5The letter is here!
"Fay! Wake up!" Katy squealed into Fay's ear.
Fay buried deeper into her bed sheets, not wanting to wake. Not for her annoying – no, she shouldn't think that about her sister. Her sister was sweet and loving. Fay just had a hard time remembering that when the four year old insisted on waking her up at –
"Go away, Katy its 6:30 am" Fay mumbled from under her blankets. "I was up late last night. Wake me up later." Fay loved to sleep and didn't see eye to eye with anybody who woke before eight o'clock at the earliest.
Fay was a great lover of Gobstones and had played the game till the early mornings with her neighbors children, who had spent the night over at her house while Fay's parents babysat them.
Katy did not give up. Unlike her older sister, she was a morning lark and in her mind everybody should wake up when she did.
"Everybody else is awake," Katy teased her sister all while trying to tickle Fay – both with little success. Fay refused to be woken. But Katy had great news for Fay, and knew Fay would want to know as soon as possible that…
"Your Hogwarts letter is here, Fay"
Fay's eyes opened at the same time as she shot out of bed, almost tripping over the sleeping bags her charges from last night had used. Good thing they weren't in them.
"WHAT!"
Katy waved a letter with the Hogwarts crest in front of Fay's face.
Fay could see her name and address spelled out in green ink when Katy turned the letter over to the other side.
"See!" Katy said pointing her finger at the address "It has your name on it, even your bedroom. Dada told me what it said." Katy couldn't read very well, but that didn't stop her from knowing what everybody's mail contained.
"Give that to me!" Fay demanded.
Katy shook her head and danced out of reach. "Say the magic words first" She said. But Fay wasn't going to be polite to someone who woke her so early in the morning – even if it was to inform her that the most amazing letter in existence had arrived.
"Now, Katy!" Fay ordered.
"Tut, tut; if you're going to be grump about it then you have it catch me if you want to get your letter" she giggled as she twirled and rushed out of the bedroom and down the stairs.
"Brat" Fay growled jumping out of her warm bed.
Katy just laughed and ran out of the room, followed by her irate older sister.
Sometimes Fay loved having siblings. This was not one of those moments. Fay chased Katy around the breakfast table, shouting a rushed "sorry, dad!" at her father who was setting the table for the morning meal and caught both the letter and her sister around her waist before the young girl could escape outside.