Hello all you readers in fan fiction land! My name is MorganS and I am here with my friend to deliver you a wonderful story, which I guarantee you will not be able to turn off! No, wait! Don't turn off the computer, don't do anything...just read!
Together, I, MorganS and ashlyns...no we are not related, make up the author named 6thYearGryffindor. We both have very different outlooks in our writing and have decided to combine them to come up with what you see here. We are fellow authors, fellow classmates and fellow Harry Potter (freaken) fans! Hope you enjoy.
Summery: Two sisters move half way across the world b/c their father has been given a special assignment in Britain, bringing the girls to Hogwarts School. Here they will find love, hope and a sisterly bond they had long lost. PG for danger, suspense and sex! Kidding about the sex! (Morgans says 'why not?') (Ashlyns reply's 'B/c, we have to keep this as anti-sex as possible. I'll explain later') (Audience boos)
Credits: Ashlyns is Hailey James. Morgans is Kasei James. Daniel Radcliff is Harry Potter (collective cheer) Rupert Grint is Ron Weasley. Emma Watson is Hermionie...ect.
P.s. before we get into the story, we wrote the first two chapters together and then we plan on splitting off and writing it chapter by chapter. Morgans will write chapter three, ashlyns will write chapter four and so on and so forth! Be ready for wackiness, wildness and Quidditch ppl! Oh, and stupidity! Thank you!
Morgans: "add a bit of toung as well."
Ashlyns: "You are so horney!"
Morgans: true. Horney? I just like my fireball."
Ashlyns: "Fireball introduced by Kasei in chapter two ppl, hold in. still inside joke. Now, Morgans shut up."
Morgans: "Okay. On to the story!"
Ashlyns: "But first!"
Disclaimer: We own Hailey James, Braiden James, Kasei James and any other original characters and story plot. We don't own Hogwarts, any characters we didn't make up, or the magical world which the amazing J.K. Rowling created. Thank you! NOW ONTO THE STORY! YAY!
Chapter one: A new horizon
Kasei sighed and leaned back in the backseat of the car, glaring at her twin sister who had called shotgun two steps from the car. Now she sat watching the houses flash past and tried to ignore her little brother who was humming placidly to himself much to her annoyance.
"Will you shut up, Braiden?" Kasei asked, trying to remain calm. She didn't want to be like her sister, explosive at every small thing. Her dad watched her in the rearview mirror for a moment and then moved his gaze to his son.
"She's right. You really need to be a little more silent." Braiden smiled mischievously at Kasei and she knew he was going to say something mean. Sure enough...
"How can I be silent when she's so ugly?" Suddenly Hailey turned around in her seat, her eyes blazing.
"Yeah, well, we look like you, you retarded little fruit so shut the hell up." Kasei tried to hide her smile and turned her attention to the London scenery as a fine trickle of rain rolled down the glass.
"Hailey! That's enough, Braiden, sit back in you're seat and zip it." Their father hissed, for Braiden had inched forward in his seat and now had his fist clenched in the air, ready to hit Hailey.
Kasei tried hard to look at her misted reflection in the window. She and Hailey were so different from each other yet so much alike in body. They both had naturally beautiful brown hair but Hailey's was now black and Kasei had hers in electric blue streaks on either side of her face. They had the same face and figure, though each disguised them in different clothes.
Kasei liked to wear loosely fitting comfortable cloths and loved sports. She was on some Muggle sports teams like Basketball, baseball and volleyball in elementary. She'd had to quit when she went off to Wizard school and had joined the Quidditch team.
Hailey had been much like Kasei in many aspects until the death of their mother a year before. She'd blamed herself and slowly grew darker. Now she pretty much stayed shut up in her room with books and paper, reading and writing. Now she turned around in her seat, her book shaking on her lap with the weight transfer.
"You'll be in Hufflepuff." She said. Braiden glared at her. All three had received their acceptance letters the week before and in two weeks they'd be on their way to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hailey had been studying a book they picked called Hogwarts: A history.
"Hufflepuff's the worst house." Braiden whined, looking at his dad. "You'll be in Slytherin."
"Well, as long as they have a good Quidditch team." Kasei said brightly, hoping desperately not to be in Slytherin.
