One Letter To Destroy Pt 1 pv June Selwyn Fin

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One letter... than everything changed.

It was a day like any other, breakfast, classes, the odd conversation, homework, bed. Nothing was planned. No test to plan for, no unfortunate situation to process. The weeks up until now had be relatively boring to say the least. Like life had plateaued, stunted in growth, however else one could explain a lull in time.

One letter later.

Monica wasn't expecting mail. She was never unhappy to receive mail, but it was apparent that her family wasn't warming up to the idea of handwriting a message to hand off to a large bird of pray, in hopes that it reached young Evans. The last owl from home Moni received was short, sweet and mostly about Christmas plans this year. Hardly any question about what she was learning, how Hogwarts was, or any inclination of pride her family had for her being a witch. Most of the magical talk seemed to be shoved under the rug for some sort of reason.

Over the course of Monica's life, she had always felt... different from her family. There was no explanation, some people might have a phrase... 'it runs in my family' that was never something Monica said about her own traits. The more she thought about it growing up, the more she felt vastly different from her family, like she didn't belong, or was a stranger to them. It was a regular conversation she had with her older sister, the life long question, why was Monica so... apart from her family? For years it seemed the question would go un answered, that there was no explanation, that she just received all the odd genes, but the day she got her letter from Hogwarts, and learned about her powers, and the wizarding world, she thought, 'That was it! That was why she was so different!' Knowing this, would surely fix whatever strain she felt in her family..... right?

It was this... one... letter.

On this particular day, with no warning, or special event occurring, Monica received a letter, but it wasn't from her family.... just her sister. She was thrilled when opening it up, excited to feel like she was having her old talks again with Victoria, a past time she longed for since leaving home... but that was not the nature of this letter. What lay sprawled out on the page, written in Victoria's handwriting, was a long kept secret... finally revealed to Monica.

She scanned over the letter once....twice....thrice! Searching for an explanation, the punch line to a joke... only to find none. It was serious... and real.

Monica, having been reading the letter in the Slytherin common room, crumpled it and shoved the thing into her pocket, leaving the room in great haste. With no clear destination in mind, only the lingering feeling of having to escape... get away, running through her mind.

She found herself walking through the halls of the castle. Her world shaken. Passing by people in their perfectly mundane realities, as her own was shattered. The letter burning a hole in her mind. "It could't be real! It mustn’t be." Monica recited in her head.

Her pace quickened, she found herself nearly running through the sea of faces, not picking out who was who, but just having to keep going, faster! She couldn't stop. He legs carried her far away from where she had received the letter, almost as if escaping that area would make the contents disappear...

As she turned a corner, she felt her legs stop, her body falling backwards, and her head throbbing... Was that a wall? She picked herself up, she could now feel the cold liquid running down her face... touching it, she knew it wasn't blood, but tears.

Looking past the obstacle she had just hit, she saw her sanctuary, the lavatories was feet away from her. Without a pause, she rushed in... and as she did she wondered... was that June?

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| 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉: @June Selwyn |