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Chapter Seventeen
Esmerelda was happy to have a friend but her and Lily didn't have much time to get to know each other because just two days later it was the Christmas holidays. Esmerelda was so excited she was up at five and waited impatiently to be allowed to go home.
"We leave at nine" Miss Bat said and Esmie sighed. She still had an hour. The time seemed to only drag more, even when Lily arrived and she spoke to the blonde Esmerelda felt like it was taking years. Finally, they were allowed to go home and Esmerelda said goodbye to Lily and took of, shaking with anticipation.
She flew for around ten minutes before the worry set in. What if things had changed? What if Ethel and Sybil wee different, what if they looked different than she remembered and she didn't recognise them. It had been so many months a feeling of dread crept over the young girl as she thought about the possibilities.
She knew it was silly. She had seen her sisters on mirror chats, of course she would recognise them and maybe they would have a new interest or something but they could tell her about it, she didn't know why she was so worried, she was supposed to be excited.
Esmerelda knew though she just naturally worried about everything. Her grandmother use to joke she was worst than her and Grandma Jo was the biggest worry wart Esmerelda knew. She knew she did have a tendency to worry to much but she just loved her sisters so much, she didn't want to miss something important in their lives.
She was so busy frowning in worry she almost flew past her house. It felt weird returning, like she didn't quite belong there anymore, and she landed gently on the tarmac, grabbing her broomstick in her right hand and then pausing just to look at it.
The Hallow mansion was extraordinary to say the least. It was the type of picturesque building that was shown in films and TV shows. It was a large seven story house with more rooms than Esmerelda could count. It was painted in an off white colour and although it was clearly an old house it had charm to it. Surrounding it was a small walkway leading to the mansion and green trees and bushes that had flowers on it. It looked like a dream come true but Esmerelda knew the truth. It made her sad to think such a beautiful place was so dark and cold inside, and was full of loneliness and bad memories, it should hold a lot of love but it just didn't.
Esmerelda gulped, memories flooding back to her as she looked at the place her and her younger sisters lived, of lonely nights when they were left along with microwaved food and nothing to do but talk sadly. She shook her head, tying to forget her thoughts as she went to the door and rang the doorbell.
After a few minutes, a middle aged man in a suit answered and when he saw who it was he bowed.
"Miss Hallow, how nice it is to see you" he told her and Esmerelda smiled slightly. Their butler Sebastian was actually not that bad, he was always pleasant to them.
"Hi Sebastian" Esmerelda told him as she stepped into the house. He took the young girl's coat and she smiled slightly.
"I think your sisters are upstairs, your parents are working" he told Esmerelda and she refrained from rolling her eyes. She would have being more surprised if they were there to greet her from school.
"Thank you" Esmerelda said as she looked around trying to get used to the surroundings again. A large hall with marble floors and a large staircase. She started climbing them looking around as she did so.
Her heart started beating like mad and her head started hurting, her mouth also become dry from nerves. She kept climbing full of anxiety until she arrived on the landing and she heard voices coming from Sybil's room. She was thankful she recognised them as her sister's straight away. It was only as she got closer she realised they were angry.
"No you have had it longer, give it to me" she heard Sybil say
"No you have, give it to me!" Ethel then said equally as frustrated.
Esmerelda had to smile to herself. Her sisters fighting was normal, it was them all over. She had missed their silly squabbles and she pushed open the door beaming, feeling like she had never been away.
Caught up in their fight they didn't notice their sister as they fought over a toy. Esmerelda leaned against the door and watched them amused for a few minutes before she decided to alert them to her presence.
"Oh honestly, I come home and you two are already fighting, doesn't seem like much has changed" she said beaming as she saw their reaction.
They both dropped the toy they were holding before jumping up and running up to their sister at full speed. She ended up being toppled over and fell onto of the bean bag in Sybil's room. She chuckled, as she felt herself trapped by the weight of the two blondes on top of her.
"Are you okay? Sorry Esmie" Ethel said standing up and giving her sister room to breath. Sybil did the same thing as she offered her hand and helped her sister up.
"Yes that was funny" Esmerelda told them kissing their heads happily "Oh I missed you two so much" Esmerelda said as she opened her arms again and they both hugged her.
"How is your arm?" Sybil asked, remembering her sister's injury.
"Healed" Esmerelda said, looking down at her castless arm happily "I would have come even with the cast on though I had to see you two again" Esmerelda told them with a smile.
The girls smiled at her before Esmerelda stroked their hair and spoke softly, in a tone she saved just for them.
"What have you two being up to today?" Esmerelda asked them and they both fell silent, sadly.
"Nothing, we are bored stiff, we have played with everything and used everything" Sybil replied.
Esmerelda looked at them and smiled then as she thought of something they used to do when they were younger but obviously hadn't done in a while as she was away at school.
"Why don't we put one of our CDS on?" Esmerelda asked remembering how they used to put a musical CD on and dance and sing along. It was one of their more risky forms of entertainment as their parents hated them making noise, but it was one of their favourites.
"We got caught last time, we are scared to do it now" Ethel told her and Esmerelda smirked as she knew the perfect song they could dance too. She rushed to the CDS Sybil had and put one in the player.
"YES!" Ethel shouted as she heard what song it was. One of their favourites from Matilda.
"I LOVE THIS SONG" Sybil shouted as she started dancing
Esmerelda smirked knowing that already, she knew these two listened endlessly to this CD, even if they wouldn't always risk dancing to it.
"Well you do have to be naughty at times" Esmerelda told them as the three of them started dancing to the song.
Before long the three girls were sat in the room making their own music video to the song. They had rehearsed it so much they did it pretty much perfectly, and giggled as they sang and danced and performed for no-one, as if they were the girl on stage.
Esmerelda had not laughed so long in months, she felt her stomach hurt from all the laughing she had done, she looked at her sisters and they laughed more, Esmerelda was so glad to be home, she had missed her sisters more than she realised.
"Please don't make me laugh anymore, I think I will wet myself" Sybil said her laughing making her need the toilet. She clutched her stomach as she tried to stop laughing but thought she physically couldn't stop.
"Ethel stop" Esmerelda said as the middle blonde only laughed more, clutching her stomach that was very painful from so much laughing. They hadn't laughed in so long like this it felt amazing and none of them wanted it to end.
The girls were having so much fun and laughing so much they didn't hear the front door slam or any other sounds alerting to someone else present in the house. Sybil tried to stop laughing, not wanting to have an accident but she just couldn't. Her sisters were not stopping either and they didn't know how much longer they would laugh before they finally were able to stop. Suddenly out of nowhere, the door slammed open and Mr and Mrs Hallow appeared in the doorway looking at their daughters with angry eyes.
"What on earth is going on?" Ursula Hallow asked irritated. The three girls stopped laughing instantly and stopped to look at them, shocked to see them home early.