Lost and Gone Forever

Lost and Gone Forever: Prologue

Dear Reader,

Not many people knew and/or cared about Amy Black or her twin sister Lisa Black. They were those types of people that you distantly recognized when you saw them again but never really remembered exactly who they were and where you had last seen them. Amy and Lisa were identical twins; Amy was the oldest out of both of them. Amy also just happens to be the center of this story.

Amy Black was born on November 14, 1990, at 2:45 in the morning. She was born four minutes before her younger sister and just happened to weigh one pound heavier than her. Amy was a muggleborn. (She had no connection to the pureblood Blacks.) Growing up Amy loved to read, write, play basketball, and hang out with Lisa and her best friend Sherrie whom she and Lisa became friends with in the second grade.

Ever since Amy was little, her life was perfect. She had a good friend, a loving family, and a place that she loved to visit over the summers. In fact that place meant more than the world to her. To her that place was overfilling with magic. At night it looked a bit creepy but entirely alluring. It was mystical but completely real. Anyways Amy LOVED spending her entire summer there. Yet one day when Amy was still just a little kid, a fight broke out within her dad’s side of the family. Her aunts and uncles were using her grandparents for money. (Little did she know that her grandparents were actually millionaires) Her father disapproved of his sisters and brothers actions. (They were practically torturing her poor grandparents.) He decided that he did not want to be anywhere around them. Her father unfortunately pulled her family away from Amy’s favorite place in the whole world due to the fact that her aunts and uncles hung around there often. Amy was horrified… the only place she felt free and happy was gone.

Amy, Lisa, her three brothers, Mitchell, Benjamin, and Thomas were forced to spend their summers at their house in the city. Amy and Lisa spent their summers playing with their other best friend and neighbor, Chris, whom they’ve known since they were two years old. (It’s a boy by the way) They played pranks on Chris’s younger sister Tina and did other children games. One day in one of the hottest summers, in one of their neighbors pools, Tina told Amy that Chris liked her in that sort of way. Amy thought Chris’s little sister was joking. Sure they were pretty close best friends (closer than Chris and Lisa were) but that type of like was only platonic. However Tina persisted that Chris liked her, Amy freaked out. (After all how would you react to finding out that your very first, and very best friend could of liked you in that way?) Amy soon started acting weirdly towards Chris, freaked out at that thought. Unfortunately the mischievous duo (that would have made Sirius and James proud) stopped being friends. Each thought that the other liked them and were both truly freaked out. He didn’t really know much about them anyways, he always was a little bit too into himself. Anyhow Amy and Lisa started hanging out with Tina more due to the fact that they realized what a great person she truly was. (Even if she was somewhat bratty) They still remain close friends in my story.

Amy when she was (even though it was like way too young) in her muggle school “went out” with a young boy named Tony. Tony was a troublemaker and Amy was really only hanging around with him in hopes to stop him from being such an egotistical git. Unluckily Amy was sucked into more than she wanted to be. Tony had “gone out” with lots of girls before Amy, and Amy had not been “out with” anyone before Tony. Tony had a sick mind and was traveling a little too fast for comfort. One day Amy’s mom, Shirley, found about Tony and Amy. She told Amy that she could no longer “go out with that boy, or else…” Amy was scared but nonetheless she ignored the boy and never told him why. (She never had the guts)

In about the fourth grade however things started happening to worsen her condition, cliques formed. (A little too early, I know but still) Amy and Lisa, who happened to not wear the latest fads, always joked that they were the outcasts out of all the groups. They personally thought it was so stupid at how people were forming cliques in the fourth grade. Since they had a bad fashion sense and disapproved at how their fellow peers were acting they were easily singled out. A fellow outcast named Kelly, (who really wanted to be one of the “cool” kids) singled out Amy and Lisa the most. Snide comments, dirty looks, and spreading rumors were apart of her criteria. Months later Kelly was still not satisfied with her life, she just HAD to be cool. She had to do something. So Kelly did a pretty mean thing and turned EVERYONE against Lisa and Amy, even Sherrie joined Kelly’s side. For the rest of year Amy (not as much as Lisa for some odd reason) were picked on horribly, even by Tony. People made fun of Amy when she nearly fainted in art class, was singled out by a teacher, and was accused of doing something sickening by Tony. (Which was a total lie) Amy and Lisa were so miserable that they ended up switching schools.

Now Chris (who hadn’t gone to their school) switched to their old school where Tony, Kelly, and Sherrie existed. (He switched schools because his old school had shut down.) Chris became friends with Tony and soon learned that his old best friend had a life. He was totally shocked.

Amy in the meantime was falling into Depression for all of this was happening all at once to her. Two more things came about that changed Amy’s life forever, her mom became an alcoholic and one summer tried to kill her dad while she was drunk. The worst part of that was that she and Lisa had to keep it a secret unless they wanted her mom to be sent to jail. The last and final burden Amy faced was her parents continuous and violent fighting. Her parents never used to fight but soon, after her mom started drinking, they fought so much that one time her mother tried to leave her father.

A year later Chris, Amy, and Lisa received their letters to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Amy gave a breath of relief; finally she could start over with her life. She wouldn’t get mixed up with the wrong people, she wouldn’t “go out” with a guy ever, and she wouldn’t be noticed or singled out. She would make herself invisible. At Hogwarts Amy refused to talk much and refused to hang out with any people that wanted to be or were popular. She also didn’t talk to anyone entirely outgoing. Though this isolated her Amy still managed to make two friends, two people that helped Amy a lot. Those two people were Zoey Grader and Mary Font. They soon became her best friends. Amy was soon accepted at her school as a boring but smart bookworm with no real life. Meanwhile Lisa made a friend with a girl named Carla. Chris who by now was trying to learn everything about Amy (some about Lisa too) quickly fell into the popular/funny crowd.

Things started to get harder with Amy. Chris, she felt, was pressing for too much information about her. Tina wanted to be just like her and always expected certain answers from her. She fought so hard with her mom. Her parent’s fights worsened. She was told that people could tell Lisa and her apart because she was bigger. Amy developed a very negative attitude.

She is a pessimistic person that hates herself to death. And that is where she still is at the beginning of my story. She’s trying to be perfect in everyway so no one knows anything about her, so she doesn’t have to feel so horrible. Yet how is Amy going to deal with living so many lies? How many personalities can she live with?

With her friends Amy opens up a little. She is sarcastic, nice, and refuses to make decisions politely. However Amy stresses the truth on some things.

With her school mates Amy is silent and aloof. She goes with what everyone else wants or says.

With teachers Amy puts on the innocent act but secretly gets away with things that no one knows about.

With family Amy pretends to be mean most of the time and prefers to be left ALONE.

With herself Amy is whoever she wants to be. She dreams up different worlds to take her away from her life and do things that she clandestinely loves to do.

This story may seem pointless, unreal, stupid and blah, blah, blah… I know it is and I really don’t care. Don’t bother reviewing me to tell me your opinion. I will not be reading the reviews because they may stop me from writing this story at all. Now I really don’t want that to happen, because I want to finish this story for someone that has recently died in my life. The first chapter will be up soon.

Sincerely,

The Writer