Chapter 6- A tale of two cities
It was almost 5:00 in the afternoon and it's been 2 days since Jamie and her father Percy have left Hamburg and crossed the German borders to stay at Belgium first. They slept at a nice, avant-garde hotel in Brussels and they also had a morning excursion around(and took pictures on great monuments and places) before they got into the great European highways again that afternoon. Now they arrived in France some hours ago and now they're heading off to Paris. "How long are we gonna hang out in Paris dad?" Jamie asked while she was sitting on the back, reading a muggle novel about a very young criminal mastermind called Artemis Fowl with a few pillows beside her. Percy was on the driver's seat but with his hands busy tinkering with his digital camera and not on the wheels but were magically controlled smoothly by him. "Maybe around 3 days and after that we're heading to London and that's a long way to go." Percy turned his head to Jamie, "Oh, that's fine. I would love to shop around in Paris and see the Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tow-" Jamie said, until she got sight of a faraway Eiffel Tower, which got her jaw drop. "Oh my gosh, dad it's the Eiffel Tower!!!" Jamie pointed at the famous tower to her dad, who was also so awestruck that he stopped tinkering his digicam for a moment. "Oh yeah...it's the Tour De Eiffel. I used to study about it on my college days as an Architecture student. It was an early example of wrought-iron construction on a giant scale." Percy said.
"Oh my, we're getting near a toll gate, i should better get my hands on the wheels again or else the muggles will be frightened when they see me not holding the wheels and at the same time keeping it under control." he added, Jamie laughed a bit and she put her Artemis Fowl book down, reclined in the back seat and fell asleep.
Jamie woke up from a slightly deep sleep. after she stirred up her senses, she found out that she's in Paris already but they are stuck in a middle of a heavy traffic and a song by Avenged Sevenfold are playing on the car's stereo while her dad was singing along on the chorus. "yawn...Dad, are we in Paris already? and where are we gonna stay?" Jamie asked as she stretched her arms, "Yes hun, and i read a while ago in our Paris guide book, the best place to stay at in Paris for us is Galileo Hotel, which is on the 8th arrondissement-near Champs Elysees. Its' a charming place and i want to see how good the architecture is there." Percy said as they moved slowly along the traffic. They came near Champs Elysees 15 minutes later, crossed into a tony neighborhood and stopped at a sophisticated town-house hotel. "Okay, this is the place we're staying here in Paris." Percy smiled as they unloaded the bags they'll be needing for three days. They entered the very charming French hotel, went into the reception area and got their keys to room 501. "I thought the guy who owns this place was Galileo Galilei, but's it wonderful all the same..." Jamie said as she and her dad are on the elevator with their French bellboy who was carrying their bags. Then they went inside the room and the bellboy left them. "Kinda weird but that bellboy kinda look like your friend Henri, in a very uncanny way." Percy said as he slumped tiredly into a simple but elegant looking, comfy chair. Jamie was sitting on the glass-covered veranda and she was surfing the internet with her blue Mac Book. "But dad, Henri is French. Of course he'll naturally akin them." Jamie said.
for two and a half days they went to the Louvre, some fancy French shopping centres, Notre Dame, Arc De Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower. Percy was a bit of a "cam wh*re" when it comes to taking pictures of famous buildings that he had more pictures of the architectural stuffs than pictures of themselves in them, but you can find out a lot of interesting facts from him when it comes to architecture. "Notre Dame was about to be demolished when Victor Hugo's novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" got famous and that made the people plead not to destroy the cathedral and restore it. And that's how Notre Dame is still here." Percy said as they were wandering around Notre Dame, admiring it's beautiful, Gothic design. They also climbed on the top of Paris' Eiffel Tower later that afternoon, where Jamie felt she is suffering a bit of vertigo but got a hang of it when she saw the spectacular view of Paris. "Whoa, these breathtaking views really take my breath away or perhaps it is the lack of oxygen in this high altitude..." Jamie said in a wickedly witty way as she caught sight of Paris high above the Eiffel Tower. She took a seat on a bench beside her dad, "Dad, im gonna ring in Raimund on my phone and hear how he's doing." Jamie said as she took her black T Mobile Sidekick II and rang Raimund, like she does 2 times a day since they've gone away from Hamburg.
The last time Jamie rang him was this morning when she and her dad were having breakfast at a French cafe near their hotel and Raimund said he just woke up 5 minutes before she rang him and he's still in bed.
Finally, Raimund answered the overseas call from his best friend on his red T Mobile Sidekick II. "Hallo, Jamie..." Raimund said, "Hey Raimund, guess what? im on the top of the Eiffel Tower!!!" Jamie cheerfully said. Raimund squealed like a girl when he heard it and then "Oh my gosh, Jamie!!! im jealous but im happy for you...", "The sight here on top is breathtaking, but i think it's the lack of oxygen why my breath was lost when i saw Paris on top of this, hehe..." Jamie said amusingly, Raimund laughed too. "So, what are you doing right now? sleeping again?" Jamie asked, "Nothing much, watching TV and raiding the fridge as usual, but Ina's here a while ago in our place." Raimund said, "What did she do in your place?" Jamie questioned, "Eat lunch with me, my little sis, mum, dad and Dean..." Raimund answered, "So Dean's there as well. i bet he ate a lot, even some of the furniture.", "Yeah, that explains why Dean is ginormous..."Raimund said "...And just before Ina left, she had a conversation with Alyssa's pet cat Hermione in the living room. Funny, isn't it?", "With your little sister's cat??!! Oh my gosh, that is soooo ridiculous!!! Wonder what on earth are they talking about? The latest summer trends? " Jamie chortled.
The next morning, Jamie and her dad packed their bags, checked out and left Paris. It feels bad to leave the magnificent "City of Lights" behind but at least there's somewhere as better, London, their next destination. As they drove away in the sunny French expressway, Jamie and her dad are listening to music and talking about random things.
"You know Raims, it really feels awesome walking around Montparnasse and shopping around Champs Elysees. And La Defense was great, i think it's the place where TH took their music vid "1000 meere". and i can't believe the glass pyramid on the Louvre is designed by a Chinese architect...." Jamie babbled to Raimund as they are exchanging news on their phones. Jamie was somewhere on the road in Picardy while Raimund was on their way to Berlin with his little sister Alyssa and their 22 year old cousin Veronica. Half a day later, they had crossed the English channel from Calais and now they're in England, specifically resting in their hotel room in London. Her dad was sleeping soundly while she was surfing the internet with her mac on her bed.
Jamie opened her myspace and she saw a kind of notifications in her homepage that Aslana posted something in her blog. Jamie felt so curious about what Aslana posted so she went to Aslana's myspace blog. She was shocked when she saw another picture of Aslana with Johannes partying together in a Hamburg nightclub. Aslana was wearing an erogenous, black dress and studded stiletto heels and Johannes a black, Jaded by Knight tshirt and skinny jeans. They seemed to be dearly close to each other, Aslana gyrating around a seduced Johannes. Jamie then quickly read the whole post which is originally in German:
"Celebrating our month-sary!!!
mood: in love
music: Schrei, so laut du kannst!! by Die Argyles
Johannes took a short time off in his really busy schedule singing around for stupid and crazy fan girls that really make him sick. me, Johannes, Denise and Mara went to an awesome nightclub and we danced around and drank till around 11 PM. The picture above was taken by Denise, and we really look awesome. then me and Johannes left Denise and Mara and went to his place and there we "made love" till morning yesterday. He also confided during our "lovemaking" that he is so fed up with his fame that he wanted to quit and be with me but his bandmates and management wants to hold him coz they're all greedy and Johannes is famous. I really love Johannes beyond words and i don't want him to suffer and all that. He had so many personal problems beside his awful bandmates, greedy managers and those dumb and naive fan girls who thinks he's as pure and innocent as a saint. well, it's wrong that he's really innocent and good as he portrays-it's an act. so girls, better stop dreaming about him and get on with life, especially to the one freaky Canto fan girl who thinks his image on stage and off are the same. it's not my fault why he's faking himself.
and for the others stuffs, his bandmates are are getting lots of attention coz of him, the management is getting a lot of money because of him, and of course, who wouldn't forget those stupid, good-for-nothing fan girls and paparazzis who did nothing good but instead made my honey's life worse by chasing him down the road, getting crazy over him and those sort of stuffs. he has a life, and i feel sorry for him. But i know he loves me better than everyone else and im the reason why he still had the strenght to hang on tight. "
Jamie never felt this bad since her mother left and never saw her again. As well as a feeling of badness, she also felt betrayed, jealous, sorry and heartbroken at the same time about someone.
