Confessions Of A Teenage Metamorphagus

 Prologue

My name is Valerie Alice Longbottom and here are 3 reasons why my life currently sucks

1: My Brother and my Boyfriend hate each other.

2: I haven’t heard from my boyfriend since I left school for the holidays

3: My Parents were tortured to insanity by Bellatrix Lestrange and I visit them religiously every holiday.

“Valerie get up! Arianaa will be here any minute now!” Gran shouted from downstairs, as if I needed reminding, I had been up for two hours already trying to figure out what I should wear. Throwing all of my clothes out of my wardrobe and seeing what I had, I decided on a short green dress, now that was sorted all I needed to do was change how I look, and that was easy enough, I was a metamorphagus after all! Taking a good look at how I had presented myself I collected my bag and crinkled my nose up like I was trying to remember something important whilst walking onto the landing. Opening my eyes I raked through my bag and had a look in my compact, perfect yet again, staying with my pale skin, my hair was long, brown and curly.

“You look nice Val” Neville said to me when he came out of his bedroom. Even though we were twins we looked nothing alike. “Aww thanks Nev-Nev” I said rushing over to give him a hug. There was a sharp knock at the door, which caused my black cat Midnight to climb up the curtains. Gran went to answer the door, I knew the usual mop of neatly done flaming red hair, “Good Morning Augusta” Arianaa said happily with her usual gorgeous smile, she was exactly as I remembered her,  short, just like me, red haired, freckled and absolutely beautiful. “ARIANAA” I squealed running down the stairs towards Arianaa bowling her over. “I missed you too Val” she said laughing. Neville came running down the stairs when we finally had gotten up off of the porch. “You guys haven’t seen each other in two days and yet you scream like you’re being cursed” he said shaking his head in amusement whilst bending down and picking up Arianaa’s trunks.

“Do you have somewhere that we can talk?” Arianaa whispered quietly into my ear, I gave her an incredulous look and said “A, do you underestimate me that much?! Of course we have somewhere we can talk!!” with that I grabbed her forearm and dragged her into the back lounge room. Plunging myself onto the nearest sofa, I clicked my fingers for my house-elf to come and get us something, with a deafening crack a small house-elf wearing a black dress appeared in front of both Arianaa and I. “Mistresses Valerie and  Arianaa to what do I owe this pleasure?” She asked her eyes glinting happily. “Lou-Lou could you please get us two bottles of Butterbeer?” I asked sweetly. Once I had stated my request the house-elf clicked her fingers again and vanished into thin air. Smiling contently to myself I turned to Arianaa who was perched on the edge of the sofa looking rather upset. “What’s the matter A?” I asked earnestly, she turned to look at me; her bright emerald eyes filled with tears. I couldn’t bear to see my best friend so sad so I rushed over and gave her one of the biggest hugs she had ever received in her life. “My parents are making me not see Draco anymore” Arianaa whispered in my ear. “NO! Why would they do that?!?” I asked not even bothering to keep the shock mingled with anger out of my voice. “They are ashamed that I am dating a Malfoy” Arianaa answered her voice shaking slightly. Thinking for a moment whilst stroking her hair in a comforting kind of way “His parents must be giving him even more shit than your parents are… because your family are as the Pure Bloods call you ‘blood traitors’…” I answered quietly.

“Is everything ok in here?” Neville asked as he walked into the room, he was followed by his best friend Seamus Finnigan “everything’s fine Arianaa is just a little upset” I answered swiftly, I didn’t want to make anything weird between Arianaa and Neville because that wouldn’t be much fun for anyone. “Hi Val, you’re looking beautiful as usual” Seamus said as he sat down next to me, I smiled gratefully at him. There was always something comforting about Seamus being near me, it has always been that way even when we were little.

Once Lou-Lou had bought Arianaa and I our Butterbeer we went off to London to go shopping, only stopping to have a coffee at our favourite café: Costa’s. by the time we were supposed to be home Arianaa and I had more bags than we could carry, so our trusty pack horses: Neville and Seamus carried them all for us. “Thanks guys” we both said in unison when we were inside the three broomsticks. I looked around the stark room, which was littered with guests, and someone that looked suspiciously like a hag, to see if I could find the fire place. All of a sudden Arianaa made a Bee line for the furthest corner of the room. She had found the fireplace! Each of us dove our hand into the little pot of floo powder that sat next to the fireplace, and in turn we each stepped into the fire, dropped our handful of powder and said ‘Longbottom Residence’. Within seconds I was in the living room of my Grans house. I rushed up stairs to meet up with Arianaa, Neville and Seamus, who I soon discovered were in my bedroom. “nice of you to join us Valerie” Neville said cheekily “we were wondering if you got stuck in the chimney” I ignored Neville’s comment and went to sit next to Arianaa on my bed, it was typical of Neville to make some supposedly funny comment that no-one got.

Hours passed and we were still in my bedroom chattering about last year and anything else we could think of, Gran came up to my bedroom with a tray laden with sweets and crisps. Stuffing our faces with the goodies, I soon realised that the only thing we could hear was the crunching of food so I put on some Muggle music, it was a love of mine. After about two seconds me and Arianaa started belting out any song that was coming out my iPod (another muggle invention). By about 1 in the morning it was only me and Seamus that were still awake, Arianaa and Neville had fallen asleep on each other’s shoulders. Seamus went over to the iPod and put Christina Perri’s song ‘Arms’ on.

“I never thought that you would be the one to hold my heart, but you came around and you knocked me off the ground from the start”  “Valerie would you like to dance?” Seamus asked extending his hand towards me, I nodded and smiled happily “You put your arms around me and I believe that it’s easier for you to let me go, you put your arms around me and I’m home” I put my arms around his neck and snuggled in close to him, he had that comforting scent that I loved, a mixture between gun-powder, cologne and chocolate frogs. “how many times will you let me change my mind and turn around? I can’t decide if I’ll let you save my life or if I’ll drown, I hope that you see right through these walls, I hope that you catch me ‘cause I’m already falling, I’ll never let my love get so close, you put your arms around me and I’m home” I looked up and saw Seamus gazing at me, no-one had ever looked at me the way that he just did, “I think I’m going to go to bed now, thanks for the dance I really enjoyed it” I said turning away so I didn’t have to see the disappointed look on his face. Before I knew it I was asleep.

By the end of the week Arianaa and Seamus went home. And I was left alone again wondering if Lee would ever write.