"Emily! Get out of bed now!" my annoying sister screeched from the other side of the room.
"Nughhuh" I murmured, slamming the pillow over my head to try and block out any noise that she would most definitely try to make next.
"Mum's coming and you know what happens when she finds you STILL asleep on Easter Morning!"
Oh. Crap. I slept in on Easter Morning. Mum is going to KILL me! Oh no oh no oh no! I think I bounded out of bed the fastest that I've ever bounded… ever.
"Lily! Why on earth didn't you get me up before!" I screamed across the room.
"I tried but you nearly punched me in the nose! You should work on that by the way…" She added using wild hand gestures.
I glared at her. "I can't help if you were trying to wake me up out of my deep slumber!".
Then I realized that Mum was halfway up the stairs. I quickly searched around the room, looking for something acceptable to wear. I finally found a green three-quarter-length T-Shirt, some jeans and my green hi-top converse. Damn Mum and her silly traditions. Damn Dad and his obsession with green clothing! It's nearly Lily's and my birthday soon. Yeah, its tomorrow! Oh I didn't tell you? Oh Lily is just my identical twin sister. Well, we're not really identical, our hair is different. Hers more like resembling fire, with golden streaks weaving their way into it. Whilst mine was sort of boring. Dark brown with hardly any natural interesting-ing stuff in it. Boring if you ask me. But our eyes are what are my favourite body feature. Bright green and sort of almoundy in shape. Don't ask me why, but I love them. And Dad just can't get enough of them though. So I come back to one of my main points; Damn Dad and his obsession with green clothing! Petunia Evans, who is our sister, looks nothing at all like us. You wouldn't be able to tell that we were related if you didn't know us. She had a very long neck, and wavy sort of blonde hair. She always kept it short, I don't know why personally, because I think that it would look absolutely gorgeous if it was grown long like mine. Lily had it around her shoulders, but she wants to grow it out. Mine is halfway down my back and I love its length. Sure it's hard to manage sometimes, but I love long hair. Whether it be on a boy or a girl. Pet' has dark brown eyes, sort of like wet wood, in the forest just after it had rained. I love that smell… unfortunately, you can't smell the colour of someones eyes. So, I'll stick to the real stuff if you don't mind.
"GIRLS ! I CALLED YOU HALF AN HOUR AGO! WHERE ARE YOU?" she screeched.
She wasn't normally like this, but it's not a big deal or anything, but she can be quite scary when she's stressed.
"COMING!" Lily and I yelled in unison.
"ME TOO!" Pet yelled from across the hall.
It was nice to go out with the family, Mum, Dad, Pet, Lily and I. That rarely ever happens. Only on special occasions, like this one.
They made their way out of the house, with her Dad basically jumping out of his skin. He loved Easter Sunday, for some reason, it was the happiest that Emily had seen him in so long. Happiness suited him. He was always happy, to an extent. He wasn't truly happy, unless there was something magnificent on at work or something special like that. Pet didn't look happy, she didn't like going to Church, going up and receiving the 'flesh' of Jesus Christ, and the 'blood'. Lil' and I didn't like it either, but it made mum and dad happy, so you know, it didn't really matter what we thought. Mum and Dad have a good and healthy relationship with us "children". They love us all equally, but when one of us offend, or be mean to the other, that's when they all get scary.
For example, when Pet' would call me or Lily 'freaks' or something really mean like that, Mum and Dad would scold her. I mean I love my sisters to the end of the earth and back, but when Pet' calls either Lily or I that I seem to lose all my respect for her. I don't mean like it's not as bad as some things she has called either of us before, but it still brings me down.
We pull up at the church car-park, and Dad has this huge grin on his face, like he's really excited to finally be able to see Jesus or God. Or maybe it's the fact, that as soon as we're out of church, we get to go to the bakery and celebrate the day Jesus resurrected. Yeah, my dad's not religious, well not as religious as my mum, but he has a 'cavity filled sweet-tooth'. He loves his sweets nearly as much as he loves us. At least I think he likes us 'humans' better than any sweet or pastry or something like that. We walk into the church and dad takes off his hat. The church was nearly full, as it normally is on Easter Sunday.
We slip into the back row and listen to the paster. As soon as the session is over, Dad bounds up and see's us to the door. Mum is less stressed and happy. I think that Church brings out the best in her. Even though we don't go often, because Dad and us kids can't stand it.
We walk across the street and go to the bakery, and dad orders this huge thing that will have surely poked a hole somewhere else in that mouth of his. I have a smoothie, and Lily has a donut. Pet' has a biscuit and mum has this weird kind of coffee thing, I like coffee, but only black. When I was about 10 or so, I really got into coffee since dad let me try a little of his one day. Mum got all;
"YOU CAN'T DRINK COFFEE, YOU'RE 10!" So as some sort of punishment, she made me drink black coffee, and as surprised as she was, I really liked it, so from that time in my life, I have been drinking black coffee. I know it's bad for you, but I absolutely love the smell of coffee, it just, it exhilarates me.
When we were done with the bakery, we walked back across the street and hopped into the car, and started to drive home.
My thoughts immediately turned to my birthday tomorrow, well technically it was tonight, because I was born at about 12:04 on August 13th. But I didn't mind, because we get our presents tomorrow. I can't wait for it! I wonder what I'm going to get. I don't really like material things, like clothes and stuff, but I like music and cooking. So I'm hoping for that to happen, but what I really want is for something to change in my life. I'm nearly going to be 12 and that's a huge leap in my life. I'm going to be nearly 13, and then I have to be labelled as a teenager for the next 6 years of my life. Being 12 is the last year that I'll be young. As soon as I'm 13 I will be old-ish. I need to have a change in my life; I need to live it to the full. I just wish that something interesting will happen in my life. Not just the every day to day life for Emily Evans.
