in London there was a strange nabor hood that almost always with ridden with crimes and gang fights so the nabors would always fight each other you could hear bickering from one street to the next but there was one thing and one thing only that they all agreed about and that was nosy nabors who loved to talke shit about their friends and the people around them. surprisingly the community was pretty good on weekends Mr Giant would always bring out his barbecue on Saturday eventually it because BBQsaturday
in the nabor hood there was this one house that wasn't like the rest, the people in the house would cause screams and terror for the workers at McDonald's oh yes this house was the Duckling family household.
hi I'm cornelia Duckling and my story begins a week ago on my 11th birthday I had just walked back home from school and my family were sat at the dinner table one thing you should know about my family is that everyone of us has a special talent that their really good at for example you have my mom who a lawyer so it's really hard for my dad to pray her away from her work it's even harder for me to have a normal conversation without it turning into a debate!
like one time I was walking our family dog river to the dog park because he'd been inside all day and when I came back she was there waiting for me I stepped into the kitchen " cornelia"! her mother spat " why didn't you do the dishes? I told you to do them an hour ago" I froze because I swear on my favourite book characters she didn't tell me to do the dishes now
now cornelia had two thoughts roaming around her head one, she could just lie and let her mother win and do the dishes
and two which was " lady you have seven children living in this house, SEVEN!! you couldn't ask one of them to do it when I was gone?
in the end after a lot of arguing I bid the stupid dishes I can't win against her she makes everything into a competition but my dad on the other hand was scraping his carrots onto my sisters plate, I'm pretty sure my father is an orphan because we have never seen his part of the family despite this he is the kindest person I know he stays at home most of the time and finds time to hang out with me and my brother's and sisters
more about my sisters they are like the complete the opposite of me not just appearance wise but hoppy too my older sister Elizabeth is currently working for a model agency she has the best fashion taste out of the hole family , she once saw me in my green coat and thought I was going to a school play because apparently I looked ridiculous? I'd say the only thing we remotely have in common is that we both have freckles and that we like the same football players I like him because I thenk he's cool but Elizabeth likes him because according to her he's hot and has a six and after some research I can conform he is indeed ripped
my sister Sandra is the artist in the family well more percificaly hes a makeup artist she has long golden hair and she, works at a beauty shop I did try to volunteer once but it didn't really work out for me because when I was doing a customer's makeup she came out looking like Mr tumble I not only got shouted at by my own sister and the customer but all the arguments were causing a commotion and I was asked to leave the store, on the bright side it wasn't a complete waste of my time I learned to but on eye shadow
my sister Diana is an author which means she writes books and poems I don't really talke to her that much cornelia though that should be my new years revolution as cornelia looked across the table he saw her three blonde sisters and realised how different we are my hair is black with dead-end on my piggytales whilst my sisters had healthy flowy hair I had bags under my peal blue eyes and they had clear skin my sisters had big hips and chest but I was very slim and my chest was like the back of a skate board flat I did really admire my sister because they somehow all look good waking up in the morning
as for my brother's who keeps taking my food you have jack your stereo typical jock the etheric on of the family cornelia hat'ed when she had to play games with her brother especially FOOTBOLL!! every time cornelia played that game she would come out with messy hair bruises all over her legs and a nosebleed so let's just say cornelia try's to avoid jack by all means possible
then there's the person I hate most in this house Simon he's well ugh cornelia though for a moment at the table he's a nerd,geek,smart ass he's weirdly clever for his age but he's just so annoying when cornelia tried to play with her lego set he came to her and said they were for babies
no they aren't cornelia snapped back yes they are it is literally written on the packaging maybe if you actually read the stuff you play with you wouldn't be such a dumass he shouted
cornelia got up an pounced on him kicking and clawing at any where she could get her hands on Simon pulled her hair and started to bit her arm till it started bleeding. cornelia looked at her plate she was almost done eating the sounds of her family chatting broke her out of her trance she looked around until she saw Simon and remember what she was thinking now days they try to stay away from each other to not cause another fist fight
