Chapter 1
… and Sirius squeezed her hand before they joined their friends on the Hogwarts express for their last ride home. Yes she was ready, the life after Hogwarts could come, after all she wasn't alone.
The End
Slightly sniffing, Marianne searched for a tissue, that last story had been absolutely spell bounding, she had even cried during a few scenes. The young woman saved the Harry Potter story as one of her favorites before she went back to her Fanfiction Account to see if another story had been updated during the time she had read this one. Incidentally her gaze landed on the computer clock and she groaned.
Half past one, when had it become that late?
Damn it and tomorrow she had P.E. with her class of third years, god damn it! Mournfully she looked at the screen, oh the time travel Naruto story had been updated,... hhm oh well just that chapter and then she would go to bed, honest!
She finally went to bed ten minutes to two a.m., not good! She would have to wake up at six thirty, that just left her four and a half hours to catch some sleep before her little nine year old hellions would suck the life out of her. She loved her kids, she really did, and they were more or less angels inside the classroom but twenty five energetic nine year olds and only three ten minute breaks and an hour lunch time were the recipe for mischief and mayhem.
The avid fanfiction reader that just went to bed was the twenty four year old Marianne Kenneth, a primary school teacher in London. She had long brownish hair which was nothing that stood out in the crowd, light blue eyes and reading glasses. Marianne was neither very pretty nor butt ugly, she was just a regular young woman like millions of others who was living her life in a big city, central London to be exact.
Okay maybe not completely regular, the young primary school teacher had this awesome loft apartment right in the middle of London, a property for which hundreds of girls would kill for. The loft lay right above her landlady's flat. The woman was in her late seventies and so Marianne would shop for her once or twice a week and pay her sixty percent of her income to live in this dream come true apartment but oh well everything else about her was average.
Average height, weight, hair, eyes, even her grades had been average in both school and college! So yeah her life was pretty average.
The only thing other than her apartment that was not average was her social life; it was below average, even abysmal.
Don't misunderstand, Marianne was well liked by her co- workers and she would occasionally join them for a drink after work but beside that she had neither close friends nor family that would make up for her lack of contact. And that wasn't because they were dead or lived somewhere on the other half of the planet and couldn't visit her, no it was simply because her parents didn't show any real interest in their daughter, they hadn't since she graduated and went off to college and the friendships that she had in school and college just fell apart through the lack of contact. To be honest Marianne never had missed this social contact, she was perfectly fine to sit in her apartment and read on her computer, listen to music or watch a movie, all things that you could do alone.
Same with her love life, she never had fallen in love before. Oh sure she had some lovers in her life and went very infrequently on dates but that was it and just like the other social contact she didn't crave it or at least she thought she didn't.
Another reason for her lack of social life was her tendency to blush and just stay quiet. She wasn't one that drew attention to herself, she liked to stay in the background and observe. It was even a wonder that she became a teacher, the only reason why she even considered it was because her love for children was bigger than her shyness and she wanted to be independent as fast as possible.
But oh well back to the following day; suffice to say that after Marianne let her students go at three p.m. she was completely exhausted and ready to call it a day. And exactly that she did, after buying groceries for both her and Mrs. Audrey, the young woman fell asleep quarter to nine in front of her TV on the first Tuesday of October 2012.
When she woke up she was somewhere completely different.
