Sorry for the wait. Oh yeah, someone finally told me that I was spelling
'Lara' wrong. It's 'Laura' so I'm gonna stick to that. Enjoy!
Hit the Floor
Chapter 4
Drastic Changes
By: SilverFlmeTigerRyu
Adrienne listened to Harry as he walked pass her to the bathroom. She looked up when she heard a groan, seeing Sirius with his head in his hands and Severus griping the edge of the table with his eyes shut tight. "What's wrong?" she asked Kayla. Kayla didn't know what to say, but she wouldn't have to because Adrienne's answer was right in front of her.
Severus squeezed the table harder as another bout of dizziness went through his skull. It felt like his whole body was burning, strait to the bone; somewhere in his sub conscience he wondered what was going on. Then as suddenly as it had come it was gone. Although the burning had stopped, he still felt a little woozy. "What was that?" Severus demanded as he opened his eyes. Black looked as if the same thing was happening to him. He didn't doubt it. Severus turned his gaze upon Adrienne, and raised a quizzical eyebrow. She raised her brows and just stared at him. "Well?" he said. "I don't know, but it burnt like hell," he heard Sirius mutter as he massaged his temples.
He was about to tell him a few choice words, when they all heard a scream come from down the hallway. Sirius was the first one out of his chair – knocking it over in the process – and bounding down the hallway; the others right behind him. "Harry what's wrong?!" He said as he practically knocked down the door. He looked into the small room and saw Harry, pale and shaking, staring into the mirror rubbing furiously at his forehead. "Is it your scar?"
"N-no, I mean yes...I think. What I mean is... it's gone." Harry mumbled. "What are you babbling about Potter?" Severus said getting annoyed. "My scar," he said turning to face to them. "It's gone." Sirius walked over to him and tilted his head back to get better lighting. And it was true: his scar was gone. "Merlin..." he muttered; then he noticed the look his godson was giving him. "What?" he asked. "It's just..." started Harry, raising an eyebrow. "You look, different."
Sirius looked at him, then up at the full-length mirror. The sight he saw made his jaw drop. He couldn't believe it, he looked... younger. His brow creased as he looked at a reflection that he hadn't seen for almost 20 years. He looked at his face that was fuller than before, although he still had some stubble on his chin. He looked at his eyes, which were brighter and the dark half moons under his eyes were gone. His hair was silky and cleaner than it was 10 minutes before. He looked at his hands, most of the scars were gone but the small ones were still visible.
He jumped slightly when he heard Harry speak again, "And Professor Snape, you look different too." Sirius turned to look him too; he did look different. Very different. 'Man,' he thought. 'Never thought this would ever happen. But then again, I never thought I'd be sucked through a slug hole, worm hole, whatever it is.' "Potter ..." he heard Snape trail off as he caught sight of himself in the mirror above the sink.
Severus felt his jaw drop as he looked at his new self. One he could not believe was him. He looked like a totally different person; his face had gone under drastic changes. His hair wasn't greasy anymore, but silky soft; he could see the difference. The dark half moons under his eyes from staying up so late doing research for the order, were also gone. His teeth were strait and pearly white. But the biggest change that took him by surprise was his nose. The big crooked nose that he had unfortunately inherited from his father was now slender and aristocratic. "Merlin's beard..." Severus muttered as he touched his own cheek. Then he caught sight of his fingers; they weren't stained yellow from handling potions ingredients as they used to be.
"So, I'm guessing this is what happened then," said Sirius looking at himself over in the mirror again. "Yes," replied Severus. "I suppose it is. What do you think would cause..." Severus was cut off by Laura shouting down the hallway, "Adrienne! Mom's in the driveway and she wants you to help us bring in the stuff from the store!" "Ah shit," Adrienne muttered as she ran to catch up with her sister at the living room doorway.
"Laura, did you tell mom about them?" Laura shook her head, "No, I didn't tell her yet. But why..." "Don't ask, just don't ask." Adrienne cut her off, walking through the living room and out the front door, heading to her mother's silver Durango. The first thing she noticed was it had stopped raining; then remembered that she still had on her socks and that they were now wet. She looked up to meet her mother's face looking back at her – which was not very happy; and Mikayla tattling full-speed. 'Oh boy.'