"When this book was made," Hailey said, flipping over the book to check the date. "Slytherin had the best Quidditch team. That was a few years ago." Hailey turned around and began reading again and a sudden thought occurred to Kasei.
"Do brothers and sisters go in the same house?" She asked.
Braiden looked over at the back of Hailey's head, his eyes wide. Then he smiled. "I hope not." He said maliciously. "Two ugly people in the same house as me? That's evil."
Kasei and Hailey turned to him at the same time. "Yeah, you'll make up for it fine on your own. You're ugly enough." Then they both looked at each other and smiled. Braiden sat back in his seat and sulked, his arms crossed over his chest. Kasei thought maybe her sister was showing the long hidden side of her until the smile faded and the sad look replaced her once more.
"Well, now that you three have quit." Her father began, but Kasei interrupted.
"We haven't quit yet." She said, looking at Braiden once more. "You're a retard."
"And an idiot." Hailey joined in. Their father glared at them and then pointed ahead. They were moving down a quiet residential street and their new house, complete with moving van out front, was parked there.
"Look, it's huge." He said.
"Do we have to share the same room?" Hailey asked, closing her book and watching the large house coming closer. "I hate all the Quidditch posters and soccer teams and, not to mention those posters of David Becky or what ever."
"Beckham!" Kasei snapped, pausing. "Or Becks, if you mind." Even though Hailey's back was to her, she knew she'd just rolled her eyes and was mimicking her. She kicked at the back of the seat as hard as she could, making Hailey turn and give her the most evil glare.
They pulled into the driveway and Braiden was the first out. His father yelled at his retreating back, saying something about 'not getting out before the car completely stops' but none of them were listening.
"I get first dibs of rooms!" Braiden yelled, running up the stairs. Kasei hated that little creep and sprang out after him.
"Not a chance you loser! I'm older!" And she took off, leaving Hailey who still sat in the car, staring at the big house through the front window, playing with her long black hair. Her father watched her for a moment.
"What?" He asked. Hailey shook her head.
"Did we have to move?" She asked. He sighed.
"I'm an Auror, I move where the ministries tell me, you know that. And we have to move on, it's what you're mom would have wanted." Hailey snorted and got out.
"Unfortunately, we don't know that. Do we?" She paused, "She would have wanted us to be happy. Not move across the world and go to school with people we don't know. Why couldn't we stay in the United States? You could have gotten a job there."
"Maybe we'll be happy here." Her father pointed out. "Maybe we were sent here for a reason." Hailey snorted again.
"Oh yeah. Kasei's supposed to change evil boy's heart around with her quick wits and charming personality. Braiden's supposed to be the new hell raiser and what about me? Find someone like me and together we'll see the light?" She looked at her dad who was still watching her silently. "Right? This is all supposed to...what? Work out in the end? Destiny? Fate? You really believe that? Mom was supposed to die for a reason?"
"There's a reason for everything." Her dad replied. Hailey slammed the car door and left, walking up the stairs and into the cool shade of the house. It smelt like her grandmother's house, cinnamon and banana and...old. Wrinkling her nose, she made her way up the stairs and found Braiden in the first room on the left.
Braiden was jumping and when he saw Hailey he smiled, kicking his basketball at her. She caught it deftly. "Look at this room." He practically cried with joy. "It has a bathroom! Really!"
"That's the master bedroom, twit. It's dad's." Braiden shook his head.
"I called first dibs, it's mine stupid." Hailey raised and eyebrow and threw his ball at him. He wasn't able to catch it. It hit him in the right shoulder and bounced into the bathroom. "I hate you." He said, going off to retrieve it. Hailey shrugged and moved on.
"What ever." She said. Kasei was in the next one; she could see her through the small crack in the door. She sat in the middle of the floor, huddled up with her legs to her chest. Hailey pushed her way in and looked around. The room seemed big enough with a walk in closet and enough room for all Kasei's stupid posters. "Not bright enough?" She asked sarcastically. Kasei looked up, surprised.
"Oh." She said, "It's you. Why do you have to be so down on yourself all the time?" Hailey crossed her arms and leaned against the doorframe.
"What are you talking about." Hailey asked, her voice showing her bitterness. Kasei pointed to the window and Hailey could suddenly hear the sounds of her dad and the movers outside. "You heard what I said?"
