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sweetpinkpixie 
Having said good bye to her father, Kurumi made her way alone through the station at almost a snail's pace. She was both looking forward to the upcoming term while also fearing it. There was just so much uncertainty coursing through the Gryffindor right now that it was a wonder she was able to stand on her own two feet.
Tugging on her
grey dress, Kurumi decided that she would use her remaining coins to buy herself some juice and a snack before making her way through the barrier. Besides, she was hoping to run into Selina before they officially were on the platform and Kurumi was swept up in prefect duties and had to make sure that no first years lost control of their trolleys or their owl escaped their cage.
So, apple juice box in hand
although Kurumi really wished it was pumpkin juice, Kurumi found a place to sit down where she should be visible and sipped on it while she waited for Selina to hopefully walk by. Kurumi had arrived early, so she highly doubted that her best friend was already on the platform. Although, there was always a first time for everything. Kurumi's chocolate doe eyes searched the area while her free hand held a delicate looking journal.
It was time to go back to school; had time really gone that fast? One moment she was getting off the train a fourth year and now she was getting onto the platform a fifth year- officially an upperclassman. Where had time gone? And yet, this summer was one that she would never forget. She had done wonderful things, like learn first had about Quidditch from her father at summer training, and she had seen awful things, like watching her beat friend fall apart; she had tried new things, like her experience over Elektra's house over the summer, and she had met new people who she was surprised she had never met, like Lewis and Taryn. But she could not say that she was unchanged because she was just not as much as she knew others had changed.
As she wandered around the platform she looked up and down for people she knew. This was the first year that she was alone on the platform. Her parents thought that it would be wise to start doing things on her own and she was not going to complain. It was nice to not have her parents breathing down her neck. It was not that she did not love her parents, quite the contrary, but some freedom was much obliged. After all she could not have a babysitter forever- she was growing up.
Once she set aside her baggage she leaned down to tie her unlaced
boot. Finally, with that all sorted out, she stood up and continued to survey the platform. It was then that she saw a figure that she had missed all summer. The two girls had seen each other briefly over the summer, but through an unfortunate series of events had made it difficult to see one another besides the week Selina spent in Japan.
Without a word she walked up to Kurumi and pulled her in a hug. She whispered in her beat friend's ear,
"Hey..."