Chap 5

Note from the author: Ok, this chapter may seem a bit more light-hearted than the others but that way you can see the optimism and friendship that these girls have, laughing and not making sense.

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"Uh" Nyx moaned as she got up. She tip-toed into the living room, astonished to see, everything as it was, no broken furniture, of course impossible to accomplish with only seven, 11 year-olds. She walked outside, smelling the salty breeze. Suddenly, and owl screeched and nearly beheaded her, luckily Nyx had cat-like reflexes, and ducked in the nick of time. The eagle dropped 5 pieces of paper to the sand. Nyx stood up, and shouted at the owl. After about 15 minutes of brawl, she jogged over to where the eagle had dropped the papers. It read:

Nyx Aislinn

Riley Hardwin

Skye Wycliff

Lelani Kinneret

Audrey Lea

2839 Malibu Canyon Road

Malibu, USA

The envelopes were made of parchment, thick and heavy, with fancy green lettering on the cover. Nyx turned over the envelopes to a seal in red wax with a giant "H" engraved on them.

"Anthrax" she whispered to herself. She dropped the letters and ran into the ocean, to wash herself. After an hour or two she realized she wasn't going to die of Anthrax contamination, and swam back in, but the letters weren't there anymore. "What the----" Searching the missing envelopes, curiosity growing.

"Glass phials?" Riley questioned, talking rather loudly from inside. Nyx ran in. "What are these?" She said holding up the letter parchment.

"Uh letters" She answered promptly.

"We're witches?" subjected Skye.

"We're witches, we're witches, we're witches, we're really cool surfing witches!" Chanted Nyx, Riley, and Lelani, joined hands, dancing around in a circle.

Skye and Audrey chuckled.

"Oh" Riley sighed, looking down at her letter.

"What? What?" said Nyx abruptly.

"This is a school which means that we have to quit the school in NYC, and we won't be able to Dean and Torrance that much" She continued.

"Well we'll just say that we're traveling abroad for years at a time, and they'll send the courses over right?" Skye broke in.

"To a wizarding school?" said Audrey, using that mountain of logic stowed somewhere in that enormous brain of hers.

"Good point" Skye said shrugging.

"We won't see Dean and Torrance anymore! What about that!" Nyx practically yelled, almost wishing that she wasn't a "really cool surfing witch", maybe just not the part about being really cool and surfing. Because it was Torrance that made her day, joking about something, and Dean, who wasn't as funny, but was good for being someone who could really listen. Plus, she couldn't ilive/i without their deafening-loud music. 

"Right" Riley groaned, suddenly feeling what Nyx was. Realizing that they could only probably only see them during holidays, and the summer, which obviously wasn't enough.

A sudden color change in Skye's pale face indicated that the change was filtering through her system too. Whatever the plan was-it was going to be an ersatz one, nothing could let them be 2 places at once, 3 places even.

"There's nothing we can do about this" Lelani spoke. "Either we reside here and imagine we incorporate with this sociality or we surpass the expectations and go to this school in-" she glanced at the letter. "Scotland"

Everyone was awed at how much Lelani had learned during her 1 year stay in New York, their mouths were virtually on the floors. But they knew she was right.

"First things first we need to leave the performing arts academy" Skye assumed.

"No we don't" Riley whispered-odd-winking her eyes and grinding her brain. "There's-a summer program"

"What do you mean a 'summer program'?" Audrey asked.

"We could take the summer course and still be in Hog-" she glimpsed at her letter "Hogwarts"

"That's a lot of work-even for me" Nyx believed.

"Well I love my school and I am not quitting" said Riley, which stood as strong as that sea-cliff a mile away.

"I guess" Skye moaned at the thought of more homework. "We could stay in both schools"

"Ok" both Audrey and Lelani said.

"How do we get our enchantment supplies?" Nyx wondered.

BANG

A royal blue envelope appeared and fluttered to the center of the room. Nyx bent down to pick it up. In fancy silver lettering it read "Vera square".

"What is it?" Riley asked

Nyx didn't answer. She opened the envelope, and pulled out a creamy parchment. It read:

Vera Square

Looking for some Hogwarts supplies but too far from Diagon Alley all the way out in London?  Then come to Vera Square! Just draw a door and yell "Vera Square!" Floo powder travelers welcomed. With this advertisement get a free cup of tea at Cherri Cordial. We hope to see you soon at Vera Square, and wish to be the center of your business from now on.

All due respect,

Bo Deplores

Marketing supervisor

"I guess we're going to Vera Square" Nyx said, puzzled, handing the letter to Skye.

Riley, who had been peeking over Nyx's shoulder the entire time, was already looking for some chalk.

"We don't have any chalk" Skye said, not even averting her gaze from the letter.

"Use a pencil" Audrey suggested.

Riley grabbed a pencil from the kitchen drawer and lightly traced a door onto the hallway wall.

"I think we should change" Lelani said, running to the room to change.

"Good idea" Riley whispered, looking suspiciously at the floor, and she ran to change as well. 

*a couple minutes later*

After they were all changed, Audrey proudly said "Vera Square". In the blink of an eye, the door materialized, to look just like a door of the house, whitewashed with a white door knob. Audrey grabbed the door knob to reveal…