Knock knock knock!
"Yes?" I said without moving from my comfy bed, still grabbing my favourite Harry Potter story. "Lil sis, can you open the door first?" said Ariadne, who is behind the door.
I put my book down, then got up to reach the door. "What's wrong, Ariadne?" I asked, and when the door opened, a late teenage girl wearing cargo pants and a white T-shirt handed me a plate of birthday cakes. "Here is your share, grandma asked me to give it to you since you didn't come to her birthday party." Ariadne smiles. "I know you couldn't forgive that one aunt, but you can at least wish our grandma a happy birthday," she pats my shoulder, then goes back to her room beside mine.
Sigh...
I sank on my bed, thinking how similar that one aunt was to Harry Potter's aunt. They were both equally bad....
Whatever, I'll just gonna continue reading though. I grabbed the book from the corner of the bed and adjusted my sitting position. "Hmm... where were we?" I muttered while turning the page.
After hours of reading, I finally finished the fifth book. I can't help but wonder when the next book release will be.
***
A few days after that.
Today I was the only one left in our family house. My parents went on holiday to Lucky Bay in Australia for their umpteenth honeymoon, and Ariadna went on a study tour with her college friends to Amsterdam. I'm already fourteen, so I am old enough to be left alone in our own house. It's not like I don't have any plan at all, I want to watch TV all night long with no one nagging at me. After preparing a big bowl of popcorn, I went straight to the couch and put my feet on the table, "finally I can do this," I said with satisfaction. I leaned against the back of the couch, then started pressing the buttons on the TV remote.
While I was engrossed in watching a cartoon series, someone rang the doorbell. Just in case, I peeked through the peephole, and a woman in stylish clothing was standing there playing something that looked like a game console. After I'm sure that she is harmless, I opened the door.
Click!
"Hi ma'am, what can I help with?"
"Oh, Hello! Are you by any chance Yurie?" She asked excitedly as she put his game console into his vest pocket.
I nodded, "um... yes. Sorry, but... who are you, ma'am?"
"Good! fyi I TOTALLY am not a bad person," she said with an emphasis on one of her words. "The name is Rosette Watkins. I'm your father's youngest sibling alive."
"What do you mean aliv-!"
"Shhhh...!" she put her index finger to my lips, "No, darling... no more details about that. I come here just to give you something and bring you somewhere magical," she said as she pulled our heads closer.
"Alright, enough with the small talk. Here, your invitation," she handed me a letter with a dove-patterned wax stamp. I averted my gaze from the letter I received to Rosette repeatedly, after she signaled that I could read it, I carefully opened the letter.
"Phaloma Academy? What is that? There's nothing like that in England, right?" I'm confused, it's not like Harry Potter's story is actually real...
"Okay, let's get going now. You will know about that later."
"What-, NO! I'm not going! What if you're lying to me, miss?" I slowly walked backward, preparing myself to run from this suspicious woman. When she's off guard, I quickly turn around, but alas, she easily carries me to her van on her shoulders.
" WHAT THE-!!, HEY! LET ME GOOOOOO!!!" I hit her back as hard as I could, "SOMEONE!! ANYONE! HELP!!!"
BAM!
She locked me inside...