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YAY, it's the weekend!!!! OK I wasn't planning on having Ren go to her families house, but then I remembered that she left all her stuff there so yea... This chapter isn't really important its mainly just a building up chapter thingy, lol. And Ren will probably only be going by Ren for a few more chapters... just to let you know that.
Chapter 5
Ren and Kristi arrived in England late into the evening. Kristi was extremely excited and was all bubbly and excited and wouldn't shut up. Ren on the other hand was nervous and filled with dread and would hardly say a word. Her stomach twisted and turned as she thought about her parents reaction when she showed up at their house to get her things. It hadn't been in her plan to go and see her family, but Kristi had pointed out that she would probably need her wand and other things. She here she was getting ready to go rent a room and prepare to visit her wonderful family.
As they drove through London Kristi was looking out the window at everything in wonder. Ren found it somewhat amusing how her friend was acting, but didn't dwell on the feeling. Nothing about England amazed her now, she didn't see how Kristi could think it was so amazing. 'Probably because she didn't live in hell here.' Ren thought bitterly. When the cab stopped din front of the hotel they had rented a room at Ren paid him and Kristi and her walked into the building to get the key to their room. All the while Kristi kept talking about everything, giving Ren a slight headache.
(The next day)
Kristi and Ren pulled up in front of a good sized two story house. Ren turned off the ignition of the car and sighed before leaning back in her seat. Her stomach was doing flip flops and she felt extremely nervous. Kristi watched Ren in silence, she knew she didn't want to this, but she wasn't going to let her back down. Ren had waited to long for and she'd be damned if she didn't do it now.
"Ren the sooner you walk in there and get your stuff the sooner you can leave." Kristi pointed out.
Ren glanced at her. "I really have no wish to see these people again." She stated dryly.
Kristi rolled her eyes. "To bad, you need your wand and other things." Kristi said opening her car door and getting out. Ren watched as Kristi walked around the car and opened her door. "Now get out." She commanded. Ren just looked at her. "If you don't get out I'm gonna pull you out." She warned her. Ren glared at her before getting out of the car. Kristi closed the door and the two stood there staring at the house in front of them.
"I really don't want to do this." Ren mumbled.
"I'm going to be there Ren, member we're in this together now." Kristi reminded her.
Ren sighed. "I know." After a couple of minutes Ren shook her hair out and smirked. "Let's go."
Kristi and Ren walked up to the white picket fence in front of the yard and unlocked the gate before walking in. Ren glanced around the yard, memories from her childhood coming back to her.
~A pudgy little girl of six with bright red hair sat on the cement steps to her front door. She watched another little girl of ten with dirty blonde hair play in the yard swinging back and forth in the wooden swing that huge from a huge oak tree in the yard. The red head got up from the steps and walked over to her sister.
"Petty, can I swing?" She asked her older sister.
The thin blonde looked at her younger sister. "No! Go away! If you swing on it, you'll probably break it!" The little girl snapped at the little girl.
The red head's eyes started to tear up. "But-"
The blonde glared at her. "Lily get away from me! What would my friends think anyways? Your covered in mud and a cow." She sneered at her little sister.
"Girls dinner!" They heard their mother call.
"But I'm not covered in mud." Lily said, ignoring her mother's call, her eyes showing confusion.
Petunia smirked at her little sister and stood up, towering over her. "Now you are." She said and pushed her to the ground, where a dark black mud was. Lily fell in the mud, getting her whole backside covered in it. "Mum! Lily's playing in the mud!" Her older sister yelled. "And she's wearing that pink dress Grandma got her!" Lily and Petunia watched as their mother stormed out of the house.
"Lily Marie Evans! What do you think you are doing?" Their mother screeched as she grabbed Lily's arm and pulled her up and started to drag her toward the house. "Young lady you-"~
Ren got pulled back to the present day when Kristi nudged her. Ren looked at her. "Can we go? You know its not exactly warm out here." She said. Ren sighed and walked slowly with Kristi to the front door.
"The sooner we get this over with, the sooner we can leave." She muttered to herself and pressed the doorbell.
"You think they're home?" Kristi asked looking around at the other houses in the neighborhood. "Because I don't know about you but this neighborhood gives me the creeps. Everything's the same... It's freaky." Kristi said. They stood there for at least three minutes before Kristi sighed in irritation and started to press the button non-stop. Finally the front door was thrown open by a tall black haired woman with dark brown eyes.
