Big world, small me ~Wicked series

Part 11

The rest of the year went past in a rush. Nothing really exciting happened. -Well, if you not count the twins pranking Snape, turning his hair pink, and being in detention for over two months!- Summer vacation came closer and soon it was the day we had to leave Hogwarts again. Next time we come back, we are in our final year. Knowing Lee and the twins, hell will break loose.

I went home for the summer. The twins had asked me too stay with them, but I turned it down. I had to go home for a while. To my father. Seeing what he was up to these days, everyone now knew he was back. He had even killed one of the students; Cedric Diggory, the Hogwarts champion with Harry.

"Father, I'm home!" I yelled after I had apparated into the old little house.
No reaction.
Probably he was somewhere, doing something.
I went up to my old bedroom and started unpacking my stuff. It wasn't much, so I was done quick.
I decided on writing a letter to the twins and Lee.

Dear Fred and George,

How is it? I'm home for like two hours and already bored. So I thought I write the two of you.

My father isn't home right now, nobody is. I don't know where they are, or when they will come back. So I'm alone. With my owl of course. Nancy is also bored. She just bit my finger when I tried to give her a treat, mean bird.

Can you bring over my greetings to Mrs Weasley and the others?

I love you guys, write back quickly!

Love,
Lucy

Dear Lee,

How's summer starting at Grandma?
Already bored?
Or is it fun?
I am sooooo bored.

Well, goodbye. I loveeee you.

Love,
Lucy

I gave the letters to Nancy.
"To Fred and George, to Lee" I said. She flew up and left the room through the open door.
Okay, that's done too.
I will start cooking, I'm hungry.
I baked pancakes, because I love them just as much as the House Elves at Hogwarts do.
I ate them up and got a book from the small library we had abd sat down at the table, reading, waiting for my father to come home.

Weeks later I hadn't got back one single letter from the twins. Dorks. I had written like twenty to them!
I was pretty mad at them.
But Lee was actually writing back, so I had something to do.
This were the letter of Lee and me spread over the first four week of the vacation:

The letter I wrote I got one back two days later, with Nancy.

Heyyy Luc,

Yep, it's pretty boring here to. Grandma decided on going shopping with mum and me. So I had to go with..

A plus is that we have a big pool at the house, so I can swim much. My sister is on a holiday with her boyfriend so I have it all for myself!

I love you too.

Love,
Lee

I wrote back three days later, because Nancy had 'accidentally' dropped the letter and I found it under my bed.

Lee,

It's really nice you have the pool for yourself. I can't even go out of the door..
Father thinks I will show off where he hides.
It's so boring.
I have already read all my books for next year, some of them twice!

Love,
Luc

A week later came the answer to my letter.

Tiny whiny Lucy,

If it's so boring out there ask your father if you can come to me! I'm also alone and believe me after two weeks a pool even is boring when you have no one to share it with.

Love,
Lee

I wrote back immediately, excited.

Lee.

Really can I come over? That would be nice!
The twins ignored my letters for over the past weeks, so I dropped my idea of going to visit them.
I'll ask my father.

Love,
Lucyyy

"Father?" I asked as I walked into the living room.
He looked up from whatever he was doing.
"What is it daughter?" He asked.
"Can I stay at Lee's house until school starts? I feel a bit bored in here" I asked hopeful. Father sighed, but when he looked up at me, I knew he was going to give in.
"Okay" I did some kind of victory dance.
"Thanks dad!" I smiled happily and hugged him tightly.
I ran up the stairs and started packing.
Yeeeh! Not alone the last two weeks of the vacation.

I had to wait for the last letter of Lee. Because he would send me the adress. That took about two days, when I finally could leave this dark hole.

Lucy,

Yes, of course you can come over! Floo Network.
Say: the Prairie
-doesn't sound as cool as the Burrow, I know-

The twins have ignored my letters I have send them over the weeks also. Mean little bastard they are..
Probably just to lazy to write back. Or Erol has finally killed himself by breaking his neck by flying onto the window.
That makes know sense, they could have send Nancy or Odysseus back.

Odysseus is Lee's owl. He's really big but not that fast. It's a nice bird, my Nancy isn't. She hates everyone except me and most of the time she doesn't even like me. But she is my pet, that means she's part of my small family. So there's nothing you can do about it, because you can not just give up on family.

Well. That means they are just being their jerky selves.

I expect you in two days, as that is the time it probably took that bloody bird to bring the message back to you!

Love,
Lee

P.s: Nancy bit me.

Yes, time to go!
I rushed down the stairs. Trunk in my hand. Everything in it. My clothes for the next to weeks, my clothes for next year and all my books and other stuff for next school year. Still the trunk was pretty light because I had father cast a spell on it.
Four months, than I'm seventeen.
Four months, and I can take care of myself.
Four months, and I can leave everything behind.
I sighed. I can't.
I don't want to.
First I did. When the choice became to hard. Chosing between my real and only family left or the friends that would always, no matter what, be there for me. That choice is almost impossible to make, so I figured; why not run? Run so far as possible. That no one would find me.
But I can't and I won't.
The fact of leaving the people I love behind probably for them to die.. it's just unbearable.
"Father, I'm ready to go" I said when I walked into the living room. He looked up from the book he was reading at the table. If I'm correct today he had an appointment in Azkaban, with a certain witch named Bellatrix Lestrange.
My godmother had done some stupid things and landed herself in Azkaban, no biggy. Few persons killed. Being a Death Eater.
Yep, if my father wasn't going to get her, she would probably be stuck for life.
"Okay" No have fun. No I'll miss you. No come back safely. No hug. No kiss on the head. Just okay. And I wouldn't have thought otherwise.
I grabbed my trunk and stood in the fireplace, a hand of Floo Powder in my right hand. I threw it on the ground and said loud and clear:
"The Prairie"