"Every word." Kasei answered, standing up and moving across the room to shut the window. "What if maybe that's what we will do? Maybe that is our destiny?" Kasei turned around. "I saw the same thing you did that night. Why do you have to keep brining up the accident?"
"Because it was my Quidditch game! Not yours. If I hadn't played she'd still be alive." Kasei sighed.
"I went too; I wanted to see you play." Kasei said, "So do you know it wasn't my fault? I talked mom into taking us instead of dad."
"Still." Hailey muttered, turning around and moving to the door. Before she could get there, however, Kasei grabbed her and hugged her.
"Its not you're fault. It was fate." Hailey rolled her eyes and shrugged her off.
"There is no such thing."
That night they sat around the table, all quiet except for Braiden's clanging cutlery and the sounds of his open mouth, chewing. Across the table Hailey and Kasei glared at each other, both wondering how the other could be so impossible and knowing the other was thinking the same thing.
"Well, tomorrow I'll take you to Diagon Alley to get you're stuff." Their father said. "You know, books and robes..."
"What color are our robes?" Braiden asked through a mouthful of Chinese. They still hadn't got the old stove to work. The timer would ring but it wouldn't cook anything.
"You should think of getting a new stove first." Kasei said softly. Hailey actually began to giggle. Everyone looked up at her, surprised and she closed her mouth quickly.
"Yes, well..." Her father gave the stove and evil look and sighed. "I hate Muggle appliances. You're mother, you know..." He pulled out his wand and pointed it at the stove, and waved it, uttering a spell under his breath. The stove glowed blue for a moment and the timer began to buzz louder and more excitedly. "Silencio!" The sound abruptly stopped.
"You didn't answer my question." Braiden reminded him. "What color?"
"Black." Hailey answered, playing with her food, remembering Hogwarts: A History. Kasei sighed.
"Black is so depressing." She said. Hailey looked up through her curtain of black hair.
"Well," She said, eyeing her sister's hair. "Blue's to perky for my taste." They both glared at each other. Their father, sensing danger, cleared his throat and mentioned half-heartedly that they go to bed. Braiden quickly squashed the idea.
"Our beds are still on the truck." He said. Their father cursed and together they got up to get the beds. At the door, Braiden turned and made a girlish pose. "Oh no." He said in a high pitched voice. "Black makes me look so fat."
Hailey through a bean at him and he left. Kasei sat looking down at her plate and picking at it like she'd lost her heart or something. "What?" Hailey asked. Even to her own ears it sounded snappish.
Kasei didn't look at her but said in a low tone, "I planned to change it when we got back to school anyway." She said, lifting her fork and taking in a mouthful of cut up Kung Pow chicken.
"What?" Hailey asked.
"My hair." Kasei said, finally looking up. "Can't use magic until we go back to school." Hailey sighed and diverted her attention to the kitchen around them, not wanting to look at her sister. Kasei put down her fork and pushed back her chair to go help her brother and dad move in the beds.
Kasei lay in bed that night, thinking about the conversation that she'd heard through the window between her dad and Hailey. She knew Hailey was depressed but she hadn't known to what extent. She knew Hailey blamed herself for their mom's death but it wasn't her fault.
Rolling over she tried to see her mom, all the memories of her pushing against Kasei's brain. She remembered her first Quidditch game and seeing her mom in the stands, cheering next to her dad and Hailey. She focused into her mother.
She remembered the first day Hailey and her had spent apart from each other. They had been five and Hailey had been put into the hospital because she had got a really bad flu. Kasei could still remember hiding in her mother's arms that night, taking in her scent and wondering how the Boogieman would stay away that night. Hailey had always kept him away.
The day Hailey and her went to the Los Angeles Magic School. They were at the barrier that led to the grounds, saying good bye to their parents and Braiden who was to young to come. He was seven. She'd told her mom it would be okay as she sobbed into her father's shoulder. As they'd walked up the path to the school, Hailey had put her arm around her and said she'd always be there for her.
