So unlikely a meeting

[Carah Denton]

Set in mid August 2030. A park in London, not far from the London eye. Its about two in the afternoon. The weather is fine. There is a slight breeze and the park is deserted.

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It had to be one of the weirdest days in Creta's entire life. First of all Shiloh had woken up and suddenly wanted to be left alone. Which was weird, seeing as she always wanted Creta to watch her do her holiday homework, because it fascinated Creta. But for some reason, this day, was different. Shiloh was in one of those moods she used to have when she was younger. It used to happen alot when Creta used to go off to all those camps for the music club. Shiloh hadn't been allowed to join incase she did some accidental magic. They had pretty much figured out by the time Shiloh was eight that she had magic. They kept looking for a sign that Creta too had magic, but after Shiloh hit ten and got her letter, they knew that magic would never surface. Shiloh had been pretty angry about it and had tried to force magic into Creta by doing various things such as preying and spirity stuff, but ofcourse, nothing worked. Creta didn't mind so much though, she had always lived in the shadow of her big sister, now that Shiloh wasn't around as much, she was more able to come into her own person because of it. She was able to make friends, to get a life. Up until recently she even had a boyfriend, they dated for just over six months, but when he wanted to go further and she didn't want to, they had broken up. Shiloh didn't know about it because she had stopped writing letters to her in about third year. Creta had eventually stopped writing letters aswell. But then all of a sudden, Creta was getting letters everyday. Shiloh was behaving sort of erraticly and it had started to scare Creta. Then about eight weeks ago, Shiloh's friend Grace had come to stay. She was a very odd girl. She was like a real proper lady and she spoke funny. Seeing Shiloh around Grace had made her realise just the kind of friends she was making at Hogwarts and for a while she had been jealous. Jealous of knowing that the relationship Shiloh had with Grace was the kind of relationship she used to have with Shiloh. Grace was also the reason they now had a tonne of money, got driven around by a limo and now lived in a way too big house that was about ten rooms shy of a mansion. It was this reason that brought Creta out to the park now. She was looking for a way to just let loose. To be away from all the stress of her upcoming exams. She had never expected for things to get this hard. She shook her head and walked over to the swing. The day itself was warm, but the sky was kind of overcast. It look pretty good, infact she might want to write a song about it later. But not right now. Right now she was just enjoying chilling on the swing. Her eyes closed, humming to herself an old tune, that didn't really belong to anything.

 

[Andy Hydran]

Andy had not been in Londen for a while, but he was here now because his aunt was getting married. Though his father had grown a bit odd and nnever registered Andy as a hhuman being, he still keot iin ccontact with Andy's mothers side of the fafamily, so naturally, when Aunt Silvia was getting married, ndy and his father were expected tto attend. But Andy didn't like weddings, they were scary to the smalsmall blonde. But he did like to spend time with the oother half of his family, the Hydran-Kuya's were a lovely bunch, but Andy could only ttolerate ththat half of his family for a certain amount of time, the Rowan's, on the other hand, reminded him of his late mother, and so held aa special place in his heart. Especially Aunt Silvia, since she hhappened to llook exactly like his mother, he loved her dearly, it was hard to dislike the people that looked so much like the onky person hhe was never scared by in any situation, even when his mother was angry, Andy was never scscared to the point oof fainting, everyone else in his family wwere able to upset him in a way that would cause hhim toto feel sick and faint. He sighed slightly and put his hands in hhis ppockets, it was cold here, and he would surely catch a cold. Apparently it was supposed to bebe warm, but Andy was ffrom NNew Zealand, so of courcourse he ffound it cold hhere, it was impossible to nonot find it cold, he felt like he waswas going to turn into an Andy Hydran Iceblock for the sake of the spirits. Looking around, Andy soon spotted a park, it was next to deserted and so he entered it slowly, making sure they he didn't trip in aanything or something of a similar nature, knowing his luck, a randim kid would come out of no whwhere and knick him down iinto the ground.

Andy scanned the park, and saw a girl on the swings, he nodded. He was most certainly not going to the swings then. As he walked though, he couldn't help but take notice of her, since he was iin a muggle area, he could assume ththat the girl was a muggle. HAndy ddiscreately pulled his wand out aand pushed it into the side of his gum boots, the last tthing he wanted was the girl to see his wand budging in his pants pocket. Sure, Andy wasn't allowed to ccast magic out sside of school, but what if he wwas attacked? If Andy was attacked the onky way he could defend himself was with hhis wand, so he never left without it on his person. Andy,s mother was a muggle too, with blonde hahair like that girl, his mother was british and Andy assumed tthis girl would be also. This made her automatically be on Andy's good side, if there was one thing AAndy was not terrified oof, it was young muggles, because he had one thing that protected hhimfrom them, magic. He didn'tt go to the girl though, that was nnot whwho hhe was, he never approached people, ever. So he continued walking, that is until he sliped down a slope and topptoppled to ththe ground.
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