Into The Light (Golden Trio Era) {2}

Christmas Morning

"MIKAYLA!" A voice yelled jumping on her bed, she groaned rolling over a bit too far that she hit the floor. "Ouch." She said quietly keeping her eyes closed, ready to fall asleep on the ground. "Mikayla?" A new voice questioned, Mikayla stayed where she was, as she tried to ignore the uncomfortable ground and embrace the darkness. "It's Christmas." A voice announced and Mikayla suddenly jumped up wide awake, she looked around the room to see Bill, George and Fred, the twins staring at Bill. "She loves Christmas." Bill shrugged leaving the room, as Mikayla dusted herself off, George looked at Mikayla's pyjamas, "Did you three plan this?" Mikayla looked at him confused, right before Ginny and Hermione walked in wearing the same pyjamas that Mikayla was wearing but in different colours. Hermione wore red, Ginny was in green and Mikayla in pink.

The three girls stared at each other in disbelief, before erupting in laughter. "This wasn't planned whatsoever." They all stood together looking in the mirror but Mikayla was more focused on her hair than their outfits. "I'M BLONDE AGAIN WOO HOO!" She yelled, flipping off Fred and George who were still in the room staring at the girls. Mikayla convinced George to take a picture of them, all posing in weird stances, cracking up at every movement. "Now, let's go down stairs and enjoy CHRISTMAS." Mikayla yelled the last word, you could hear the thundering of the five kids feet as ran down the stairs, waking up the rest of the house who were still asleep. "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" Mikayla yelled greeting Sirius, Molly and Bill in the living room. There was piles of presents on the ground, separated into sections for each person. Mikayla gave her dad a hug and a kiss on a cheek, wishing him a happy Christmas which he returns the gesture. Harry and Ron sleepily arrive in the room, "Merry Christmas." Mikayla cheered giving them a hug, which they both chuckled before kissing her cheek. She moved onto Molly, "Merry Christmas Mrs Weasley." Mikayla whispered in Molly's ear, "Merry Christmas dear." Molly smiled.

"Um I think we should wait until after lunch for our presents..." Mikayla spoke before the twins tore into the gifts, everyone turned and looked at her. "You know, so we have the whole family here." She concluded, causing the twins to drop their presents agreeingly, everyone else nodded. There was a loud crack Mikayla spun around to see none other than Charlie Weasley. She beamed allowing the Weasleys to greet him first, "There's my favourite blonde." Charlie chuckled as Mikayla wrapped him in a hug hello wishing him a happy Christmas. Charlie was holding a pile of wrapped gifts, looking around to see none were open. "We're waiting until your dad gets here." Hermione whispered as she gave Charlie a hug, glancing over at Mikayla, Sirius greeted Charlie with a hug also telling him he's heard great stories about him. Charlie placed the gifts, he got for everyone into their piles, there was another two cracks announcing the arrival of Remus and Tonk. The Blacks were the first to greet them, before the Weasleys and Hermione.
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"Daddy's back." Mrs Weasley announces placing Arthur in his wheelchair at the head of the table. Everyone clapped him a greeting before they all took a seat, Molly had put out the Christmas dinner onto the table, so after a few jolly words, they dug in. Mikayla kept catching Fred's looking at her as she played with the food on her plate, not feeling hungry whatsoever, she knew why he was watching her but she couldn't meet his gaze. "Everything ok Mikayla?" Molly's voice fills the room, Mikayla immediately felt the eight set of eyes stare at her, she nods, not lifting her eyes, "just worried about Avery is all." she lied as she lowered her fork onto the plate with her uneaten food, she gulped down her pumpkin juice, the scratching of cutlery began again as the others continue to eat. "I'll be right back." she smiled sadly standing up, pushing past her dad's chair, she speeds up to the nearest bathroom.

She stood there looking at herself in mirror, her hands grasped like a vice-grip on the sink, as her breath shakes, '1, 2, 3... 10" Mikayla slowly counted, taking deep breaths but she wasn't able to get rid of her heavy heart. She locks the door before sinking to the ground for stability, she wraps her arms around her knees that were pulled up against her chest and she lays her head on her knees. She doesn't know why she got a sudden rush of anxiety and panic, she felt overwhelmingly warm, so she laid on the ground, letting the cold tiles freeze burn her skin. She laid there staring up at the ceiling of the bathroom with this overwhelming feeling of emptiness, like there was no reason she was there but she couldn't leave where she was. It was sudden, she didn't even know what was happening to her, her eyes slammed shut, her brows furrowed and just like that she was surrounded by darkness.

Mikayla looks around to see she's under a familiar cherry tree, she sees her mother lying down in the dirt, dressed in white as she stares at the clouds, next to her was Cedric, Mikayla was even more confused on what was happening but decided to lie down in between them. "Mikayla, what are you doing here?" Her mother looks really worried at the sight of her, "where were you before you came here?" Cedric questioned, she look at them confused, "I was lying on the cold tiles on the bathroom floor why?" She continues to stare up at the sky, "I just closed my eyes and poof, I'm here with you guys. Do you want to tell me where this place is?" She questioned knowing there was a slight oddness to this beautiful scene. "Why were you lying on the floor?" "I was in the bathroom having a bit of a anxious moment and felt really warm so I laid on the ground to cool myself off." Mikayla shrugs not moving a single muscle, "who was in the house?" "The Weasleys, and Dad, why what's going on?" Now she looked at her mother in a panic, switching to look over at Cedric, when she turned to back to look at her Mam she was gone.