The New Brown House :A

"You're too... flat-headed?" Drew was thinking of the stupidest comebacks possible, in an attempt to cheer Kelsi up, since she obviously wasn't feeling too great.

"Then I'll have to glue it right back on!"

Kelsi smiled. "Thanks!" she said, and picked up the torched cards, which then magically became normal again, and began giving them out evenly to everyone. "Play again?"

"Is that even possible?"

And so, they played again. Yey.

"... I don't know, actually!"

[it is]

And Drew won again.
"How are you so good?!" Eric asked after their game.

"That's right! Either way, it doesn't matter."

"Like Libby said, I played a lot when I was a kid."


"Right." Holly sat down at her desk chair, and spun around in it because it was one of those awesome rolly-spinny-chairs.

Eric looked down, and kinda-sorta blushed. "I never really had a special talent..."

"Let's just talk. So... what happened at school after I left?"

Libby pinched his cheek, despite him being a year younger than her. "Of course you do! Maybe you just haven't found it! Like maybe you can down twelve hot dogs in five minutes, or do all sorts of weird kinky sex tricks! Stuff that you've never tried!"

"Nothing exciting, really, but when we get back from break, we have to do the Cruciatus Curse on kids who get detention." Holly looked down at her lap. "It's horrible."

Eric slapped her hand away. "S-sex tricks?!"

Kelsi pitched in. "Yeah! Who knows, maybe you have a giant penis!"

Eric just stared at them. Quietly, with a disturbed look.

"... The size of your foot!"

He stared even more incredulously.


Fry's expression went blank. "That's so..."

Libby gasped. "Oh my God, Kels, he DOES have a giant penis! He's getting all embarrassed again!"

Drew grabbed Eric by the shoulders the light from the window hit it just so his face seemed to sparkle with admiration. "I'm sorry for ever making fun of you!" he cried, squeezing his eyes shut and shaking Eric back and forth.

~

Holly shook her head. "I know. But, we're all friends again, and I think I heard Kelsi saying you'd be staying in some room of requirement or something... so I won't be alone, right?"

Eric was yelling as he was rocked back and forth. "What is wrong with you people?! If I even DID have a large penis, I wouldn't tell you! And anybody would get embarrassed!" In fact, he was really red.

"So you just admitted it!" Kelsi asked.

"NO!"



"Yeah! We're staying there. So is Robin. So, we'll all be there! And I won't leave you." he declared seriously.

Libby grinned devilishly. "If you don't tell us, we'll have to check."

"By force," Drew added. Then he realized what Libby said and turned to give her a WHAT THE HELL look, still holding on tightly to Eric's shoulders.

~

Holly looked up at him. "Promise to never, ever leave me, okay?"

Eric shook his head. "YOU GUYS ARE CRAZY! FRY, HOLLY! HELP!"

Fry nodded. "Yeah. Besides, there's nothing to worry about, right? They'd never suspect we come back to you."

"DENIAL!" Libby cried. "STOP DENYING!"

Holly was still looking straight into Fry's eyes when Eric's pleas of help and Libby's screams reached Holly's room. "D'you think we should help him?"

"I'M NOT DENYING ANYTHING! GET AWAY FROM ME!"

Fry pondered. "... Nah."

"THEY'LL NEVER HELP YOU!"

"... Are you sure?"

"I'M GOING BACK TO HOGWARTS."

"You won't be able to, since the train only goes and leaves once."


"Well, do you want to?"

Drew let go of Eric, and crossed the living room to sit on the couch and read his book like an adult.

"Sorry! You're stuck here! Forever!"

~

"Not if you don't want to."

Eric stood up, and left the room to go upstairs.


"Nooo, I'll only go if you want to go!"

"So much for forever," Libby pouted.


"Nooo, I'll only go if YOU want to go!"

"Yeah..." Kelsi sat next to Libby and pouted alongside.

Fry shook his head. "That's not good! I can't go unless I know you are completely okay to go!"

Eric opened their door. "BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP, I'M HERE." He said and sat on Holly's bed.

Holly spun away from Fry to look at Eric. "What happened down there?" she inquired curiously.

"I'm not even..." Eric shook his head angrily and stared at the wall. "It's so unfair,"

"What is?" Holly asked softly. "We're your best friends. You can tell us, right?"

Fry nodded. "That's true."


"I want to be taller!" Eric yelled, but quietly enough so it didn't leave the room.