Harry's Twin
Chapter 1: Desibella, The Sorceress
The tall, black haired woman strode through the halls of the school. People parted for her and a few people looked afraid. They didn't know her and she didn't know them but still they felt afraid. The woman was at least six feet tall and her jet-black hair hung wildly around her shoulders. She looked determined and worried at the same time. The woman opened the door to the principle office and the secretary; Mrs. Piffle looked up from her wet nail polish. " May I help you?" Mrs.Piffle asked.
"Yes you could, I am Desibella Potter. I am here to pick up Mai." She said with a regal tilt of her head.
"There she is, but you'll have to sign her out." Mrs.Piffle sighed. Valerie Piffle was about twenty-eight and she hated working at a high school. She would have loved to go on vacation with her husband, Pete, and her baby girl, Marisa. Because she worked here she never had time to do anything. Desibella looked over at Mai, who waved in a goofy way. She signed her out and started to leave when she stopped, turned, and looked at Mrs.Piffle. Valerie looked so sad, that Desibella had to do something. So she blanked out her mind, let herself go limp and then let her self into Mrs. Piffle's mind. She saw pictures of Valerie Piffle and her husband and baby sitting on a beach somewhere. Then she saw another picture of her family at the zoo.
After Desibella and Mai left the office, Mrs. Piffle quit her job and moved her entire family to California. Mai and Desibella walked out of the school and stopped a few blocks away.
"Are you packed? Do you have everything? Are you going to be okay?" Desibella asked worriedly.
"I'm fine Auntie! Don't worry! I'll write you a letter as soon as I get there!" Mai said.
"No, sooner! Write me one on the airplane!" Mai's aunt said with an air of hopefulness. Mai smiled and winked at her aunt.
Desibella raised her arms, slowly and muttered a few words in Latin. Then a slow silver glow spread all over Mai and she disappeared!
Chapter 2: Mai on the Airplane
Mai sat in one of the really uncomfortable plastic chairs, at JFK airport. She looked at the woman in the silver jogging suit and pink high heels on her right. The woman was talking very fast into a jewel covered cell phone. The guy to Mai's left was at least eight feet tall and he was wearing lime green satin roller blades, and doing cool flips with them. Mai smiled as she thought "I love New York, with all its strange people and Magic!" Then a bored flight attendant's voice came up on the loud speaker "Flight 862, JFK airport to Heathrow, is boarding First Class now." Mai stood up and got her stuffed backpack on. She started toward the long line of impatient people.
The bored flight attendant took her ticket tore it and said, "Have a nice flight." Mai smiled and walked onto the plane. The first class section was really nice but it had cost Desibella a small fortune. Luckily, she and the rest of the Potters had small fortunes hidden everywhere on the world. Desibella had hidden most of her family savings under a tree in Brooklyn but she left a little of the money in a large bank in London.
Mai's seat was next to a woman who was grinding her teeth and typing furiously on the keyboard of her laptop. She whipped out a cell phone and hit speed dial: Dr. Sheller. "I am sorry doc! This plane is not moving at all. I am going to have to miss our appointment," the woman listened, " Yes I know that this is the fifth appointment I've missed this month! Well my psychiatry appointments can wait! I've got six new proposals due on Monday! I can't be disappearing every day just to go to you for help!" The woman slammed the phone shut and slapped it into her purse. She glared over at Mai. " What?" she growled. Mai turned towards the window and pulled out a book Hypnotism for Dummies and started to read silently. The angry woman next to her made a hissing sound as she yanked the cord out of her computer and threw it into the padded case it came in. Then the plane started to rumble and shake and then it took off.
After being on the plane for a few hours the angry lady had calmed down. She turned to Mai and said " I'm Emily Laur. I'm sorry I was so horrible to you." Mai closed her book and turned to face Emily, "I'm Mai Potter. Why are you going to London?"
" I'm going to a conference for my company, but one of my shrinks lives in London. Why are you going to London?" Emily smiled and almost looked happy.
" Oh, me? I'm going to visit family. My brother actually."
" Does he go to one of those famous all year schools there?" Emily waved the flight attendant over so she could get an orange juice.
" Well, he goes to a pretty famous school in some circles but the rest of the year her lives with my aunt and uncle." Mai smiled as the perky man in the blue uniform as he gave her her soda.
" Well that's nice that you are going to see him. Does he have a break right now?" Emily took a couple of aspirin and swallowed them without water.
"No, I'm just going to see him on a Saturday or something. My aunt recommended that I enroll and stay at his school for the rest of the year." Mai took a sip of her Sprite. Mai and Emily talked for almost four hours until Emily started to nod off. Mai curled up with her jacket pulled around her chin.
She woke with a start. The pilot said
"We will be landing in about one minute." Mai sat up and buckled her seatbelt and poked Emily's shoulder.
"Huh! Who's there! You can't have my money!" Emily sat up and rubbed her eyes.
"Now what did you do that for?" Emily whined.
"We're landing." Mai giggled. Emily made a face and put her seatbelt back on. The plane landed smoothly and Emily, being the person on the isle, stood up first.
"Now, Mai, If you are EVER in trouble, just call this number and I'll help you out as best I can." The older woman handed Mai a business card with the name EMILY LAUR, Rare Books and Magic Supply. Mai smiled at the retreating back of Mrs. Emily Laur, Mai's first friend in England.
Chapter 3: Mai's Traveling Companion