The Girl Everybody Forgot

By Raekitty13

Disclaimer: I am the one and only Fan Fiction Author, Raekitty13. Please, no flattery, I assure you, I am not J. K. Rowling using a random pen name. Believe me, have you not read my fan fics?

Author's Notes: Hey guys. I think I'm really starting to bond with this story. It had a really slow start but I think it's getting better. I can't wait until later, when we can get the romance started! I mean, who doesn't love fluff? Anyway, story notes of importance:

Again, bold lettering, if not an author's note, is "Cat Speak".

Thank Yous: Audra Kaiba, and Luna32. Thank you ever so much guys! You're the best of the best!

Chapter Three- The Oh-So-Very Important Post

"I don't believe this." I said looking at the owl beside me. Tied to its leg was a letter, one that had the name Cali on it. It read, 'Miss Cali. Room 13 in the Pine Forest Orphanage.'

The writing was in green ink. It looked so fancy, so professional yet so surreal. Just reaching for the letter made me feel weird.

"This is a really cruel joke." I muttered. The information on the front was so strangely correct that it was creepy.

"What?" Alley looked really confused.

"Guys, there's something I have to tell you." I said.

All eight of the girls sat down around my feet. I sat down with them.

"Yesterday, I was talking to Blaze-"

"It was Blaze!" Jasmine interrupted happily.

"Yes…" I had stayed outside long after Blaze was taken. I had cried my eyes out. To me he was the last bit of my family that I had left, my old family, the one I longed to be reconnected with.

When I had come back in I hadn't said a word. I was silent and didn't eat my dinner. Yet no one seemed to notice. No one but Kelsey, but she said nothing, just watched me.

Last night I tried to think of happy thoughts. I made myself dream of my family sending me a letter. In it, they explained how my baby brother, mother and father had left me. How they were still alive and wanted me to come home now.

But like always the dream shifted. I was left in the clutches of the dark all over again. I managed to lose all memories again and again and again.

But they had a right to know. And they had to know before I opened the hoax letter.

"It was Blaze."

"Did he tell you something of importance?" Jen asked.

"Yeah." I said untying the letter from the Owl's leg. Surprisingly it didn't bite me like I had been expecting.

The owl had just shown up at the window around eight-o'clock, the time all of the girls in the dorm are awake by. It was scratching at the window and at first I didn't know what it was. Surprise! It was an owl carrying something tied to its leg. A phony, big joke kind of letter. My question was how the person pulling the prank managed to tame the owl…

"Well, what did he tell you?" Jasmine demanded.

"Something about your parents?" Haley asked hopefully.

"No." I replied. "He told me my birthday. Today is my birthday, and I'm eleven years old today."

"Wow! Lucky!" Yasmine said. "You know you're birthday!"

"Maybe that's from your parents!" Alley shouted happily.

"Maybe." I said, refusing to get my hopes up. "But Blaze also said something else."

"He did?"

"What?"

Yasmine and Jasmine asked at the same time. I smiled despite myself. Their excitement was catching!

"He said that if I wanted answers to my questions, I had to take an important letter coming to me in the post."

"He said something important was coming to you in the post today?" Alley asked.

"Yeah." I said. Holding up the letter I added, "And then today I wake up to this owl outside our window, this letter tied to its leg."

The girls just stared at me.

"You're a witch." Kelsey said quietly.

"Say what?" I asked taken a back. Did she just call me a witch?

"You can perform magic. I saw you yesterday. After that man took Blaze, you sent frogs after him. You can do magic, you witch." Kelsey accused.

I just stared at her. "Y-you're insane."

"No I'm not. You can talk to cats and control frogs. You're a witch."

"I am not!" I said.

"Then open the letter and read it to us." She taunted.

"But it's my letter."

"Does it not contain information important to everybody else here. Don't you owe your past to everyone here?"

I nodded looking down at the letter. On the back it had an odd seal on it. There was a coat of arms divided into four pieces. On the upper left hand corner was a picture of a golden lion on a red background. On the lower left hand side was a badger on a yellow backdrop. Across from that was a raven on a blue as dark as the evening sky. Above the raven and across from the lion was a snake curled up on a dark green background. In the center of the crest was a capital H. Just above the coat of arms was one odd word, Hogwarts.

Opening the letter I was afraid of what I would see. I did owe this to the girls. I did want the answers to my questions and I was NOT a witch.

Looking at the letter I gulped. The letter was written on the same heavy parchment and in the same curly green ink. Well, here goes:

"Dear Miss Cali, Speaker of the Cats: we are pleased to inform you that you haven been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment."

"I told you! She's a witch!" Kelsey shouted.

For some reason she seemed delighted rather than scared.

"There's more! There has to be!" Yasmine said.

Jasmine nodded. "There's another piece of parchment."

"Shhh! Let her continue! I think there's more on the paper she's looking at." Haley said.

I nodded and continued. "Term begins on September first. We await your owl by no later than August fourteenth. Yours sincerely, Minerva McGonagall, Deputy Headmistress."

"What are you waiting for?" Jen said. "Blaze said if you want answers then you need to take the post seriously today!"

"Yeah, but this? This is crazy!" I said.

At that the owl that still hadn't left bit my finger.

"What are you waiting for Cat Speaker?" It asked speaking, to my surprise, in Cat Speak.

"I didn't realize owls could speak Cat!" I replied.

"Don't be surprised. I am an Owl Post owl, I'm very intelligent and fluent in many animal languages."

"What? Why? How?"

"Do not insult my intelligence by asking how." The owl snapped. "Why, because how else would I be able to find my way around so well?"

"I'm sorry." I replied.

"Um, Cali… Are you talking to the owl now, too?" Alley demanded.

"…Yeah…" I replied sheepishly.

"What are you waiting for? Hurry up and answer. I don't have much time to get back!" The owl responded.

"I don't know…"

There were plenty of objections to that both in English and Cat Speak. All at the same time too. I was kind of out numbered. But I still didn't know… how was I supposed to get these supplies by September First? I didn't have money and I had no clue where to get these things. Plus, how was I to get there?

"Simply put all of your questions on paper when you reply." The owl remarked as if reading my thoughts.

"What about the orphanage mistress?" I asked no one in particular.

"Don't tell her about it yet." Jen suggested.

"Let the Deputy Headmistress deal with it." Jasmine said.

"Make sure to mention it in your letter." The owl said.

I nodded. Blaze wanted me to figure out my past. This was the only lead I had. My parents might have been magical beings too! Maybe this wasn't such a bad idea. I was beginning to wish it wasn't a joke. If it was it was pretty cruel at this rate.

"Girls! Breakfast!" Called the cafeteria lady.

Everybody but me left. I was going to write my letter. I was going to take this seriously like Blaze wanted. I was going to learn of my past while paving my future at the same time.

Author's Notes: The end of Chapter Three and now on to Chapter Four… are you excited? Are you bored? What does my story need? Have any ideas of what's going to happen next? What ever it is you have to say, I wanna hear it! So please review!!!