Our Crazy Messed Up Lives

Leaky Cauldron

Sunbeam

We all had something wrong with us. That was why our parents left us to die. Obviously, I had wings. Lu, well, she could breathe underwater. On her neck were tiny little holes that functioned as gills. Mack had retractable claws, like a cats. He liked to shred things, such as my pants, when he was nervous. Like my clothes weren’t already tattered enough.

And Will, he was special. He could stick to any flat surface, like a frog. He also was telepathic. He could communicate with his mind, even over long distances. It was great if someone ever got separated from the others. And, if he was scared enough, or concentrated hard enough, he could also move things with his thoughts. Creepy, yes, but useful. We've been on the run for as long as any of us can remember. We didn't want to be taken to a research facility and dissected. So when those two kids walked in, I thought we were done for.

"Please don't tell anyone!" I begged them.

The girl with kaleidoscope eyes walked up to me and held out her hand. "I'm Rebekah!" She paused, and looked at me expectantly. "This is where you shake my hand and tell me your name."

I warily grabbed her hand and shook it once. "Sunbeam."

Her eyes widened. "That is a really cool name! I wish I had a name like that, but my parents are idiots and named me Rebekah, instead of like, I don't know, Batman. And your hair is amazing! How did it get hat long?"

"Batman is the coolest!" Mack exclaimed. "With his baterang and the mask! Do you have any of the comics? I only ever saw one, and it was torn up in a garbage dump."

"Mack shut up for a moment," I said. I looked Rebekah square in the eyes. "So you’re not freaking out?" She shook her head and her cinnamon colored curls bounced with the movement.

"I'm freaking out, just I little bit," the other kid, a boy with raven hair, said. "But you don't want anybody else to know, so we'll keep your secret. Mainly because we don’t want to get you angry, cause you look like you could kill us."

He elbowed Rebekah in the ribcage. "Won't we Bekah?"

She yelped. "Yeah, of course we will!"

I can't truthfully say that I didn't nearly kiss them both. After glaring at them, of course.

 

 

Jack

Mum was quite surprised when she saw me with the staff. I don’t blame her. Only specially trained people are eligible to have a staff. They go through years and years of violent and painful physical and mental training. And sometimes, even after that, they still aren’t considered worthy of the honor and responsibility. The idea of an eleven year old having a staff is simply unbelievable.  

"Please tell me you didn't steal that!" she squeaked.

"No mum, calm down," I put my free hand on her arm. "Ollivander gave it to me."

I didn't tell her about Ollivander's warning. She would go crazy with worry, especially after what happened with my father. I wouldn’t put her through that again, not if I could help it.

Onceler

So yeah, the girl with the wings looked like she would kiss me. If it weren’t for Bekah, I would have accepted. But Bekah was there, so, no can do, freaky winged chick.

Ollivander didn't even test me and Bekah for our wands. He just gave me a poplar one and Bekah a cherry maple and basically kicked us out the door along with Sunbeam and the little kids too. Somehow she had found a cape the same color of her dress and had hid her wings under it. She also had a jeweled staff in her hands. Did Ollivander give her that?

But now we had a more pressing matter to deal with. We didn't have a place to stay, and it was starting to get dark. I was pretty sure the Leaky Cauldron lent out rooms, but I wasn't positive. If Sunbeam had money, I thought we could rent a room big enough for all of us to spend a couple of nights in.

"Damn it!" Sunbeam yelled beside me looking around the almost empty alley, her freaky long hair dragging behind her. "He's gone!"

"Who's gone?" I asked.

"The man who brought us here," she sighed. "I should have never of trusted him, no matter who he said he was."

"Who did he say he was?" This time Bekah questioned her.

"The headmaster at Hogwarts."

"So you don't think he left that for you?" I pointed at a large pile of wrapped parcels by the door of the store across the alleyway. Leaning against the pile was a piece of paper with 'Sunny' written on it. Sunbeam went over to the stack and picked up the paper, and began to read it out loud.

 

"I had to leave you because there was a problem with the welcoming feast at Hogwarts. I took the liberty of buying the rest of your supplies, some new clothes for your family, and the supplies for the two wonderful people I presume you have met in Ollivander's. I hope you like the small gift I left each for of you."

"He knew we would meet you?" Bekah inquired. "That's weird." Sunbeam picked up a wizard's robe and held it up to her body.

"Seems like he knew I would change too," she said. "Maybe he really is the headmaster."

I picked up a large bag, and shook it. A heavy clink-clink-clink sound came from it as I did so. I smiled. "Seems he is also very generous with his gold," my grin widened at the look on their faces. "Lucky for us."

Jack

As I lay in bed that night, I wondered who the girl and the others Ollivander talked about were. How were they connected to what happened with the fire? Will I ever meet them? I doubted it. Pippa sighed in her sleep. We shared the room, since she was too afraid to sleep by herself anymore. Not since our father was killed by that evil wizard, Pitch Black. I rolled over and shut my eyes tightly. I still couldn’t believe he was gone.

Rebekah

We all went through the magic brick wall to get back to the Leaky Cauldron. We rented a room, a really big one that had multiple bunk beds, so that Sunbeam could stay with the little kids and Onceler and I didn't have to be alone. We took all the things the headmaster gave us to the room and sorted it out. Sunbeam, Onceler and I all had the rest of our school things. Every book and quill was there.

They still use quills? Why not use pens, like normal people?

Because, last time I checked, they weren't normal people. Now shut up!

We all, including the little ones, had five new robes each, and two new pairs of night clothes. Along with the school books there was a book with the title "An Introduction to Pyromancy" and 'Sunny' written inside the cover, so we gave that book to her.

There were three bags of candy, one for each of the kids. There were also three wrapped parcels with our names on them. We said that we were going to open those last because they were the biggest. There were also potion ingredients, toiletries, a large trunk for everybody to keep their things in, and countless other things that one might need. Once all the things were sorted and packed safely in the trunks, we opened the wrapped parcels. We all received an animal, and they look miffed that we kept them in the packaging for so long.

I received a beautiful Siamese cat; Onceler had a Barn Owl, and Sunbeam a fierce peregrine falcon. There was a large quantity of food for them too.

"Wow," Sunbeam breathed. "I have a feeling that I made the right choice in coming here." The falcon hopped onto her shoulder and made itself at home.

"Me too," Onceler and I said at the same time, and we all laughed.