A/N: I am soo sorry. It was the end of school and I totally forgot about my story. I feel really bad. Even though only two people read this. I still feel bad. Anyway, on with the story.
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When the sun rose the next morning and shone through the windows in the magickal castle. Many teenagers rolled over and tried to sleep for a few more minutes. Four teens were up and moving around getting ready for their first day of their last year at school.
"Why won't you leave me alone? I want to go back to sleep. I don't have a house, so I can sleep all day. Damnit Jake, leave me alone," April said sleepily trying to pull the covers back over her head.
"We have to hurry up if you want to get coffee," Jake said.
"I can conjure some damn coffee if I wanted some, but I just want to sleep right now," April said from under the comforter.
"I'll give you 2 minutes to get out of bed before there won't be any clothes on the bed to hide in," Jake said walking out of the room and into the common room.
"Why the hell is it so early? Why can't we have class at night or something? It's too damn early," Autumn complained in the common room.
"I can see that someone doesn't know how to conjure coffee?" Jake observed as a pillow flew toward his head.
"I wouldn't make any sudden movements. I didn't think they were this bad in the morning," Draco said coming out of the bathroom.
"What? I don't think I heard anything except the wind," Jake said ignoring Draco.
"I don't want to hear your childish crap. Get me some damn coffee before I kill you both," Autumn said glaring at both of them.
"What the hell is with all this god damn yelling? I'm trying to sleep through my classes today," April said from the doorway of her bedroom still in her pajamas and with a blanket wrapped around her.
"You have to get ready for class, we have McGonagall this morning and she isn't nice to anyone," Jake said.
"Well, then I don't feel good," April said.
"Then before you go back to bed, can you make Autumn some coffee and teach her the spell later?" Draco said.
"She isn't going back to bed. You are getting ready for class whether you like it or not. If you aren't out here in five minutes, I will use a spell to make sure you get to class," Jake said from one of the armchairs in the common room.
Just before April turned back into the room with a frown on her face, she made Autumn her coffee just the way she liked it and slammed the door.
"Why couldn't you have just let her stay here? Can't you see she is upset?" Draco said trying to talk with Jake.
"I didn't talk to you so stop talking to me!" Jake yelled at Draco.
"Shut the fuck up the both of you," Autumn said as she hit Jake with a couch cushion in the face.
Jake just looked at Autumn, then over at Draco. "Now, you are angry at Draco for a stupid reason. Can't you put that aside and be friends again before I get really pissed off?" Autumn asked.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything?" April said from the doorway.
"Well, Jake was just going to admit what an ass he has been, but now he can do that in front of everyone at breakfast," Autumn said getting up from the couch.
"Next time, don't get started in the bathroom." Jake walked out of the common room.
April ran after him, but not before glaring at Autumn.
"What the hell is their problem?" Autumn asked Draco holding her cup of coffee.
"I don't know, but we should get down to breakfast," Draco said while holding his hand out to help Autumn from her seat.
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Once they walked into the hallway to the Great Hall, Draco and Autumn ran into Harry Potter and his two sidekicks.
"Well, if it isn't Fairy Pothead. Have you come to save the school from unseen danger again?" Autumn asked rudely.
"Oh look, Ferret-Boy found someone to bounce around with in his little cage," the tall redheaded Weasley deducted.
"At least I'm not going out with a know-it-all bitch," Draco spat.
"What, Malfoy? Not going to call me a Mudblood? Have you finally grown up?" the bushy haired girl asked.
"In more ways that you will ever know," Autumn stated.
"I do regret not being able to hear who Pothead thinks is going to be controlled by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, but we are hungry and it would be a shame to loose our appetites continuing to look at you blokes," Draco said then pushed past Harry Potter, while Autumn walked past Hermione glaring as she went by.
When they walked into the Great Hall, they found Jake and April at the very end of the Slytherin table. They walked over and sat down, waiting for the mail to come. As they buttered their toast, a group of owls flew into the room. Many were dropping packages to their owners or delivering the newspaper. A package arrived in front of Draco as well as in front of April. Draco smiled knowing it was from his mother and how she had found things that he would like throughout the year. He set the package aside and continued eating. Unknown to him, April was looking at her package with horror. Her face was a deadly white and she just stared at the box. Jake was trying to talk to her and when he didn't get a response from her, he looked up to see her horror-stricken face.
"What's wrong? Is everything okay?" Jake asked worried about as she had an unbroken stare with the package.
Written on the package in neat block letters spelled; Deliver to April Blackstream by any means necessary. Not to be opened by anyone, but the addressed.
