THIS IS IT!!!! THE LONG-AWAITED CHAPTER FOUR!!!!!!
*What she means to say is, thank you for being so patient.
Yeah, sorry guys-first I was in the hospital for appendicitis, then I dropped my PDA and it took like 4 months to fix it, then it was exam time, then I suffered from the dreaded writers block ::gasp of horror::
*But finally, here is chapter four!!!
DISCLAIMER: If you recognize it, I don't own it--.All of my OC's and the plot belong to me-a share belongs to my sister.
ATTENTION READERS: In response to my six reviewers for chapter three and the whisper of enthusiasm from people wanting to be in the story, I am proud to introduce two new characters: Serenica Boggsworth and Alaina Stork! Congrats, and thanx to everyone else who submitted profiles! Keep on reading-you never know when your character will make an appearance!
UPDATED DISCLAIMER: If you don't recognize it, I own it-but Serenica Boggsworth belongs to Witch Green Eyes, and Alaina Stork belongs to Laina. I am just placing them in my plotline!
Now, without further ado-----CHAPTER FOUR!!!!
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At his words, platters on platters of delicious food appeared on each table.
Sara gazed at the array of delicious food in front of her with an air of fascination; lamb, roast beef, fried chicken, steak, fish, boiled potatoes, fried potatoes, mashed potatoes, carrots, greens, etc. Glancing down the table, she saw all of her Ravenclaw classmates digging into the delicious- looking food, so she thought it logical to eat as well. Sara soon found that all of the food was just as delicious as it looked and smelled as she savored the lamb and boiled potatoes on her plate.
Students chattered merrilly with each other, filling in their friends on what they had done over their summer holidays and joking with one another. Sara glanced over at the table where Lily was sitting. Lily caught Sara's eye and beamed, and Sara returned her smile. Just then, Sara felt a tap on her left shoulder. She turned quickly and found herself face-to-face with a pretty girl with long, curly dark brown hair, tanned skin, and deep-set dark grey eyes. The girl smiled at Sara.
"Hi! You must be the new girl. I'm Serenica Boggsworth, Ravenclaw fifth year. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance." She held out her hand. Sara shook it.
"Sara O'Hanlon," she said. "It's good to meet you too." Sara smiled at the girl, who then began to introduce Sara to all of the other people nearby.
"This is Lisa Finelli, and her twin brother Luke" she said, indicating a girl sitting across from her with curly blonde hair and green eyes, and a boy with blond hair and green eyes," and this is Tabitha Lou," an Asian girl with shoulder-length black hair smiled at her. "Next to her is Sebastian Bathe," she indicated a tall boy with dirty blond hair and blue eyes.
"I told you never to call me Sebastian, Boggsworth!"
"Fine then, Basti...happy now?"
"Very much so. Carry on," he said as he smiled and shook Sara's hand along with the others.
"Over there," Serenica continued, "Is Christian Walker, and there is Connor Hawke." A black boy about Sara's height leaned over to shake her hand, and Connor smiled from the next seat.
"Yes, We've met," he said, smiling. "It's good to see you again...welcome to Ravenclaw." Sara smiled back at him.
"Last, but not least," she said, indicating a girl with curly strawberry- blond hair and aqua eyes, "Alaina Stork." Alaina smiled at Sara, shaking her hand with the rest.
"So Sara," Lisa said, clearly trying to make Sara feel comfortable. "How do you like Hogwarts so far?"
"It's very nice...I like it a lot so far." There was another awkward silence. Sebastian spoke up again.
"So do you know many people here?"
"Yes, I met about seven on the train...plus Connor earlier...They seem like cool people."
"Who did you meet?" Lisa inquired, interested.
"Ummm...they were all Gryffindors..James Potter, Sirius Black, Rena Lupin and her brother, Lily Thompson, Arabella Figg, and another boy..I can't remember his name..." Many of the people sitting near her were staring. Sara hated when people stared at her. "What?"
"You chose quite a group of people to meet," said Paige, joining the conversation. "The four boys are also known as the Marauders, quite the pranksters...and along with the girls they are the most popuar people in the school."
