Chapter- 17

Kyara, Maddie, and I sat in complete silence watching Hermione, Harry and Ron, who now had his feet on the ground, fight the Death Eaters. They were all doing extremely well until Hermione got shot. Hermione's footing got off a little and a nimble Death Eater took that chance to fly off a strong stupefy spell. I knew I shouldn't yell out so I flinched instead, terribly worried about my friend.

"We have to do something," I whispered as quiet as possible.

"Yes, but what?" Kyara asked.

Maddie' s eyes shone, "I have an idea, Kyara do you mind being a distraction?"

"I guess not." Kyara replied.

"Okay, you're going to run out in front of the Death Eaters, yelling 'look at me, look at me' hopefully distraction them all. Then Lisa and I will run out and help finish them off!"

"Sounds good!" Kyara said happily, even though she was about to put her life in danger.

"Let's go."

"HEY LOSERS, LOOK AT ME! OVER HERE, SHOOT AT ME!" screamed Kyara.

Maddie' s plan worked perfectly. The Death Eaters were clearly stunned and Harry, Ron, Maddie and I took our chance and ran off the rest of the them into the shadows. Soon as they were gone, I ran over to Hermione.

"Hermione, are you okay?"

"Yes, I'm fine. Who's plan was that, that was brilliant!"

"It was Maddie' s." Kyara said.

"Oh, and Kyara you were brilliant too! That was a very interesting distraction!" Harry said. Ron nodded in agreement.

"Yeah Kyara, you were great!" I said going over to hug her but she stopped me.

"No wait!" said Kyara holding her hands out in a stopping gesture.

"What?" I asked.

Clearly, Kyara could tell I was hurt.

"Kyara doesn't do hugs." Maddie said.

"Oh," I said, I felt so stupid!

"Do you guys want to sleep-over tonight? We need a chance to celebrate our victory!" Kyara said trying to even out the tense atmosphere.

"Sure!" Maddie said brightly. I just nodded as an indication of agreement.

"Hermione you can come too!"

"No, I'm fine. Harry, Ron and I need to contact Dumbledore and tell him about tonight's attacks."

With that, Maddie, Kyara and I walked back through my house and into Kyara' s apartment.

Sunlight filled the room quickly the next morning. Maybe it was happy to be able to shine without fear of the Death Eaters. For the first time ever, I was the first awake. Sleep didn't come easily to me last night, or this morning so I decided to go outside and take a walk around the different apartments. I noticed someone new was moving into the apartment beside mine. Was it too early to go and say hi? Glancing down at my watch, I saw it was still seven thirty in the morning. Maybe I should wait until later this afternoon. Still, I walked past the house hoping to see who could be the new residents. No one was outside quite yet, they were probably all sleeping on the ground since their beds are still shipping here. That's what my mother and I had to do too.

Nothing was too interesting up here on the second floor so I went to venture down below. Not much was different down there either, not that I was really surprised. In Tallahassee a lot of the house look exactly the same. Walking on the sidewalk, I recalled that the place I am standing now was the exact place I ran into Kyara. Sometimes I think what my life would be like if I didn't turn this corner. Kyara would of never been my friend, nor would Maddie. It's strange how the simplest things could alter your whole entire life. Speaking of strange, who was that standing right in front of me with a pure black cloak? If only I could of noticed him before, because now, it was too late to run back.

A/N: ooooo cliff hanger! Don't hate me for it! I really did take into consideration of what you all said I should do in the poll, hint hint. I hope you liked this chapter, I liked writing the part where Kyara was the distraction. That was fun! Just to let you know the whole sceme for my story, it's going to be really long. It's already longer than Backwards (my other story)! Please review!