These Days ((Meyghan))

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Jamison sighed stuffing the letter in his pocket that he had just received from Wendi. She had worried him over the past month with her previous letters. The things she was saying were just so weird. It as weird to think that Keith was back in her life in any way, even through another person. Jamison shook his head leaving his empty bedroom, walking through the empty house. He had been alone in the house for a month. His grand-parents were in Paris and Wendi was staying with Carr in Birmingham. He had never been alone like this. Not at all. Jamison looked over in the living room seeing Shea who was no perched on one of the chairs. “Silly owl.” He said petting the creature lightly on the head. Shea made a small owl like noise before flying to the opposite side of the room. Since his grand-parents were gone, Jamison let Shea fly around the house as she pleased, leaving his bedroom window open for her to come and go. So far, the arrangement had been working as Shea seemed to like the extra space that she had been getting. Jamison felt the need to reach back in his pocket and read the letter Wendi had written again, but he refrained. None of it would change the second time, right? He sighed moving to the closet by the staircase and pulling out his jacket. He pulled it own over blue shirt and then with a ‘pop’, Jamison was gone from the Parson Household.

Jamison loved getting to use magic outside of school. It made life so much easier, plus he was getting used to how things would be after he graduated. Things had become so much clearer for Jamison since he realized what he wanted to do after graduation. He had always considered joining the ministry, but now he was certain that he wanted to be involved in the Magical Law Enforcement squad to find dangerous criminals. However, Jamison was certain that he would go about this the right way. He knew better than most of how certain people in the ministry did things. Jamison would not be one of them. Jamison waved to some Hogwarts Students that were about the Alley as he walked through the somewhat familiar crowd. Jamison felt weird now about to enter his Seventh Year. All of a sudden people at school seemed to know him and Jamison knew many of them as well. It was weird to think that the sky first year was now a somewhat talkative Seventh Year. Jamison sighed walking into a familiar shop knowing that this would be one of his last Diagon Alley Visits before he graduated.

After picking up the flowers that Jamison wanted, he set apparated to Meyghan’s household half expecting to see Cleve or Lindy at the door, but instead it was Meyghan. Jamison smiled as he had not seen her since school was out, but he had sent the occasional owl. Jamison handed her the sunflowers he had picked out for her. It was an unexpected visit, but Jamison had really wanted to see her. “Hey, I hope this isn’t a bad time.” He offered smiling brightly. “But, I wanted to see you and I missed you. And I’m in a completely silent house which makes a boy want to go crazy.” He smiled again hoping that she wouldn’t mind the visit. He hoped that she understood that she really had been missed as well. “So, how has it been going beautiful?” he asked with the sincere charm that he had always possessed. “I do hope the sibling haven’t been giving you too hard of a time, but here is a fact.” He smiled and whispered. “You do actually miss them.” He joked, still being completely honest. He missed Wendi and hoped that she was okay, but he knew that dropping in on her would only make her angry. Jami looked to Meyghan waiting for her to say something.

[Meyghan Gallagher R7]

Meyghan sat around the house waiting, something she swore she would never do for a guy, but she couldn’t help herself. There was something about Jamison that made her want to wait forever just for a simple owl from him. She still couldn’t believe that just a few months ago she had confessed through song that she was in love with him. The shock had worn off, but there were times that it just seemed like a dream to her. She had told him on Valentine’s Day, of all the days out of the year to choose to do so. She missed him so much that every owl she had gotten this summer had been cherished as if it would parish if someone else were to read it. She couldn’t let that happen so the letters had carefully been tied up with Meyghan’s sheer Ravenclaw blue hair ribbon and put in a pearl colored box that would only open with the sound of her voice. This insured that no one else, especially Cleveland, could get to the letters. Cleveland had teased her about the letters to the point that she had almost jinxed him. A dog, that’s what I should have turned him into. Meyghan thought to herself. Surely her dad wouldn’t have minded her turning Cleveland into a dog. Lindy would have loved it definitely. The family had gone for the day, and Meyghan was home by herself for a while. She had enjoyed being alone for one day, she had borrowed some of Gary’s muggle cds and her mom’s muggle cd player. Her mom, that was a word that gave Meyghan some thought. She had finally gotten comfortable enough to call Kelsey “mom”. It had taken her a few months after the wedding to be able to do that. She had a second mother now; some people never got that chance. Meyghan knew that she was blessed. Some of the kids that she went to school with didn’t even have parents anymore, Meyghan thought instantly of Sadie as that thought hit her. The young Hufflepuff had been so brave, even continuing to go home during the summer to a house that was empty all the time. To the place where her parents had both been found dead by what the Muggles called unknown causes. Sadie had never seemed so sure of that though.

