Erika, Sarah and Jackie's Story Chapters: One-Two
Author's Note Number One: Just so all of you know this isn't your usual Harry Potter story. This one's unique. It's true! I mean even when Harry Potter comes into the story it isn't how you'd think.
And so you know my story is set in the year 2000. I know, weird. Anyway Lily, James and their gang are going to be fifth years in the year 2000!
Also want to say that you should remember the names Jackie, Airy, Sarah, Valarie, Loletta::pronounced Lo-lee-ta::, Cassandra and Chloe ::pronounced Clo-we::.
And please don't think the flashbacks are boring ::even though this instalment only has one flashback the other instalments will have one or two:: becase they're mostly all true up to the Zappers Zoup one. Up until then it's more like background info ::yes I know there's a lot of It, but hey, that was one of the best summers I've ever had and I remember a lot of it::. After the flashbacks it gets more exciting.
Oh, I don't want to forget this, all my thoughts, anything I read or write and flashbacks are in italics. Everything besides that ::not including this gigantic author's note:: is in regular print.
Lastly I'd like to say that all the characters in this are mine except for Albus Dumbledore, and Madame Malkin who belongs to J.K. Rowling. All the others such as: Airy or Erika, Sarah, Jaclyn aka Jackie, Val or Valarie Craton, Cassandra or Cassie Saviera, Loletta or Loly or Letta Marcez, Chloe Hunter, Jules, the really annoying eigth grader, Kevin aka the Chickenman, all of our families are mine.
~Chapter One: How it all Started~
"Jackie, honey, something came for you in the mail today." My mother's cheery voice said, drifiting upstairs.
Probably another Bar or Bat Mitzvah invitation. I thought happily.
I was completely wrong. What came instead was a letter in emerald green ink from someplace called Hogwarts. ::for all of you this story is done as if there never was any Harry Potter books, sorry but here it's not a fantasy; it's a reality. Spooky, huh?::
The letter was from Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. It said that I was a witch, and that I had been accepted to Hogwarts.
What kind of joke is this?????? I wondered. But then I remembered what kinds of things I could do since Zappers Zoup. :: Soup, people, soup! Haven't you heard of that French place called "Zoup!" ???? Yes I have a right to use something French, I'm part French!:: Some strange things had happened in the last month and I was sure that this might be the answer. I started to remember those three days of "brewing potions" with my two best friends Airy and Sarah.
As I drifted off into a trance I though about the earlier days of this summer . . . ::now is the rememberence or flashback, read, enjoy and think of how stupid I was::
It was the third or fourth day of Caravan Camp ::a camp where you take a field trip a day:: and I was sitting on the bus with two of my new best friends.
"Where are we going today Airy?" I, Jaclyn, aka Jackie, asked one of my new best friends, Erika.
Airy, as only I am allowed to call her, responded, "Wirly-ball."
"Sounds like fun, huh?" Said my other new best friend, Sarah.
"Uh-huh." I said.
We drifted into silence for a little while. I was drawing as usual and it would have been a pleasant ride had we not been bothered by a really annoying eighth grader sitting across from us. ::We all had just finished school so therefore we were brand-new seventh graders::
"Can I have a piece of paper?" asked the really anoying eighth grader.
"I don't know, can you?" I replied. I happened to be on the third-to-last piece of paper and I didn't want to give any up.
"C'mon, please?" He asked.
"No. Sorry." And with that I went back to drawing only to later be interrupted countless more times.
"What's your name?" he finally asked.
"It's Chloe." ::the name is pronounced Clo-we:: Said another friend of mine named Jenny B.
"Chloe what?" he aked wanting to pester me.
"Chloe . . . Hunter. Yes, Chloe Hunter is my name. But I'm trying to draw here so…" I said going back to my drawing. Continuing to make up the name that Jenny had thought up was really fun - especialy since the really annoying eighth grader looked as if he believed it.
"Well excuse me! Do you have any brothers or sisters, Chloe?" He asked in mock tone.
"Um…yes, as a matter of fact I do. I have two sisters. We're tripplets. My sisters names are . . . Terri and Jackie." ::yes this is the actual conversation::
"If you're a triplet where are you're sisters? Hmm?" He asked trying hard not to believe my story.
But Sarah had made up the answer, "Chloe, Terri and Jackie decided that they wanted to go to different camps, so they wouldn't be mixed up; they hate that."
"Yep, Terri went to Interlochen and Jackie went to art camp." I said trying not to giggle.
"Oh," he said as the bus stopped at Wirly-ball.
::Just so you all know this whole annoying eighth grader thing is an important part of the story::
After we had gotten off of the bus Airy, Sarah, Jenny and I were laughing so hard that as we walked into Wirly-ball we were hyperventelating. ::we had left the anoying eighth grader on the bus::
When we got inside we played wirly-ball. After we finished we played air-hockey with Airy's cousin Kevin. ::aka the chickenman ::inside joke::, I will call him Kevin though:: We learned from him that the annoying eighth grader was friend of his. Kevin also said that he was mad at him.