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Kayla led the rest of them back into the kitchen after Adrienne had left. They watched as Laura and Mikayla came and went bringing in bags full different things; sitting them against the cabinets. But Adrienne didn't come in till after about 10 minutes; loaded down with heavy bags and pissed look. Kayla was the first to speak up, "So what did she say?" Adrienne didn't answer right away, but pulled off her wet socks and put them in her shoes. "She said some good news and some bad news." "What's the bad?" "Well she said that..." she stopped when she noticed that Laura and Mikayla were still in the room. "Do you need something?" she asked glaring at them. They shook their heads 'no'. "Then go play or something. Because you two are so not part of this conversation."
"And," said Mikayla, stuffing a piece of candy into her cheek. "You not my mama. And you don't tell me what to do." "Well I just did!" said Adrienne. "When your mom or my mom's not here then I'm in charge. So scram." She pointed at the hallway and they reluctantly got up and went up stairs.
"Guy, I hate babysitting. Anyway as I was saying, my mom said that since that I wanted to invite more friend over she's not giving us any money to buy pizza. And I'm not getting paid for watching them till 6 o' clock. She said that if we wanted to order out I'd have to pay for it with my own money. And believe me that's not much." The room was quiet for a second then Kayla laid her head on the table saying, "Damn, damn, damn, damn! So now your mom's coming back to stay with us?" She looked up at Adrienne who was now putting the things up, "No, she's still gonna stay at my aunt's house tonight. Uncle Brian is gonna come over to take them to Brittany's house at 6.
"The good news, she says they could stay, but she'll want to meet with them tomorrow morning. I guess I better be thankful that she's lettin' me off with just that and no punishment." Harry felt somewhat sorry for her; she'd just gotten in trouble with her mother for them, but what could he say it was inevitable. Adrienne turned to them, "Well looks like you three, for the time being are going to be American muggles." Sirius spoke up, "But we know nothing about being muggles. Well except for Harry." "Hey, I've got the perfect idea," said Kayla. "Why don't we teach them, Adrienne? You know how to be like us and all." "Kayla I have only one word for you: duh. Well why don't I take you on a tour of the house, then."
Doing as she said, they followed in her footsteps of the first floor. The living room, in which they'd arrived, was a fairly sized room. It had a nice sofa, a love seat, and a squishy, green recliner that looked somewhat out of place in a corner. There was a coffee table in front of the couch. Harry recognized what looked like a small robotic dog in the middle of the floor, along with a few other toys. There was a large television set that had a Play Station hooked up; the same one that Dudley had thrown out the window in a tantrum. Harry was about to comment on it, but they were moving on to another room.
"Down past the bathroom is my mom's room." Adrienne told them, pointing back down the hall. "The door across is the garage where we park the car and store some other stuff. The door beside that one is just a closet." They went up the stairs. The first door on the left tuned out to be the guestroom decorated with white walls, a ceiling fan, a dresser, and its own closet. The room across from that was the main bathroom. The two rooms at the end of the hall were Adrienne's and Laura's rooms. "We'll go in my room as I am sure you don't want to see the brats' room." said Adrienne as pushed the door on the left open and let them in.
Harry looked around the room, it was very nice. There was a twin sized bed pushed up against the wall. It was covered in a dark blue down comforter, littered with silver stars and moons; the pillows at the top also matched. There was a small night stand be side the bed. At first Harry thought it was a bookcase because there were two shelves packed with books under a drawer. Atop the stand were a note pad and pen, a digital clock, and a glass of water. There was another stand with an average size television pushed in to a corner beside, what Harry supposed was the closet door. There was a desk against the far wall where a black computer and printer sat, witch Harry realized that soft music was coming from. The desk and computer was also covered with stray papers, small books and other knick-knacks. But what attracted Harry's attention the most were the posters and the message board. The posters were of very different things; the three over Adrienne's bed were magnificent.
The one that hung over the head was of the bed was of beautiful white dragons with their wings spread wide, soaring over a dark castle and sky. Another was of a man with extremely long black hair and small glasses resting upon his nose; his eyes were closed. He wore a black suite with a dark red tie and white gloves; he stood in the rain holding a tattered umbrella over his head. At the bottom, in white scroll was 'come in out of the rain...' The last was of, what looked like two warriors engaged in a fierce battle. There seemed to be power flying with every punch that connected. In the background was a god-like dragon with bright green scales and glowing red eyes, its long body twisting a turning behind the two fighters. Across the top were the words 'Dragon Ball Z'.
