I do not own Harry Potter. I only own Dianna Cross and William Cross.
Story start
A young twenty-three year old woman named Dianna Cross sat at her office as she pondered an issue that has been bugging her ever since she started her job as a psychiatrist. Dianna has become a successful psychiatrist and you would think that she is content with her life as it is, but something is missing. Dianna has always wanted a child of her own, even though people think she is too young and that she should get a boyfriend first. A man is not what Dianna wants at the moment. All she wants is to adopt a child and raise that child as her own. Her family and friends are confused as to why she wants a child, but there is just some strange feeling inside of Dianna telling her to adopt a child now.
When Dianna is not helping or talking to a client, she is online researching different orphanages and children that are up for adoption. It takes a couple of days before Dianna finds a small orphanage in the city of London in England. Dianna surfs the orphanage's website and comes across a picture of a young baby boy. The baby boy in the picture has a head of dark brown hair and hazel eyes. Dianna seems to be captured by this young baby's picture and she can't seem to look at any other children that are up for adoption. She looks at the baby's bio and finds out that the child is only nine months old, and that his family is deceased. There is no list of why or how his family came to be deceased. Also there is no name for the child.
Dianna finds it strange for the child not to have a name, but she just shrugs and calls her family. Her family tries all that they can to make her change her mind on adopting a child, but Dianna does not give in to their attempts. Finally her family and friends give in to her decision and she calls the orphanage. The call is long-distance so it will cost her a good bit, but Dianna could care less.
The orphanage worker who picks up the phone seems very excited and happy when Dianna says that she wants to adopt the young baby boy. The orphanage worker starts informing Dianna that she will have to come to London and meet the manager of the orphanage and the young baby boy. The orphanage worker says that they want to do this so they can see how the baby boy reacts to her, and she will also need to stay in London for a while so the baby can get use to being around her. Then if after the baby boy has gotten use to her, and the paperwork has all been filled out then she can take the baby boy and go home.
Dianna agrees to this idea and she books a flight to London and a hotel to stay in while she is there. The night before her trip she says her goodbyes to her friends and family and she packs everything that she will need. She placed a wrapped box in her suitcase and smiled softly. Inside of the gift box was a small brown teddy bear. She bought the bear a few days before and she got it for the young baby boy that might be her son. She zipped her suitcase closed and placed it and her traveling bag by her bedroom door. Dianna walked into her bathroom and looked in the mirror. She had light brown hair past her shoulders. Her hair had a slight wave in it, but she usually straightened it with a straightening iron. She had small hazel eyes, but they fit her face well. She was tall and had a slim figure, and many people that she knew always said she was as skinny as a toothpick, but she was healthy and that was all that mattered.
Even though she worked a lot, she still made time to do stuff outside and because of that she had a nice tan complexion. Dianna smiled and quickly took a shower and got ready for bed. Later as she laid her head on her pillow she made a wish that everything would work out.
The next morning, Dianna woke up very early and put on some comfy clothes and her tennis shoes. She grabbed her purse and carry-on-bag with one hand, and pulled her suitcase with the other. She locked her house door and saw her father's car in her driveway. She did not feel safe taking her own car and leaving it at the airport, so she asked her father to take her and drop her off. She smiled and got in the passenger seat after having put her bags in the trunk of the car. Her father sighed and said, "Are you sure about this Dianna?" Dianna could hear the doubt and apprehension in her father's voice and she just smiled. "I'm sure dad. You and mom worry way too much. I've gotten an education, I'm doing well at my job, and I'm financially stable to adopt a child. I know you think I should find a guy and marry him and then have kids, but I don't want a man in my life right now."
Her dad just chuckled and said, "You never were big on dating or anything like that while you were going up. You was always worried about your," "Education," Dianna finished for him.
The two of them laughed and had a calming conversation on the way to the airport. Dianna's phone rang when they were only five miles away from the airport and it was her mom calling her. "Hello mom," Dianna said and she could hear her mom fretting with the phone.
"Dianna you be careful over there in London. I'm not saying that anything bad is going to happen, I just want you to be safe," her mother said and Dianna gave her dad a glare as he chuckled at her. "Don't worry mom, I've got pepper spray and I know self-defense so I think I'll be fine," Dianna said and her mom kept going on and on as her father drove to the airport. Finally when the car parked in the airport parking lot, Dianna's mom says her goodbyes and Dianna closed her cell-phone.
"You know she just worries about you," her dad said and Dianna nodded. She gave her dad one last hug and got out of the car. Dianna got her stuff out of the trunk and headed into the airport. It seemed like luck was on her side as she walked through all of the necessary things required of her, and she did not have to deal with a large crowd. Dianna handed her ticket to the attendant at the boarding gate and she was allowed to pass into the plane.
Dianna did not get first class tickets because she didn't really see that much need to. The stewardess directs her to her seat and she ends up by the window. A little old lady sits down in the seat beside her and Dianna begins a conversation with the old lady. The old lady is very kind and Dianna never gets bored on the flight. When she wasn't talking to the nice woman beside her, she was either sleeping or eating airplane food. The food was not that bad, but it was not the greatest thing she had ever eaten before.
After hours of being stuck on the plane, the light to buckle your seatbelts came on. Dianna woke up the sleeping woman beside her and they both buckled their seatbelts. Soon the plane starts its descent to the ground and Dianna watches the ground come closer as she looks out the window. The plane makes a nice landing and Dianna lets out a sigh of relief. Dianna had finished her first flight and she had made it back to land in one piece. Her mother would be able to breathe a little bit easier.
