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Late September 1987
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Most would say that it all began that day in the room of requirement, with the DA. Others will argue that it started when the girls received their Hogwarts letters. However, the beginning was even before the day they were accepted. The beginning was so quiet most didn’t even notice that the story had begun. The story began on a sunny autumn day, with two little girls and a swing.
Leilani was sitting on a swing, lonely, but enjoying the quiet, when she met Jo. Her content loneliness wasn’t going to last long.
“Want a push?”
Leilani turned her head to see a tall girl with short, wild hair grinning at her. She gave a tentative nod, and the girl gave a gleeful shout. The girl grabbed the swing and began to twist it, winding it up. Before Leilani knew what had happened, the girl had hauled back and given the swing a mighty shove, and the world became a blur.
When the world stopped spinning and the rollercoaster came to a stop, the grinning girl was still there. Leilani hopped off the swing as fast as she could and opened her mouth to speak, only to realize she'd been screaming so fervently she'd gone hoarse. The girl wasn’t fazed by her speechlessness. She sat easily on the tall swing and said,“My turn!”
It was the beginning of a friendship that would rock the world.
It wasn’t until that night when Leilani told her parents about her day that she realized she never got the girl’s name.