Disclaimer: Ok. . . so I don't own quite a few things in this one. . . I don't own Spider-Man, the movie, characters, or comics. I don't own Peter Pan. And I don't own Harry Potter. Now if you take the gross sum of all those things, I would be so damn rich. . . Anyhoo. . . I do own Phoenix and all her friends, family, history, etc. Uh. . . I dunno if I need to say anything else. . .

Author's Note: This one's main point is for the beginning of thetrip to America. . . yeah. . . fun stuff. . . I also threw in some movies. . . I like these movies as you will be able to tell in this chapter and future ones. . . they just happen to tie into the story. . . yees. . . it gets somewhat "choppy" while their watching the movies so pleez bear with me. . . well. . . onto the story now. . .

The witches and wizards were forced to watch a "Spider-Man Movie Marathon." After watching the first Spider-Man, Ginny said out of the blue, "I like Harry; he's hot." The Weasley boys slowly turned their heads toward Harry simultaneously. Harry felt his face turn red. Then Phoenix said to Ginny, "Yeah, I know! Harry Osborne in that movie is pretty cute."

The tension in the room instantly lifted. Fred then said to Phoenix, "Oh, he's cute. Then what am I? Dragon liver?"

"Sure, you can be dragon liver," Phoenix said as she popped SpiderMan2 into the DVD player.

"Well that makes me feel loved," Fred said sarcastically.

"You should," Phoenix said as she sat down next to him on the couch, "cause you are."

"Awwwwwww, isn't that cute?" George said mockingly. Concurrently, two pillows hit him.

"Damn previews," Phoenix muttered as she skipped through them.

As they were watching the movie, Phoenix laughed, "Awwww look at Harry! He's in a suit!" Fred rolled his eyes.

Later during the scene where Peter is on the payphone with Mary Jane's answering machine, his money runs out, and he gives the monologue, Fred laughed, "How many times did you watch this scene before you gave this bloody monologue to me? 'If my enemies found out about you. . . if you got hurt, I could never forgive myself.' HA!"

"Harry, have you ever seen this movie?" Ginny asked, obviously hinting at something.

"No, Ginny, I haven't," Harry said through his teeth.

Ginny smirked in reply, apparently liking Harry's reaction.

Later when Peter is pleading with Mary Jane to take him back. . . .

"I'm different!" Phoenix quoted. "Punch me, I bleed!" Fred raised his eyebrows at her, giving a look that was questioning the factuality of that quote coming from her. "Oh, shut up, Fred!" Phoenix retorted.

"Oh my God! Look at his face!" Ginny exclaimed when Peter was trying to regain his powers so he was taking a running start. (OOC: Then he sort of fell of the building and complained about his back. . . )

In that ending scene where Doc Ock left Peter to Harry's mercy, Hermione asked, "What's up with Harry and drinking?"

"Oh! That's the same place where Spiderman left his dad in the last movie!" Ginny realized.

"Holy! He was going to stab Spiderman!"

"No shit, Sherlock!" Phoenix exclaimed laughing.

In the ending scene where Mary Jane is tied to a pole and Doc Ock is making his experiment over again in the abandoned warehouse, Fred laughed.

"Oh God, what now?" Phoenix asked.

"Mary Jane reminded me of you. . ."

"Oh, well, my hair's better than hers," she flipped her hair behind her shoulder.

Fred laughed, "I was thinking that she looked like you earlier today. . . the whole wet factor."

"W-T-F, Fred! You're such a pervert today!" Phoenix yelled.

"Oh no! They're going to drown it!" Fred exclaimed a moment later.

In the whole scene where Peter is saving Mary Jane from the rolling metal ball of doom and then from the falling wall of terror, Phoenix held a pillow above her head and said, "Hi, Fred. This is really heavy."

"A pillow isn't heavy. . . and he didn't drop it in the movie," Fred said.

"Well this ain't the movie." Phoenix hit him with the pillow.

During the 'spider web scene,' Fred said, "Blimey! There's that bloody monologue again!"

Harry tried to ignore Ginny's stare. "Blimey, Ginny, stop it!"

By the time everything was over and done with, it was about eleven o'clock. The group all dispersed and went to bed.