"Wow"
At that point, all of the food disappeared from the table and their plates, leaving them sparkling clean as before. In their place appeared dishes of desserts: blocks of ice cream in every flavor, fruit tarts, cookies, donuts. As everyone helped themselves to dessert, the conversation turned to Quidditch.
"I know the Tornados will blow everyone away this year." somebody was saying.
"No way! The Tornados are the third worst in the league!"
"They'll make it, I can feel it...especially after Liam Brott joined the team...He's a great Chaser..."
As Sara helped herself to a raspberry tart, she took the opportunity to look around and take in her surroundings. The Great Hall was a magnificent place it really was. But she missed Beaumore and everything there so much it hurt...not to mention her parents. Determined not to cry and give herself away in front of her new friends, she pulled her thoughts back to the here and now, where the feast was ending. Sara noticed that Dumbledore was now standing at his seat at the head of the Hall. He seemed to be waiting for everyone to end their conversations.
After a few minutes, nearly the entire hall was quiet, and the rest were quickly catching the hint. When every face in the hall was turned to his (with the exception, Sara noticed, of two boys sitting at the Slytherin table), he began to speak.
"Once again, I have been asked to give you these start-of-term notices. As every year, the Forbidden Forest is ust that: forbidden to all students, as is the Whomping Willow at the edge of the grounds. No magic is allowed in the corridors, and this will be strictly enforced.
"As our caretaker, Mr. Filch, begins his second year here, he has requested me to tell you that stink pellets and screaming yo-yos have been added to a list of forbidden novelties on the grounds. For the full length of the list, visit Mr. Filch's office door. Now that all has been said, it is time for you to be off to bed. Prefects will lead the first-years to their dormitories. Good night." With that, Dumbledore sat down. The whole of the Hall stood up and began to stream out of the colossal oak doors.
As the students made their way into the entrance hall, Sara noticed that they began to part ways. Some went down another corridor, some went down a flight of stone steps, and others climbed a magnificent marble staircase. Sara stuck close to Paige, as she hadn't the faintest idea where she was going. Along the way, she met up with Lily,, who tapped her on the shoulder.
"Congrats on making Ravenclaw!"
"Oh, thanks! Is your dormitory this way, too?"
"Yes," she said, "it is, well, I shouldn't tell you, but it's on the seventh floor." They began to climb another staircase when Professor McGonagall poked her head out of a doorway.
"Miss O'Hanlon, could I see you for a moment, please?" Sara looked puzzled, but said goodbye to Lily, let Paige know where she was, and made her way to the professor's door. She went inside and found herself in McGonagall's office once again. "Please sit down," she said, indicating a chair in front of her desk. She sat behind her desk and studied Sara for a moment. Sara tried not to shift nervously in her seat.
"Well then, Sara, I was reviewing your file from Beaumore, and there were quite a few things I was impressed with. Second in your class, were you not?" Sara nodded, trying not to be nervous. "I see that you have attended school for five years already. Apparently in the US they start your magical education at the age of 10, rather than 11, as we do here. This means, of course, that you will be, in a sense, repeating your fifth year. Now Headmaster Dumbledore and I were discussing this, and we have decided to place you with students of your age, rather than supposed intellectual level, so you might feel more at home for a while. Now, if at the end of the first term you feel that you aren't getting anything out of this, then I want you to tell me and we can switch your schedule. Does that sound alright?" Sara nodded.
"Yes, Professor." McGonagall shifted a few loose bits of parchment on her desktop.
"Now I see that you have had three years of arithmancy, two years of ancient runes, and two of divination, is that correct?"
"Yes, Professor," Sara said again.
"Alright then, here is what we have decided to do," she said, "You will take Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Potions, Herbology, Charms, Astronomy, Ancient Runes, and Divination with your peers, and then you will take Arithmancy with the sixth years, so you will still feel challenged, but not so out-of-place. Is that alright with you?"
"Yes Professor," she said a third time.
