I rolled out of bed, yelping slightly as my feet touched the cold wood floor. I reached for my slippers and put them on, then made my way down the hall to the bathroom. After brushing my teeth, doing my hair, and putting my contacts in, I stopped and studied myself in the mirror. A girl of fourteen stared back at me, her brown hair golden from the light hitting her fading dark blonde highlights. I sighed. I wasn't ugly, but I was plain. Several of my friends had called me pretty, and my best guy friend said I was hot, but you know how teenage girls are. The only thing I liked about my appearance was my eyes, my left one blue and my right bright green.

I left the bathroom and went back to my room, then turned and walked into my closet. Grabbing a pair of jeans and the black t-shirt with my dads old band logo on it, I quickly got dressed and went downstairs to get food.

I opened the fridge, grabbed a bagel, spread cream cheese on it, then ran back to my room. Retrieving the phone from the spot on the floor where I had last thrown it, I dialed the number of a friend.

"Hello?"

"Alex, I'm bored. Come over."

"Be there soon."

"Yay! Bye!"

I hung up the phone and turned on the T.V., flipping through the channels until I found something I liked. Stopping on a channel that was showing the third Harry Potter movie, I preceded to get comfy, ending up laying across my bed on my back, with my head hanging upside down over the edge.

I heard the front door open, and knew that Alex was here.

"Jade Elizabeth Tanner, where are you?" I heard her call.

"Up here, Alexis May Maxwell!" I yelled back, using her full name as well.

"Hey hey!" She said, walking into my room and plopping down on the bed beside me.

"No wonder your so stupid," she commented, looking down at me. "hanging from your bed like that."

"Yeah yeah." I replied. "Now shut up, I'm watching a movie."

She scowled playfully at me, but did as I so, er, nicely, asked. Once she realized what movie it was, she started staring as intently at the screen as I was.

"Damn, he's so fine!" Alex exclaimed once commercials came on.

"Nah, ya think?" I asked sarcastically, laughing at myself.

Then an add for a contest sponsored by the television station came on, and we both listened with interset. It was a contest that would open in two days, on Monday, and close in two weeks. All contestants must send their name, age, address and phone number to the station, and the winner would be randomly chosen. That person would then get and all expense paid round trip to England for three weeks. The trip included a tour to some of the locations where the Harry Potter movies were filmed.

"We should enter!" We both shouted as the add ended.

"Wouldn't that be so awesome if one of us won?" I said excitedly.

"Yeah!" She replied.

"Too bad that, like, fifty million people are gonna enter," I said, using one of my favorite exaggerations.

"Yeah." She agreed sadly. Neither one of us had ever won anything, and we both knew that we didnt have very good chances of winning anyway.

"Still though, wouldnt it be cool to go there? I mean, like what if you went and saw Daniel Radcliffe?" Alex fantasized out loud.

"Yeah. Too bad that wont happen to us until Hell freezes over." I stated simply.

She nodded her head in agreement, and we were both silent for awhile, off in our own worlds of fantasy and disappointment.