"Emily I missed you!" Kelly said, throwing her arms around Emily. Emily hugged her back and smiled.
"Emily! How was your Christmas? Were you lonely?" Rosie asked.
"Nah, I had a lot of time to think," Emily replied.
"Quit hugging and let's go put our trunks away and have a snowball fight!" Andrew said.
"Ok!" Kelly said and ran up the stairs. Emily dashed up after her, followed by Rosie, Andrew, Parker and Grant. Once they were all bundled up, they dashed back down the stairs and out the front doors. There were a few other students throwing snowballs at each other. Zach hit Parker in the face as he ran down the last few steps. Emily, Rosie, and Kelly burst into giggles as Parker ran after Zach, getting hit three more times in the face.
"Come one! I'll show you guys how to build a great fort!" Kelly said, gathering up snow.
"Who taught you how to build one?" Rosie asked.
"My brother," Kelly whispered.
"I didn't know you had a brother. How old is he?" Rosie asked.
"He would have been in his fifth year here," Kelly said quietly, picking up some snow and packing it together.
"What do you mean he would have?" Emily asked.
"Well after his second year of school, he disappeared! I don't know what happened to him! But he's gone! No muggles or wizards have found him!" Kelly said, tears starting to fall. She quickly wiped them away and began to make the fort higher. Rosie knelt down next to Kelly and put her arm around Kelly's shoulder. Kelly pulled away and quickly finished making the fort.
"Now we need to make snowballs. Then we can beat the boys," Kelly said, starting to roll snowballs. Rosie glanced at Emily and Emily quickly got to her knees and started to make snowballs. Rosie soon followed. Within ten minutes the three boys and three girls were in a snowball war. Kelly's fort was the best built and the girls had only been hit by five snowballs. It looked as if the girls were going to cream the guys, but in the end, the boys charged and stampeded them. The fort broke away and the three girls ran away screaming. The boys were laughing, chucking snowballs at the retreating three. Emily hid behind a tree and began to make a bunch of snowballs. When Grant ran by, she threw three at him, making him fall to the ground. Emily began to giggle and threw a few more at him as he was trying to get up. Grant was glaring at Emily.
"Emily watch out!" Rosie yelled from behind her. Emily spun around as Parker threw a snowball in her face.
"I'm going to get you Parker Weasley!" Emily yelled picking up some snow to throw at him. She threw the snowball, but he jumped out of the way, leaving Josh as a target. Josh just happened to turn around at that second, getting a snowball right in the face.
"Emily Potter!" Josh yelled angrily.
"Uh-oh," Emily breathed, making a mad dash for the front entrance. Josh had an angry glare on his face and was chucking snowballs at her as fast as he could make them. Emily ran for the front door and ran inside just as a snowball went flying past her ear, hitting Aaron who was coming out.
"Josh!" Aaron yelled and tackled his brother to the ground. Emily began to laugh, but quickly ran up to the common room when Aaron let Josh up and went to join his friends.
"Emily, Josh is really angry," Rosie said, walking in the entranceway.
"It's not like I meant to hit him, I meant to hit Parker!" Emily said, glaring at Parker as he walked in.
"Sorry Emily, I was just protecting myself," Parker replied.
"Well, the snow looked good on Josh," Emily giggled.
"Look what Grant and Andrew did to me!" Kelly said angrily. Kelly was soaked to the bone in wet snow. She left a puddle on the ground everywhere she walked. "They tackled me! Now I'm all wet!" Rosie began to giggle. Andrew and Grant walked in with smirks on their faces. Kelly glared at them and tried to kick Andrew as he walked by, but slipped on her puddle and fell down on the floor.
"Ouch!" Kelly said, getting up and rubbing her hip.
"Come on, let's go get in dry clothes," Rosie suggested.
"Good idea," Grant said, and headed for the stairs. "Guys help me!" They rushed over to Grant and found that he had forgotten to jump the trick step.
"Grant, you act more like Andrew's father then Andrew does!" Parker laughed.
"Just get me out!" Grant begged. Andrew and Parker grabbed him by the arms and lifted him out of the step.
"Emily, you coming?" Kelly asked. She turned around and found Emily standing, open-mouthed at an empty spot on the floor. "What are you staring at?"
"The smallest of snakes! I just saw it come by! It has to be Dumbledore! And it said, Revenge, I will get Revenge!" Emily nearly shouted.
"What are you talking about?" Rosie asked, climbing down a few steps towards Emily.
"I saw that small snake again!" Emily replied.
"Emily Potter!" Josh yelled from the entranceway.
"We can talk about this later. Common room, now!" Emily said and bounded up the stairs.
***
The six were seated on a couch in front of the fireplace, avoiding Josh as much as possible. Emily had just explained to them about the snake, and why she thought it was Dumbledore. Once everyone was done conversing about Dumbledore they all grew silent.
"Kelly, why didn't you ever tell us about your brother?" Rosie asked.
"It just never came up," Kelly said shrugging.
"What was his name?" Rosie asked.
"Erik Allen Maxfield," Kelly replied.
"You're Erik's sister?" Mandy asked, coming up behind the group. She handed Parker an envelope. "This is from my Dad, he wanted to give it to you, I don't know what it is."
"Yeah, I'm Erik's sister," Kelly replied quietly.
"I'm sorry about what happened. He was here one day, and the next he disappeared. It was the strangest thing. Sandy was in tears, she had the biggest crush on him," Mandy said.