"Normally I would have let Professor Flitwick, the Charms professor, explain this all to you, as he is your Head of House, but since I am the deputy headmistress anyway, Dumbledore saw fit to have me explain this to you. Now, it is time for you and your classmates to go to bed. I take it you don't know where the Ravenclaw common room is?"
"No, Professor,"
"Alright, then I will show you. Come along," and with that, Professor McGonagall led Sara out of the office and up another staircase. She led Sara down a corridor full of portraits of past Head Girls and Boys, then stopped in front of a large bronze statue of an eagle. "Scarab beetle," she said clearly, and the eagle, which seemed to come to life at these words, leapt aside to reveal a small, narrow door five feet tall and three feet wide, with a large brass ring for a handle.
"This is the entrance to the Ravenclaw common room. Your dormitory is in here...the fifth year dorms are up the right-hand staircase fifth floor up. There's a sign. All of your things have already been brought up and your owl is in the Owlery-- in a tower on the tenth floor. Classes begin at nine o'clock tomorrow...breakfast starts at 6:00am. Goodnight. Welcome to Hogwarts, Sara." She gave Sara a small smile.
"Thank you, Professor McGonagall." With that, McGonagall turned and left and Sara was left on her own again. She stared at the wooden door with apprehension before gripping the cool metal ring and pulling the door open. Ducking her head, she went through the short hallway with ease, then stepped down two stairs and lifted her head to see the Ravenclaw common room.
It was a very large, circular room. There was a large grate to Sara's left which contained a blazing fir. Placed around the fire were several blue plush armchairs and a couple of loveseats. Around the cmmon room, there were bookshelves and square and round wooden tables, surrounded by more plush archairs. A couple dozen students sat around still, talking and playing chess. The walls were stone, and lit by many torches. They held portraits of many Ravenclaw students who had become famous. Looking closely at one such portrait, one of a stout wizard with windblown hair, had a label that read "George McLeary--discovered Skele-gro potion.' At this, the portrait of the teen winked at her.
Sara turned to the staircases. There were small bronze signs on each one to distinguish the boy's dormitories from the girl's. She climbed the staircase, and finally arrived at the door with another bronze plaque, bearing the words 'FIFTH YEARS.' Taking a deep breath, she pushed the door open and walked inside.
The dormitory was clearly inside of one of the towers. Sara found herself standing in a circular room, six four-poster beds with rich, dark blue velvet hangings arranged inside it. The polished wooden floors were mostly covered with a large blue area rug with bronze trim, the Ravenclaw emblem woven into the center. Across the room, a fire was crackling merrily behind a brass grate. Sara walked in to find that her roommates were almost already in bed. Sara found her trunk and Athena's cage at the foot of one of the beds, and assuming this one was hers, went to dig out her nightclothes. On a chair beside her bed lay her new Hogwarts robes, now adorned with a patch depicting the Ravenclaw crest, as well as a scarf, gloves, a tie, and a hat in the ravenclaw colors of blue and shining bronze.
"I see you've found the dorms alright," a voioce said behind her. Sara whirled around to find Paige standing in front of her, dressed in a teal bathrobe and a wide smile.
"Yep," she answered. Paige sat at the foot of Sara's bed.
"What did McGonagall want you for, anyway?"
"Well, I needed to straighten out some of my classes...the ones I took at Beaumore don't match up with this curriculum," she said to the five girls in the room who had all situated themselves either on or around her bed, listening intently.
"Beaumore was your school in the States?" Alaina inquired.
"Yes."
"How come the curricula don't match up?" Tabitha piped up from her spot at the foot of the bed.
"Because at Beaumore, they begin to educate sorcerers at the age of ten rather than eleven, so we had an extra year of education."
"So you have to repeat your fifth year?"
"That's what it looks like," Sara said grimly. She looked at Serenica, who seemed to be deep in thought.
"That sucks!" she said bluntly. They giggled.
"No kidding." There was a short silence.
