Choices

Choice four: Lily

I've never been normal; it's just a sad fact about my life. Imagine finding out at the age of four that you're adopted. Yep that's right I'm adopted. Of course it's not just me, but my sister as well; she was three and I was one when it happened.

Our parents were killed in a train crash; we were in it too, or so I've been told. I don't remember anything about it and Petunia… well she refuses to admit we ever lived anywhere else.

It isn't bad being adopted. Not at all, it's kind of nice knowing that two people love you so much and wanted to keep you when in actual fact they could have left us at that orphanage. They decided we shouldn't change our names at all so we've stayed as Lily and Petunia. Of course we're no longer Snotbottle, but that's got to be a good thing; I prefer being called Evans.

Edmond and Clare are brilliant anyway, they could never have children themselves because of an accident; they never went into details about it, but they told us they chose us because we were so beautiful and helpless.

They're really patient as well, which is a good thing because I'm always in trouble… but it's never my fault! Well almost never. Weird things just happen around me, I could never understand why until yesterday. But that comes later.

I remember that I had to wear this horrible yellow jumper one year for our Christmas play. Well I hated it; it was itchy and the worse thing I'd ever seen. Then suddenly it shrunk we still don't know how really but I got the jumper stuck on my head. It was a scary thing to happen.

Then I remember that this girl Crystal was being bullied by Ruby and I just looked at her hard and she fell flat on her face, she blamed me and I had to sit on the naughty bench. But I hadn't really done it, or so I thought.

Sometimes I did get into trouble though for things I knew I'd done like the time I hid Petunia's diary, and the time I put honey on the phone so that when she answered it, it got stuck in her hair. But those I knew I was to blame for.

Well yesterday morning it was quite early before school around seven o'clock there was a knock on the door. Clare answered it and there stood this woman with dark hair tied into a lose pony-tail.

She said that she was there to see me, and… well I'm a witch. That's why I can do all these weird things when I thought I hadn't. Even better is that I'm not going to St Joseph's Comprehensive. Come September and I'm going to Hogwarts.

I'm worried mind what if I don't fit in, or what if I'm so far behind all those who've known about their powers for years. Then there's the fact that I'm going to have to live there. I've never been away for more than a night; you know at sleepovers. It's going to be really weird.

Edmond says I'll love it though; he went to a boarding school and he says it's what made him. His best friends also went there. He said living with them day in day out meant that they really got to know each other and that they're closer than they would have been if they weren't in boarding.

So it's official; I'm leaving. Edmond and Clare are so proud of me and well Petunia is pretending that I don't exist, but hey I don't mind really. Okay so that's a lie. I love Petunia, she's my big sister and I wish she would be nicer to me but she'll learn to accept it given time.

I can't wait to start I wonder how many people I'll meet, I'm sure it will be better than I can even think of. I'll let you know how it goes.

Again big shout out to the lovely Annie for taking the time to read this for any mistakes. Also thanks to kay345 and Aroona for the lovely reviews, don't worry I'm not giving up I have 62 chapters to this to write so I'm not stopping any time soon

Kris