"Bout time." Ren muttered so no one could hear her.
"Yes can I help you?" She asked, irritation clearly written in her voice.
"Are you Mrs. Evans?" Kristi asked before Ren could talk. Ren threw her a look and Kristi smiled sheepishly.
The one observed them closely. "Yes I am... Who are you? I don't know you." She said.
Ren smirked. "Gee 'Mum' that hurts, that you don't remember your own daughter." Ren said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
Mrs. Evans looked at Ren confused for a second before her eyes opened wide and her mouth moved up and down wordlessly. Kristi gave Mrs. Evans a funny look before clearing her throat. Mrs. Evans didn't pay her any attention though. Her eyes were transfixed on the red head in front of her. "L-Lily?" She asked.
Ren frowned, hesitant to correct her on her name now. "Yes." She finally answered.
"DAVE!" Mrs. Evans yelled. Kristi and Ren grimaced as the noise vibrated their ears.
"Oh great Daddy dearest is coming." Ren muttered to Kristi. Kristi smirked at her and Ren smirked back. "Mother are you going to let us in, or make us stand out here in the cold all day?" Ren asked irritated. Mrs. Evans looked at her and wordlessly, but hesitantly let Kristi and Ren in.
Ren looked around. The living room hadn't changed much in the last five years. Pictures of her mother, father, and sister filled the room the couch still sat in the same spot... nothing had changed. Kristi looked around the room and looked at all the pictures. When she saw none of her best friend she raised an eyebrow. She was getting ready to ask when Mrs. Evans and Mr. Evans, a tall blonde haired man, walked in the room.
"Lily?" He asked, his voice hard and hostile when he spoke her name.
Ren smirked at him. 'Bet this is a big shocker to them. Maybe this wasn't such a bad idea after all.' "Hello Daddy." She ground out the words.
"It is you." He said in disbelief.
Kristi rolled her eyes. "Well yea, we sorta all ready got that. Can we move on?" She asked.
All eyes, except Ren's, turned to her. She grinned at them. "I'm Kristi." She introduced herself.
Mr. And Mrs. Evans narrowed her eyes at her. "One of those freaks I presume?" Mrs. Evans sneered.
"Actually 'Mum' she's not. She's not a witch." Ren said her temper starting to flare up quickly.
Neither said anything to that. "Anyways I came here to get my wand and such... do you still have them?" Ren asked, wanting to get this out of the way so she could leave.
Her parents stared at her and all her mother did was point upstairs. "We didn't touch nothing in the freakish room of your."
"Well that's good to know. Like I would want your hands touching any of my old things." Ren said coldly and walked past them upstairs, Kristi following her. Kristi followed her in silence looking at the pictures that hung on the walls. As she followed Ren down the hallway she peered into a room with the name Petunia on the door. The room was freakishly clean and pink, Kristi shuddered and followed Ren inside a room.
Ren looked around her old room, everything was the same. Everything that she had left was in its same place, nothing had been touched. The clothes she had strewn across the floor was still there, they glass ornaments she had thrown and had shattered, was still scattered on the floor. Her room was still a deep red and her bed was unmade. Her black box that she used to keep all her most private and inner possessions in was unlocked and opened. Her closet was opened and all of her old clothes were still in. All of her junk and shoes were still at the bottom. The mirror that hung on her wall was shattered. Her school trunk still sat at the foot of her bed, untouched. Everything was untouched, everything was how she had left it five years ago, everything was still in the same place.
"Looks like it hasn't been cleaned in forever." Kristi commented behind her.
Ren didn't look at her, all she did was nod her head in agreement. "Its how I left it five years ago. I don't think they've ever been in here, since then." She said and hesitantly walked toward her old trunk.
Kristi looked around the room from her spot at the door. "Is that were all of your old school things are?" She asked. Ren glanced at her and she bent down in front of it.
"Yea, this was my old school trunk." She said. Kristi carefully walked toward her best friend as she opened her trunk. From all the years of being unused the hinges creaked as she bent the top back and peered inside.
All of her school books, robes, cloaks, and uniforms were still there. Everything from her Hogwarts days was there. Kristi bent down beside of Ren and looked inside. Her eyes glanced at the robes and the books and everything else.
