Happy New Year everyone!!!!! Yesterday, me and my mom and my dad watched Mr. Bean's Holiday and Pirates of the Carribbean 3: At World's End while we were waiting on the new year. Usually we all pile into my dad's giant chair, but this uear, Dad was in his chair, Mom was in my moon chair, and I was on the couch and we all just held hands instead. It was fun. Dick Clark needs to retire. He's old. He was on Dharma & Greg a lot. My favorite appearance from him was the time Greg had to go hang out with Jane in her apartment and all her crazy friends kept trying to lick his face and calling him "the watcher". Then the door bell rings and Greg goes to answer it and Dick Clark is standing there and... I'll just type it out for you.
Random Lady: Everyone! Think a number and lick the watcher's face!
Doorbell: DING DONG!
Greg: I'll get it! (opens the door) Dick Clark?!? Trust me, you do NOT want to come in here!
Dick Clark: Ooooh, you must be the watcher!
:P
Lauria Penbrook Goes to Hogwarts is a fanfiction of Harry Potter I made. This is the first chapter.
"Come on, Lauria!" her mother called from the swing set where she and Leena were teaching little Luke how to pump. Lauria Penbrook glanced up from her book.
"No thanks, Mom."
"Aw, but darling, it's a nice sunny day, and all you want to do is sit underneath that umbrella and read that silly book!"
"That's right."
"Leena, dear, you help your brother," Mrs. Penbrook said and made her over to Lauria. "Honestly, Lauria, I worry about you. All you do is read! Wouldn't you rather play with your brother and sister?"
"No, not really," Lauria said and made no effort to make eye contact.
Mrs. Penbrook sighed. "Please, dear? For me?"
"You got me out of the house, didn't you?"
"I suppose that's true..." Mrs. Penbrook crouched down so that she would be eye level with he daughter. "Lauria, look at me, darling."
Lauria glanced up.
"I'm very tired, dear. I've been a housewife since you were born. Your father goes to work everyday and leaves me to take care of the three of you. I'm asking this of you as a favor, Lauria. Keep and eye on Leena and Luke for me. Just for an hour or so. Just long enough for me to take a nap."
Lauria closed the book and sat it down on the ground.
Mrs. Penbrook breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you, dear."
Her mother went inside their two-story home, and Lauria made her way over to her two younger siblings.
"Yay! Lauria's gonna play with us!" Luke shouted gleefully. Lauria grinned and patted her 7-year-old brother on the head. "That's right, kid."
"Let's play explorer!" the little boy said as he jumped up from the swing and pumped his plump little fists in the air.
Leena rolled her eyes. "Really? Can't we play something a little more quiet?"
"Aw, come on, Lee. If you had your way, we'd all be doing puzzles."
"I hate puzzles!" Luke declared and crossed his arms.
"Fine then. We'll play explorer," Leena said as she tossed her blonde curls behind her.
Laura and Leena looked like their mother, whereas Luke looked like the children's father. The girls had wavy, almost curly, long blonde hair and sapphire eyes. The boys' hair was somewhat chestnut with big, dark brown eyes.
Benjamin Alan Penbrook had grown up in the hustle and bustle of the city and decided that he preferred the country. He met Emily Amelia Benson on a trip to London once, and they got married. The couple moved into the country where Ben built the house for his wife. Five years later, Lauria Michelle had been born.
Lauria briefly remembered life without her sister, Leena Marie. She had been only 2 years old, a baby, when the "Little Miss Know It All" child entered the world. And two more years had gone by when Luke Michael was born. Lauria's days before him were more recallable.
She remembered a time, while her brother was barely three years old, when she and Leena had played a game they called Psychic.
Five Years Earlier
"Come on, Leena. It'll be fun!" Lauria said as she coaxed her baby sister underneath the opening in the back of the large pine tree in her back yard. The five year old crossed her arms and stamped her foot.
"No way, Laurie!" she said using her older sister's nickname, since she could not yet say 'Lauria' correctly.
"Well why not?"
"Because I don't want to play your stupid game! Rosetta and me were going to have a tea party! And you're not invited!" Leena said, nose in air, as she prepared to walk off towards the house. Lauria ran after her, and snatched Rosetta out of her hands.
"Hey!" Leena cried out in protest. Lauria ran back to the cut out in the pine tree.
"LAURIE! COME BACK HERE WITH ROSETTA!" Leena chased her.
When she arrived, Lauria was leaning against the trunk of the tree, with Rosetta sitting high above her head in a branch.
