AT THE OWL EMPORIUM, they started to look for a nice owl. Ruby saw a nice tawny owl, but didn't really like it. Then she saw the screech owl. It was a vibrant brown.
"Hey, Jume, what about this one? I think he's cute."
"Why don't get the one next to him? She would fit your name."
"Kay," She hugged the screech owl and set him down on his perch. The one Jumelle was holding looked almost identical to the one she'd held.
They paid and left, for the first time, without a comment about Tronus Bomen Lapiz. 'Weird', Ruby thought.
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On the 31st of August, Jumelle sat outside to watch her sister ride her broom for the last time until Christmas or Easter. Ruby felt quite at ease in the air, and the broom followed her commands like a trained puppy. The summer day was full of sunshine and the nice dark fluffy clouds that created a beautiful mixture of light and shade. It was surely going to rain tomorrow with clouds like that. Ruby showed off with a few low loop-the-loops and then dived to the groud softly. She was barefoot, and the grass beneath her feet felt soft and luxurious.
"Hey Rube. We need to pack your trunk for tomorrow. Dad should be here soon."Jumelle called."Come inside quickly." Ruby grabbed a cloth she'd left on the ground and wiped the smudges off of the broomstick while walking to the back door.
Inside the house, Ruby went upstairs and found Jumelle waiting with her trunk open. Jumelle had already started to wrap her crystal phials with tissue-like paper. Ruby searched in their attic for boxes to put everything that was boxless into. When she came back Jumelle was removing the price tags from the telescope, cauldron, and scales, and was replacing them with a name tag that read in flashing colors; Property of Miss R. L. Lapiz.
"Hey, neat Jume. Will you teach me that charm? I didn't see it in the textbook. I want to surprise the teacher,"Ruby gushed. She had leafed through the textbooks and preformed a few small spells. "I wonder if any other of the first years know that charm."
They heard a 'pop' in the living room and realized their father had just apparated to there.
"Dad!"
"Father!"
"Hey girls. You aren't still packing are you?" Said Tronus Lapiz while his daughters jumped down the stairs to hug him.
"How'd you guess?" Asked Ruby semi-sarcasticaly.
"Just a hunch. So did you get everything? I see the house is in one piece."He looked at Jumelle."Did you miss me?"
"Yes, yes, and yes."chirped Ruby cheerfully.
They finished packing and somehow managed to get everything into the trunk from Jumelle's years at Hogwarts. Ruby didn't think she'd sleep much that night. She was right. She tossed and turning wondering if the kids there would like her, would the homework assignments be easy or hard, whether the professors were strict or not. She finally fell asleep. Rowenica had had her head tucked under her wing long ago.