April looked around and then opened the card on the package. It only had one line written on it. I know where you are now, and you cannot hide from me any longer.
April dropped the card, and stood up from her seat abruptly taking the package and card with her. She walked quickly out of the Great Hall and was halfway down the hall before Autumn even realized something was wrong. She looked at Jake from down the table and he just shrugged. She then looked at Draco who shook his head, not knowing what was going on. She got up, trying not to look suspicious and left the Great Hall. She started to walk faster trying to see if she could catch April before she went off somewhere she didn't know about. She saw her turn to go to their common room, so Autumn slowed down a little. A few minutes later, she heard Draco and Jake run up behind her out of breath.
"You would think that since you are on the Quidditch team that you wouldn't be out of breath already. What took you both so long?" Autumn asked as the rounded the corner to the common room.
"Apparently, we have a new teacher that showed up today and Dumbledore wanted us to give him a warm welcome. That happened right after you left," Draco said in an irritated voice.
"So did you catch his name?" Autumn asked off-handedly as she said the password to the painting.
"Dumbledore didn't say the name of the new professor, so we don't know," Jake said as he walked into the common room to find the package and the card. He read the card, looked to Autumn for her to read it, then headed to the room they shared.
Autumn looked at the card and paled visibly. She knew who it was from and wondered how they had found her. She opened the card to read the contents and backed away from the package until she hit a wall and slid down it and huddled into her knees.
"Autumn, what's wrong? What's the matter?" Draco asked crouching in front of her.
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Jake was utterly confused to see April as a complete wreck on their bed. She had tears flowing freely down her face and she was wrapped up in the comforter from their bed and curled up in the corner of the room furthest from the door. She was mumbling to herself and rocking back and forth. Jake walked over toward her.
"Don't come any closer or else he will hurt you too," April said suddenly in a cold voice.
"Who will hurt me? Who sent the package to you?" Jake asked sitting down next to April.
"HE will." April started to cry again and turned away from Jake.
"Who is HE? April please tell me. You are safe here, no one can get to you," Jake said when he tried to turn April to him, but she flinched and shrugged him off. Feeling hurt, he forfeit all his efforts to comfort her and just sat next to her with his arms crossed.
"I thought he wouldn't find us here. We were supposed to be safe. He was supposed to be gone from our lives forever," April mumbled to herself.
"You are safe here. He won't be able to hurt you here, and when you leave here, you will have your magick license. You can defend yourself from him," Jake said, his voice a little more distant than the last time he talked to her.
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"Autumn, you know you can tell me anything. Please tell me who he is," Draco said.
"Well… April and I had a bad history in America. Even though April's mother didn't want her, doesn't mean that other people in her family didn't want her either. Her mother was jealous because April had tons of magick, while her mother hated magick because she didn't have any of her own. She was a Squib in a very wealthy and old wizard family. The family disowned her mother, but hoped that her child was a witch or wizard. Angry and alone, her mother left everything she knew to move to the other side of the country. And she moved to, ironically enough, Salem, Massachusetts." Autumn paused before continuing. "She married a man who she thought was a muggle and wanted to have a happy, non-magick family. She wanted to have her family out of her life for good. April was raised to believe that magick did not exist and that it wasn't acceptable. Her father disappeared when she was ten. Her mother became very angry again. Then, her mother started to hit her because she would drink all the time, and that is around the time April received her letter to attend the school we went to in Salem. She packed her things and went to the school and found friends that she could rely on. She was kicked out of her own house when she was thirteen by her mother. My father," Autumn started to cry at the thought of her late father. She took a deep breath and started again. " My father took her under as his own daughter. He adopted her before she was put in a foster home. Her mother knew that we took her, so we had to move so she wouldn't find us. April's family owled her to congratulate her in becoming a witch and wished that she move back with them. April did not want to leave because she had just recently found out about her mother's family. When the family heard that she didn't want to stay with them, they went crazed and sent people to kidnap her and take her there anyway. Most were her relatives, mostly cousins. She was able to get rid of them easily as to how much power she possesses. There are only two people that she hasn't gotten away from yet. One is her second cousin, who is a bit crazy in the head because he was sent to Azkaban for a few years. The other, is…" Autumn was cut off because of her scream.
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A/N: Dun dun dun… anyway… I hope you like my cliffhanger… I know it is somewhat shorter than past ones, but I have had the worst writer's block. Anyway, give a few guesses on who the other person is… I know who it is… I would also hope that I did seeing as how I am the one writing the story… Read and review…
