Oh, shit.
All of my fourteen years of life had led up to this.
All the work my parents had done, all the years they had sacrificed, were depending on me.
Why here? And why of all time NOW?!?!
This was supposed to be a fun Christmas party with all my best friends. But of course, something had to happen.
And do you want to know what happened?
I had finally found her.
♥
"Ahhh, ladies, I have arrived!" Layla called as she walked down the stairs into Chloe's huge bedroom.
Every year there was a Christmas party at Chloe's house and this was the first year Layla was going because she just moved here form New York. She was really excited because she was happy she finally had real best friends.
"Yay, Layla's here!" Called Pepper.
"Okay good everyone's here. Now let's dance!" Chloe yelled.
So the nine girls danced until they ached everywhere. So they all sprawled out of the floor in a big pile.
"I'm bored, what should we do?" Kira asked.
"Ah I know. Let's play truth." Noelle said.
This was Layla's least favorite game. She didn't want it to lead to her telling them her biggest secret, but it might help her find out who Meg is…
"Okay I'll go first," Jada said, "Mallia, what's your biggest secret that you have never told anyone?"
"Uhmm, well my parents aren't really my parents." Mallia explained.
Layla gasped, then said "uhmm Mallia, can I talk to you for a second?"
"Yeah, sure." Mallia answered.
Layla pulled Mallia outside and started pacing.
"Your name isn't Mallia is it?" Layla asked in a whisper.
"How'd you know? Mallia asked back.
"Okay, I'm gonna ask you something and if the word means nothing to you then you can just forget this whole conversation, okay?" Layla demanded.
"Uhmm, okay…" Mallia asked cautiously.
"Does the word…mmmm… muggle mean anything to you?"
"Yes." Mallia said.
"You're Meg, aren't you?" Layla shrieked.
Mallia just looked down at her feet.
"Answer me."
"Okay yes I am Meg! And your part of the order looking for me, yes?" Mallia shot back.
"Well, I'm not in the order but my- wait I shouldn't be saying this to you, you are the freaking dark lords daughter! Just go back inside, I need to be alone." Layla said really scared now.
"Gladly, I don't want to be around filth like you!" Mallia hissed and walked away.
Well because Layla was a natural she had telepathy. Her brother, Aiden, was just down the street at his friends' house and she decided to talk to him so he could help her.
Aiden! I found her! I need your help so we can go to headquarters'.
Oh God Layla! Don't do anything, I'll be right there! Don't let her get away.
do you really think I'm going to let the person we spent 5 years looking for get away?!
Call Mom and dad and Dumbledore! Tell mom and dad that we will meet them at Headquarters'.
Okay see you in a minute
After that Layla had to tell her parents.
MOM, I FOUND HER! It's Mallia!
Oh Layla good job! I will meet you at headquarters and don't forget to call Dumbledore!
okay I will
Finally she had to call Dumbledore.
Professor!
Layla you don't attend my school, there is now reason to call me 'professor
sorry, old habit. Anyway, I found her! It's my friend Mallia!
oh yes, your parents just arrived and said something of that sort.
what should I do? Aidens' coming to help right now but I'm at a party right now and I can't just leave in the middle of it with Mallia!
Well just bring all your friends with you! I will take care of their parents
Oh yes Thank you so much Professor! See you in a few
Finally Aiden showed up.
"Where is she?" he asked clearly out of breath from running.
"I told her to go back inside. Dumbledore said I should bring all my friends with me, by the way." Layla told her brother.
"All right so, let's go then?" He asked
"Yeah, come on." Layla said, dragging him inside.
"Okay guys uhmm…you need to come with me somewhere." Layla informed her friends.
There was a chorus of 'why', 'where', and 'what's going on'.
"We will explain everything when we get there. Don't worry." Aiden said to everyone.
"Yes, okay everyone get in a circle and hold hands," Layla ordered, "Mallia stand with my brother." She added giving her a glare.
Everyone did as they were told and Layla stood in the middle of them.
"Wait, is this against our religion?" Pepper asked warily. Pepper was a very religious person and her parents were hippies so she didn't really like to do anything that looked like voodoo.
"Ughh, no it does not, just stop and concentrate." Layla yelled, exasperated.
Everyone closed there eyes and just stood there holding hands. Then all of a sudden Layla, who was still in the middle of the circle, snapped her fingers once. After that, it felt like they were spinning in a circle really fast, and then it stopped.
Layla and Aiden stepped out of the circle and waved to everyone.
They were all standing in an old house with about 25 people in its kitchenAT the head of the table, am man with a long beard, known as Albus Dumbledore, stood up and walked toward the group.
"Layla, Aiden. It is a pleasure to see you." Said Dumbledore.
"Hello professor." They both replied.
"You both know you don't have to call me professor, but if you wish," he sighed. He continued walking around us and stopped at Mallia, "well you must be Meg.I am Albus Dumbledore. You know I go back a very long time with you parents. Did you know that?"