Jamie stood up, shaking and cold on the inside, then tears fell out from her deep brown eyes. She poured all of her bitter melancholy out silently, so her dad won't wake up finding her in so much distress. For many years now, she had been a total follower of Johannes Trümper but never saw him before. She loved his enchanting songs, his captivating androgynous looks, his unique sense of style and his witty personality. She even admitted to herself one time that her heart goes to Johannes but now, all of her admiration shattered since she first saw Aslana's proof a month ago and now, the scars deepened and healing it would be a hard challenge. Not only he belonged to someone she loathed for a long time but he was also known his personality was as fake as a bad rip-off Barbie Doll. Johannes Trümper is only an act and someone who is a tired and pitiful bloke plays as him. Aslana was right about her, the " freaky Canto fan girl" she referred to is obviously her, Jamie thinks Johannes is great but now she knew the horrible truth. Jamie was so disappointed because she fell for someone who only played her feelings like a toy and made her, for everyone else, "freaky".
"Face it Jamie, there is really no Johannes Trümper here on earth." she muttered to herself as she wiped the last few tears from her eyes. She was now standing on the terrace of her room, facing the sparkling, modern London skyscrapers. Then from a distance, two small dots came flying towards the terrace and Jamie wondered what are those. Then the dots got bigger and bigger until it was evident that they are owls carrying letters and they are flying towards her. Jamie wondered if the letters belonged to her or to her dad and of course, who sent those letters?
Monday, February 21, 2011
Chapter 5: Daddy knows best
Chapter 5: Daddy knows best
Some days from now, Jamie and her father will be leaving Hamburg for England by road so for the rest of the week what Jamie did is study magic, watch TV(and turn the TV off when she sees Johannes on viva or MTV because she still doesnt get over with him), hang out with Raimund, chat with friends and other things. Then her last day in Hamburg came, Percy took a month leave starting today and that day, all he did was to rest and pack all the things in their silver BMW 525-which is the car Percy used to go to work. Thank goodness for Percy, he already put a Undetectable Extension Charm on the trunk of the car and put some bags there before Raimund came in to hang out with Jamie one last time.
"So, when you're in London already, can you please bring me a big ben thing?" Raimund asked while he and Jamie are sitting on the lawn in the front yard that balmy morning. "uhh sure, i would..." Jamie nodded, "...but in exchange for that, you should keep in touch with me everytime i ring your phone." she winked. They talked heartily and laughed a bit, then Jamie's father called
"Jamie, where is your luggage? we're gonna put them on the trunk now." Percy called from the open garage near the lawn they are sitting. "Oh, im gonna get them from my room!!!" she responded then stood up to get inside. "Can i help carrying?" Raimund asked, "sure, it's a large one you know, i can't bring it down alone." Jamie consented.
Her dad firmly told her to bring all her clothes and beloved stuffs in her bag with an Undetectable Extension Charm.
"But we're gonna be gone for a month, why would i bring all of my clothes and stuffs as if we're moving out?" Jamie complained to her dad some days ago. Her father simply just said "You might need to, you know". Then Jamie obeyed. she put an Undetectable Extension Charm, grabbed her clothes, shoes, makeups, accessories, psp, ipod video, muggle books and her muggle photo album. "you might want to put your magic stuffs too, in case you're wondering." her father added, so she also grabbed her potions set, Firebolt 2.0(a newer and more efficient model of the old Firebolt we're familiar with), crystal ball and sneakoscope the night before.
So Jamie and Raimund raced up the stairs and opened a wooden door with a rose stained glass window that leads to Jamie's room. They went inside and found a big, fuschia luggage bag with a Disneyland Paris keychain dangling on the zipper and an airport sticker that says "CX 318 HKG to HAM" that sticks in the handle. "i think this is the luggage that you used when you first left Kowloon some years ago..." Raimund said, noting the airport sticker on Jamie's luggage. "...the last time i left Kowloon, which was last year, remember?" Jamie said. "Oh yeah. i remember you went back to Kowloon last year with your dad and it was for a week." Raimund recalled. "Exactly." Jamie agreed, "Now, let's get this thing down to the garage." she added with a smile. Then Jamie and Raimund carried the fuchsia luggage down to the garage, which was a bit hard. it would be easier if she just levitated the luggage down, but Raimund is here-she thought. they gave the luggage to Jamie's dad and then he loaded it in the charmed trunk, in which Raimund never noticed they were putting a lot of bags in the trunk.
Later that afternoon, Jamie finally bidded Raimund good bye and got inside the car, beside the drivers seat. "Bye Jamie and have a nice trip!!" Raimund said and he was still waving at them until the Wongs' car got out of sight in Rizalstrasse and off the road. Some 30 minutes later, they got out of Hamburg and into the German Autobahn. Jamie is now beginning to see the beautiful countryside and her dad turned the stereo on and they just listened to the music. a few songs from Pussycat Dolls, Lafee and My Chemical Romance later, a song from Die Argyles; "Nach Dir Kommt Nicht" began to play. Jamie was quick to turn the stereo to its next song which is a song from Killerpilze. Die Argyles used to be Jamie's favorite band, something might be wrong- Percy thought. "Hun, is there something wrong?"he asked. Jamie was always open to her father, which is a kinda normal thing for German teens-being open to their parents. "Yes there is..." Jamie miserably said. "What? wrong song? found out that Johannes hooked up with someone hotter than you?" he asked. "The latter is right..." Jamie sadly nodded, "...You won't believe who's the lucky gf dad."she said.
"then who's the lucky girl?" her dad curiously asked."Who else but that evil muggle girl who bent on destroying my life, Aslana." Jamie grimly said. Percy was kinda shocked that he almost lost control on he wheels. "Aslana? that Turkish looking girl who's being really mean to you ever since?! sheesh, she's being such nag- hell worse than Voldemort. in these situations you might want to hex her with a horrid spell but in any case you shouldn't try magic on a muggle. so, just forget Johannes darling. he's on Aslana's side now and Aslana might be slandering you on him and naturally, he'll believe her" her dad exclaimed. Then there was this moment of silence between them when the killerpilze song ended and then a song by brokencyde began to play. Then Percy heard Jamie crying, "Dad , why...sob... do i have to fall for guys who are ...sob... so impossible for me to be with? why do all the boys who i happen to love want girls who different from me...whimper... let's say Aslana." Jamie cried and sobbed more.
For Percy, Jamie's situation is a bit similar to his problem when he was a carefree teenager like her but like all parents, he wouldn't bear hearing his growing "apple of the eye" cry and had her feelings hurt by someone she idolizes but no one can avoid this situation, so he just smiled a bit and said softly "You know Jamie, liking someone is natural but knowing that he doesn't like you is inevitable. We might never know someone's feelings, you know". Percy explained
"oh yeah, i wish i was great at legilimens but hell no, even if i'll be great at that, he'll never hold me the way he held Aslana tight." Jamie miserably said, she stopped her crying already. "uh huh. Amortentia could help you win Johannes over but that might throw you off to Nurmengard-the new German wizard prison." Percy laughed "It would be better to completly forget about him and move on with life..." Jamie grimly said. "It will be better dear. remember, at least Johannes made you a stronger person and it might help you a lot in life, like what happened to me when i was your age." Percy smiled, "like what happened dad?" she interestingly asked, " Let's just say, a guy hotter than me got someone who i really liked. but she didnt liked me at all and she even despised me for being nerdish. i felt he same way as you are until i met your mum." he shared, Jamie looked at him with interest and he went on. "just remember there still are plenty of guys out there who are cooler than Johannes and they'll love you more than he'll do, so don't worry about the small fry." Percy said, "You know dad, you're the greatest ever..." Jamie said with a grateful grin to her father.
A short silence followed, then a German song by Tokio Hotel, "Der Letze Tag" began to play on the stereo. Jamie sniggered unexpectedly and cussed out a random Cantonese swear word(making Percy look at her badly) when the androgynous vocalist Bill Kaulitz's voice began to sing. Percy began to laugh too, "what's so funny??" he asked. They laughed then "Oh, i remember that guy who sang this song. i saw him one day in Gold Marie with Raimund and he looks a bit cute but he's too girly." Jamie explained while laughing loudly with her dad, "Oh i see, he's too girly for you, am i right?" Percy sniggered. "Yeah, you're right about that dad." Jamie smiled. Then they drived along on the magical, twilighted German expressway with the eagerness of stopping over charming cities on their enchanting journey to England.
