Hi Leisha here:
First of all I'd like to thank everyone who read HpatT (Harry Potter and the Transfers)
As before I hope you all enjoy the story/chapter, (and leave a review as I love to hear what you think of it!
But here it is...
Chapter 2: 16 and one month…
Leisha pulled the cover back over her shoulders as she felt the chill of winter start to set in and only the one thought was in her mind, I should have worn the long sleeved top. That was when her phone started to ring. As she opened her eyes the strands of her straight black hair were becoming more visible and so was her phone as it flashed with the ring tone. Leisha rolled over and glanced at the screen, oh great, she thought as on the screen of her mobile was the name Charlie. Charlie had even managed to change the settings to have little hearts down the bottom. Typical, Leisha thought, trust Charlie to do something like that. Leisha answered the call.
"What are you doing calling me," she asked Charlie "since when do you wake up first?"
"Leisha it's nearly one o'clock I thought you'd already be up" she answered innocently
"Well I'm not, I just have a splitting head ache" Leisha explained through the phone. Some how at that moment Charlie walked through the door to Leisha's bedroom
"Aw, poor baby" this time Leisha heard Charlie's voice both in front of her and through the receiver. They both hung up their phones in unison
"Yes poor me" Leisha said as she slopped back down to sleep
"Come on sleepy head time to wake up" Charlie told Leisha while pulling off the bed covers as Leisha had done to her so many other times
"No, I'm sick, go away Charlie!" Leisha tried to make a grab for her covers
"But alexia want's to meet us at HQ" Charlie whined, holding the covers loosely in her hands, Leisha snatched them back
"You mean her tree house" Leisha corrected while straightening the sheets over her
"No, head quarters," Charlie replied defiantly. Leisha turned over again, hoping to get back to sleep. "Come on Leisha you lazy bum wake up" Charlie commanded snatching the covers once more.
"Fine!" Leisha said while struggling to get up, as she was still half-asleep. Her step brother, Robert or rob as he is better known as, happened to walk past Leisha's room
"Rob did you let Charlie in?" Leisha asked still half tired. He turned to Leisha with a wicked smile "I don't know" he said simply and kept on walking towards his room then the sound of his bass guitar could be heard from all corners of the house.
"A simple yes or know would do" Leisha muttered to herself.
After taking a shower and changin, Leisha tied her hair up out of her eyes. On her way to her brother's room, where Charlie had run off to, she picked up the closest, cleanest jumper. She was just about to open the door when she heard whispering
" think it's good, the less she remembers the less she has to worry about" Leisha couldn't identify whether it was Charlie or Robert.
"Who's worrying?" she asked interrupting their conversation.
"Umm... Mum, she's sorry about not celebrating you birthday" Robert said quickly.
"That doesn't matter it was a month ago" Leisha said while sitting down, which is when Charlie stood up
"Any way Leisha and I have to get to HQ" Charlie said while grabbing Leisha's arm and pulling her back up to her feet.
"HQ? What are you two spies or something?"Rrob asked confused.
"No Charlie's just weird," Leisha told him, "Tell mum I'll be back before dinner."
"Will do," he said with a mocking salute as Leisha closed the door.
The two girls swerved their bikes into the front driveway of Alexia's house to find Alexia's father, Mr. Wilson, bring in the paper.
"Morning Mr. Wilson" the two girls chimed,
"Morning girls, they're in HQ" he replied back,
"See I'm not that weird" Charlie whispered to Leisha.
As the two girls climb up the ladder of the tree house in the backyard of alexia's house, They found their friends Katie and Alexia already there.
"Ok they're here, now explain what this big news is" Katie said impatiently, as Leisha and Charlie found a place to sit in the wooden tree house.
"Well you know that competition I entered" Alexia said while trying to hold her excitement. But everyone else was confused.
"Which one?" Leisha asked. Alexia can get really bored and would spend the whole holidays entering every competition or lucky draw under the sun in hope of winning something.
"The one you sent my drawing in for?" Katie asked in her confused manner
"No," Alexia told her bluntly.
"The one where you win a date with a member of Hanson?" Charlie asked all excited, she loved Hanson.
" I never entered that competition"
"Oh that was me" everyone turned to Charlie who was off in her own little fantasy world.
"Well I won four tickets to…. Take a guess"
"Just tell us, for Merlin's sake" Leisha demanded
"To England!"
Silence followed this statement
"Umm… Alexia, it's not that we don't appreciate it but umm…."
"Do we have to?" Charlie whined
"Charlie!" everyone else exclaimed,
"I'm just saying"
"Well, you don't have to, so I guess I'll just, you know, wander around England on my own, and it was going to be, you know, sort of a birthday present for Leisha. But hey if you guys don't want them," Alexia started twiddling her thumbs while looking very depressed. Katie sighed "If Leisha says yes then fine well go" Charlie gave Katie a look of disbelief. Alexia looked at Leihopefully.
