Chapter 1: Welcome To My Life
Music is life. The melody is your heart and the lyrics, your soul. Music rules my mind. My thoughts come in a sweet melody when I'm happy, a smooth ballad when I'm in a romantic mood, a harsh refrain when I get angry, and a terrifying aria when I'm scared. The symphony of life is beautiful, every single thing has a noise, or a tune so to speak. I know not many people talk this way, but the passion I have for music is indescribable, uncontrollable, and incomprehensible to that of a normal person. People know me as the music girl, the one who always sings as she walks around, who sounds great but is strange.
I'm MacKenzie Heart or Mickey like my best and only girl friend, Alice, calls me. I don't have many friends, well I really only have two. One is Alice Kinderly; she is a fun crazy girl who knows everyone at Hogwarts. She is always the head of gossip and is always sought out for advice. She is open, funny, and confident. Everything a Gryffindor should be and more. Her only flaw is her crush on Frank Longbottom. Out of all the advice she has given, all the relationships she has started and repaired, she can not seem to be able to use her knowledge for herself. No matter what though, I would never change her.
My second friend is Domani Mancini or Mani; he is an odd ball of the greatest sorts. He could sit in the middle of a completely empty room with blank walls and no windows and stay amused for hours in the confines of his own very complex mind. I believe he's a genius; you can tell him a spell and he'd get it right off the bat. Yet he is also daring and very brave. So much, you would think he's actually a Gryffindor. He is also known as the 'go to guy' for a weird fact or the meaning of a word no-one knows. His speech is brilliant, and his actions are unique, though he'd throw down anything he was doing if offered a chance to run around outside, or a opportunity to hear one of my new songs. He's a true friend through and through and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Now you would think with friends like that I'm some popular, gossiping, know it all. If you do, you've got me all wrong. Yes, every one knows of me, but only as Alice's singing friend, or the 'background music' to everybody else's life. Yeah, I sung a few times in front of the whole common room, yeah, I talk to people, but I like to stick to my music. I'd rather walk around and immerse myself in a symphony of nature's music than talk to idiotic people. Which in Hogwarts, there's a lot of, including Lucius Malfoy, my own personal Slytherin stalker, and Bellatrix Black, my long term enemy. Most of the time I try to blend in though, to avoid confrontation, but that doesn't mean I can't stick up for myself, I'd just rather not. Now I'm sitting here, on the Hogwarts express waiting for my 6th year to start. I'm 45 minutes early and completely dazed out.
No wonder I didn't hear the compartment door open…
"Mickey!!!! MacKenzie!" Alice called.
"Huh? Oh, Hi Ali!" I said as I shot up to hug her.
"I saw your brother outside, he was going crazy trying to find the car." Alice giggled.
"Oh yeah, he parked in the back this year." I laughed slightly. Then Domani walked in looking tanner, taller, and brilliantly handsome. The summer most definitely went well for him.
"Look at you Mr. Tall, dark, and handsome." Alice laughed.
"Why thank you, my cousin who plays for the cuddly cannons was over at the house all summer, so I practiced with him." he smiled and hugged us both. I sat back down and took in the feeling of having my friends by my side again. I had a feeling this year was going to be great.
If only I knew how great it would be.