// THIS IS AN OLD CHAPTER. THE NEW CHAPTERS ARE IN VOLUME 2. YOU CAN READ THESE CHAPTERS IF YOU WANT SOME INSIGHT ON WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN LATER BUT SOME EVENTS CAN BE DIFFERENT BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW CHAPTERS.
The year is finally over, I thought I could have peace after the capture of Black, it was without counting on the fact I'm a teenager and all the sentimental problems that come with it. If only my friends were old enough to come with me around the bars and get drunk.
The Quidditch Cup was won by Gryffindor in the end, the material advantage was far too great for the other teams, even though they no longer had Harry as a seeker for their last match, they had too many points ahead, the cup was already theirs.
We almost lost the Cup of the Four Houses this year. Ravenclaw was behind us by just twenty points. Dumbledore gave me 150 points at the end for capturing Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew. No one objected to these extra points as we had won long before I got them anyway.
Once back in London, I explain the situation regarding the arranged marriage with Daphne to my mother.
"Well, if you tell me she's going to convince her father to cancel everything, I believe you. All that's left is to wait for an official document saying everything is well finished."
I don't know what I'm going to do on this vacation yet. The only thing I absolutely have to do is collect the Resurrection Stone from what is left of the Gaunt family house. I also need to finish the teleportation door prototype, for MACUSA before I see what other projects may interest them, I plan to take as much money from them as possible as long as they are feeling generous.
I think I will start by going to get myself some new clothes, I have grown a lot since my thirteenth birthday and I am now 1m75, I must be in the tallest of my age with already well-defined musculature. All the clothes I left in my closet in London are no longer my size, and I thought of taking a trip to New York to, one, find something to get dressed, two, a drink away from my parents. I go through the chimney and arrive directly at our house in Mystic Falls. I leave the house to Apparate in New York. I spend the afternoon buying all the clothes I like and store them in my enchanted suitcase.
I bump into a girl who looks like she's 17 with very sexy wavy dark hair handing out fliers for a rave to passing young people, I don't know if it's because I'm looking older, but she accosts me.
"Hey, hi, there's a rave in an old factory on the docks. You should come, it's going to be fun."
"How do you know that interests me?"
"I don't know, you look like a young tourist with lot of money on him." She leans closer and whispers in my ear. "And I love the hotel rooms at the palaces." It doesn't take much more to wake up the monster sleeping in my pants.
She starts to walk away when I come to my senses "Hey, what's your name?"
"Camila, how about you?"
"Sean. See you tonight Camila." she smiles a little and resumes her work.
I have to find myself a fucking hotel room! While looking at the tourist office, one of the best hotels in town is the Equinox, I Apparate into an adjacent alley to reserve their best room which I pay in advance. This is the top floor suite at 1,500$ a night. I even ask that a bottle of champagne be chilled when I get back. I put on one of my new tight black V-shirts and a jean before heading to the rave.
On the flyer, they say I have to go through a trap door that leads into a gallery under the ground, I end up spotting a group of young people wearing fluorescent necklaces and I follow them.
The room is huge, loudspeakers hang from all the pillars in the basement, a bar has been set up with wooden pallets, and the floor is already damp from spilled beers. It reminds me of the kind of party I used to go to before I died.
I spot a guy and a girl painting people with neon paint in a corner of the room.
"What do you want?" The line in front of the guy was the shortest
"Do your best."
He takes electric blue paint, and he starts from my eyes to make tribal symbols on my cheeks.
"Take off your T-shirt." I take it off and let it hang from the back of my pants. "Not bad, there's someone lifting a hell of cast iron in here." He finishes by drawing on my chest and on my sides. Once he's finished, I examine his work, not the best I've seen but still quite good actually.
"Here boy, this is a good job." I hand him a fifty-dollar note.
"Thanks man, that's cool."
I go to get myself a beer at the bar, it really tastes disgusting. Dancing music, girls with more paint than clothes and barely drinkable beer, I really feel like I died yesterday.
Suddenly a girl steals my T-shirt, a tall blonde who looks a bit too energized with a pretty face wearing a sleeveless white t-shirt, mini-skirt and heels. I can see a rather burly dark-haired boy and a short redhead girl laughing as she defiantly shows me the T-shirt.
"If you don't give me that T-shirt back, I'm going to have to punish you."
"And what are you going to do." her scent is intoxicating, the Beast stirs in me, I suddenly feel so hot.
"I can do that first." I drop a wild kiss as my hands move to her hips, slowly starting to descend towards her more than generous butt. As my hand goes over her mini-skirt, I feel a piece of wood sticking out of it, I pull it out and realize it's a wand.
"Are you a witch ?!" She looks distraught and her two friends are no longer laughing.
"Give it back to me!" She snatches the wand from my hands.
"Calm down, I am one too. I study at Hogwarts." She looks at me, all three of them look both surprised and relieved.
"What are you doing so far from England?" The boy in the group takes the lead
"Like you, I'm having fun celebrating the end of the year. I was passing through town and a girl gave me a flyer. My name is Sean Bones by the way."
"Sean Bones, like the magiphone guy."
"In the flesh."
"My name is Samael Dawn, the little redhead is my girlfriend, Kayla and the tease on duty is Lana"
"Are you from Ivelmorny?"