and my last brother is Charlie he's nice but really quiet I hardly even know he's there half of the time. I finished my plate and put it in the sink I then went to my room up stairs I flopped on my bed and took off my headphones cornelia sat up and pulled something out of her bag it was a birthday cupcake that you could buy at tescos she took one out of the box and put a lighted candle on it the room was quite until she quietly hummed happy birthday to me , happy birthday to me it's my birthday it's my birthday I'm eleven to days she blow out the candle
suddenly the lights in cornelias room flash on and off, on and off until the light bulb busted feeling sad and and tired cornelia eat her birthday cake and went to bed
it was midnight when I heared tapping on my windows at first cornelia though she was dreaming it but as the night growed colder the or she could hear the tapping she got up from her bed and went over the tapping stopped she found a letter? address to her cornelia rubbed her eyes snapping the sleepiness away the letter had a H on it without a second thought cornelia teared the paper apart leaving the papers to drop to the ground for her to tidy up tomorrow Jack is probably messing with me again cornilia went back asleep and dreamed of her childhood she once had a crush on this boy who would always play with her at break in school but cornelia didn't know how to tell him so she watched love movies to understand it one day she lifted a love letter in his bag three weeks letter she got a letter from him cornelia was over the moon and ran to school but when she got there she found out that her own brother jack made the letter as a joke to his friends and that the boy she like moved away
in the morning cornelia went to school she was waiting for the doors to open she spotted her friends and went over hi guys cornelia said
hi cornelia both Sam and Jim said
Jim spoke up so I heard it was your birthday yesterday?
yes it was really boring. cornelia confessed it took me 10 hole minutes to find a candle with the number eleven
both Jim and Sam looked confused well did your parents give you a present? Sam ask
Well... ugh... kinda no cornelia whispered to her self but in their defense they're really busy with work and I didn't want to bother them cornelia was looking down at her shoes she was smiling but she wasn't happy.
that's sad Jim said whilst laughing
no what's sad is that mop you call your hairline! it's looks like a broken carrot
me and Jim started to hight until Sam shouted at us to stop
sorry Jim cornelia said lying through her Teeth
Jim didn't say anything until Sam elbowed him aw that hurt he cryed fine I'm sorry too. but your parents should remember your birthday
cornelia and Sam was a little surprised that was what he was so upset about not the fact that cornelia made fun of his hair
let's go to class cornelia said heading to the door
cornelia was writing in English class when she heared something weird hey nick do you want a nut? cornelia looked around but every one was doing they're work but she keeps hearing voices in her head?she turned her head to the window where she saw a bird and a squerl on a tree branch thenks the bird said happily, her eyes went wide did she really just hear a bird talk? she slamed her head on the table I must be going crazy
no cornelia slapted her cheek focused she told her self not care that the kids on the other table looked at her like she had lice in her hair hours later she stopped hearing the voices outside she was managing to do her work but something wasn't right? she didn't feel like herself unknowingly she looked out the door where a bunch of students covered the door she heared screaming like her legs had a mind of there own the walked over pushing people out of the way to see what the fuss was about
a small tornado swayed in the class room catching books and the teachers glaces in its windy arms cornelia watch as it danced for some weird reason she wasn't scared but then the feeling in her gut happened again she ran passed the people shrouded her into the girls bathroom cornelia splashed some water on her face and looked in the mirror at her reflection What is wrong with me? failing to her knees cornelia cried
something fluffy was fluttering down to her from the corner of her eyes cornelia saw it was some sort of feather? what's that she asked herself slap!! something landed on her face she grabbed it
it was another letter but this time it was diffrent instead of saying my home address the following said the bathroom? cornelia skimmed through the letter it said she'd been accepted to a place called hogworts a school for magic
what rubbish cornelia scoffed but she looked back at the H at the front hogworts huh why does that name sound so familiar? what ever cornelia had a really long day and honestly all she wanted now was to go home she walked out of the girls bathroom throwing the letter away