"Well, girls, I'd love to keep talking to Sara but I'm gonna hit the sack," Tabitha declared. Sara was grateful to her. She still didn't like to talk about herself all the time. It was great being able to talk about Beaumore; almost like she was home again--but she didn't want the conversation to turn to her parents. That was one thing she didn't feel like reliving now.
As the girls turned away, Sara changed into her nightclothes and crawled into bed. It was unbelievably soft; like sleeping on a cloud, almost. The others were climbing into their own four-posters.
"Good night!" Lisa told them.
"Sleep tight!" this came from Tabitha. Sara thought she might as well put her bit in.
"Don't let the bedbugs bite!" She said. At these words, Laina jumped out of her bed as if it were on fire. She ripped back her sheets, eyes darting back and forth nervously.
"Bed bugs?" she squeaked. Eveyone laughed at her.
"It's a muggle saying, blondie!" Said Paige as she sent a pillow flying towards Laina. She frowned and tossed it back. "How was I supposed to know that?" As the giggles subsided, she climbed back into her bed. As Sara prepared to pull the curtains closed, Paige's head popped out of her curtains.
"Welcome to Hogwarts, Sara," She smiled.
"Thanks," Sara returned. The girls exchanged grins before retreating into the privacy of their beds. Sara crawled beneath the heavy blue spread and crisp, clean white sheets and lay her head on the pillow.
"I love you, Mom and Dad. I miss you more than anyone could know," she whispered in a voice so quiet she had to strain her ears to hear it herself. Then she relaxed and drifted quietly off into the first truly peaceful sleep she'd had in a long time.
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That's all for the long-awaited chapter four. It is shorter than the others, but I thought that that would make a good stopping point.
Reviewer Shout-outs-----
Witch Green Eyes and Laina---congrats on making it: please continue to review.
Bluestarinight, LadyAnna, and Wildfire-Keep on reading! I guarantee that you will show up in the story sooner or later!
_AyCee_ --Thanks for your input..do you have any ideas for a better summary?
I have received reviews that say my summary doesn't do justice to Sara's story...does anyone have an idea for a new summary? I'm open to suggestions!
Luv You all!!!!
~*~*Callista Rose*~*~
*What she means to say is, thank you for being so patient.
Yeah, sorry guys-first I was in the hospital for appendicitis, then I dropped my PDA and it took like 4 months to fix it, then it was exam time, then I suffered from the dreaded writers block ::gasp of horror::
*But finally, here is chapter four!!!
DISCLAIMER: If you recognize it, I don't own it--.All of my OC's and the plot belong to me-a share belongs to my sister.
ATTENTION READERS: In response to my six reviewers for chapter three and the whisper of enthusiasm from people wanting to be in the story, I am proud to introduce two new characters: Serenica Boggsworth and Alaina Stork! Congrats, and thanx to everyone else who submitted profiles! Keep on reading-you never know when your character will make an appearance!
UPDATED DISCLAIMER: If you don't recognize it, I own it-but Serenica Boggsworth belongs to Witch Green Eyes, and Alaina Stork belongs to Laina. I am just placing them in my plotline!
Now, without further ado-----CHAPTER FOUR!!!!
*****************************************************************
At his words, platters on platters of delicious food appeared on each table.
Sara gazed at the array of delicious food in front of her with an air of fascination; lamb, roast beef, fried chicken, steak, fish, boiled potatoes, fried potatoes, mashed potatoes, carrots, greens, etc. Glancing down the table, she saw all of her Ravenclaw classmates digging into the delicious- looking food, so she thought it logical to eat as well. Sara soon found that all of the food was just as delicious as it looked and smelled as she savored the lamb and boiled potatoes on her plate.
Students chattered merrilly with each other, filling in their friends on what they had done over their summer holidays and joking with one another. Sara glanced over at the table where Lily was sitting. Lily caught Sara's eye and beamed, and Sara returned her smile. Just then, Sara felt a tap on her left shoulder. She turned quickly and found herself face-to-face with a pretty girl with long, curly dark brown hair, tanned skin, and deep-set dark grey eyes. The girl smiled at Sara.