Some days from now, Jamie and her father will be leaving Hamburg for England by road so for the rest of the week what Jamie did is study magic, watch TV(and turn the TV off when she sees Johannes on viva or MTV because she still doesnt get over with him), hang out with Raimund, chat with friends and other things. Then her last day in Hamburg came, Percy took a month leave starting today and that day, all he did was to rest and pack all the things in their silver BMW 525-which is the car Percy used to go to work. Thank goodness for Percy, he already put a Undetectable Extension Charm on the trunk of the car and put some bags there before Raimund came in to hang out with Jamie one last time.
"So, when you're in London already, can you please bring me a big ben thing?" Raimund asked while he and Jamie are sitting on the lawn in the front yard that balmy morning. "uhh sure, i would..." Jamie nodded, "...but in exchange for that, you should keep in touch with me everytime i ring your phone." she winked. They talked heartily and laughed a bit, then Jamie's father called
"Jamie, where is your luggage? we're gonna put them on the trunk now." Percy called from the open garage near the lawn they are sitting. "Oh, im gonna get them from my room!!!" she responded then stood up to get inside. "Can i help carrying?" Raimund asked, "sure, it's a large one you know, i can't bring it down alone." Jamie consented.
Her dad firmly told her to bring all her clothes and beloved stuffs in her bag with an Undetectable Extension Charm.
"But we're gonna be gone for a month, why would i bring all of my clothes and stuffs as if we're moving out?" Jamie complained to her dad some days ago. Her father simply just said "You might need to, you know". Then Jamie obeyed. she put an Undetectable Extension Charm, grabbed her clothes, shoes, makeups, accessories, psp, ipod video, muggle books and her muggle photo album. "you might want to put your magic stuffs too, in case you're wondering." her father added, so she also grabbed her potions set, Firebolt 2.0(a newer and more efficient model of the old Firebolt we're familiar with), crystal ball and sneakoscope the night before.
So Jamie and Raimund raced up the stairs and opened a wooden door with a rose stained glass window that leads to Jamie's room. They went inside and found a big, fuschia luggage bag with a Disneyland Paris keychain dangling on the zipper and an airport sticker that says "CX 318 HKG to HAM" that sticks in the handle. "i think this is the luggage that you used when you first left Kowloon some years ago..." Raimund said, noting the airport sticker on Jamie's luggage. "...the last time i left Kowloon, which was last year, remember?" Jamie said. "Oh yeah. i remember you went back to Kowloon last year with your dad and it was for a week." Raimund recalled. "Exactly." Jamie agreed, "Now, let's get this thing down to the garage." she added with a smile. Then Jamie and Raimund carried the fuchsia luggage down to the garage, which was a bit hard. it would be easier if she just levitated the luggage down, but Raimund is here-she thought. they gave the luggage to Jamie's dad and then he loaded it in the charmed trunk, in which Raimund never noticed they were putting a lot of bags in the trunk.
Later that afternoon, Jamie finally bidded Raimund good bye and got inside the car, beside the drivers seat. "Bye Jamie and have a nice trip!!" Raimund said and he was still waving at them until the Wongs' car got out of sight in Rizalstrasse and off the road. Some 30 minutes later, they got out of Hamburg and into the German Autobahn. Jamie is now beginning to see the beautiful countryside and her dad turned the stereo on and they just listened to the music. a few songs from Pussycat Dolls, Lafee and My Chemical Romance later, a song from Die Argyles; "Nach Dir Kommt Nicht" began to play. Jamie was quick to turn the stereo to its next song which is a song from Killerpilze. Die Argyles used to be Jamie's favorite band, something might be wrong- Percy thought. "Hun, is there something wrong?"he asked. Jamie was always open to her father, which is a kinda normal thing for German teens-being open to their parents. "Yes there is..." Jamie miserably said. "What? wrong song? found out that Johannes hooked up with someone hotter than you?" he asked. "The latter is right..." Jamie sadly nodded, "...You won't believe who's the lucky gf dad."she said.
"then who's the lucky girl?" her dad curiously asked."Who else but that evil muggle girl who bent on destroying my life, Aslana." Jamie grimly said. Percy was kinda shocked that he almost lost control on he wheels. "Aslana? that Turkish looking girl who's being really mean to you ever since?! sheesh, she's being such nag- hell worse than Voldemort. in these situations you might want to hex her with a horrid spell but in any case you shouldn't try magic on a muggle. so, just forget Johannes darling. he's on Aslana's side now and Aslana might be slandering you on him and naturally, he'll believe her" her dad exclaimed. Then there was this moment of silence between them when the killerpilze song ended and then a song by brokencyde began to play. Then Percy heard Jamie crying, "Dad , why...sob... do i have to fall for guys who are ...sob... so impossible for me to be with? why do all the boys who i happen to love want girls who different from me...whimper... let's say Aslana." Jamie cried and sobbed more.
For Percy, Jamie's situation is a bit similar to his problem when he was a carefree teenager like her but like all parents, he wouldn't bear hearing his growing "apple of the eye" cry and had her feelings hurt by someone she idolizes but no one can avoid this situation, so he just smiled a bit and said softly "You know Jamie, liking someone is natural but knowing that he doesn't like you is inevitable. We might never know someone's feelings, you know". Percy explained
"oh yeah, i wish i was great at legilimens but hell no, even if i'll be great at that, he'll never hold me the way he held Aslana tight." Jamie miserably said, she stopped her crying already. "uh huh. Amortentia could help you win Johannes over but that might throw you off to Nurmengard-the new German wizard prison." Percy laughed "It would be better to completly forget about him and move on with life..." Jamie grimly said. "It will be better dear. remember, at least Johannes made you a stronger person and it might help you a lot in life, like what happened to me when i was your age." Percy smiled, "like what happened dad?" she interestingly asked, " Let's just say, a guy hotter than me got someone who i really liked. but she didnt liked me at all and she even despised me for being nerdish. i felt he same way as you are until i met your mum." he shared, Jamie looked at him with interest and he went on. "just remember there still are plenty of guys out there who are cooler than Johannes and they'll love you more than he'll do, so don't worry about the small fry." Percy said, "You know dad, you're the greatest ever..." Jamie said with a grateful grin to her father.
A short silence followed, then a German song by Tokio Hotel, "Der Letze Tag" began to play on the stereo. Jamie sniggered unexpectedly and cussed out a random Cantonese swear word(making Percy look at her badly) when the androgynous vocalist Bill Kaulitz's voice began to sing. Percy began to laugh too, "what's so funny??" he asked. They laughed then "Oh, i remember that guy who sang this song. i saw him one day in Gold Marie with Raimund and he looks a bit cute but he's too girly." Jamie explained while laughing loudly with her dad, "Oh i see, he's too girly for you, am i right?" Percy sniggered. "Yeah, you're right about that dad." Jamie smiled. Then they drived along on the magical, twilighted German expressway with the eagerness of stopping over charming cities on their enchanting journey to England.
Chapter 4: Thank God It's summer....
Chapter 4: Thank God It's summer....
Two weeks had passed since that deceitful event Jamie had. From that day on, she just focused on studying hard for their final exams every afternoons with Raimund. Then a week later they took their exams. Every subjects went smoothly except for Physics, in which it was a bit vague to predict whether they will pass or not. Now, the results will come out and it's thrilling to see whether you passed or not. Jamie and Raimund was on their first period for the day and Sir Listing gave the class their scored test papers in all of their exams in a folder.
"Okay, now take a look at your test papers!! im so happy a lot got a high score in my subject." Sir Listing smiled. Jamie opened her folder and then a big smile replaced her 2 week old frown. She scanned all of her test paper and realized she passed all of her tests with extraordinary grades, even in physics!!
She glanced at Raimund who is sitting beside her. He too got a large grin in his face, which is usual every time they see their test results. Raimund looked at Jamie with a wide, pointless smile ad then back to his test results. then Jamie looked at her other friends in the room like Inah;a black girl who had a very sassy style, Henri; a blond, wavy haired, freckly French expat who is one of Raimund's close friends than Jamie and also Dean; a huge 16 year old who looks like a large adult ape and they all look satistfied with their exams.
Then Sir Listing made them return their folders to him and announced that the end of the school year is today. The whole class cheered and applauded as if Sir Listing threw an extravangant performance with his old band. He just smiled and laughed a bit, remembering his long gone "band days". Jamie's melancholy seems to fade away and Raimund was happy about it since he worked hard for 2 weeks to prevent Jamie from thinking about Johannes and move on. Then the bell rang and Sir Listing gave them all his final good bye to his advisory class. "Auf Wiedersehen und Vielen Danke to my favorite class and see you again next year. Don't worry, i'll still stay here at Hamburg Central as your next year's geometry teacher but i won't be your adviser anymore. Im gonna miss our daily morning gags and fun but maybe we'll have that next year as well. So good luck and have a fantabulous summer ahead!!!" he waved.