The next day, the guests of the house twaddled downstairs to see Phoenix making a huge breakfast. "Bloody hell, Phoenix!" Ron exclaimed upon seeing all the food on the island's countertop. "It's like the Hogwarts's banquet; only it's breakfast!"

Phoenix laughed as she put a plate piled with fresh steaming pancakes on the island. As she turned around, she was face-to-face with Fred. He tilted her chin up and kissed her. After a moment, he pulled away. George slapped the back of his twin's head. "Have you no shame, brother? There are children present!" he said.

"Like you're going to be any better when we see Kelly," Fred retorted. "And, I have every right to today: it's Phoenix's birthday and our one year anniversary."

"Am I the only one who remembers that Phoenix is our age?" Ron asked while everyone else wished her a happy birthday.

As everyone was eating, Elly came downstairs and piled her plate with food. "Happy birthday, Phoe," she said.

"Thanks, Mom," Phoenix said. "How long'll you be gone?"

"Uh… sometime around 5 or 6 Eastern Standard Time," she replied. "Which house are we meeting at?"

"The Ohio House," Phoenix answered.

Elly finished chewing and raised her eyebrows.

"Aw, Mom, the actual party is going to be indoors for the most part… The Brits and the senoritas would be the only ones that would go in the forest. I mean seriously, they got rid of those rancid spiders so we have really nothing to fear except fear itself."

Elly's eyebrows remained raised. "Do you really think that wise, Phoenix?"

"And why wouldn't it be?" Phoenix tested her mother.

"If you'll excuse us for a moment…" Elly practically dragged Phoenix out of the room. As she was closing the door to the Medieval Library, she said sternly, "Phoenix Raven Alqua Riddalia, I don't know if I want your friends to meet them."

"Oh, Mom! Cardi loves mortals! And Will's met them!" Phoenix argued.

"Yes, but Will and you are like them!" Elly said back.

"Aww, Mom! It's not like they're gonna tell anyone!"

"Phoenix, we don't need people to know about you!"

"Fred and George know! And they haven't told anyone!"

Elly sighed, rubbing her temples. "Why do you do this to me, Phoenix?"

Phoenix shrugged. "I guess it's just my form of entertainment..."

After a long quiet moment, she sighed, "If you must."

Phoenix jumped up. "YAY!" Then she dashed back into the kitchen with Elly behind her.

Elly finished her breakfast and left. When everyone else was done, Harry asked, "So now what?"

"We get to watch Peter Pan!" Phoenix exclaimed.

"Why don't we just go get everyone in America?" George asked.

"I know you're so eager to see Kelly but there's a five hour time difference. It's 6:30 in the morning where Kelly, Ali, Alex, Sam, and Ami live; it's 3:30 a.m. in LA where Ashanti lives. If we go now, all of them will be so p.o.-ed. And trust me, you don't want to see Kelly in a bad mood… it's definitely not a pretty sight. Plus… we need to learn the difference between kisses and thimbles," Phoenix said seriously. "So by the time the movie's over, it'll be 8:30 in New York. By the time we are all out of pajamas and-slash-or presentable, it'll be sometime after 9 there… Then we will not have any New Yorkers in bad moods."

No one else said anything to Phoenix's explanation. Therefore, they watched Peter Pan. (A/N: It's actually the first major production with a boy playing Peter. Just a bit of useless info. ) Afterwards, everyone got changed and presentable. Phoenix was right: it was after 2 p.m. (in England) when all this was done.

The group met in the Elements Wing at 2:17 p.m. Phoenix then led them to the door that Ron pointed out the day before that was next to the Roman/Greek-But-Mostly-Roman Bathroom. "This is room is going to help us get to New York," Phoenix smiled.

"How?" Ron asked doubtfully.

"Easily," Phoenix replied. "It leads to the Hallway of Doors."

She opened the door and led them into a long and narrow hallway. Going inside this hallway was quite strange: it felt as if there were no walls, ceilings, or even a floor. Doors—seeming coming from no where—lined the hallway, each having a small golden plaque with a name engraved into it. They walked—though it felt like they were floating—down the hall until Phoenix came to a stop in front of two doors. One read: New York House; the other: New York Apartment. Phoenix opened the first of the doors. The whiteness of the Hallway of Doors was contrasted by the hallway that the door led out to.

