10

Home Show

"Draco, I have to show you something," Avi told him, holding her hand out Christmas morning. Draco took her hand, confused.

"What are you doing?" He asked her, taking her hand in his. Avi didn't reply. She just took out her wand and mumbled a few words.

"We're going to my home."

"Home? What home?" Draco asked, still confused. They dissaparated into the air and re-appeared moments later.

"I used to go to school here. Come on, I'll show you around. But first…" Avi trailed off as she approached a boy about the same age as Draco, but with spiked, dirty blonde hair.

"Eric Thompson. Can't say I'm glad to see you again."

"Erin?" The boy turned, and Draco found himself staring straight into the eyes of, well, himself! The boy (named Eric apparently) was also startled and now confused. The two boys looked exactly alike, only Draco was more buff and was less preppy then Eric. "What's with the clone and when did you get hot?" What a jerk, but why did he call her Erin? Draco asked himself, confused.

"Oh. Eric Thompson I'd love to introduce (da da da da da da da daa!) Draco Malfoy."

"She sure picks the good-looking ones doesn't she?" Eric joked.

"Yeah..." He replied nervously.

Avi rolled her eyes and asked Eric, "Wrong! You two may look alike, but because of your sorry ass attitude you'll grow up to be as fat, ugly, and disgusting as anyone could ever be. You're already there mentally, your physical from will be along shortly." Eric was in shock. "Where's Linzi?" Avi asked with a look of triumph.

"O-Over by the Potions classroom. She… she's uh… doing something with… Black." Eric spat out, now partially afraid of Avi.

"I'm going to go find her. Bond, don't kill." Avi said strictly, pointing to both of them.

"Erin really missed her." Eric said as Avi started walking away.

"Who? Professor Black or Linzi?" Draco asked, curiously. Eric looked at him and replied, not giving a damn about anything except himself (giving that he had a mirror in his hands and was checking his hair) "Eh, I suppose both. Her world really fell apart when we broke up, she was so heartbroken." Draco's fists were clenched, ready to punch him. No, he reminded himself. She said 'Bond, don't kill'…. must… listen… control… fist of… FURY! Eric had actually reminded Draco of his earlier self, and now he knew why everyone had hated him so.

Eric looked at him, a look of shock spread his face. "Dude," he began pointing at Draco's face. "You're face is like, red."

Avi and Linzi met up again and talked about (what else) Draco, Eric and Linzi's boyfriend. "They look EXACTLY the same?" Linzi asked with a weird look on her face. "Erin? You look really different. Did you die your hair or something?"

Avi and Linzi talked and talked, with Avi trying to get off the subject of change and Linzi trying to get back on it.

"Well, I gotta go now. I hope Draco and Eric haven't killed each other yet." Avi smiled. As Avi went back over to Draco and Eric and surprisingly saw them peacefully talking, and Draco's face color had returned to normal.

"Draco? Come on, I want to show you something." They left Eric as he proceeded toward the school. "I came here everyday just to daydream." What a great place to daydream, Draco thought.She stopped in front of a wall of trees and walked through the small spaces in between. Beyond the tree was a pond about 50 feet wide and a whole bunch of other trees surrounding it.

"It's… just like a dream," Draco said.

"Ok, I know you got that out of a low-budget movie or something," Avi said laughing. Draco laughed too.

Flowers were on one side of the pond while- you guessed it- more trees were on the other side, making a swamp like thing.

"Nobody knows about this place but me… and now you." She walked over to a bench. "I built this bench- from magic of course." Draco felt very special to be one of the only people who know about this place. Draco sat down next to her and they sat close, her head on his shoulder, legs crossed on his lap, her arm linking with his.

"Thank you." Draco whispered, kissing her forehead.

"You're welcome," Avi whispered back. She held his arm tight.

"Why did you show me this and not Eric?" Draco asked her as she lowered her head down onto his shoulder.

"Well, I… I… Err, let me explain something to you. Eric and I went out all last year, but at the end, he dumped me for another girl. He started making fun of me and teasing me for some reason. I spent more time in the bathroom crying than in my dorm. That's why you saw me cry at the dance. He dumped me too soon, I hadn't got the chance to. But since then I've been really careful about who I go out with, or even like. It's much more challenging to find a kind, sweet, good looking guy now that all this has happened."

Draco's brain took awhile to process this information she was giving him. In the end, he started blushing. 'Kind, sweet, good-looking guy,' she had said. Earlier in his Hogwarts years, he gloated to himself and many others about him being so handsome, so wonderful, so pure. But with time he had matured. Draco now thought of himself as average looking, but never kind and sweet. He was better known as a basterd, a half wit, a twit. Never such a wonderful person as Avi had just described to him. He sat there, puzzled at what would make someone do that to another, especially to someone as amazing as Avi.

"Do you have any reason why you're so sure that I wont do that to you?" Avi suddenly looked at Draco in a slight glare.

"I don't think you'll do that… I know you won't do that… You won't do that," Avi said sounding harsh. Draco laughed.

"I won't do that," he said in the same tone as Avi, but being sarcastic. Draco and Avi eventually got up and left the place, but Linzi stopped them from leaving the school.

"Erin! Everyone heard about you coming back and they want you to have a little reunion. Please?"

"Reunion?" Avi asked.

"Yea. Everyone always liked your singing, come on the stage is ready!"

"OK. But you know I'm doing this just for you. Because-"

"Because I'm special. Yea, yea Erin. Come on!"

Draco sat in the back, wondering what would happen in England while they were here. It was night here, and by the time Draco had thought his way out of his mind, Avi came on stage with a Santa's hat on.

"How y'all doin' tonight?" The crowd screamed. Draco smiled at Avi as she looked over. She winked quickly but not quickly enough. The crowd had one of its 'ooooooo' moments as she laughed. "What do you guys want me to sing for y'all? Huh? Christmas music or my favorite ROCK!"

Everyone said ROCK at once, so then music started playing. As it started Avi warmed up the crowd. "I must ask you guys, is anyone here anti-anything? Because I must ask you all a favor. If someone comes up to you and says that your favorite band sucks complete and total ASS, how do you feel?" The crowd roared. Avi threw tootsie rolls into the crowd in attempt to calm them down.

"Exactly. You see people, everyone has different opinions about who rocks or who sucks. A lot of people hate my favorite band, but I don't care. Seriously, you can tell me all you want that you don't like a certain band that I do, or don't for that matter. Just don't tell me what the can and cannot do or that they're posers. You don't know them, nor what image they're trying to put across. Respect each other's opinions!" The crowd roared again.

"Here's to music. Real music. Our music," she held up her tootsie roll, as did many others. Music started to play louder as Avi started to sing. "Hard days make me, hard nights shape me. I don't know they somehow saved me, and I know I'm making something out of this life they called nothing."

Draco always liked the music Avi sung. It always had a meaning, a purpose. It had a purpose Draco liked and maybe loved. He suddenly got an idea that would change his world for the better. But he needed Avi's help.

"I'm young and I'm hopeless. I'm lost and I know this, I'm going nowhere fast that's what they say. I'm troublesome I've fallen, I'm angry at my father. It's me against this world and I don't care, I don't care, I don't care…"