A MAGICAL REVELATION

Wizards…..Exist…so why am I not one? Oh….genetics.

One thought slipped into another, from genetics it traveled to science and then to karma and finally landed on 'My life sucks' which in my opinion summed it up quite adeptly.

Let us give you something to go on, I'm the ordinary girl who got sucked into magical drama, how?
Let's see shall we?

One windy night I was within the four walls of my cozy bedroom dimly lit as I completed the last of my holiday homework, literally, I'd just penned the full stop with my beautiful antique Sheaffer pen given to me by my late grandfather. Really who used a Sheaffer to do Algebra? That's right people with no other working writing devices.

Anyway, moving away from that embarrassing pen situation I was sitting there yawning, curling my toes and stretching when suddenly I was sucked into a vacuum.

I'm not kidding it was like ZOOP! I was gone, carrying my pen.

I fell out two seconds later with a strangled scream in messy heap of limbs on a soft carpet.

I lay there spitting many strands of my unruly, annoyingly frizzy blonde hair, it was as frizzy as hell and this was from the time of my birth, curse my luck.

With the pen still clenched in my sweaty hands I blinked up at the ceiling totally dazed and confused.

The room was dimply lit and I felt my glasses pressing into my face completely knocked around, I adjusted the blue-framed glasses on my slightly pointed nose.

As I blinked faces came into view, peering at me scared and fascinated.

So this is how it felt to be a zoo animal, sorry bison, I hadn't meant to ogle you with the same expression for twenty minutes, you had a right to almost charge the glass.

I spoke to break their gazes "I must be really beautiful, you all seem smitten"

A pretty red-haired freckle nose girl laughed nervously "Um….hi are you okay?"

I rose with the help of my bony pale elbows "Apart from being insanely dizzy, confused, oddly conscious and sufficiently suspicious I am perfect, healthy and ready to make merry"

The others laughed too easing up.

I suppose introductions are in order. At this time I didn't know their names.

But they were all enviously good-looking. No I mean I wanted to hide behind a rock.

I had been to school, I had encountered my fair share of unrequited crushes for plenty of decent and good-looking boys but these boys, I blush as I recount my thoughts, I couldn't look away and they were everywhere in all shapes, sizes and colours, no I'm serious.

There were two blond haired ones, one black-haired, two red haired boys and one brown-haired they also had varying colours of complexion, from deathly pale to chocolate brown.

If they were all part of the same family I would hold it against the God above for the rest of my life and protest for a refund in the looks department.

The girls were no less, I was instantly jealous of their beautiful figures, bright eyes and wonderful hair it was a moment of utter shock for me.

The red-haired one who had spoken stretched a small manicured hand towards and I almost didn't want to put my clammy, bitten nailed fingers in her hand but I did and she said "You seem to have a sense of humor"

I laughed "Of course it's part of the package"

They laughed. I finally rose to my entire height of five feet six inches wearing my extremely glamorous sweat pants and over-sized sweatshirt that belonged to my cousin brother four years ago and barefoot.

I pushed my spectacles up my nose once again.

I flapped my hands "Okay, is this something like a joke? Some dream? It better not be because I can't not have finished my homework I can't do it all over again in reality, I swear to god"

One of the handsome boys said, the blonde one "You're worrying about homework are you aware that you just underwent a magical encounter"

I asked suddenly stupid "Magical? Even I don't have that kind of pride, falling on my bum in front of a good-looking group of people is supposed to be magical?"

They laughed again, I wondered if they'd all walked through a room of laughing gas.

I wasn't even being funny, just being truthful was all.

Another girl shook her head "We…we know magic, we practice magic and my idiot cousin and his best friend tried to do a complicated spell from a really old spell book and managed to get you here, the spell book exploded and so now as the outcome you're stuck here until we find a way to get you back to your place, that is until our parents get here and we can reverse the spell…"

It was too much information to process in a single breath so I held my hands out "Wait, wait! Okay, slowly now so I know I'm not hearing things. Spells…as in magic…as in what crap are you trying to pull?"
One of the boys snorted only to receive a smart smack to his head from his sister.

The girl with her long straight beautiful silky blonde hair looked at my sympathetically "I'm so sorry, this must be hard for you but we are wizards. We're telling you the truth"

I pulled at my hair and absent-mindedly attempted to smoothen it "Magic, magic, I'm not at home, Grams is going to flay me alive number one, number two Mum's going to flip when she hears, number three Dad is going to burst an artery when he finds out I spent so much time with so many boys, number four Kian's going to ask me when I got myself a life and then he's going to ruin said life. That's all as of now"
I ticked off the items on my fingers as the crowd watched some masking their laughter, some torn between smiling and being polite and the others just had weird scrunched up expressions in the effort to not burst out into peals of laughter then and there.

I looked at a lanky freckle-faced boy who looked like the brother of the blue-eyed one "Just laugh, you'll pull a muscle"

He guffawed when I said that.

I just stood there wondering how my life could suck any more than it already did.

I crossed my arms and stood until they all calmed down.

Then the real introductions began.

So in order of left to right, not that I specifically remember their exact positions in the completely odd living room complete with portraits and a fire place Louis the blonde haired completely out of my league one who made me feel giddy with goodness, Fred the tall mischievous chocolate skin one. Then, James, a poster boy with a big head, Albus his younger brother smart and my type with his firmness and brains or at least he looked like he had brains, Scorpius the one who wasn't from the family had a whacky name and was Albus's best mate and Rose's boyfriend though I hadn't come to Rose yet. Then there was the girl who gave me the story Dominique, Louis's sister, Molly a red-haired beauty, Lucy a brown-haired beauty, Rose Weasley the nice polite blue-eyed one. Hugo the lanky laugher, Roxanne the cheeky younger sister of Fred and finally Lily all innocence and temper issues, that was it.

When my turn came I was a puddle of nerves. I was never into groups, more of a one friend person.

This felt like kindergarten all over again and I said with difficulty "Kayla Francis….seventeen years and a total psycho, pleased to meet you"

I was surprised that nobody judged me on my introduction for a change, I could see no judgement in their eyes regarding how I looked or acted which was weird.

They all seemed relieved that I was making light of the impossibly twisted situation mostly to avoid all the awkward muck that would find itself creeping into our lives in the days to come.

And that was that.

They group began to disperse and then Rose pushed Albus and Scorpius forward who shuffled their feet looking terribly guilty.

I already knew what they would apologize for so I said "Thank you for bringing me here, I had a real revelation regarding the existence of magic and hopefully now my summer might get a little bit more interesting than watching paint dry, no kidding I was down for repainting my grandma's place along with Kian, my brother, he's your average good for nothing loser"

Both of them looked relieved to be off the hook and so I stopped them "But as a way of thanking me for not blowing out, you call my Grams and tell her why I'm missing from my bedroom right before dinner and why I'm unable to make it back before whatever time and not to worry "

They looked horrified and I grinned evilly so did Rose, I told them "Come on….To the telephone!" I pointed my finger at the ceiling and stood straight then I said "March….Left…Right…Left…Right, that's it you're getting a hang of it…..backs straight boys!"

That's how it began, God only knew how it would end.

AN: New story, new plot, new character!

Okay, so review because you know the drill and because you're nice.

Sahitya Poonacha :)