The message board the hung beside the window above the computer was over flowing with drawings and sketches. Some of animals and some of people and some crossed with the other. "Wow," said Harry. "I like your room, it's very unique." "Thank you. I got tired of the same boring room, know what I mean?" Adrienne walked over to the computer and clicked a few times and the music stopped. "Yes Potter you seem to be correct. It is very...unique." said Snape looking at the posters. Kayla went over and sat on the bed, "Yea this is Adrienne's little sanctuary. She stays cooped up in here, writing, listening to music and drawing and on her precious computer." "What's a computer?" asked Sirius, tearing his eyes away from the message board.
Adrienne pointed at it, "The black box with the writhing on the screen. The thing on the left of it is the printer. You guys can take a seat if you want." Harry took a seat beside Sirius on the bed, while Snape took a seat in the chair from the computer desk. "What's its purpose?" asked Snape out of the blue. Harry saw Kayla walk over to the closet and walk in. "Well..." answered Adrienne. "A computer can be used for many different things, like organizing money, doing business papers. And then there's the Internet, that's used for communicating with other across the world, looking up info, even playing games." As Adrienne started explaining the television to Snape and Sirius, Harry watched as Kayla started tossing odd things out of the bottom of the closet over her shoulder. He could see the gun that Adrienne had met them with faintly in the corner. "Hey Adrienne," Kayla interrupted. "Where'd you put the magazines?"
Adrienne sighed, couldn't she just ask before wrecking her closet? "There under the beach towels. Now if you don't mind, put my stuff back in there and be quiet." "Yeah, yeah I know already," said Kayla as she replaced the things and took out a small stack of thick magazines. "You know you should really show them you're other stuff, if they like the things in here." "What the hell are you talking about?" asked Adrienne as she sat down on the floor beside Harry's feet at the end of the bed. She was starting to feel tired again; it'd been too long since she'd gone this long without a nap in the middle of the day. She knew that if Laura and Mikayla came in here she'd start yelling at them like she'd gone crazy. Which she probably would if Kayla didn't stop showing off for her. Adrienne couldn't believe she was feeling sleepy on the most exciting and important day of her life.
"You know what I'm talking about; your artwork." Kayla turned to the others. "You guys should see it's so cool. Some of her stuff is pretty, some beautiful, some scary..." "Would you shut up?!" Said Adrienne as she slapped her on the side of the head; for some reason she didn't know she was shy of them looking her things. "Ow! What did you do that for?!" exclaimed Kayla, rubbing the side of her head. "Because I have stuff down there," said Adrienne through gritted teeth. "What...Oh; that stuff. Oh well never mind. Hey can we still invite the boys over later today?" said Kayla flipping through another magazine. "No, we probably won't be able to. Plus I think I'm on punishment already, and that would be a pretty big stunt for me to pull inviting them over."
When Adrienne mentioned punishment, Harry immediately thought of the Dursley household. He remembered the punishments he was out on, no food for two weeks if all the chores weren't done. Beatings if he'd done something wrong. The stinging insults for just being alive; 'worthless,' 'useless,' 'murderer.' The words used to ring in his ears every single day of the entire summer. The only things that kept him from believing them were the letters from Sirius and the others and Hedwig. "What kind of punishment?" he heard Snape ask, snapping him out of his thoughts. Adrienne turned to him, "Nothing that big really, she just takes away my privileges and gives me extra chores to do around the house. She'll take away the phone, I know that, but I don't really talk on it much. If she takes away my computer, it'll be like..."
Kayla laughed from behind a magazine with a model in a blue dress on the cover; it was titled 'New Type'. "Yeah, especially for us since we practically live on the things. We'd be so board out of our minds it wouldn't be funny." "Speak for yourself." said Adrienne. They all laughed at her comment, all except Snape that is. He just sat there and glowered at them all. Harry wondered if he was this crabby even on his vacations. Laura and Mikayla coming in the door interrupted their moment.
"What's so funny Adrienne, we wanna laugh too," said Laura standing inside the doorway. Harry noticed that they'd changed out of their uniforms. Mikayla was standing beside Laura, but in front of another girl. She wore –of what Harry could see – a pink sweat outfit and her brown hair were in wavy curls. "Ohhh, Adrienne's got boys in her room. I'm going to tell," said the girl. Adrienne glared over her shoulder at trio, "Brittany, I really don't care what you have to say right now. And frankly it's none of your business anyway. So to make this visit as short as possible, tell me what you want so you can leave."
