Chapter 1: Jamie Wong
It was a bright cloudy morning in Hamburg, Germany and a month from now, the skies will be clear and it'll be summer. as the bright rays of the sun shone through a window of a modern victorian looking house, a LOTR-themed clock striked 7 on a desk beside a wooden antique reproduction bed. Jamie has been awake for at least 15 minutes but she is still lying on her bed out of laziness. then, she realized she have to be at school around 7:45 so she got up and muttered to herself in German "don't worry Jamie, a month from now you'll sleep and stay as long as you want since it'll be summer vacation." she stretched her arms up a little bit and got her toothbrush and towel and then hastlingly went in the bathroom beside her room. she brushed her teeth and washed herself and headed immediately to her room to change clothes.
Jamie Chariss Wong was a newly turned 16 year old Chinese girl who grew up in Germany. She had long black hair, deep set brown eyes, porcelain skin and a slim body. She lives with her architect father Percy Wong in Hamburg after they moved out from Kowloon when her mother left 6 years ago. she first felt weard in Germany but as the years went by, she got along normally with kids her age. she loves fashion, music and mostly all things usually liked by German as well as Chinese teenagers.
despite of her normalness, she had one unusual thing she and her father kept secret to everyone and even to their closest friends: they are wizards. they are related with the wizard family Chang who are in Scotland. Percy went to Hogwarts in Britain to study wizardry for 2 years until he became 13 and he had to go back to study highschool and then college. his neighbors think the reason why he went to Britain is that he studied middle school in a London boarding school under a scholarship. since then, he studied magic at home and his daughter Jamie now does the same ever since she turned 11 years old.
Realizing she had no time to change clothes "muggle way", Jamie reached for her rowan wand and she pointed it to her closet. she muttered a one-word spell and some random clothes went towards and then fly around her like a whirlwind for five seconds then her blue pyjamas are now lying on the floor and Jamie is now wearing a black roll neck jumper over a white Christian Audigier tshirt, an Abbey Dawn plaid skirt, a long black leggings over it and fushia pink lace up boots. she picked up her Tazuma shoulder bag lying on the floor and she ran down the stairs to the kitchen. she reached the small, studio kitchen and she saw her dad Percy reading the morning paper and there are bread, bacon and eggs on a plate and a pot of tea in a small, polished wooden table. " Good morning Jamie..." her father greeted in Cantonese. " Good morning dad" Jamie replied in flawless Cantonese as well. "Summer vacation is around the corner for you, right dear?" Percy asked. "Uhh...yeah, summer's just a month away dad..." Jamie smiled, "...Lemme guess, i know we're going somewhere this vacation. i reckon it'll be in Paris? Stockholm? Glasgow?" Jamie asked her dad keenly as she eats her bacon and eggs. "Yeah we'll be spending summer somewhere..." her dad Percy grinned. "then where?" she asked eagerly, sipping a cup of tea. "I'll tell you later dear, in fact you're gonna be late, in fact it's already 7.40" Percy said as he briefly checked his wrist watch. Oh my, im gonna be late unless i apparate... Jamie thought. "Then dad, i have no choice but to apparate to school." Jamie firmly said. Even though she is still a bit underage(but now learning to do it), she had no choice or else she would suffer the dreadful state of detention and catch up tough lessons which are hard to get along when missed out. "Okay, then apparate. just as long as the muggles won't see you pop out of nowhere literally." her father confidently consented, "Thanks dad" she smiled and kissed her father in the right cheek. she then stood up, walked a bit and then she concentrated on the exact location where she should be. "Remember what i taught you about Jamie: Destination, Determination and Deliberation..." Percy warned,"...or else you'll splinch yourself again." he added. Imagine walking to class with a finger missing and the missing finger is left floating midair at home and probably watching MTV in the kitchen TV, it actually happened only three months ago, she thought. "no, i won't allow one of my body parts to be left here nor get in detention again." she strongly said.
She imagined an open place in school, where? she thought, the corridors? nah, too many people. the field? too many people as well. my locker? nah, too constricted. maybe the girls' bathroom? perfect. as in no one goes there yet usually at this time of the day. she concentrated standing on a specific, empty cubicle. she focused on the cubicle only and let her yearning flood her whole mind and every bit of her body. her whole self must be there, nothing should be left behind here. then she turned on the spot along feeling her way to nothingness and had a feeling she was being on a really tight rubber tube. with a pop, she opened her eyes and she had fully succeeded in apparating to school the same time the bell rang loud.
December 20,2008
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