyes darted satisfied to traces of her friends that were lying randomly around the room.
One of J.J's guitars was lying abandoned on it's side and several fruit roll up wrappers were thrown carelessly aside, near Laura's favorite green chair that was littered with toe nail clippings painted orange. Ginny let a snort escape her, as she looked away from the chair to find a baseball, lying suspiciously close to a lamp that was sitting, completely shattered on the ground.
That settled it. They were there somewhere.
"La!" she yelled even louder "J.J! Christ you two get your worthless asses in here!"
"Fuck you whore..." she heard a voice snort in the distance as a screen door slammed shut.
"What did you just call me?" said another voice
"I called you a whore you ugly man skank."
"Laura?"
"Eh?"
Ginny edged over to the corner about to round it, when a face appeared inches from her own, then gave a jag backwards as she heard an odd sound like a snort crossed with a terrified squeal issue from her best friend's mouth.
"You scared me!" Laura gasped.
Ginny giggled.
"I figured."
Laura's huge green eyes drifted upwards as she twiddled her thumbs only half listening.
"My brother is such a whore." she said suddenly
"What?" Ginny asked
"A whore Ginny. An ugly stupid ugly whore. God what a whore."
"La?"
"Eh?"
"Erm...hi." said Ginny holding back laughter.
"Oh! Hi Gin!" she said as an enormous grin spread across her face and she engulfed Ginny in a hug
"Yeah, so why is J.J a whore?"
""What? Oh yeah...whore..."" she muttered absentmindedly. Then Laura dropped into the green chair, fruit roll up wrappers crinkling beneath her. "Green!" she exclaimed happily,"Hey want some pie?" Ginny wisely ignored her friend's odd comments, as she was far too used to them to find them at all irregular.
"Where is J.J anyways?" Ginny asked.
"Right behind us." Laura answered as if it were the most obvious thing in the world
"What?" Ginny asked. But before she had a chance to turn around her feet left the ground
"RIGHT BEHIND YOU!" a new voice yelled. J.J grabbed her by her stomach and threw Ginny over his shoulder as she erupted with laughter.
"What are you doing you ass?" said Laura tonelessly
"Checking to make sure it's really who I think it is!" he bellowed.
Ginny felt her hair in her mouth, as the hot blood rushed to her head and still she was paralyzed with reasonless laughter.
"Still freakishly skinny...and freckly...red hair." he commented grabbing a fistful of it and shoving it under his sister's nose. "Screams when I do this."
He squeezed Ginny's stomach and she let out a squeal followed by another stream of giggles.
"That's the best at hexing in our year you're tickling." Laura warned
"Hey you want some of this?" he yelled. But then he finally set Ginny on her feet and she fell into Laura's chair next to her to catch her breath. "Well good. We know it's Ginny."
"You had to do all that bullshit to know it's Ginny? That's why you're a stupid whore."
"Fuck you. And how'd you know I was behind you?"
"I'm your twin. I can read your sad little microscopic mind. Plus I'm smarter than you."
"In your fucking dreams."
"Hey you wanna go?" Laura screamed, reaching down and grabbing the baseball, her fingers narrowly missing several shards of broken glass
"Okay!" Ginny cried just as Laura raised the baseball into the air. She grasped Laura's wrist and forced it gently out of the air. "Pie then?"
"Oh!" Laura said happily dropping the baseball "I like pie!"
"Of course you do fat ass." J.J smiled
"Stop sweet talking me you horny ass. I'm not going to screw you, you're my brother. And you''re ugly."
"Well Caroline doesn't seem to think so."
"Who be Caroline?" Ginny cut in.
"Some really pretty, really smart girl who asked him out. But he said no." She cut her emerald eyes at her brother
"Why?" Ginny asked him. But before he could open his mouth-
"Because he's an effing man whore!"
"Explain how that makes me a man whore!"
"I don't need to explain things to ugly whores!"
"You know Laura one day you're gonna wake up, and you'll have a q-tip jammed into your brain!"
"Why the fuck would I have a q-tip stuck in my brain you-"
"Because I'm going to put it there dumbass!"
"Would you two stop for five minutes?"Ginny yelled trying to sound serious and angry. But laugher was choking her words. Seeing her friends was like breathing again.
"She's right." J.J agreed, surprising both girls. "So what's up with you Gin?"
"I got prefect." Ginny half groaned. "And wait...Caroline! Wait! Do you mean Caroline like the Caroline?"
"Caroline, like the Caroline." he said tonelessly, and Ginny snorted. Caroline was J.J's old ex girlfriend.
Laura giggled, like a little girl for several seconds until her trademark snort escaped and she fell out of her chair
"You're a prefect?"
"Unfortunately."