For the whole day, they seemed to be in high spirits even their teachers like miss Franz bidding them all good bye and have a great summer and also passing by the smirking Aslana and her friends occationally in the corridors. Raimund and Jamie both talked about their plans this summer. "My gosh, Jamie you're so lucky you're going to London two weeks from now. how long will you be gone?" Raimund asked as they got out of school and this time Raimund will be staying in Jamie's house until around 11 PM because his parents went somewhere and he will be picked up there.
"I have no idea how long will i be gone to England..." Jamie shrugged. "...Dad's always in England and travelled from here to there using all means of transportation from jet planes to buses. i really have no idea how long will it take for us to reach England." she added. She never mentioned to Raimund that her father also traveled there by using apparation, magic carpets, broomsticks, floo network or portkeys because Raimund is a muggle.
Then they arrived at the subdivision where the Wongs' house is. Jamie's right hand is at her right pocket and clutching her wand. she whispered "alohomora" as they walked to the door so Raimund won't hear. Then Jamie opened the door, Raimund always wonder how on earth does the Wongs keep their house burglar free at the same time leaving their doors unlocked. Jamie just explained that they have a clever "anti burglar" device from Japan which make a deafening noise and warning police whenever a someone who is not known to the Wongs comes inside the house. Unknown to Raimund, Mr.Wong locks the door when he's going to work and Jamie would do magic to open the door, like she did before they arrive at the very doorstep of the house. "I really love your burglar device. i wonder if it cost much, i'll ask my mom to buy ourselves one if it's not expensive." Raimund laughed. "It's expensive. Costs almost 2 months of my dad's monthly income so he just pay it off by a 2 year installment." Jamie giggled as they went inside with Raimund being surprised with the cost of the state-of-the-art burglar device that his best friend doesnt really had at home.
They sat down at the black bauhaus chairs in the living room and began to talk again. "So, i bet i'll be just talking to you through my laptop or cellphone when you're gone huh?"Raimund asked, "You bet i will. Every night me and dad will stop over at a hotel or resto-wherever there is wifi..."Jamie assured."...And i will always give you a regular update on how the trip goes. i affirm that you will always be in the know other than Inah and the others are concerned." she said as they both watched a music video of Ich+Ich in Viva and ate popcorns they popped in the microwave, then Percy arrived from work an hour later. "Hey Mr. Wong" Raimund greeted. Before Raimund got to know Jamie's last name a long time ago, he used to call Jamie's dad as "Mr. Jamie's dad", which found Jamie a bit weard. "Oh, hey dad. i see you arrived early from work" Jamie said. "Yeah, i went home early to fix our important documents for the trip." her dad explained.
"Oh, i see. So, should i begin to pack?"she asked. "If you want to," he consented. "Okay, then let's begin..." she smiled as she turned her head to Raimund, who is excited to help as well. Then they made a mad dash to Jamie's room while they left the TV open but Percy just occupied the empty seat Raimund sat before he went and watched TV and ate the rest of their popcorn. Then Jamie and Raimund began to choose the things Jamie had to bring to her road trip. "Where will you be spending the summer Raims?" Jamie asked Raimund as he picked some of Jamie's perfumes and placed them in her toilettries bag. "huh? oh yeah, i'll be spending the summer at home or maybe me and my family will be going to Baden or Rügen for a week in july..." he grinned. "Oh, well that's cool. That means you'll be spending a part of your summer soaked in the hotsprings full of saggy old people?" she joked, Raimund just frowned "At least you're going to England...", "Just kidding about that sorry. anyway feel lucky at least you won't be stuck in the car for the whole day like i'll do. just stay away from the saggy old dudes and you'll have fun as much i'll have when i arrive in London; Kicking the arses of those stationary Buckingham palace guards..." Jamie said. Then Raimund felt better and they both had fun packing and at some point chatting with Henri or Dean in YIM about their plans in summer.
For the rest of the week what Jamie did in the first week of summer was sleep all day, watch TV, surf the internet, hang out with Raimund, walk around the streets of Hamburg and study magic more often than she does on regular school days. Her dad will leave her magic books to read and answer exercise questions in the books, do hands on lessons herself on how to make an Invigoration Draught, grow a honking daffodil in the small greenhouse in their backyard or repel a red cap living under a cabinet of their basement. All these lessons she just manage to do by using her dad's time turner. Ever since she started studying magic, her dad allows Jamie to borrow his old time turner just as long as she had to use it strictly for studying magic only, so she will not be missing out all the teenage muggle fun or get caught by a visiting muggle friend in her house studying magic. So a whole 8 hour worth of studying magic is shortened into a mere 2 hours every morning plus lessons that needed her father like flying broomsticks, apparating, some hands-on transfiguration and such during the night, in which she doesnt need the help of the time turner, since a lesson form her dad is usually an hour and half.
"Finally, im crammed with things this summer..." Jamie told herself as she answer an excercise in her Charms book while she was sitting on the kitchen table, with her charms book on her lap. She wonder what will happen in her upcoming roadtrip to England which will be a week away.
December 28, 2008
Two weeks had passed since that deceitful event Jamie had. From that day on, she just focused on studying hard for their final exams every afternoons with Raimund. Then a week later they took their exams. Every subjects went smoothly except for Physics, in which it was a bit vague to predict whether they will pass or not. Now, the results will come out and it's thrilling to see whether you passed or not. Jamie and Raimund was on their first period for the day and Sir Listing gave the class their scored test papers in all of their exams in a folder.
"Okay, now take a look at your test papers!! im so happy a lot got a high score in my subject." Sir Listing smiled. Jamie opened her folder and then a big smile replaced her 2 week old frown. She scanned all of her test paper and realized she passed all of her tests with extraordinary grades, even in physics!!
She glanced at Raimund who is sitting beside her. He too got a large grin in his face, which is usual every time they see their test results. Raimund looked at Jamie with a wide, pointless smile ad then back to his test results. then Jamie looked at her other friends in the room like Inah;a black girl who had a very sassy style, Henri; a blond, wavy haired, freckly French expat who is one of Raimund's close friends than Jamie and also Dean; a huge 16 year old who looks like a large adult ape and they all look satistfied with their exams.
Then Sir Listing made them return their folders to him and announced that the end of the school year is today. The whole class cheered and applauded as if Sir Listing threw an extravangant performance with his old band. He just smiled and laughed a bit, remembering his long gone "band days". Jamie's melancholy seems to fade away and Raimund was happy about it since he worked hard for 2 weeks to prevent Jamie from thinking about Johannes and move on. Then the bell rang and Sir Listing gave them all his final good bye to his advisory class. "Auf Wiedersehen und Vielen Danke to my favorite class and see you again next year. Don't worry, i'll still stay here at Hamburg Central as your next year's geometry teacher but i won't be your adviser anymore. Im gonna miss our daily morning gags and fun but maybe we'll have that next year as well. So good luck and have a fantabulous summer ahead!!!" he waved.
For the whole day, they seemed to be in high spirits even their teachers like miss Franz bidding them all good bye and have a great summer and also passing by the smirking Aslana and her friends occationally in the corridors. Raimund and Jamie both talked about their plans this summer. "My gosh, Jamie you're so lucky you're going to London two weeks from now. how long will you be gone?" Raimund asked as they got out of school and this time Raimund will be staying in Jamie's house until around 11 PM because his parents went somewhere and he will be picked up there.
"I have no idea how long will i be gone to England..." Jamie shrugged. "...Dad's always in England and travelled from here to there using all means of transportation from jet planes to buses. i really have no idea how long will it take for us to reach England." she added. She never mentioned to Raimund that her father also traveled there by using apparation, magic carpets, broomsticks, floo network or portkeys because Raimund is a muggle.
Then they arrived at the subdivision where the Wongs' house is. Jamie's right hand is at her right pocket and clutching her wand. she whispered "alohomora" as they walked to the door so Raimund won't hear. Then Jamie opened the door, Raimund always wonder how on earth does the Wongs keep their house burglar free at the same time leaving their doors unlocked. Jamie just explained that they have a clever "anti burglar" device from Japan which make a deafening noise and warning police whenever a someone who is not known to the Wongs comes inside the house. Unknown to Raimund, Mr.Wong locks the door when he's going to work and Jamie would do magic to open the door, like she did before they arrive at the very doorstep of the house. "I really love your burglar device. i wonder if it cost much, i'll ask my mom to buy ourselves one if it's not expensive." Raimund laughed. "It's expensive. Costs almost 2 months of my dad's monthly income so he just pay it off by a 2 year installment." Jamie giggled as they went inside with Raimund being surprised with the cost of the state-of-the-art burglar device that his best friend doesnt really had at home.
