Music and Lyrics ((Xia))

[Esmeralda Mendez]

Ezzie walked off to the far corners of the grounds just before the Forbidden Forrest. She wanted to be out of the way so no one would hear her new song while they were working on it. Indoors, echoes of music can always be heard. Outdoors, Ezzie could always practice her music without fear of being heard by other people. Obviously there would always be one person who heard her tune, but there was a lot less of a chance of being heard out here than inside. Ezzie found she worked better outdoors as well. She wanted to write a song about her past life, her life as a homeless girl. She even wanted to write about her life living with her mother and father in the many parts of Europe. She wanted to convey a message, a message that even though life seemed hard and you feel like you’ll be living a terrible life forever. She herself could have used such a lesson when she felt like she’d be working at that hotel forever. If only she could go back in time and tell herself that everything would be okay. Yes, that was what she would write about. She picked up a muggle pencil and started to write in her notebook. The song would be called “Jaded”. After an hour, her song was finished. She wanted to sing it with her guitar now. She had come to Hogwarts with not one guitar at all since her large collection of instruments definitely wouldn’t fit in her trunk. A day later, a small pouch had arrived in the mail from Mr. Jacobs. Inside, was her entire collection of guitars packed comfortably inside. He must have placed an expanding charm of some sort on the pouch to fit her instruments. She picked up her acoustic guitar. She liked the base much better, but the guitar (which she had learned to play over the summer) seemed much more fitting for this song. She came up with a hard hitting tune that would sound much better when played on her guitarist’s electric guitar. Ezzie was good at the guitar, but her guitarist was better. Ezzie was left in charge of the vocals, as that was really her talent. Ezzie started to sing.

“Isn't it cold outside?
When it feel like no ones loving you
But I'm watching you
And I'll never hold you down
And they say
That souls can never fade
But along the way
It seem your shadow was erased”

She was so lost in her music that she hadn’t heard someone walking up to where she was singing. Ezzie continued on with her song. It was called Jaded, but a more fitting name would be “My Own Guardian Angel”. Jaded seemed to make more sense though, and her other title gave too much of her private life away. She didn’t want the public to know she was writing the song about herself. She continued to sing, still not knowing someone was behind her.

“Life is jaded, love had faded
Let me take you away from here oh
Let me kiss you, they won't miss you
Let me lift you away from here”

She stopped playing her guitar even though the song was not finished. She wanted to add more to it. Now that she put down her guitar and her pen was in her hand, she could hear the noise coming from behind her. She turned around and almost gasped. “Gosh, you scared me. I didn’t know you were there.” She had no idea who this little girl was, but she knew she had seen her before. She couldn’t be a Gryffindor, or else she would have known who she was. She shrugged mentally and turned to look at the younger girl. “I’ve been so rude, I’m Esmeralda Mendez. Ezzie for short.” She smiled. “What’s your name?”

[Xia Aeo Serpentine H2]

Xia decided she'd go out to the grounds to study. It would be quieter there, perhaps she'd even go near the forbidden forest.


As she strolled along in the sunshine, Xia noticed a figure. The other person was singing so it couldn't be a Slytherin. As she moved closer Xia realised it was a Gryffindor girl.
She must be all right then, this Gryfindor girl. Xia walked up to her with a shy smile on her face, Ezzie, the other girl said.
"I'm Xia, " Xia said in her usual calm tone.

((I don't really have any inspiration for Xia at the moment))

[Esmeralda Mendez]

Ezzie merely glanced over at her book. She wanted to continue writing her song, but felt it far too rude to just tell her to leave. She seemed much younger than Ezzie was, by two years at least. Ezzie placed her guitar carefully onto the grass making sure nothing happened to it as it made contact with the cold hard ground. She loved her guitars, and treated them love, care and a great amount of respect. Each guitar even had a name. It was scary how Ezzie treated them like living breathing people, even though most of them were just large hunks of wood and metal. This guitar’s name was King. The acoustic guitar was the kind of all guitars in Ezzie’s opinion. It was built in the simplest way possible. One of the first guitar designs ever made. It came first, making it the king. Her favorite guitar was still inside her dorm, resting safely and soundly in its little velvet pouch. She still didn’t understand how it could comfortably fit in such a small container, but it was magic, and magic was always confusing to Ezzie, no matter how many years she studied it. She never quite understood how all that could be possible. She just knew that it happened, and that it always seemed to make sense to the pureblood children. She sighed as she ran her hand through her hair and smiled at the younger girl.

“Well, it’s very nice to meet you, Xia. Do you come around near the Forbidden Forrest often? Because trust me, it’s not the nicest place in the world.” Ezzie realized she was rambling a bit, but she did always tend to talk a lot when she met new people. Talkative was a word that was commonly used to describe Ezzie, especially for people who have just met her acquaintance. She always had so much to say to new people that she normally ran out of things to say within the next few meetings. Everything Ezzie could ever think of was blurted out during a conversation with a stranger. She remembered the disastrous interview last summer with Conan O’Brien. It was a Tell-All interview and Ezzie did quite literally tell all. She told the entire muggle and magical world alike that day about her past experiences. Her life in Cuba, her health problems, her dead parents, and even the homeless life she used to live. The only thing she had left out of the interview was the attempted kidnapping. The news was bound to get out sometime, as a police report was filed; but for now, only the Chans, the Jacobs, and of course Ezzie’s best friend Casey knew about the horrifying night when Ezzie (and possibly Harmony) were almost kidnapped. She tried hard to push the horrible memory out of her mind and concentrate on the present, where she was talking to the younger girl named Xia.

“So um, sorry if I disturbed whatever you were doing with my music. I tend to get lost in a totally different world when I’m with my guitar and I don’t realize how loud I am.” She said, knowing her words had almost nothing to do with the everyday life of this second year girl. She sighed as she placed her red and orange Gryffindor themed notebook onto the ground as well so it laid just next to her guitar. She smiled toward the younger girl, who looked very calm, and not hyper and annoying like other girls her age.

[Xia Aeo Serpentine H2]

"I'll leave you to your music," said Xia calmly.

((sorry, I know it's nearly nothing for a post but I have NO inspiration))