When I got outside it was nice and sunny. When I got to the castle it
was raining, not just a mist but a down right pour. I love the rain, I
truly do, but there was something about this rain that made me pissed off.
"Come on Jack." I called to my puppy.
I had let him out of my backpack right after I stood soaking in the sun for a minute. I was happy to be out of pubs that made me feel weird and totally ready to reach for the nearest drink. I was trying not to soak my sorrows in whiskey.
"It is my entire fault...isn't it?" I questioned myself. Great, I thought, now I am talking to myself. I saw the looming castle up ahead and I sighed. "This is it...that is where I will be spending the next year of my life. Definitely not the Hilton resort." I laughed at my little joke.
"Okay so maybe I shouldn't have promised him that if he needed me I would come. God I hate my family and I hate his stupid plans. He has this way of thinking he knows everything when in reality he knows nothing." As I thought over my thoughts about my grandfather the weather got gloomier.
"Jack come get into my backpack." He came rushing over to me as the first drop of rain hit the ground. I knew how much he hates the rain and it made me laugh as he rushed into his part of the bag. I carefully slung it over my shoulder and once again looked up at the ever looming castle. I guessed that I was about one fourth of the way there. This walk was never ending.
"Thank god for Will." I said as I continued to walk toward my new job. I would refuse to call this home with ever fibber of my body. Will...God what would I have done without him.
I had two days to go before I left to go to England to teach at Hogwarts. Will, when we were younger, use to ask his parents if they would move to England so he could go to the school. I use to make fun of him for knowing so much about something he had never even seen. But now, now I praised him for his knowledge.
"And did I tell you about the moving staircases?" he asked me and I sighed smiling at the same time. He had told me about them at least a thousand times. I could tell he was jealous but then again I was jealous of him. Marrying his best friend, not me his other one, and having a beautiful little girl. They named her Mary, I was her godmother. And I was very proud of that fact.
"Will, did I make a mistake?" I asked him as he shrunk a couple more boxes that we had packed.
"With what?" he asked me. I shrugged my shoulders before sighing one more time.
"With saying yes to grandpa?" I said my lips trembling and my eyes blinking back tears.
"Oh, Lils', what did you want to say to him. Oh sorry, but I gave up magic two years ago after I got my husband killed." He said it so fast and so nonchalantly that I don't think he even realized he was saying it until it came out. He slapped his right hand over his mouth.
I gazed at him for over a minute before breaking down. "Lils' I am so sorry." He said trying to get me to stop crying.
"I can't believe you just said that." I shot a glare at him and his face changed from soft to hard in the matter of a millisecond.
"Well someone had to. For the last two years we have all been tip toeing around you trying not to mention Dan. God, Anna, he was my friend too and I miss him as much as you do but..." He trailed off and I took in a huge gulp of air.
"Get out." I growled at him. He had no right to say that. I didn't breakdown at the every mention of Dan but I did when someone mentioned how he died. And yes I did blame myself but I had every right too.
A light drizzle was now cascading down all around us. I was soaked as I looked up to see that I was half way to the castle. I couldn't stand the walk much longer; it was making me think of thing I wanted to forget. Like what Will had said or Dan's murder. I instead started to think about anything but that. My mind went to think of the day Mary was born.
I hadn't been out that much since the incident. The only times I did leave my apartment was when I went to see Laura and Will. They had been my best friends for the longest of time. we had been sand box buddies in fact. Now they were married, to each other, and expecting their first little one. I was so happy for the two of them and yet immensely sad at the same time.
Snapping back to the present, I had tripped over a rock, I grumbled to see that I had gained some more on the castle. I guess thinking about happier things made me walk faster. The rain was now coming down like cats and dogs, as the saying goes. I was completely soaked to the bone and it was turning cold outside. Of course my jeans and t-shirt didn't help matters much. And all I wanted to do was take off my wet shoes.
For the rest of the walk up to the castle I thought about what will has said. I pondered it over and over in my mind. After I had finished packing and he did the magical stuff we got into yet another argument. That one had to be our worst one ever, we both said some nasty things at each other. And I left for England on unhappy terms. I never left for a job like this one before.
Laura had told me to call him when I got to the castle. She had dropped me off at the airport. She had waited with me for my plane, the red eye flight. It was the most unbearable wait of all, we just sat there talking about the good old days, as we liked to call them, and waited.
"Anna, be good, don't get into any trouble, and call us when you get there." I smiled down at my best friend, my best girl friend that is, and laughed at her. I gave her the reassuring respond of, "yes mum" and then hugged her. We stood in that hug, holding on to each other as if it was worth our lives, for a good five minutes. When we separated we both had tears in our eyes.
"Remember it is swish and flick." She said to me and I laughed. Our first magical class had been charms and we learned how to make objects float. We were partnered together, something rare in the years afterward, and we actually succeeded in making the teacher float in the air. It had taken both of us and she wasn't too happy with us after ward but it was well worth it.
"I will, and La, I love you." I said as I walked towards the line.
"I love you too, Anna!" She yelled out to me and we both blew kisses to each other. I cried when I got into my seat, on the plane, she had been there for me through too much, and now I don't know when I am going to be seeing her again. Heck, we shared a room together all throughout our years of schooling together, she was my maid of honor and I was hers, and then after Dan died she stayed with me for a month, I was there when she learned she was pregnant, and when Mary was born. It was going to be hard to leave her and leave Will.
I was getting so frustrated with all the walking that I was beginning to think it would never end. And that is when I crashed right into the steps of the castle. I laughed at my misfortunes of the day and then started to cry and I thought everything over one last time. i8 liked my lips to taste the salty tears mixed with rain and I thought to myself, salty water. I casually made my way up the steps and walked into the ever looming castle.
