Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Twilight.
Author's Note: Just a random idea that wouldn't leave me alone. Oneshot for now, but I might expand on it at a latter date. I have some ideas, but I kind of want to rewrite EF more since I feel like I rushed through it.
This had to be some kind of joke, only Bella wasn't getting the punch line. With the letter grasped tightly in her hand she made her way towards the kitchen. She carelessly tossed it onto the counter and began the motions to make up a bowl of cereal. Before she sat down to eat, Bella turned on the coffee maker. Lord knows her mother could be moody without a cup. Snatching up her breakfast, she sat down at the small table to eat. She had only gotten through about half of it before swirling her spoon around in boredom. It was only six in the morning. She never normally got up so early on weekends, but... With a sigh she stood up to throw out her soggy cereal and rinse out her bowl. She had just placed it in the dishwasher when her mom finally walked in.
The girl pulled herself up to sit on the counter and watched in amusement as Renee sluggishly made her way towards the coffee maker. The woman fumbled with her mug as she poured herself some coffee. Bella huffed in annoyance as she spilled the beverage all over the place. In times like this, Bella felt more like the adult in their relationship. As Renee made her way to the table, Bella hopped down and grabbed some napkins to clean up. The girl laughed when she startled her.
"Bella! I didn't see you there. How long have you been up?"
Bella exhaled in resignation before turning to her mother. "An owl woke me up by pecking on my window." The sad thing about that statement was that neither of them were surprised. Weird things always happened around Bella. So by now it was just easier to shrug them off and ignore them. She rolled her eyes at Renee's bemused look and soaked up the spillage before throwing the towels away.
"An owl, huh? So since before dawn then." Renee responded with a raise of her brow. Bella shrugged with indifference. It was already weird enough that an owl was pecking on her window. Better to just leave out the small detail that she'd woken up at five-thirty and the sun was already peeking up over horizon by then. She glanced around till she spotted her letter and walked over to grab it. Bella made her way back to the table to sit opposite of Renee and tossed it in front of her. Renee glanced at it before giving her a questioning look.
"It had a letter tied to it's leg." She explained. At her mother's look of disbelief she shrugged in a what-else-was-I-supposed-to-do sort of way. They both sat there staring at it as if it was cursed or something. Renee took a long sip of her coffee before asking what it said. Bella snorted, "It's a joke. Something about me being accepted into a school for magic. The school has this bizarre name, Hogwick or something and the supply list has got to be bogus. One cauldron? One wand? They could have been more creative then that, like it's such an obvious stereotype."
"You can't really believe it's fake. Why would someone get an owl to deliver it if it was just a prank when it would have been easier to just stick it the mail box." Renee reasoned and reached out to grasp it. She hummed and snorted as she scanned through it's contents. Bella huffed at her mother. Alright, so it was a little extreme for just some prank. But come on, magic? She rolled her eyes. As if.
"Magic isn't real. So if it is legit then we need to move because I am not dealing with crazy witch people." She told Renee. Bella raised an eyebrow in response to the woman's disapproving look. Very clearing telling her, 'Oh, was that rude? Well get over it. Cause you raised me like this'. Her mother sighed and looked upwards as if praying for patience.
"We aren't moving." Renee gave her a firm look. Setting her coffee down, she reread the letter more carefully. Her face grew more and more skeptical as she did. "It says Hogwarts not Hogwick and it looks like the schools in Scotland. There is no way they sent an owl that far." Bella grinned in triumph, but Renee's next actions quickly snapped her out of her brief victory. The woman stood up and shuffled around in search of something. Bella watched as she sat back down and grinned proudly at the mess she returned with. Renee glanced at her and her smile widened. She plucked up a pen and pulled a piece of paper closer to her. "I'm going to send them a reply."
Bella slouched down in her chair and stared at her in disbelief. "You can't be serious. How are you going to send it? It's not like the owl is waiting in my room or something."
Renee paused in her writing with a frown. She looked at her daughter before shrugging. Bella snorted when she went back to writing and told her she'd figure something out. The girl gave her and the letter a dismissive look before mumbling that she was going to her room to read. Renee waved her off with a comment to have fun.
Bella huffed and grumbled the whole way to her room. On the off chance that her mother found a way to send a reply and witches actually showed up on her doorstep. Then Bella would gladly throw all of her books away. Luckily her precious collection was safe, because there was no way magic was real, no way.