I'm back! I want to update more often since that's what you guys asked for, but still no review schedule. (sigh) I'm just so unpredictable with school and finals and clubs and community service for my church that I am SO BUSY! But I love to write so I'm squeezing this in. Hope you enjoy! :) I also own nothing you recognise.
"I made a pig tail grow out of a boy's butt. I made a pig tail grow out of a boy's butt. I made a pig tail grow out-" Will you stop that?!
Holly was still in shock at what she had done. Sure, she had done magic loads of times and so had Harry. But no one had forced a tail off of someone's behind before. Looking back, she wondered what people would think if they saw that. And not just the Muggles. Well, the Muggles would probably be a little traumatized if they saw a boy grow a tail, who wouldn't? But if anyone she knew, like her family saw her she had no idea what they would think. Not for the magic, though Dad would probably double over laughing if her heard, but for her outburst. Holly Lily Potter was on no standards a talker. But she was pretty defensive. If anyone insulted her or her family, she would give them a piece of her mind. Even if they insulted Harry, heck, she would probably be even madder if they insulted Harry. Even if he was rude to her, she still loved him, and being mean was a big brother's main job, wasn't it? Yeah, he was rude, but she would do anything for him. Sure he never played hacky-sack with her but that didn't mean that she wouldn't protect him if he needed it.
Hacky-sack. She remembered that day when Harry had first decided that he didn't love his sister as much as he said he did to his mum. It had been her fourth birthday party and Harry's fifth. No, they didn't share a birthday, but they might as well. Holly's was one day before Harry's. That had been the year where she first found out about the game. She was at the park with Mummy. Daddy and Harry were at home. Holly had befriended a random girl and suddenly the girl had shown her a ball with the name Adrianna on it. "Do you play?" She had asked Holly. "Play what?" Holly had asked back. "Hacky-sack" "Excuse me?" "Hacky-sack" "It that a naughty word?" Adrianna had then went into a deep explanation of the fascinating game that mainly consisted of you bouncing a ball on your knees, occasionally your elbows, until they were sore from playing. She had said that you could play it with a friend or alone, so you were never bored. She then pulled a blank ball out of her pocket and some colored pens. Then she walked over to where Adrianna's mum and Lily were sitting. "Mummy?" Adrianna asked "Can you write Holly's name on here? I taught her how to play and she likes the game so can we give her a ball? Please?" Without saying a word, Adrianna' mum smiled, pulled out the green colored pen and wrote Holly on the ball with a little holly leaf twirling off of the y. Adrianna's mum handed the ball to Holly who blushed and said "Thank you." "It was no problem. Adri has tons of these at home." Adrianna's mum replied. After around half an hour of Adrianna and Holly practicing hacky-sack. Both mothers announced that it was time to go home. The two girls hugged and promised that they would meet there every Sunday. A promise, by the way, that hadn't been kept for one meeting.
Then came the party two months later. After a lot of people had left Holly asked Harry "Do you want to play hacky-sack with me? I have my own ball." Harry looked at her as though she was insane. "Hacky-sack? What is that, some sort of Muggle game?" "Yep!" Holly exclaimed proudly "It's great! You just bounce the ball on your knees and elbows and stuff like that. It's easy! You can even play on your own!" Harry sneered in a way that Holly was now getting used to. "I'm glad that you can play it alone cuz I'm not gonna play with you!" Holly stood there speechless, tears forming in her eyes. "That's probably how you want it anyways, isn't it? What kind of a baby runs from the own birthday party?" Harry continued. Holly let out a cry and ran off. Stop crying. Nothing is ever fixed by crying, she had told herself. She needed to calm down. She stopped at the sidewalk in front of her house. She bounced that ball on the ground hard so that it shot up into the air and let it hit her knee and jump off, into the air and onto another limb. She did this for a long time until she felt weird, like she was being watched. She turned her head to look across the street and saw a woman older than her parents staring at her right in the eye from the other side of the road. She dropped the ball and her eyes doubled in size. "Mummy! There's a lady staring at me!" she had screamed. Then dove behind a bush to hide leaving her ball on the lawn. She had curled up behind the bush. Then she heard a whooshing sound as her ball went flying from the ball into the woman's and before she disappeared with a crack. Tears prickled at Holly's eyes. That was her ball, not the woman's. She stayed there until her mum found her when she told her story through her tears. Her mum had said that they'll get her a new ball and her dad promised that the lady wouldn't come near the house anymore. But Harry had said, "It's just a ball. Besides, how do we even know that the lady is real. You have so so so many fake, inside-of-your-head friends, this may be you hiding that you lost your little bally, could it Holly?" That's when she realized, her brother didn't care about her, but she was loyal, and she cared about him. It was then when she realised that there were scary people that may not like Harry and herself, and if they were like the lady who stole her ball, they were really mean. It was then when she decided that real or imaginary, no bad people would ever go near her brother, not if she had any say in it.
Done! That was 1053 words of story my friends. I'm tired now. Here are some cookies to my reviewers. Thank you to those who leave reviews, they make me so happy. And to those who just read, I hope you're enjoying! I love you guys, bye!
