Hello! Long time no update. Sorry, writer's block among other things. Standard Disclaimer stuff: I don't own Harry Potter, Fall Out Boy, or The Academy Is... I do own Jade and Mina. So enjoy and please review. Constructive critisim is welcomed!

Mina knew that Harry was lying. She could tell by the quaking of his voice. For now, however, she had no other choice then to believe him.

"I thought you might be thirsty," Harry said offering her a cold soda.

Mina took the can, opened it, and started to drink it. Harry simply put his on his bedside table. He joined Mina on his bed. Silence, once again engulfed both of them. The only noise that could be heard was the television blasting loudly from the den. Mina looked over at the digital clock. "3: 54," it read.

There was a loud clunking of feet coming up the stairs. Neither Harry nor Mina noticed the sound. Harry's door burst open with fury as a woman stood in the doorway. She was thin and had a horse like face. It was rather long and her eyes seemed too far apart. Her wispy graying brown hair was cut short, which made her seem more horse like. "I came to let you know," she began. She stopped mid-sentence when she saw Mina sitting on Harry's bed.

"Who is this?" she asked brusquely.

"This is my friend Mina, she just moved here," Harry replied.

The woman's face turned into a screwed up position half way between thinking and constipation. It looked like she was contemplating and trying to recall information.

"No one new has moved here," she snapped curtly at Mina

"I moved in with my sister. She lives at Number Seven Privet Drive," Mina answered back to the woman politely.

"Oh, you're Jade's sister?"

Mina nodded

"Well then, hurry back over there and tell her that my husband and son would be glad to join her for dinner tonight at 6. And you can tell her that he," she indicated with her head to Harry, "will also be coming. Can you also ask her why she wanted him there as well."

The woman left Harry's room leaving the door open. "Was that your aunt?" Mina asked.

"Yup," Harry replied.

"She seems…nice…"

More silence takes place in Harry's room. All the while, Harry was briefly stealing glances at Mina. One time, Mina caught him. "What is there something on my face?" she asked. Harry shook his head. He looked over at the clock. 4:01. "You'd better get home," Harry said abruptly and awkwardly. Mina got up off of Harry's bed. "It was nice meeting you Harry and I'm glad I get to see you tonight," Mina said. She bent over and kissed Harry on the check and left. He was dazed and confused. After Mina left his room Harry fell backwards onto his bed with a stupid grin on his face.

Mina left the Dursley residence and walked over to her home. She walked inside and found the house moderately cool. Not freezing cold or desert heat, it was just the right temperature. Mina saw Charlie sitting on the couch deeply involved in a Time magazine. It seemed that he was hanging on every word that it said. She walked over to him, seeing which issue it was. To her surprise, it was the 1945 "Man of the Year" issue. "Um, Charlie, you do realize that magazine is out of date?" Mina asked not being rude.

Charlie put down the magazine. "Oh, right, I knew that. I just wanted to catch up on my history," Charlie said recovering. At that moment, Jade walked into the living room. "Mina," she snapped at her sister, "Go put on something nice, the Dursleys are coming over for dinner and I don't want them to think that my sister is a slut."

Mina didn't care what anyone thought. Well, no that was a lie. She did care what Harry thought, to some extent. "There's a nice outfit lying on your bed. It's the first door to the right after you walk up the stairs," Jade continued in an almost too pleasant tone.

Mina went up the stairs following Jade's directions. She opened the door and saw that her bag had been brought up already. Her room was a generic room. It was painted an eggshell white with beige carpeting and a simple bed with an equally simple dresser. On her bed, Mina saw an extremely pretty black skirt with pink mesh underneath it. The top that was lying above the skirt was a plain black and on top of the shirt was a pair of nicely folded black socks. These black socks had ribbons sewn onto them so the wearer had to tie them up their leg. Mina was slightly stunned by this. She never thought Jade, her sister, would pick out an outfit like that for her. Almost instantly Mina started to get ready.

After about an hour, Mina was done getting ready. She made a personal decision that her room was too bland. She went to her bag and took out a couple posters and some tacks. She pinned a huge poster of Fall Out Boy on her wall and then a poster of The Academy Is… . "There," Mina said silently to herself, "That looks a bit better." She put on a pair of jazz shoes to complete her "wanna be ballerina" look and decide to go down stairs.

Silently Mina tiptoed down the stairs so Jade and Charlie wouldn't hear her coming. "You have to tell her sometime," Mina overheard Charlie saying to Jade.

"I know, but I can't. Mom and Dad promised her to tell her when she turned 16, but…" Jade replied hesitantly.

"But what Jade? If you don't tell her now, she's going to believe all the lies that Voldermort tells her when he comes and gets her."

Mina decided that this was the perfect time to but it. "Who is Voldermort?" Mina asked innocently.

"Don't ask questions!" Jade said furiously to Mina. "Why were you listening on us?"

"I thought you said not to ask questions," Mina replied sarcastically.

As if on cue, the doorbell rang. "Mina," Charlie said calmly, "How about you get the door while Jade and I see if dinner is ready?"

Mina did as Charlie said and answered the door. She saw Harry's family dressed to the nines. His uncle was wearing a dark blue suit (think the type of suit Napoleon Dynamite wore to his school dance, only dark blue). Harry's aunt was wearing a cocktail dress covered in ostentatious, intertwining flowers. Dudley was simply dressed in black dress pants and a buttoned down white shirt. Harry was dressed the same way, only his pants and shirt were a lot bigger and made him look like a turtle. "Please, come in," Mina said opening the door wider. The Dursley family and Harry stood awkwardly in the den. Charlie emerged from the kitchen. "Please, everyone sit down and Jade will be out with the appetizers," he said in his now usual to Mina, calm and pleasant voice. Mina noticed that Harry seemed awestruck when he saw Charlie standing there.

The Dursley family followed Charlie's words and sat down on the couches and chairs. While Dudley was walking over to the couch, he whispered in Mina's ear, "You look hot tonight." She knew that this was going to be a rough night.