The Sibylline Code; A Harry Potter Next Generation Fanfiction

5: Why did I have a party?

AN: AN AT THE END!!! Just read!!!!

CHAPTER 5: Why did I have a party?

'Beep beep, beep beep!'
My watch screamed in my ear. I quickly pulled my han"d away from the side of my head, where it had previously been resting, and winced as it hit the car door. After vigorously hitting the stop button on my alarm watch, I leaned my forehead back against the misty, cold car window.
There's something somewhat relaxing in feeling the coolness of the glass against your forehead when your mind is threatening to explode from the amount of thoughts running through your brain.
And bloody hell, my thoughts were not those of unicorns and rainbows! They were about last week.

I actually cringed at the memory of the disaster. Why does everything I ever do seem to always have bad consequences? I feel sorry for all children who are told that they were an accident. It's basically the story of my life and it's not a nice thing to live with.

AN: No I did not purposely shove in a Taylor Swift song in there!

But yesterday was the worst. It played out a bit like this.

So Lottie, Isobel, Kathy, Kitty and I had started ahead of our parents. Everyone was naturally a bit awkward. I mean, firstly they've been invited to my party so they're a bit...you know! And secondly they've actually turned up at my party so I'm like...well, you get the idea!
No one said much all the way down the park until we got to the gates.
"Err, guys..?" Kathy suddenly broke the silence. "Which side are we going?"
Now in our local park there are two sections; right takes you to the kids playground with all the swings, slide etc...
Left takes you to the football pitch and the trees and other paths down into the smaller part of the town...
Now, as the organised, sensible person I am, I had absolutely no plan as to which way we'll go. And trust me, even though it doesn't sound much, a different path could change your day dramatically.
Yeah okay maybe that was slightly over dramatic but you get the idea. The kid playground is awesome- I mean, they're fun. And call it babyish, but who doesn't love the light breeze rippling across you as you fly on the swings? But the fields... so much more space, and... they would think better of me.
Anyway, so after much decision making, we (or the others) thought we should got to the kid playground so our parents would be able to see us when they came and wouldn't freak.
So we'd settled down, messed around a bit and I felt as though it was going okay. They weren't being too awkward or ignoring me or going off in their own little groups - okay maybe Isobel was basically taking charge and I was just kind of following not saying much, but it was still moderately better than usual.
So we were just having a good time and about to start the picnic with the parents when the worst two people decide to take a trip to the park... Eva Robins and her stupid side kick Nina Stevens.

Well let's just say everything went downhill from there.
Isobel pretended that they had gate crashed my party with my parents and had decided to stay (this was told with a mixture of insults of how annoying I was). Well Eva lapped it all up and then decided to go round to the football side to 'watch the hot boys play football'. Kathy hesitated, saying maybe we should stay, but she was quickly beaten down.
Now, I was perfectly happy to stay with the parents and pretend I didn't exist, but no, they decided to drag me along because they had found a 'special job' for me.
Grudgingly, I had followed, only to find that they decided to get ME to go interrupt the football match to see which of the girls (the other girls) the 'hotties' fancied the most.
Well I'm not sure if you've ever seen young boys play football, but it's not the ideal situational be in the middle of, to say the least. To say they got passionate when they played is a massive understatement.

...I'll just say that after the party, I lay on my bed with a broken nose and sprained ankle and plenty death threats swirling round my head, only a few from me to the other girls... and the others? No, they weren't just from the boys for interrupting their game, no these were also from the girls who apparently blamed me for 'messing up their chances with the hotties'
Honestly! People these days...

Yeah well, at least they all have to make me 'get well soon!' and 'I'm sorry' cards, since their mothers were so sad that I'd been injured on my birthday. (By the way, if you were wondering, I had 'tragically fallen over and hurt myself over a hedge'. That was what was told to the parents, but in all honestly I couldn't be more bothered with whatever lie they came up with; I knew this party would flop.) And then I heard Kitty's mum tell her that she should've looked after me and made sure there were no hedges in my way because 'the poor dear isn't as fortunate as you and she always has been clumsy'. I spent the rest of the holidays smirking at the cards and reading books.
But enough with the party, it's a new day. And I was sitting in the car with parents...on my way to King's Cross.

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We arrived at King's Cross Station with half an hour to spare. My parents
avidly set out to find some other 'Muggles' (I'm still getting used to the magical terms!) and I stood by the wondering why no one ever became suspicious of the sudden crowd on the first of September every year at the station. I mean really? A bunch of people turn up with owls and trunks and weird clothing the same date every year and no one realises anything? And as if it's only that! How does no one notice the fact that platforms 9 and 10 get mysteriously crowded and people randomly disappear? Crazy, really.

As I watched the many families with little kids pushing trolleys of trucks, I started to imagine myself in a couple years, as one of the older students, coming to the station to meet up with friends and chat about the new year. Talking about who likes who, talking about who got which grades, talking about which Professors hate us... gossiping in general.
I still can't see this happening.

I have to admit that my parents haven't been suffering the same trouble. I admit they may have been a little sceptical at the beginning but... well...when I was casually dying after my party my mother even had the nerve to say that in a few years I would be able to mend these injured with a flick of my wand...I just looked at her and she... ah, shut up.

But Professor Fitwick's explanation on the way to Diagon Alley had my parents fascinated. They seemed to think it was the perfect opportunity for me to socialise and come out of my 'depression'. But I really don't know about the whole thing...
I know, I should be excited; going to a place I thought was a load of nonsense but it's just going to be like anywhere else I go. Lonely and annoying and no one's going to understand me if I already hate the place! Maybe I'm just paranoid or maybe...like that girl at Diagon Alley suggested...Rose or whatever...maybe I'm just...scared...?

I saw my parents half walking, half running back towards me, my mother almost shrieking in panic.
I glanced up at the station clock reading 5 minutes to 11. Wondering what in the world I've been doing for almost half an hour, I grabbed my trolley and braced myself. As I followed my parents to the magical brick entrance, I wondered what my crap life has in store for me now...

AN: Well there you go!
Okay first of all...I am so so so sorry for not updating! Basically I lost all wifi connection so...I could even do my homework (not that I wanted to!) yeah well I'm gonna fail this Geography thing we have tomorrow but whatever! Yeah so I've tried to make this chapter the same length as the others! I think it is...I need to check with Catlee!
Yeah next thing is hopefully the rest will be on time cause we kinda had to write these chapter now but we've already pre written the sorting and stuff so that should be faster. If you guys comment, vote etc like good children we might even double update the sorting cause it's split into a few chapters!!!
So that moves nicely on to...
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