Chapter 1

It was a rather cold, windy day on avenue du drapeau, in Dijon, France. A group of teenage girls sat on the front lawn in front of a big white house. Everyone had a sad, depressing attitude. Usually hey were laughing, or telling stupid stories, but today was different. Finally someone spoke, and broke the silence. It was a thin girl, with long blonde hair, and pretty blue eyes.

"Im sory guys. you know I wish I didnt have to go..." she looked down at the pieces of grass that she was twirling around her fingers. One of the other girls sighed and put her arm around her friend.

" We know Izzie." Izzie felt her eyes water. She hated having to move to a different country. Why did she have to move so far away? They sat there for a little while longer, until a woman stepped outside onto the front porch.

"Isablle, Im sorry dear, but its time to go." after she said this, she turned around and dissapeared back into the house. Izzie looked sadly at her friends and stood up.

"Well" she said, rather reluctantly "I guess this is goodbye." The rest of the girls stood up and took turns hugging her. They each told her to stay in touch and that they would miss her very much. Izzie slowly made her way inside.

"There you are, what took you so long?" her mother said. Izzie just shrugged and walked over to the fireplace. She reached into a container and grabbed a handful of floo powder. (Powder that enables you to go from place to place through fireplaces). She threw the powder into the fire. The flames lit up green and she stepped in. she spoke clearly her destination.

"New dreadful home, England." with a 'woosh' she was flying past several fireplaces, with her arms tucked safely at her side. she stumbled out of the fireplace and fell clumsily to the floor. She stood up, wiping the soot from her clothes. She looked at her surroundings. She notices right away, that this house was not quite as big as her old one. She turned amd saw her brother Damien come gracefully out of the fireplace. He stood up straight and flicked some ashes off of his shirt. He was taller than her, had brown hair, and blue eyes. she had always wondered she looked so different from him since they were twins, but then again she was a girl, and he was a boy.

"well" he said, "you want to go have a look around?" She thought for a moment, and knew she had nothing better to do, so she nodded her head and set off down the hall. While they were upstairs, she found her room. She was pleased to see that it was almost identical to her old room. She told her brother that she wanted to unpack her things, so he went back downstairs and lef her alone in her room. She shut the door and sat down on her bed. She only had one week before she had to start at her new school. That, to her, was the worst thing about moving. She was worried that she wasnt going to fit in. "Oh well" she thought, "I'll worry about it tomorrow." And with that thought she layed back on her bed and fell asleep.