Four Times the Charm

14- A Discussion

A/N Milly was the only person aware that  I was gone at camp, and so she was going to go ahead and write the next chapter, but Emma said to wait for me, and the way that she wrote the chapter made it so that people had to wait for me!! Thanks for listening to my rant... on to the chapter!! (are you happy now, everybody?)

Caitlyn's POV

Mint stopped by my house one more time. I glanced at the messages that everybody else had written, and sent Mint on her merry way.

"Mom!" I called into the hallway.

"What?" she called back.

"I forgot to tell you! The summer barbeque is tonight!"

"Then get ready, I'll take you over in a few minutes. And take over that extra bag of chips!"

"Okay!"

Closing the door to my room, I changed into a Hard Rock Café t-shirt (not the Imagine Dragons one, my other one was nicer) and some jeans. Grabbing a bag of Lays from the kitchen, my mom and I headed to Emma's house for the barbeque.

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(A/N no this isn't the end yet its just a chapter pause/break thingie.. erg what is this called? idk. whatever. back to the chapter.)

I knocked on the door (because I don't like using doorbells) and Emma opened it, her mom right on her tail. Right away, she and my mom started talking.

"Oh, hi, Lydia! How are you doing?"

"Oh, I'm great, Laura. And you?" They went on like this, but I didn't hear the conversation (nor did I want to) because Emma had dragged me by the arm into her room. "We need to talk," she told me seriously.

"Okay, but I'm probably going to be annoying and mess with this beautiful, crinkly bag of chips the entire time. Just warning you."

"Whatever. How are we going to convince my mom to let me go?"

I was already crinkling the bag. "We need some sort of proof to show her. How about the signature of the Deputy Headmistress? We can always try and look her up! England should have records of everybody, right?"

"That might work, but how are we supposed to find those records?"

"Well, for one thing, Arabella is NOT a common name. And Donaghue is not a common last name. Also, have you ever heard of google?" I shoved the bag of chips on the floor, pulled out my phone and looked up the name. "There! See? Done! Now if we just do a little digging, I'm sure we can find her handwriting somewhere."

After a few minutes of searching, I finally found something. A signature. Comparing the picture on my phone to the signature of the Hogwarts letter, I discovered that they matched.

"YES!!" I shouted. "Now if everybody else would get themselves over here, we could all do something to help!"

There was a knock on the door. Emma and I raced out of the room to see who had come. It was Milly.

I grabbed her arms and pinned them behind her back. "You are under arrest. Come with us and the Lays don't get hurt." I began to lead her to Emma's room.

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A/N Did you know that there are special S'Mores marshmallows? It's true! They are squares and about the size of the graham cracker, if not a little bigger :) Sometime I need to have a s'mores night, and I'll have made my own s'mores stick out of a branch because I know how to do that!! yay :) (see top for image)