Chapter 3

"An Unexpected Party"

Eve and I left the Night Club, we headed home at a quarter to midnight. My aunt might've gone to bed, so there was no way either of us could get caught.

We crossed the almost deserted highway and made for Adonis Street.

Eve stopped dead. "What is it?" I asked. She wheeled around as if someone had just touched her shoulder. "Eve?"

"I heard someone---or something." She looked around over to the bush. Whispers that I could now hear were coming from the bushes. Eve approached the bush. I

followed her, our wands held tight in our grasp. We both screamed as two hooded figures leapt out. Hooded, cloaked, they made their way to us. Eve and I backed

away. I was trying to think a spell to drive them both away. My hand was shaking as I advanced forward to perform a spell, when one of them muttered something and

I shot backwards, Eve helped me up. My brown hair swishing against my face.

One of the figures held up its wand and yelled: "AVADA KED----"

We were too quick for it. There was a blind of white light. Our teenaged selves were no longer standing there but had transformed into a leopard and wolf. We ran our

animal-like selves as far as we could. We jumped into the window, transformed and fell onto my bed, breathing raggedly.

"What was that?" Eve whispered, a note of fear in her voice.

"Death Eaters" I said, barely in a whisper. "They were about to perform the killing curse, Eve!" My breathing was fast and shallow now.

"What on earth would they want with two Lebanese girls?" she asked. I shook my head. "I don't know. But this has something to do with Harry Potter." We get the

Daily Prophet delivered especially to know what was happening in London, where this famous Harry Potter lived. What Voldemort was up to.

"Colloportus" I muttered. The windows were sealed shut. Eve performed a Non- Apparating charm. Those two Death Eaters will now have a very hard time to get

through to us.

"Nay, the Death Eaters are after this Harry Potter. It's not our business with them. What would they want with us.?"

"Why would they come to Lebanon? Do you think we should tell Aunt?" I asked. Eves brown eyes widened.

"And blow our cover? Tell her how we got rid of them. In that case telling her about how we are unregistered Anima---" I cut her off.

"Right." I muttered. "Let's hit the sack, we'll think about it tomorrow." Eve nodded.

Eve's POV

Chapter 3 (continued) - An Unexpected Party

The next morning I basically woke up screaming, well I stopped when I opened my eyes and saw that Nay was the one shaking me not that Voldemort guy, I was

having a nightmare that some pale guy was shaking and threatening me about telling him information about this Harry Potter that was so famous.

"Eve! Eve, are you ok? You were screaming out weird phrases" said Nay looking worried but also had a glint in her eye that told me she thought the situation quite

funny.

"Exactly what was I shouting out?" I asked, curious to know what was so funny because I was having a nightmare.

"Well..." she said apparently having trouble deciding whether or not to tell me, but then her expression turned evil and I knew she was going to tell me. "Oh please don't

hurt him, I wont tell you anything, no please don't I love him" she mocked in a tone that sounded like one of those old drama movies where the girl's voice was way too

high to be natural. Yet, after all this, I was curious to why I said that. "Dreaming of David?" said Nay with a smirk.

"Well...." I was about to tell her that I was actually dreaming of Harry Potter when I decided that it would be too weird and besides, I don't even know the guy, so I

said instead, "Um, I forgot what I was dreaming about" I said not quite convincingly and by the expression on Nay's face I knew she didn't believe me, yet she didn't

say anything.

* * *

The day before our plane flight arrived and it was also the day of Nay and mines going away party. Everyone we invited came and it really was a great party so far.

"The music's too loud, I think the neighbors may call the police!" shouted Nay over the music.

"Who cares? We have room for a few more guests anyways!" I shouted back and Nay just laughed and started dancing again

"I'm going to miss you Eve" said David when he pulled me into a dark corner.

"I am going to miss you too" I said and a tear fell down my cheek. David wiped it away and told me the same thing he told me a few nights ago at the club. It was

getting annoying because he had said the exact same thing to me everyday since then. Weird. But all things were forgiven because I didn't want to start a fight with him

before I left. It would be bad karma.

"There you two are, making out, again I presume?" said Jackie in a bitter tone.

"You know Jackie, lately, you have been really bitter about me and David, what's up with that?" I asked coldly returning the glare she was giving me.

"How dare you accuse me of that!!!!" shouted Jackie unnecessarily loud. Then she turned and stormed off.

"Okay that right there was weird." John said breaking the silence after a few moments. Then everybody continued talking amongst themselves.

"What's a matter with her, David?" I asked suspiciously, I somehow knew that he knew the reason.

"I don't know" said David quickly and told me he was getting us some sodas and left. Nay came up to me.

"What happened?" she asked.

"I have no clue, she has just been really bitchy lately," I said still a little shocked.

"I noticed that too. You think she might be PMSing?" asked Nay. I laughed.

"No... well... maybe... nah, I think she just has some issues" I said and we both laughed. David came back and Nay said she had to go deal with the police (she was right the neighbors obviously don't appreciate loud music...go figure).

"Listen, when I was getting the sodas, I saw Jackie crying in corner. She was really hurt by what you said," said David.

"What do you mean?" I asked, "She was the one being a jerk." I said although I didn't know why I had to defend myself; I was clearly in the right about this matter.

"Well you were being pretty mean to her" said David. I was shocked.

"WHAT! Hello, Jackie was the one who came up to me remember?" I shouted.

"Well, you did kind of provoke it when you accused her of being bitter" said David cautiously.

"WHO'S BOYFRIEND ARE YOU!?" I shouted, this was so not right, I had enough so I stormed off down the hall to my room shut the door and started crying.

Someone opened the door and I looked up. John was standing in the door way with Nay right behind him.

"Oh my God, Eve, I am so sorry" said Nay and she swooped down and hugged me.

"Yea me too, I couldn't believe he actually didn't defend you" piped up John. And Nay told him to go outside and tell everybody that the party was over. After Everyone left, John and Nay stayed by me the whole night. They were my best friends. * * * By the next morning I was feeling better and thought the fight was stupid last night. The phone rang and I ran to answer it hoping that the airport was calling us to tell us the flight was cancelled but instead I heard a small but distinct "Sorry" on the other end.

"David?" I whispered.

"Yea, I'm really sorry can't we make up?" he asked hopefully.

"Yea, I'm really starting to see the fight last night as being really stupid" I said with a grin.

"Yea" he said. And we left it at that. We said our goodbyes and I hung up knowing that now that I wasn't mad at him anymore it would be painful to leave Lebanon.

* * *

At the airport I saw for the first time how hard it was for Nay to leave. I saw how selfish I had been because all she seemed to care about was how I felt.

All of my family and friends came, everyone was crying within a minute. I was bawling my eyes out and when I looked at Nay she looked exactly the same only she

had spent years researching the history of Lebanon and had so much pride in being the smartest one in our school. It must have been depressing, she had so many

friends (we were quite popular). And now we were leaving it all for some crappy school in London.

"Now boarding Flight 227," announced a woman on the intercom.

"That's us" I told my sister while looking at the tickets, me and Nay were going early for school, Mom and her husband would come later on, after they sold the house.

"Yep, I guess we better be leaving" she said and looked as though she was going to cry again, I couldn't blame her.