FALLING IN A DIFFERENT WORLD

By: 4NIC8

Hi! My name's Lee, short for Gaelle and sometimes my friends call me Abi cos in loads of movies, Gail is a short for Abigail. Even if my whole name is Gaelle; go figure.

Anyway. I have hair that barely touch my shoulders, brown, black eyes, not a lot of cleavage, thank god, (I don't like it when your boobs stick out of your shirt…it's…ugh…no offence for those of you who are like that.), I am rather tall and I have long legs. Or so my riding teacher, Shanto tells me. She is American I think but she spent a lot of time in India and got her Indian name there. She is very nice and a good teacher.

Anyway, my parents are French but I speak English like my mother language, (I have all the accents from every movie I ever saw. A bit of Irish, a bit of Brittish, American and sometimes Scottish. Cool hunh?).

Today is school day and I am hesitating between my short black skirts and my long black jeans.

I take the jeans and shrug on a tight black, Evanescence tank top. I lace up my brown leather boots and skip downstairs where my mom is sleepily drinking her coffee, reading a magazine.

I kiss her cheek, grab my sandwich and yell goodbye to my dad and brother who are both still asleep. My brother because it's his holidays, (Sooner than me! Grrr. But I still love him.) and my dad because worked all night last night developing pictures.

I walk to the bus station and patiently wait, my MP3 player currently yelling in my ears my favourite song : Kaylie from Akcent.

The bus screeches to a halt in front of me and I scramble in, giving the man my ticket.

I easily pick an empty seat and look out the window.

Slowly the bus fills as we near my school and pretty soon we arrive and I am squished next to my two friends, Annie and John, both talking animatedly about football.

Personally I don't really like football, watching it is damn boring and playing it rather violent.

Needless to say it isn't my favourite sport.

I am a HUGE fan of Harry Potter and I collect every poster I can.

Annie, whenever my birthday or Christmas comes up, gives me a poster of Harry Potter and shoes. Always the same and I don't think I would have liked it if she changed.

My birthday though is pretty soon! It's in April, 1 month and a half from now…

"Earth to Abi."

I snap out of my thoughts and scramble out after my friends.

Sometimes I wish fervently to be able to go to Hogwarts. Just to see and to meet all my favourite actors.

I find Harry and Draco to be especially cute. Harry in a baggy, boyish kind of way and Malfoy in a bad-boy-sexy-womaniser kind of way.

As I walk to the front door of my school, a blue gem catches my eye and I bend down to retrieve it from the dirt and grass.

"It's just a piece of glass." Annie sniffs, looking at it in disgust.

Anything even relating dirt is disgusting to her. She is always very meticulous and never has one spot of grease of her clothes.
Me, on the other hand, am frequently entitled: calamity Jane.

I spill my food, trip on stairs, say things when I shouldn't and much more I'd rather not tell.

I also have a bad temper and a fast punch. Boys annoying me have felt it and often don't feel the need to repeat the experience.

Today everything goes fine. My classes pass relatively well and I am soon queuing out of the French class where I'd gotten yet another: "Perfect Miss.Mason, as usual." From my teacher, infuriating quite a few students.

I had conveniently forgotten to mention my parents were French. Hehe.

However, the crowd is in such a hurry to go home and the angry and jealous students so engrossed in making me pay for being smarter than them that I soon trip and fall, missing the bus.

I glare daggers at the two girls who pushed me, pull myself up and start walking home.

I hear Annie's running footfalls behind me and chuckle. "Hey tall one." I laugh as she reaches me, out of breath. "Hey wise one."

We both snort.

We walk in silence for a while before I dig my hand into my pocket looking for a stray candy and yelp when my fingers graze a burning…thing!

Annie looks at me as if I were crazy. I take the strange round bluish stone out and examine it closely.

"Ab…put that away…" Annie says, eyes widening.

"Why?" I ask, fascinated.

"It's GLOWING!"

We shriek as baby blue light encircles us and …transports us somewhere totally different than where we were two seconds ago.

We look around. Big castle. Lots of green. Big forest.

This looks like Hogwarts. I think, desperately trying to figure out where and how we 'fell' here.

"Ah. I believe you have finally arrived." An old and smooth voice says behind us, making Annie and me shriek.

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