"GIVE ME ROSETTA!" Leena screamed furiously as she tried to punch Lauria in the stomach. The little girl's blonde pigtails flopped around as she shook her head violently.
"Ouch! Hold on, squirt! Play my game and you can have Rosetta back, OK?"
Leena wiped her hot tears away.
"Promise?" she sniffled.
"Promise."
"Pinky promise?" the younger sister stuck out her littlest finger.
"Pinky promise."
"OK, how do you play?"
Lauria smiled triumphantly. It was no easy task getting her sister to play games with her. Especially if they were of Lauria's own invention.
"The name of the game is Psychic. Sit down on the ground and close your eyes."
"But the ground is dirty!" Leena declared in shock. She hated being even close to filth.
Lauria rolled her eyes. "Look, do you want Rosetta back, or not?" Leena looked uneasy, but she did as Lauria asked, though she sat on her heels. Lauria sat down in front of her.
"Now close your eyes."
"OK."
"Think of the meanest meanie you can think of. Now tell me who they are and what they did."
Leena scrunched up her face. "Well, you stole Rosetta..."
"Sisters don't count."
"Fine then. Dummy Meredith Winkler stole my cookies at snack time... I told Mrs. Crumb what she did, and Dummy Meredith told Mrs. Crumb that I had already eaten my cookies, and that she tried to share hers with me when I tried to sneak one. Only I didn't want to share and tried to blame everything on her! Mrs. Crumb made me stand in the corner."
Lauria smiled. It wasn't very nice of Meredith to steal her sister's cookies, but it was kind of cute that Leena was still this upset about it. After all, it had happened last week. Poor Leena had come home in tears. Mrs. Penbrook held her youngest daughter while she sobbed and told her about the whole thing. Lauria wasn't the type to get upset over such small things.
"OK. What do you think the best punishment for Meredith should be?" Lauria asked.
"Something bad! I wish the worst possible thing would happen to her!"
Lauria guessed by that comment that Leena wished that all of Meredith's hair would fall out and her parents would give away all of her dolls. Lauria handed Leena a piece of paper and a pen.
"Write down specifically what you wish would happen to her," Lauria instructed. Leena may have only been 5, but she could read and write. Their mother had made sure that each of her children were getting an early start. Lauria already knew her times tables and Little Ben was learning his alphabet. Leena finished and handed the paper back to Lauria, who began to tear it up into even squares.
"Now eat them," she said returning them to Leena.
"Eat them? No way! This is a silly game!"
"Do you want Meredith to pay or not?"
Leena looked undecidedly at the paper bits.
"All right then..." She took them from her sister and shoved them in her mouth and began to chew.
"Leena, you don't chew paper!"
"But Mommy says to always chew your food before you swallow it."
Lauria clapped a hand to her forehead. "Paper isn't... Listen, do you chew your apple sauce?"
Leena thought for a moment. "No."
"How about your cottage cheese?"
"No."
"Then you don't need to chew paper!"
"Good point," Leena said as she swallowed. "Now. Give me Rosetta."
"Girls!" their mother called from inside the house. "Girls, come inside! Quickly!"
Lauria climbed up the tree like a squirrel and dropped the doll back down to Leena, who stuck her tongue out at her.
"What, I kept my promise, didn't I?"
"Yes, but you're still a mean big sister!"
Lauria jumped down from the tree. "I don't like to think of it as mean, more like... harassment."
"GIRLS!"
"COMING MOM!" Lauria shouted back. "Come on, kid."
Emily Penbrook was sitting inside the kitchen at the table. She wore a troubled expression and was sipping hot tea.
"What's wrong, Mommy?" Leena asked as she clutched her doll.
"Oh girls, you know that girl, Meredith Winkler?"
The sisters exchanged glances nervously and nodded.
Emily sighed. "Well it appears that she and her family were in a car accident a few minutes ago."
Leena held Rosetta tighter. "Is... Is she OK, Mommy?"
Emily rubbed her temples. "Well, her parents are. But I'm afraid... I'm afraid Meredith didn't make it. She died, girls."
Needless to say, the Penbrook sisters never played a game of Psychic again. And never did they mention the game to anyone, either. As Lauria and Leena grew older, Leena decided it was a coincidence and forgot about it. But Lauria never forgot. She was curious. She spent all her spare time reading up on magic, and psychic powers, generally anything of the paranormal. Vampires intrigued her quite a bit. Little did Lauria Penbrook know that her studies would pay off in due time.