"Hi! You must be the new girl. I'm Serenica Boggsworth, Ravenclaw fifth year. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance." She held out her hand. Sara shook it.
"Sara O'Hanlon," she said. "It's good to meet you too." Sara smiled at the girl, who then began to introduce Sara to all of the other people nearby.
"This is Lisa Finelli, and her twin brother Luke" she said, indicating a girl sitting across from her with curly blonde hair and green eyes, and a boy with blond hair and green eyes," and this is Tabitha Lou," an Asian girl with shoulder-length black hair smiled at her. "Next to her is Sebastian Bathe," she indicated a tall boy with dirty blond hair and blue eyes.
"I told you never to call me Sebastian, Boggsworth!"
"Fine then, Basti...happy now?"
"Very much so. Carry on," he said as he smiled and shook Sara's hand along with the others.
"Over there," Serenica continued, "Is Christian Walker, and there is Connor Hawke." A black boy about Sara's height leaned over to shake her hand, and Connor smiled from the next seat.
"Yes, We've met," he said, smiling. "It's good to see you again...welcome to Ravenclaw." Sara smiled back at him.
"Last, but not least," she said, indicating a girl with curly strawberry- blond hair and aqua eyes, "Alaina Stork." Alaina smiled at Sara, shaking her hand with the rest.
"So Sara," Lisa said, clearly trying to make Sara feel comfortable. "How do you like Hogwarts so far?"
"It's very nice...I like it a lot so far." There was another awkward silence. Sebastian spoke up again.
"So do you know many people here?"
"Yes, I met about seven on the train...plus Connor earlier...They seem like cool people."
"Who did you meet?" Lisa inquired, interested.
"Ummm...they were all Gryffindors..James Potter, Sirius Black, Rena Lupin and her brother, Lily Thompson, Arabella Figg, and another boy..I can't remember his name..." Many of the people sitting near her were staring. Sara hated when people stared at her. "What?"
"You chose quite a group of people to meet," said Paige, joining the conversation. "The four boys are also known as the Marauders, quite the pranksters...and along with the girls they are the most popuar people in the school."
"Wow"
At that point, all of the food disappeared from the table and their plates, leaving them sparkling clean as before. In their place appeared dishes of desserts: blocks of ice cream in every flavor, fruit tarts, cookies, donuts. As everyone helped themselves to dessert, the conversation turned to Quidditch.
"I know the Tornados will blow everyone away this year." somebody was saying.
"No way! The Tornados are the third worst in the league!"
"They'll make it, I can feel it...especially after Liam Brott joined the team...He's a great Chaser..."
As Sara helped herself to a raspberry tart, she took the opportunity to look around and take in her surroundings. The Great Hall was a magnificent place it really was. But she missed Beaumore and everything there so much it hurt...not to mention her parents. Determined not to cry and give herself away in front of her new friends, she pulled her thoughts back to the here and now, where the feast was ending. Sara noticed that Dumbledore was now standing at his seat at the head of the Hall. He seemed to be waiting for everyone to end their conversations.
After a few minutes, nearly the entire hall was quiet, and the rest were quickly catching the hint. When every face in the hall was turned to his (with the exception, Sara noticed, of two boys sitting at the Slytherin table), he began to speak.
"Once again, I have been asked to give you these start-of-term notices. As every year, the Forbidden Forest is ust that: forbidden to all students, as is the Whomping Willow at the edge of the grounds. No magic is allowed in the corridors, and this will be strictly enforced.
"As our caretaker, Mr. Filch, begins his second year here, he has requested me to tell you that stink pellets and screaming yo-yos have been added to a list of forbidden novelties on the grounds. For the full length of the list, visit Mr. Filch's office door. Now that all has been said, it is time for you to be off to bed. Prefects will lead the first-years to their dormitories. Good night." With that, Dumbledore sat down. The whole of the Hall stood up and began to stream out of the colossal oak doors.
As the students made their way into the entrance hall, Sara noticed that they began to part ways. Some went down another corridor, some went down a flight of stone steps, and others climbed a magnificent marble staircase. Sara stuck close to Paige, as she hadn't the faintest idea where she was going. Along the way, she met up with Lily,, who tapped her on the shoulder.
