Sunday started to be my favorite day since I was six, that was the day the whole family got together to play a game, since then we get together every Sunday and spend a family day. Today like every Sunday we got together and this time my grandparents joined in the family day.
When Mama started to read the rules, I thought it would be a boring game, a simple game where you had to buy a house, get a profession, buy more things, and rent others to get some money.
Like I said, boring.
But.
Oh.
How wrong I was.
When the game started everything was fine, my maternal grandmother Camelia decided to be the one who would have the rules, the money, the professions, etc. While Petunia and I chose the path of study, while the others started straight to work.
Little by little we understood the game, we bought and bought, and we laughed and joked a bit.
It was at that moment that things got more exciting, and it was a simple word spoken by grandma.
Debts.
When the debts started coming in, things certainly got more fun.
Petunia and I were in the lead, we had no trouble at all with the debts. Petunia would occasionally let out a wicked laugh and when someone fell into one of her properties she'd hold out her hand and say 'Pay up you poor!'
Grandfather Harry had third place, he doesn't have the same amount of money as us, but he could easily manage, and then pay us back.
Mum had a debt that she was slowly paying off and of course, it was difficult for her to end up falling into our pigeonholes and then pay us back.
And lastly Dad, what can I say the debts finished with him, he was the first to fall and not be able to pay his debts, so he opted to leave the game and prepare something to eat while the others played.
It was certainly amusing to see how Grandma laughed because they couldn't pay the debts, how Mum and Grandpa suffered before the debts, how Dad was carried away by the sea of debts, and how Petunia was terrified of almost losing everything.
Yes.
Monopoly was a fun game.
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[LILY EVANS]
My second favorite thing, only one below magic, is being alive.
Surely it would have to be a song, a food, or a place, but after drowning which by the way isn't pretty, living becomes precious.
On the other hand, the things I hate are, to my surprise, water, well more precisely the sea and swimming pools.
It was a surprise to learn that, because when I was in the black lake I wasn't afraid, according to my parents maybe it was because I was more attentive to the magic that I unconsciously ignored the black lake.
And speaking of my parents, they almost died of fright when they saw how my breathing altered, and I almost fainted after Petunia took me to the sea. Petunia was by my side all day after that, fulfilling everything I wanted as an apology.
Apart from the fact that we were all scared to death that day, the beach wasn't too bad.