"You had to wear uniforms?" Kristi asked.
Ren nodded. "Yup and it sucked... especially in the winter when the wind and everything would blow up your skirt." Ren told her and Kristi snorted. Ren felt asphyxiated by all the memories and emotions going through her. Each memory painful for her, making her heart wrench painfully. She sighed and forced them down and pulled out one of the books that had collected much dust over the years.
"Defense against Dark Arts." She said and flipped through it, her eyes skimming over it quickly. She handed the book to Kristi who was looking at it curiously. "Honestly you would think you should have been a witch." Ren said amused with her friends antics.
Kristi grinned and shrugged. "I studied Wiccan magic for about a year and a half with my little group of friends when I was in high school, but then my mom found out and sent me to a Catholic school for girls. She was really big on the bible and such." Kristi explained and shrugged.
Ren gave her friend an odd look. "You did magic?" She asked Kristi.
Kristi nodded as she flipped through one of Ren's old potions book. "Yup me and two others." She explained. "Didn't I just say that?" She teased.
Ren shook her head. "I never knew you did..." She trailed.
Kristi shrugged. "Guess it goes two ways huh?" She asked and smiled lightly at her friend who only nodded. "So what exactly are you taking with you?" Kristi asked sitting the book down and reaching in the trunk for something else.
Ren frowned. "I don't know... what do you think I'll need?" She asked Kristi.
Kristi stopped and looked at her. "You'll probable need to practice some spells again considering you haven't done it in five years." She said and shrugged. "So I say... take all of your books to touch up on your skills and bring your wand." Ren nodded and started to did out all her books, setting her cloak and other things aside. When Ren was doing that Kristi look at the uniforms and wondered how Ren could have fit in this.
"Ren is this YOUR uniform?" Kristi asked her.
Ren glanced at her and then at the uniform. "That was my uniform." She muttered.
Kristi gave her a shocked expression. "No offense or anything but its like ten times bigger then you." Kristi said.
Ren nodded her head and looked away from her. "Yea well I wasn't exactly small." She mumbled. Kristi seemed to understand and left the subject alone, setting aside the uniform without a second glance. Kristi continued picking through her trunk until she came upon a piece of paper.
"Lily Evans Head Girl?" She raised an eyebrow at Ren.
Ren nodded her head. "Its exactly what it says. Its like the president of a class." Ren explained and Kristi smirked.
"That seems so unlike you." She said and Ren grinned and rolled her eyes.
"I know... I look back on it now and shudder." She shuddered to emphasis her point. Kristi snorted and put down the paper and went back to looking through her trunk. Moment later she paused and looked at Ren who was holding up a not-so-shiny stick.
"Is that your wand?" Kristi asked.
Ren frowned, "Yup this is it." She said. "It's in major need of cleaning." She commented.
Kristi rolled her eyes at her. "We can clean it later. You have everything now?" She asked.
Ren double checked everything, before nodding. "Yea let's go." She said standing up and brushing off the knees of her jeans that she had been sitting on. Kristi did the same and grabbed some of Ren's book and walked toward the door. Ren followed her and before closing the door she gave her old room one last lungful look before closing the door and walking down stairs.
As they neared the bottom they heard talking and more voices then just Ren's mother and father. Kristi and Ren exchanged looks before descending the stairs and looking at the people in the room. Ren looked even more grim as she looked at her parents, and the two other people in the room. With her parents was her sister and her husband Vernon. Kristi looked at Petunia and recognized her as one of the people in the pictures.
The look on Petunia's face was mixed with shock, anger, disgust, and disbelief. Ren smirked at her sister and leaned against the wall. She looked at Vernon and noted he had gotten even fatter then before, he was fatter then she had been in Hogwarts. 'Damn that's fat.' She thought to herself.
"Lily." Petunia sneered.
"Actually Petunia it's Ren now." She said, making sure her English accent was concealed. "Ren O'Neill."
Petunia glared at her. "Why are you here freak?" She asked, taking in her younger sister appearances. "You've changed so much." She mused to herself.
"And you haven't." She said grimly twirling her wand in between her fingers, getting extreme pleasure when she saw her family's eyes widen in fear. "Now if you'll excuse I must be going." Ren said and abruptly left the house, refusing to stay there any longer with these people who would no doubt criticize her and insult her and Kristi.