"Congrats on making Ravenclaw!"
"Oh, thanks! Is your dormitory this way, too?"
"Yes," she said, "it is, well, I shouldn't tell you, but it's on the seventh floor." They began to climb another staircase when Professor McGonagall poked her head out of a doorway.
"Miss O'Hanlon, could I see you for a moment, please?" Sara looked puzzled, but said goodbye to Lily, let Paige know where she was, and made her way to the professor's door. She went inside and found herself in McGonagall's office once again. "Please sit down," she said, indicating a chair in front of her desk. She sat behind her desk and studied Sara for a moment. Sara tried not to shift nervously in her seat.
"Well then, Sara, I was reviewing your file from Beaumore, and there were quite a few things I was impressed with. Second in your class, were you not?" Sara nodded, trying not to be nervous. "I see that you have attended school for five years already. Apparently in the US they start your magical education at the age of 10, rather than 11, as we do here. This means, of course, that you will be, in a sense, repeating your fifth year. Now Headmaster Dumbledore and I were discussing this, and we have decided to place you with students of your age, rather than supposed intellectual level, so you might feel more at home for a while. Now, if at the end of the first term you feel that you aren't getting anything out of this, then I want you to tell me and we can switch your schedule. Does that sound alright?" Sara nodded.
"Yes, Professor." McGonagall shifted a few loose bits of parchment on her desktop.
"Now I see that you have had three years of arithmancy, two years of ancient runes, and two of divination, is that correct?"
"Yes, Professor," Sara said again.
"Alright then, here is what we have decided to do," she said, "You will take Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Potions, Herbology, Charms, Astronomy, Ancient Runes, and Divination with your peers, and then you will take Arithmancy with the sixth years, so you will still feel challenged, but not so out-of-place. Is that alright with you?"
"Yes Professor," she said a third time.
"Normally I would have let Professor Flitwick, the Charms professor, explain this all to you, as he is your Head of House, but since I am the deputy headmistress anyway, Dumbledore saw fit to have me explain this to you. Now, it is time for you and your classmates to go to bed. I take it you don't know where the Ravenclaw common room is?"
"No, Professor,"
"Alright, then I will show you. Come along," and with that, Professor McGonagall led Sara out of the office and up another staircase. She led Sara down a corridor full of portraits of past Head Girls and Boys, then stopped in front of a large bronze statue of an eagle. "Scarab beetle," she said clearly, and the eagle, which seemed to come to life at these words, leapt aside to reveal a small, narrow door five feet tall and three feet wide, with a large brass ring for a handle.
"This is the entrance to the Ravenclaw common room. Your dormitory is in here...the fifth year dorms are up the right-hand staircase fifth floor up. There's a sign. All of your things have already been brought up and your owl is in the Owlery-- in a tower on the tenth floor. Classes begin at nine o'clock tomorrow...breakfast starts at 6:00am. Goodnight. Welcome to Hogwarts, Sara." She gave Sara a small smile.
"Thank you, Professor McGonagall." With that, McGonagall turned and left and Sara was left on her own again. She stared at the wooden door with apprehension before gripping the cool metal ring and pulling the door open. Ducking her head, she went through the short hallway with ease, then stepped down two stairs and lifted her head to see the Ravenclaw common room.
It was a very large, circular room. There was a large grate to Sara's left which contained a blazing fir. Placed around the fire were several blue plush armchairs and a couple of loveseats. Around the cmmon room, there were bookshelves and square and round wooden tables, surrounded by more plush archairs. A couple dozen students sat around still, talking and playing chess. The walls were stone, and lit by many torches. They held portraits of many Ravenclaw students who had become famous. Looking closely at one such portrait, one of a stout wizard with windblown hair, had a label that read "George McLeary--discovered Skele-gro potion.' At this, the portrait of the teen winked at her.