"That's awesome, you can let us into the kitchens and shit!" Laura grinned
"Why would the prefects be allowed into the kitchens moron?" J.J questioned
"I don't know. Maybe it's their job to bathe the house elves or something!" she spat defensively
"I have to bathe house elves!" Ginny yelped
"Gin I'm sure you don't need to bathe house elves. Don't forget who your source of information is."
"You ass!" Laura exclaimed throwing a pillow at her brother, who then grabbed her by the ankles and turned her upside down
"I win!" he yelled
"Unfair! You're huge!"
"Never stopped you before!"
"Like hell, it didn't!" she shrieked elbowing him hard in the stomach. Laura fell to the ground with a loud bang, and settled herself back into her chair.
"So what's up with you guys?" Ginny asked
"J.J's working on new material." Laura answered, gesturing to a bunch of crumpled of parchment surrounding one of J.J's guitar.
"Can I hear it?" Ginny asked looking up at J.J who was now cracking his knuckles and shaking his head of dark hair so it fell into his face at just the right angle.
"None of it''s done yet." he shrugged.
Laura and J.J were half bloods. Neither had known about their powers until they received their letters on their eleventh birthday. Their mother was a pure blood witch, and their father was a muggle. The two of them had been under the impression that their parents were simply divorced for a long time. When in reality, they had never even been married. Laura and J.J had been nothing more than a drunken mistake. They were brought up by their muggle father, a musician. He'd given J.J his first guitar when he was nine, and Laura a set of drums. He was disappointed to find that Laura was bored by them and would much rather spend her time painting. J.J took over the possession, of the drums and his garage band developed in his third year of Hogwarts. When they had turned eleven, they moved in with their mother and neither had seen their dad since.
"Oh come on. I'll make the assumption that it sucks if you don't play it for me." Ginny said with a roll of her eyes.
J.J grinned.
"When it's done, I promise."
"Well what else is up with you buddy?" Laura asked in a giddy voice. "What have you been up to all summer?" Ginny took a deep breath.
"Well...I met a guy."
J.J's smile faltered.
"Who?" Laura asked giggling
"Well...I didn't meet him. Well I mean obviously I met him...my parents set me up."
Laura wrinkled her nose.
"Ew." she said shortly "Who is it?"
Ginny shifted in her seat
"Either of you guys know a Migell Prang?"
Silence fell in the room.
"What?" J.J said after a while "Who the fuck is that?"
He didn't sound amused
"Wait...wait...Prang?"
Neither did Laura.
"Oh god. I know that kid. That kid with the really ugly nose? And hair in his ears?"
Ginny felt her face grow red.
"You like that kid?" J.J said sounding grossed out
"Yeah, he's okay." she said quickly
No one spoke for a few seconds. And then Laura let out a snort.
"Whatever melts your butter Gin." she grinned, "If you ask me you could do a hell of a lot better."
"Yeah." J.J agreed
"Well...thanks I guess." said Ginny letting out an uneasy laugh
J.J yawned.
"I've gotta shower." he announced. "I'll be back in like twenty minutes okay?"
"Sure, we'll start supper." Laura answered
"Where's your mom?" Ginny asked.
The two of them frowned
"We don't really know." J.J shrugged "She went away for a few weeks. She wouldn't say where..."
"Oh..." Ginny sought tensely "I'm sure she's fine."
"Yeah...c'mon Gin let's go...put some utensils out or something."
"What are we having for dinner?" J.J asked
Laura gave a light shrug
"Apple tonight?" J.J suggested
"Sounds good."
"And what kind of-"
"Orange." she said.
"Sounds good." he said grinning
"Huh?" Ginny asked.
"Okay Gin, you get the pie, I''ll get the soda."
Ginny threw her head back and laughed, almost tripping over her feet
"What?" Laura asked confused. It was J.J's turn to snort. Then he walked over to Ginny and wrapped his arms around her
"Good to have you back," he said happily, still laughing. She giggled.
"Good to know. And now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go set up our nutritious dinner."
He gave a hearty wink, just as Laura yelled something about what to have for dessert from the kitchen, and then he headed up the stairs. It was just Ginny left in the living room. She glanced around the room one more time before she headed out into the kitchen. And as wrong as she knew it was, she allowed her eye to briefly catch a page of J.J's scribbled lyrics. She smiled as she made her way to go help Laura. J.J was a mystery sometimes. And part of her wanted to know who he was writing about. Part of her was exploding with questions. Another part was simply happy to be back with them. But still she thought of the lyrics she had let her eyes wander over, and wondered what was going on in J.J's mind all the time, to have written something that well. Wondered who he was thinking of when he wrote it...:
In every single letter
Of every single word,
There will be a hidden message
Of a boy who loves a girl