Blood on Ice
By Julie Moore and Ashley Hessefort

Chapter 3

I was scared to talk to Axel, the third of the non morning LuLus. I pushed the speed dial button and anxiously waited for a pick up. The ringing stopped. I heard the groans and grunts escape from the other end. Axel was slowly lifting the phone to her ear...I awaited my fate. "What....do......you....WANT?!" She spoke angrily and slowly. "Good morning, Axel. Tips here. There's an emergency LuLu meeting at my house. Come ASAP. Something freaky is going on." I tried courageously to end this soon to be horrid phone conversation. "What's freaky is that you called me at this hour. Do you realize that it's not even one o'clock yet?! IT'S LIKE THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!!" "Stop watching Inuyasha! You, Blue, and Lemon need to stop with this." I half scolded. I never understood why ANYONE would waste their time watching that show. It makes no sense to me. "No never." She said plainly. "Whatever, just get up and get to my house. I promise this is big." "Fine, bye." She snapped. "Bye."

Well, at least she said 'bye' unlike Blue. I jumped into my jeans and t-shirt and put on my favorite hat. It didn't really match my grungy outfit, but Blue always said that it's super glued to my head. I went downstairs and ate a bowl of cereal. About ten minutes later Cocoa arrived. "Hey Coc. Glad you're here." I greeted her happily. "Yup, so what's the big news? I literally had to drag Blue out of her house when I picked her up. I think she's angrily making her way out of my car." She smiled. A few seconds later, Blue came stumbling into my front door, greeted first by Dodger, whom she growled at. Dodger ran, I wish I could have. "Hello and Good morning, Blue." I smiled nervously and tensely as I waited for her to scream. "Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......." she growled at me too. The three of us sat at my kitchen table and I grabbed them a Dr. Pepper. Blue grumbled, "I hate Dr. Pepper. You should know this by now." Her voice was rising, I quickly snatched it away and replaced it with a root beer. Dr. Pepper, in case you haven't guessed, is my FAVORITE drink. I would die for it. Blue, however, can't stand the stuff.

My doorbell rang and I was then looking into the tired faces of Lemon and Axel. Before I could say 'hello', they walked past me and took their normal spots at my table. I made my way over there and took control of the meeting, since Blue, the president wasn't conscious enough to communicate.

"Hello, sleepy heads." I smiled, knowing the next noise wouldn't be pleasant. Soon enough, the three of them hissed at me. "Anyway, I called you all here today because of what happened this morning, while you were all sleeping. I got the mail and found this in the mail box." I reached over the counter for the stack of letters and handed them out. Everyone was suddenly very awake as we all curiously opened the letters. After a few seconds of reading, four of us screamed with delight and surprise. The other one, Axel, screamed in horror. "YOU GUYS!!!! WE'RE WITCHES!!!!" Cocoa squealed. "OH MY GOSH!!!!!" I yelled. I am a Harry Potter FREAK. Everyone else are fans except Axel who hates the books, but I...I am a freak.

We excitedly talked about this as we read on in our letters. We weren't sure where to get our supplies or even how to get to England, but we were EXCTITED!!

It was official....LuLu was going to Hogwarts.