I'm not a coward, just shy (Hogwarts fanfic)

ch 1- a new beginning

I stared unseeing as the houses started to become trees before me. Each house was a home, a story, a memory. I sometimes wonder what it be like, to have a family. A real family. I had seen them on Tv, advents, in the park, in the streets. They seemed be happy, they seemed to be stuck in the moment. I sometimes I wondered what it would be like to wake in the morning, to the smell of bacon cooking. To come down the stairs to a Dad, teary eyed from sleep, a little pieces of toilet paper stuck to his face because he wasn't good at shaving. His hair messed up and a mug in hand with some cheesy picture on the front. A Mother who seemed always perfected, even in the morning. Hair brushed and flashing a pearly white smile. A small sister running round the table, excited for school and high on some kind of sugary breakfast cereal. I had spent so many hours imagining them that sometimes this feel like the bad dream but God isn't so kind.

"Taylor, this is the home you will be staying at. You will be staying with a Mr and Mrs Weasley, they have seven children, so you will have many News brothers and even a sister, Although two boys have already moved out but still siblings, won't that be nice" Miss Young, a very nice women asked, I nodded. Miss Young was the closest thing I knew to a mother because even though I have been sent back to my care home many times for reason I can't explain, she always defended me. She even stopped them from putting me on medication. I was beginning to get butterflies in my stomach, as I saw the house, the Burrow. The Burrow was a impossibly tall house with smoke coming from the long chimney. The lights glowed warm and welcoming in the fading light. Even from here I could see a line of line of red heads in front of the house. Miss young drove the car a little further and parked and the car rumbling to a stop. I felt my throat grow very dry.

"Deep breaths, Taylor, and don't worry I have found a family that will love you, your adorable, who wouldn't love you" Miss Young said excitedly jumping out the car. I pushed my black framed glasses further up my nose, sucked in a breath and jumped out the car, grabbing my guitar from the back seat before I lost the courage I got from Miss Young's pep-talk. I felt a lump drop in my stomach, when I had realised what I had done and I already wanted to get back into the car. I feared that this would be just like the last times. Something would happen, something I couldn't explain but somehow I knew I had done.

I took in seven kind looking faces. All with red hair and home knitted jumpers. There was a plump motherly women, a man who was looking excitingly from my Guitar, which I had slung over my back, to back to the car. A Stuck up looking boy with horn rimmed glasses. A pair of twins, who had mischief writing all over their faces. The next was a boy maybe my age but very tall for his age if was and last of was a red head girl who seemed to be as shy as I was. Miss Young seeing I was kind of frozen, Put her hand on my shoulders and pushed me closer.

"Sorry, Taylor is a little shy around... everyone, but you know how kids are, they will grew out of that" She smile politely.

"Of course, No need to be frighten" Mrs Weasley said kneeling down to be at my height and smiling kind, "I am Molly Weasley, what's your name" She asked me.

"T-Taylor Fleet, Miss" I said my hands tightening on my guitar strap.

"That's a lovely name dear, what's that on you back" She smiled.

"My Guitar" I replied quietly.

"We have heard stories about you. You can do stuff can't you. You can make things happen which seem impossible" She said, I had flinched, I stared in wide eyed fright when she said this. Then seeing her kind smile, I nodded.

"What kind of things?" She asked, this question shocked me, I looked to Miss Young, who knew about these strange things. She gestured for me to show Mrs Weasley. So I did.