What Magic?

Chapter 12

Victorie^

The next day wasn't very eventful and I kept trying over and over to use my magic again but nothing works. I even had people throw spells my way but they never reached me just like before. I eventually continued the routine where I couldn't do magic but I'm happy I now know I officially can do it. But I've put it out of my mind and been focusing on both studying and finding out what this Xavier Revis guy really did or if he really was who they said he was.

"Ugh," I exclaim frustrated as I shut the tenth book I've looked in and found nothing about Xavier which in it's self is very suspicious it's like he didn't exist but yet they had him in the history book. "I want to throw all of these out the window!"

"Just calm down," Albus says sighing as he closes his own book. "How about this? Since he was or is apart of the ministry maybe we can ask my dad and Aunt Hermione if they know about him I mean he did work there when they did."

"Really?" I gasp and a smile spreads across my face as he nods. "That's an amazing idea I knew there was a reason why I'm friends with you guys."

"Haha, very funny," Scorpius says sarcastically before he looks over at the clock then back to Albus. "It's time to go." I then realized it was Friday meaning they went to their secret things though I believe they went to the same place. "See ya tomorrow Ser!" He ruffles my hair and I swat his hand away as I go to fix it.

"Bye, Serena," Albus says standing up as well and sends me a smile before they both turn and head to the door. I may have distanced myself from this little secret of theirs but it's about time that I finally see where they've been going. I stand up and slowly walk to the door as they exit not looking back at me thankfully. When I walk out I have to walk kind of fast to keep up with them until they come to a stop in front of a stone wall. Albus starts pacing back and forth in front of it and seemed to me thinking very hard. I gasp loudly making me have to cover my mouth as a door appears on the wall and they open it going inside. I walk slowly up to and feel my hand on it to feel real wood under my fingers.

"How is this possible?" I ask out loud before I face palm myself, "Magic of course you stupid." I slowly push it open to see a room full of bunk beds with a bunch of kids either my age or older walking around, laughing, and having fun. I push the door open more and step in having it close behind me and when it does it disappears leaving me standing there. "No!" I say too loudly drawing the attention  of the people in the room and I turn to see them now staring at me shocked. I wave awkwardly and say, "Hey."

Out of the crowd I see Albus appear and walk forward. "Serena, what are you doing here?" He asked confused as to why I was here in a room I shouldn't know about and shouldn't be in.

"Um, well I was following you and saw you enter here and I kind of got myself stuck,"  I say quickly pointing at the wall behind me and chuckle nervously keeping  my eyes trained on the ground. When loud laughter filled the room I looked up to see almost everyone laughing so hard they appear to be crying except Rose, another red headed girl, and the other girl that Rose usually hangs out with during class.

"Your a hoot, Ser," Scorpius says bounding across the room and throwing an arm around my shoulders pulling me over to a couch I just noticed was there. I sit next an older blond girl with brown eyes and pale skin who is sitting with a boy who had his arm around her shoulders. He has blue hair that came down to the bottom of his ears with warm brown eyes and slightly tanned skin.

"Hi, I'm Victorie it's nice to meet you Scorpius and Albus has told us so much about you," She says reaching out to shake my hand which I accept after a second of hesitation but she seems quite nice.

"Sup, I'm Teddy and this here is my girl," The blue haired guy tightens his hold on Victorie and whispers something in her ear that makes her giggle and I turn away not sure if I want to know what he is saying.

"So, Is this where you have been coming every Friday?" I ask Scorpius when I turn to him as he sits on the couch next to me as everyone continues on with their own conversations around us.

"Well, Albus yes but after a week or two he eventually brought me and introduced me to everyone. Though a few of them still think I'm like how my father used to be, Rose for instance," Scorpius explains but I start wondering why Albus never brought me.

"Why didn't he bring me as well? Did he not think they would like me? I mean Rose doesn't, so why would the others?" I start rambling and asking unnecessary questions that really didn't need to be spoken out loud let alone thought.

"No, that's not it really he wanted to introduce you he just thought it wasn't the right time, yet," He says scratching the back of his neck and looking down at the floor as if he said something wrong.

"What do you mean?" I ask but don't get an answer because Lily sits down on the opposite side of him and starts a conversation. I decide to leave them to talk so I grab his shoulder and squeeze it in encouragement as I walked over to Albus as he sat on a bottom bunk of a bed. "Hey."

"Hey," He says back not even looking up as he twists his wand in his hand multiple times as if pondering something.

"We have a big family in common," I say out of the blue looking at all the people around the room. "Just seeing them all having fun and just being family makes me miss my own."

"You don't talk about your family much, tell me about them," Albus says looking at me and shifting so he was leaning against the back board while I do the same next to him. I grab his hand as I start twiddling with his fingers and lay my head on his shoulder as I think of my family.

"Well, there's my dad he loves us very much but he is at work a lot of the time so we don't see him too much. My mom seems okay with it but she seems sad a lot of the time it's been like that since I was little but she's always been my best friend. I had been home schooled my entire life and didn't get to meet a lot of new people except when I did a few sports. Then there is my little sister, Nala, she turned 7 not too long ago. She's like my little shadow and followed me every where I went so I had to be careful with what I did not that I really did anything bad to begin with," I start talking and can't quite stop as I continue on with my extended family. "My dad had three siblings while my mom had two but each of them had about five kids each so family reunions are a mess. I love kids so I always had a fun time but dad seemed to be aggravated quite often when everyone was together."

I look up at him as he looks into my eyes. "Why do they do that? Your eyes I mean," He asks not tearing his gaze away from them. I'm not sure if they are blue or green now since the period between each switch is always different.

"I don't know, they have done that since I can remember. I got picked on because of it but my mom always told me it made me unique so I grew to like it," I say turning away and replacing my head on his shoulder as we fell into silence that I eventually broke. "I feel like I'm being too persistent but do you think we could write the letter to your father while we are here?"

"Yeah sure let me just get a parchment and quill," He said getting up and walking off somewhere before returning with exactly what we needed. Then we sat there discussing what to write and just decided to plainly ask him if he knew who Xavier Revis was and if he did know him. Then what he did while working at the ministry. We finished it after maybe an hour and sent it off when Albus called an owl to take it to his father. I yawned loudly as I started to get tired.

"I should probably get back to the common room," I say yawning again as I go to stand up but stumble slightly because of how tired I am. I catch myself before I actually fall but a hand grabs my arm and leads me to a bed that had nothing on it as if it hadn't been touched.

"No, you're too exhausted to go out now and if you did you could get in trouble and we most definitely do not want that," Albus says as I slip my shoes off and climb into the bed and as I close my eyes to sleep I hear him whisper a quiet, "Good Night, Serena."