Ren dumped all of her books in the back and stuck her wand in her jeans and once Kristi had gotten in had started down the road again. As the drove to their hotel room Ren tapped her fingers against the steering wheel, and Kristi looked out the window.
"When are you going to go to Hogwarts?" Kristi asked. "I mean today's the 19th and you have until the 27th to show up." Kristi said.
Ren was silent for a moment thinking this over. "We'll go to Hogwarts on the 27th."
Kristi nodded her head. "You have seven days to touch up on your magic skills." She said. "And seven days to visit all the stores in England." She pointed out. Ren grinned and looked at Kristi and got a grin back.
(October 27th- Eight days later)
"Oh god I'm never going to get used to England time... or weather again." Ren grumbled as she finished her putting her mascara and eyeliner on.
"God I know." Kristi said and she finished putting her hair back in a clip. "Ready to go?" She asked and yawned.
Ren gave her the look. "No." She said, "Kristi I can't do this." She said sitting back down on her bed.
Kristi gave Ren a look. "Oh my god, is Ren O'Neill actually saying she can't do something?" She asked. "Come on Ren... You've never backed out of anything or been afraid to do anything... No matter what the situation was." She told her friend. "And I'll be damned if your going to start now. Besides don't you want to get even with all those bitches that made your life hell?" Kristi asked.
Ren sighed. "Let's go." Kristi grinned, and got a grin in return.
"So exactly how are we getting to Hogwarts?"
(Such a good place to stop...)
Ren glanced over at her friend as she slipped into her leather jacket. She frowned slightly, she hadn't really thought about how they would get to Hogwarts. She was silent for a moment, before she smirked. "We'll floo there."
At Kristi's dumb look she sighed and shook her head. "Never mind. Just come on, you'll find out soon enough." She told her as she grabbed her suitcases and walked out the door, Kristi in tow. After a couple of minutes of riding in a cab, Ren told him to stop and paid him. The two woman got of the car and Kristi looked around.
"Ren why are we here?" Kristi asked, confused about why she chose to go to a pub called 'The Leaky Cauldron'.
Ren threw her a look and proceeded to enter the pub, Kristi once again in tow. "This is how we will get to Hogwarts." Ren explained as they walked to the fireplace, getting curious glancing form the people in robes. Kristi looked around at the people in wonder, when she realized they were in a magical place. Kristi tore her gaze away from the people and looked at Ren who held some dust in her hand.
"Ren what are you doing?" She asked.
Ren rolled her eyes. "Take some." She told her.
Kristi gave her a odd look, but took some anyways. "Now what?"
Ren sighed. "Now listen Kristi, this is very tricky procedure. If you don't do it right, you could end up anywhere, got it?" She asked her. At Kristi's nod she continued. "Now throw the dust that your holding into the fire place and as clear as possible say Dumbledore's office, and then when the flames turn green step into them and make sure you hold your things very tightly and keep your elbows tucked in." She explained.
Kristi looked at her friend as if she had finally lost her mind. "Ren honey, are you feeling ok?" She asked her.
Ren glared at her slightly. "Kristi just do it!" She snapped. "Trust me on this." She told her.
Kristi sighed and looked toward the blazing fire. "Ok here goes nothing." She mumbled. She tossed the powder into the fire and held on to her things very tightly before watching it turn green before shouting. "Dumbledore's Office!" She shouted and felt her body get swooshed away and Ren disappearing.
Ren watched Kristi disappear and prayed to whomever was listening that she made it to the headmaster's office in one piece. A couple seconds later Ren did the same thing Kristi had done before disappearing, holding her things tightly.
After what felt like forever to her, Ren finally stumbled out of the fireplace and was held up right by none other then Kristi. Ren dusted the soot off of her before looking around the room she had landed in. Nothing had changed while she was away, the moving pictures, the other ornaments were all still here. Dumbledore's office still amazed her, not that she was willing to tell anyone that.
"Ren do you know the pictures are moving?" Kristi whispered.
Ren snorted. "Kristi they're supposed to do that." Ren whispered.
"Ahh Mrs. Evans I presume? So good to see you again." The girls heard a merry voice say from behind them.
They both spun around in surprise. Kristi looked at the old man in front of them with a awed expression on her face, while Ren just stared at him. "Professor Dumbledore."
