(A/N): Hey Guys! Last chapter of first year, yay! Sorry it's really short!
Disclaimer: I own nothing but Elaine, Leo, Nicholai, Quiggly and Shari.
Leo
The first few weeks of summer were horrible, I was either training, or sore from training. On my third day there, I received a letter from Lily.
Leo,
Where are you? I went over to your house to get you, and it was empty. I hope this letter reaches you, and if so, you choose to reply.
What happened?
Please reply,
Lily
I replied as soon as possible.
Lily,
Sorry for the lack of explanation and the sudden absence, but my father planned a last minute vacation to our old house in the country. Sorry for making you worry, but we've been too busy setting up to send a letter.
I miss you, and I'm sorry for not being around to hang out with you.
Well, at least you have Severus.
Good to hear from you,
Leo
From then on, we sent letter's back and forth, and I decided to send a letter to Elaine to explain why I hadn't been mailing her like I had said I would.
Elaine,
Sorry for not sending an owl,
But I've been in the country for the past week. My father decided we should visit some relatives, and dragged me off from King's Cross.
Sorry if I made you worry,
Leo
PS: Please reply
PPS: It's so boring here
Well it was! I had offered Lily and Elaine different explanations, as I think Elaine would be less likely to question a visit to some relatives than a sudden vacation, like I had told Lily. I received a reply from her later.
Leo,
That sound like...fun. It's okay, you had a legitimate reason, at least. I was a little worried, but not too much, I know you can look after yourself. Let's leave the mothering up to Lily, shall we?
Missed you,
Elaine
I grinned after I had read this, before my father had called me down for breakfast, and then training.
And more training, and even more training. It seems like all I did over the summer was train. It wasn't all bad though. It seems that Shari was quite an adept Quidditch player, so we often played either one on one, or two on one with my father. She taught a few new skills on the broom, skills that only someone with vampire abilities could pull off, and I practised them whenever I wasn't training.
Another annoying thing was how my hair had grown out. It was longer than usual, so that it hung halfway down my forehead unless it was ruffled up, and it could sometimes be a pest. It wasn't too long or anything, it was just longer than it had been, long enough to annoy me.
Shari and I developed a friendship over the summer, not a super-close one, but one where we could talk to each other without it being awkward, at least. A few times, my father had taken me to Diagon Alley to shop, but after my Hogwarts items list came for that year, we only went once, on the very first day after it arrived.
When August 15th rolled around, my birthday, we had a small celebration, and I'm pretty sure even Lily had forgotten, for I didn't receive a letter from her about it, nor a present. It was fine by me though, I hated birthdays.
After all, I was only turning twelve, why did it matter.
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