Meyghan danced around the family room to the loud rock music that was coming out of the big stereo that belonged to Kelsey as she thought about the things that ran through her mind. One thought lead to another but they all seemed to circle back around to Jamison. Meyghan missed his smile, his charm, his charisma. She missed everything that made Jamison the person that she had fallen in love with. She wished with all her heart that she could see him before school had started. She had owled Dana and Cleo to inform them that something had come up and that she had to post-pone the planed trip to Italy to see them. Naturally, her two best friends had owled her back demanding to know what had come up that was causing the postponement. She charmed the letter she had written back to them to just blare out what she had written so that they would be as shocked as if it were coming from her. I told him I love Him. the letter had screamed, before she folded it up. She knew that they would be as shocked as she was for only they had known her secret. The owls back naturally wanted all the details, and Meyghan obliged with the return owls. She continued dancing, until she heard the familiar crack of someone apperating outside of her house. She wondered who could possibly be coming without letting her know. She turned the music down, straightened her hair, looked down at her pajamas and shrugged. “Oh well, who ever it is will just have to see me in them. At least they look nice.” She said to Tawa as she made her way to the door. The house-elf had stopped answering the door when Kelsey and her children had moved in. After a few startled Muggles that had come to the house and Tawa accidently answered the door, Felton had thought it best for her not to answer the door anymore. He didn’t want to have to explain that Tawa was a cousin, or a pet or something to that extent.
Meyghan grabbed the door knob unsure of who would be on the other side and if she should be answering the door in her pajamas or not. Well, her pajamas weren’t revealing or overly childish, just a pair of chocolate colored pajama bottoms and an adorable pink tee shirt with chocolate colored accent seams. Her father and Kelsey had bought the outfit for her and thought it funny for one to give her the pants and the other to give her the shirt, when it was obvious that the two pieces had been bought as a matching set. At least my hair looks decent. She thought to herself as she took a deep breath and gave the door a tug.

Opening the door, Meyghan gasped. Not only was she unprepared for visitors, but never expected Jami to be the one that was standing on the other side of the door. Meyghan’s mixed emotions took over instantly, and made her unsure of what to do. Meyghan took the flowers Jami handed to her, smiled and stood there a bit dumbfounded. She was standing in front of Jamison in her pajamas and he was still calling her beautiful. Meyghan’s mind filled with a hundred different thoughts at once, two of which she heard loudly; one telling her to slam the door shut, run upstairs change clothes and pray that he still be standing there when she came back down; the other telling her to smile and say something, not to worry about how she looked.
“It could never be a bad time for you to visit. I just wasn’t expecting anyone as you can see. The family is away for the day, some adventure that Cleve and Lindy led them on again. Things have been well, of course Cleveland and Lindy drive all of us a bit crazy, but I wouldn’t trade them for any other set of siblings in the world. Come in, won’t you.” Meyghan said, feeling for once this whole summer unsure of her self. She for some reason wasn’t sure how to act around Jamison any longer. She was always so nervous around him since Valentine’s Day, and it wasn’t like her to be that way around Jami. She had to find a way to shake the nervous feeling. She had so enjoyed being comfortable around him, and now she needed things to get back to the way they were. She had told him that she loved him, and it hadn’t really changed anything between them, they still talked to each other the same way, they still looked at each other the same way, so why was she so nervous around him. Meyghan had to get over this. Taking a deep breath and told herself that it was all in her mind. She needed to relax. Nothing was going to change between them.

“I’m glad you came. I was actually just thinking about you. I have missed you too.” Meyghan said as she led the way to the living room. Seeing Tawa peeking around the corner, Meyghan smiled and motioned to her that it was alright for her to come out. “Tawa, could you put these in a vase with some water, and bring them back to me please.” “The flowers are beautiful, Thank you.” She said looking at Jamison. Meyghan truly was glad to see Jamison, and had really been wanting to see him. The timing couldn’t be more perfect as there wasn’t anyone around to constantly interrupt them as they talked.