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Always & Forever
YAY, it's the weekend!!!! OK I wasn't planning on having Ren go to her families house, but then I remembered that she left all her stuff there so yea... This chapter isn't really important its mainly just a building up chapter thingy, lol. And Ren will probably only be going by Ren for a few more chapters... just to let you know that.
Chapter 5
Ren and Kristi arrived in England late into the evening. Kristi was extremely excited and was all bubbly and excited and wouldn't shut up. Ren on the other hand was nervous and filled with dread and would hardly say a word. Her stomach twisted and turned as she thought about her parents reaction when she showed up at their house to get her things. It hadn't been in her plan to go and see her family, but Kristi had pointed out that she would probably need her wand and other things. She here she was getting ready to go rent a room and prepare to visit her wonderful family.
As they drove through London Kristi was looking out the window at everything in wonder. Ren found it somewhat amusing how her friend was acting, but didn't dwell on the feeling. Nothing about England amazed her now, she didn't see how Kristi could think it was so amazing. 'Probably because she didn't live in hell here.' Ren thought bitterly. When the cab stopped din front of the hotel they had rented a room at Ren paid him and Kristi and her walked into the building to get the key to their room. All the while Kristi kept talking about everything, giving Ren a slight headache.
(The next day)
Kristi and Ren pulled up in front of a good sized two story house. Ren turned off the ignition of the car and sighed before leaning back in her seat. Her stomach was doing flip flops and she felt extremely nervous. Kristi watched Ren in silence, she knew she didn't want to this, but she wasn't going to let her back down. Ren had waited to long for and she'd be damned if she didn't do it now.
"Ren the sooner you walk in there and get your stuff the sooner you can leave." Kristi pointed out.
Ren glanced at her. "I really have no wish to see these people again." She stated dryly.
Kristi rolled her eyes. "To bad, you need your wand and other things." Kristi said opening her car door and getting out. Ren watched as Kristi walked around the car and opened her door. "Now get out." She commanded. Ren just looked at her. "If you don't get out I'm gonna pull you out." She warned her. Ren glared at her before getting out of the car. Kristi closed the door and the two stood there staring at the house in front of them.
"I really don't want to do this." Ren mumbled.
"I'm going to be there Ren, member we're in this together now." Kristi reminded her.
Ren sighed. "I know." After a couple of minutes Ren shook her hair out and smirked. "Let's go."
Kristi and Ren walked up to the white picket fence in front of the yard and unlocked the gate before walking in. Ren glanced around the yard, memories from her childhood coming back to her.
~A pudgy little girl of six with bright red hair sat on the cement steps to her front door. She watched another little girl of ten with dirty blonde hair play in the yard swinging back and forth in the wooden swing that huge from a huge oak tree in the yard. The red head got up from the steps and walked over to her sister.
"Petty, can I swing?" She asked her older sister.
The thin blonde looked at her younger sister. "No! Go away! If you swing on it, you'll probably break it!" The little girl snapped at the little girl.
The red head's eyes started to tear up. "But-"
The blonde glared at her. "Lily get away from me! What would my friends think anyways? Your covered in mud and a cow." She sneered at her little sister.
"Girls dinner!" They heard their mother call.
"But I'm not covered in mud." Lily said, ignoring her mother's call, her eyes showing confusion.
Petunia smirked at her little sister and stood up, towering over her. "Now you are." She said and pushed her to the ground, where a dark black mud was. Lily fell in the mud, getting her whole backside covered in it. "Mum! Lily's playing in the mud!" Her older sister yelled. "And she's wearing that pink dress Grandma got her!" Lily and Petunia watched as their mother stormed out of the house.
"Lily Marie Evans! What do you think you are doing?" Their mother screeched as she grabbed Lily's arm and pulled her up and started to drag her toward the house. "Young lady you-"~
Ren got pulled back to the present day when Kristi nudged her. Ren looked at her. "Can we go? You know its not exactly warm out here." She said. Ren sighed and walked slowly with Kristi to the front door.
"The sooner we get this over with, the sooner we can leave." She muttered to herself and pressed the doorbell.
"You think they're home?" Kristi asked looking around at the other houses in the neighborhood. "Because I don't know about you but this neighborhood gives me the creeps. Everything's the same... It's freaky." Kristi said. They stood there for at least three minutes before Kristi sighed in irritation and started to press the button non-stop. Finally the front door was thrown open by a tall black haired woman with dark brown eyes.
