11 August 2012
We got our test results back the day before term ended. I think I was the only one who was surprised that I got top of the class in almost everything. I wasn't looking forward to going home. I had a really bad feeling about it. In the best case it'd be a tedious six weeks spent alone in the muggle works with only a few letters from friends for company. Well unless... But I'd all but given up on making up with Sev. Melissa made us share a compartment with The Marauders on the train. And when I say made I mean dragged kicking and screaming. My apprehension about going home meant I could handle the James thing so well so I sat sulkily in the corner and read a book all the way, ignoring people's desperate attempts to engage me in conversation. I would probably have left the station without saying goodbye but before I could, Trish tapped me on the shoulder and gave me a hug. I exchanged hugs and love and goodbyes with my friends and it really hit me, just like it always did at the end of each year, just how much I loved my friends. I was about to leave again when Sirius grabbed me in a bone crushing hug that left me gasping like a fish out of water. 'Bye guys' I laughed and really did leave this time. Somehow it feels like if I'd postponed getting back then it wouldn't have happened. Yeah right. Gone were the days when my family would meet me at the station. My parents were busy people and their work didn't spare much time and Tuney just plain hated me. Besides, I was an adult, 17, soon to be 18. I didn't need to be babied. That's what they said. I completely disagreed. So I got a train then a bus home. The closer I got the greater the growing sense of dread I had inside me got. Suddenly I didn't want to turn the corner onto my street. I really didn't want to know what I'd find. I persevered and- Oh my god.
Sorry this one's short but this cliffhanger's too good to miss. :)
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