Life Will Never Be The Same- Arabella Jane

Chapter 1- A Telling off and A Dinner

Today was just another, plain, boring day thought Hermione Granger lying on her single mattress staring around the newly painted light orange walls even though she didn't hate orange she didn't like it either. Hermione went to her small writing desk where she loved to sit and read and quickly wrote a short letter to the burrow asking if she could come and stay for the remainder of the summer holidays, she gave it to Guava her brand new owl she had received from all the members of the Order for making Head Girl this year.

As she sat down at the desk she had time to think about the upcoming holidays. I shouldn't be here for too long this time she thought as she hummed to her favorite song on her I-pod. Harry and Ron her best friends would rescue her from crazy Hilary. Hermione personally didn't think that she had done anything wrong to deserve being grounded once again, though her parents always were uptight when it came to their precious angelic daughter Hilary her twin sister Lena was a far second best in their eyes.

Both were eleven and it would be interesting to see what schools they would be placed in based on their grades. In recent years a new school system was introduced, one where your grades determined which school would accept you for the next semester. I had no doubt that Lena would do fine but Hilary on the other hand, well my parents may have a shock coming when the find out she flunked and has to repeat in a low grade school. Hahaha it was funny thinking about it. She couldn't blame her lack of success on anyone else this time, maybe then my parents might wake up to reality, she is the one who causes trouble in this family not Lena and I.

I had only gone down to the corner shop for about 10 minutes to by some bread and milk that they needed. Apparently Hilary had wanted to go to the shop as well, since I hadn't wanted the trouble of taking the brat, I have been grounded for a week on the charge of being un-thoughtful and selfish.

"ARGH! What's new!?"

Hermione sighed this was why she preferred to remain away from home. Everyone thought her life to be perfect. With loving parents and siblings and grades that would put some ministry officials to shame. And though from the outside looking in you would swear everything was fine Hermione knew better she was miserable and not because she was grounded but because her parents didn't seem to care what she did unless it affected the apple of their eyes her sister Hilary. They always made it completely clear that she wasn't really wanted even thought they had been the ones to adopt her! Well that was before the twins but still it wasn't fair.

"Why couldn't someone else have adopted me?"

She couldn't wait to get back to Hogwarts for her final year and then move out to her own apartment so that she could have the life she wanted- one that wasn't dictated by the will of her manipulative younger spoiled brat of a sister. She would even ask Lena to move in too which would be a huge responsibility, but it was something that she and Helena had been discussing for quite some time now.

"HERMIONE- DINNER- HERMIONE NOW!" yelled her dad -from the dining room she guessed as it was too much hassle to come and get her.

She wasn't hungry, but to save arguments she went down anyway. On the way down she remembered that it hadn't always been this way, her parents had loved her and she had been treated as if she were a princess- that was until Hilary came along. Though she couldn't help but be thankful because through all the bad times after the twins birth, her and Lena had always had each other.

The other four members of her family were already seated and had already gotten half way through their food when I reached the dining room. They had started without her again. I sighed and took the only remaining chair between her two sisters where Hilary promptly started to pick at Lena's faults with each other. Her parents ate in silence glancing every now and then to watch Helena be tormented by Hilary with a smile on their faces for their little girl. I decided to say something when I saw Lena start to tear.

"Hilary, can't you just be quite for a change?"I asked having to raise my voice to be heard.

"NO!" Hilary snarled at me being the horror she was.

"Hermione, Hilary is only teasing Helena" my dad interjected with a warning tone.

Then because she wanted the attention back on her- not that she didn't get enough of it anyway- but Hilary decided to chuck a tantrum. I sat there with my eyes wide as she threw her remaining food-plate and all at my mother and then broke down 'fake crying'.

"She made me do it mommy- Evil Hermione and all her trouble magic!" she sobbed. "She's trying to make me seem bad- you HAVE to believe me!"

I could feel the anger growing with each word she said, I could feel my skin heating and flushing- she was going to pay the little lying wench. Hilary was such a manipulative little girl and in this moment I hated her.

"Hermione! What have we told you about using curses on your sister! What has she ever done to you?" hissed my mother.

"I didn't… she's… you… believe… Whatever" I huffed giving up the fight, my steam blew away. My comment earned me more disapproving looks from both my parents. The only one who seemed sorry for me was actually Helena she is the sweetest little girl- the complete opposite to her twin which is so cliché.

After the girls and my parents finished their meal they left the table and retired to the sitting room to watch Sea Patrol a new Australian drama which had started airing a few weeks back. When I was done I went to join them.