I sighed as Alex pulled me by the arm down the street to her house, just a few blocks from mine. It had been three weeks since we saw the contest add, a week and a half since we entered. And now we were headed to Alex's house to watch the Harry Potter movie marathon and afterwards, the winner's name would be announced.

When we got there, we immediately headed to the kitchen, raided the fridge, and filled bowls with chips, popcorn, and candy. Taking our feast to her living room, Alex and I plopped on the couch and opened the root beers we had grabbed. I then went to the closet and grabbed blankets, helping myself as if I lived there. Heck, I had known her long enough. I threw one of the blankets over her head, causing her to spill popcorn all over herself, then went back to the couch.

"Gee, thanks." She muttered as she picked the popcorn off of her shirt and put it back in the bowl.

"Eww, I don't wanna eat that now! It has your cooties all over it!" I exclaimed, acting like the little kid that I was at heart.

She pummeled me with a pillow, and me being the graceful person I am, fell off the couch and onto to floor. As Alex sat there laughing at me, I crawled around behind the couch, waiting for her to stop laughing and figure out that I was gone.

"Jade? Where'd ya go?"

I stood and flung myself over the back of the couch. This time, not only popcorn went flying. Everything went everywhere, including Alex.

"Damn you, Jade!"

It was madness. Alex was half on the floor, half on the coffee table, and my legs were draped across the back of the couch, the rest of me laying on the cushions of the couch that you sit on. Both of us were in hysterics, laughing so hard we couldn't breathe, tears rolling down our faces.

Once we recovered from our laugh attack and got the mess I made cleaned up, we resumed our positions on the couch. Alex was sitting like a normal person. I was, once again, upside down, my knees bent over the back of the couch, my back on the cushions, and my head hanging off of the edge. Luckily, the coffee table was low, so I could still see the T.V.

Several hours later, with fifteen minutes to go until midnight, Alex was asleep and needed to be woken up. Ooh fun stuff, eh?

I went into the kitchen and got a napkin, and stuck it under the faucet. I ran the cold water, rung out the napkin, and twisted one corner into a point. After getting back on the couch the way I was before, I took the napkin and stuck carefully in her ear, wiggling it around until she awoke with a jump. When she did, I quickly threw the napkin behind the couch.

She looked around, glaring at me in an accusatory fashion.

"What?"

" Why'd you stick something in my ear?" Alex asked. She looked mad.

"I didn't, but whatever it was must've been fate, because it's almost midnight, and soon they'll announce the winner." I replied innocently.

"Why do you care? You didn't even want to enter in the first place." She retorted.

"But you did." I said with a smirk.

She didn't say anything, but I knew she didn't believe me. Oh well.

What she HAD said was true. I hadn't wanted to enter the contest, knowing that I wouldn't win anyway, so why trouble myself with the grief, right?

Wrong.

"Okay, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for...the winner of a 3 week vacation to England is..."

"Please, please, please,"Alex chanted beside me. I righted myself, so the picture on the screen was no longer upside down.

"...Jade Tanner!"

I couldn't believe my ears. I never won anything. Ever. Apparently, Alex couldn't believe it either.

"Jade, if your watching, be ready, our operators are calling you now."

Sure enough, the Harry Potter theme rang through the air as I struggled to get the cell out of my pocket.

"Hello?"

"Is this Jade Tanner?"

"It is."

"Congratulations!" The man shouted on my ear and on T.V. "You've just one an all expense paid trip to England!"

"Oh my god!" I shouted. I had just seen him pull my name out of the jar, but hearing him tell me confirmed that I had one, and I was ecstatic.

Alex and I danced in circles as the man laughed, obviously realizing what was happening on my end of the phone.

"Jade, you must come down to the station tomorrow to claim your prize, or else another name will be drawn. Can we count on you to be there?"

"You sure can." I confirmed, excitement lacing my words.

I then hung up the phone, and we resumed our dance, screaming, holding hands, jumping up and down, and spinning in circles, food flying everywhere for the third time.

Once we got over the initial shock (after an hour or so), Alex and I cleaned up, and traveled up the stairs to her room where our sleeping bags and pillows were already on the floor. We put our pajamas on and crawled into our bags, both of us too excited to speak or sleep. Eventually though, we both drifted off, my head filled with dreams of double decker buses and cute British guys.