Warning

This chapter contains angst so watch out for all those who don't like depressing stuff.

Chapter 7: Lost Laugh

"What!" Tori cried. Her eyes were as wide as they could stretch while her face was soaked with tears, her hair was damp and messed up from her hands moving in and out. "W-what…no-she can't be!" Tori said half crying her heart out. "Why didn't you at least send me an owl? Why did you wait so long to tell me that my mother's dead!"

"Now Torisa! I didn't tell you because I wanted your school year to end great. I want the best for you Torisa and I wanted you to be happy before you found out-" but her father was interrupted.

"Yeh right! That's why you bring her to the train station?" she hissed. Tori was shacking with rage, anger, sadness, terror, and so many more horrible feelings that one should not feel all at once.

"Now Torisa stop this! This is Becky Summers, she'll be helping around the house-" "For how long?" Tori interrupted him angrily. "As long as necessary," her father said forcefully. "She's going to help both of us, I won't the best for you-"

"O-oh sure! Your such a liar!" she raged. She sat up and was smiling, but her smile showed anything else but being happy. "Yyou didn't tell me so that you could cover up mum's death! And if you would've told me I would have been crying at school! That's what you thought right? And then I would've looked bad and make you look bad too even though you're not a wizard but you just love looking like Mr. Perfect all the time don't you?" She had never meant to say these mean and cruel things, but these had been things that she had kept to herself for a long time and now that she was very upset and her heart felt lie it was falling to pieces, it felt like she could no longer keep it inside since all of her insides seemed to be leaking out.

Her father stared at her and Tori stared back at him. But then Becky edged in. "Tori, think of what you are saying. I'm sure your father feels just as terrible-his wife just died! You are not the only one in this house who is hurt. You don't see your father screaming his heart out because your mother died do you?"

The fact that Becky, who had not known Tori's mother at all, infuriated Tori. The sounds of the woman's voice made her insides burn and it seemed like fire would seep out of her eyes and her hair would catch fire.

"Don't. Talk. To me. About being upset," she breathed. "You've never known my mother. You stay out of this and stay away from me! The reason he's not sad is because he has you!" And with that she rushed upstairs and landed on her bed sobbing and screaming. It seemed like her insides where falling apart and seemed to be coming out of her with each tear.

2 Months Later

Platform 9 ¾ was packed and kids were shoving in and out of the train. James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter were sitting in a compartment. Their faces seemed worried and anxious.

"Where's Tori? Have any of you guys heard from her this summer?" Sirius asked in a worried high-pitched tone. "Na, she hasn't written all summer!" James said. "Same here, that's strange, she usually writes constantly!" Remus told them. "Maybe something's wrong, you saw that woman, she seemed dodgy to me!" Peter told them. The boys waited impatiently waiting for her to come.

Tori had been watching her friends get on the train, she didn't feel like being with them-not like this. Her eyes were puffy and she seemed like she had a cold.

"Hi Tori," a voice said from behind her. Tori jumped and whirled around to see a redheaded girl with the greenest eyes Tori had ever seen, it was Lily Evans. "What're you doing over here? Train's gunna leave soon." Tori smiled slightly and said, "Oh…just watching."

"Watching what, the train leave you behind?" Lily laughed. Lily saw that Tori seemed sad and didn't want to talk much. "What's wrong Tori? Your not like this, what happened to the girl who dumped frozen Pumpkin Juice on me and knocked me out for a half an hour when I won a game of Quidditch?" Tori laughed, she had remembered that, it had freaked Tori out! She hadn't thought that the Pumpkin Juice would actually freeze in that weather-sure it was cold but she didn't think that cold!

"My…my mum died last summer," Tori told her sadly. Lily's green eyes widened in shock and she asked in a horrified voice, "But-I-I didn't know! Well you told me she was sick but you didn't…I thought she'd get better…I'm so sorry!"

"It's ok," Tori said shrugging. "I…I just don't wanna talk about it in front of the guys-they'll keep asking me about it." Lily looked at her sadly. "You can sit with us if you like," she offered. "Oh no it's ok-" "I won't take no for an answer Tori!" And Lily grabbed Tori by the arm and led her onto the train.

Lily led her into a compartment with three other girls, two of them Tori already knew. Claire, was a pretty blonde with brilliant blue eyes, she was a former Gryffindor that slept in Tori's dormitory. The other girl that also slept in the same dormitory was Eden. Eden had platinum blonde hair that Tori always wished she had, once Tori had turned her hair platinum blonde with her ability. But it wasn't for her so she changed it. What made Tori really like Eden was for her eyes, Tori had never seen any eyes like her's. Eden's eyes were as green as a leaf. Those pale green eyes always made Tori stare, that's why Tori always kept her eyes this color, it was now her offical color. The other girl was a Ravenclaw, she had black hair with stormy grey eyes and had cute freckles on her face.

"Guys Tori's gunna sit with us-oh and Tori this is Zanny, Zanny this is Tori. She's in our house too," Lily introduced. Tori smiled at Zanny and sat down next to Claire. Tori felt nervous but yet comfortable, she was hanging with girls! This felt strange to her. Usually she would sit and listen to the guys talk about Quidditch and pranks, but now these girls talked about much more fascinating stuff! They talked about tests and books. They talked about their looks (Tori got some very good tips) and while they were on the train talking they put on each other's make-up. Eden did Tori's make up, she had applied back eyeliner and glittery eyeshadow on her eyes and on her cheeks. Then she had put on some real shinny lipgloss that made her lips look "juicy" as what Claire called them.

Tori had laughed so many times and had shared all her secrets that girls should only share. They told each other their crushes and the girls they hated them most. What pleased Tori was that these girls hated Carmelita almost as much as she did.

When the train stopped the girls hopped off giggling and headed towards the carriages. When Tori was about to board the carriage with her friends she had spotted the guys. She had caught the eye of Sirius, she quickly looked away and boarded quickly. She looked down at her feet feeling guilty that she had left the guys…but she couldn't be hanging around guys for the rest of her life, she needed to share things with girls! She was getting older and growing out of them…or was she…Tori couldn't think about this right now so she just tried to concentrate on what Zanny was saying.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! Yay! Tori's growing up, sorry I made a lot of this chapter sad and angst but I needed to, don't worry a lot more happier stuff's gunna come later I promise! But it really seems like I'm getting less reviews, crys keep reviewing PLEASE!

Vixen Black: No I didn't! No way would I give her an abusive father! How'd you get that out of the story? Keep reviewing! Luv ya Vixen!