"Yeah, we're going into fourth grade" the tall blonde answers me but wait that means she's fourteen!
"Lana!" Her two friends are watching her because of the blunder she just made
"No worries, I'm cheating too, I used something to look older."
"We took an aging potion so we could enjoy the evening." Lana is having a hard time keeping a secret, we've barely known each other for two minutes and she's already telling me everything about her life.
I decide to spend the evening in their company, Samael and Kayla do not follow me when I go to get beers, but Lana only got one that she makes last as long as possible.
"You don't have to finish it if you don't like it." I make a movement to take the beer from her, but she finishes it all at once and sticks her tongue out at me.
"Wouhouh", she shouts in the room which makes several people next to us turn around before she crushes her lips on mine.
I have to get some fresh air, I'm about to take off the little clothes she's wearing and make love to her right in the middle of the room, the Beast is really unleashed tonight. Samael accompanies me while Kayla asks Lana to accompany her to the portable toilets.
The city air is fresh tonight, it does me a lot of good, it allows me to clear my mind. We find ourselves a wall to go pee with Samael.
"Look Sean, you sound like a nice guy and I wouldn't like you to have misconceptions with Lana. She's not a girl who likes long relationships, she's already changed her boyfriend three times this year and none have lasted more than a month. "
"Let's say, given my rotten love situation, I can't really afford to judge her."
"Love problem?"
"You can say it like that. I had a girlfriend before, then a guy gave her amortentia, after being treated, she told me that she could no longer tell the difference between the love and obsession. And a girl with whom our parents arranged our marriage just told me that she loves me for real. "
"And what did you tell her?"
"That I didn't want to get in relationship with her as long as the marriage was on the agenda."
"You have a sentimental life even more rotten than that of Lana" Samael does not give a damn about me.
"Go on, laugh all you want, if you weren't so nice, I would beat the shit out of you without a problem."
"Oh, do you want us to arm wrestle this?"
"Why not." I spotted an old barrel lying close to us along the wall.
We both get into position. Samael sure of himself goes all out from the kick-off but he can't do much against my supernatural strength. He still has the merit of making me move, ... a little.
People suddenly appear next to us; I didn't hear their footsteps when they approached us!
"So young people, the party is inside though." A man with a biker jacket has just appeared behind Samael's back "
"Come on Ethan, you're going to scare them if you keep going, it will spoil the taste of their blood." A woman with black hair has just put her head on my shoulder.
That's my luck, fucking Vampires. For once I could have a quiet evening, but bloodsucker filth still has to come and spoil my night. Samael is the first to react, he takes his wand out of the front pocket of his pants.
"Solar mortis" A beam of light escapes from his wand. The vampire behind him is instantly burned as the one in mine steps back, shielding her eyes. I don't know this spell, but I really have to learn it.
"Stupefix" my spell paralyzes the vampire standing behind me.
"What the hell! Antonia, Ethan!" A new vampire has just appeared, he sticks out his fangs and then spots our wands. "Hey, calm down, we don't want any problem with the MACUSA, we have a permit to hunt during our evenings, we didn't do anything wrong."
"An authorization?"
"Yes, to prevent muggle massacres from happening in big cities, Congress has put in place hunting permits for vampires. As long as they don't kill excessively and take it out on wizards, MACUSA agents are leaving them alone. It's a win-win situation. " Samael does not take his eyes off the vampire throughout his explanation
"Yes, I am so sorry, if they hurt you, I can give you my blood."
"No, it's okay, we got nothing. We were about to leave anyway." Samael leads me towards the party.
We find Kayla and Lana and we quickly get out of the vampire hunting territory. Now that I am paying attention, the smell of blood is omnipresent in the room. I was so focused on Lana that I didn't notice a thing.
"So, do you have a place to sleep?"
"We were supposed to sleep at a friend house who lives nearby but she canceled at the last minute" Kayla shrugs her shoulders as if she was expecting it from this girl.
"You can sleep at my house. I have the largest suite at the Equinox, there is plenty of room for everyone."
"Why not, I don't want to go looking for a hotel nearby." Samael really doesn't look like he wants to look for a hotel tonight.
"I'll call us a cab."
Once in the taxi it will take us twenty minutes to reach the hotel. Kayla, dead tired, falls asleep on Samael's shoulder. Arrived at the hotel, we take the elevator to the top floor. The receptionist was about to kick us out until he saw the number that was on the key I was holding in my hand. I can understand that seeing a bunch of teenagers covered in fluorescent paint doesn't have to be a sight he sees every day.
My three new friends settle into the couches as I go into the bedroom to collapse like a mass on the king size bed. Too bad for the painting, the cleaning ladies will clean up and I'll leave them a big tip.
I wake up suddenly when I feel cold feet against mine. I open my eyes to see Lana who has just slipped into my bed.
"I'm a little cold in the living room." She sticks to me, buried her head in my chest. "I don't want you to think I do this with all the boys, I know what people say when they see me, but I'm not like that."
"I don't care what people think of you, I'm in a bad position to judge you anyway."
We stay a bit like that until she looks up.
"Can you take me in your arms?" I nod and put an arm around her before falling back to sleep.