A/N: Thanks for the reviews everyone!
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My mother always told me that, "Life is like a box of chocolate you never know what you're going to get." I didn't think too much of that considering the fact that it was from a movie. She never really told me much on about anything before she died, throughout the abuse nothing. But I could see it in her eyes she was in pain she wanted out. Every night since her death I remember the tears in her eyes after.
Days passed since I heard the news of my Aunt on my father……….i still didn't get this awkward relationship………but it didn't really matter to me.
"Good morning everybody!" I said happily coming downstairs
"Morning," said Shaina, " You ready? We got to go to Diagon Alley to get our supplies today."
I sighed and nodded my head. Its been horror for me to even think about going to Diagon Alley…since my father owned a shop there…and going back would lonely make things worse. "I'm ready as I'll ever be." I didn't really want to go there although I knew father's shop was closed I still hated that place…or just that certain area.
It was the where my father married my mother, the area where he met the women he was having affairs with, the area where he recently married my aunt. Of course he didn't marry them in his shop that would be silly…but he married them in the church across the street. That whole block I felt was no good. There was something fishy about that place and it disturbed me.
We headed off toward the fireplace using floo powder to get to Diagon Alley. So one by one we all grabbed some powder call out Diagon Alley and vanished.
Crowded with its usual group of cheerful witches and wizards. Little boys crowding that window like always looking at the new Nimbus 2005…things were the same as always. Bright and Cherry this place was and still is. Of course everyone was expected to be there I mean come on three days till Hogwarts.
We walked by my father's shop to get to the bookshop. Looking at the windows of the shop it gave me chills down my spine. I started to shiver it seemed forever just to get past it. It looked dark and eerie. Well probably because of all the damage, that has been done by the pictures of dragons and other creatures have done that many idiotic photographers have taken pictures of but ended in a coma in the end. But if with that as a factor it seemed abandoned.
We finally made it to the bookshop. Collecting the books we needed for our sixth year. Shaina had tried to cheer me up…I couldn't help but smile cause at least she tried. Oh well. I was pretty much out of it that day…a lot has happened this summer…and when I say a lot I mean A LOT!
We had shopped for mostly everything on that list until we realized there was one more thing we needed…and we had to go to my fathers shop for that. Oh how I dreaded that. We needed film to study how when we take pictures they can still move after developed and how muggle pictures can't. We walked back to get to his shop. The stairs towards the entrance were squeaky and the chairs were old and dusty it seemed like no one has been there for years but boy was I wrong. We walked in the dark place in hope to just buy the film and leave.
"This place isn't what it use to be huh?" said Shaina peering around.
"Yeah I'll say" right before I could finish my sentence I was snatched away.
I was pulled into a dark corner of the building. It smelled of rotten eggs and had mildew all over it.
I looked up to see who it was bit I couldn't it was dark but I new it had to be someone I knew, my father. I could see his hands as he rose up and slapped me. I screamed and whaled. But no one could hear me. I was far from Shaina and her family to be heard. He slapped me repeatedly and began shouting.
"We're a family Cho we're suppose to stay together!"
I said nothing but just endured the abuse. I raised my hands to block my face although I was already bleeding from the split on my lip caused by the long nail of my father as he slapped me. Now I finally had felt what my mother had gone through. I felt as though she could do nothing but in spite of that she didn't want to end up dead. So struggle to fight back she kicked him at the spot where it hurt the most.
She ran out of the corner as fast as she could until she couldn't hear her father moaning anymore. She ran towards Shaina and found them paying for the supplies she ran up to them pulled them all outside and franticly began telling them what happened and with a loud boom Cho saw her father standing at the entrance the doorway.
He pointed at her, staring at her with his yellow eyes. "Cho you get your butt back in here."
Cho didn't know what to do anymore she stood frozen unaware of where she should go what she should do. She watched as Shaina's mother began defending her but she couldn't bear to watch. So she ran the other way taking her into the back alleys. She was in the muggle realm…but she didn't care who saw her in her cloak it didn't matter anymore she was no longer safe to be in the wizardry world. I can no longer go back to the way things were, I can no longer feel the joys of having a family, but what hurts me most is that I can no longer go to Hogwarts… for my father is sure to find me at my only sanctuary.