We got home and it was about 5:30 in the afternoon, and because we went to Church in the later afternoon session, it was quite late. I quickly went upstairs to have a shower, and a short one at that, because if I stay in there for too long, Pet' comes and nearly rips my throat out. Not literally of course, but you know… it makes sense right? So I hop, do my business, then hop out again. I get dressed in the bathroom and then go downstairs again. Mum was cooking dinner and as soon as we ate conversation's arose.
"So Lily, how did you like church today?" Mum asked with interest.
Oh thank god mum was asking Lily and not me or Pet', because I know for a fact that Pet' and I cannot lie if our lives depended on it.
Lily started to smile and look down as she started to say;
"Mum, church was good, like every year you get to see those who love and adore Jesus and God, like you do, it really is heart-warming".
That seemed to do it because no one else talked about anything else for the rest of the time at the dinner, it wasn't an awkward silence, but more of a comfortable, happy silence. Once dinner was finished, Pet' Lil' and I started to wash up everything, with Lil' washing, me drying and Pet' putting the stuff away.
We went straight up to bed after that, like there was some kind of arranged schedule for our family. The last thought in my head that night, was;
'I need change in my life, and tomorrow, somehow, there's going to be some kind of change'
When I open my eyes, Lily is still fast asleep and by the lighting I can tell that it is very early morning, about 4:30 or 5:00. I glance down at my watch and I see that it is 5:05AM. Good, that's plenty of time to get up and get ready for the day without being hassled by Petunia or Lily. I'm sure that they mean well when they screen "EMILY GET OUT OF THE SHOWER NOW! WE'RE STINKY!", but I really like a long shower. Time to get my hair all soapy and all the time in the world, you could say, to think. Think about what you're going to have for breakfast, or what you want your life to be like in 5 or 10 years. Me, I want to be doing something important to me, like running a day-care centre for all of the little kids, that would be one of my 10 year dreams, but one of my 5 year ones… I don't know, I think that I'd really just want to be focusing on my grades and my final exams, because… NOW I'M TWELVE, IN FIVE YEARS I'M GOING TO BE AN ADULT! AGH! I decide to not have a shower, and jump on Lily because on the 13th of August, it's out special day.
"LILY! LILY LILY LILY LILY LILY LIL-" I didn't get to finish the last of that sentence because I had a fist in my face. But then a second later she realized what today was.
"EMILY EMILY EMILY EMILY EMILY EMILY EMI-"and for pay back, I didn't let her finish that sentence either.
"Ouch" I laughed as she bit down on my fist that had somehow made its way to her mouth.
"LILY do you know what today is?"
"YA-HUH!"
"AGH!"
"I KNOW!"
As soon as my parents heard we were up they were in the room and they got Petunia up with them. They handed us a few packages, when we heard the mail box make a noise. Firstly, I opened up a present assigned to me, from Petunia, and she got me a T-shirt that said on the front;
"EYES UP SOLDIER"
With a picture of a roman centurion on the front. I laughed and hugged her. It wasn't an uncomfortable hug, just one that made me happy. Then I opened one from my parents. At first I was confused as to what they got me, then I realized. Lily got the same box type of thing but she was trying to figure out what was inside. I carefully pulled the paper off the box and stared at the holes that were pierced into the thick cardboard. I screamed and then pulled the lid of the parcel. I screamed a little bit louder when I saw what was inside. It was a tiny, white kitten with brown and black patches all over her body, and bright blue eyes. Lily got a little kitten that was jet black with a white ear and four white socks. I carefully picked up the cute kitten and held her in my arms. I was so happy, I finally got a kitten all to myself, with Lily getting her own. I've always wanted a kitten and have told my parents multiple time, I just never actually thought that they would get one for me! I cooed at her, and put her down back into the box. I practically ran to my parents and pulled them into one of the biggest hugs I had ever been in. Lily quickly joined me and we started thanking them over and over again until they said that we didn't have to thank them. They thought that we were responsible young adults now and that we were able to look after their very own kitten. Then I remembered that the mail box had mail in it and I was pretty sure that it was going to be either mine or Lily's so I picked up my kitten, and ran downstairs. They were on the doorstep and were addressed to both of us. Lily quickly followed me downstairs with her cute kitten and saw the letters. Her eyes lit up and she came to me quickly picking both of the letters up. With my kitten on my arm, I carefully open up my letter, and stare at the contact inside. It said,
Dear Miss. Evans,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. School semester will begin on September 1st so please collect your school supplies from Diagon Ally before that date.
Yours Sincerely,
Minevra McGonagall
These are your school supply checklist;
Hogwarts: A history, Volume One Henrietta Bublesworth
Ancient Artefacts of the Wizarding World , Volume One Amelia Young
Underground Weasels, Volume One Charlie Unergrub
Defence Against the Dark Arts for Beginners, Volume One Thomas Trenery
Ancient Rune History, Volume One Katya Reilly
How to complete Herbology, Volume One Ellie Holmes
Potions with Peter, Volume One Peter Pyser
Three quill sets with ink in blue, red and black
+ one wand, one cloak, and if students wish, they can bring either a toad, owl, or cat.
FIRST YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED BROOMSTICKS OF THEIR OWN.
Lily and I both looked up at each other.
"No, this is impossible. There's no such thing as magic!" Lily states.
"But this does make sense Lil's, how we've both been able to do that weird stuff? This is the only knowledgeable explanation".
"Girls, are you alright?" My Mum asks us. We shake our heads and stare at her. Lily hands her the letters, and my mums eyes start to widen.
She hands the letters to Dad and Mum looks at us and says;
"Jerry! We've got witches in the family!"