"What do you mean we have to move!?" I yelled at my mother.
My name is Kathryn Sansota. I live in Australia with my mother I have two older brothers and of course I am the runt of the family. My father walked out on us when I was young and nobody will tell me why .My mother said that he just needed some space, I took that as he was ashamed of us. My oldest brother Malcolm is more like my father then my brother; you could say that he knew my father more than he said he did. My other brother is Cody he is the one I look up to the most. If I could I would be out in the sun maybe even of my board riding the waves. Yes, I am a surfer and the best in the district I must add. The reason we have to move is because there is no Wizarding school anywhere close to us. We would be moving to England. So I could attend Hogwarts School.
"Who said I wanted to go to that stupid school anyway!" I was screaming. I would cry but I never cried not even when I am alone in my room.
"You will survive, stop screaming and being a baby." Malcolm said in his annoying tone that he always used with me.
"I can't take this anymore." I ran to get my board and out the door not caring that my mother was yelling at me.
I was ready to jump in the water to hide the fact that I was crying when someone grabbed my arm. I turned around to see a tall man with a scary look in his eyes. I tried to get out of his grip but to no avail. "Oh, come on little lamb, with a swimsuit like that you were just asking for me to come to you." He said with a smirk. I could tell he was just looking at me because I was small and frail.
"No I don't, please let go, it hurts." I said softly. He leaned into my ear and whispered, "Why don't we go back to my place and have some fun." After that I blacked out. I know, not the best time.
"-yn, Kathryn are you awake. Are you alright?" I heard a voice ask.
"Don't touch me!" I yelled and accidentally punched the man in the face.
"OW. Judging by your reaction I can tell that Lexy took over didn't she?" Cody said rubbing his face.
"Cody! Why are you here?" I asked with a confused look on my face.
Some of you may be very confused when Cody said that Lexy took over. Lexy is like my other self she takes over when I feel like I'm at my limit, either when I am stressed or completely confused. Cody, Malcolm, and mother say that she isn't the best person to get mad. Somehow she can make a grown man beg on the ground for mercy. I get quite embarrassed when she takes over.
"I came to check up on you, you have been out for hours and I was worried." Cody said still rubbing his cheek.
"Oh, I am sorry for hitting and worrying you," I said gladly "but I still don't forgive you for not taking my side in the argument at home." He sighed in defeat and offered me a hand. I took the hand to get up but then quickly pushed him down. "OW, what was that for?" he said rubbing his bum
"I can't have you taking me home now, can I?" I said while running toward the water to finally relax myself. I paddled further and further into the ocean and just lay on my board and napped for a while. I awoke to a nudge on my leg. I thought I was just a fish or something else small but I was wrong. I was in a daze until it bit my leg. I jumped up to see it was a shark. It was small enough not to do much damage but it still hurt like hell. I looked at my leg when it let it go and swam off( no chunk of flesh was missing it was just like a shaving scrape). It was bleeding, but not bad. I looked out further into the ocean to see a potentially good wave and decided that I would ride that one then go home I swam closer to the wave and waited for it to come to me. This would be the best time to think over the things that my mother had told me earlier that day, but if I got two stressed Lexy would take over and I would miss the wave an fail miserably. That was the one thing I was afraid of, letting Lexy surf. Lexy was never good at surfing, so pretty much If I can't do something she can and if I can do something she can't.
Before I knew I was riding the wave and yards away from the shore. Before I started to swim to the shore I looked to see if I could get home without being seen by some perv. The crowd was big enough so I started to swim to the shore only to find Malcolm waiting for me with an angry look on his face. As I walked towards him I put on the most innocent looking face I could muster up, which evidently wasn't that good.
"I was angry, you know how I get when I am angry no one can change my mind and if I don't relax soon Lexy will take over" I said almost pouting. Malcolm didn't say a thing after that and just handed me a towel to cover myself.
It was a very awkward walk home. Malcolm didn't say anything on the way home. When I get upset he usually yells at me for letting Lexy get the better of me. Instead we just walk home in silence. It is even harder with the look on his face. It's the look on his face that shows he isn't happy with the way things are working out. It is a bit scary not knowing what isn't going wrong.
"What are you doing?" I ask hopefully to end the silence.
"Thinking," He says briefly.
"Ok," I said not pleased with the answer, "what are you thinking about?"
"I-I'll tell you later." Malcolm said his expression become more concerned.
Okay now I am really worried. He is never worried. Mad yes. But worried, never. It went back to silence after that. What is he hiding from me. It is hard to imaging but Malcolm use to be my favorite brother, when I came to secrets. Although that was before he was old enough to actually understand what my father meant by "I am never come back here, I am getting the Hell out of here." After that he has been somewhat a prick and not fun at all and I stopped telling him my secrets.
"Hello dear, get up to your room and put on some proper clothes, pack your things, except for your boards they are being sold with the house." My mother tells me like it would be as easy as counting to five. I am on the verge of tear when I get home and all she has to say is leaving the one thing you love the most here. You will never see it again. I run to my room and slam the door shut. I climb up to my tower, well not really a tower just a small loft that is connected to my room by a spiral staircase.
After entering my tower all I find left is what used to be my ferret, Knickers, cage. I know that my mother had made plans for getting him to stay with relative but right now that snow white ferret is all that is getting me through the days that past me by like months. I would usually go look for him because he likes to get out of his cage and well it worries me that my mother has finally kicked him out.
To my disapproval my mother barges through my door in the disease infested place that is my room. Okay I am not the neatest person in the world but is still keep my room presentable. She starts by ripping out the clothes out of my closet and shoves them into a luggage, then she moves to the drawers and after what seems to feel like an eternity she sets a dress on the now stripped bed and had shoes and accessories to go with it. I am about to leave my tower when I notice that Knickers has finally came back with the letter from Hogwarts. Earlier this year when I received my letter from Hogwarts, it said I could only bring a cat, owl, or toad. This angered me to no end, so I wrote a response saying that I would like to bring my ferret.
About halfway through the letter I am trying hardest not to scream in delight. Professor Dumbledore had said yes for allowing Knickers to come. This made moving just a tad bit better, but I still wanted to stay. I reluctantly went down the stairs of my tower and put on the outfit my mother had laid out for me.
"Knickers, come" I said sternly, and reach out my arm. Knickers knew what this meant so he jumped down from his ledge of my tower and gracefully landed on my arm and curled up around my neck.
I had my things in my luggage and in my hand. We were moving. I still didn't want it to be true. We were to be stay at an old family friend's house for the time being while we wait for mother pick a "suitable" home. We were using Floo powder to reach our temporary home. I am glad that I get to learn at the most well known Wizarding School, but something feels wrong about stay at someone's house who I have never met. They are friends of my mother's but it still bothered me. I guess I was the only one that it bothered because Cody was excited, well from my point of view. Using the Floo network is much faster but it gives me a headache and well sometimes Lexy takes over when I get to my destination. I hope that it isn't the case this time. I stepped into the fireplace and Malcolm said.
"Malfoy Manor."
With those two words my life was changed forever.