Fangirl

The Castle In The Distance

I wake with immediate doubts about going to the amusement park. I would rather stay here on my computer and write fan-fiction and finish The Hunter. But I talked to my mom abpout going when I got home. Actually I talked to her about NOT going. I thought I had made quite a few good points as to why I SHOULDN"T go but that only seemed to assure my mom that I should go. So i dragged myself out of bed, changed into black shorts and a white shirt, and also brought The Hunter with in case I got bored. But I knew I would probably not get bored. I was going to Freaking Harry Potter land! The only downside was i was going with someone i had only met yesterday. And that wasn't even a bad thing. Jack seemed nice. Seemed to actually like books. Didn't sound like he had been pretending. But still. I got in my car around 11:30 so i could get there at 12:00)) today wasn't as hot as it normally was the week before summer vacation started. In fact it felt more like Winter in Florida. Warm but not HOT. I got in the parking lot 10 minutes early and took out my book. about 5 minutes later there came a tap at my window. Jack stood outside smiling as usual. There were two people next to him. Jack got in the front seat and the two people slid into the back. Jack was wearing a basketball uniform with the last name Xanders written in big red letters.

"Your last name is Xanders?" I ask.

"Yep." Said Jack. "Also this is my younger brother and sister who insisted that they come to."

"That's fine!" I say immediatly. A releif actually. But I didn't say that.

"Finish yet?" He asked me. I shake my head thinking that i would have had I not been here right now. He sighed.

"Not being able to tell you the ending is literally burning my insides away." At this I laughed.

"I'll be done soon." I reply showing him how much of the book I had gotten through. Finally Jack said "Ok let's go." I got out of the car grateful for some fresh air. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all. Jack walked beside me and his siblings in back.

"They really are vicious little beasts and their just being good because they don't know you. I really tried to get them to not come though." Jack said.

"It's fine" I said again. "My brother's annoying. he's looks about your borther and sister's age." Ilooked back at the two kids walking a little behind us. They looked around 7 and 9. my brother was 8. Was it possible that these kids liked Harry Potter Too?

As if reading my mind Jack said "They don't even know what HP is! They just heard the words Theme Park." I laughed again. We had gotten to the gates now and Jackl handed money for the tickets to the booth.

"I could have paid." I grumbled.

"We're gonna need to fix that." Jack sighed.

"What?" I said defensively.

"The 'you could have paid' thing." Jack said "You don't need to pay."

"Neither do you." I shoot back.

Jack laughed. "I've got nothing to do but buy books with it anyway." He says. I don't try to argue after that. Mostly because my breath was taken away. The Hogwarts castle stood loomed in the difference we had entered the gate right next to a steaming replica of the Hogwarts Express. a village cut a clean road right to the castle. Jack smiled at my amazement.

"Little different then when you were eleven?" He jokes.

I punch him in the arm and nod. We walk into the village Jacks siblings trailing behind us slightly less amazed.

"Where are the rides?" Jack's brother complained.

"Soon." Jack replied. "Enjoy the sights first little brother." We walk for a while ducking into shops and looking around before heading back out onto the cobblestone streets. Eventually the path comes to a fork one going straight and one going left. Jack leads us left onto a bridge. The hogwarts castle can be seen clearly from the bridge in the distance.

"Do you have a picture of yourself on this bridge from when you were eleven?" Jack asks. I admitt that i do, it's hanging on the corkboard in my room.

"Then you really have to take one now!" Jack says handing his sister ,who seems more mature than her complaining little brother, the camera. We take the picture with Hogwarts in the background, him leaning on the wall of the bridge and me sitting on the top of the short wall. Then we moved on until we were standing right in front of the castle.