Chapter One: Snowed In
Mya Longbottom listened as her best friend struggled to drag his suitcase down from the boys dormitories. He grunted with the bag's weight, but Mya only laughed a little not bothering to look up from her book. Lily stood at the top of the stairs and looked down at her older brother giving him an eye roll. James' suitcase suddenly went flying down the stairs. Everyone that was left in the common room turned towards James as he swore. Fred jumped as the contents of James' suitcase went flying.
"Really James?" He snapped turning towards his younger cousin
"It's not like it's my fault! I don't control the weight of my suitcase!" James said in response trying to defend himself
Lily came gracefully down the stairs levitating her suitcase. She gave her brother a smug look as she set it back down on the ground. She left it and went over to join Mya, and her other cousins in front of the fire.
"You could be more like your sister and use your brains?" Fred suggested laughing "That would require you to have some though."
"Come on you guys it's the holidays, we're going to be spending the whole break together. Lets not start it by fighting." Hugo suggested looking up at his two older cousins
"You better hope you didn't break mum's gift like you did last year." Lily piped up
James moaned. "Every year I drop that stupid thing."
"Every year you get told that same thing; levitate it." Lily said rolling her eyes. She then stood up and plopped down on the arm of Mya's chair. "What are you doing for Christmas?"
"Same thing I do every year." Mya shrugged "Sit around here, hide in the common room from my father."
"Christmas can't be that bad around here, is it?" Hugo asked
"With all your friends gone and your father trying to make every Christmas like mum used to? Yes." Mya said looking up and shutting her book
"Know what my favorite part about Christmas is?" James said smirking and jumping over the back of the couch, pushing in between his younger sister and best friend
"Candy?" Lucy tried
"No." Mya laughed "I know."
"What is it then Miss. Know-It-All?" James teased getting closer to her face
"Mistletoe. You trapped Kaylee, Abby, Violet, Olivia, Ali, Evelyn, Courtney, Penny…"
"We get it." James blushed covering up Mya's mouth
"Oh and lets not forget you tried to trap Dom, before you realized it was your cousin." Mya said after prying James' hand off of her mouth
"Oh shut-up." James blushed turning even more red in the face
Roxanne looked over at the clock and jumped up from the couch. "Come on the carriages are going to be leaving soon, we need to get down to the Great Hall."
She and all of her cousins rushed over and grabbed their suitcases and rushed out the door. Mya sighed and opened her book up again. She didn't notice James was standing in the doorway waiting. He waited a few seconds and then cleared his throat and blushed, as Mya looked up from her book and looked over at him.
"Wait are you still doing here? Don't you have a train to catch?" She teased him
"Well I wanted you to come down with us and see us off." James said
Mya looked over at him and then set her book down shrugging. "Sure. Might as well do something instead of sitting in front of the fire." She walked over to James and noticed he was holding his hand out for her. She blushed and hoped James wouldn't notice as she took his hand.
James lead her down the moving staircases and dragged his suitcase with the other. Somehow he managed to control it this time. They got down to the Great Hall and noticed that everyone was huddled in groups. James lead Mya over to the group that had his younger brother and sister. The two of them didn't look happy at all.
"What's wrong?" James asked letting go off Mya's hand "Why isn't anyone leaving? The train's going to be leaving soon."
"No it's not." Albus grumbled
"What do you mean?" Mya asked looking at the fourteen year old wizard
"We're snowed in! No one's allowed in or out! There's a stupid snow storm and too much snow on the tracks. We're going to miss Christmas." Lily wailed
"You wont miss Christmas Lily." Mya ushered her
"Umm hate to break it to you, but no presents, no mom and dad; no Christmas!" Lily groaned
"But you all have each other." Mya mumbled "Be thankful for that."
"Guys we're wizards, they'll get the snow cleared before Christmas and we'll be with mum and dad and most importantly all of our gifts." James insisted trying to comfort his younger sister
"James, Christmas isn't about gifts." Mya tried to speak up
The Potters ignored her. Albus looked at Mya though and shrugged. James grabbed his suitcase and started to drag it away back up towards the common room. "Come on you guys let's just go back to the dorm."
Everyone started to disappear out of the Great Hall. Mya stood still though. She saw Eli Wood who had his back leaned up against the walls to the Great Hall. Like Mya, Eli spent the Christmas break at Hogwarts every year. His parents went around the world and left before Christmas, so they had to leave him behind. Mya walked over to Eli and he could tell something was wrong with her.
"What's wrong? It's not like it's any different; we'd be here wither we were snowed in or not." Eli pointed out smiling a little at Mya
"No, it's just that everyone is pouting and all of the Christmas spirit is gone." Mya frowned
"Well mine would be too if I got told I wasn't allowed to go back home to my family."
"That's the thing, I don't think they're upset about their parents, their upset about their presents." Mya pointed out
Eli started to laugh. "Not everyone is vain and full of themselves like your best friend Mya."
"Will you help me?" Mya asked turning to her friend
Eli raised his eyebrows. "With what?"
"We're going to bring the Christmas spirit back to Hogwarts." Mya beamed taking Eli's hand and leading him up to the Gryffindor common room
Well this is the first chapter of my Holiday Special. In this Eli is in Gryffindor, he's also a Gryffindor in The Potter Boy, which I have started to write. Please give me a REVIEW and SUSCRIBE.
