As Chloe stepped off the Hogwarts Express and on to the platform, she felt her shoulders drop. The fun was over. Life was over. She would be stuck back in the muggle world for a whole two months with nothing to do but sit and wait. It was hard enough to get through that time without friends, and even thinking about not having them made her upset. She'd miss them more than anything, Katherine especially, and everyone she had grown close with.

The last half of the year hadn't gone too smoothly. She started figuring it all out slowly but surely, and ended the year with less than perfect grades. The problem was, she just didn't care anymore. That's why she didn't do well. She felt like she had no goal to work towards.

Chloe grabbed her trunk and walked into the muggle part of the station where her family was waiting, or, well. Her mum and dad. "Your brothers were working, they couldn't make it," her mother explained, before wrapping her arms around her only daughter. "Now come on, it's a long trip home,"

Chloe sat in the back of their car, bumping along, feeling slightly betrayed. They hadn't sent her one letter this year. Supposedly, they had never figured how to do it, which she knew was absolute bull crap. The Masons were right next door, the Hunters, a few doors down. If they wanted to send her a letter, they could have. Her parents hadn't been there for her much, or hardly at all, and it had stung the poor redheads heart.

"So," her Mum started, ending the silence. "Your father and I have been talking, and we thought it'd be best if you finished your studies back in Oulton Broad," Chloe looked up, as her eyebrows knit together. "We just think that if you had spent the last 6 years in that magic world, you would need at least one year of normal school before university,"

Chloe scoffed. "I'm sorry, what?" She said with a smile. "University? I'm not going to university," what was her mother thinking? What was she starting? She didn't want to do this song and dance again. The game of 'we will tell everyone you go to an art institute so we don't risk our societal position'.

Her mother turned around. "What do you mean? Of course you're going to university! Where else would you go?" As if it wasn't possible.

"Mum, I'm going to work in the wizarding world, maybe department of mysteries or an art store. I'll work  at the ministry or something,"

"You have to be kidding. Chloe, dear, you're lucky we let you go to school for the first six years. The deal was, you studied there, but you live in the normal world, that's what we decided," her mother started.

They then pulled in the driveway. "You don't get it, Mum! I don't belong in the normal world! I don't fit in, I don't like it, and I want to finish my studies there! I want to start my life there!"

"You don't get to make that decision, Chloe, it's not your decision to make! I'm your mother, I decide where you go, where you stay, where you-"

As soon as she could, Chloe threw open her car door and cut her mother off. She lugged her trunk out of the car and in the house, hiding down in her room. She was not having this discussion. She knew her mother wouldn't give up on this. She had been hinting at it for years. But Chloe wasn't having it.

This was her life, not her mothers. She got to study wherever she wanted. Her mother did not get to ignore her for several months and then make a life changing decision! Hell no!

So Chloe made a decision. She wasn't going to have it. It might have been irrational, but she had had it. She was done with this muggle crap. Without even unpacking her stuff, she lugged the trunk back up the stairs and threw it in the back of the truck. She dug the keys into the ignition and sped out of the driveway  just as her mother looked out her window. Her destination? The Leaky Cauldron.

It was time to grow up.

It was time to go home.