"Listen I just want you all to know that I hate my parents and want nothing to do with them, I want to kill them just as much as you do. You have to believe me!" Mallia pleaded to the room.
"It's okay Meg. We are just going to ask you some questions and things. Of course we will have to use Veritaserum. So if I can have Remus, Janet, Casey, Arthur, Molly, Tonks, Moody, Sirius, Kingsley, Snape, and you Minerva." Said Dumbledore. As he said this, all the people he called stood up and walked out into the living room.
A man who stood up walked over to Layla and whispered, "We give you permission to tell your friends about this and if you must you can show them some magic too."
"Oh, I was going to anyway, Remus." Layla said laughing.
"Yes I thought you would." Remus replied.
All of a sudden a girl with long red hair jumped on Layla and shrieked, "I am so proud of you lays!"
Then a boy with black, messy hair and a scar on his forehead, a girl with extremely bushy hair, and another red-headed boy walked over to us.
They all hugged Layla and the two girls hugged Aiden and the boys did that high five hug guy thing to Aiden.
"Yeah Lays, that was so awesome of you. I can believe you found her. No offense of anything but I thought it would be Aiden to find her." Said the red head boy.
"Ron, that was rude. She did a great job. Plus Aiden is too busy with all his girlfriends to be looking for Meg." The girl with bushy hair said.
"Arhh, Herms, lay off him. Yeah but Layla, are you friends with her?" The boy with black hair said.
"Uhmm well she was like my best friend but I wasn't sure who was it so I wasn't getting totally close with any of them but I don't think I'm friends with her now because well of who she is." Layla said.
"Hey Layla, we are right here and we can here everything your saying." Pepper said annoyed.
"Oh, I know you can. But you have no idea what were talking about so it doesn't matter anyway. Oh by the way Gin, how's Luna doing? The last time I talked to her she sounded kinda depressed?" Layla asked the red headed girl.
"When did you last talk to her?" Ginny asked.
"Oh, I went and saw her like two weeks ago. I would have come and talked to you guys but I only had like five minutes and I didn't want to get in trouble from Dumbledore." Layla informed.
"Dumbledore doesn't care if you sneak into the school. You do it all the time. How come you're so into following rules now? You sound like Hermione." Aiden scoffed.
They five kids just laughed. They all knew about Layla's knack for using her 'natural abilities' for getting her and her friends in trouble. She never meant to but someone was always there to see that she had done something bad. She was just like Fred and George, but didn't like getting in trouble. Since she could just transport herself anywhere she always snuck over to England to visit her friends and family.
"OhmiGod! I am so sorry guys. I didn't introduce you to my friends." Layla said to the four kids.
"Okay well how bout we go upstairs and tell them all about his." Hermione said.
"Uhhh yeah that would help just a little bit." Chloe said sarcastically.
As the 14 of them walked upstairs the newcomers were looking around the house. They passed by plaques with little heads on them that made the 7 girls shriek and they passes so many portraits that had people moving in them.
Once they got to a bedroom they all walked to different areas of the room and sat down.
"Okay, well," Layla said, "I will introduce you guys now. Krysten, Mai, Pepper, Noelle, Kira, Chloe, Jada. These are my cousins Harry, Ron and Ginny, and my best friend Hermione. Ginny is our age and Harry, Hermione, and Ron are Aidens age."
Ron laughed out loud. "What kind of name is Pepper?"
"My parents were hippies." Pepper mumbled.
The rest just waved to each other and said hi.
"Oh yeah, I'm sorry guys, transporting for the first time really wares you out." Layla told the 7 girls that were sprawled out everywhere.
Layla walked over to each of them and put her hands on their heads. As she did this, the girls started to feel more awake and happy.
"Okay so I just put some energy into you so you can be awake when you hear what were going to tell you." Layla said like it was nothing.
"Oh my God!" Noelle screeched, "Are you a witch or something?"
"That's exactly what I am." Layla said smirking.
The girls just looked totally confused.
"Hermione how about you explain everything to them, and when I say everything, I mean everything. Especially about Meg and her parents and the war." Layla said.
"Okay, so first of all do any of you have questions?" Hermione asked. "I bet you do so just raise you hand before you start shooting out questions and interrupting each other."
While Hermione was saying this, Layla and Ginny were having their own conversation.
Hey Gin, I can't wait to see my friend's faces when Herms explains this.
yeah it's going to be really funny
Do you think since I found her that I'm going to move back here?
I bet you are. I mean you only moved because you had to look for her.
and then I can come back to Hogwarts.
I hope you can. I missed you, Lays.
I missed you to but I see you like every other day.
Yeah but only for like 10 minutes before you have to go again.
very true my friend, very true.
When Hermione finished telling them this, all 7 hands shot up.
"Okay, uhmm, is it Kira?" Hermione asked, forgetting Kira's name.
"Yeah it is. Uhmm where are we?" Kira asked calmly.
"We are in England." Hermione replied as if it is no big deal.
After she said that, all 7 of them started shooting out questions.
