About friends

And that is how two totally different people wound up living together. Time passed, and they grew really close really fast. Friendship bloomed, and they got inseparable. Severus got to know Liz, and for the first time in his life he feels that the person he's close to doesn't want to control and manipulate him.

Liz has thick and long almost white hair. Her eyes are soft brown and they lit up when she smiles or laughes. Severus likes Liz' smiles. In her wardrobe you will find mostly lighter colour clothes- pale blues, pinks, yellows and most of the times they're white. She has friendly personality, but she doesn't like when strangers speak to her first. She is most comfortable when she is among her friends, and she doesn't like to be alone. Her greatest fear is to being left alone.

She likes music, and plays every instrument there is. Ok, not all of them, but some. In their 'band' Liz plays bass guitar. She likes how it sounds. They practice in one of Liz's friends garage. The day when Severus' first moved in Liz's apartment, she already dragged him with her to their little hideout. And even though Severus doesn't play any instrument (actually he plays violin, but nobody has to know that), he is always there when they practice, to give some tips how to sound better and what he thought about their songs and rhythm, and so on.

With Liz's friends, Severus fit in their group rather well, and at last he feels like a normal person in a world with friends and social life. It all felt surreal in the beginning.

So, let's talk about Liz's (and now also Severus') friends. Well…

There is a beautiful Alex. Severus has to admit that he really is beautiful, but maybe a little too much so. He has a lean muscular body, blond not too long hair and baby blue eyes. His skin is tanned and clear, and he has a very good taste in clothes. He spends more time in front of the mirror in one day than Severus does in one year altogether.

So Alex is an eye candy. And he is intelligent too.

But - and there is always a 'but' - he has a catch to him. Alex has a nasty personality. And by nasty I mean rotten to the bones. He thinks too highly of himself and very little of the people surrounding him. Severus is reminded of a certain someone when he watches Alex interact with people around him. He is patronizing, calls everyone a lowlife scum, and he gets in fights more often than not. Severus usually doesn't like people like that, but because Alex is in their little group, he has to endure it.

And it helps that Alex never says anything towards his pals. He kind of respects them, and cares for them in his own odd way. So Severus personally has no problems with him.

He even likes to have conversations with Alex, play chess, and make music with him, well Alex makes music - with a guitar or a piano, he plays both-, and Severus just observes, and tells his opinion, which for some reason means a lot to the other.

Alex is also a very touchy feely person. Well mostly only towards Severus. He likes to sit on Severus' lap, play with his hair, hug him from behind, and hold his hand when they walk from the garage to pub or wherever. At first Severus found it very uncomfortable with all the touching, but somehow on the way he got used to it.

Liz told him once that Alex had a crush on him. Yes, well, Severus already knew that himself, he just never commented on it. He really didn't want a relationship with some kind of a Malfoy wannabe. So he kept his mouth shut and never let anything go further than innocent touching.

Then there is noisy Mike. Well his nickname says it all, doesn't it? If Mike, or Noisy like everybody likes to call him, is in the room, there is never a silence. He has a lot to complain about, a lot to be happy about, lot to cry about... But he is amazing on a guitar, a real mastermind, and he knows it, and he never lets anybody to forget it.

He has boyish features, a small frame, and a dark brown hair with a red glow to it. He mostly wears kind of a punk rock style clothes- t-shirts, skinny jeans, worn sneakers... He has tattoos all over his arms and neck, and probably on his back and front, but nobody can be sure about it because he never takes off his shirt in front of anybody. Noisy is the owner of the garage they hang out in. Well his parents own a house, and the garage is attached to the said house.

Severus likes Mikes parents. They are old people, and Noisy is embarrassed of them. Severus spends a lot of time in their home, eating cookies 'mom' makes, and talking politics with 'dad'. Everybody calls them mom and dad. It's a tradition of sorts.

Noisy hooks them up with gigs and kind of manage their 'band', which didn't have a singer until recently…

There is a lot to say about the next one. (At least in Severus' opinion.) He plays drums on their 'band', and writes lyrics to the songs no one is singing (yet). The drummer is a really silent guy. He opens his mouth only- and ONLY then when there is something REALLY important to say. His name is Trevor. And his lack of need to talk all the time is something Severus really admires. Trevor observes silently, and never betrays anything about himself. Ok. There was that one time when Noisy got him really pissed, and Trevor said something that made everybody want to know a little more about him.

Namely the drummer has a crush on someone. Nobody knows who, but everybody knows that it is someone in their small group of friends. The funniest thing about Trevor's secret crush is that Trevor already has has a girlfriend. Nobody likes her, but she is real and there. All the time! So they don't talk about it. Even though everybody is dying to find out.

Severus also tries not to think about it, the crush and the girlfriend both, because he kind of has a secret crush of his own (so secret that even Liz doesn't know about it)...

Trevor looks kind of sad all the time. But when he is in the 'zone' behind the drums, his eyes start to shine. He loves what he does, and that is also something Severus admires about him.

Trevor's hair is black or really dark brown, but relatively short and cut to mohawk. He likes to wear mostly darker colors in clothing. Trevor also owns a light blue colour 1964 Ford Mustang, with what they sometimes go on a road trips.

The matter about Trevors girlfriend… Well… She is a… Hmm… She is pretty, a little chubby maybe. She loves to wear a lot of make-up, mini skirts, shirts that show her belly and high heels. She has a high pitched voice, and most of the time it is annoying as hell. When asked, Trevor tells that they have been together for a long time, and that he owes her a lot. He can't just get up and leave her. The girl knows it, and uses it against him. She is bitchy and really jealous. She doesn't like Trevor hanging out with their band, and tries always to be in their practices. At least she has long working hours, so they try to set the practice dates according to her schedule. You know, just to get some peace and quiet from her. It truly is bad to talk that way about another human being, but they all are sure that she is THE Devil herself so they go to sleep with mostly clean conscience.

That's about it of their small group. There are a few more guys who come and go- Jack, Luke, Sebastian… But they are not really special. To Severus at least.

Severus likes to hang out with his friends, and treads the end of the summer every year. Most his free time is spent in Noisy's garage, going to pubs and getting drunk, dancing to an early hours in the morning or… hmm… making out with random strangers? He also enjoys to work out in a gym, and likes to jog in the mornings. He is not the scrawny kid he was in Hogwarts when he went to school there. He has broad shoulders, huge arms, and even a six-pack.

The oddest thing about this world is that people find him attractive. Who knows, maybe even handsome? He wears only muggle clothes, of course- jeans or black trousers, t-shirts, leather jackets, boots or sneakers, hoodies, and mostly he wears his hair in low ponytail, which is longer too than he lets it grow at school. It is almost to his middle back and of course black as a night sky.

One time he thought to cut it short but Liz almost murdered him for even thinking about it.

In summers he feels like he has a life, and a pretty good one for that matter. He loves it!