Well Airy, Sarah and I decided to get back at him. We didn't know how then but we all knew we would, all for the sake of revenge. :: hey I know it's stupid but it's true::
During the next hour the three of us debated on how we would get back at the annoying eighth grader, but it was Airy who came up with the plan in the end.
We started working on our plan right away. Jenny B. was to help too.
We were in the bathroom when we started making our plan.
"Jenny we need some more Coke, oat-cake?" I asked. ::heh heh sorry guys::inside joke::::
"Sure."
"Sarah, can you get me some more soap?" Airy asked.
"Uh-huh."
And so after we mixed soap, Coke and many other things together ::I have been sworn to secrecy so only a few people know what's in it:: we named our mixture Mutant Coke.
Then we asked Kevin to give his friend the mixture. ::it looked like Coke so he wouldn't know we had done anything to it:: ::We didn't plan for the annoying eighth grader to actualy drink it we just wanted to scare him:: The only problem was that Kevin spilled a little on himself and it started to burn. ::as in tingle, people, not fire:: We decided not to give him our mixture after that.
By then we had made our first potion: Mutant Coke. ::In my next flashback you'll learn about the second::
::I started coming out of the trance::
After I had read through the letter I said, "Mom, I'd love to go to Hogwarts even though I've never heard of it! I just know I'll love it there. It sounds really cool!"
"Well, if you're sure that you're sure, then there's no sense in trying to stop you." My mom said. She had by now figured out that if I wasn't allowed to do something that I really, truly wanted to do, like go to Hogwarts, I'd just find my own way there.
"Can I go call Airy and Sarah now?" I asked. Maybe they got letters too, I mean we all drank Zappers Zoup, I thought.
"Sure, just be done by three , you have your piano lesson remember?" She told me. ::It was one o'clock and I usually tend to stay on the phone for a long time::
"Yeah, yeah I know." I replied.
Then I went upstairs and called Airy and Sarah on three way calling.
"Airy, Sarah? Did you guys get any weird mail this week?" I asked.
"Uh . . . yeah. I got a letter from a boarding school." Airy said.
"I got one too. Why?" Sarah asked.
"Oh, I got one today and it was written in emerald ink and from someone named Albus Dumbledore." I said.
"That's who I got mine from too! What about you Erika?" Sarah said.
"Yes." Airy said slowly.
"Did your's say that you're witches? Because mine did." I said.
"Uh-huh." Said Airy.
"Yes." Sarah said.
"Are you going to that school… um… Hogwarts?" Sarah asked.
"Yes." Airy said.
"Why wouldn't I?" I asked.
"I'm going too." Sarah said.
"It said that I'm going to be in my fifth year, though, because I'm turning fifteen this year . It also says that I'll be sorted into a house with the first years." I said.
"Mine says the same thing." Airy said.
"So does mine!" Sarah said.
"Are you guys going shopping in Diagon Alley this weekend? I am." Airy said.
"Yup. Maybe we all can meet there! What do ya say Sarah?" I asked.
"Sure. This is going to be so cool! I can't wait!" Sarah said.
"Well, I've gotta go, call ya later guys." And with that I hung up the phone and went downstairs.
As I went down I thought of how happy I would be on September 1st. ::It was only 14 days away::
"Mom! Guess what? Airy and Sarah got letters too! We're all going to be fifth years at Hogwarts!" I said.
"That's wonderful, but how come they aren't putting you in the first year?" Mom asked.
"Oh, because we're going on fifteen and they think that we can catch up. Oh, and Mom can we go to Diagon Alley this weekend with Airy and Sarah?" I said.
"Sure, I don't know what Jules will think, though, she might be jealous of your being a witch," my mom told me. ::Jules is my younger sister, yes in real life too, and her real name isn't Jules it's Julie, but almost everyone calls her Jules::
"Oh, well. I'm going to go look at the form, again. Bye Mom," I said and then walked away to my room.
Hmmm, it says that I can bring an owl, cat or toad. Maybe I'll get an animal in Diagon Alley, I thought as I looked at the forms.
Oh, no! I thought helpleslsy, the form had said that I had to send my reply back with an owl! Where am I going to get an owl? But just as I thought that, something fluttered in my window. It was a medium-sized brown owl. I was saved! I quickly wrote:
Dear Professor Dumbledore,
I'd love to come to Hogwarts! Thank you for this opportunity.
Your soon-to-be new student,
Jackie Travil
After I'd finished, I tied the letter to the owl's leg, and it flew away.
~Chapter Two: At Daigon Alley~
Brrrrrrring. My alarm sounded.
Why the heck am I up this early? I thought to myself as I lifted my sleepy head off my pillow. Oh yeah, it's the day that I go to Diagon Alley with Airy and Sarah! I remembered.