"Come on Jack." I called to my puppy.
I had let him out of my backpack right after I stood soaking in the sun for a minute. I was happy to be out of pubs that made me feel weird and totally ready to reach for the nearest drink. I was trying not to soak my sorrows in whiskey.
"It is my entire fault...isn't it?" I questioned myself. Great, I thought, now I am talking to myself. I saw the looming castle up ahead and I sighed. "This is it...that is where I will be spending the next year of my life. Definitely not the Hilton resort." I laughed at my little joke.
"Okay so maybe I shouldn't have promised him that if he needed me I would come. God I hate my family and I hate his stupid plans. He has this way of thinking he knows everything when in reality he knows nothing." As I thought over my thoughts about my grandfather the weather got gloomier.
"Jack come get into my backpack." He came rushing over to me as the first drop of rain hit the ground. I knew how much he hates the rain and it made me laugh as he rushed into his part of the bag. I carefully slung it over my shoulder and once again looked up at the ever looming castle. I guessed that I was about one fourth of the way there. This walk was never ending.
"Thank god for Will." I said as I continued to walk toward my new job. I would refuse to call this home with ever fibber of my body. Will...God what would I have done without him.
I had two days to go before I left to go to England to teach at Hogwarts. Will, when we were younger, use to ask his parents if they would move to England so he could go to the school. I use to make fun of him for knowing so much about something he had never even seen. But now, now I praised him for his knowledge.
"And did I tell you about the moving staircases?" he asked me and I sighed smiling at the same time. He had told me about them at least a thousand times. I could tell he was jealous but then again I was jealous of him. Marrying his best friend, not me his other one, and having a beautiful little girl. They named her Mary, I was her godmother. And I was very proud of that fact.
"Will, did I make a mistake?" I asked him as he shrunk a couple more boxes that we had packed.
"With what?" he asked me. I shrugged my shoulders before sighing one more time.
"With saying yes to grandpa?" I said my lips trembling and my eyes blinking back tears.
"Oh, Lils', what did you want to say to him. Oh sorry, but I gave up magic two years ago after I got my husband killed." He said it so fast and so nonchalantly that I don't think he even realized he was saying it until it came out. He slapped his right hand over his mouth.
I gazed at him for over a minute before breaking down. "Lils' I am so sorry." He said trying to get me to stop crying.
"I can't believe you just said that." I shot a glare at him and his face changed from soft to hard in the matter of a millisecond.
"Well someone had to. For the last two years we have all been tip toeing around you trying not to mention Dan. God, Anna, he was my friend too and I miss him as much as you do but..." He trailed off and I took in a huge gulp of air.
"Get out." I growled at him. He had no right to say that. I didn't breakdown at the every mention of Dan but I did when someone mentioned how he died. And yes I did blame myself but I had every right too.
A light drizzle was now cascading down all around us. I was soaked as I looked up to see that I was half way to the castle. I couldn't stand the walk much longer; it was making me think of thing I wanted to forget. Like what Will had said or Dan's murder. I instead started to think about anything but that. My mind went to think of the day Mary was born.
I hadn't been out that much since the incident. The only times I did leave my apartment was when I went to see Laura and Will. They had been my best friends for the longest of time. we had been sand box buddies in fact. Now they were married, to each other, and expecting their first little one. I was so happy for the two of them and yet immensely sad at the same time.
Snapping back to the present, I had tripped over a rock, I grumbled to see that I had gained some more on the castle. I guess thinking about happier things made me walk faster. The rain was now coming down like cats and dogs, as the saying goes. I was completely soaked to the bone and it was turning cold outside. Of course my jeans and t-shirt didn't help matters much. And all I wanted to do was take off my wet shoes.
For the rest of the walk up to the castle I thought about what will has said. I pondered it over and over in my mind. After I had finished packing and he did the magical stuff we got into yet another argument. That one had to be our worst one ever, we both said some nasty things at each other. And I left for England on unhappy terms. I never left for a job like this one before.
Laura had told me to call him when I got to the castle. She had dropped me off at the airport. She had waited with me for my plane, the red eye flight. It was the most unbearable wait of all, we just sat there talking about the good old days, as we liked to call them, and waited.
"Anna, be good, don't get into any trouble, and call us when you get there." I smiled down at my best friend, my best girl friend that is, and laughed at her. I gave her the reassuring respond of, "yes mum" and then hugged her. We stood in that hug, holding on to each other as if it was worth our lives, for a good five minutes. When we separated we both had tears in our eyes.
"Remember it is swish and flick." She said to me and I laughed. Our first magical class had been charms and we learned how to make objects float. We were partnered together, something rare in the years afterward, and we actually succeeded in making the teacher float in the air. It had taken both of us and she wasn't too happy with us after ward but it was well worth it.
"I will, and La, I love you." I said as I walked towards the line.
"I love you too, Anna!" She yelled out to me and we both blew kisses to each other. I cried when I got into my seat, on the plane, she had been there for me through too much, and now I don't know when I am going to be seeing her again. Heck, we shared a room together all throughout our years of schooling together, she was my maid of honor and I was hers, and then after Dan died she stayed with me for a month, I was there when she learned she was pregnant, and when Mary was born. It was going to be hard to leave her and leave Will.
I was getting so frustrated with all the walking that I was beginning to think it would never end. And that is when I crashed right into the steps of the castle. I laughed at my misfortunes of the day and then started to cry and I thought everything over one last time. i8 liked my lips to taste the salty tears mixed with rain and I thought to myself, salty water. I casually made my way up the steps and walked into the ever looming castle.