Brittany moved into the room as Adrienne got to her feet. She stood about a foot taller than Brittany. Brittany crossed her arms over her chest, "You can't boss us around and tell us where to go. You don't own us." "I may not own you but I'm sure as heck going to boss you around as long as you're within seeing range." Brittany gave her a dirty look, obviously thinking of another come back. "Why do you dress in that big ugly thing? It's not even cold out side. And I bet you can't even see me with your blind self." Kayla and Adrienne starting, "First of all," said Adrienne. "You can't talk, with your pink sweat suite on. Second, I wear this cause I like it." she pointed at her baggy blue pullover. "And third, yes, I can see you, even if I don't want to." This made Kayla laugh harder.
"Now if you don't mind, I have company to attend to," she turned Brittany around by the shoulders and pushed her towards the door. "Now go play or something." "Here Adrienne," Laura handed her a pair of oval shaped, wire framed glasses. "Mom, found these this morning in the refrigerator. How'd they get there?" Mikayla went running down the hallway, giggling madly. "I think I know why now." said Laura. "Come on Brittany, we'll go play downstairs." Adrienne locked the door and took off her pull over. Underneath she had on a long sleeve navy shirt ("God, don't you get hot?" "No, not really.") Harry chuckled, "In the frig?" She glanced at him, sliding on the glasses. "Yeah, it's hectic trying to see the board when you're nearsighted and sit in the back of the class." "That's what was different about you today," said Kayla. "You didn't have your glasses on."
"I don't like them so I don't wear them around the house sometimes." She walked over to the computer and clicked on a few things, drawing up colorful pages and then finally a text page. Harry heard Sirius mutter, "That looks fun. I wonder how you do it..." He couldn't help but smile. As Adrienne started adding to the text, Harry noticed the Snape hadn't moved an inch. He was now currently staring at his lap. Now that Harry got to get a good look at him, he looked...good. Really good, his features were sharper, and that horrible nose was gone. He wondered if he looked like this during his final years at Hogwarts. Harry couldn't deny it he was pretty attractive. 'Stop,' thought Harry as he realized he was staring, and averted his eyes. 'This is Snape you're talking about here. Less than 4 hours ago he was the greasy git, now he's attractive. What's up with me?'
Harry had discovered he was gay around the middle of his 6th year, when he found himself eyeing Malfoy one day. He might be hot but he was still a snobbish git. He had broken the news to his friends and Sirius and Remus that summer. Overall their reactions were alright; Sirius had told him he was bi and Remus the same, Hermione was surprised but was happy for him. Ron, Ron was a different story; he just sat and stared in shock at Harry, his face pale. It had taken some time for him to get used to the idea.
Harry chanced a glance at Sirius he wondered how he would react to him thinking Snape attractive. Most likely he'll have a cow. "Ok people," Adrienne spoke up. "The scheduled for tonight will be movies, music, a lot of food and for the grand finale we play video games till we can't keep our eyes open." Kayla cheered form behind her magazine, "And the best part of it all, no midgets to but in on our fun. They'll be gone in the next 45 minutes." Kayla gave Adrienne a high-5. Adrienne turned to them, "Don't worry you guys'll love it. We'll introduce you to the fab world of pizza, soda, music, and video games." she looked directly Harry. "You'll get to live a normal life here, if not boring. No Voldemort," she looked at Snape and Sirius. "You won't have to worry about Dumbledore, Hogwarts, Azkaban and things of the like. You'll be like us."
Everyone's heads turned to Snape as he grunted disdainfully at her, "I call that wishful thinking. Just because we are in a different location doesn't mean that Dumbledore or the Dark Lord cannot get a hold of you or us. You think because we are here you can do with us what you like, but I assure you that will not be happening any time soon." Adrienne looked a bit putout, "No, we're not telling you what to do, just making suggestions. That's all; you don't have to if you don't want..." "Do us a favor Snivellus," Sirius interrupted as he lay back on his elbows, glaring.
"And pull that poll out your ass. They obviously had plans before we came, so don't spoil their fun by being present." "Black..." Snape ground out getting to his feet. Harry jumped in, "Stop, Look, lets just try to relax have some time off. It would be good for all of us." He looked back between Snape and Sirius. A tense moment passed as they glared at each other. "Fine," they said, Snape taking his seat again. Sirius tuned to Harry, "Harry what's pizza?" Harry smiled again.
Tbc
In the next chappy, there will be reference to different anime and music. As for the music, there will be some rap, if you don't of the person look them up. Sry it took sooooo long, hope you enjoyed it.
