Home for the Holidays

[liliane]

As Liliane approached the sidewalk of her house she stopped to gaze at her house. She smiled and gave a reasurring sigh at her beautiful home, then continued her way to the door. When she finally reached her doorstep she placed all of her things down on the cement, stepped up to the door, and began to knock. Everytime Liliane knocked she never knew if they could hear her, so she pounded with all her might, after a few good pounds she stopped and looked at her all red hand and frowned."Good way to start off vacation." she began to say when her mother opened the door. Liliane's frown sooned turned to a brillant smile. She stared at her for a brief moment, and then went straight into her open arms for a nice hug. "I've missed you so much!" said Liliane as she hugged her mother.

It was not long before the rest of her family heard the commotion. Her brother, her sister, and her father all came running towards the door. Liliane smiled and greeted them the same way she had greeted her mother, with a warm loving hug. As she hugged her last family member, her father used his wand to take all of Liliane's items up to her room. The whole family brought Liliane into the family room to sit and talk. She posistioned herself just right and fell straight back onto the couch, tucking her feet under her legs. Liliane looked around the room directing her eyes to her family's christmas tree. It looked gorgeous with it's satin red garland and white lights. She sized the tree from top to bottom, stopping at the bottom to notice the presents that had been lying under the tree. While Liliane had been staring at the tree her mother had tapped her on the shoulder handing her a cup of warm hot chocolate, Liliane's favorite winter drink.

As her family sat down around her, they began to ask questions. "So honey, how's school?" Her mother asked in hopes of a good response. Liliane smiled and responded. "Well mum, it's not that bad, I mean I've been getting tons of homework, but besides that I have been making some awesome friends. " Her mother smiled, "Glad to hear." Liliane yawned. Her feelings of wanting to be with her family were overcome by feelings of tiredness. Liliane began to talk sipping her last bit of hot chocolate, "Well if you guys don't mind I think I'm going to go get some sleep. It was a pretty long ride home and I'm beat." Her mother and father smiled and nodded as she proceeded up the steps to her room.

As she opened the door she went straight to her bed to lay down and sleep. She immediately closed her eyes as she slept with wonderful happy thoughts.

[liliane]

Liliane had been in her room strumming away on her new guitar her mother and father gave her for christmas. She loved it. She didn't know any chords or anything, but her brother Ayden did. He told her that he would teach her to play sometime during the break, if he wasn't busy. Liliane smiled as she strummed her last strum and placed her guitar on her bed. She didn't want to play anymore until her brother would teach her.

She walked out of her room and headed downstairs towards the kitchen. There she saw her entire family plus her brother's girlfriend Isabell, standing there talking. Her brother and Isabell had dated for longer than a year, but as he saw that he was with her and not actually busy, it kind of upset her. She wanted him to teach her and not be with her. Liliane knew that she was being selfish, but she wasn't used to not having attention. As she entered the kitchen only her younger sister Victoria had noticed her entrance. "Hey Lil!" Victoria had her hand up and ready for a high five, and Liliane accepted the high five with a hard slap and laughed. Her brother's girlfriend looked over in the 2 girls direction and spoke, "Liliane! Hey, how are you, how's school?" Isabell walked over to give Liliane a hug and as they hugged Liliane replied, "School's good, and I'm doing well, what about yourself?" Liliane had always liked Isabell, she was a sweet girl, even if she did steal her brother away from Liliane sometimes. "I'm good sweety thanks." Isabell replied. Liliane turned towards her brother and began to talk, "Hey there booger butt." Liliane laughed and her brother insisted on rubbing her head hard and rough until her hair was nice and messy. "Thnx." she said smiling, and then she decided to head back to her room.

When she reached her room she sat down on her bed and wrote in her journal. She wrote nothing of importance though, she just basically scribbled down little nothings and pictures. As she sat I know she writing, she heard a knock on her door. "Who is it?" she yelled. "It's me." replied the voice. "Come in!" she said back. It was Ayden, she knew his voice very well.

Ayden walked into the room smiling with his guitar in his hand. "Ready to rock?" he said sacastically as he joined her on the bed. Liliane smiled. She had assumed that Isabell left and was kind of happy too. Liliane picked up her guitar and her lesson was started.

[liliane]

Liliane smiled as she played a Spanish song her brother had just taught her. She was full of delight as she strummed away trying to remember what he had taught her in the past 2 hours. It was only her first lesson, but she was a very fast learner. "I'm out Lil, I'm going over Isabell's." her brother began saying as she finished the song. "See you later." he said as he left the room. Liliane screamed bye as she heard him running down the steps. Liliane put down her guitar and decided to go downstairs.

As she walked downstairs he sister came running up to her saying "Come play with me outside!" Her sister Victoria tugged on her shirt pretty hard, annoying Liliane. "Ayden's leaving and I'm bored with him, he's played with me a lot in the snow already and you haven't!" Liliane groaned. "Okay let me get my coat." Liliane ran up to her room and grabbed her winter jacket, and a slipped on a pair of snow boots. She ran back downstairs and entered the kitchen where her parents pointed outside, directing that Victoria was already out there.

As she walked outside she saw that it was snowing beautiful flakes. She began to twirl around in circles giggling as she got so dizzy that she fell to the ground, where she layed to make a snow angel. As Liliane finished up her angel she yelled to Victoria asking her to help her up, so she would not ruin her angel.