"Yeah," Kelly said, barley above a whisper.
"I hope he's found soon. He was a great guy," Mandy said and headed over to her friends.
"What did you get from your uncle?" Emily asked Parker.
"Oh, just some other tips for playing chess. He said he never taught my Dad this trick, so now maybe I'll be able to finally beat him," Parker replied.
"Oh, it's just chess," Emily said and turned back to stare at the fireplace.
"What are the details on how he disappeared?" Rosie asked.
"I don't want to talk about it! OK?" Kelly said angrily and ran up to the dormitory.
"You shouldn't have bothered her about it," Andrew said.
"I kind of figured that out," Rosie snapped.
"Whoa! Don't bite!" Andrew said, jumping back. Rosie glared at him and headed up to the dormitory to talk to Kelly. Emily followed, leaving the three boys to themselves. Emily found Rosie trying to open the curtains around Kelly's bed. Kelly was holding them shut and through tears she was yelling at Rosie to go away.
"Kelly, I'm sorry. I was just curious," Rosie said, almost tearing the curtain in half.
"That's great! Now leave!" Kelly yelled back.
"Why are you two fighting?" Emily asked. Rosie let go of the curtain and Kelly slowly opened the curtains around her bed. Kelly sat down on the bed, trying to wipe away her tears.
"Can we please just not talk about this? It took me months to stop crying myself to sleep. And it took me even longer to not cry when I thought about him," Kelly whispered.
"Kelly, we've all lost someone, so we know how it feels," Rosie said.
"But at least you guys got to say goodbye," Kelly replied.
"Actually I never did, and I still haven't," Emily said, sitting down next to Kelly on her bed. Rosie joined them.
"Emily, you should really say goodbye to her," Kelly said.
"I know, but I just can't bring myself to do it," Emily replied. The girls were in silence for a few moments.
"Kelly, you told us you were an only child," Rosie said breaking the silence.
"I didn't want to talk about Erik," Kelly said, looking down at her shoes.
"Why all of a sudden though? I mean you never talked about him before, and you were always so happy," Rosie asked.
"Because Christmas always reminds me of him. It was his favorite time of the year. I remember the last Christmas we had together. It had to be the best one ever. He came home from school with his arms filled with wizard treats for me. We had the best time. We played in the snow all day long, like we used to do before he started school. I miss him so much," Kelly said, getting a dreamy look on her face.
"See, you can be happy thinking about him," Rosie said.
"I know I can, it's just sometimes I get so sad," Kelly replied.
"I know how you feel. At least you have more memories with you brother then I do with my mom," Emily said quietly. "I think I'm going to go to bed." Emily got up and closed the curtains around her bed. She moved the sleeping Angel off of her pillow and sat down on her bed, with her back against the headboard. She brought her knees up to her chest and hugged them close to her body.
"How come I thought I wasn't mad at Dad a few days ago, and now I hate him again?" Emily whispered, taking out her locket and looking at the picture of her mother.
***
"We need to lure Potter to us!" An evil voice said.
"B-but M-master, w-we almost had h-him w-with the g-girl," A short, balding man stuttered.
"But we didn't want Potter yet. He was in the castle you fool! Why did you grab her then? You still have so much to learn!" The cold voice spat.
"Y-yes m-master," The short man stuttered.
"Now what we need is to get the girl while Potter is far enough away. Then we can send a ransom note to Potter, but have his daughter dead by the time he finds her," The cold voice said, starting to laugh.
"B-but m-master, w-what if Dumbledore gets her first?" The short man asked.
"Wormtail! Dumbledore is not of my concern. Sure he has turned evil, but he's not with me yet!" The cold voice yelled.
"B-but Dumbledore is the only wizard stronger then you," Wormtail pointed out.
"Cructatious!" The cold voice shouted. Wormtail fell to the ground, screaming in pain. The cold voice started to laugh again, waiting almost a full minute before he took the curse off his servant.
"Now, what were you saying?" The voice asked angrily.
"N-nothing m-master," Wormtail stuttered.
"I thought so. Now it will be your job to get the girl! NOW!" The cold voice shouted.
"R-right away sir!" Wormtail replied, running out of the room as fast as his short legs could carry him.
Emily sat up in bed in a cold sweat. She felt like her heart was in her throat. Angel was looking at Emily like she was crazy. Angel meowed angrily for disturbing her sleep and curled up next to Emily and went to sleep. Emily lay back down slowly, wiping some sweat off of her forehead. She shivered, even though she felt like she was on fire.
"He's going to kill me," Emily said in a frightened whisper. At that moment a figure opened her curtains, covered her mouth and dragged her out of the room.
A/N: So did you like it? Sorry it took me so long to get this out. I've been busy with schoolwork, I've been sick, and I just haven't felt like writing. Thanks for all the reviews. I'm not sure how long this is going to be yet. I think somewhere between 20 and 30. That's a big range huh? Well anyways, I just want to say one thing. I know I probably have some errors in this chapter and I defiantly spelled the curse wrong, but oh well. I'm writing this story for fun, I'm defiantly not a professional, so if you find some spelling mistakes just ignore it and don't post every little mistake in the review. And the person who has been doing this knows who they are. If you have any suggestions on how to make it better, I'm all ears, but no more every little spelling and grammar mistake! OK? Please review!
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