Sunbeam
An owl swooped down and landed beside me during my watch and hooted loudly, startling me out of whatever feeling of serenity I had. I looked around quickly; making sure no one saw our hiding place. I glanced at the younger kids in the corner of the crumbling abandoned warehouse that we were staying in for the night to make sure that they were not disturbed. Lu, the youngest, rolled over and sighed in her sleep.
All was calm, besides the owl staring at me with large intelligent eyes.
We were orphans. Children who were abandoned and left to die by our parents. I was eleven, and the oldest. The other children, Lu, Mack and Will looked up to me. After all I was the one who saved them from starvation and cared for them after I found them in dirty alleyways. I couldn’t just leave them there, we all had the same problem.
The owl jumped onto my leg and I stiffened. I had a thing against birds, a very large grudge. The thing held its leg out towards me and I realized that there was a message tied to it. It kept staring at me until I warily reached out to untie it, carefully minding the razor sharp beak.
After I did, it hopped on to the ground and took flight. I unfolded the paper. It was much finer than anything I’ve seen, with a big red wax seal with a large letter stamped onto it. I broke the seal, and stared at the scribbles on the page.
I couldn’t read.
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Our Crazy Messed Up Lives
FanficA boy who should be dead. A homeless girl with a strange anomaly. A boy abused by his parents. A girl who is trapped in her own mind. These four children are invited to Hogwarts, a school of magic. But when trouble comes, will they be able to trust...
