"Why does this even have to happen? Do I even have an opinion?!" I shouted, right before I slammed the door hard enough to knock the family portrait off the wall. I thundered over to my bed and collapsed sobbing.

Okay, so I know this makes me look like a spoiled, over-emotional, disgusting brat, but this is how it all happened. My parents had just solidified our move to London, England. I know most kids my age would be super excited to move to England, I mean come on they've got sweet accents, cool history, and Harry Potter. That's pretty cool right? Who wouldn't like that? Me. I wouldn't like that. Why? Well, my family is, uh, different. And I say that in the best possible way, because different can be good. Anyway, we're different in the fact that we're magical. Yes, you read that right. Magical. Remember Harry Potter? Yeah, we're a family of witches and wizards. Mason Spindle (my dad), Ashley Spindle (my mom), Nicholas Spindle and Mason Spindle (my obnoxious older twin brothers), and me, Rowan Spindle, are all apart of a pretty recognized wizarding family. Besides that interesting little fact, we're a pretty normal American family. We live in Washington D.C., my mom works as a librarian, my dad teaches at NASA, and my two brothers and I go to a boarding school. See, relatively normal. But then we get very, un-normal again. The boarding school my brothers and I go to is the one my dad teaches at. Yes, NASA is a boarding school. It's a pretty nifty cover-up actually, because all the Muggles think NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration where we send up a bunch of rockets and whatnot into space for scientific studies (Sometimes we do actually send up rockets and other space stuff for fun, just to keep the Muggles in the dark), but really it stands for New American Sorcerers Academy. The New American Sorcerers Academy was established in the 1950's as the first big wizarding and witchcraft school since last school in Atlanta was burnt to the ground during Sherman's March to the Sea. There's lots of other wizarding schools scattered around the country, but most don't exceed 2,000 students, making NASA the largest with some 6,000 students. It's a pretty impressive school actually, with it's white exterior and extensively windowed walls. Most of the school stretches miles underground, so there's enough room to house the hundreds of students, most of which are boarding students, and the classes. I've been going to NASA ever since I was accepted at age eleven. So now, at age sixteen, I've become quite attached to my school and having to leave it is worse than being forced to hang upside down from a broomstick over a pool of starving sharks.