one act of random kindness

[kristil]

At a day’s end one always finds themselves turning back to the rooms for comfort and warmth. It relaxes the soul to turn in somewhere that you can call your home for awhile. Through the painting doorway you must enter they all said. Getting though is the easiest part they said but they did not say that you needed a password and what it was. Did they not know that the hardest part of the day is entering through a door that is password protected? Did it slip their minds or was it just some stupid prank? Either way the door did eventually get opened. How it did, reminded her that one act of random kindness can go a long way.

Up the flight of stairs and to the left was the path that she had taken to reach the doorway to her new part time home. The smell of a new school was irritating her nostrils and it was definitely time for bed. She approached the painting with bags in her clutches only to be stopped. “Password please.” That’s it that’s all that she said. The lady looked like she had been sitting on that little bench for way too long. Needless to say she did look happy up till Kristil told her that she didn’t know the password. ”No password no entry.” Her voice had harshened and her look wasn’t that pleasing either. ”Look. No one told me that I would need a password. They gave me directions and well ha-ha here I am.” ”No password no entry.” Ah! The same stupid answer. ”Listen I’m tired, I know no one at this school, I have a headache from new school smell, and me standing her is causing blisters on my feet. Just this once let me in with out the password. I will have it next time.” Again Kristil received the same answer and anger was settling in quicker now. It seemed that no matter what Kristil tried the lady in the painting wasn’t going to let her in. Eventually she just sat down on her suitcase holding her head in her hands. ”Yea dad life at Hogwarts is going to be swell.”

It seemed like it had been hours before someone came up the stairs and walked past her. His form drew past and then halted and returned. He was the first person that she had talked to all day it was odd that it happened outside of her common room door though. Apparently he was too a Gryffindor and even though he was running late to some event he stayed and opened the door for her. He even carried some of her bags in for her. ‘Wow’ she thought. ‘Maybe this place won’t be so bad after all.’ She thanked him for his help and then with a smile he was off to his thing leaving her all alone in the common room. The quiet cozy common room was all to herself. This was one fact that she could live with for now.

Each little nook and cranny she searched making sure that no one was there with her. The whole place seemed to quiet to be content with. Where was everyone? At her old school around this time people would be swarming into the common room to get away from others in different houses of teachers antagonizing them about late work. The common room was a safe place that was shared with people who were like you. When she had searched everywhere in the place she sat down on the couch and let out a sigh. The only good part about all of this was now she could catch up on some reading that she had been wanting to do. She reached into her top bag and pulled out a book. Soon she was deep into the main character’s role and into the fantasy realm in her mind. Life seemed as if it were going to be quiet at this school.

As she continued to read about the talk that Elenor had for Jack it hit her like a home run base ball. Who was the boy that had helped her?