They sat down at the black bauhaus chairs in the living room and began to talk again. "So, i bet i'll be just talking to you through my laptop or cellphone when you're gone huh?"Raimund asked, "You bet i will. Every night me and dad will stop over at a hotel or resto-wherever there is wifi..."Jamie assured."...And i will always give you a regular update on how the trip goes. i affirm that you will always be in the know other than Inah and the others are concerned." she said as they both watched a music video of Ich+Ich in Viva and ate popcorns they popped in the microwave, then Percy arrived from work an hour later. "Hey Mr. Wong" Raimund greeted. Before Raimund got to know Jamie's last name a long time ago, he used to call Jamie's dad as "Mr. Jamie's dad", which found Jamie a bit weard. "Oh, hey dad. i see you arrived early from work" Jamie said. "Yeah, i went home early to fix our important documents for the trip." her dad explained.
"Oh, i see. So, should i begin to pack?"she asked. "If you want to," he consented. "Okay, then let's begin..." she smiled as she turned her head to Raimund, who is excited to help as well. Then they made a mad dash to Jamie's room while they left the TV open but Percy just occupied the empty seat Raimund sat before he went and watched TV and ate the rest of their popcorn. Then Jamie and Raimund began to choose the things Jamie had to bring to her road trip. "Where will you be spending the summer Raims?" Jamie asked Raimund as he picked some of Jamie's perfumes and placed them in her toilettries bag. "huh? oh yeah, i'll be spending the summer at home or maybe me and my family will be going to Baden or Rügen for a week in july..." he grinned. "Oh, well that's cool. That means you'll be spending a part of your summer soaked in the hotsprings full of saggy old people?" she joked, Raimund just frowned "At least you're going to England...", "Just kidding about that sorry. anyway feel lucky at least you won't be stuck in the car for the whole day like i'll do. just stay away from the saggy old dudes and you'll have fun as much i'll have when i arrive in London; Kicking the arses of those stationary Buckingham palace guards..." Jamie said. Then Raimund felt better and they both had fun packing and at some point chatting with Henri or Dean in YIM about their plans in summer.
For the rest of the week what Jamie did in the first week of summer was sleep all day, watch TV, surf the internet, hang out with Raimund, walk around the streets of Hamburg and study magic more often than she does on regular school days. Her dad will leave her magic books to read and answer exercise questions in the books, do hands on lessons herself on how to make an Invigoration Draught, grow a honking daffodil in the small greenhouse in their backyard or repel a red cap living under a cabinet of their basement. All these lessons she just manage to do by using her dad's time turner. Ever since she started studying magic, her dad allows Jamie to borrow his old time turner just as long as she had to use it strictly for studying magic only, so she will not be missing out all the teenage muggle fun or get caught by a visiting muggle friend in her house studying magic. So a whole 8 hour worth of studying magic is shortened into a mere 2 hours every morning plus lessons that needed her father like flying broomsticks, apparating, some hands-on transfiguration and such during the night, in which she doesnt need the help of the time turner, since a lesson form her dad is usually an hour and half.
"Finally, im crammed with things this summer..." Jamie told herself as she answer an excercise in her Charms book while she was sitting on the kitchen table, with her charms book on her lap. She wonder what will happen in her upcoming roadtrip to England which will be a week away.
December 28, 2008
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Chapter 3: Broken hearts and hopeful plans
Chapter 3: Broken hearts and hopeful plans
Jamie noticed that Aslana, Denise and Mara are wearing the same kind of clothes- lacy, pink hoodies, black camisoles, mini skirts and high heels and matching shocking pink handbags as well. Aslana threw a scowl on Jamie and then Denise and Mara sniggered spitefully that made Jamie and Raimund annoyed. "Just ignore her..." Raimund muttered to Jamie as they hurriedly go to the cafe. Then they reached the cafe and got their food. While they were eating on the same table, Aslana came and then in a split second, around Aslana and her friends was crowded with people. Jamie wondered what on earth is going on so she and Raimund went near to hear about something.
"Friends, it is real that me and Johannes became together..." Aslana arrogantly said.
"Then where's the proof?" a girl asked, "Yeah, we've been seeing obscene pictures of you guys but they were maybe just photoshopped." another one said. "She's just a poser" a guy said and then the crowd began to be noisy until Aslana raised a photograph of her with Johannes, intimate with each other.
"You call this fake?" she asked, eyebrows raised. then everyone became silent. Even Jamie couldn't believe her own wizard eyes, she feels like Aslana did something with the picture that involves magic but no way!! Aslana can't do magic... She's a muggle like everyone else around her. So Jamie just felt silent and her heart was crushed. Like her whole world crumbled as she saw what the muggle she most hated exposed something seemed unbelievable to her, something that would break her immature teenage heart that used to "fall" for muggle guys who are impossible for her to be with. Aslana's very lucky, she badly thought. for the whole day, she feels downtrodden and in despair. She doesn't participate well into the discussions in all her lessons after that awful recess time and she wasn't feeling good during lunch and the after lessons activities.
Then at 2:30 they got out. Seeing his best friend being unusually downcast for the whole day made Raimund worry about her so he tried to cheer her up while they're together at the subway station near their school to go home. "Don't worry Jamie, maybe Johannes isnt the right guy for you at all. Who knows Aslana's heart will break soon because of him. you know these celebs-such womanizers. you'll see soon." Raimund said as they get on the train but Jamie just looked at him with a tearful pair of eyes. "Sigh, look Jamie, i promise that we will throw a house party at my place when they're over. We'll have a kareoke party, invite Sammy Deluxe, Tokio Hotel and Cinema Bizarre over so it'll be fun. We'll all laugh at their doom and despair. We're gonna be "Three cheers for sweet revenge." like Gerard Way...Oooh, imagine Sammy singing Bohemian Rhapsody!!!!" Raimund said optimistically and what Raimund said hilariously made Jamie feel a bit better but still she feels like broken so Jamie smiled faintly and she felt so grateful at least she got someone who understands her so she hugged Raimund tight and told him "Even though right now, Aslana's in Johannes' arms, at least i still got you as my best friend."
In Raimund's part, it really feels great to have a friend who appreciates him. In all these years before he met Jamie, he never had a real friend who will accept him for who he is and then he met Jamie, another loner like him. The train arrived at the next station and this is the station Raimund had to get down since he lives two blocks away from the station so Raimund bid good bye to Jamie and she said good bye to him. Raimund walked away with some people who were going out of the train and he was gone. The train's doors closed and it moved to its next destination which is Jamie's station and it will be five minutes away. Five more minutes of melancholy and this time without the light shone by her worried best friend. The train stopped and Jamie stood up. She walked out of the train and then made her way against the crowd and she got out of the subway station. She noticed the clouds above as dark as her broken heart as she was crossing a few streets and then arrived at her house. She looked in the window ans she saw no one inside. "Dad's not yet home..." she thought. So she went in the front of the door and mumbled "Alohomora" and the door opened. That spell is so useful, she thought with a weak smile. Then she slumped into a black bauhaus chair with some red throw pillows in the living room. "Sigh, what a day. A hell lot of things happened. Things that are so hard to feel and i am so despaired" Jamie told herself with so much anguish in her. Then she turned on the living room TV and watched a bit of Finneas and Ferb on Disney Channel, Viva( a German music channel) and a German subtitled documentary show about the Igorot mummies somewhere in Northern Philippines on the Discovery Channel but they seemed to make her get out of her bad mood. Then at exactly 5 o'clock, a scrawny, business attire clad guy with glasses who seemed to resemble her very much - her dad Percy- arrived at their doorstep and opened the door.
"Hey Jamie, how's your day?" he asked in Cantonese. When Jamie is talking to her father and some relatives, it is always in Cantonese and to everyone else, English or German.
Jamie just looked at him and said "Oh, it was fine. yours?", "It was well." her dad said smiled. "Are you ready to know where are we going this summer?" he asked. Oh yeah, the summer vacation i almost forgot about it, Jamie thought. "We're going to England..." her dad said with a really big grin. "England?? Dad, that is so cool!!! We're going to Madame Tussaud's, Big Ben and the Buckingham Palace. " Jamie cried out with joy. "Oh, what airlines are we taking? Lufthansa? British Airways? Virgin Atlantic?" she added. "Well, we're not going there by air. Too expensive, not even by magical means coz it's risky but something you'll enjoy better." he said. "Then what?" Jamie asked. "We're going on a roadtrip..." he beamed. "Really?! that's great!!! Then we'll pass by lots of places along the way like Paris, Brussels and the beautiful countryside... it'll be awesome." She temporarily diverted herself from her heart ache she is having now. From then on, she thought she should move on by just thinking about other things instead, like the anticipated roadtrip that will happen within a month with her dad.
