The night flew by like an eagle in time and the sun came up shining upon Tru's cheek like a beam of happiness. She stirred in her bed and awoke. She looked above her at the top of her four poster bed. Smiling, she looked out the window. "I'm sixteen." she whispered. She sat up and stretched and began to get dressed.
She was grateful that it was Saturday so that she could celebrate her birthday with her friends...speaking of which...where was Hermione? She pulled on her jacket, looking confused at Hermione's empty bed. She wondered what time it was. Looking back out the window, it didn't even seem to be past ten oclock. Hermione sometimes slept in on saturday.
Shrugging it off, she went down to the common room, which was ALSO empty...This was wierd...
Tru soon found herself in Hogwarts' corridors. Portraits on the walls looking down upon her as she slowly paced her way down to the Great Hall. It was abnormally quiet in the halls today. she had no clue where everyone was...She reached the Great Hall and looked around before opening the doors...and when she did...
"SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRU!" The entirety of Gryffindor House, the staff, and a few of her friends from other houses had all made up a surprise birthday celebration for her. There were light and dark blue streamers hanging from all of the walls, the words HAPPY BIRTHDAY were floating in mid air bobbing up and down in gold letters, owls of all kinds were painted and suspended in mid air all over the room. A large chocolate cake sat on the end of Gryffindor table waiting for her with 16 blue candles on it, all lit with blue flames. On the cake said "Happy Sixteenth Tru!" Harry, Ron, and Hermione along with the Weasley twins were blowing on noise makers and wearing party hats along with the rest of the crowd. Remus was standing in front holding out a gift.
Tru ran up to her dad and hugged him. "Did you plan this?" she asked. He nodded and she hugged him. She saw an enourmous pile of presents on one of the tables, all wrapped in shiny wrapping paper of all colors and sizes.
The party was very enjoyable. After eating the cake Tru unwrapped a new racing broom for Quidditch(from everyone), a book on owls(from Harry), a diamond bracelet(from her father), A new cloak made of satin and velvet for the winter(from Ron and Harry), a new pet owl named Rewin(from her father), a collar for Rewin(from Hermione), a wrist compass for quidditch games(from Ron), a guide to everything you need to know about pranking(from fred and george), And finally a book on astrology and a globe that made the entire roof into the solar system with stars all over the place (from everyone).
Tru was so happy. She couldn't believe it. She held her brand new Firebolt in her hands and laughed with everyone.
Tru, Harry, Ron, and Hermione all walked back to Gryffindor tower together, helping with all of the gifts she had gotten. "That was a cool party!" Tru said to them. "It lasted all day long!" Ron laughed.
"Well we had originally left bobbing for pickled frogs till after lunch, but what can I say? Some people are really competitive and wanted to do it earlier." Harry said shrugging.
They entered Gryffindor Tower and left Tru and Hermione with Tru's presents as they went to the girl's dorm. Tru put all of her new things in the right places. Her new broom, in the broom closet downstairs, her new books on her nightstand, her new cloak in her closet, her bracelet on her wrist, her owl's collar on her owl and the owl into the owlery, her wrist compass in her quidditch robes, and her astrology globe into her cabinet.
Sighing she sat down on her bed and looked around. Hermione sat next to her and they stared out the window. "Happy Birthday Tru." Hermione said softly.
Tru smiled. "Thank you Hermione."
