The Journal of Jaessa Aisling Starsley

The Journal of Jaessa Aisling Starsley

(Insane Vampiress and Witch)

August 20

3:36 pm

Yes, well, I'd like to say that there's a philosophical reason for me starting this journal. Perhaps I go to a shrink and am being forced to write to dispel my inner demons...but that would be lying, and, really, there isn't a reason. Nope, I'm only writing because I love to write and I felt like it. Strange, ne?

I guess maybe I should introduce myself, in case I go insane and forget everything and need to remember. I'm Jaessa Aisling Starsley and I'm half vampire. I'm adopted, too. Oh, and I have a twin, but she's not my biological twin. We were adopted together and just happen to have the same birthday. Yeah...freaky!

Well, I'd love to stay and write... and write... and, well, write, but me mum is yelling at me again for something that most definitely isn't my fault...

Jay

August 23

1:25 pm

Sorry 'bout not writing. Mum took you away because I supposedly didn't finish the laundry. Which I had (it was in her room), but no, she didn't think to look there and took you away. When she saw the laundry had been done, she couldn't remember where she put you. How pathetic is that?

I think I may still be in trouble. Bray and I got our Hogwarts letters today. Now, Mum and Dad may not like Hogwarts, but they still want us to do exceedingly well for some strange, demented reason. Anyway, it seems that Dumbledore has revoked our prefect status. Which is what I asked for, but Mum and Dad got really mad.

Also, neither one of us made Head Girl. So, Mum and Dad said that they won't buy us anything new because we "didn't try hard enough." Who cares about making Head Girl anyway? I didn't want it-- just like I didn't want to be a prefect anymore.

And now Mum and Dad are yelling at Bray and me, insisting that this is all our fault because we're half vampire. I tuned them out and Accio-ed you here to write instead. I really don't care what they're yelling....

5 minutes later

Bray had to tell me to stop writing. Mum and Dad finally noticed that I hadn't been paying attention. So, of course, they just yelled some more, per usual. You think they'd be more creative after 16 years of yelling failed miserably, huh? Anyway, about the whole half vampire thing. Mum and Dad think that one of us could have made Head Girl if we weren't half vamp. So, they blame it on us. Bray was yelling back at them (ever the voice of reason), saying, "It's not our fault we're half vampire!"

Mum and Dad got really upset at that and basically said it was our faults that we were chosen to be transformed. So I jumped in and yelled, asking how we could have chosen to be blood-letters even though we hadn't reached the age of one? Personally, I just think that they're really afraid we'll go crazy on them. They're Muggles, so they understand us less than even our own kind do.

Bray's getting ready to drag me up the stairs. Something about being grounded.

We're being grounded because we're right.

Sorry, that was Bray.

I should go. I need to send a note to Lily...

Jay

August 24

9:56 am

Just got my note back from Lily. Seems she's in trouble, too. Her brothers (she's got three--the lot of them are quadruplets) all got special notices in their letters, but she just got an ordinary Hogwarts seventh year letter, so she's in trouble for that.

Oh, did I explain who Lily is?

No Jay, you didn't.

Bray? How come your handwriting is showing up? Where are you?!

We linked our journals together, remember?

Oh yeah, I forgot. Anyway, Lily is one of my best friends, who manages to get in trouble a lot for no apparent reason. She's the daughter of Ginny and Harry Potter. Boy, I feel sorry for her sometimes. But she has a band. She mentioned something about...what was it now?

Ahh! Dumbledore said no more band practices! That means no more listening in. Hmm, maybe we can make arrangements to practice in the Room of Requirement. Or one of the secret halls that aren't on the Marauders' Map...

Jay