Dedicated to percyjacksonfan135, my first reviewer! Thank you for your suggestion, I've tried to include it here!
It was an utterly miserable day. Arianna thought as she stood in front of the calendar. July 31st glared out at her. It was her birthday and so far it had been awful. She had been having nightmares for months about an ear piercing scream and a blinding green and on top of that she had just gotten out of the cupboard after a four day long punishment without food because apparently she was assaulting poor Duddykins.
Arianna honestly had no idea how it had happened. One minute she was standing next to the kitchen sink growing angry at Dudley, who was punching her repeatedly in the nose and the next Dudley was drenched in water and she was completely dry.
Arianna knew that since it was her birthday, the Dursley's would try and make it horrible for her. She was expecting punches and kicks from Vernon for 'acting all snooty-like'. Then there was her birthday present, an annual scar on her back in the shape of a lightning bolt. "To match the grotesque one on your deformed face." Petunia once said. With that Arianna glumly went back to dusting.
"There's a letter here for the freak" Dudley declared, with his Smelting's stick waving on the air. Dudley had received his Smelting's stick from his father because he was starting Smelting's, a secondary school Vernon had gone to. He had immediately starting bashing Arianna on the head with it. But thanks to Arianna's quick reflexes and ADHD, she was able to dodge it.
"Give it here" Vernon demanded. "S'not like the freak can read it, with her dislezzica or something or other." Arianna wanted to pound his head into his nonexistent neck for saying that. She had dyslexia, not whatever the pot-bellied blunder head had said.
"Let me read it. It's mine." She said firmly. She had enough of the Dursley's taking advantage of her. They made her slave around all day; she would even bet her life that they had taken her inheritance. "Excuse me girl? Did you just talk back to me?" Petunia raised her eyebrows disbelievingly at her. Vernon was still reading the letter, his face paling. He wordlessly handed it to Petunia.
As she read it she muttered under her breath. Arianna caught 'school of freaks' 'Lily' and 'Dumbly-door'. She raised her head to meet Arianna, eyes filling with disgust at the sight of her. She nudged Vernon and he stomped over to Arianna and dragged her to her cupboard, slamming and locking the door. Arianna sat there, puzzled. What was that about? She wondered in silence, staring at the cobwebs covering the ceiling.
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First of all, thank you supporting this story! I thought I would just have one follow or something! Do you see the hints in this chapter? I'll try to update a lot but it might be hard what with school and my birthday tomorrow!
*\(^o^)/* birthday dance!