"I never had a problem with England. If anything I really want to go" Leisha said simply. Alexia punched the air with excitement.
"But it's going to be all cold and rainy there" Charlie whined.
"It will be good for the two of you, a bit of culture will broaden your mind about the world" Alexia said with a half smile.
"But what am I going to do with my snuffles, I can't leave the puppy behind" Charlie complained again.
"Charlie, you like Orlando Bloom, did you know you might happen to run into him over there" this was Leisha's attempt at convincing Charlie to go to England.
"No he's busy filming," she said off the top of her head. Leisha rolled her eyes, beaten again by the all-knowing Orlando Bloom fan.
"Charlie you're coming and that's final" Alexia said finally.
"But why?" again Charlie whined
"Because of this" Alexia said dramaticly while holding up a parchment letter, Leisha grabbed and started to read out the emerald green writing.
" Dear Miss Wilson,
Due to certain events, we are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry…"
"Everyone that went to Castells is being offered a position here" Alexia finished
"Another magic school," Katie thought out loud
"Yes but in freezing cold England" Charlie complained again
"Charlie if you don't want to come then you can stay behind" Leisha scolded at her
"Oh no I'll go, I need a good winter coat"
"And everyone knows that English lads are very good looking" Alexia said in a daze, Katie and Charlie soon followed her into a deep day dream of all the good looking English guys they would meet while on holidays. Leisha, although she had not yet mastered the power of mind reading, could tell exactly what they were thinking
"I refuse to go to England just so you three can perve on guys"
"Oh Leisha, you're no fun" Katie whined
"Anyway, I have to get going" Leisha announced while heading for the ladder out of the tree house.
"Yeah sure"
"That's cool Leisha"
"Yea, oh and don't forget, we leave tomorrow"
"Tomorrow, right, call me when we leave"
The sun had started to set and the wind grew chiller. As Leisha closed the door to her house all the lights were off and everything was quiet. Leisha grew tense, something wasn't right here. She moved her hand carefully towards the light switch near the door. The first thing she saw was how clean the house was, something is defiantly wrong. Leisha crept along the hallway towards the living room, which was basically a kitchen, a dining room and a lounge room rolled into one. Again she carefully flicked the switch and the lights cane on. Across the window was a huge sigh that read "Happy Birthday LEISHA!" and on the table was a rich chocolate cake with "16 and one month" written in curly white icing. Leisha was in shock. At this moment Rob walked past the living room and saw Leisha standing in the decorated room.
"Mum, Leisha's home" then her stepmother entered the room holding a basket with a blue cloth draped over it. Then she started singing 'happy birthday' to Leisha, who through out the whole song kept her head covered by her hand.
"aw mum you shouldn't have, I've always wanted ….a… ummm….picnic basket." Leisha said while trying to sound enthusiastic
"No, no, no, look inside it." Her stepmother told her. Although slightly embarrassed Leisha pulled back the cover reviling a little black kitten sleeping in-between the folds of the cloth.
"Oh, mum. She's beautiful," Leisha said holding the small cat in the palm of her hands
"And she's all yours" her step mother said seeing the excitement on her face
"Oh great a cat, that's cool" rob said with fake excitement.
"Don't you have something for you sister rob"
"Why yes I do, you ready I got you a poem. Ahem, ahem, a pinch and a punch for being sixteen and one month" he told her while punching and pinching her in the arm.
"Thanks I think"
"Nar shucks," he said while looking all bashful
"Hey did anyone check the owl post?" Leisha asked while walking over to the mail slot in the door.
"No why?" her stepmother asked her.
"This is why,"
Leisha held up the two Hogwarts letters in the pile and handed them to her mother who quickly read them.
"Oh please mother can I go?" Leisha begged
"England is a awful long way away. How would you get there?"
"Alexia won tickets over to England, we can branch off from there," Leisha explained to the two of them
"I don't know. Rob are you going?"
"Nar, can't be stuffed, as you said mum it's all the way in England, and if something happened…"
"What's going to happen?" Leisha complained,
"Well that's it, we don't know" her mother sounded worried, but why Leisha didn't know.
"Mum please, please, pleaseeeee" Leisha begged
"Only if you really want to"
"Yes I really do"
"Fine" her mother sighed
"Yes," Leisha said while punching the air with excitement. She picked up the basket carefully and carried it up to her bedroom so she could start packing.
"What are you going to do with your cat?" she step mother called up to her
"I can take her there, it says on the letter, really its Charlie you have to worry about, she has a dog"
YAY another chapter over, but please if you've made it this far, telll me what you thought of it. it would be greatly appreciated.
thanks guys,
Leisha Robinson
