With the castle asleep, the entirety of the names on the map were very sedentary, and it wasn't until Harry had moved his wand closer to the map, about to mutter mischief managed, that he noticed movement.
The movement was curious for a number of re...
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"I TOLD YOU IT'D BE FINE!"
Jana loved her sister more than anything.
The two girls, one in her early twenties, the other not yet a teenager, were giddily walking up to an old, worn truck that had been their father's. They were still wet; surfboards under their arms, sand covering their bare feet in a way that would have easily annoyed the vacationers, but as locals, the feeling was very familiar. They were laughing, as if there was some great joke between the two of them - but that wasn't the case. The two were high on adrenaline.
"Jana, I told you it'd be fine!" said the younger of the two, sliding her board into the back of their truck. Jana rolled her eyes, but agreed nonetheless. She had to admit, when her sister had come up with the idea, she had been a bit of a stick-in-the-mud about it, but only because their mother absolutely forbade night surfing, and as a parental figure to her sister, Jana had thought it right to be hesitant. But everything had worked out - they hadn't met any sharks, and the waves were the best they'd seen in years.
"You know, if Mom ever finds out, she will kill us," Jana warned jokingly, lifting herself into the driver's seat.
"And that's why she'll never find out!" laughed her sister. The young girl hastily buckled her seatbelt and began fiddling with the dials of the radio, landing on a station that was playing an old Destiny's Child song. She dramatically increased the volume and began singing along. Jana rolled her eyes at her little sister, backing out of the parking space, and driving away from their favorite surfing spot.
"All the ladies who're independent," the two were singing loudly, the windows rolled down, without a care in the world that it was well past one o'clock in the morning. They were having fun, they were bonding, and they were acting the only way that they believed sisters should. Nothing was going to take that away from them.
It wasn't Jana's fault at all, as her mother would spend the next few years trying to convince her. She didn't see them and she couldn't be blamed for that; they didn't have their lights on, and unlike the sisters, they had been in a raging fight, not paying any attention to the road. It wasn't until the last second that Jana had caught sight of them, barreling towards her and her sister at an unreasonably high speed on the wrong side of the road. In that last second, Jana had done the only thing that came to mind. She sucked in a breath, and frantically tried to swerve away from them.
