Author's note: This chapter is just gonna jump to Christmas. Just for a heads up. I need to speed up her first year!
My gosh, it's Christmas Eve. Christmas day is tomorrow and where am I spending Christmas? I'm spending it here, at Hogwarts. Why? Because my parents could only afford three tickets to New Zealand and who got to go with them? Jessica, she begged her ass off to go! When she gets back, I'll put glue in her hairbrush or something like that! To add to this craziness, Cedric had to go home for Christmas so I'm stuck here all alone, for Christmas! I could seriously murder someone right now. Not joking!
But who am I to complain? Wait, I can complain. I'm alone for my first Christmas at Hogwarts. Charlotte and Sarah went home for Christmas break. Thank the Lord Anna left. There's barely any Gryffindors who stayed, a couple Ravenclaws, quite a few Slytherins and maybe ten Hufflepuffs. So there's plenty of food for us at the feast! Like I care.
Yesterday I sent Cedric's gift to him. It's a picture of us with our arms linked, skipping like five year old girls. I'm singing a song with a huge smile on my face while he's laughing to the top of his lungs. There was a lot of snow and I didn't feel like walking in it so I remembered a spell my sister always used back at home. It made snow melt. So I made a long trail and we just showed off how we didn't have to walk knee high in snow. We got many stares. But it was fun! So I wrapped that up and sent an owl to give it to him. He should get it before Christmas morning. He gave me my present from him before he left. I promised I wouldn't open it until Christmas and I've still kept that promise. Mom and Dad have a gift for me, I got it this morning. My muggle friend Stacey figured out how to send mail in the wizard world and the gift she gave me is under my bed.
Stacey is my best friend back at home. She is taller than me, sportier than me and she's just amazing. She plays every muggle sport I can think of: basketball, soccer ball, tennis, volleyball, football, badminton and hockey. I just read and I'm a witch, I think that can count. She was so happy and shocked to find out I was a witch. I've been sending her letters, she's been replying.
Before Hogwarts and meeting Cedric, Stacey was one of my only friends. We could be cousins actually. She has the same bronze coloured hair like me. We're both pretty pale but she has brown eyes and I have emerald eyes and she is like I said taller than me. My other friends are Ella, a pretty blonde girl who is so nice to almost every one and Nichola, we call her Nick though, she's really shy like me and short like me but she has long straight brown hair and these amazing gray eyes. I wish I had gray eyes but when I think about it, my parents might have called me gray, so I'm happy with green eyes.
I'm on my way to the Great Hall for supper. It's so empty here. Well it feels like it. I enter to see I'm late, they started without me. It doesn't matter though; I don't really care at all. It's just a Christmas Eve feast! Who am I kidding, Christmas Eve dinners are super important. Why does the universe punish me? The presents I'm opening tomorrow better be good or else, I'll be depressed for a couple days. Being depressed is boring! So I hope my presents are amazing!
"Morning already?" I say while jumping out of bed.
No one answered me; I'm all alone, on Christmas morning. But never mind that! It's present opening time! I bend over and grab all my presents from under my bed. The first one I see is the one from Stacey. I open it and inside is a scrapbook of pictures from when Stacey, Ella, Nick and I were like five to eight years old. I absolutely love it!
The next one is from my parents, inside is a book about different type of magical plants. So they know I'm failing Herbology.
Last but not least is the gift from Cedric. I wonder what's inside. Obviously something that only Cedric could think of, but what would that be? I open it and what I find makes me gasp in surprise. A magical book that looks like it has only five pages but since its magic it never ends! And what is this book about? Well it's all about my favourite animal, wolves! I wish I could hug him but he's not here. I may have only got three gifts but two of them are all I need, the Herbology book I'll most likely never open.
I run over to my desk and grab some parchment, it's time I sent a letter to Cedric.
Dear Cedric (did I spell dear right? Because it might be deer but I'm pretty sure that's an animal),
Thank you soooooooooooo much for the never ending book about wolves! It's awesome! I'm so excited to read it and then read it some more because it never ends! Did you like the present I got you? It seems dumb compared to the one you gave me! I hope you still like it though! Christmas is lonely here (well it's sort of obvious considering I'm all alone). Merry Christmas! Please write back as soon as you can!
Sincerely,
Em
PS: they had turkey for dinner, I nearly puked!
I rush over to the Owlery and give my letter to a cool looking barn owl.
"Give this letter to Cedric Diggory please and thank you." I tell the owl. And it flies away; I wish I could follow it. I miss Cedric so much.
