Ella (s.b fanfic)

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January 1st, 2019, it's been three years since my mother's suicide. And today I'm spending it at the Potter's. Frey, James, Claire, Louis, Fred and I have been closer than ever, sure Zach and I  are also close but he has another group of friends, plus he and Claire have been dating for a year now. 

"Ella, come on, we're having cake, and later we're doing ridiculous shopping," shouted James from the living room. 

James and I have been inseparable, no we're not dating, nor will we ever. We're literally like twins. Wherever thing 1 is, thing 2 is bound to be. I'm thing 1 since I'm older. Actually I'm thing 1 since I'm older by a couple of months.

Once I enter the living room, everyone's eating cake, and celebrating. They know my mother died today, they know everything about my family. How poorly my father treats me, how my mother was my everything. And they're there for me whenever I don't feel good. They're always there for me. And I'm grateful for this second family, that I consider being my only family. 

The Potters have welcomed me as if I was there 4th daughter, during summer, most of it is spent at the Potters house. My father knows because the day after my mother died I came clean about everything. He doesn't approve, but I wasn't waiting for his approval. 

After eating cake and going out to buy the ridiculous clothes a tradition I decided to keep alive, makes me feel like she's still somewhat with me. Makes me feel warm. Also, it's a way of remembering heer, and my friends enjoy it so it's okay. We're all in the living room, huddled up by the fire, drinking hot chocolate and watching Love, Rosie. After the movie ended we talked 

"So guys guess what!" I started.

"We're not going to guess Ella, and if we did, it's probably wrong. So go ahead tell us" said a bored Louis. 

"Well who died and made you mayor of fun town," said Claire sarcastically. 

"Buzzkill" I mumbled. "Anyways my father is remarrying next Monday and I won't be there for the ceremony, I swear he chose this day specifically so I won't be able to attend it since I'll be in school" I sighed, I didn't even want to attend it, but just the fact that he actually did that just to spite me it infuriates me. 

"Oh honey, it's okay, you didn't even want to go didn't you?" said Frey patting my back.

"No, but just the fact that he did it just to annoy me it's like-" I just sighed heavily there's nothing I can do. "Oh, and do you know Cinderella?" I asked them and they all nodded, "Well the woman he's marrying is an old hag, she's mean and so are her three daughters, I swear I am Cinderella the only difference is she had a loving father, mine hates my guts." I concluded. 

They all stared at each other, speechless, how will they comfort me, so they just let me rant. As always. James invited me to stay over and I gladly did. Harry and Ginny have grown used to me over the years, they scold me like a child of their own, they love me like a child of their own, so I owe them everything really, they're like the loving parents I never had, I did have my mother but she died so they're my only parental figures alive. 

Sure during the summer I fly to France for a couple of weeks to meet up with my mother's family and then I have to come back. 

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*A day before going back to school.* 

"Hey, Ella!" whispered James into my room, each one of us had their own room since the Potters are rich and all heh. 

"What the hell, James it's 2 in the morning," I said and went back to sleep.

"Ella, wake up, wake up, wake up" he whined, when whining wasn't enough, "Aguamenti" I heard him whisper, I tried to get out of the splash zone but my sleepy self wasn't fast enough and got drenched.