December 28, 2008
Jamie noticed that Aslana, Denise and Mara are wearing the same kind of clothes- lacy, pink hoodies, black camisoles, mini skirts and high heels and matching shocking pink handbags as well. Aslana threw a scowl on Jamie and then Denise and Mara sniggered spitefully that made Jamie and Raimund annoyed. "Just ignore her..." Raimund muttered to Jamie as they hurriedly go to the cafe. Then they reached the cafe and got their food. While they were eating on the same table, Aslana came and then in a split second, around Aslana and her friends was crowded with people. Jamie wondered what on earth is going on so she and Raimund went near to hear about something.
"Friends, it is real that me and Johannes became together..." Aslana arrogantly said.
"Then where's the proof?" a girl asked, "Yeah, we've been seeing obscene pictures of you guys but they were maybe just photoshopped." another one said. "She's just a poser" a guy said and then the crowd began to be noisy until Aslana raised a photograph of her with Johannes, intimate with each other.
"You call this fake?" she asked, eyebrows raised. then everyone became silent. Even Jamie couldn't believe her own wizard eyes, she feels like Aslana did something with the picture that involves magic but no way!! Aslana can't do magic... She's a muggle like everyone else around her. So Jamie just felt silent and her heart was crushed. Like her whole world crumbled as she saw what the muggle she most hated exposed something seemed unbelievable to her, something that would break her immature teenage heart that used to "fall" for muggle guys who are impossible for her to be with. Aslana's very lucky, she badly thought. for the whole day, she feels downtrodden and in despair. She doesn't participate well into the discussions in all her lessons after that awful recess time and she wasn't feeling good during lunch and the after lessons activities.
Then at 2:30 they got out. Seeing his best friend being unusually downcast for the whole day made Raimund worry about her so he tried to cheer her up while they're together at the subway station near their school to go home. "Don't worry Jamie, maybe Johannes isnt the right guy for you at all. Who knows Aslana's heart will break soon because of him. you know these celebs-such womanizers. you'll see soon." Raimund said as they get on the train but Jamie just looked at him with a tearful pair of eyes. "Sigh, look Jamie, i promise that we will throw a house party at my place when they're over. We'll have a kareoke party, invite Sammy Deluxe, Tokio Hotel and Cinema Bizarre over so it'll be fun. We'll all laugh at their doom and despair. We're gonna be "Three cheers for sweet revenge." like Gerard Way...Oooh, imagine Sammy singing Bohemian Rhapsody!!!!" Raimund said optimistically and what Raimund said hilariously made Jamie feel a bit better but still she feels like broken so Jamie smiled faintly and she felt so grateful at least she got someone who understands her so she hugged Raimund tight and told him "Even though right now, Aslana's in Johannes' arms, at least i still got you as my best friend."
In Raimund's part, it really feels great to have a friend who appreciates him. In all these years before he met Jamie, he never had a real friend who will accept him for who he is and then he met Jamie, another loner like him. The train arrived at the next station and this is the station Raimund had to get down since he lives two blocks away from the station so Raimund bid good bye to Jamie and she said good bye to him. Raimund walked away with some people who were going out of the train and he was gone. The train's doors closed and it moved to its next destination which is Jamie's station and it will be five minutes away. Five more minutes of melancholy and this time without the light shone by her worried best friend. The train stopped and Jamie stood up. She walked out of the train and then made her way against the crowd and she got out of the subway station. She noticed the clouds above as dark as her broken heart as she was crossing a few streets and then arrived at her house. She looked in the window ans she saw no one inside. "Dad's not yet home..." she thought. So she went in the front of the door and mumbled "Alohomora" and the door opened. That spell is so useful, she thought with a weak smile. Then she slumped into a black bauhaus chair with some red throw pillows in the living room. "Sigh, what a day. A hell lot of things happened. Things that are so hard to feel and i am so despaired" Jamie told herself with so much anguish in her. Then she turned on the living room TV and watched a bit of Finneas and Ferb on Disney Channel, Viva( a German music channel) and a German subtitled documentary show about the Igorot mummies somewhere in Northern Philippines on the Discovery Channel but they seemed to make her get out of her bad mood. Then at exactly 5 o'clock, a scrawny, business attire clad guy with glasses who seemed to resemble her very much - her dad Percy- arrived at their doorstep and opened the door.
"Hey Jamie, how's your day?" he asked in Cantonese. When Jamie is talking to her father and some relatives, it is always in Cantonese and to everyone else, English or German.
Jamie just looked at him and said "Oh, it was fine. yours?", "It was well." her dad said smiled. "Are you ready to know where are we going this summer?" he asked. Oh yeah, the summer vacation i almost forgot about it, Jamie thought. "We're going to England..." her dad said with a really big grin. "England?? Dad, that is so cool!!! We're going to Madame Tussaud's, Big Ben and the Buckingham Palace. " Jamie cried out with joy. "Oh, what airlines are we taking? Lufthansa? British Airways? Virgin Atlantic?" she added. "Well, we're not going there by air. Too expensive, not even by magical means coz it's risky but something you'll enjoy better." he said. "Then what?" Jamie asked. "We're going on a roadtrip..." he beamed. "Really?! that's great!!! Then we'll pass by lots of places along the way like Paris, Brussels and the beautiful countryside... it'll be awesome." She temporarily diverted herself from her heart ache she is having now. From then on, she thought she should move on by just thinking about other things instead, like the anticipated roadtrip that will happen within a month with her dad.
December 28, 2008
Chapter 2: A misfit friend
Chapter 2: A misfit friend
The bell rang loud and Jamie hurriedly went out of the empty girl's bathroom, hoping no one heard of the boom sound made by her apparation. She felt for her wand at her right pocket and sprinted across the corridors full of students going to their first lessons of the day. then, Jamie reached her classroom and there she met her closest and oldest friends in school, Raimund Jost.
Raimund was a brown, curly haired and cheerful 16 year old who looks like a "Germanized" Nick Jonas to Jamie and just about everyone else.
Raimund loves to play guitar, read science books, listen to his ipod video, is a class valedictorian and he also had this kind of "girlish" aura in him, in Jamie's opinion. Ever since they were in their junior high years, Raimund is like Jamie's beauty adviser and shopping companion. He always gives her tips on the best kind of make up for her and he is Jamie's favorite shopping mate. they go around Hamburg's shopping centres and shop around and eat out. Although behind Raimund's back, he is being teased by his other friends for being so "gay", Jamie feels annoyed at his backbiting friends and she always defend him deeply. She bickers at them "So what, at least he'd make a better man than you guys do, in my opinion..." Despite of Raimund being Jamie's closest friend, he knows nothing and had no clue about Jamie being a wizard.
"Hallo Raimund..." Jamie said in German as she sat down at her desk besides Raimund's, Raimund was wearing a thick Tribal hoodie and Diesel denims. "Hallo Jamie, how's your morning?" Raimund asked in German. "Oh, it was okay. 'twas kinda crowded in the subway this morning that's why i came a bit late..." she said. whenever Jamie applied magic in something she did, she would make up excuses to cover up when she'll be asked by everyone unless it was her dad, of course. Raimund saw Jamie's hair a bit messy. "Oh Jamie, your hair is a bit unruly. im gonna fix it in a heartbeat..." Raimund concerned. Jamie think it was from apparating why her hair became a bit messy but Jamie was quick that she put her hand in her pocket and then grabbed her wand. she made a circle with her wand inside her pocket and instantly, her hair became tidy. "No need to do it Ray, it looks good now." Jamie smiled. then their teacher for their first period, a long red haired and blithe young man called sir Ian Listing came. Mathemathics was their first period for today and it was one of the "highlights" for the day for Jamie and Raimund since sir Listing was one of their favorite teachers since he never fails to amuse them with all of his gags and jokes, which made math time really fun also he is also a great bassist and he is once a part of a band when he was younger. As their class adviser as well, sir Listing first gave the class a roll-call and checked out who's late. fortunately, no one was late so sir Listing went on with the lesson about logarithms. He briefly explained about it and they made them play a very cool game about logarithms. Everyone quickly grabbed a sheet of paper and pen and then started the game. Whoever wins first gets plus 5 points in the upcoming final exams which are a week away. Though logarithms was hard without scientific calculators, they all had fun and Raimund won the game since he gets along with math very well even without using scientific calculators, which made Jamie really prouder of her best friend. So what if he's kinda gay?? at least he's really good in math, she thinks, and it is one of her phrases when defending Raimund when he's being backstabbed by his awful friends. Then the bell rang and sir Listing bid them all good bye, much to Jamie and Raimund's dismay because their favorite teacher and adviser was leaving them to their next period teacher miss Charm Franz, a petite woman in her 30s who had an eminent background as a Cum-Laude graduate of the University of Paris with the course of Secondary Education major in Science, minor in French. Their second lesson was Physics and it was a bit boring compared to what they had a while ago in Math with sir Listing. Miss Franz made them answer some tedious exercises that took them very long to answer each questions. some equations, explainations and solutions to be put in to support their answers. Jamie even wished there's a spell to make her answer all these dreary questions fast but time flied ahead and the bell rang. Miss Franz made them continue the exercises as a homework for them. Their next period was something they look forward to a bit and it was considered a classic favorite, especially to those school slackers: Recess time.
