Extract I've ruined everything!

[Victoria de Lacey]

Tori walked in the door and honestly she felt exhausted already. Her final days in Hogwarts had not been at all what she had expected and then Esme hadn’t even looked at her since their kiss and now she was pretty sure she’d just really ruined a friendship. She didn’t even know what had happened between Esme and Felix because she couldn’t ask, when she’d gotten up in the morning, she didn’t know if Esme was pretending to be asleep or actually asleep, but she’d taken the early carriages down to Brightstone to go home. She didn’t see the point in waiting if her friend wasn’t going to say goodbye to her and honestly she wasn’t feeling all that great about seeing any of her other friends either - so she was home earlier than her mum would be expecting.

She dropped all of her things by the door the moment she walked in, wandering through the house to find her mum. She checked every room she came across until she reached the dark room, and didn’t even bother to knock as she entered and fell into her mother’s arms, crying. She didn’t know what to do, what to say, or where she was even going to go from this point. She wrapped her arms around her mum’s waist and pressed her face into her shoulder. She’d had a bit of a growth spirt at school clearly, because she wasn’t this tall last time.​

 

[Georgina de Lacey]

Georgina always looked forward to the days her children came home from school. It was the first year for a long time that Rory wouldn’t be the one coming home, it would just be Tori. She stood in her dark room at her home developing a collection of photos she had taken recently. Most were for a recent job, there were a couple that she had taken Marigold the last time she had seen her, she enjoyed taking Marigold’s photo, she was incredibly photogenic and had a beautiful face which she liked looking at.

She was so focused on her work that Georgina didn’t hear the door, she certainly wasn’t expecting Tori home yet as it was much earlier in the day than she usually got home so she was very surprised when the door to her dark room swung open and a much taller Tori flung herself into her arms. Georgina instinctively held her daughter tightly, missing her presence but she knew this was more than a girl missing her mother, something was wrong. “Sweetie what’s wrong?”