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I'm working on chapter thirteen and the end of chapter twelve shows how sad and twisted my mind is. I wont say anything though. This whole chapter is about Adira and the contest and it was fun to write so enjoy!
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Chapter Seven
Adira decided to write a story, of a girl who was killed and watched her friends and family from above. It took her a month and a half and when it was done, she was proud. It was ten pages.
"I looked around and realized, I may have lost my friends and family, but I would always have them, in a place that will never die. A place I can always reach. And as the image of him disappeared, I smiled and took the hands of the others, the ones who would always hold me, and finally faded into my new home."
Evan Peters looked at the paper in awe and the other judges had the same expressions. One spoke.
"This girl, this girl is good. It's as if she was speaking from her own experience." It was time to vote.
A few weeks after she turned it in, Adira was sitting at the Gryffindor table, leaning against George. She wasn't sleeping again and was trying to calm down. Suddenly an owl flew in, though it was past owl post. It was carrying a letter and a package. She took it and fed the bird some toast before looking at the official looking muggle envelope. It was from the contest. She opened it and read it through. She gasped.
"I won." She whispered. "I won! I won first place!"
George grabbed the letter and grinned before standing up. "She won the contest!"
All of Gryffindor jumped up and cheered, along with the staff table, except Snape. The other houses were confused but clapped politely all the same, except Slytherin. She blushed at the cheering and opened the package. It contained a gold trophy, a pouch with one hundred galleons and an envelope, with her scholarship.
"Birkbeck?" She looked at the scholarship.
"Adira, that's one of the most prestigious schools. It teaches some of the best authors!" Hermione exclaimed.
"I didn't think I was that good." Adira whispered, tears in her eyes. She saw another sheet. "They want me to do a special program this summer. It's for some applicants, to see what Birkbeck can offer and see how the applicant does."
"You're not going to be here for the summer?" Ron looked disappointed.
"It's only for three weeks. From June 20th to July 11th." She frowned. "Should I do it?"
"Yes!" They all said at once and she grinned after a second.
School finally ended and she promised to go with them to the Quidditch World Cup after she got back and would miss them. As it was muggle, she couldn't owl or floo them. She was with Sirius for a few days before it was time to go and she loved it there. Sirius acted as her best friend and father and they always had fun. But soon it was time for her to go. She had her medication packed and trusted not to overdose. She was taking her photo album also, along with her Quidditch jersey which she would tell them was a made up game at her boarding school. She knew she was going to be the youngest there as she was only thirteen but she was determined.
She waited outside for the cab with a smile.
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"Okay, Adira Potter, you're rooming with Penny Davis!" Adira found Penny who smiled and they walked to their dorm room.
"How old are you?" Penny asked and Adira looked embarrassed when she answered.
"Thirteen."
"Really? Are you advanced in your school or something?"
"No, actually. I entered that writing contest and won first place. With the scholarship here, they also wanted me to do this." She looked down. "I feel kind of bad. I mean, you all tried really hard to get in here and I just won my way in."
"Wait, you're that Adira Potter? We've all heard of you! Apparently, your entry was the best in three years! I don't think anyone will care that you won your way in because you definitely deserve it."
Adira blushed. "Please don't treat me different though. I'm here to just learn."
Penny grinned brightly. "No problem. Am I allowed to brag to others though?" Adira looked shocked and Penny laughed. "I'm joking. Here's our dorm."
When they entered, Adira gasped. "It's beautiful! Much better than the dorms at my school."
"You go to boarding school?"
"Yeah, a private school in Scotland."
"Awesome. I do like the colors in here. Do you want the purple bed or green?"
"Green."
"Kind of matches your eyes." Penny laughed when Adira blushed.
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"You're writing style is as good as I was told, Adira." Her writing Professor said as she examined the short story she had to write. Adira blushed and she chuckled. "Keep it up and you'll get far."
Adira learned a lot during her time. She was even taught stuff she didn't know was important, like how you hold your pencil. It appeared that it helped your handwriting. She made many friends there and wished she would be there at the same time as them but they were all graduating from their secondary schools the next year. She missed all her friends and Sirius but she was having a lot of fun.
"Adira, can you read this as an example?" She was asked as she turned in a paper. He pointed to a paragraph and she blushed madly as she faced the class who listened intently.
"She watched as the boa constrictor slid out of his cage, his tail landing with a thump when he reached the floor. The poor boy standing there was quivering in fear, his oversized frame looking like the tail of an over excited puppy. As the snake made a circumference around his feet, you could practically see him dying of fright inside. Mel swore that when the snake passed her she heard him hiss 'thanksss amiga' before slithering off, playfully hissing at the visitors of the zoo."
"This, is a perfect example of a show not tell paragraph. Did you hear the detailed way she explained the boy? How the snake seemed to speak to her?" He took the paper and read from it. "The beef she called her uncle grabbed her arm tightly, asking what she did to his son. Mel would have felt fear, if she wasn't used to the man's ridiculous ideas that she had anything to do with strange, unnatural, incidents. When she said nothing, Mel was thrown into the small area that had been her room for ten long years. She heard the lock before the floor almost shook from him stomping to the kitchen for his meal of heart disease." He looked at all of them. "I want this from all of you."
Adira went back to her seat with a deep blush. Penny grinned at her as she erased some stuff from her paper. Adira looked around her dorm on the last day with a smile. Penny was waiting for her.
"Hurry up or we'll miss our cabs!" Penny said with an eye roll and Adira grabbed her suitcase. "So you have my address. Mail me anytime. It should go fast as we don't live to far apart." Penny hugged her as Adira's cab came. "It was good to meet you Adira. Hopefully you can come over sometime."
"It was good to meet you too Penny. I'll mail you soon." Adira then got in her cab, waved, and was driven away. She sighed happily as she was driven to her home.
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This was a cute chapter wasn't it? Penny is a completely made up character. Isnt it clever that Adira is writing about what happened to her but changed the name so no one knew it was real. Read and Review!
