A/N: First story ever! If you like it, tell me xD. I don't own anything except for Aimee; if I did Fred never would have died.

My eyes fluttered open to the same drab room that I've been stuck in every day. I saw today as nothing new; another summer day wasted inside this hellhole I call my home.

"AIMEEEEEEE!" my mom yelled for me downstairs.

I rubbed my eyes and got up knowing she wanted breakfast. Walking down the steps I carefully avoided broken glass and entered the kitchen. My mother sat at the small table drinking a Corona Light.

"Really Mom?" I said, "Beer? At 8 in the morning?"

She ignored me.

Sleep still in my eyes, I placed some toast in the toaster and bacon on the griddle.

My mom was insane. That's all I can say. She yelled and punished me for pointless things, drank until she passed out - and then kept drinking, smoked like she wanted to burn the house down, and brought home random guys at night.

Well, I guess she doesn't always get mad over pointless reasons. I'm not the perfect child she was expecting, but recently I was expelled from my school, Maggie Skye's Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

That didn't go over well. I have a scar on my back from being thrown over an end table.

But still the day rolled on and at around 7:30p.m. we got a call from my school telling how they would not be seeing me next year. We were both listening to the previously recorded message on speaker phone. The whole time Mom was glaring daggers at me.

When the message finished I muttered "Well thanks for stating the obvious. I will be looking forward to not seeing you next year either…"

That's when my mother flipped her lid. She started shouting slurred sentences at me. I wasn't really paying attention until I heard her yell, "You ungrateful little bitch!" that I decided that I was done.

I started yelling back at her and she reached to slap me, but I swatted away her hand and yelled, "Touch me one more time and I'll make sure you end up in jail!"

We went on for awhile until I screamed, "That's it, I've had enough of this!" I rushed to the door and she shouted, "You're just like your father! Stupid; always making stupid decisions!"

One hand on the doorknob, I said, "Yeah well one thing he did do right was leave you!"

"You're lucky I don't send you to live with you're aunt and uncle!"

I responded by exiting the house, slamming the door in my wake. I ran. Far. I ran until my legs wanted to give out from under me.

I collapsed on a park bench around 11 and cried myself to sleep.

I didn't get much sleep as I woke up four hours later freezing. Drowsily, and semi-consciously I walked back to the house. I didn't really plan on staying, but I wanted a jacket. And maybe some food.

As it turned out, my hoodie was already waiting for me at the doorstep along with all my other belongings. Everything I owned was carelessly thrown into a few suitcases. On top of the baggage was a couple sheets of paper. One of which was a boarding pass. It took me a little while to realize what was going on. The boarding pass said I was to get on a flight to England in five days. I looked up for the last time at the entrance to the house I grew up in, and a note saying Don't come back was taped to it. I didn't plan on it.

I turned into the night and walked to the nearest house that would let me live with them for a little under a week.

Imagine the look on my best friend's face when I showed up at her doorstep at four in the morning carrying luggage.

"A-are you ok?" Casey stuttered.

"Mind if I stay here for a few days?" I said with a half-hearted smile.

She looked at my makeup stained face, and then helped me carry my bags inside.

I explained everything to her and she started tearing up along with me.

Five days later I said my farewells to Casey and her family. I gave Casey and extra-long hug because I didn't know when would be the next time I saw my best friend again. If there was going to be one.

"Promise to write? I wanna hear all about those cute London boys," she said. I smiled underneath what soon were to be tears.

"Promise," I agreed.

And so I left them at the gate and boarded the plain that was about to fly me to a new life.

A/N: Yea, I know it has nothing to do with HP right now, but it's the first chapter so what do you expect? :)