(A/N: I must be suicidal. Posting another chapter almost right after the last one. It's 1 am. I have classes tomorrow. Well, screw my classes! I got a review that made me smile and feel like writing another chapter. Anyway, I somehow STILL do not own Harry Potter or any other book or song I may mention in this chapter. I am just a poooooor college student who lives off of ramen and mountain dew. Also, I forgot to mention this but this story takes place in the present day. I would have it in the early nineties like it is supposed to be but I wasn't even born until '93 or Harry's third year soooo yeah. I wouldn't know much about that time. Oh and did anyone notice how I put Kayla in the same room Harry's in in the Prisoner of Azkaban? Dang, I'm a nerd ^^")

Chapter 4: Nerds of a Feather Flock Together

It's been a couple of months and I was running short on ideas for songs to sing. I mean, I've already done pretty much every notable song by Journey, all of the songs from Lady Gaga's Born This Way album, and several other songs. I was stumped. Luckily for me, there was a cd store next door to the Leaky Cauldron so I decided to go there and listen to some of the newer stuff and maybe get some sheet music so I could try them. Oh, I forgot to mention this but I have actually started getting paid because business has gone up since I started performing. My "muggle music" was quite popular. This still confuses me because Joey always said I sounded like a donkey having its knees smashed. Of course, I knew better than to actually believe him, but his words didn't help my self-esteem either. Don't think about them, I chastised myself.

Back to my mission for new music, I put on my new sweater over my Linkin Park shirt and put on my worn out black skinny jeans and my converse. It is cold in London. Well to ME, I lived in Austin most of my life and by this time over there I would be wearing tank tops and shorts to my heart's content. Making sure I had some non-magical money (I don't like saying muggle, it makes me feel racist or something), I set off for the music store with a quick "see you" to Tom as I passed by the bar. As I walked out of the grungy pub, I looked up and down the street because I hadn't really been out in the non-magical world in a while. I looked across the street and gasped.

There was a Barnes& Noble's. I completely forgot about my mission at hand and, barely watching to see if any cars were passing, ran straight into that store. I was in heaven! Sure I had my Kindle, but I had long since read all of the books on there several times and the internet doesn't work around magic so I couldn't get any new ones. I rushed over to the 'teens' section and saw a cover that caught my eye.

"Twilight, huh?" I read the back and decided to start reading it. About half way through it, I couldn't control myself any longer. I just burst out laughing. A girl around my age with bushy brown hair who happened to be passing by looked at me questioningly.

"The- the writing- is SO bad! The characters have virtually no personality and the plot is weak!" I explained giggling at how horrible the book was. The girl held out her hand to see what book I was reading and looked at the title. Then she started giggling too.

"Twilight really is awful, isn't it?" She snickered out.

That was all it took. For a while we kept discussing how bad Twilight was, then we moved on to other books we read, and how much fun reading is. It was really fun talking to someone my age for the first time in too long. Eventually our talking turned toward the past.

"What's your name by the way? I'm Hermione Granger. Also, where are you from, you have an interesting accent?" Hermione asked.

"My name's Kayla Sm- I mean-Weasley, and I am from Austin, Texas." I replied stumbling over my last name almost saying Smith out of habit.

"Really? I've read all about it for a project in school. Is it really "weird"?" she asked curiously.

"Weird doesn't even begin to describe it." I say, remembering an eventful drive down the infamous sixth street in which I saw a male college student in a female hula costume, a hobo talking to a tree, and several other things I wished to unsee.

Hermione giggled and then looked at her watch, "Holy Crickett! I was supposed to meet my parents at the burger place next door 15 minutes ago!"

So we walked out of the store together and when she saw me about to cross the street for the Leaky Cauldron she stopped me.

"You can see it?" she asked very quietly.

"Yes." I said confused because she could. Non-magical people couldn't-

"You're a witch too?" I asked excitedly though still quiet.

"Yes! I found out on my birthday last September. Are you starting at Hogwarts this year as well?" Hermione questioned in one breath.

"Yep, I guess I will see ya there!" I reply and head across the street with a smile on my face. I finally have a friend.

As I walked into the pub Tom greeted me and then asked, "So how was the music shopping?"

"Crud!" I yelped and ran back out and went to the music store.