CHAPTER 14: So the fun starts

Saying goodbye was pretty hard, I mean when we got back home we'd have to do so many chores and we'd be completely cut off from civilization, wouldn't we?

When we did get back home Mum took away all my books, Uncle George's products, both James's and my broom and she took our owls away. Then she set us on the task to finish cleaning the windows.

James had begged and begged which didn't help one bit.

But Rose managed to convince Mum to let her talk to me on Sunday which was really a big break.

But she came with Lianna, why?

Well I couldn't blame her, Lianna was her best friend and Rose had no idea that I liked her.

Rose asked me as we sat on the ledge in the backyard "Was it cool?"

I laughed "You wish, we got lost in the woods alright and we came face to face with Bellatrix Lestrange"

Rose gasped "Dad didn't tell us that part, oh my god"

Lianna sat there confused, she was a muggle-born so she obviously didn't know a lot about Bellatrix.

She asked "I'm guessing that this Bellatrix was someone very dangerous?"

Rose said "yes, she was mad and grandma Molly had killed her"

Lianna's eyes rose up to her hairline "Your Grandma Molly, the sweetest grandma ever who cooks the most delicious food, she? No way your lying, there's no way she could do anything of that sort"

Both Rose and I burst out laughing, Lianna blushed. I said "Well, she did and there's nothing anyone can do about it"

Lianna looked away, she made it so obvious that she didn't like me.

Rose said "We must get going, Aunt Ginny will have our heads otherwise"

I asked "How did you persuade her anyway?"

Rose smiled at Lianna who blushed and looked at the ground "Uum….well…actually…"

Rose rolled her eyes, she said "Well Lianna told your Mum that we had a really important letter to give you, from Hogwarts, actually Mum said that I had to take all your letters while you were away and give it to you later, so we took this letter and Lianna persuaded your Mum"

I smiled at Lianna who didn't even look at me once.

Then realization dawned on me "Is that the letter from school for the booklists?"

Rose and Lianna exchanged grins and Rose handed me the letter.

I took the letter and said "Well, you had a genius plan to come meet me, booklists, seriously?"

Lianna blushed, she still didn't look at me, obviously she had no feelings for me whatsoever.

I opened the envelope with nimble fingers and removed the folded parchment, but there was another parchment and another badge inside it.

I took them out and I looked at the badge, it said 'PREFECT' in bright gold letters.

I hadn't expected that at all.

Me a prefect? No way, I was obviously dreaming, this whole summer should have been a dream but surprisingly it hadn't been.

I looked up at Rose "Are you pranking me?"

Rose laughed "No Al we're not, though I had taken a peak inside your envelope the night it came and I told Lianna too"

Lianna blushed.

I said "Wow, I'm a prefect, James is going to get it now, I'l give him detentions for everything he does"

Rose crossed her arms and said like an aunt reprimanding a child "Albus, you will not misuse the power given to you"

Lianna said "Come on Rose, you really think he'll do it? He'll never put his prat brother in detention if he had a choice, he can never say no to his brother"

I said indignantly "That isn't true, I'm not pushover"

She said sarcastically "Oh yeah, you're not a pushover, that's why your brother managed to take you to the forest and get you to go into your Dad's study, that makes so much sense"

I said "I'm not a push over"

She said smiling "keep telling yourself that"

I asked "Anyway moving on, do you know who the other prefect is?"

Rose started laughing on the spot.

Lianna turned beet red and said "Rose stop it! There's something called being polite you know"

Rose said through her laughter "I'm sorry Li it's just that, it's so funny"

Lianna said "I'm prefect so what?"

I asked "Wait a minute you're prefect?"

She looked horrified and then she said defeatedly "Yes I am, I'm going to be a total flop"

She shook her head and covered her face with her hand.

Rose was smiling "Come on you won't be bad, you get the best marks in the year and you're really smart"

Lianna said "Rose I don't think you know me that well, I'm clumsy, impulsive and nothing I ever do works anyway, I have this over active brain that always get me into trouble"

I said trying to comfort her "I'm not that experienced either so there's nothing to worry about, so cheer up we'll figure it out"

She said "Yeah but you're Albus Potter, there's a huge difference, you are born with the capability to lead, me? Well I was born with a huge burden on my back that normal people call bad luck"

I resisted the urge to laugh, she saw the smile tugging at the corners of my mouth and said, her eyebrows narrowing "What are you laughing at?"

I shook my head "Nothing"
She said "You think this is funny"

I said alarmed "I don't, no I seriously don't"

She sighed "It doesn't matter, a lot of people find my existence funny you're not the only one"

I said "Look I was not laughing at you I just found what you said funny"

She said "I have to go, I'll see you both later, my mother will be waiting for me"

She turned around left.

I felt guilty, Rose said "She was just over-reacting, she does this all the time, don't take it hard, she'll come around"

I said "I didn't mean to hurt her"

Rose sighed "Look she's just had a hard summer and she's a bit on the sensitive end right now, just wait until school starts she'd have calmed down by then, Hogwarts always makes her less stressed and she doesn't have to focus on her family at that point, but she hardly tells me anything that happens at her house"

I listened carefully to what Rose said.

Then she said "Well I guess I'll head home too, enjoy your chores"

She smiled I just said "Whatever, tell Lianna I'm sorry won't you?"

She nodded reassuringly "I will, though I don't think it's required"

I smiled back.

Well so the fun begins, the normal life has started.

AN: one more chapter done! So what do you think? Just wait for the next chapter, more of James in it :)

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