IMPORTANT Author's Note: I'M NOT DEAD! I was on vacation in VA visiting family. Teehee. Anywho, I have Band Camp for a week coming up soon, so I won't be able to update then either. Teehee.
Since Vasya is asleep (the lazy bum)….BABY PICTURES!
Let's see. This first one is of sweet little Vasya with cake in his precious hair for his first birthday. He was very into it. He face planted Teehee. Then there's the one where he…
Vasya: -sudden unexpected grand entrence- What are you doing? -sees baby pictures…-…..-gets horrified look- SURREAL!
-angelic look- Yes?
Vasya: Have I ever told you I hate you?
Yes. You just did. But I know you love me, Vasya. -beams and hugs Vasya-
Vasya: NO! LET GO OF ME YOU EVIL CONIVING…-trails off-
Disclaimer: read the previous ones. I don't feel like writing one. Except….I don't own the excerpt from "Speak for Myself" by Aly & AJ. (Gotta love that song. Teehee)
Chapter Nine
"Who are you and what have you done with my brother?"
"Your brother?" everyone in the room shouted, except for the girl, Draco, and Blaise. Draco was staring at his apparent sister and vice versa, and Blaise burst out laughing.
"I should have known," Blaise said shaking his head. "Now I remember the brat that was always tailing us. I can't believe I didn't recognize you, Bay." Blaise laughed, as he walked up to her and hugged her. Her eyes flashed in annoyance.
"How many times do I have to pound it into you, Blaise? Dray is the only one who can call me that. It's Bailey to you," Bailey laughed.
"Draco, who is she? She's lying, right? She's not your sister; you're an only child. Everyone knows that," Hermione said as she came up behind Draco with Kota in her arms.
"I know Hermione, but she's four years younger than me. No one met her, she doesn't go to Hogwarts, and the Slytherin way is that the less people that know about someone you care about, the safer they'll be," Draco sighed as he walked over to Bailey and hugged her. "Believe it or not, I missed you, kid." Draco said.
"I probably could have gone another year without you," Bailey said smirking. "I didn't have a choice though."
Draco's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "What do you mean you didn't have a choice? What's happened?"
"Daddy dearest is in Azkaban and mother has disappeared on me. I woke one morning to find a letter saying that she was never coming back because she was tired of all the deatheater stuff dad involved her in. She wanted an escape, and she got it. Since Dad isn't coming back, hopefully anyway, you and I got everything. Then one of the ministry officials found out I was all alone in the house, and so they said I had one month to find you before they'd put me in a foster home. That's why I'm here. I don't have a choice," Bailey said with annoyance written across her face. "Some caring family I have," she continued rolling her eyes.
"Poor Bailey all alone; I knew you wouldn't come here of your own free will," Draco said laughing. Bailey glared.
"Of course I wouldn't! Why would I want to live with the likes of you anyway?" Bailey spat, her tone dripping with anger. Her eyes however, showed her true intentions. "I can stay with you, right? It's only for two more summers," she said looking up at him uncertainly.
"If you try to leave, you'll be bound and gagged and locked in the basement," Draco said laughing as he hugged her again. He then went around to the various members of the party (starting with Hermione of course) and introduced her to everyone, which was good, because they were starting to feel left out.
After a while, everyone slowly filtered out of the party and left Draco and the rest of his band alone with Bailey. They spent hours catching up, and after a while they got bored. Draco, Blaise, and Riley finally started playing some of their songs. They were surprised when Bailey started singing to "This is a Call" and Draco didn't even act surprised. Draco couldn't stand someone taking over songs if he wrote them, which is why they were so surprised. Blaise wisely waited until the end of the song to say anything, instead of interrupting them.
"How do you know that song, Bay?" Blaise asked curiously. "We've only performed it once. That shouldn't have been enough for it to suddenly become famous enough for you to hear it, especially when it wasn't recorded!"
Bailey and Draco looked at each other, before both burst out laughing. Bailey was laughing too hard to scold Blaise about calling her Bay.
"I helped Draco write the song!" Bailey said between her tears of laughter. Everyone stared at her, shocked.
"It's true Blaise," Draco said as his laughter began to die down. "When we performed it in the club a few months ago, I said that someone had helped me write it a few years ago. It was Bailey."
"Okay that explains how she knows the song I guess," Blaise said slowly, "But why does her singing voice sound so familiar? I haven't heard her voice in ages, and I've never heard her sing until now. Yet it sounds so bloody familiar!" Blaise said looking frustrated.
Bailey quickly grabbed Riley's guitar and without warning, she started playing. They were further surprised when she started singing, stunning all three boys into just how familiar her voice was after all those years.
Do you see me
Do you care
You talk about me
Like I'm not there
Don't get a word in
When you're around
I bet you don't know
What I'm about
Draco had a feeling he knew where that was coming from. When they were kids, he and Blaise had ignored her. Their parents had often talked about her when she was in the room, and completely ignored her. Draco had usually only talked to her if Blaise wasn't there.
'Cause I will, I will
Speak for myself
What you see
Isn't all I am
I need a place to stand
I will, I will speak for myself
There's so much you're missing
If you cared you'd listen
You suffocate me
You drown me out
I'm tired of waiting
Without a doubt
I feel I'm fading
I flicker out
My heart is screaming
Without a sound
It was times when his sister talked like that that really scared him. He was still used to the kid with the fiery spirit he loved so much, not the girl in front of him who's eyes now looked like they'd seen too much. Had she really changed that much in the years since he'd last seen her?
'Cause I will, I will
Speak for myself
What you see
Isn't all I am
I need a place to stand
I will, I will speak for myself
There's so much you're missing
If you cared you'd listen
I'm not sorry for who I am
Take it or leave it
It's my time to take a stand
Throw it or keep it
Know that I don't need to understand
Won't say it again
That was definatly his sister; take it or leave it. When they were growing up, he remembered the kids down the street teasing her. Draco always came to her rescue, but he now realized how little she had needed it. She'd never paid any attention to those kids. It had never bothered her. If it annoyed her, she'd give them a look that made them stop in their tracks.
(I will)
(I will)
(I will)
(I will)
You know I will
'Cause I will, I will
Speak for myself
What you see
Isn't all I am
I need a place to stand
I will, you know will
I will speak for myself
There's so much you're missing
If you cared you'd listen
If you cared you'd listen
I will, I will
Speak for myself
There was silence for a moment, before Blaise couldn't take it any longer. Riley was too stunned to say anything, and Draco was obviously too wrapped up in thinking about how his baby sister could have changed so much to notice what Blaise had, so Blaise took charge. "How the hell is that even possible?" He asked shaking his head. "You sound exactly like…" Blaise traveled off.
Author's Note: I can't remember. Did I say eight years in the previous chapter? If I did, whoops. DIDN'T MEAN TO! Either way, it's 4 instead of 8 now. Bailey is 16 (she's a 6th year), Draco and the gang is 20. Big whoop-de-do. . .
Hmmm...I wonder who Bailey sounds like. haha... I'd think it's obvious, but whatever.
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