Everyone went out of the classroom in a frenzy and made the corridors crowded again. as Jamie and Raimund walked together in the corridors, they came across mean girl Aslana Gecim and her group of mean, giggly gal pals.
Aslana was a very conceited and lewd girl with Turkish origins. She is on the same year level with Jamie but she is from a different section. Ever since Jamie arrived at Hamburg, Aslana hated and scorned her deeply. aside from being arrogant, she is known to be one of the lewdest girls in Hamburg Central School. She is rumored to have hooked a lot of guys and once she got really famous in cyberspace for hooking up with a famous young German singer but that proved to be a bogus by an unknown fan from Berlin who knows the singer very well. That singer was Johannes Trümper from the German pop-rock band "Die Argyles". Unfortunately, a few believed on the unknown fan and fans accepted Aslana more as a more reliable fact although they are already green with jealously. "Poor them..." Jamie thought of Johannes' other fans. She didn't believed at all these days. maybe she is just jealous-Aslana say. Both Jamie and Aslana are infatuated with him for a long time and that is maybe one of the reasons why they are bitter with each other.
Aslana was standing with her cronies Denise and Mara in the corridors. They were vigorously gossiping about a girl from the first year until they got a glimpse on Jamie and Raimund. Denise was a slightly curvy, blond haired girl and Mara was the kind of stereotypical Italian girl- short, dark haired and olive skinned. Both of them are Aslana's faithful "sidekicks" and they follow what Aslana wants them to do. Aslana and her friends looked at the two maliciously...
Dec 23,2008
The bell rang loud and Jamie hurriedly went out of the empty girl's bathroom, hoping no one heard of the boom sound made by her apparation. She felt for her wand at her right pocket and sprinted across the corridors full of students going to their first lessons of the day. then, Jamie reached her classroom and there she met her closest and oldest friends in school, Raimund Jost.
Raimund was a brown, curly haired and cheerful 16 year old who looks like a "Germanized" Nick Jonas to Jamie and just about everyone else.
Raimund loves to play guitar, read science books, listen to his ipod video, is a class valedictorian and he also had this kind of "girlish" aura in him, in Jamie's opinion. Ever since they were in their junior high years, Raimund is like Jamie's beauty adviser and shopping companion. He always gives her tips on the best kind of make up for her and he is Jamie's favorite shopping mate. they go around Hamburg's shopping centres and shop around and eat out. Although behind Raimund's back, he is being teased by his other friends for being so "gay", Jamie feels annoyed at his backbiting friends and she always defend him deeply. She bickers at them "So what, at least he'd make a better man than you guys do, in my opinion..." Despite of Raimund being Jamie's closest friend, he knows nothing and had no clue about Jamie being a wizard.
"Hallo Raimund..." Jamie said in German as she sat down at her desk besides Raimund's, Raimund was wearing a thick Tribal hoodie and Diesel denims. "Hallo Jamie, how's your morning?" Raimund asked in German. "Oh, it was okay. 'twas kinda crowded in the subway this morning that's why i came a bit late..." she said. whenever Jamie applied magic in something she did, she would make up excuses to cover up when she'll be asked by everyone unless it was her dad, of course. Raimund saw Jamie's hair a bit messy. "Oh Jamie, your hair is a bit unruly. im gonna fix it in a heartbeat..." Raimund concerned. Jamie think it was from apparating why her hair became a bit messy but Jamie was quick that she put her hand in her pocket and then grabbed her wand. she made a circle with her wand inside her pocket and instantly, her hair became tidy. "No need to do it Ray, it looks good now." Jamie smiled. then their teacher for their first period, a long red haired and blithe young man called sir Ian Listing came. Mathemathics was their first period for today and it was one of the "highlights" for the day for Jamie and Raimund since sir Listing was one of their favorite teachers since he never fails to amuse them with all of his gags and jokes, which made math time really fun also he is also a great bassist and he is once a part of a band when he was younger. As their class adviser as well, sir Listing first gave the class a roll-call and checked out who's late. fortunately, no one was late so sir Listing went on with the lesson about logarithms. He briefly explained about it and they made them play a very cool game about logarithms. Everyone quickly grabbed a sheet of paper and pen and then started the game. Whoever wins first gets plus 5 points in the upcoming final exams which are a week away. Though logarithms was hard without scientific calculators, they all had fun and Raimund won the game since he gets along with math very well even without using scientific calculators, which made Jamie really prouder of her best friend. So what if he's kinda gay?? at least he's really good in math, she thinks, and it is one of her phrases when defending Raimund when he's being backstabbed by his awful friends. Then the bell rang and sir Listing bid them all good bye, much to Jamie and Raimund's dismay because their favorite teacher and adviser was leaving them to their next period teacher miss Charm Franz, a petite woman in her 30s who had an eminent background as a Cum-Laude graduate of the University of Paris with the course of Secondary Education major in Science, minor in French. Their second lesson was Physics and it was a bit boring compared to what they had a while ago in Math with sir Listing. Miss Franz made them answer some tedious exercises that took them very long to answer each questions. some equations, explainations and solutions to be put in to support their answers. Jamie even wished there's a spell to make her answer all these dreary questions fast but time flied ahead and the bell rang. Miss Franz made them continue the exercises as a homework for them. Their next period was something they look forward to a bit and it was considered a classic favorite, especially to those school slackers: Recess time.
Everyone went out of the classroom in a frenzy and made the corridors crowded again. as Jamie and Raimund walked together in the corridors, they came across mean girl Aslana Gecim and her group of mean, giggly gal pals.
Aslana was a very conceited and lewd girl with Turkish origins. She is on the same year level with Jamie but she is from a different section. Ever since Jamie arrived at Hamburg, Aslana hated and scorned her deeply. aside from being arrogant, she is known to be one of the lewdest girls in Hamburg Central School. She is rumored to have hooked a lot of guys and once she got really famous in cyberspace for hooking up with a famous young German singer but that proved to be a bogus by an unknown fan from Berlin who knows the singer very well. That singer was Johannes Trümper from the German pop-rock band "Die Argyles". Unfortunately, a few believed on the unknown fan and fans accepted Aslana more as a more reliable fact although they are already green with jealously. "Poor them..." Jamie thought of Johannes' other fans. She didn't believed at all these days. maybe she is just jealous-Aslana say. Both Jamie and Aslana are infatuated with him for a long time and that is maybe one of the reasons why they are bitter with each other.
Aslana was standing with her cronies Denise and Mara in the corridors. They were vigorously gossiping about a girl from the first year until they got a glimpse on Jamie and Raimund. Denise was a slightly curvy, blond haired girl and Mara was the kind of stereotypical Italian girl- short, dark haired and olive skinned. Both of them are Aslana's faithful "sidekicks" and they follow what Aslana wants them to do. Aslana and her friends looked at the two maliciously...
Dec 23,2008
Die Welt von Jamie Wong (Chapter 1)
Chapter 1: Jamie Wong
It was a bright cloudy morning in Hamburg, Germany and a month from now, the skies will be clear and it'll be summer. as the bright rays of the sun shone through a window of a modern victorian looking house, a LOTR-themed clock striked 7 on a desk beside a wooden antique reproduction bed. Jamie has been awake for at least 15 minutes but she is still lying on her bed out of laziness. then, she realized she have to be at school around 7:45 so she got up and muttered to herself in German "don't worry Jamie, a month from now you'll sleep and stay as long as you want since it'll be summer vacation." she stretched her arms up a little bit and got her toothbrush and towel and then hastlingly went in the bathroom beside her room. she brushed her teeth and washed herself and headed immediately to her room to change clothes.
