As much as I love life at the Hogwarts, the summer following my first year has so far been the best one of my life, even though it did have a rather rough start.
Luke, of course, was still cross about my relationship with John. He'd mostly avoided us ever since school let out. I was staying with the Smiths, which John absolutely loved. It was fun having Belle around too. For the summer, she had decided to make her hair purple instead of red. And naturally, what summer would be complete without John's identical twin brother, Jakub.
Lila Smith, John's mother, is a short, and rather plump woman with big brown eyes and bushy brown hair. She doesn't like me at all. George Smith, on the other hand, was tall and well built. He was polite and his kindness made up for Lila's being so irriatable. The Smith children
seemed to all have inherited his beautiful green eyes, and good looks.
"Hey, babe, mom wants us to come in for supper." said John, coming up behind me and kissing my cheek. I followed him inside the small but cozy house to the dining room. Mrs. Smith was flicking her wand at the plates and silverware and they were flying to the table. "Watch it, mum." said John, catching a fork that was aiming for my face.
"Oh, Kat, I didn't see you there." said Lila in a false apology.
"It's not you, babe," John tried to reassure me, "Mom's never let a girl stay in the house before that wasn't just one of Belle's little friends." He smiled, "I remember this one time Vik tried to sneak one in. The poor thing." he laughed, "He had her in this big trunk. I thought we'd never hear the end of that one."
"She just tried to kill me with a fork!" I said, holding up the fork as
evidence. "I think she has a bit of an anger issue."
"That was an accident. She apologized."
"Not really." I mumbled.
After we ate, John wanted to take me upstairs to talk to me alone, but Lila screamed that he wasn't going anywhere until he had done his chores. I offered to help him, but he told me to go have fun with Belle.
"Kat! Kat! Look! There's going to be a new Spell Wars movie in November!" Belle said as soon as I opened the door to her room. She held up a magazine with two wizards on it. They stood back to back on the cover, and they both had on long black cloaks and where holding up their wands in front of them in a fighting position. "Look, that's Airakin ..." she pointed to the shorter of the two wizards. He was young and handsome with brown eyes and shoulder-length wavy, dark brown hair. "... and Obrion on the front." she pointed to the other wizard, who was a little older, with short, dirty blonde hair and beard, and aqua eyes. Then she opened up to the middle of the magazine, and proceeded to tell me every detail of every thing Spell Wars.
Start of term is drawing nearer, the days are growing colder, and I was finding more and more that I didn't want to leave the Smith house. We didn't see Luke or Joe, but I had lots of fun playing with Belle and learning about new things. I had also learned tons of new spells for doing household work.
"I won't let Kirstis hurt you." John told me one night, while we were sitting out on a hill behind his house and gazing at the stars. It was so beautiful, and very romantic. "Or Rovolra, or any one else. Ever. I promise. I'll protect you, or die trying." He held my hand in his,
and smiled at me. "I love you, Katimeana. I-"
Just then his mother opened her window and interrupted him. "Johnathan Kothe Smith! You get in here this instant! It's practically midnight!" She proceeded to lecture us both for at least an hour before actually lettng us go to bed.
"Goodnight, babe." said John, as he went upstairs to the room he shared with Jakub.
I yawned. "Night." I said, and went downstairs to the small, musty, spare room in the basement, that had nothing but a bed.
Jakub had offered to swap sleeping places when I first got here, but Lila made it crystal clear that that was never going to happen.
"Up! Get up! Everyone, hurry!" yelled Mrs. Smith when start of school rolled around. We all packed into the Smith's small car and set off to King's Cross. They were going to drop me off first.
"I'll take you to the train." said John. I gathered up my things and held John's hand. We stepped into the barrior.
woosh!
Everything went black.
