When Dreams Come True

Worst Day Ever


Alanna Reese was a normal fourteen-year-old girl from a normal family. Classified as a \"Geek\" at school, Alanna had no friends, ate alone at lunch, and lived in a fantasy world.


She read her favorite books, the Harry Potter series, over and over, always willing herself to just disappear into that world. Alanna had a crush on Sirius Black, not the hottest guy in school, she wanted to see a Unicorn, not ride a horse. She wanted a Phoenix to talk to, not a Parrot, and most of all, she wanted friends who loved her so much that they\'d die for her if they had to, and she for them.

Alanna sighed as she picked at her food during lunch; she glanced over at the people sitting at the table on the other side of the room. All of the grades ate together, and her brother, Daniel, was sitting there, hazel eyes sparkling with their usual amusement. He was surrounded by friends, as usual. He didn\'t seem to notice his sister. \'How could he just ignore me? I\'m his fucking sister for God\'s sake\', She thought, thoroughly annoyed that he had so many friends while she had none.

She sighed and gave up on her food, pushing it aside. With a last wistful glance at Dan\'s table full of laughing juniors, Alanna hid her grey eyed, slightly freckled face behind \'The Order of The Phoenix\' and drifted off into her own world once again:

\"The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive. Cars that were usually gleaming stood dusty in their drives and lawns that were once emerald green lay parched and yellowing- for the use of hose pipes had been banned due to the drought. Deprived of their usual car washing and lawn mowing pursuits, the inhabitants of Privet Drive had retreated into the shade of their cool houses, windows thrown open wide in the hope to tempt a non-existent breeze. The only person left outdoors was a teenage boy, who was lying flat on his back in a flowered garden outside number four.\"

\"Excuse me, Miss Reese,\" Alanna put her book down and stared up into the teacher\'s brown eyes, they looked grave and Alanna immediately got nervous. \'Dammit, can this day get any worse?\'

\"Come with me to the office, you can finish your lunch later.\" she said, showing absolutely no emotion to give away the reason for fetching Alanna. She closed her book and quickly threw the rest of her lunch in the rubbish bin. She didn\'t notice that her brother had already left his group of friends.

The teacher said nothing to her as she walked briskly towards the office. Alanna just ran her hands through her shoulder length dark brown hair nervously. When they got there she wanted to stop and run away. Her brother was there that meant there had to be a problem.

\'Am I in trouble?\' Alanna thought. \'Why aren\'t my parents here, why\'s Dan here?\' Thousands of possibilities swarmed through her head, but it was not until she glimpsed Dan\'s tearstained face that she was absolutely certain something was wrong. Dan doesn\'t cry.

\"What happened?\" Alanna blurted looking from the principal to the teacher to her brother. Dan shook his head and hugged her. \'Oh no, oh nonononono!\' She thought. \'Dan doesn\'t just hug me, ever, what\'s wrong!\'

\"Your mother and father got into a car accident with a semi truck,\" The teacher said solemnly. \"I\'m afraid they didn\'t survive the impact.\"

Alanna just stood there. Her world had just stopped spinning and came to a terrifying screeching halt.

\"Sorry,\" she squeaked, \"but did I hear properly?\" She was too upset to even cry, she wanted to just curl into a little ball and disappear. \'That\'s it? She thought, Just like that? They\'re dead! That’s all they can fucking tell me!\'

The principal nodded sadly. \"It\'s been arranged for your aunt in America to take custody of you two, but she can\'t come for another three days. I trust you and your brother are old enough to stay home by yourselves for the next few days?” The principal said, looking between the two grief stricken kids. “You two are excused from school seeing as you are moving out of the country...\" Alanna nodded slowly, still in shock, but she stopped listening. No, this wasn\'t happening... this couldn\'t be happening...

The next two days Alanna cried and cried and cried. That was all she could do. She didn\'t eat and she didn\'t sleep. All she did was wish, wish she could live in the Harry Potter world. Escape from her sad excuse for a life, she did NOT want to move to the states, stupid yanks and she did not want to move in with her aunt.

Her brother tried to make her feel better but nothing worked. She was so mad she wanted to scream, and did a few times.

This CAN\'T be happening! She thought the night before her aunt was due to come, she jumped on her bed and grabbed her pillow, pushing her face into the pillow and not caring who heard her she started to chant… \"I want to go to Hogwarts! I want to be a witch, be friends with the Marauders, and have no problems!\" She fell asleep, hugging her pillow as if afraid if she loosened her grip she\'d lose everything she had left.