Jamie Chariss Wong was a newly turned 16 year old Chinese girl who grew up in Germany. She had long black hair, deep set brown eyes, porcelain skin and a slim body. She lives with her architect father Percy Wong in Hamburg after they moved out from Kowloon when her mother left 6 years ago. she first felt weard in Germany but as the years went by, she got along normally with kids her age. she loves fashion, music and mostly all things usually liked by German as well as Chinese teenagers.
despite of her normalness, she had one unusual thing she and her father kept secret to everyone and even to their closest friends: they are wizards. they are related with the wizard family Chang who are in Scotland. Percy went to Hogwarts in Britain to study wizardry for 2 years until he became 13 and he had to go back to study highschool and then college. his neighbors think the reason why he went to Britain is that he studied middle school in a London boarding school under a scholarship. since then, he studied magic at home and his daughter Jamie now does the same ever since she turned 11 years old.
Realizing she had no time to change clothes "muggle way", Jamie reached for her rowan wand and she pointed it to her closet. she muttered a one-word spell and some random clothes went towards and then fly around her like a whirlwind for five seconds then her blue pyjamas are now lying on the floor and Jamie is now wearing a black roll neck jumper over a white Christian Audigier tshirt, an Abbey Dawn plaid skirt, a long black leggings over it and fushia pink lace up boots. she picked up her Tazuma shoulder bag lying on the floor and she ran down the stairs to the kitchen. she reached the small, studio kitchen and she saw her dad Percy reading the morning paper and there are bread, bacon and eggs on a plate and a pot of tea in a small, polished wooden table. " Good morning Jamie..." her father greeted in Cantonese. " Good morning dad" Jamie replied in flawless Cantonese as well. "Summer vacation is around the corner for you, right dear?" Percy asked. "Uhh...yeah, summer's just a month away dad..." Jamie smiled, "...Lemme guess, i know we're going somewhere this vacation. i reckon it'll be in Paris? Stockholm? Glasgow?" Jamie asked her dad keenly as she eats her bacon and eggs. "Yeah we'll be spending summer somewhere..." her dad Percy grinned. "then where?" she asked eagerly, sipping a cup of tea. "I'll tell you later dear, in fact you're gonna be late, in fact it's already 7.40" Percy said as he briefly checked his wrist watch. Oh my, im gonna be late unless i apparate... Jamie thought. "Then dad, i have no choice but to apparate to school." Jamie firmly said. Even though she is still a bit underage(but now learning to do it), she had no choice or else she would suffer the dreadful state of detention and catch up tough lessons which are hard to get along when missed out. "Okay, then apparate. just as long as the muggles won't see you pop out of nowhere literally." her father confidently consented, "Thanks dad" she smiled and kissed her father in the right cheek. she then stood up, walked a bit and then she concentrated on the exact location where she should be. "Remember what i taught you about Jamie: Destination, Determination and Deliberation..." Percy warned,"...or else you'll splinch yourself again." he added. Imagine walking to class with a finger missing and the missing finger is left floating midair at home and probably watching MTV in the kitchen TV, it actually happened only three months ago, she thought. "no, i won't allow one of my body parts to be left here nor get in detention again." she strongly said.
She imagined an open place in school, where? she thought, the corridors? nah, too many people. the field? too many people as well. my locker? nah, too constricted. maybe the girls' bathroom? perfect. as in no one goes there yet usually at this time of the day. she concentrated standing on a specific, empty cubicle. she focused on the cubicle only and let her yearning flood her whole mind and every bit of her body. her whole self must be there, nothing should be left behind here. then she turned on the spot along feeling her way to nothingness and had a feeling she was being on a really tight rubber tube. with a pop, she opened her eyes and she had fully succeeded in apparating to school the same time the bell rang loud.
December 20,2008
It was a bright cloudy morning in Hamburg, Germany and a month from now, the skies will be clear and it'll be summer. as the bright rays of the sun shone through a window of a modern victorian looking house, a LOTR-themed clock striked 7 on a desk beside a wooden antique reproduction bed. Jamie has been awake for at least 15 minutes but she is still lying on her bed out of laziness. then, she realized she have to be at school around 7:45 so she got up and muttered to herself in German "don't worry Jamie, a month from now you'll sleep and stay as long as you want since it'll be summer vacation." she stretched her arms up a little bit and got her toothbrush and towel and then hastlingly went in the bathroom beside her room. she brushed her teeth and washed herself and headed immediately to her room to change clothes.
Jamie Chariss Wong was a newly turned 16 year old Chinese girl who grew up in Germany. She had long black hair, deep set brown eyes, porcelain skin and a slim body. She lives with her architect father Percy Wong in Hamburg after they moved out from Kowloon when her mother left 6 years ago. she first felt weard in Germany but as the years went by, she got along normally with kids her age. she loves fashion, music and mostly all things usually liked by German as well as Chinese teenagers.
despite of her normalness, she had one unusual thing she and her father kept secret to everyone and even to their closest friends: they are wizards. they are related with the wizard family Chang who are in Scotland. Percy went to Hogwarts in Britain to study wizardry for 2 years until he became 13 and he had to go back to study highschool and then college. his neighbors think the reason why he went to Britain is that he studied middle school in a London boarding school under a scholarship. since then, he studied magic at home and his daughter Jamie now does the same ever since she turned 11 years old.
Realizing she had no time to change clothes "muggle way", Jamie reached for her rowan wand and she pointed it to her closet. she muttered a one-word spell and some random clothes went towards and then fly around her like a whirlwind for five seconds then her blue pyjamas are now lying on the floor and Jamie is now wearing a black roll neck jumper over a white Christian Audigier tshirt, an Abbey Dawn plaid skirt, a long black leggings over it and fushia pink lace up boots. she picked up her Tazuma shoulder bag lying on the floor and she ran down the stairs to the kitchen. she reached the small, studio kitchen and she saw her dad Percy reading the morning paper and there are bread, bacon and eggs on a plate and a pot of tea in a small, polished wooden table. " Good morning Jamie..." her father greeted in Cantonese. " Good morning dad" Jamie replied in flawless Cantonese as well. "Summer vacation is around the corner for you, right dear?" Percy asked. "Uhh...yeah, summer's just a month away dad..." Jamie smiled, "...Lemme guess, i know we're going somewhere this vacation. i reckon it'll be in Paris? Stockholm? Glasgow?" Jamie asked her dad keenly as she eats her bacon and eggs. "Yeah we'll be spending summer somewhere..." her dad Percy grinned. "then where?" she asked eagerly, sipping a cup of tea. "I'll tell you later dear, in fact you're gonna be late, in fact it's already 7.40" Percy said as he briefly checked his wrist watch. Oh my, im gonna be late unless i apparate... Jamie thought. "Then dad, i have no choice but to apparate to school." Jamie firmly said. Even though she is still a bit underage(but now learning to do it), she had no choice or else she would suffer the dreadful state of detention and catch up tough lessons which are hard to get along when missed out. "Okay, then apparate. just as long as the muggles won't see you pop out of nowhere literally." her father confidently consented, "Thanks dad" she smiled and kissed her father in the right cheek. she then stood up, walked a bit and then she concentrated on the exact location where she should be. "Remember what i taught you about Jamie: Destination, Determination and Deliberation..." Percy warned,"...or else you'll splinch yourself again." he added. Imagine walking to class with a finger missing and the missing finger is left floating midair at home and probably watching MTV in the kitchen TV, it actually happened only three months ago, she thought. "no, i won't allow one of my body parts to be left here nor get in detention again." she strongly said.
She imagined an open place in school, where? she thought, the corridors? nah, too many people. the field? too many people as well. my locker? nah, too constricted. maybe the girls' bathroom? perfect. as in no one goes there yet usually at this time of the day. she concentrated standing on a specific, empty cubicle. she focused on the cubicle only and let her yearning flood her whole mind and every bit of her body. her whole self must be there, nothing should be left behind here. then she turned on the spot along feeling her way to nothingness and had a feeling she was being on a really tight rubber tube. with a pop, she opened her eyes and she had fully succeeded in apparating to school the same time the bell rang loud.
December 20,2008
You wanna be famous??
I really don't know which version is better, Big Time Rush's or PLAY's. But i think both are really good, but in different ways. On Big Time Rush's, i really like the edgy, rockerish tune but at the same time keeping the popness of the song. I also like the way Logan raps before the song end. On PLAY, i really like the pop diva-like tune as if it's being played in some club.
Big Time Rush:
PLAY's version:
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