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D: Anyone know where the Charms teacher went?

(She told me she gets sick often...we're talking hospital sick. And I think she's college age, so too old to be grounded.)

{ Yes, she is definitely sick in the hospital. I just hope she gets better soon! }

((Jeez, I've been away from a computer from so long I keep making typing mistakes. I'm really sorry for worrying everyone. Yes, for a while I was in the hospital, thank you for worrying, but I suppose I should make clear that while my condition is painful, it is not life threatening, maybe limb, but definitely not life. So don't worry about that. Um...I suppose I can try and go into detail about my arm, though the reason I stayed so long was because they're not entirely sure what happened....Plain and simply it turned blue and refused to move, with any attempts resulting in pain. Um...they ran a bunch of tests of it, but it gradually came back, morphine covering the pain and with bunch of occupational therapy it's fairly usable now. Though typing wise I'm working on a program called DragonSpeak, its supposed to type what you speak. Right now it types things like "A ram rounds the dark" ((I said I ran around the park.)) SO...it's a work in progress, at the moment I'm typing as it seems to take about the same amount of time and I'm supposed to try and use my arm as much as possible.

Um...in addition to the hospital stay, which sucked in and of itself, the weather has been...'bad' to say the least. Thankfully I don't live near the Mississippi, and I pray for everyone who has that hanging over their heads or having to deal with it. I live on the east, and tornadoes aren't supposed to be around here. I got lucky, thankfully, the tornado hit 20 miles away from my house. So I've been safe, but everyone has really come together to help each other. I can't really do the physical work, so I've been doing small stuff, but I've still been busy. Still....I'm not as much help as I could be and my mom ((who's never grounded me, though I do still live at home)) wanted to keep me from hurting myself. So at the moment I'm at a friend's house, away from all the trouble at the moment.

...I must admit, I've been gone for so long I'm not sure how I should get started again. I've barely started sorting through the notices, requests, messages and announcements, let alone everything else. It might take me a day or two to clear everything up and figure out everything I've missed.))

Sorry I've not been on as much as usual. I'm just like everybody else haha busy with school. Also, my soccer season just started up and I'm trying to earn some money by refereeing games. I'm still managing to get on and I will try my best to keep posting. I've got 16days left of school before I have a lot of free time heart

Lillian stumbled into the office panting and breathing deeply.

"Calm down." She said aloud. "You're just nervous...it's your big day tommorow. You're getting married." As she said it, she couldn't help but smile to herself.

Or are you nervous about what you saw in the cup and crystal ball?

A truthful and nagging voice spoke. Her eyes widened a bit at her woen thoughts.

"shut UP!" she said, pounding her head furiously. Some of the portraits on the walls began staring at her reproachfully. She steadied her breathing, and walked up to Dumbledore's painting, and sat behind him.

"Well, Albus?" She spoke with an obvious worry in her voice. The portrait of Albus Dumbledore smiled at her, and she turned to face him, desperate for any advice the old headmaster may have for her.

" Running a school is no simple matter, as you know. But don't let the tea leaves and crystal balls worry you. There will always be some type of struggle in people's lives. Don't decieve yourself into thinking that life will ever be carefree" he said. He spoke gently and kindly, though his words were not of much comfort.
She had always known there would be struggle in her life, there always had been some strife in some form. But when she saw that crystal ball peering back like that...she had been so certain.
She signed and took deep breaths and smiled back at the portrait. Albus was right, what was she worrying for? There would always be some struggle, and she couldn't worry about it now. It could've just meant that she struggled finding the right way to fix her hair tommorow. She pushed the matter out of her mind.

Lillian walked into her office with red droopy eyes after a long day. Her head was pounding and beating violently, she felt like she was going to retch.

She pointed her wand at the fireplace and a crackling fire ignited, filling her to the very bones with warmth. The couldn't help but smile a little as the warm fire wrapped her up like a curtain, and she sank deep into her chair and bathed in it's warm glow. She then decided something against her better judgement, just wanting to see it one more time.

Soon, she had a cup of tea. Breathing deeply, she took great gulps of the hot liquid, until her throat felt blistering hot. She drank until only the dregs remained. ((This is described first divination lesson w/ Trelawney)) Then, taking the cup carefully as if it was a newborn child, she swilled them 3 times with her left hand, turned it upside-down and let the last of the tea drain out.

Looking at the cup, she frowned. Omens of attacks. Omens of sadness. Was she doomed to constantly see this things? To think a second ago she was bathing in the glow of a fire, while now the fire was going out from no care, and here she sat, frowning at a cup. The room seemed to go silent itself as she whispered "Lies." Then, feeling she wasn't loud enough, she screamed the word "LIAR!" and threw the cup from her, letting it crack in the fireplace and shatter into dust.

She stayed up a bit longer, as if the person going to attack her was bound to show up any moment, then decided she was being foolish, put out the fire where grit of porcelain remained, sweeped it up to a pile and conjured it back to a cup without tea leaves, placed it with the others, and fell asleep, snoring faintly, her hair fluttering each time she exhaled.