"This is our New York house. It's in the same development as the Turners' and Bosworths' houses. I do believe that a tour of this house would be quite boring so we'll be off," Phoenix said as she closed the door to the Hallway of Doors. Then she took everyone across the catwalk that overlooked the foyer and family room, down some stairs, and out the front door.

As they walked down the street, Hermione observed the house. It looked normal enough, about the same size as her own house if not a little bigger. It was a two story beige brick house. Yet, compared to the house they just came from, this house looked almost small.

"We bought the last lot available for this house. There are only ten lots in this development, but they all have a least an acre of land," Phoenix explained.

They continued to walk down the street and then turned right onto a cul-de-sac. "I know where we are now," George realized, "but I never knew you had a house so close by."

Phoenix smiled. "Yes, my house is close by almost everyone's." Then she said to everyone, "There are only two houses on this cul-de-sac. The house on the left side of this dead end street is where the Bosworths live. The Turners live in the house on the right."

"Phoenix, who are these people?" Hermione asked.

Phoenix laughed. "How stupid of me! You don't even know these people! Kelly, Ali, and Alex are members of the Bosworth family. Sam is a Turner… as was Will… but you'll know who they are soon enough."

They proceeded up the driveway of the Bosworths' house and were about to ring the doorbell when the door swung open. Two blonde haired girls came out and hugged Phoenix. "Hey, Phoenix!" they exclaimed. It took Hermione a second to notice that the two girls were identical twins.

One of them was wearing a pink tank top and white shorts. The top half of her curly blonde hair was pulled back with a perfectly coordinated pink clip. She had matching pink-glitter eye shadow on and clear lip gloss. Overall, she was very pretty.

Her twin was pretty but in a completely different way. She seemed to have a "punk" style. Her shirt was black. On it in bold white letters was the phrase: "TROUBLEMAKER." She wore dark jean shorts and a black belt. Her hair was straight. She had dark blue eye shadow on that made her dark blue eyes really noticeable. Black eyeliner lined her eyes. Even though the girls were completely different style-wise, they had the same face and slender bodies. Obviously, they were both friends with Phoenix.

Two other people were standing in the doorway; both had an eyebrow raised at the twins. The first was a boy with somewhat long blonde hair. He wore a green and white striped polo shirt and khaki cargo shorts. The other person was a girl with short brown hair. She wore a dark purple shirt that read: And your point is? She also had on jean shorts.

"Okay, intros… Brits, Ali is in the pink, Kelly is in the black, Sam is the brunette, and Alex is the boy," Phoenix said, pointing to the appropriate person. "New Yorkers, this is Harry with the glasses, Ron is the red head, and Hermione is the brunette. You should already know Fred, George, and Ginny."

"Kelly better know me," George joked.

Kelly smirked as she walked up to George. "I don't think I do…"

"This should refresh your memory." George returned the smirk and kissed Kelly.

After they pulled away, Kelly jested, "I have a vague memory of who are…"

George was going to kiss her again, but Fred slapped the back of his twin's head and said, "Have you no shame, brother? There are children present!"

The Weasley twins laughed as Phoenix and Kelly rolled their eyes.

"So what house are we at for the par-tay?" Sam asked Phoenix.

"The Ohio house," she answered.

"Isn't that where you had it last year?" Alex questioned. Phoenix nodded.

"So that means that we were there?" George half-questioned. Phoenix nodded again.

"Oh, yeah… how long are all of you staying?" Phoenix asked the four New Yorkers.

Ali answered, "Well Kelly and I are allowed to stay until, like, August first, but we have to come home once a week to 'check in.' The littlins are going home after the party."

(A/N: Haha, I love the word "littlins." It's pronounced little-ins… I may also use youngins… pronounced young-ins… yees, that is all.)

"Okay, that's when all the Brits are leaving too," Phoenix said.

"We're leaving on the first?" Harry asked.

Phoenix nodded. "Yeah, you're kinda out of the loop cause you just got here. My mom arranged this with Mrs. Weasley and Mrs. Granger. You're all going to the Burrow on the first while my mom and I go on vacation somewhere…"

Harry smiled. "Brilliant."