"Bout time." Ren muttered so no one could hear her.
"Yes can I help you?" She asked, irritation clearly written in her voice.
"Are you Mrs. Evans?" Kristi asked before Ren could talk. Ren threw her a look and Kristi smiled sheepishly.
The one observed them closely. "Yes I am... Who are you? I don't know you." She said.
Ren smirked. "Gee 'Mum' that hurts, that you don't remember your own daughter." Ren said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
Mrs. Evans looked at Ren confused for a second before her eyes opened wide and her mouth moved up and down wordlessly. Kristi gave Mrs. Evans a funny look before clearing her throat. Mrs. Evans didn't pay her any attention though. Her eyes were transfixed on the red head in front of her. "L-Lily?" She asked.
Ren frowned, hesitant to correct her on her name now. "Yes." She finally answered.
"DAVE!" Mrs. Evans yelled. Kristi and Ren grimaced as the noise vibrated their ears.
"Oh great Daddy dearest is coming." Ren muttered to Kristi. Kristi smirked at her and Ren smirked back. "Mother are you going to let us in, or make us stand out here in the cold all day?" Ren asked irritated. Mrs. Evans looked at her and wordlessly, but hesitantly let Kristi and Ren in.
Ren looked around. The living room hadn't changed much in the last five years. Pictures of her mother, father, and sister filled the room the couch still sat in the same spot... nothing had changed. Kristi looked around the room and looked at all the pictures. When she saw none of her best friend she raised an eyebrow. She was getting ready to ask when Mrs. Evans and Mr. Evans, a tall blonde haired man, walked in the room.
"Lily?" He asked, his voice hard and hostile when he spoke her name.
Ren smirked at him. 'Bet this is a big shocker to them. Maybe this wasn't such a bad idea after all.' "Hello Daddy." She ground out the words.
"It is you." He said in disbelief.
Kristi rolled her eyes. "Well yea, we sorta all ready got that. Can we move on?" She asked.
All eyes, except Ren's, turned to her. She grinned at them. "I'm Kristi." She introduced herself.
Mr. And Mrs. Evans narrowed her eyes at her. "One of those freaks I presume?" Mrs. Evans sneered.
"Actually 'Mum' she's not. She's not a witch." Ren said her temper starting to flare up quickly.
Neither said anything to that. "Anyways I came here to get my wand and such... do you still have them?" Ren asked, wanting to get this out of the way so she could leave.
Her parents stared at her and all her mother did was point upstairs. "We didn't touch nothing in the freakish room of your."
"Well that's good to know. Like I would want your hands touching any of my old things." Ren said coldly and walked past them upstairs, Kristi following her. Kristi followed her in silence looking at the pictures that hung on the walls. As she followed Ren down the hallway she peered into a room with the name Petunia on the door. The room was freakishly clean and pink, Kristi shuddered and followed Ren inside a room.
Ren looked around her old room, everything was the same. Everything that she had left was in its same place, nothing had been touched. The clothes she had strewn across the floor was still there, they glass ornaments she had thrown and had shattered, was still scattered on the floor. Her room was still a deep red and her bed was unmade. Her black box that she used to keep all her most private and inner possessions in was unlocked and opened. Her closet was opened and all of her old clothes were still in. All of her junk and shoes were still at the bottom. The mirror that hung on her wall was shattered. Her school trunk still sat at the foot of her bed, untouched. Everything was untouched, everything was how she had left it five years ago, everything was still in the same place.
"Looks like it hasn't been cleaned in forever." Kristi commented behind her.
Ren didn't look at her, all she did was nod her head in agreement. "Its how I left it five years ago. I don't think they've ever been in here, since then." She said and hesitantly walked toward her old trunk.
Kristi looked around the room from her spot at the door. "Is that were all of your old school things are?" She asked. Ren glanced at her and she bent down in front of it.
"Yea, this was my old school trunk." She said. Kristi carefully walked toward her best friend as she opened her trunk. From all the years of being unused the hinges creaked as she bent the top back and peered inside.
All of her school books, robes, cloaks, and uniforms were still there. Everything from her Hogwarts days was there. Kristi bent down beside of Ren and looked inside. Her eyes glanced at the robes and the books and everything else.