Hit the Floor
Chapter 4
Drastic Changes
By: SilverFlmeTigerRyu
Adrienne listened to Harry as he walked pass her to the bathroom. She looked up when she heard a groan, seeing Sirius with his head in his hands and Severus griping the edge of the table with his eyes shut tight. "What's wrong?" she asked Kayla. Kayla didn't know what to say, but she wouldn't have to because Adrienne's answer was right in front of her.
Severus squeezed the table harder as another bout of dizziness went through his skull. It felt like his whole body was burning, strait to the bone; somewhere in his sub conscience he wondered what was going on. Then as suddenly as it had come it was gone. Although the burning had stopped, he still felt a little woozy. "What was that?" Severus demanded as he opened his eyes. Black looked as if the same thing was happening to him. He didn't doubt it. Severus turned his gaze upon Adrienne, and raised a quizzical eyebrow. She raised her brows and just stared at him. "Well?" he said. "I don't know, but it burnt like hell," he heard Sirius mutter as he massaged his temples.
He was about to tell him a few choice words, when they all heard a scream come from down the hallway. Sirius was the first one out of his chair – knocking it over in the process – and bounding down the hallway; the others right behind him. "Harry what's wrong?!" He said as he practically knocked down the door. He looked into the small room and saw Harry, pale and shaking, staring into the mirror rubbing furiously at his forehead. "Is it your scar?"
"N-no, I mean yes...I think. What I mean is... it's gone." Harry mumbled. "What are you babbling about Potter?" Severus said getting annoyed. "My scar," he said turning to face to them. "It's gone." Sirius walked over to him and tilted his head back to get better lighting. And it was true: his scar was gone. "Merlin..." he muttered; then he noticed the look his godson was giving him. "What?" he asked. "It's just..." started Harry, raising an eyebrow. "You look, different."
Sirius looked at him, then up at the full-length mirror. The sight he saw made his jaw drop. He couldn't believe it, he looked... younger. His brow creased as he looked at a reflection that he hadn't seen for almost 20 years. He looked at his face that was fuller than before, although he still had some stubble on his chin. He looked at his eyes, which were brighter and the dark half moons under his eyes were gone. His hair was silky and cleaner than it was 10 minutes before. He looked at his hands, most of the scars were gone but the small ones were still visible.
He jumped slightly when he heard Harry speak again, "And Professor Snape, you look different too." Sirius turned to look him too; he did look different. Very different. 'Man,' he thought. 'Never thought this would ever happen. But then again, I never thought I'd be sucked through a slug hole, worm hole, whatever it is.' "Potter ..." he heard Snape trail off as he caught sight of himself in the mirror above the sink.
Severus felt his jaw drop as he looked at his new self. One he could not believe was him. He looked like a totally different person; his face had gone under drastic changes. His hair wasn't greasy anymore, but silky soft; he could see the difference. The dark half moons under his eyes from staying up so late doing research for the order, were also gone. His teeth were strait and pearly white. But the biggest change that took him by surprise was his nose. The big crooked nose that he had unfortunately inherited from his father was now slender and aristocratic. "Merlin's beard..." Severus muttered as he touched his own cheek. Then he caught sight of his fingers; they weren't stained yellow from handling potions ingredients as they used to be.
"So, I'm guessing this is what happened then," said Sirius looking at himself over in the mirror again. "Yes," replied Severus. "I suppose it is. What do you think would cause..." Severus was cut off by Laura shouting down the hallway, "Adrienne! Mom's in the driveway and she wants you to help us bring in the stuff from the store!" "Ah shit," Adrienne muttered as she ran to catch up with her sister at the living room doorway.
"Laura, did you tell mom about them?" Laura shook her head, "No, I didn't tell her yet. But why..." "Don't ask, just don't ask." Adrienne cut her off, walking through the living room and out the front door, heading to her mother's silver Durango. The first thing she noticed was it had stopped raining; then remembered that she still had on her socks and that they were now wet. She looked up to meet her mother's face looking back at her – which was not very happy; and Mikayla tattling full-speed. 'Oh boy.'