Phoenix looked up at the sky. "You know what… I think that I'm going to run an errand," she said still looking up. Then she redirected her gaze to the Bosworth twins. "You guys do mind, do you?"

Kelly nodded her head slightly understanding the request. "No, we don't mind. Go right ahead."

After getting Kelly's permission, Phoenix Disapparated.

"Uh… where'd she go?" Ron asked.

"To run an errand. Duh," Kelly said. Ali sighed, "We'll tell you when we get inside."

"Oh, so the accursed Weasley twins are allowed inside the posh Bosworth household?" Fred said smiling.

"Well, Mom doesn't really care if you come in…" Kelly said.

"Unless you try to destroy the house again…" Ali added.

Kelly nodded. "Or give us something to wreck havoc… and Dad just… just…"

"Hates them with a passion," Alex finished.

"Well, Dad isn't home right now," Kelly retorted as she led them into the family room. They all sat down on the couches around the fireplace.

"Okay, so now we can tell you… You all know about Will, right?" Ali asked.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione shook their heads. At the Americans' shocked expressions, Hermione said, "Well… we've heard his name before…"

"Wow… it seems impossible that people don't know who Will is – was…" Kelly trailed sadly.

"Well, Will is… was my older brother," Sam said.

"He was like our brother," Kelly said.

"Yeah, we knew him since, like, we were born," Ali added.

Sam continued, "So Will was a year older than me… would be a seventh year this year…"

"He was Phoe's boyfriend. They were very close. The two met through us," Kelly continued.

"He was a nice guy," Fred admitted when Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked at him.

"So what happened to him?" Hermione asked.

"He died," Alex said after a quiet moment.

"More like he was killed," Kelly hissed.

"I knew that he was killed," Ginny said, "but how did it happen?"

"Well, it was the End of the Quidditch Season dance…" Kelly began.

"The Phoenicians clobbered the Dragonics!" Ali said mockingly to Kelly and Sam.

"That's no fair! I bet Will let Phoenix win!" Kelly argued.

"Phoenix, Ali, and I are all Phoenicians. Will, Kelly, and Sam's house was the Dragonics," Alex explained. "Phoenix and Will were the Seekers, and it was such a close match. Luckily for us, Phoenix caught the Snitch."

Kelly continued her story, "Will and Phoenix both have some crazy ass Divination skills. They believed that Will was going to die soon so they left the party."

"A few minutes after they left, we heard a scream so Ami, Ashanti, Kelly, and I ran to the room where it came from." Ali sighed. "Will was dead… and we don't exactly know how, but Phoenix said You-Know-Who killed him because Will wouldn't let him kill Phoenix… or something like that…"

"We don't think that Phoe was telling us everything either…" Kelly trailed with a slightly sour note.

"So the point to this whole long story is that Phoenix is visiting Will's grave," Sam finished.

"Wait, what isn't Phoenix telling you?" Ginny asked curiously.

"Well, we don't know what she isn't telling us because she isn't telling us," Sam said.

"We do have general blank areas though. For example, we don't know, like, anything about her family except that Elly's her mom," Ali said.

"Or why the hell You-Know-Who is intent to kill her," Kelly added.

"And there's probably a ton more, but like Sam said, we don't know about them," the Bosworth twins said together.

"Ewwies!" Kelly exclaimed. "I hate when we talk together like that!"

Then the group started to talk about other things, like life in general. They compared schools and schedules. But then Fred stood up. "I'll be back in a little bit," he said as he walked towards the front door.

"You know, Fred, she gets all moody," Kelly warned.

"I know," He said as he left.

Kelly looked at Ali and said, "Bet you five bucks that he ain't gonna live to tell the tale."

The two twins shook on it. "So anyway, Ron, you asked about Quadpot?"

A/N: Well wasn't that funn? Haha, no. Or maybe yes... Well the point is that it'll get better towards Harry's birthday... Yes, I've already written that much... just not typed it... ducks and covers DON'T HIT ME! Ok, so I hope y'all enjoyed. Pleez review. Thanx