"You had to wear uniforms?" Kristi asked.
Ren nodded. "Yup and it sucked... especially in the winter when the wind and everything would blow up your skirt." Ren told her and Kristi snorted. Ren felt asphyxiated by all the memories and emotions going through her. Each memory painful for her, making her heart wrench painfully. She sighed and forced them down and pulled out one of the books that had collected much dust over the years.
"Defense against Dark Arts." She said and flipped through it, her eyes skimming over it quickly. She handed the book to Kristi who was looking at it curiously. "Honestly you would think you should have been a witch." Ren said amused with her friends antics.
Kristi grinned and shrugged. "I studied Wiccan magic for about a year and a half with my little group of friends when I was in high school, but then my mom found out and sent me to a Catholic school for girls. She was really big on the bible and such." Kristi explained and shrugged.
Ren gave her friend an odd look. "You did magic?" She asked Kristi.
Kristi nodded as she flipped through one of Ren's old potions book. "Yup me and two others." She explained. "Didn't I just say that?" She teased.
Ren shook her head. "I never knew you did..." She trailed.
Kristi shrugged. "Guess it goes two ways huh?" She asked and smiled lightly at her friend who only nodded. "So what exactly are you taking with you?" Kristi asked sitting the book down and reaching in the trunk for something else.
Ren frowned. "I don't know... what do you think I'll need?" She asked Kristi.
Kristi stopped and looked at her. "You'll probable need to practice some spells again considering you haven't done it in five years." She said and shrugged. "So I say... take all of your books to touch up on your skills and bring your wand." Ren nodded and started to did out all her books, setting her cloak and other things aside. When Ren was doing that Kristi look at the uniforms and wondered how Ren could have fit in this.
"Ren is this YOUR uniform?" Kristi asked her.
Ren glanced at her and then at the uniform. "That was my uniform." She muttered.
Kristi gave her a shocked expression. "No offense or anything but its like ten times bigger then you." Kristi said.
Ren nodded her head and looked away from her. "Yea well I wasn't exactly small." She mumbled. Kristi seemed to understand and left the subject alone, setting aside the uniform without a second glance. Kristi continued picking through her trunk until she came upon a piece of paper.
"Lily Evans Head Girl?" She raised an eyebrow at Ren.
Ren nodded her head. "Its exactly what it says. Its like the president of a class." Ren explained and Kristi smirked.
"That seems so unlike you." She said and Ren grinned and rolled her eyes.
"I know... I look back on it now and shudder." She shuddered to emphasis her point. Kristi snorted and put down the paper and went back to looking through her trunk. Moment later she paused and looked at Ren who was holding up a not-so-shiny stick.
"Is that your wand?" Kristi asked.
Ren frowned, "Yup this is it." She said. "It's in major need of cleaning." She commented.
Kristi rolled her eyes at her. "We can clean it later. You have everything now?" She asked.
Ren double checked everything, before nodding. "Yea let's go." She said standing up and brushing off the knees of her jeans that she had been sitting on. Kristi did the same and grabbed some of Ren's book and walked toward the door. Ren followed her and before closing the door she gave her old room one last lungful look before closing the door and walking down stairs.
As they neared the bottom they heard talking and more voices then just Ren's mother and father. Kristi and Ren exchanged looks before descending the stairs and looking at the people in the room. Ren looked even more grim as she looked at her parents, and the two other people in the room. With her parents was her sister and her husband Vernon. Kristi looked at Petunia and recognized her as one of the people in the pictures.
The look on Petunia's face was mixed with shock, anger, disgust, and disbelief. Ren smirked at her sister and leaned against the wall. She looked at Vernon and noted he had gotten even fatter then before, he was fatter then she had been in Hogwarts. 'Damn that's fat.' She thought to herself.
"Lily." Petunia sneered.
"Actually Petunia it's Ren now." She said, making sure her English accent was concealed. "Ren O'Neill."
Petunia glared at her. "Why are you here freak?" She asked, taking in her younger sister appearances. "You've changed so much." She mused to herself.
"And you haven't." She said grimly twirling her wand in between her fingers, getting extreme pleasure when she saw her family's eyes widen in fear. "Now if you'll excuse I must be going." Ren said and abruptly left the house, refusing to stay there any longer with these people who would no doubt criticize her and insult her and Kristi.