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Kayla led the rest of them back into the kitchen after Adrienne had left. They watched as Laura and Mikayla came and went bringing in bags full different things; sitting them against the cabinets. But Adrienne didn't come in till after about 10 minutes; loaded down with heavy bags and pissed look. Kayla was the first to speak up, "So what did she say?" Adrienne didn't answer right away, but pulled off her wet socks and put them in her shoes. "She said some good news and some bad news." "What's the bad?" "Well she said that..." she stopped when she noticed that Laura and Mikayla were still in the room. "Do you need something?" she asked glaring at them. They shook their heads 'no'. "Then go play or something. Because you two are so not part of this conversation."
"And," said Mikayla, stuffing a piece of candy into her cheek. "You not my mama. And you don't tell me what to do." "Well I just did!" said Adrienne. "When your mom or my mom's not here then I'm in charge. So scram." She pointed at the hallway and they reluctantly got up and went up stairs.
"Guy, I hate babysitting. Anyway as I was saying, my mom said that since that I wanted to invite more friend over she's not giving us any money to buy pizza. And I'm not getting paid for watching them till 6 o' clock. She said that if we wanted to order out I'd have to pay for it with my own money. And believe me that's not much." The room was quiet for a second then Kayla laid her head on the table saying, "Damn, damn, damn, damn! So now your mom's coming back to stay with us?" She looked up at Adrienne who was now putting the things up, "No, she's still gonna stay at my aunt's house tonight. Uncle Brian is gonna come over to take them to Brittany's house at 6.
"The good news, she says they could stay, but she'll want to meet with them tomorrow morning. I guess I better be thankful that she's lettin' me off with just that and no punishment." Harry felt somewhat sorry for her; she'd just gotten in trouble with her mother for them, but what could he say it was inevitable. Adrienne turned to them, "Well looks like you three, for the time being are going to be American muggles." Sirius spoke up, "But we know nothing about being muggles. Well except for Harry." "Hey, I've got the perfect idea," said Kayla. "Why don't we teach them, Adrienne? You know how to be like us and all." "Kayla I have only one word for you: duh. Well why don't I take you on a tour of the house, then."
Doing as she said, they followed in her footsteps of the first floor. The living room, in which they'd arrived, was a fairly sized room. It had a nice sofa, a love seat, and a squishy, green recliner that looked somewhat out of place in a corner. There was a coffee table in front of the couch. Harry recognized what looked like a small robotic dog in the middle of the floor, along with a few other toys. There was a large television set that had a Play Station hooked up; the same one that Dudley had thrown out the window in a tantrum. Harry was about to comment on it, but they were moving on to another room.
"Down past the bathroom is my mom's room." Adrienne told them, pointing back down the hall. "The door across is the garage where we park the car and store some other stuff. The door beside that one is just a closet." They went up the stairs. The first door on the left tuned out to be the guestroom decorated with white walls, a ceiling fan, a dresser, and its own closet. The room across from that was the main bathroom. The two rooms at the end of the hall were Adrienne's and Laura's rooms. "We'll go in my room as I am sure you don't want to see the brats' room." said Adrienne as pushed the door on the left open and let them in.
Harry looked around the room, it was very nice. There was a twin sized bed pushed up against the wall. It was covered in a dark blue down comforter, littered with silver stars and moons; the pillows at the top also matched. There was a small night stand be side the bed. At first Harry thought it was a bookcase because there were two shelves packed with books under a drawer. Atop the stand were a note pad and pen, a digital clock, and a glass of water. There was another stand with an average size television pushed in to a corner beside, what Harry supposed was the closet door. There was a desk against the far wall where a black computer and printer sat, witch Harry realized that soft music was coming from. The desk and computer was also covered with stray papers, small books and other knick-knacks. But what attracted Harry's attention the most were the posters and the message board. The posters were of very different things; the three over Adrienne's bed were magnificent.
The one that hung over the head was of the bed was of beautiful white dragons with their wings spread wide, soaring over a dark castle and sky. Another was of a man with extremely long black hair and small glasses resting upon his nose; his eyes were closed. He wore a black suite with a dark red tie and white gloves; he stood in the rain holding a tattered umbrella over his head. At the bottom, in white scroll was 'come in out of the rain...' The last was of, what looked like two warriors engaged in a fierce battle. There seemed to be power flying with every punch that connected. In the background was a god-like dragon with bright green scales and glowing red eyes, its long body twisting a turning behind the two fighters. Across the top were the words 'Dragon Ball Z'.
