The Wammy House Memories

Happy Birthday

Elizabeth groaned when she heard her alarm clocking beeping, she rolled over onto her side and turned it off without even opening her eyes. She didn't want to get out of bed today. It was the 5th of November which meant two things, it was Bonfire night and it was also Elizabeth's fourteen birthday. She opened one of her eyes when she heard a knock at the room's door, it took her a moment to drag herself out of her comfy and make her way over to the door.

" Open up!" Someone yelled.

" Yeah, yeah... I'm coming!" Elizabeth yawned.

Opening the door slightly she peeped through the tiny gap into the corridor. She saw Nonie standing the corridor with a card and yellow balloon in her hand, she had a big smile on her face. Elizabeth stared at her for a moment, she was still half asleep. 

"It's time to get up!" Nonie yelled from the corridor. " It's your birthday! I saw a gorilla in the zoo that looked like you or something like that... I can't remember all of that birthday song! Are you going to let me in?"

" Thank you Nonie for your birthday wishes, but I'm in need of a wake up shower..." Elizabeth replied before she pulled her face away from the gap. " I'll be down in half an hour, I just need to do a few things first"

" Come on, let me in!" Nonie frowned. " I've brought you a balloon and I made you a card! Doesn't that earn me some kind of entrance into your room?!"

Elizabeth closed the room's door and told Nonie again that she would meet her in dinner hall in half an hour. She heard Nonie kick the door, she said something about Elizabeth being grumpy and that she would leave the balloon outside of the room. Elizabeth showered and got changed into some clean clothes, she then left her room. She found the balloon tied to the door handle, she opened the card and smiled to herself. Nonie had drawn a little rabbit on it with flowers and trees, it looked like she had worked really hard on it.

" How sweet!" Elizabeth said before she opened the card and then raised one of her eyebrows. " Oh my, that's disturbing..."

Nonie had drawn a headless rabbit inside the card, there was blood squirting from it's neck and the trees around it were burning. She sighed to herself and posted the card underneath her door, she planned to have breakfast first before she took the balloon into her room. It didn't take her long to walk to the dinner hall, it had just turned 8:25am. The students were busy eating their breakfast and chatting, she took a tray from the tray holder. She chose a bowl of mixed fruit, a strawberry yogurt and a cup of tea. She looked around the hall and spotted Nonie sitting at a table the back of the dinner hall. She walked over to where she was sitting and stopped next to the table. Nonie was wearing sunglasses for some strange reason, she had her earphones on. She bobbed her head along to music she was listening to while she ate some of her toast.

" Morning Nonie, I'm sorry about earlier..." Elizabeth said, she tilted her head to one side and knocked on the table. " Nonie! Hello!"

" What?!" Nonie yelled slightly." What do you want?!"

" Never mind..." Elizabeth sighed and sat down at the table. " I'll just eat my breakfast in silence then, you just keep doing whatever you're doing."

" Hello Izzy, I didn't notice you there!" Nonie smirked, she removed her earphones from her head and hung them around her neck." Funny that you didn't notice me being nice to you this morning, I was standing right in front of your face and you didn't invite me into your room!"

" I guess I deserved that after this morning, I apologize for my behavior..." Elizabeth said with a sigh." I was just over tired, I was up till 11pm trying to finish my one thousand word literacy paper on Hamlet last night. I've still not finished it and it's meant to be in by tomorrow. So it will be another late night for me."