Together

Harry looked around before spotting the London Mall. Grinning, he went inside, his money in his pocket. He looked around as he walked through the mall before finally spotting the store he was looking for: Hot Topic.

Music blared. It was metal that Harry identified as Atreyu. The walls were black with posters showing what shirts looked like all over the place. There were cds set up against the far wall and clothes everywhere. There was only a few people there not counting the people that worked there.

A girl with blonde hair, highlighted with purple, and a variety of piercings walked over. She had on a black t-shirt with a striped pink and black long sleeved shirt under it. She had on baggy black pants with chains and white Vans with skulls.

“Need any help?” the girl asked.

“Um, yeah. I’m wanting a whole new wardrobe and I have no style whatsoever. Can you help?” Harry asked nervously.

The girl grinned and held out her hand. “I’m Emily, your new wardrobe specialist.”

Harry chuckled and shook her hand. “I’m Harry.”

For the next half hour he was led all throughout the small store and soon had five shirts, four pairs of pants, and three pairs of shoes. Emily rung it all up and handed the bagged clothes to him, which was pretty heavy.

“Hey Emily? Do you know a place where I can get my ears, nose, and tongue pierced?” Harry asked, trying to hold his heavy bags up.

Emily pulled him to the entrance of the store. Looking around, she finally pointed to a store near the foot court. It was called Abby’s Tattoos and Piercings.

“There you go. They do everything,” Emily said.

Harry ran his hands through his hair, revealing his scar. Emily stared in shock.

“What?” Harry asked.

“Your Harry Potter!” she nearly shouted.

“Sh! I didn’t know you were a witch,” he whispered.

“Yeah. I’m going to Hogwarts this year. I’m from the United States. North Carolina to be exact. We’ve heard of you even from there,” Emily whispered back.

“See you there then,” Harry said before leaving.

He waved goodbye at her and went to Abby’s Tattoos and Piercings.

Entering the store he saw a counter with a woman who looked to be about twenty-five standing there looking at a magazine.

“Hello?” Harry asked nervously.

The girl looked up and smiled. She had brown eyes and a warm smile. Her lips were red and her skin and hair white. She was an albino. She had on a red and black striped tank top. She walked around the counter and he found she had on blue jeans and red flip-flops.

“Hey. I’m Abby and welcome to my shop! Whatcha need?” she asked.

“I want three piercings in each of my ears, my nose pierced, and my tongue pierced. I also want a tattoo,” Harry said.

“Sure. Lets get those piercings first then we can get on to the tattoo,” she said before pointing at a display case on the counter.

“Pick out the studs you want while I go get the gun and stuff,” Abby said, then walked into a back room.

A couple minutes later Abby was back and Harry had picked out what he wanted. He picked out diamond studs for all of the holes in his ears and for his nose, he picked out a little silver nose stud. His tongue would be pierced with a silver bar.

Twenty minutes later his ears, nose, and tongue were pierced. Harry was near tears because of the pain in his tongue. His tongue hurt the worst of all but he knew he could heal it as soon as he got back to the Dursleys. But now, it was time for the tattoo.

“So, you know what tattoo you want or do you want me to show you a book of tattoos to choose from?” Abby asked, reaching for the tattoo book on the counter.

Harry reached into his pocket and pulled out a drawing he drew during his time at Slytherin Manor. It was a large snake, a basilisk, wrapped around a beautiful sword. It looked life-like and Abby was surprised at the talent the boy possessed in drawing.

“Where do you want it?” Abby asked, holding in front of her face to examine it.

Harry pulled off his shirt and pointed at his spine. Abby nodded and got right to work. Some time later the tattoo was done and Abby’s hand was sore. She brought out a mirror and showed Harry his tattoo.

“Wow. It’s amazing,” Harry said as he stared at his back in the mirror.

“You drew it,” Abby said before putting her tools up. “It will be sore for a while but don’t worry about it. By the looks of it you’ll be sore for a while.”

Harry chuckled.

After paying for everything, Harry left the mall and headed straight for the Dursleys, only to find Dumbledore and a few members of the order there. Seeing as they hadn’t seen him yet, Harry shrunk the bags and put them in his pocket. Then he put a glamour on his piercings. He walked up to Dumbledore, Molly, Tonks, and Moody.

“Hey. What’s up this time?” Harry asked cheerfully.

“There you are Harry!” Tonks said.

Molly ran to him and gave him a big hug, not noticing that he stiffened.

“It’s all right Mrs. Weasley. Really,” Harry managed to choke out. “Can’t breath!”

“Oh, right dearie,” she said and let him go.

Dumbledore sighed. “Where did you go this time Harry?”

“London. Why?” Harry asked.

“Nothing,” Dumbledore said, his usual twinkle in his eyes. “We best be going now. See you at Hogwarts Harry. And don’t leave anymore. I’m sure you went to London to go get your stuff so no need for that now. Goodbye.”

“Bye everybody,” Harry said.

Once everybody apparated away, he went into the house. The Dursleys still weren’t back and it was around five. Harry went upstairs to his bedroom and started to replace his old wardrobe with his new one.

The next day Harry had to get up early to do some last minute packing. He had to get his stuff from beneath the loose floorboards under his bed and had to pack quills and parchment for the upcoming year. Luckily, he was packed and ready to go by nine and therefore arrived there fairly early.

His uncle Vernon drove him there and didn’t say a word to him. There wasn’t even a goodbye seeing as that was the last time he would ever be seeing Harry. But Harry didn’t mind and didn’t say a word to his uncle. He just went straight through the barrier to Platform 9 ¾.

There were only a few people there, the Weasleys excluded. The Malfoys were there though and Draco was already boarding the train. Just the person Harry wanted to see. Really.

Harry followed Draco onto the train. Once on there Harry watched as Draco walked into a middle compartment and followed him.

“Draco,” Harry called.

Said blonde turned around and faced his long time rival. “What do you want Potter?” He sneered.

“I want to say I’m sorry,” Harry said, looking truly sincere.

“Sorry? Sorry for what?”

Harry took a deep breath before continuing. “I want to say I’m sorry for rejecting your offer of friendship in first year. I should have known Weasley only wanted to befriend me for my fame. So how about we start over?” Harry asked.

They stood there in silence for several minutes. More people started to come before Draco finally held out his hand.

“I’m Draco Malfoy. And you are?” Draco said with a small smile.

“Harry, Harry Potter,” Harry said shaking Draco’s hand.

“The Harry Potter!” Draco gasped out, acting shocked.

Harry grinned. “The one and only!”

The two laughed and went into their compartment. They put their trunks up. For the rest of the wait they talked about various things; Quidditch, classes, etc.

“So, what’s up with the new look?” Draco asked. “Your… sexy.”

Harry blushed. “I went on a little shopping spree.”

“Well, I like it. Those clothes look delicious on you though I think I’d rather see you without them,” Draco said, eyeing his new friend hungrily.

“Sorry, I’m taken,” Harry said, grinning.

“Damn it. Should have gotten to you sooner,” Draco said, laughing.

Harry just grinned.

Soon it was eleven and Weasley and Granger were looking for him. This would be one interesting train ride when the couple found their missing ‘friend’.

A/N: It’s not on hold anymore! I got writers block on my other story so decided to go ahead and write the others too. The chapter’s short, I know, and not necessarily that funny but I think it’s a pretty good story. Besides, right now I probably couldn’t write anything funny if I tried; I had a bad day today. Well, hope you liked it. Like it, love it, hate it? Plz review!