Ren dumped all of her books in the back and stuck her wand in her jeans and once Kristi had gotten in had started down the road again. As the drove to their hotel room Ren tapped her fingers against the steering wheel, and Kristi looked out the window.
"When are you going to go to Hogwarts?" Kristi asked. "I mean today's the 19th and you have until the 27th to show up." Kristi said.
Ren was silent for a moment thinking this over. "We'll go to Hogwarts on the 27th."
Kristi nodded her head. "You have seven days to touch up on your magic skills." She said. "And seven days to visit all the stores in England." She pointed out. Ren grinned and looked at Kristi and got a grin back.
(October 27th- Eight days later)
"Oh god I'm never going to get used to England time... or weather again." Ren grumbled as she finished her putting her mascara and eyeliner on.
"God I know." Kristi said and she finished putting her hair back in a clip. "Ready to go?" She asked and yawned.
Ren gave her the look. "No." She said, "Kristi I can't do this." She said sitting back down on her bed.
Kristi gave Ren a look. "Oh my god, is Ren O'Neill actually saying she can't do something?" She asked. "Come on Ren... You've never backed out of anything or been afraid to do anything... No matter what the situation was." She told her friend. "And I'll be damned if your going to start now. Besides don't you want to get even with all those bitches that made your life hell?" Kristi asked.
Ren sighed. "Let's go." Kristi grinned, and got a grin in return.
"So exactly how are we getting to Hogwarts?"
(Such a good place to stop...)
Ren glanced over at her friend as she slipped into her leather jacket. She frowned slightly, she hadn't really thought about how they would get to Hogwarts. She was silent for a moment, before she smirked. "We'll floo there."
At Kristi's dumb look she sighed and shook her head. "Never mind. Just come on, you'll find out soon enough." She told her as she grabbed her suitcases and walked out the door, Kristi in tow. After a couple of minutes of riding in a cab, Ren told him to stop and paid him. The two woman got of the car and Kristi looked around.
"Ren why are we here?" Kristi asked, confused about why she chose to go to a pub called 'The Leaky Cauldron'.
Ren threw her a look and proceeded to enter the pub, Kristi once again in tow. "This is how we will get to Hogwarts." Ren explained as they walked to the fireplace, getting curious glancing form the people in robes. Kristi looked around at the people in wonder, when she realized they were in a magical place. Kristi tore her gaze away from the people and looked at Ren who held some dust in her hand.
"Ren what are you doing?" She asked.
Ren rolled her eyes. "Take some." She told her.
Kristi gave her a odd look, but took some anyways. "Now what?"
Ren sighed. "Now listen Kristi, this is very tricky procedure. If you don't do it right, you could end up anywhere, got it?" She asked her. At Kristi's nod she continued. "Now throw the dust that your holding into the fire place and as clear as possible say Dumbledore's office, and then when the flames turn green step into them and make sure you hold your things very tightly and keep your elbows tucked in." She explained.
Kristi looked at her friend as if she had finally lost her mind. "Ren honey, are you feeling ok?" She asked her.
Ren glared at her slightly. "Kristi just do it!" She snapped. "Trust me on this." She told her.
Kristi sighed and looked toward the blazing fire. "Ok here goes nothing." She mumbled. She tossed the powder into the fire and held on to her things very tightly before watching it turn green before shouting. "Dumbledore's Office!" She shouted and felt her body get swooshed away and Ren disappearing.
Ren watched Kristi disappear and prayed to whomever was listening that she made it to the headmaster's office in one piece. A couple seconds later Ren did the same thing Kristi had done before disappearing, holding her things tightly.
After what felt like forever to her, Ren finally stumbled out of the fireplace and was held up right by none other then Kristi. Ren dusted the soot off of her before looking around the room she had landed in. Nothing had changed while she was away, the moving pictures, the other ornaments were all still here. Dumbledore's office still amazed her, not that she was willing to tell anyone that.
"Ren do you know the pictures are moving?" Kristi whispered.
Ren snorted. "Kristi they're supposed to do that." Ren whispered.
"Ahh Mrs. Evans I presume? So good to see you again." The girls heard a merry voice say from behind them.
They both spun around in surprise. Kristi looked at the old man in front of them with a awed expression on her face, while Ren just stared at him. "Professor Dumbledore."
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