My wand vibrated and glowed, buzzing in the annoying fashion that most muggle clocks find adequate to wake you up in the morning

My wand vibrated and glowed, buzzing in the annoying fashion that most muggle clocks find adequate to wake you up in the morning. Wiping the sleep from my eyes I let out a frustrated screech, I'm really not a morning person, I suppose it's just lucky that my bed had a silencing charm around it. I don't think the other girls' whom share a dorm with me would be too grateful to all the curse words that flowed oh so elegantly out of my mouth every morning. But today I managed to hold back on the curse words as I realised quite what today meant. I was free for the next 6 weeks. Summer had finally arrived.

Jumping out of bed with more enthusiasm than I have ever had while the time was still in single digits I ran over to the bathroom. Better have a nice shower now before all the girls get in there and use all the hot water up Muhahaha my hot water. Whoa. Getting a bit evil on myself there… I suppose its just the excitement bubbling inside me. But anyway… I took a quick shower and dried off before skipping merrily back into my dorm where all of my room mates were starting to wake up.

"Morning Girlies!!" I exclaimed cheerfully, only to be met by confused and groggy stares. "What a wonderful morning hey?! I can't wait to get going, hmm look at the time, 9 o'clock. Two hours before we leave for the trains hey! Chop chop, let's get ready!" I continued with my cheerful tone. Chucking on my clothes I smiled at my reflection, I knew it wasn't really much but I liked it. The casualness of my outfit just suited me, and the yellow of my top reflected my mood.

"Err, morning Corinne." Amelia replied, clearly unsure of my drastic change in behaviour, "what's got you so bubbly this morning?"

"Well dear Millie, it's the summer of course!" I replied with a grin, looking her in the eyes through the mirror. "How can anyone possibly be sad when we're on our way home, in the sunshine, for 6. Whole. Weeks!" I spun around to face her, grin still in place. I noticed that the other two girls, Evelyn and Holly, had slouched off to the bathroom to prepare for the day ahead. Amelia just sat there, staring at me with that confused expression still imprinted on her face.

Suddenly her composure changed, she no longer looked confused but completely joyful. A large toothy grin, a rival in exuberance to my own, grew upon her face and her light blue eyes glittered with excitement. She stood up and twirled her way over to me, dancing around the room in her night dress and not caring who saw.

"It really is summer isn't it!" Amelia said through her smile. Glancing at me she gasped "Oh my Rinnie! You look lovely!" I blushed at her compliment, I knew I looked better than usual but it was nothing compared to how I usually looked. I left my hair un-straightened and down my back falling in soft curls and had put some basic kohl eye liner, mascara and clear lip-gloss on. It wasn't as if I was made up or anything, but it made me realise how little of myself I had been here.

"Awwh, shucks Millie! You're making me blush!" I half-joked in a joyous tone. "So, what you up to this summer?" I asked, genuinely interested. Amelia was the only person I really considered friend material out of all the Ravenclaw girls, I thought she was a bit like myself, showing part of her personality but not all of it.

"Well I think I'll just be hanging around the house, I don't really know that many people around my area to be honest, it kind of sucks really. But never mind I've gotten used to it." Amelia finished in a blatantly fake chipper tone. I couldn't help but feel bad for her, she was so pretty and genuinely nice, she deserved to have a good time. Making my mind up I made a some what rash decision on the spot.

"Say, Millie, if your not up to anything do you fancy coming to mine for a few days in the holiday? My parents have been known to throw killer parties and we've just moved to some little wizarding village so I know they'll simply have to throw a house warming party." I said with a roll of my eyes. My parents were quite cool really, they let me do what I wanted up to a point and trusted me and my friends completely, but they always had these parties for whatever reasons they could think of. But I suppose I shouldn't complain really, it meant I could have friends over without having to worry about buying and hiding all the booze. Haha, I love having socialite parentals!! "PLEASE! You simply have to come!"

Amelia's lips visibly twitched at the sides and I knew that I had won my cause. "I'll have to ask my mum but I don't see why not." She grinned all shiny, toothy like and continued "Maybe I'll finally see the real Corinne, I know that you've changed how you are while in school, I can tell by the far away look you get sometimes. But I do know that you are honest with how you talk to people, like you're genuinely nice, I just cant wait to get to know the real you." Amelia said in her soft voice and smiled at me.

"Millie, you really are quite extraordinary, I have know idea how you can just read people like that. But yeah, I really want you to stay over for a few days!" I said in awe of the honesty she had spoken with, completely unafraid of how I would react. "well, I'll let you get ready, I'm going to go and eat!" I finished with a big cheesy grin and a double thumbs up before grabbing my bag and skipping out the door.