Chapter one: Chamber of Secrets
End of the summer
"Oh summer." I said talking to myself under our big willow tree in front of our house. I remembered the days before I went to Hogwarts, when I attended Winfield Primary. I always wished the summer would last forever, so of course, it zoomed by faster than a golden snitch. Now I am counting the days until I can finally get back to Hogwarts. The summer was going so slow, much to slow for my taste. I looked at my watch, three days, eleven hours, and thirty two minuets till I would be back on the Hogwarts Express. Three days, two hours, and thirty two minuets till I could see my best friend, Valerie Blue, and secret crush, Harry Potter. My heart always beat faster when I thought if him.
I turned twelve about a month ago, July 31, to be exact. I had been hoping for the return of my marauders map, which had been stolen last year. I also had been hoping to find out my older sister, Jessica's secret. In my previous year I had accidentally overheard Jessica talking to my mom, telling her that she was tired of keeping this secret from me. It had something to do with Harry, and his late mum, Lily.
I tilted my head slightly to the right. An owl was flying towards me. Since my dad was a muggle, we had to live in a muggle neighborhood. I had only received one owl, listing all the the things I would need to go back to Hogwarts, but Jessica had received over twenty in the past month. Most of them telling the date of a ministry job, which is where she wanted to go after she graduated Hogwarts, which, she did.
It must be so fun to be able to use magic, whenever you wanted. I still had what my mom called, The Trace. She said until I graduated Hogwarts, if I did any magic, outside of school, I could be expelled. Especially in the presence of a muggle. It really didn't matter yet, I knew hardly any spells. I knew Wingardium Leviosar, and some other ones, but not as much as Jessica knew. Mum finally agreed to let her do little spells in the house. I likes to watch Jessica do magic. One of my favorites she did was Accio.
I starred at the owl, and it starred back with its huge, non-blinking eyes. It didn't have a letter tied to its leg which I thought weird considering the fact Jessica was indeed expecting letter.
I heard the familiar sound of bicycle tires on the road. I again turned my head slightly to the left to see Violet Hamlet riding her expensive, pink bike. Violet's dad is owner of Hamlet Inc. so he makes the newest radio. They live down on Dollbar Drive, in a big marble mansion.
"Hey girls!" She called out to Tricia and Kate, her best friends, loud enough for the whole block to turn to look at her.
"What do you think of my new bike?" She yelled with a gigantic smile.
"You mean the eight hundred dollar bike you got!?" Tricia said even more loudly looking innocently smirky. Violet nodded happily.
"It's not all that." I muttered
"Oh! You don't like it? Probably just never seen anything as pretty." She smirked , and Tricia and Kate started to giggle.
"Just get out of my face." Mom had warned me, even though I didn't like Violet, didn't mean I had to be rude.
"Fine, c'mon girls. Lets get out of Amber's ugly, coward face!"
There were gasps and "ohh" thrown around. I stood up clenching my book I was reading.
"Where ya going, Jackson!?" Taunted Violet as I got up to leave. I turned around and walked straight up to her face and before I could stop myself, my book flew into her face. WHAM!
