Mikayla O'Brien is a quiet, bookworm who wants to prove herself. When she's separated from her twin sister during the sorting, she finally begins to grow out of the Shadows, making friends easier than before and a new struck confidence starts to gro...
Mikayla and the Weasley's arrived at the rented house they'll be staying in, they met Bill and Charlie there. Everyone got their own bedroom and spent their first evening unpacking. Mikayla explores the house while she waited on everyone else to finish, there was a beautiful green garden overseen by a balcony. There was a pool in the back garden, "We're going to eat some dinner and go to bed to sleep off the jet lag." Ron tells Mikayla causing her to jump at the sudden noise of his voice, "Sounds like a plan." Mikayla smiled looking at the view, Ron closed the balcony door, separating them both from the rest of the family. They sit on the furniture before looking at each other. "How are you? I know it's probably pretty crazy with what's been going on for the past month." Ron asked genuinely, Mikayla shrugged, "It's getting better I guess but I still miss her, that's why I always stargaze before going to bed. It was something we did a lot when I was younger." Ron nods, Mikayla flipped the question back on him, he looked at her confused as to why she asked him how he was feeling about what's happened over the last month. "To be honest, it's feels normal having you around. Like it feels like there was something missing at home before you came along." Mikayla smiled at her best friend, "You're sure it's not weird having me around?" Ron nodded, which made Mikayla smile.
The two shared a hug, "What's going on between you and Fred?" Ron questioned further, Mikayla shrugged, "To be honest, I have no idea. I know I like him in a more than friends way but I don't think he feels the same." Ron nodded understandably, "And to be honest, I'm kinda rooting for you two to get together. I mean Fred needs someone like you, and since you're my best friend I can tell that you need someone like Fred." It was Mikayla's turn to nod, it made completely sense to her, and it was quite obvious that Hermione and Harry felt the same way but she wanted to make sure Ron was ok with, "So I'm not breaking best friend code if we somehow end up together?" Mikayla asked just to confirm the conversation was heading the way she thought it was. "No, I give you full permission to act on your feelings however you may feel, but if you two get married you owe me ten galleons." Mikayla laughed lightly at Ron's answer before thanking him and making the deal with him. "We should probably head in for dinner." Ron said looking through the balcony door, Mikayla stood up, then pulled Ron off the chair.
All the Weasley's were sitting around a massive dining table like the one in Mikayla's old house. Mikayla took a seat beside Ginny, "there's been a change of plan, we're going to swim in the pool after." Ginny informed Mikayla and Ron, Mikayla's heart plummeted, she was too embarrassed to admit that she wasn't able to swim, she could stay in the shallow end if she was going to get into the water. Mikayla stayed quiet for the entire meal, she was extremely anxious about the group pool party. Everyone left the table and rushed to their rooms to get ready to swim. Ginny got ready with Mikayla so they could help out each other's sun cream on, Mikayla put on some sunglasses, flip flops and floppy hat to go with her swimsuit.
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Mikayla grabbed her novel, two towels and sun cream for the others before the girls made their way out to the back garden. Mikayla and Ginny set up two sun bathing beds, while they wait for the others. Mikayla begins reading just as they walked out, "I wouldn't do that if I were you Freddie." Mikayla told him as he was about to jump in, he asked why not, "You're supposed to wait half an hour after eating to swim so you don't get a really bad stomach cramp." The boys ignored her as they began messing in the pool, she handed Mrs Weasley the sun cream before counting down from 5 to Ginny. "URGH!" They heard George and Fred groan, Mikayla looked over her book to see that they were holding their stomach. "How do we make it go away?" Mikayla told them to sit down, she ran in and got them a bottle of water each. "Drink the whole thing but drink it slowly." Soon enough no one was in the pool and all the boys were drinking water to get rid of their cramps. "Boys, you'll all get sun burnt if you don't put the cream on." Mrs Weasley told the boys, they did as they were told. Mikayla and Ginny sat on the one bed talking about some random stuff, Mikayla secretly admitted to Ginny she couldn't swim and she would have to stay at the shallow end of the pool to stay afloat. After a while the boys started to get into the pool one by one, Ginny and Mrs Weasley joined them as Mikayla continued to read her book and tan.
After about thirty minutes, Mikayla was picked up by one of the Weasley boys, "Charlie, put me down!" But before she knew it she was in the air, she heard Ginny yell that she couldn't swim but it was too late. Mikayla took a deep breath before being completely submerged in water, she knee hit something really sharp the floor of the pool and started bleeding. She trying to make herself float but all she was doing was sinking. She was trying her hardest to push herself to the surface for more air. She refused to let the water in, it felt like her head was going to explode and that her lungs were on fire, the burning was causing her to become dizzy. She felt arms grab her waist and lift her head out of the water. Mikayla gasped for air as she opened her eyes, she saw the worried looks of the Weasley's faces. Fred sat her up on the pool edge at the shallow end. "I'm so sorry Mikayla." Charlie approached her terrified, "It's not your fault, you didn't know I couldn't swim." She comforted him, the pair shared a forgiven hug. Fred stood beside Mikayla while everyone continued messing around in the pool, "Thanks Freddie." Mikayla smiled at the red head, who smiled back at her, "Now you go and have fun with your family." She tells him, he gives her a worried look before joining in with his family. Mikayla looked at her knee, her eyes widened. "Um, Mrs Weasley I think I need your help." Mikayla said lifting herself of the edge of the pool revealing her knee dripping blood. Mrs Weasley told her to sit on one of the sun beds. There was a massive piece of glass sticking out of her knee cap. Once she made it to the sun bed, everything went black.
