Only Eleven

-Marius Black- is *ONLY* eleven.

*ONLY* eleven when he found he was NOT a wizard like his brother Pollux.
NOT *magical* like his sisters Cassiopeia and Dorea.

*ONLY* eleven when he was disowned by his EVER so *loving* parents.

(NOT)

So Marius LEFT. He LEFT when he was *ONLY* eleven, no knowledge of the M U G G L E world.

L o n d o n was a scary place.

People yelling at him to ¡SCRAM!

N e w people at every *turn*.

One day the hunger is too much.

He -sneaks- up to a f r u i t cart, steals an a p p l e, and -RUNS- away.

Suddenly CAUGHT, he tries to s q u i r m out of the policeman's grasp.

But he CAN'T.

He is taken back to the vendor.

**Sudden Salvation!**

The seller lies, even gives him another a p p l e, a c-lum-p of g r a p e s, and money to buy some f o o d.

"But *remember* to show grace to others as GOD has shown grace to you."

Sunday he goes to c h u r c h.

He meets a ~girl~ there.

~She~ *reminds* him of his little sister *gulp* Dorea.

The ~girl~, Tessa, says she can *h e l p*.

Afterward ~she~ takes -him- to a farm on the outskirts of L o n d o n with a -barn- and a ~garden~

He gets a job there, l i v i n g in the -barn-, helping the *a n i m a l s* there and taking care of the ~garden~.

He *knows* it isn't the b e s t of accommodations, but -he- doesn't care and is *HAPPY*.

Then, one day six months -later-, he is ACCUSED of a CRIME he didn't do.

Regardless of his *protests* he is F I R E D.

Even though -Marius Black- is *ONLY* eleven, he *knows* that

LIFE isn't *fair*.