The Jemima potter story…

past

“James don’t go” Maya said seductively “Maya you know perfectly well I have lily at home waiting for me I love her not you!” James potter said very sternly “THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU SLEEP WITH ME!”Maya screamed at him “well I dunno it was just a stupid mistake and it will never happen again so lets just forget about it” James said with a pleading look in his eye “I have a good thing going with lily and I don’t want to ruin it, I’m going to ask her to marry me when I go back to England” “I hate you James potter and I never want to see you again just leave me here in Australia “she said in a cold whisper “I’m sorry Maya I really am bu-“ yea I know I know you love lily,” she said grudgingly “yea well bye Maya”

2 months later

“Maya, Maya what’s the matter?” Janie said looking worried “Janie you remember 2 months ago when James potter was here?” “yea” “well we did…stuff and now I’m pregnant” “YOU WHAT!!” Janie said looking surprised and horrified “yea well at least we aren’t at school anymore I can look after it…Janie will you help me?” Maya what kind of a question is that of course I will.” The next day Maya was sitting home thinking about baby names when the phone rang, the voice on the other end was very deep “uh hello is this Maya Delanie?” the voice said “yes it is who’s this? “ “Maya I’m Joe Baldwin I’ve got some bad news for you, your friend Janie Tomas was found dead in her home this morning it is a suspected suicide” Maya went into shock her best friend in the world no her only friend in the world, the friend who’s house she stayed at in the lonely summers off school when her parents went on fancy holidays and left her behind because she mixed with the ‘wrong’ sort (her parents were very pure blood focused and Janie was a muggle born so Maya was basically disowned) the only person she had to talk to was dead? And now she had a baby on the way then she was snapped back into reality by the phone “uhh Ms Delanie are you there?” “Yes yes I’m still here, so when will Janie be realised from the morgue?” “by tomorrow more than likely, her parents said they take care of funeral arrangements “ “oh yes good well I have to go now bye” and as soon as the line was dead Maya just broke down she cried herself to sleep that night and many nights after that.

Throughout Mayas pregnancy she was constantly depressed and she kept getting horrible thoughts in her head saying that her life would be so much better without this stupid baby, and unfortunately this carried on until the baby was born. She was a little baby girl Maya decided to name her Jemima shed always liked that name. When Jemima was born Maya didn’t get the feeling she thought she would the feeling most mothers get of unconditional love, no, all Maya got was hatred and thoughts of how much better her life would be without Jemima. Her feelings didn’t change either. She was constantly reminding Jemima of this. Nearly everyday Jemima got told she was worthless unloved a mistake and accident useless and the list goes on and if Jemima put one toe out of line there was no mercy.

Despite all this Jemima still grew up to be a loving sweet funny girl mostly in fear of turning into her mother. Now we turn to the present day.

present

“See ya next year Mimes” said holly with a huge grin on her face. Holly was a tall thin girl with extremely curly hair. “Yea see ya have fun on holidays hol hahaha” “yea you to mima” “You know I wont holly” “hahah

okay whatever you say see ya” and with that holly hopped in the car with her mum and Jemima hopped on the bus. Jemima had a sad look in her eye there she was again leaving the only place that felt like home and her best friend she was going home to her mother. Leaving Gildawfts academy for witch craft and wizardry was the hardest thing she ever had to do.

Jemima had always known she was a witch her mother being one offcourse and her dad well according to her mum he was a wizard also she had learnt some spells before going to Gildawfts mostly the ones her mum fired at her when she was angry or drunk or both. Offcourse she couldn’t do them yet being underage and all. Personally Jemima thought that was the stupidest law only because she couldn’t defend herself against her mum. Suddenly the bus stopped and she was out the front of her house “I wonder what torments I am to endure this summer” she said under her breath but she had no idea. Nobody knew what her mum did to her and that’s the way she always had it. If anyone asked why she had bruises after the summer all she’d say was a Quidditch accident. She played chaser for her house team and was quite good too.

“Jemima get the hell in her I’ve got something for you” “okay coming mum just let me-“ “no you come now!” “Ok Ok” Maya was in a bad mood best not make it worse. When Jemima entered the room Maya chucked something at her “what’s this mum?” “Just open it you’ll see” Maya said grumpily “mum it’s an acceptance letter to Hogwarts!” “Glad to see you can read” Maya said mockingly “but mum Hogwarts is in England” “correct I am sending you over there, I’ve had enough of you I’ve put up with you for 14 years and I’m not going to anymore” “oh yea well how’d you supposed I’m getting there huh?” “don’t mouth off to me, and I’ve already thought of that I bought you a plane ticket and to pay for your books and whatever else you want I am giving you 500 galleons” “mum you can’t afford that and what about my friends I don’t want to leave them” “I bloody well can afford it and no price is too much to get rid of YOU” a tear rolled down Jemima faced she didn’t mind leaving her mum but holly what would she do without her she walked into the kitchen for some food. “JEMIMA” Maya screamed “what mum?” she yelled back “your plane leaves tomorrow at 7, have a good trip” Maya said with an evil glint her eye. Jemima stalked off to her room as she was going Maya yelled out “get EVERYTHING of yours I don’t want any reminders.” Jemima got to her room and broke down in tears this was the worst thing that could happen maybe I could just pretend to go to the airport then go to holly’s house for the summer she thought to her self “oh Jem I have already made sure that you are not enrolled at Gildawfts anymore and if you go back there they will just send you away back here” Maya called out to her “well I guess you have thought of everything mum” she yelled back and that’s all there is to it she’d have to go but maybe I could tell holly or someone at the school and get back in and then she thought no I couldn’t tell anyone. She hated getting sympathy and all the years of being told she was worthless and unlovable in some ways they had gotten to her if she told people they might not like her as much or at all and as they always say like mother like daughter. That was the thing she feared most in the world. She started to pack her whole life and she had some difficulty with doing this its hard to pack your whole life into 20 kilos at least she didn’t really have any sentimental things to decide whether to pack there was only her favourite photo of her and holly in front of the gum tree at school. Jemima mostly took clothes and threw the rest in the bin. Once she had done she sat down a stared writing a letter to holly tears were streaming down her face as she wrote.

To my dearest Holly,

We are moving to England well I’m moving to England my mum is sending me to live with dad because you know he lives there so I don’t know when I will see you again. I just wanted 

you to know how much I love you and how you’re my best friend in the whole word. Holly I will never forget you, you don’t know and will never how much you have brightened my life and so for that I thank you. By the time you read this I will be on the plane. I know you will find friends at Gildawfts everybody loves you so much but no one more than me so holly this is my final goodbye good luck with school and life and everything and I don’t know if our future children Peter and Jeffrey will be best friends but I know we always will be

ALL my love is sent to you

This is Jemima signing off.

Jemima put the envelope that was wet with her tears is Berkley her owls mouth and hoped in the Taxi to the airport.

Holly was asleep when Berkley was tapping on her window at 8:30. She awoke with a start “Berkley what the hell are you doing here so damn early” she said sounding annoyed and took the letter from his beak. She opened it in her usual cheery self she loved letters from Jemima. She read the letter once twice and a third time to make sure that she had read it right her life was coming to an end tears were twisting down her face Jemima was gone Jemima was right in her letter Holly was popular but she felt like she could tell Jemi anything and she was gone she cried and cried all summer and tried to get on at school but it was hard. This is were we leave holly Australia and this chapter of Jemima’s life.