Well guys, I'm updating again. I took a break from the studying and wrote this so it might be a little rough. Thanks to NY GE Pyromaniac and Aveline Archer for your reviews for the last chapter. Enjoy!


Life at the Potters' house was great. I soon learned that the food Lily cooked was as good as her cookies, in other words, the food was AMAZING. But, the food was not the best part; the best part was definitely the Potters themselves.

Lily was loving, smart, and beautiful. She was always looking out for me, asking "Milly, do you need anything? Milly, what would you like for dinner? Milly, you look bored, why don't you come and talk to me?"

James seemed to get over his aversion to me and always kept me laughing. He took me downtown to buy things for my room, and when I told him that I had no money, he said, "No problem. You're living with us Potters now, and we're known for our generosity, not to brag of course. We'd do anything for the people we care about. What's ours is yours." That made me hug James again, but this time, he didn't stiffen, he just hugged me back until I let go.


Of course, there were problems in the Potter household. One could feel the tension in the house, especially after James played some of his pranks. It astounded me how well he could prank, everything worked out perfectly: spiders appeared out of thin air, rooms were darkened and lightened immensely, and wind came out of nowhere. Whenever James pulled pranks like this, though, Lily glared at him. And then when he tried to make things better, usually by pulling a bouquet of flowers out of nowhere, Lily got even angrier.

After incidents like these, she would pull James aside and whisper furiously in his ear, "NO magic, remember? We could get in serious trouble!" They didn't realize I could hear every word she whispered because of my "super hearing", but James always came back from these conversations looking properly abashed.

Whenever they mentioned magic or something out of the ordinary occurred, I pretended to take no notice. These people were amazing, and I did not want to repay their kindness by getting them into trouble. So, after these incidents, I usually went into the garden. It was a beautiful place with trees of all different sizes growing and flowers blooming everywhere. There was a rose bush which I always visited in my "trips" to the garden. It was quite fascinating, whenever I put my hands around the roses on the bush, the flowers would open and close of their own accord! And, if I concentrated hard enough on a color, the roses on the bush would change to that color! It was extremely fascinating, and I decided to keep it my little secret. There was no way I was going to bother Lily and James with anymore than they already had to deal with.

Though the rose bush was fascinating, my favorite part of the whole garden was the swing hung between two tall oak trees. I swung there every day, always trying to swing higher than the day before.


One day, after a particularly frightening prank with spiders and smoke, I ran to the swing to escape the whispered fight sure to be occurring in the Potter household. I felt awful about what was going on inside; Lily and James were such nice people, I considered them family, and they were fighting because of me. Well, not exactly because of me, but because of the secret they were keeping from me: magic. These thoughts preoccupied my mind as I was swinging, and as a result, I took no notice of the height I was reaching.

The arguing stopped in the house, and Lily and James came outside to call me in for dinner. Thinking I was only a few feet off the ground, I prepared to jump off of the swing. The two of them gasped, and Lily cried, "Milly, no!" I looked at them strangely. It was then that I realized I wasn't a couple of feet off of the ground, I was almost at the top of the oak trees! But, the damage was done, and I had jumped off of the swing.

My stomach dropped, and my heart was beating as quickly as a hummingbird's wings. I closed my eyes and hoped that the impact wouldn't kill me. But, I didn't hit the ground. I opened my eyes, and to my astonishment, I was still in the air but with a cloud of rose petals slowly bringing me down. I looked at Lily and James, they were standing there with their mouths wide opened. James put what looked like a stick of wood in his pocket muttering, "I guess I didn't need that after all."

When I finally hit the ground along with my whirlwind of rose petals, Lily and James rushed towards me. James scooped me up into his arms and said, "Don't you ever do that again! You scared me half to death!" Then, Lily joined our embrace saying, "Milly, you need to be careful! You could have died!"

In the middle of their embrace, I asked them, "What happened? Why didn't I die? Why did the rose petals fly up around me? What did you do?"

They looked at each other and shook their heads, then they said, "Milly, we didn't do anything."

To this, I replied, "So, I did this? Wow! That is so cool! Is this the magic you guys were talking about?"

Too late, I realized my mistake. I had let out the secret I had been trying to keep from them for days! As I clapped my hands over my mouth, they looked at each other in surprise. They held each other's gazes for what seemed like an eternity, and then they turned their gaze to me and said, "Let's go inside. There's a lot of explaining to do."

I was in trouble.


So, what did you guys think? Milly finally did something magical! Tell me what I need to do because, as I said before, it is rough. I just wrote it and posted it. I hope you liked it, and I really would like to know what you think. Please tell me either in a review or a PM(I turned on anonymous reviews so now ANYONE can review, no excuses!). On another note, can anyone tell me how to get those lines into this document. I just can't seem to figure out how. Anyways, thanks for reading, and review please! ;)


Obviously, I found out how to put the lines in (thank you NY GE Pyromaniac). I'm reuploading the story with the lines. Don't forget to review; reviews make me feel like this story is worth continuing. :) Also, thanks to LillyBrokenHeart for reviewing this story.