Disclaimer: I know I do not own anything Harry Potter or anything that has to do with Hogwarts. I did make up my own characters and the storyline is also made by me J

A/N: I know that this has nothing to do with magic or Hogwarts just yet but it will! (in like chapter three)

            Chapter One: Life Before

Lena Rose lay wide-awake in her bed. It was around midnight in early July. She couldn't stop thinking about Friday. It was already Wednesday, how had it come so quickly? Lena rolled over onto her stomach and pushed herself up so she was facing her pillows. She reached underneath them and pulled out her journal. She flipped open to the next blank page, reached under her pillow again for her pen and began to write.

           

            Wow! How has Wednesday come so quickly? I can't believe that Mom and Dad want to move to London. What is the big deal with London? Is there anything there that is better than our home now? There probably isn't. I hate my life right now! Why do we have to move? (Or maybe the question is 'why am I asking a book?') Whatever…They can't tell me that I shouldn't be upset because they couldn't get me a birthday present because they had to pay for our stupid move to London. ( stupid London!)

            Lena slammed her book shut and crammed it back under her pillows. She couldn't write anymore. She didn't want to think about the move on Friday. Lena would be moving away from her friends and the school that she might have been getting used to. Well, she would've had to leave that school anyway. She was in sixth grade going into seventh. The Middle school in her town started with the seventh grade and only went to eighth.

            Lena lay in her bed staring at the ceiling and didn't even realize that she was drifting off to sleep.

            "Lena, honey! You have to get up now! We still have packing to do, OK?" Mrs. Rose was sitting on Lena's bed. Lena simply rolled over to face away from her mother. Lena's mom just sighed, stood up and ripped the sheets off of Lena who curled up and groaned. Mrs. Rose walked away with the sheets in her hands.

            "OK, OK mom! I'm up OK?" Lena sat up and stretched. She rubbed her eyes and reached over to her nightstand for her glasses. Lena hopped out of her bed and got changed. Then she went out into the living room to see her parents.

            They were both in the living room piling things into boxes and labeling them faster than anything Lena had ever seen before. She rubbed her eyes again hoping they'd slow down and then she walked over into the kitchen. She opened the Cereal cupboard only to find it empty. Her eyes almost fell out of their sockets.

            "What? Wh-where's all of the food?" Lena yelled slamming the cupboard closed and going back to her parents who had stopped at the sound of the cupboard.

            "Well, I thought that we could go out to eat today. It is our last day in the house. We're leaving tonight, remember?"

            "So…" Lena tried to think this through. She was still half asleep. "We're going to spend more money to go out and eat instead of staying here and packing and eating here for free? Is that it?"

            "Well, we've packed everything already, Lena. We just need to finish with this room and label all of the boxes. We…er forgot to label them yesterday and the day before."  Lena's dad muttered. The two of them went on packing and labeling while Lena just stood there with her mouth open.

Lena went back into her own room. She looked around and realized that all of her things had already been packed too. How did I not see all of this gone this morning? Lena wondered. She walked back out into the living room and asked when they were going to go eat.

"Lena honey, have you looked at the clock?" Her mother replied and went to grab a small digital watch.

"Mom that's a-"

"Yes, I know!" Her mother said realizing her mistake. "Well it's twelve thirty in the afternoon, hun. We already went and came back, but we brought you one of those large corn muffins you like!" Mrs. Rose went back to labeling. Lena went over to the counter and saw a bag on it. I like blueberry muffins, Mom! Lena thought to herself angrily. Corn muffins didn't have enough flavor and stuck to the roof of her mouth. Lena had nothing else to eat though so she simply began to eat the muffin.

Lena's father was in her room taking apart her bed to pack it up. It was the very last thing they needed to pack up. Mrs. Rose asked Lena where her father was and Lena simply pointed down the hallway to her room and said something that sounded in no way like 'my room' but Mrs. Rose understood anyway.

Thursday was very long for everyone. Even though Lena had woken up in the afternoon, labeling wasn't easy. Every box needed to be checked to see what was inside and then labeled with permanent marker. This took what seemed like forever. Lena hated doing it but she didn't want it to end. She didn't want to leave at all. Lena wanted to see her friends and go to the movies and just stay where they are. However, Monday was the last time she saw or heard from any of her friends. After that the family packed and packed and labeled.

Lena had no trouble getting to sleep that night (after she wrote in her journal, of course). She simply wrote that her day had "sucked big time" and that she wished they would stay. It was very early for Lena to be going to sleep, but she needed her sleep for the long plane ride.