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Chapter 1:

~10:00 PM August 30: 9363 Santa Cruz Drive, San Francisco, CA~
"Hey Ma... where is my underwear?" Riley shouted from the kitchen to his mom who was upstairs. He was a 6 foot, handsome 14 year old guy with ear length, dark brown hair and dark hazel eyes.
"Try on your butt, you idiot!!" said a voice coming from the living room. He made his way into the room and saw Mia, his older sister.
"Shut up you smart ass." He said as they heard there mom coming down the stairs. "Ma, Mia's being a smart ass again." He said in a playful whining tone.
"What? He asked where his underwear was and I said, on his butt. Was I wrong?"
"Rye, why don't you try the laundry room? Seeing that underwear is considered laundry," said Miranda their mom in a sarcastic tone, which matched her daughters'.
'I guess that's where Mia gets it, huh.' He thought as he went to look in the laundry room.
Miranda went to sit next to her 16 year old daughter, who was lying on the couch watching TV on the big screen. "So, Mia are you all packed?"
"Sì, I started packing last night and finished this morning, I don't wait until the last minute like some people we know." She tilted her head in the direction of her brother as he ran around the house collecting all his stuff to take to school. They both gave a little laugh as he slipped on a step and tripped.

Mia and her mom, Miranda looked so much alike. They had the same dark brown hair (Miranda's was a little shorter than shoulder length and a little wavy, where as Mia's was just past her shoulders, layered and straight. Mia was practical the younger version of Miranda), same slightly slanted Asian eyes and beautiful tanned body, for Miranda was half Mexican and half Chinese. Both were tall (Mia was about 5'10"), slender, but not too, too thin and both had the same laugh. In comparison to these two, Riley looked more of the Caucasian persuasion than anything, with slightly Asian eyes and of course the dark hair.

"Ma, are you sure we have to go and change schools like this. I mean, we're going to be completely embarrassed being sorted with all the first years. Plus, I was supposed to be the valedictorian of my year this year; I was the top student in my class."
"You know perfectly why, for yours and Rye's protection against...' she trailed off.
"The mean, evil guy, right." Mia finished in a bored tone.
"You know his name."
"I know, but I sick of hearing it all the time. That's all the people here talk about, how Voldemort is back and coming after people. I mean, if the people in the UK aren't that worried, why are we?" she said complaining.
"Mia," She shouted in a scolding voice, "you need protection and Hogwarts is the best place for it."
"Oh, yeah, right into the mix of things. Don't you think I would be more protected here in America? You know the land of the free, home of the brave, protector of the protected." She said the last phrase a little unsure.
"That was really bad," her mom laughed.
"Sorry, couldn't think of anything, but seriously..."
"You and your brother are going, end of story." She said in a final tone. She got up and left Mia alone in the living room watching MTV. Riley had gotten all his stuff and was in his room stuffing it into his trunk and other bags.

After finishing an episode of The Osbourne's, Mia went back up to her half empty room to finish some last minute stuff. She sat at her desk for only a couple minutes when her brother came in.
"Whatcha doing?" He said lying down on the bed, petting Mia's dog, Georgina.
"Um, just uploading some songs from my CDs, so I don't have to bring them all."
"You know, that's not a bad idea, I should do that too, or in second thought you can do it for me." he said in his soft baritone voice trying to sound sweet.
"Fine," she said in an exasperated tone, "go get your laptop and CDs, and I'll do it for you," she added plugging in extra cords to connect his computer. She thought to herself, 'Might as well get my good deed for the day, out of the way.'
Riley left to get his things and came back with his computer and about 50 CDs. The task of uploading the CDs didn't take very long because their computers were brand new and contained a ton of memory and were super fast, about 2.5 gigs. His CD collection consisted of mostly Rap, Rock and Heavy Metal, featuring Eminem, Ludicrous, Limp Bizit, Incubus, POD, Korn, and of course a little Marilyn Manson.
"God, Rye, your going to scare all those poor childrens if you play Marilyn Manson and the rest of you CDs. You're so going to corrupt their impressionable minds."
"That's what I was planning on. Besides look what you got," he looked at her screen, "Britney Spears, *NSYNC, O-Town, and..."
"Oh shut up, I only have, uh... a couple pop songs, how bad is that? Huh?"
"Pretty bad in my opinion,"
"Well, I don't what your opinion," She replied, "So I have a couple good pop songs, at least I'm not a teeny bopper like Teresa." Mia finished with a shudder. Theresa was her muggle friend from high school who was completely obsessed with *NSYNC.

