Prologue

I walked down the lonely dirt road beside the woods in the late afternoon. It was warm and sunny. The breeze was filled with a sweet scent of honeysuckle and the leaves rustled in the wind. I wasn't sure where I was going, neither did I care. I was feeling lost and defeated that day. I shuffled my feet as I walked towards my house. I had a bad feeling about it somehow, like something bad was gonna happen.

I finally reached home and was greeted with a scary scold from my sister, "what took you so long! We've been worried sick!''.

"I was coming home anyway," I said in a low voice and walked up to my room, thought swarming in my brain. My sister followed me, I knew she would. "Where were you?'' , she asked annoyingly. "Oh come on Cece! I was walking! Can't it take time to walk home!?", I replied angrily. "Well, it takes fifteen minutes to reach home from your school, even when you're walking. You took twenty!". It was getting annoying for me.

"For god's sake Cece! Just five minutes late! What's the big deal huh?".

"Yeah! Where were you these five minutes?! Tell me, now!", she demanded.

"What? I was walking slow! Can't I walk slow? What's the matter with you! I walk slow or fast what's your problem in this huh?", I scolded. She didn't say anything after that, and left the room, closing the door behind her, and leaving me in a big confusion.

I had a quick shower and I got ready for dinner soon. All the time, I was thinking about the short, angry conversation with my sister. Something was not right when I was talking to her. She wasn't usually in this mood. I tried to concentrate more.

"Wh..", a short sound escaped my mouth when I noticed something. When I was talking to her, there was a certain 'lifelessness' in her eyes. I walked up to her, she was standing by the fridge in the kitchen. Her face was turned away from me.

'C..Cece..', I stammered, she didn't listen.

"Cece…?", I called again.

She slowly turned around, I backed off. Something was seriously wrong. That look on her face, I was so terrified that I couldn't hold on any longer. I screamed, screamed at the top of my voice. I had almost deafened myself.

Her face was so inhuman, her eyes iris less, and her frown almost made her look like a demon! I walked backwards when I realized she was gradually dragging her feet towards me. I stumbled a couple of times and almost fell once. There were so many thoughts storming inside my mind that I couldn't figure out what to do. My brain was giving me only one command, one command to run, as fast as I could and as far as my legs could take me.

I was out of my control, and so I stormed out of the door, not thinking of where I would go. I saw a busy road in front of me, and across the road, the forest I thought was unending. I couldn't help but cross the road, because there was my sister, not herself, and with a huge knife in her hand, and me as her target.

For a moment, there was no car passing by, and I thought, here's my chance. My sister screamed behind me in a monster like voice. I looked at her one last time and dashed towards the woods. I was just in the middle of the road, when a fast car came and whizzed past me, almost running over me. That was a really close one, I thought. I didn't look back after that, neither did I care where I was going. This was the worst day of my life. I had somehow 'lost' lost my sister, and my sanity too, I suppose. Because the day had some more plans for me, and my life was about to change, forever.

A/N : I don't have the habit of writing author notes, because the deviate us from the actual story, so this is the first and last one I m writing. hope u like the story, and obviously, I don't own HP..