Disclaimer: See previous two Chapters… Too lazy, MUST. SLEEP!!!! (Exams are finally over) I only own Galie, Am and Am's whacked out parents who I just noticed that I don't think I've given them names yet. Will get on that...
AN: I remember saying that I would right something more cheerful so, this is going to be a little more cheerful. However, it probably won't get back to the way it started off or even to something (God forbid!!!) truly cheerful till the next chapter. Till then hope you have the tissue handy and that you enjoy!!!
True Friend till the End
When I got home from my 'horse ride' with Galie, I couldn't even touch my food. I had hurt Galie and regardless of whether or not I had wanted to, the guilt I felt had taken away my hunger.
Instead, I headed straight up to my room, not even stopping to acknowledge my parent's existence as I passed the kitchen on my way to the stairs. I opened the door to my room, walked in and gently closed it before taking two or three steps and falling dead tired on top of my bed. I fell asleep without changing out of my clothes or even getting under the bed sheets. Visions of Galie hurting all because of me filled my head and I knew that I was the worst friend a person could ever possibly have and it wasn't even my fault I had to hurt her.
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The morning had come just in time. Though as I woke up I knew that I was leaving the place I'd grown up in, I didn't think I could stand another dream where Galie was crying because of me.
I rolled out of bed, as was my morning ritual, letting my body hit the floor with what would most likely be the last loud 'THUD!!!' I would hear from the impact of my body against my bedroom floor, in this house. "The beds better be as low to the ground as this one at Hogwarts." I hoped "Or I most definitely won't be a morning person." At this, my first amusing thought about what something at Hogwarts might be like, I smiled my first smile in days.
I took a quick shower and pull on my clothes. I ran down to the kitchen and found that my mom and dad had put all my stuff that I had packed into my trunk so the movers wouldn't take it, at the door. Mom had also left out some toast with peanut butter on it just for me. "Ah!" I thought to myself. "There's nothing quite like breakfast on the run!" I grabbed the toast with peanut butter and took a bite out of it as my dad came in to collect my trunk and put it in the car.
"BLECK" I shouted loudly, making dad look in on me. "Where the fuck's the jelly when you need it!?!"
"Hun, there's no need to swear. The jelly's in that box at your feet." He said simply as if it were plain as day which rather pissed me off.
"Honestly" I thought to myself. "There's nothing wrong with my swearing and who the fuck, looks for something that's sitting in plain view, at their feet anyway!?!" I reached into the box and grabbed the jar of apple jelly.
"Well" I started. "Thank you. VERY! FUCK-ING! MUCH!" I finished emphasizing the last three words and grinned cheekily. The most emphasized being the swear word which drove my dad up the wall.
Unable to put up with my attitude, he turned bright red, looking as if he were about to explode and then, swiftly picked up my trunk and brought it out to the car. My mother entered the kitchen shortly after. "Ladies and gentlemen, ROUND 2!" I thought to myself, letting out a tad of a snigger.
"Was that a sign of the 'happy camper' inside!?!" my mother asked me as if I were a little girl. "For shit sakes, CAN I NOT JUST HAVE BREAKFAST WITHOUT THE 'HAPPY CAMPER' BULLSHIT!?!" I thought rolling my eyes and staring at my plate like something more amusing then my mother talking, like a toast crumb circus, was going on.
"Oh, come on now Am. You're going to love Hogwarts and you'll make so, many new friends that you won't-"
"DON'T YOU DARE SAY, THAT!" I shouted, standing up and throwing my plate and remainder of toast on the table. "DON'T YOU DARE SAY I WON'T REMEMBER, GALIE! I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER GALIE! SHE'S MY BEST FRIEND! SHE ALWAYS WILL BE AND NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY OUR FRIENDSHIP!"
With that I'd turned from my mother and ran back up to my room. However this time, it was completely bare. Everything had been packed up while I was eating breakfast I had guessed. With tears streaming down my cheeks I sat alone in a corner of what had been my room for all eleven years of my life. It hadn't dawned on me until that point how much I'd miss my old house, my old room. Now I was face to face with the reality that it was time to leave and that even now alone in my room I was still saying good-bye. This time, I was saying good-bye to the place where all my childhood memories had taken place throughout the years and now there was no turning back. I now had no choice but, to go.
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My eyes still red and puffy from my session of saying good-bye to my house up in my room, I came down the stairs finally completely prepared to leave. I opened the front door and came down off the porch to the top of the driveway. As I looked down to the end of the driveway, I saw my parents talking to Galie's parents who had decided to see us off when Galie had told them of our moving.
I had thought that after yesterday, it would be the last time I saw Galie but, true to best friend form, she had come to see me off. She had stood there looking at me for several minutes while I looked down towards her and the road with my pale skin from nightmares the night before and my eyes that no longer seemed to flash with life. To me this was the end.
I slowly walked down the driveway, savoring every minute I had to etch that picture of her standing there just like she had for the last eleven years in my head or at least the ones where I could walk. No longer did I live in my old house and the memory of her, my best friend was the first memory I wanted to have with me when I faced Hogwarts alone. I couldn't go to my comfort place anymore and in truth I think the only reason why it was my comfort place was because she was there.
I came to a stop standing in front of her. This was it, our true last words and I didn't have a clue what to say. However, the saying that sometimes actions speak louder then words could not have been truer in this case. The two of us broke into tears once again and I pulled into one final hug. "Good-bay Galie" I said between sobs. "Good-bye; Amalin." She replied no louder than me. And as we pulled away, she handed me a present wrapped all in purple wrapping paper, my favorite color.
"Don't open it till you get onto the train. I don't think I could bear to watch you open it." We looked into each others eyes and I nodded to her statement to let her know that I understood what she meant and then my parents called to me from the car. I looked at Galie one more time and she said "Don't look back; it'll be too tempting for you. Just go."
I got in the car staring straight forward still crying. As we drove away I tried to send one last 'telepathic message' only this time to Galie. "I'll miss you." I thought to her and somehow, I just knew she was thinking the same thing to me. I would still dream about Galie, but because of her coming to see me and my now realizing I couldn't have helped hurting her, she isn't sad anymore. Instead, we're back horse riding and visiting my comfort place which now rests with her; in my heart.
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AN: THE STORY'S NOT OVER!!! LOL… She's just heading there now so, the tissue may be needed a little more in the next chapter but, it will DEFINITELY be more up beat… Next Chapter: TAKE A RIDE ON THE HOGWARTS EXPRESS!!! J