Sara turned to the staircases. There were small bronze signs on each one to distinguish the boy's dormitories from the girl's. She climbed the staircase, and finally arrived at the door with another bronze plaque, bearing the words 'FIFTH YEARS.' Taking a deep breath, she pushed the door open and walked inside.
The dormitory was clearly inside of one of the towers. Sara found herself standing in a circular room, six four-poster beds with rich, dark blue velvet hangings arranged inside it. The polished wooden floors were mostly covered with a large blue area rug with bronze trim, the Ravenclaw emblem woven into the center. Across the room, a fire was crackling merrily behind a brass grate. Sara walked in to find that her roommates were almost already in bed. Sara found her trunk and Athena's cage at the foot of one of the beds, and assuming this one was hers, went to dig out her nightclothes. On a chair beside her bed lay her new Hogwarts robes, now adorned with a patch depicting the Ravenclaw crest, as well as a scarf, gloves, a tie, and a hat in the ravenclaw colors of blue and shining bronze.
"I see you've found the dorms alright," a voioce said behind her. Sara whirled around to find Paige standing in front of her, dressed in a teal bathrobe and a wide smile.
"Yep," she answered. Paige sat at the foot of Sara's bed.
"What did McGonagall want you for, anyway?"
"Well, I needed to straighten out some of my classes...the ones I took at Beaumore don't match up with this curriculum," she said to the five girls in the room who had all situated themselves either on or around her bed, listening intently.
"Beaumore was your school in the States?" Alaina inquired.
"Yes."
"How come the curricula don't match up?" Tabitha piped up from her spot at the foot of the bed.
"Because at Beaumore, they begin to educate sorcerers at the age of ten rather than eleven, so we had an extra year of education."
"So you have to repeat your fifth year?"
"That's what it looks like," Sara said grimly. She looked at Serenica, who seemed to be deep in thought.
"That sucks!" she said bluntly. They giggled.
"No kidding." There was a short silence.
"Well, girls, I'd love to keep talking to Sara but I'm gonna hit the sack," Tabitha declared. Sara was grateful to her. She still didn't like to talk about herself all the time. It was great being able to talk about Beaumore; almost like she was home again--but she didn't want the conversation to turn to her parents. That was one thing she didn't feel like reliving now.
As the girls turned away, Sara changed into her nightclothes and crawled into bed. It was unbelievably soft; like sleeping on a cloud, almost. The others were climbing into their own four-posters.
"Good night!" Lisa told them.
"Sleep tight!" this came from Tabitha. Sara thought she might as well put her bit in.
"Don't let the bedbugs bite!" She said. At these words, Laina jumped out of her bed as if it were on fire. She ripped back her sheets, eyes darting back and forth nervously.
"Bed bugs?" she squeaked. Eveyone laughed at her.
"It's a muggle saying, blondie!" Said Paige as she sent a pillow flying towards Laina. She frowned and tossed it back. "How was I supposed to know that?" As the giggles subsided, she climbed back into her bed. As Sara prepared to pull the curtains closed, Paige's head popped out of her curtains.
"Welcome to Hogwarts, Sara," She smiled.
"Thanks," Sara returned. The girls exchanged grins before retreating into the privacy of their beds. Sara crawled beneath the heavy blue spread and crisp, clean white sheets and lay her head on the pillow.
"I love you, Mom and Dad. I miss you more than anyone could know," she whispered in a voice so quiet she had to strain her ears to hear it herself. Then she relaxed and drifted quietly off into the first truly peaceful sleep she'd had in a long time.
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That's all for the long-awaited chapter four. It is shorter than the others, but I thought that that would make a good stopping point.
Reviewer Shout-outs-----
Witch Green Eyes and Laina---congrats on making it: please continue to review.
Bluestarinight, LadyAnna, and Wildfire-Keep on reading! I guarantee that you will show up in the story sooner or later!
_AyCee_ --Thanks for your input..do you have any ideas for a better summary?
I have received reviews that say my summary doesn't do justice to Sara's story...does anyone have an idea for a new summary? I'm open to suggestions!
Luv You all!!!!
~*~*Callista Rose*~*~