After Dianna exited the plane and got all of her luggage, she got a taxi and went to her hotel. The receptionist at the front desk in the lobby greeted her with a smile and handed the keys to her room. Dianna's room is on the fifth floor and she thanked the receptionist and got on the elevator. A few other people got on the elevator with her and she smiled when she saw a young mother and a little girl on the elevator with her. Dianna prayed that soon she would be able to be a mother, and hopefully if everything went well at the orphanage then she would be.
She exits the elevator when it reaches her floor and she heads down the hall to her room. The hotel hallway is very nicely decorated and it gives a calm feeling to the people staying in the hotel. Dianna reaches her room and puts the key in the key-hole and opens the door. A queen size bed is in the center of the room and two doors are on the right wall. Dianna set her luggage down beside the bed and she walked over to the glass sliding doors which led to a balcony. She opened one of the glass doors and stepped out onto the balcony. The view of the city was amazing. She could not see any well known spots, but she could see the life that London thrived with. So many different people from all over lived in this city, and in a way Dianna longed to live here as well.
She sighed with a soft smile and went back inside her hotel room and closed the glass door behind her. "I need to make an appointment with the orphanage," Dianna said to herself in thought as she pulled her cell-phone out of her pocket. She dialed the orphanage's phone number and after two rings the phone was picked up. The same lady that Dianna had talked to days ago answered the phone. The worker sounded a little tired, but she brightened right up when she heard Dianna's voice on the other end. Kids were running all around the orphanage and Dianna smiled as she heard the children laughing in glee.
"Hello Ms. Cross how may I help you?" the woman asked. "Hello Mrs. Newberry, I'm here in London today and I was wondering if I could schedule a time to come and talk with your superior and see the young baby boy today," Dianna said to the woman on the other line. Mrs. Newberry smiled and informed Dianna that she could come to the orphanage at two o'clock that afternoon. Mrs. Newberry gave Dianna directions to the orphanage.
Dianna thanked Mrs. Newberry and hung up the phone. She put her cell-phone back in her pocket and decided to take a quick shower and change clothes, and then she would go out on the town and find a little restaurant to grab something to eat. The airplane food did not really fill up her stomach. Dianna opened one of the doors and found the closet. "Wrong door," she said with a chuckle. She opened the only other door in the room and found the bathroom. The bathroom was not spectacular or anything really fancy, but it had a toilet, sink, shower, and mirror. In other words it had all the necessities that Dianna would need while staying in this hotel.
She takes a quick shower and dries her hair. She decides not to straighten her light brown hair and she puts on a cute t-shirt and some light denim blue jeans. She slips on her black sandals and slips her cell-phone in her jeans pocket. She places her hotel key in her purse and slips her purse on her right shoulder. She exits her hotel room and locks the door. She gets back on the elevator and this time she is alone in the elevator as she heads to the lobby. She walks up to the receptionist in the lobby and asks if there are any small and nice restaurants around the area. The receptionist nods and gives Dianna a map of the city. The receptionist draws a path on the map with a yellow highlighter and circles the spot where some nice little restaurants are. Dianna thanks the receptionist and heads out of the hotel.
Some people on the street give her some silly glances as she looks at her map every now and then to make sure she is heading the right way to the restaurant, but she just smiled at the staring people and continued on her way. After a seven minute walk she comes across a little restaurant and smiles as she smells delicious food inside. She enters the restaurant and puts the map in her purse.
One of the workers in the restaurant directs her to an empty table and she takes in the décor of the restaurant. Pictures of people famous and not famous line the walls. The people in the restaurant are all smiling and enjoying conversations with one another, and some people are reading a book as they drink some tea or coffee. It was hard for Dianna to tell as she peered around the restaurant. Soon her waiter came to her table and he looked like a young boy of sixteen. He had curly blonde hair with blue eyes and a pale complexion.
"Hello miss what can I get you today?" he asked and Dianna smiled. "I would like a cup chamomile tea and a turkey sandwich please," Dianna said and the boy smiled. "Well my name is Charlie and if you need anything else then call for me," the waiter said and he disappeared into the kitchen with a smile directed toward Dianna.
Dianna did not have to wait very long before Charlie came back out of the kitchen with her order. Dianna thanked him and he walked off to take the orders of other customers. Dianna checked her watch and saw that it was 1:30 p.m. "I need to get going," she thought as she motioned for Charlie to come over. "I need my ticket please," she said and he pulled it out of his pocket. "You pay for you meal at the cashier up there," Charlie said as he pointed at a cashier on a bar. "Thank you Charlie you were a very good waiter," Dianna said and she handed him a four dollar tip. The young man smiled and thanked Dianna. Dianna smiled and back and said, "You're welcome."
Charlie was called away to the kitchen and Dianna headed to the cashier at the bar. The cashier was a middle-aged woman and Dianna greeted her with a smile. "Hello miss did you enjoy your meal?" the woman asked. Dianna smiled and said, "It was delicious, and this restaurant is very nice. I'll remember to stop by here again." The cashier smiled and Dianna gave her the ticket.
The cashier rung up the amount and Dianna paid the amount for the meal. She left the restaurant and started heading down the sidewalk to the orphanage. Again she had to pull out the map that the receptionist had given her, and she got a few silly stares again. "I know I'm a tourist but you do not have to stare," she thought as she looked at a group of teenagers staring at her. The group of teenagers laughed and Dianna just rolled her eyes and walked across the street.
Soon she came across the orphanage and it was a very welcoming sight. The orphanage was not amazing, but it was not rundown or falling apart. Happy children could be heard from the outside of the building as she walked up the front steps. She knocked on the door and stepped inside when no one opened the door after a moment.
