about a day and a half (Ceil)

[Rin Marks]

Rin had been reading the letter over and over again. Hogwarts, a school that taught about magic. It had to be a scam, but it was not. A lady that lived next door had told them all about it. Had told there parents that she would be more then happy to take the children there. Rin had talked to her mother Diane Marks about it for a good day already. Would she really be alright there? What if she got suspended again. Was it a joke. The women had no clue what to tell her daughter. Other then she could go, and would be fine. Diane Marks and her husband knew that Rin and Ceil were adopted. They knew that and they never told her or him about it.

Diane had been one to want to change Rin. Rin was to much of a prankster. Always pulling pranks and gags. She had contantly gotten in trouble. Punished, and trouble again. It was a never ending cycle for her. She knew in England the rules were a bit steeper then what she had placed on her daughter. But she agreed that the two of them could go. So they packed there bags.

Rin had stuffed as many hats as she could into her trunk that she had. This was going to be a strange move. The women from next door had given the trunk to each of the children. The trunks had a special charm on them, in which they appeared deeper and wider towards the children but the same size when it came to the muggle eye. She had all her clothing in there, her stuffed bear, and a few trinkets she liked. She was packed and ready to go. All that was left was Ceil and getting him ready. Then the two of them, would move to London and stay for the rest of the muggle year.

[Ceil Marks]

Ceil didn't want to go. He didn't want to leave all his friends behind. He loved his friends, and his family. Yeah, Rin was going with him and she was his best friend. Always had been. But it was different. All the guys at school, the girl he was crushing on. He had to leave it all behind. All for something he just learned about.

If he was being truthful, he had known something was different about the two of them. The fact that they could make things happen. Things that seemed abnormal or impossible. Like turning things different colors or making things appear. Or the freaky twin thing they can do when hearing each others thoughts. No other twin he knows can do that. When he got his letter, it just felt right. Seeing the Hogwarts crest, learning that he was magical. Everything. It felt like he needed to do it. Needed to move across the world, alone, with only his sister. Like something was waiting there for him.

He threw all the things he needed into the trunk the neighbor gave him. Which included clothes, pictures of his friends and family, and some other things that were important to him like a couple select books. He didn't really know what he would need in England. The major things they would need for Hogwarts was the stuff they had to go buy in a place called Diagon Alley.

Ceil was scared, but he knew that eventually everything would work out. That eventually him and his sister would live amazing lives as a witch and a wizard. He knew it in his mind. That didn't make the jitters go away though. They were going to live practically on their own at the age of 10.

Ceil sighed before closing his trunk and dragging it to his sisters room down the hall to see if she was ready or not. He hoped she was. He knocked once then entered, knowing she'll probably get mad, but didn't care. He saw that she was already packed and ready to go, and was happy about that.

"I'm ready, Rin. What about you? We need to be leaving soon."

Even as Ceil said it, his smile was off his face. Something that was always placed happily on his face. It felt weird without it, but he felt it didn't belong right now.

[Rin Marks]

Rin looked around at her room. She noticed how quickly the room had bare walls ini it. Her closet was completely stripped of all her clothing, her dresser drawyers as well. It looked like she was moving forever. Which she sort of was. She just did not know it yet.

Rin had been thinking about the past events and it still felt like it was just a dream for her. "This can not be real, I mean we are only ten, there is no way that we are going to Hogwarts." She had her doubts that Hogwarts was even a real school. That it might be a school for someone to just kidnap them. Like the strange women that lived next door.

The crest did look real on the letter as she opened it up and turned it around over and over again. But why did they get there letters before they were eleven? It had said that they would have to be eleven right. She shrugged as she looked down at her stuff.

She could hear someone coming down the hallway and she knew it was Ceil. Ceil just gave off a different feeling then the rest of the parents did. She looked at him as he entered into her room. "I did not say come in." She rolled her eyes. She really hated when people did that.

She looked at him when he told her that he was ready. She nodded. "Yeah I am ready too." She told him. "I know we have to be leaving, lets say goodbye to Mom and Dad." She said softly.

Even if they did not always treat them fairly. They were at least her family for all intentional purposes. Even if Destiny (no offense) treated her the worst out of all of them. She still wanted to say goodbye. So she dragged her trunk out of her room and down the staircase to sit at the door.

She hugged her mom, her dad, and her sister. It was moments later that her father told her to behave and he gave her a necklace. It surprised her because she had never gotten something like that from them. She nodded. She turned to look at Ceil, maybe this was not a good thing. She felt a little torn in what to do.

[Ceil Marks]

Ceil saw through her eyes what she was thinking. She didn't know whether or not they should actually go or not. He had to say... he didn't know either. He didn't know if leaving everything behind was a good thing. But if they were actually magical. If they could actually produce magic with a wand like the neighbor told them they could. Wouldn't it be worth it? To embrace who they truly are on the inside. Maybe it would bring them to meet their father, or at least know who he was instead of not even know his name.