The day her mom died, they'd been going to Hailey's Quidditch game. An old man had a stroke at the wheel and veered into their lane, blindsiding them and sending the car rolling where three more cars hit it. The two girls survived but their mom died at the hospital. Kasei could still hear her mom's screaming, mingled with Hailey's and her own. If she concentrated she could still hear the shriek of impacting metal. It seemed to take the car forever between flips. She could remember the deafening silence in the car. And, when the car came to a blood curdling halt...all was silent. Kasei could remember being upside down, her hair hanging limp above her and the seat belt cutting into her chest and lap.
Hailey. Good old Hailey finally moved in the front and Kasei was sure everything was all right. Tears had suddenly started falling down Hailey's face, mingling with her brown hair as she reached across and tried to wake her mother. Kasei felt tears sting in the corners of her eyes as she remembered the scene.
She'd ripped off her seat belt and fell onto the roof. Slowly she'd tried to climb over the seat but Hailey had stopped her. Rolling over, Kasei watched the blank wall above the many boxes, crying. The rescuers had come too late. Her mother hadn't woken.
She could remember her dad coming to their room in the hospital and telling them what had happen to their mom. That was the last time they'd seen her.
Hailey stood at the window of her room, looking down at the car. She'd been thinking her mom for a while and the accident but now her thoughts moved to her dad and the conversation they'd had apon arriving.
She wished she had her family's faith that everything happened for a reason and everything would work out. She suddenly felt guilty and wished she hadn't blown up on her sister. If she did have their faith, would she actually believe what she had said down at the car? That she came here to help someone? To make a difference in herself and the other person?
Maybe, She thought, I'll meet a handsome prince on a white hippogriff who'll sweep me off my feet. She smiled to herself, yeah right. Then at the thought of this, she remembered that Kasei had to leave behind a boy in L.A. All love stories came to a dreadful end. Someone left or died and life just sucked again.
She sat down on the floor beside a pile of books and rifled through them, pulling out an old yearbook. On the inside was something her sister had written to her just before their mom died. She read it with a slight smile. "I wish I had you're looks...even though we're twins. I wish I had you're brains...even though I'm smarter. I wish I had you're boyfriend...but I'll take him soon. I wish I had you're faith...because my heart isn't as whole as yours. That bastard...(don't show mom) took it. I wish I had a spell, to turn his ass green. I love you, see you next year! Or tonight. LOL, love you're mirror image, Kasei."
Hailey thought back to Corey. Kasei had had her heart broken by the gorgeous red head punk rocker kid. Hailey had always thought he was a bit of an idiot, she could do better. Hailey threw the yearbook over her head, thinking about the message. Kasei had wanted Hailey's faith...because she wanted to believe she could get over Corey and do better and that they weren't meant to be together.
Under the yearbook was one of Kasei's stupid Teen Witches magazines. Hailey, who couldn't sleep, decided to look through it for kicks. She leaned back against her bed and opened it, flipping through the pages until she came to the middle. There were moving pictures of twenty people. At the top, a banner headline read, 'Top 20 male heart throbs of this year.'
Looking down, she saw a picture of Gilderoy Lockhart and cringed. Kasei had, thank god, never had a thing for him.
"Paul Wilardson, drummer for the Warlock Posse." She read. "Bust thirty-three drums in one concert, all time record. It's said he has live toads inside and that's what makes the unique sounds. That's not why we like him though, his sexy smile and deep eyes remind us of why he can rock our world any day." Hailey looked at the picture, scoffing. He really was not that rockin'.
Scanning down she found a picture of a guy she found attractive. Pierre Thistle, now he was sexy! He actually looked semi-normal compared to some of the others around here. The only thing different about him was the antlers growing out of the side of his head. "Like a buck." Hailey muttered.
Her eyes caught on the wizard above him. He had dark hair and his eyes shifted from one side of the picture to the other. There was something so dark and mysterious about him, even though she'd never met him she could see a flash of something behind his eyes. "Harry Potter." She read quietly, pausing to again look at his face. "The boy who lived."
hey ppl. hope you liked it.
ashlyns: do you think they liked it?
MorganS: Of Course they liked it, though... they might not have... there was no kissing...
ashlyns: shutup already!
MorganS: How rude! i'm being honest and you reprimand me for it, sheesh...
ashlyns: Yeah, ok, whatever, see yas all the Reviewers, i mean possible Reviewers.
hope you liked our first chapter good enough to come back and read the secon, it gets better, we promise.
MorganS. & ashlyns