As they were up stairs, Miranda was downstairs in the laundry room when her husband, Nathan came home from work.
"Hey Hon, how was your day?" she asked.
"Tiring, so many guests complained about everything, and plus we've booked a lot of movie stars who are in town for a premiere. I think it's for Austin Powers: Goldmember. And they have to have everything perfect. That's why I'm so late," he said with a yawn.
"Sounds terrible," she gave him a kiss. "Well, go get changed, I saved dinner for you." They walked out of the laundry room, Miranda caring laundry. As they passed the living room, a voice came that made Nathan jump and grabbed Miranda's arm causing the laundry to fall.
"Hi Mira," it said from the fireplace in a British accent.
"Hey Rols," she said cheerfully as she picked up the basket. "What's wrong?"
"Oh, I just need to talk to my kids."
"I'll go get them," Nathan said as he made his way up the stairs. He muttered under his breath, 'I'll never get use to that.'

He went up to Mia's room to find the two jamming to Eminem's "Without Me" that was on MTV at the time.
"Hey Nate, finally decided to come home, eh?" Riley said. Mia turned to look at him in the doorway.
"Yeah, I though I ought to or your mom would be mad."
"Probably." They said in unison with a smile.
"Oh yeah, your dad's head is in the fireplace. Man, I'll never get use to that." He said shaking his head and heading to his room. Mia and Riley jumped up and went down stairs. When they rounded the corner they saw their father, Rollins' head in the fireplace, talking to their mother. She laughed at what her ex-husband and best friend had just said and then said, "Oh, there they are."
"Hey dad!" Riley said cheerfully.
"What's the matter?" Mia said sounding a little worried.
"Just wanted to wish you good luck on the plane tomorrow, and also that I'm going to pick up your school supplies tomorrow, they'll be waiting for you at the train station. I'll probably put them in a locker, or something."
"Thanks Dad, so what have you been up to?" Riley said as he sat down on the coffee table next to his mom.
"Oh, just working, well, I got to go. Be careful on the plane, and I'll see you on your first trip to Hogsmeade. Bye."
"Bye," they all said in unison as Rollins head disappeared from the fireplace.
"Uh, look at the time, you guys better get to bed, we need to get up early, you know how long checking the luggage will going to be, even more so now." She went over to a kitchen cabinet and took out two vials of a thick purple liquid. "Here this will help you sleep and feel rested for tomorrow."
"Ma, we know what this is," Mia said, "well at least I do." She looked at Riley who gave her a dirty look.
"Drink it down now. Then go to bed." The two of them downed the bitter tasting liquid and replied to their mother, "Okay, g'nite."

Sleep came easily for Mia and a gentle mist sweep over her mind as she slept. Beyond the mist was an echo of a voice that came as suddenly as it left. The next second she was on a small cliff top, overlooking a beautiful violet-orange sunset over a shimmering blue-green ocean. The sound of the ocean's waves was like a symphony to her ears and the mildly cool wind blowing through her dark hair sending a light ocean spray across her face. She recognized this place, the only place she felt completely relaxed and safe. She sat on a blanket with another rapped around her as she watched the sun set, ever so slowly, in the west. It was perfect, 'if only...' she thought and looked over to the right and saw in a distance and figure that seemed so familiar. It started walking towards her, she had to brush her hair away from her eyes so she could make out its face, but all of a sudden, a voice came calling.

"Mia...oh Mia." She thought it was coming from the figure, but it had vanished. She then realized it was a dream and began to wake up, but not wanting to.
"Mia, it time to get up. Come on." Miranda said in a cooing tone. Mia stirred and turned over; she then opened her eyes slightly to see that her mother was gone. She wanted to go back to that same dream, the cliff, the ocean, the figure, and figured that if she tried to fall back asleep, she could. It was so perfect, but after a futile attempt, she had no chose but to get up.




A/N: I know I don't follow the timeline (1991-1998) Oh well.
Also if you like the story or are at least a bit interested, please review and I'll put up the next chapter. I just want to know if anyone is reading this. Its a little slow in the beginning but it'll get better.

*thanks*
~Aurora Angel~