Fourteen

[alt_susan]

I know I should be in bed, but I just woke up and couldn't get back to sleep, and then I realized it's after midnight, so happy birthday to me!

Sometimes I feel like I ought to be getting serious about things and thinking about my future and who I want to be once I get out of school and all that, and other times I just want to go back and be turning eleven again and feeling the excitement I felt when my letter came.

But mostly I want to enjoy now and have some fun!

And right now, right now I'm going back to sleep...

Comments

[alt_ron]

Oi, Bones!

Many happy returns, yeah? Hope it's a wiznift day.

[alt_susan]

Thanks Weasley--cheers!

You couldn't sleep either?

[alt_ron]

Yeah. I dunno. Sometimes I just can't.

Bundy thinks it's the dementors.

Me, I think it's the loud people I've got sleeping around me. If I don't drop off first, I'm doomed.

[alt_susan]

Sometimes I feel like I can't quite turn off my brain, y'know.

Especially with all the blasted revising we've got to do this year--it's a wonder any of us get sleep!

[alt_ron]

Yeah. They act we've got 34 hours in every day, don't they?

It's mad, really. All the homework they set us.

[alt_pansy]

Happy Returns, fellow Sister of the Strange!

Hope you've been having a good day so far. Get any decent pressies?

And I know the feeling about wanting to turn the clock back. Even though there are some perks to moving up through the ranks, aren't there?

[alt_susan]

I have been! Mum and Dad sent me a lovely package at breakfast, and I've been sort of saving it all day, but I finally opened it and it was brill!

Mum and Dad sent me a new book, and my sibs sent me a new comic--and Mum tossed in a few of my old favourites too, that I'd left behind.

And there were chocolate oatmeal biscuits too! I don't know how Mum gets transfigured stuff to taste just like the real thing, but she does.

And yeah, I wouldn't really want to go back and be an ickle firstie again, but it's sort of nice to curl up with Ethelinda and the Unicorns or something like that and give my brain a rest!

[alt_ernie]

Happy birthday again, Sue!

[alt_susan]

Thanks, Ernie! I've still got a biscuit with your name on it, if you'd like!

[alt_seamus]

Many happy returns, Bones. Mr Rosier sent me a cake, I'll send you over a piece after dinner. It's orange-raspberry I think. I told him anything but chocolate.

[alt_susan]

Thanks, Finnegan! Cheers to a fellow birthday-mate--did you get my card?

[alt_sally_anne]

Happy birthday, Bones!

[alt_susan]

Thanks Perks! If you and Parkinson want to to stop by for some tea tomorrow, I've still got some biccies!

[alt_hannah]

It's been quite a feast today! And very well deserved for the best roommate anyone could have!

[alt_susan]

Thanks, Han!

And don't think I won't remember you said that the next time you throw my socks across the room at me!

Seriously though, I'm glad you're around around to celebrate with--we've all had some pretty wizard times together this year.