"Don't worry, Rin. Everything will work out in the end. We'll be fine in England. We can take care of ourselves. We've always been more independent than anyone we know. As long as we stick together, we'll be fine." Ceil told his sister sincerely. Thinking that that was extremely cheesy of him to say.

"Oh, and I can come in your room anytime I want, Sis. I don't need to knock." Ceil smirked at his twin sister but it didn't look right on his face. The smile was strained and forced to be there, and Ceil didn't like it. he was sure that once they got to London, and settled in, he would become a lot happier. Especially when they got to go to Hogwarts. Then he could meet new friends and maybe even learn to forget about his old ones. It was possible, right?

Ceil acknowledged Rin telling him they should go say goodbye with a nod, and followed her out the door. They went downstairs to find all three family members waiting for them in the living room. Even Destiny, which surprised Ceil and probably Rin too.

They said their goodbyes with hugs and kisses. Their father gave Rin a beautiful necklace and even gave Ceil a cool looking pocket knife. They were surprised because they didn't expect anything from them, but happy non the less. Ceil gave them all a small, sad smile before getting into the car with their neighbor. Thinking about everything that was about to happen.

[Rin Marks]

The neighbor who had followed them and watched them growing up. The one person who knew how special Rin and Ceil really were. The one person who they think they can trust. She had gotten into the car with her brother after getting the wonderful presents from there family. She said thank you, said her goodbyes. She watched how the neighbor, just drifted her fingers over the luggage and soon they were about capsized. They were small like a pill, it was sort of amazing to watch it happen before her eyes.

Rin rolled her eyes. "Everything will always work fine, we know what we are doing and I can handle my own." She said with a nod. She did not really need this women's help but she was thankful for it. At least for the time being.

It was moments later the three of them would be on a flight to London. Then they would stay in a magical hotel. She did not know exactly what that entailed, she just knew that it wasn't like the hotels she had stayed in before.

She shrugged a little bit as she and her brother rode over to the airport, boarded the flight and were on there way.

[Ceil Marks]

Ceil couldn't believe it... he couldn't believe that they were going to London. That was completely on the other side of the world. They were going to learn how to be a witch and wizard. Because they had some kind of magical powers. He just... he didn't think it was registering in his brain that they were going, yet.

He knew no matter what happened him and Rin would be together. They'd be happy together, no matter who they met, what obstacles they faces, and what went on. Ceil had to stay strong for the both of them because if he started freaking, one Rin would yell at him, and two she would more than likely freak as well. They were kind of connected that way.

Ceil felt like he needed to talk to someone about it though. Felt like he needed to make sure this wasn't some horrible joke on him and his sister. That it was actually true. Ceil felt he would feel better about it when he saw substancial proof.

"Are you ready for this? Who knows when or if we'll ever be back..."

[Rin Marks]

She looked out the window of the plane. It appeared that though they had magic abilities they could not apparate over to the london with the women. So they would have to fly in a plane. She looked at her brother as she furrowed her brow. They were really leaving. But hey it was better slaving over her sisters room. Feeling like she didn't belong in the first place. It was horrible the way she felt.


She wondered what Ceil was feeling. She looked a little closer to try to see if she could hear or feel something. It was what would happen in the very next moments that Ceil would find out that his sister could read his thoughts.

She bit on her lip when she heard his thoughts. She thought back. "I'm ready are you ready? I don't care if we go back. I don't feel like that is home. She hissed in her thoughts towards her brother. She didn't care less if she ever went back. She did love them but there was something in that family that was weird and just didn't feel right.

[Ceil Marks]

Ceil saw her brow furrow and wondered what she was thinking. He couldn't just see in her mind whenever. She needed to want him to see what she was thinking for him to be able to. But it wasn't hard to guess at this point. He did know his twin sister fairly well.

"I don't know yet. I don't know if I'm reading to be completely on my own. We're only ten years old after all. But you're right. That's never felt like home."

Ceil loved his foster parents with all his heart, and even his older sister too. But they didn't feel like his real parents and Ceil didn't like that. He wanted his real parents. Not fake ones. So he figured now was as good a time as any to tell her what he had been thinking.

"Rin...? I think we should try to find our real dad." He had been thinking it for a while. But he was afraid of what she'd say.

Ceil thought that most people would probably find them weird on the plan. Them looking at each other like they were having a conversation, but nothing ever coming out. They were weird.

[Rin Marks]

"It doesn't matter if we are ten, or twenty. I don't want to slave over that family another moment. So what if they said that they loved us. I didn't feel right about anything." She said back. She was sure there were other things going on. She just didn't know the right words to say. She was after all only ten years old.

"Find our real dad? you know that Mr. Marks is our Dad, if our dad wanted us, wouldn't he have kept us?" Her thoughts were bitter, but she felt like if her family had wanted her, he would have kept them. Would have loved them.

Her brows furrowed once again. She wasn't to sure or keen on letting anyone know on the plane that the two of them had been adopted, fostered, whatever the word was for it.