15

A New Home

It was too soon for Erin to leave for America but she had to. It was where her home was. Wait… home? Uh oh. Erin had no where to live.

"Uh… Draco?" Erin turned to face him. He was packing his trunk. "I have a problem." As she explained the fact that she had no home, he started glowing. Erin took this personally.

"What's so funny? What is good about this?" Draco shook his head.

"I'm sorry but… this is good! You have no where to live, I have a mansion." Draco looked to her to figure the rest out for herself.

"I'm not following."

"You can live with us!" Erin started beaming. She ran to her room for a second to get her stuff. She was going to pack in the boy's dormitory with him, as he was to fill her in on the details. As he explained his house (or should I say CHOCOLATE FACTORY? sorry) to her, her smile became bigger and bigger.

"Excuse me a moment," Erin interrupted him as he said the word 'pool'. She went to the corner of the room and started jumping up and down screaming. The thought of the pool was not nearly as good as the thought of her seeing him in nothing but swim trunks. Hoo ha yea! She quickly calmed herself and returned to the bed. "You were saying?"

The only problem was convincing Draco's father. But that, it turned out, was easy.

On the way back to King's Cross, Harry, Cho, Hermione, and Ron came in to Draco and Erin's compartment. Draco glared and Erin smiled. "We'll miss you Erin. Where are you staying over the summer?" Draco and Erin looked at each other.

"Well, if Draco's father agrees to it, I'm staying with him." Harry and Ron's faces fell.

"Why?" they questioned together. Their girlfriends (Cho and Hermione) hit them on the shoulders in a pointless effort to train them.

"How did you train him Erin?" Hermione asked Erin, pointing to Draco. Erin looked at Draco and back to Ron. Then she looked at Harry.

"He didn't need training." Draco smiled. "Those two on the other hand…" They all laughed. "I suggest rewards. Guys are just like dogs. Cute, trainable and always in need of a bath." They laughed again. (Laughing kind of bunch isn't it?)

"Well we're gonna go now. We'll miss you Erin. Come back next year." Harry said to Erin. "And Draco…" Draco looked at Harry with shock. Was that the first name I heard? "Good year." They left giving hugs and addresses for letters (except for Draco who just stood there with his arm around Erin's waist).

The train stopped an hour later at King's Cross. Everyone filed off the train and to their parents. When Draco got to his parents, they looked at him shocked.

"What in God's name are you wearing Draco?" Draco looked down at his pants and shirt.

"Clothes."

Lusious looked at him. "Better," he said. Draco and Erin smiled. "Did you do this?" He was referring to Erin. Erin nodded her head. "Who are you?"

"My name is Erin Shipton. I'm-"

"She's my girlfriend Dad. And I have to ask you something. Er… see Erin has no where to live for the summer and I was wondering. Could she stay with us? Just for the summer."

"Why don't you have somewhere to live?" Lusious looked at Erin with an icy, cold stare.

"To be honest, Lord Voldemort came to my house a year ago and killed my family. He was going to kill me but I made a deal with him. I worked for him throughout almost the entire school year. He destroyed my house too."

Lusious looked at her then at Draco, then back at her again. "Fine, but you owe me, boy."

Draco and Erin waited until his parents got ahead a bit before they started smiling and jumping up and down (ok Erin was doing the jumping but Draco was smiling).

The whole way home in the limo, Erin was ecstatic.

When they got to the mansion, Draco took her on a tour then asked her where she wanted to stay. "Where's your room? Can I be next to you room?" The room was huge and Erin quickly made it her home. She got a lot of letters from Harry, Cho, Hermione, Ron, Tyler, and Adrian. It seemed as though everyone was together with someone.

The whole summer was great. She and Draco had a few fights but got through them and were never mad at each other long. Lusious warmed up a bit and did not beat his wife or son through the whole of the entire summer. I sense a breakthrough! Since Erin's parents (like Harry's) had left her an enormous sum of money at Gringotts, she paid rent and bought her own food and cooked once in a while so the Malfoys would not throw her out.

And Erin and Draco returned to school the next year, ready for anything.

The End.

Or is it?

No it is.

But how are you sure?

But it is!

No it's not!

It is now.

Na uh.

Ya huh.

It's not.

Now it's the end.

No it's bloody not!

When is it the end then?

NOW

THE END.

Please exit to your right and have a great evening.