The message board the hung beside the window above the computer was over flowing with drawings and sketches. Some of animals and some of people and some crossed with the other. "Wow," said Harry. "I like your room, it's very unique." "Thank you. I got tired of the same boring room, know what I mean?" Adrienne walked over to the computer and clicked a few times and the music stopped. "Yes Potter you seem to be correct. It is very...unique." said Snape looking at the posters. Kayla went over and sat on the bed, "Yea this is Adrienne's little sanctuary. She stays cooped up in here, writing, listening to music and drawing and on her precious computer." "What's a computer?" asked Sirius, tearing his eyes away from the message board.
Adrienne pointed at it, "The black box with the writhing on the screen. The thing on the left of it is the printer. You guys can take a seat if you want." Harry took a seat beside Sirius on the bed, while Snape took a seat in the chair from the computer desk. "What's its purpose?" asked Snape out of the blue. Harry saw Kayla walk over to the closet and walk in. "Well..." answered Adrienne. "A computer can be used for many different things, like organizing money, doing business papers. And then there's the Internet, that's used for communicating with other across the world, looking up info, even playing games." As Adrienne started explaining the television to Snape and Sirius, Harry watched as Kayla started tossing odd things out of the bottom of the closet over her shoulder. He could see the gun that Adrienne had met them with faintly in the corner. "Hey Adrienne," Kayla interrupted. "Where'd you put the magazines?"
Adrienne sighed, couldn't she just ask before wrecking her closet? "There under the beach towels. Now if you don't mind, put my stuff back in there and be quiet." "Yeah, yeah I know already," said Kayla as she replaced the things and took out a small stack of thick magazines. "You know you should really show them you're other stuff, if they like the things in here." "What the hell are you talking about?" asked Adrienne as she sat down on the floor beside Harry's feet at the end of the bed. She was starting to feel tired again; it'd been too long since she'd gone this long without a nap in the middle of the day. She knew that if Laura and Mikayla came in here she'd start yelling at them like she'd gone crazy. Which she probably would if Kayla didn't stop showing off for her. Adrienne couldn't believe she was feeling sleepy on the most exciting and important day of her life.
"You know what I'm talking about; your artwork." Kayla turned to the others. "You guys should see it's so cool. Some of her stuff is pretty, some beautiful, some scary..." "Would you shut up?!" Said Adrienne as she slapped her on the side of the head; for some reason she didn't know she was shy of them looking her things. "Ow! What did you do that for?!" exclaimed Kayla, rubbing the side of her head. "Because I have stuff down there," said Adrienne through gritted teeth. "What...Oh; that stuff. Oh well never mind. Hey can we still invite the boys over later today?" said Kayla flipping through another magazine. "No, we probably won't be able to. Plus I think I'm on punishment already, and that would be a pretty big stunt for me to pull inviting them over."
When Adrienne mentioned punishment, Harry immediately thought of the Dursley household. He remembered the punishments he was out on, no food for two weeks if all the chores weren't done. Beatings if he'd done something wrong. The stinging insults for just being alive; 'worthless,' 'useless,' 'murderer.' The words used to ring in his ears every single day of the entire summer. The only things that kept him from believing them were the letters from Sirius and the others and Hedwig. "What kind of punishment?" he heard Snape ask, snapping him out of his thoughts. Adrienne turned to him, "Nothing that big really, she just takes away my privileges and gives me extra chores to do around the house. She'll take away the phone, I know that, but I don't really talk on it much. If she takes away my computer, it'll be like..."
Kayla laughed from behind a magazine with a model in a blue dress on the cover; it was titled 'New Type'. "Yeah, especially for us since we practically live on the things. We'd be so board out of our minds it wouldn't be funny." "Speak for yourself." said Adrienne. They all laughed at her comment, all except Snape that is. He just sat there and glowered at them all. Harry wondered if he was this crabby even on his vacations. Laura and Mikayla coming in the door interrupted their moment.
"What's so funny Adrienne, we wanna laugh too," said Laura standing inside the doorway. Harry noticed that they'd changed out of their uniforms. Mikayla was standing beside Laura, but in front of another girl. She wore –of what Harry could see – a pink sweat outfit and her brown hair were in wavy curls. "Ohhh, Adrienne's got boys in her room. I'm going to tell," said the girl. Adrienne glared over her shoulder at trio, "Brittany, I really don't care what you have to say right now. And frankly it's none of your business anyway. So to make this visit as short as possible, tell me what you want so you can leave."
