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July, 5, 2067
Uhm. So, I'm pretty sure I'm in big trouble when I get home, whenever that is. Thankfully, Alexis shouldn't be since her dad caught her packing, and asked where she was going; Lex told him she didn't think it was safe for her to tell him, and he said "Okay, have fun!" (Her dad is SO cool, seriously)
As you can probably tell, we're not home, or at a sibling/relatives. We're kinda sorta in New York. BUT! Grandma Angelina IS here with us! And no, my mum and dad don't know. That's where the 'I'm introuble' comes in. Okay, so here's the story:
I got a letter from a nurse, Nurse Sydney Reed, from a wizarding hospital over in NYC; If there was a person reading this (aside from me, and sometimes I do question whether Little Miss Candy Queen has found my book here) you'd wonder how they had my name to begin with, right? I was born in Italy. I've been many places, but never to New York let alone the local hospital there.
The letter wasn't about me, I found out as soon as I took the parchment from the strange, impatient owl and rolled it. Nurse Reed explained technically she wasn't suppose to contact friends for a patients, it was against rules to write to anyone but parents, guardians or the next closest thing. However, they weren't able to find parents, her brother's name never came up in the system either. And with the 'delicateness' of the situation, Nurse Reed couldn't deny Courtney's wish to owl me. She couldn't write on her own.
I know I've never mentioned Courtney, or her brother. It's because it links to Conner, and I suppose I shy away from that topic all together. Courtney Naidu and Jake Naidu were two of Conner's four very best friends (along with Wyatt and Alexander Saunders). They all attended Durmstrang together, and met sooner than that too.
Back onto the main subject at hand, Nurse Reed asked if there was anyway possible at all that I come to see her, and quickly. She was very honest, saying it didn't look like Court would make it much longer. Clearly, the message was urgent. Without another thought I was packing my bag, Gabriel came into my room and I could see it frightened him, but what was I going to do? If I told him, he would report to our parents. Mum would be mad enough, but I couldn't have her coming to bring me home. Courtney asked for me, she had always been special to my brother and warmly welcomed me to come along on their adventures at home when I was little, and there was no way I was disappointing her now.
You should also know, obviously, Alexis and I might as well be attached at the hip (as my mum puts it) and so once I told her what I was doing (I trusted she would keep this to herself, as important as it is) she was running upstairs and grabbing clothes as well. We went straight to my Grandmother's house, knowing fully well she would be along for the ride and the most helpful person at the time.
Fifteen minutes passed, and Grandma Angelina had the entire story, including the part where I kind of left without saying anything, and we apparated to the hospital. The good part was, Grandma Angelina said she would take care of my mother later, so maybe I wouldn't be grounded till the day I moved out. The bad part was, by the time I found Nurse Reed, Courtney had passed away.
By the way, this all happened yesterday. What an eventful day it was, too.
You would think that ends the story, but that assumption would be wrong. Oh so wrong. I didn't really understand the meaning of the 'delicate' situation, as the kind nurse put it. That was till she brought this little, light haired, blue eyed child carrying a cow stuffed animal. He looked barely older than Colton, which was correct to think. His name is Tobey, Nurse Reed said Courtney kept calling him. Little Tobey is Courtney's son. Mind you, Courtney would have been twenty-one in a few short months. She was only about a month younger than Conner.
Nurse Reed said, this was the reason she needed me to come. Because Courtney was pleading with her to get ahold of me, to make sure that he goes to.. me, if anything happened to her. She said they wouldn't find any relatives to send him off to, and she was right. They couldn't find her grandparents, whom had raised her and her brother since the age of five. Court didn't want him being taken to a foster home, no strangers. She told Nurse Reed that I, Savina Mae, was to be Tobey's guardian.
It might sound silly, but Courtney and I had talked about that when we were little. When the boys would be finding a way over the river, we would sit and wait like they told us to (I was the youngest, by two years, so it was understandable; Court could have easily joined them but she stayed with me, it sort of made me feel like I was really apart of the group and not just Conner's little sister.) I never opened up to my older sisters in the way of talking about the future. I wasn't comfortable doing that, they would probably tease me - all in good fun, but I was little and it was easier being one of the middle children that ran to her brothers with the soccor ball wrapped tightly in her arms.
Courtney and I talked about the future though, and she never once laughed. She said one day, when she was grown and had a little family of her own, she would want me to be like an aunt to her children. Once I mentioned I could very well be the real aunt, because I could tell she and Conner liked one another (they were thirteen, at that time.) She thought it was funny. Now thinking about yesterday, it's less of a surprise she wanted me to be the one incharge of her two year old son's life. I just wish it didn't have to be that way.
The real question is now, will I be able to keep him? I'm not a blood relative, and I barely passed wizarding adult age. Am I capable of taking care of a baby? I've thought about that, Lex and I have talked about it, Grandma Angelina, Lex and I have talked about it. I wouldn't be doing it alone, I mean.. I have to go back to Hogwarts for my seventh year! And mum's going to have a fit about me leaving without a note, without telling her period. What would she say to me keeping Tobey?
Right now, as I write this I'm taking a few hours of peace and quiet with the little guy. He didn't want to talk to any of us, the little words he can say and still doesn't. But he's slowly adjusting, how must he feel.. his mother's gone and we're strangers to him. Alexis and Grandma are in the cafeteria right now, and Tobey's laying across the couch with his head in my lap.
I have decided, and I am sure, that I want to keep him. I want to be Tobey's guardian. I know it's a serious thing, and it's an adult decision, but he's an old friend's little guy.. that's not even it, just think about it? What would happen if I didn't take him home, or try to. He would go to complete strangers, possibly from foster home to foster home. Atleast with us his mother would have been happy. With us, I would know he's safe and eventually, he'll be happy again. If I could make that happen,.. well, I can't imagine parting with him now.
- Badger, oh my.. ♥
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