Victoria helped her up with ease, and then the 2 of them admired it, until Victoria decied to run through it messing it up completely. Liliane steamed. "You little brat!" Liliane began to chase her sister around the yard until Liliane decided to make a snow ball and wail her with it. She piled some snow into her hand and threw it as hard as she could hitting her directly in the arm. "Yes!" screamed Liliane pulling back her arm back towards her chest for triumph.

It didn't take long for Victoria to catch on, and soon enough the 2 girls were furiously in a snowball battle. Laughing and tumbling around every which way, the girls were having a blast. As the last snowball was thrown Liliane collasped to the ground panting. The next thing she heard was her mom, "Girls! Come in and get some hot chocolate." Liliane watched as Victoria ran in the house as fast as she could, Liliane guessed that she was unsure of whether the battle was over or not. Liliane got up rather slowly. As she walked into the house she thought about how much she had missed her family while away at school. She was having too much fun to go back. Liliane sighed as she opened the door to see her mother standing near it smiling with a cup of hot chocolate in her hand for Liliane to have.

[liliane]

Liliane felt a bit of sadness as she woke up. It was the day after Christmas and she always felt sad after Christmas was over. The build up to Christmas was always Liliane's favorite,but now that everything was over one must wait a whole year for Christmas to come again. Liliane got up from her bed and walked over to her window to see about a foot of snow covering the ground, and it was still snowing. 'Great,' thought Liliane, 'Why couldn't the snow be here yesterday, when it was Christmas?' Liliane thought about how it did not snow once on Christmas, when she was used to a snow covered ground on Christmas day. Sighing, Liliane walked away from her window and continued downstairs, slowly and steady, for she was still half asleep.

Liliane rubbed her eyes as she reached her family room, to see her mother smiling fully dressed with her winter gear on as well. "Liliane," her mother began. "I'm going shopping to return some things that Vikki didn't like, you want to join me and your sister and that way you could return all of your shirts and pants that didn't fit now insteading of waiting until the last minute. We're leaving in the next 15 minutes so lets go." Liliane felt a bit of anger rise through her as she responded with whatever and stormed up the stairs to get ready. 'I love how no one tells me these things til' the last minute.' Liliane went straight to her room and put on her warmest clothes along with her scarf, beanie, and gloves too. She then went into the bathroom and put on all of her makeup, making her look 4 years older than what she was. Liliane smiled and headed downstairs.

Liliane's mother looked to her father when she entered the room. "Aw honey look how beautiful our little girl is becoming." Liliane blushed as her mom licked her finger and intended on getting something off of Liliane's face. "Eww, gross mom." Liliane said backing away from her mother's licked finger. Liliane grabbed the floopowder from her mother as she slammed it to the ground and said Diagon Ally, for that was their first stop.

[liliane]

Liliane sat in her room staring blankly at her suitcases in which she had just finished packing her stuff. Her suitcases were mainly filled with new clothes to show off, but then again there was her books and other school necessities as well. Liliane began to feel sick as she thought of school. She hated going back to school, she hated the work and stress in which school causes. Sighing a bit, Jersey took her suitcase and her trunk downstairs one by one and set them by the door.

Liliane gave the air a big wiff and smelt the smell of a homemade dinner. It was the smell of chicken and stuffing, Liliane's absolute favorite. She knew that her mom had made it for her since she was leaving tonight. Liliane walked into the kitchen and saw that everyone was already there including Isabell. She noticed that everyone seemed a bit glum. The kitchen was quite quiet except for the tapping of Victoria's fork against her plate, waiting for her food. Liliane pulled up a chair and as she did she watched as her mother placed the dinner onto the table. Immediately everyone began piling thier plates with food, Liliane as well. She took a bite of the chicken first and boy did she think it was good. "It's excellent, mum." Liliane began saying as took in another bite. Once one person complimented everyone else began too.

After the compliments Liliane's father chimed in, "So, when do you want to leave for the station Lil?" Liliane looked down at her plate and then looked at her parents with some sort of idea. "I guess right after dinner, the sooner I get back, the sooner I have to unpack my stuff and get situated before Monday comes." "Okay." her father said as she watched him take another bite.

Dinner went by in a breeze and Liliane tried to enjoy every bit of dinner with her family very slowly. As everyone took their plates to the sink Liliane went straight upstairs to get her winter jacket,scarf,gloves, and hat. She put them all on and looked around her room, smiling, and then she shut the door. As she walked downstairs she thought of all the friends she had made before the start of break, and hoped that her friendships with all of them and smiled. 'School really won't be too bad with all of my friends there with me.' Liliane thought as she made her way to the door. Everyone had been standing there for their goodbyes.

One by one Liliane hugged each one of them saying how much she'd miss them and in reply each one said a little something different, but all pretty much saying the whole thing. Liliane picked up her suitcase and watched as her dad grabbed the trunk and took it to the car. Liliane exited through the door and looked back at her smiling family waving and blowing kisses. "See you soon!" Liliane shouted as she got into the car and wound down the window. She watched her dad start the car, and then they were off. Liliane sat back and smiled, thinking of what lay ahead of her for the new year.