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Chapter 2 – Kyle
Tessa burst out the door of her house, the strange letter clutched tightly in her hand. She ran towards the next-door house… and crashed right into Kyle!
"Kyle! There you are!" She exclaimed. She got up, and watched as Kyle did the same, flicking dirt from his white outfit – a pair of white pleather pants and a white t-shirt that looked suspiciously like one of his father's undershirts. The white sunglasses and knee-high boots completed the ensemble. A grass stain had appeared on the left shoulder of his shirt, but Kyle didn't seem to mind.
At the exact same time they started talking non-stop, tumbling over each others' words in their excitement. Tessa stopped short when she noticed something clutched in her best friend's hand.
"You got one too!" She shouted with glee, recognizing the green ink. "So it can't be a practical joke if we both got it!"
"What are you babbling about Tessa?" said Kyle, flushed with excitement. "You mean this letter? Yeah, I got it too. Uncle Remus sent me a letter just a couple days ago, telling me that I would be getting this letter. He said that he went to this school when he was our age. Wonder what it's going to be like…" Kyle suddenly got a dreamy look in his eyes. "I've always wanted to do magic…real magic mind you, not sleight-of-hand tricks or whatnot…"
"What are you babbling about? Magic? Real magic? You mean this… this letter isn't fake?" Tessa said, incredulously.
"Shh! We can't let all the muggles hear!" Said Kyle. He grabbed Tessa by the arm and practically dragger inside his house, and up to his room.
Tessa had always loved Kyle's room. The walls were done all in red and gold and decorated with pictures of lions and mythical beasts. Sometimes, she could have sworn that the pictures moved! Piles of books, clothing and general paraphernalia cluttered the floor, and his bed was all black – the only colourless thing in the place. Kyle always whispered to the door before entering, and Tessa thought it wonderfully mysterious. Kyle sat down on his bed, and Tessa followed suit, flopping down into the soft covers.
"Tess," Kyle said. "I'm gonna show you something, and you have to promise you won't try it until after we've gotten to school."
"Hm?" Tessa said, half asleep in the folds of the bed. Kyle moved whatever the thing was so that it bumped hard against her head. Tessa pulled it out. She gasped. It was a book, but that wasn't what had surprised her. It was entitled: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, by Newt Scamander. She flipped through the pages. Entries on such creatures as centaurs, acromantulas and billywigs jumped out at her. "H-how did you get this?" She asked.
"I got it from my mom," he said. "It was a birthday present. It's on the list of school supplies, you know." He flipped until he got to a certain page. "This is my favourite one, so far." His finger pointed to an entry entitled Fwooper.
Tessa read out loud, "'The Fwooper is a provider of fancy quills and also lays brightly patterned eggs. Though at first enjoyable, Fwooper song will eventually drive the listener to insanity…' this is crazy Kyle!" She shouted. "Nothing like this could ever possibly exist!"
"Are you so sure? "Said Kyle. "I could get my mom to go find a crup and bring it here, or maybe she could get one of the doxies from our attic. They're quite vicious little creatures though." He said, grinning. "I doubt you'd like getting bit by one."
"Oh shut up!" said Tessa, hitting him on the head with a black pillow from his bed. "So you're saying that magic does exist, and that we're going to a magic school?"
Kyle hit her back on the head with the same pillow she had used on him "Pretty much, yeah." Tessa, no longer disbelieving – Kyle never lied, not even when it would get him out of trouble - screeched and started a full-on pillow war.
Well, I hope you like it! Chapter 3 will be longer, promise. Plus, they get to go on the train in Chapter 3. Let's see how well they do there…
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