Brittany moved into the room as Adrienne got to her feet. She stood about a foot taller than Brittany. Brittany crossed her arms over her chest, "You can't boss us around and tell us where to go. You don't own us." "I may not own you but I'm sure as heck going to boss you around as long as you're within seeing range." Brittany gave her a dirty look, obviously thinking of another come back. "Why do you dress in that big ugly thing? It's not even cold out side. And I bet you can't even see me with your blind self." Kayla and Adrienne starting, "First of all," said Adrienne. "You can't talk, with your pink sweat suite on. Second, I wear this cause I like it." she pointed at her baggy blue pullover. "And third, yes, I can see you, even if I don't want to." This made Kayla laugh harder.
"Now if you don't mind, I have company to attend to," she turned Brittany around by the shoulders and pushed her towards the door. "Now go play or something." "Here Adrienne," Laura handed her a pair of oval shaped, wire framed glasses. "Mom, found these this morning in the refrigerator. How'd they get there?" Mikayla went running down the hallway, giggling madly. "I think I know why now." said Laura. "Come on Brittany, we'll go play downstairs." Adrienne locked the door and took off her pull over. Underneath she had on a long sleeve navy shirt ("God, don't you get hot?" "No, not really.") Harry chuckled, "In the frig?" She glanced at him, sliding on the glasses. "Yeah, it's hectic trying to see the board when you're nearsighted and sit in the back of the class." "That's what was different about you today," said Kayla. "You didn't have your glasses on."
"I don't like them so I don't wear them around the house sometimes." She walked over to the computer and clicked on a few things, drawing up colorful pages and then finally a text page. Harry heard Sirius mutter, "That looks fun. I wonder how you do it..." He couldn't help but smile. As Adrienne started adding to the text, Harry noticed the Snape hadn't moved an inch. He was now currently staring at his lap. Now that Harry got to get a good look at him, he looked...good. Really good, his features were sharper, and that horrible nose was gone. He wondered if he looked like this during his final years at Hogwarts. Harry couldn't deny it he was pretty attractive. 'Stop,' thought Harry as he realized he was staring, and averted his eyes. 'This is Snape you're talking about here. Less than 4 hours ago he was the greasy git, now he's attractive. What's up with me?'
Harry had discovered he was gay around the middle of his 6th year, when he found himself eyeing Malfoy one day. He might be hot but he was still a snobbish git. He had broken the news to his friends and Sirius and Remus that summer. Overall their reactions were alright; Sirius had told him he was bi and Remus the same, Hermione was surprised but was happy for him. Ron, Ron was a different story; he just sat and stared in shock at Harry, his face pale. It had taken some time for him to get used to the idea.
Harry chanced a glance at Sirius he wondered how he would react to him thinking Snape attractive. Most likely he'll have a cow. "Ok people," Adrienne spoke up. "The scheduled for tonight will be movies, music, a lot of food and for the grand finale we play video games till we can't keep our eyes open." Kayla cheered form behind her magazine, "And the best part of it all, no midgets to but in on our fun. They'll be gone in the next 45 minutes." Kayla gave Adrienne a high-5. Adrienne turned to them, "Don't worry you guys'll love it. We'll introduce you to the fab world of pizza, soda, music, and video games." she looked directly Harry. "You'll get to live a normal life here, if not boring. No Voldemort," she looked at Snape and Sirius. "You won't have to worry about Dumbledore, Hogwarts, Azkaban and things of the like. You'll be like us."
Everyone's heads turned to Snape as he grunted disdainfully at her, "I call that wishful thinking. Just because we are in a different location doesn't mean that Dumbledore or the Dark Lord cannot get a hold of you or us. You think because we are here you can do with us what you like, but I assure you that will not be happening any time soon." Adrienne looked a bit putout, "No, we're not telling you what to do, just making suggestions. That's all; you don't have to if you don't want..." "Do us a favor Snivellus," Sirius interrupted as he lay back on his elbows, glaring.
"And pull that poll out your ass. They obviously had plans before we came, so don't spoil their fun by being present." "Black..." Snape ground out getting to his feet. Harry jumped in, "Stop, Look, lets just try to relax have some time off. It would be good for all of us." He looked back between Snape and Sirius. A tense moment passed as they glared at each other. "Fine," they said, Snape taking his seat again. Sirius tuned to Harry, "Harry what's pizza?" Harry smiled again.
Tbc
In the next chappy, there will be reference to different anime and music. As for the music, there will be some rap, if you don't of the person look them up. Sry it took sooooo long, hope you enjoyed it.