I got up and took a shower and washed my hair. I put on a pair of blue jeans ::flare of course:: and a top that was yellow with a strip of white around the the neck line. I decided that I wanted my dark brown mid-back-length hair to be straight ::In this story my hair is naturaly straight and NOT puffy or flooffy!:: so I didn't blow dry it. It would look very pretty with my light blue eyes and just paler than usual skin. Then I made my bed and made sure my room was clean ::sorry, but the "made sure my room was clean" is a total lie:: Then I made myself breakfast and read the comics.
In a while Juiles came downstairs to eat breakfast. By then it was 9:30 in the morning. We weren't due at Daigon Alley until 11:30. My parents came down at 10:00.
We ::my mom, dad and sister:: left the house at 10:45 in the morning only to make it to Daigon Alley by 11:25 ::am::. We immediately found two girls, each with their families. One had straight blond hair, regular ::as no tan:: light skin and light brown eyes ::this is Airy::. The second had reddish-brown curly hair with hazel eyes and light skin that looked as if it was always lightly tanned ::this is Sarah:: They were Airy and Sarah their families at the Leaky Cauldron. Then all of our parents decided to let us go and buy our Hogwarts stuff while they ::and our siblings:: talked.
First we went in to Ravishing Robes ::Madame Malkin is in her 6th year of Hogwarts at the moment:: and bought our school robes, hats and cloaks.
Then we went to the new book store Flourish and Blotts. While I was picking out a book a girl about my age with long wavy dirty-blond hair and grey eyes, came up to me.
"Hi, what's your name?" She asked, "mine's Valarie Craton. Call me Val though. I'm a-soon-to-be fifth year Gryffindor this year at Hogwarts."
"Hi Val, I'm Jackie Travil. This is Sarah Eliani and that's Erika Banardo. We're starting Hogwarts this year. We'll be in our fifth year though. Just like you." I said.
"Y-your J-Jackie T-Travil, S-Sarah E-Eliani and E-Erika B-Banardo? I-I'm so honnored to meet you, r-really." Valarie said, shocked.
"Why are you honnored? We aren't that special." Sarah said to her.
"Oh yes you are! You're the first True Muggles to ever turn Witch and Wizard! This is so cool, me – Valarie Craton - meeting Jackie Travil, Sarah Eliani and Erika Banardo!" She said obvioulsy very happy.
"D-does everyone know about us?" Airy asked wearily.
"Oh sure! You were in the papers! They didn't show a picture though so at first I had no idea it was you. Um… you guys, did you say your going to Hogwarts? In your fifth year? The year I'm in?" Valarie said.
"Mmmhmm ::that means yes::. Val, could you do us a big, huge gigantic favor?" Sarah asked.
"Sure, anything!" Valarie said.
"Could you please not tell anyone about us? Please!" Sarah asked.
"I guess so. See you at Hogwarts." And with that Valarie Craton left.
"She was nice. Just a little hyper about meeting us, but then she did say that we are famous. Maybe we should change our names, I, at least, don't want so much attention." Airy said.
"I agree." Sarah said.
"Me too." I said.
"I want my name to be Chloe Hunter! You guys know why, don't you?" I said choosing my new name.
"Yes, we know why Jackie – er - Chloe. I think I want mine to be Loletta Marcez ::pronounced Lo-lee-ta::!" Airy said.
"That's great, I can call you Loly ::pronounced Lo-lee:: for short!" I stated.
"I'll call you Letta ::pronounce Lee-ta::. Anyways, I think I'll be Cassandra Saviera." Sarah said.
"This is super! – A nick name for each of you ! Sarah, I'm gonna call you Cassie!" I said excited.
"I will too!" Airy said.
"Cool. That's a good name. You know this is a great idea but I think that we should keep our nationalities the same, you know, 'cuz anyone could tell Erika's Spanish and that I'm Italian. You won't have a problem, though, Jackie – whoops - Chloe, you're English!" Sarah – er – Cassie said.
"You know we probably shouldn't call ourselves 'Jackie, Erika or Airy and Sarah here or at Hogwarts. Maybe we should start using our fake names now. The only person who will know our true identieds is Val and maybe our new-closest-friends." Airy – er – Loly said.
" I agree!" Sarah – er – Cassie said.
"Me too!" I, Jackie – er – Chloe, said.
The next week flew by in a blur. And it seemed that just the next day Airy ::Loly::, Sarah ::Cassie:: and I ::Chloe:: were at King's Cross train station.
Author's Note Number Two: Do you all 'member me, the infamous Jackie ::aka Chloe Hunter::? From now on we will be known by our fake names – unless we tell our secret to someone then we'll be known as Jackie, Erika or Airy ::When I talk to her. I'm the only one who can use the name Airy, 'member?:: and Sarah. See ya in "Erika, Sarah and Jackie's Story Chapters Three-Four!" Oh yeah, Sunrise, it's your turn to figure out my plot! ::inside thing::