Backwards, forwards, backwards, forwards.

Good greif, when was he going to learn to stay put for once in his life? Jake tried to refind his his compartment for the third time and entered it for the fourth time already that journey.

"Back again," he announced the obvious in a sing-song voice.

"Well, I'm gald your being brave." Set said as he looked at the other two. "Ohh, I really hope we're in Hufflepuff together, all of us!" he said to the compartment at large! "I can;t wait to start learning magic together!"

Me neither! Cadence said before becoming very quiet and looking at the floor. For some reason, this question was really bothering her, but she didn't want to sound silly asking it. Finally, she took a deep breath and said to no one in particular Is it normal, I mean, is it okay for a girl to be best friends with a boy? It's just that, I've never been to school with boys. What if, I mean, people won't think that we, well, that we LIKE like each other, will they? She continued to stare at their feet, afraid to read the expressions on their faces.

Kevin continued to wander down the back of the train looking into compartments hoping to find some more new friends

"No, not at all. it happens all the time in muggle public school. Besides it doesn't matter what other people think. We know the truth!!!" Set assured her.

Cadence sighed in relief Okay, good! How much longer do you think it will be until we get there? Cadence asked as she anxiously stood up a little to peer out the window.

Sakura was bored, and a bored Sakura was never a good thing. Ruby had gone for that walk, which she still wasn't back from and Kevin and Spence had come and go and who knew where Jack was, probably planning some prank or something. So all in all Sakura was bored. Which was why she decided to venture out of her apartment and into the corridor again in the first place. She had no idea what she thought she might find but it had to be better than sitting around bored by herself. Yes because being bored while walking by yourself is so much better a voice in her head said, she just told the voice to be quiet and continued walking.

Unfortunately however right at that minute she tripped and landed in front of a compartment with other firsties in it. Blushing profusely she brushed off her robes and hoped to God that none of them had noticed her falling over.

"Where do you keep going?" asked Allie, looking through all of the chocolate frog cards she had gotton that day. She pretty much had them all already..her pefectly healthy addiction to the candy made sure of that. She dropped the stack of cards next to her, and looked up at Jake. "You keep going in and out."

"I don't think it'll be long" Set said. Then a skullkie looking boy walked past the compartment door. He gave John a mean look and went on. He looked kinda like John. At that moment Set's sneakaskope ( a gift from his uncle) went off! "What was that!" Set said, rumaging in his pocket for the device. it stopped. "Who was that,... was that your brother John?" Set asked.

"Oh yeah," Jake grinned. "I just have a hard time staying still and in one place."

Next to Allie was a piled of cards in an odd shape. Curious, he held his head at an angle so he could see. "What're they, then?"

Whitney walked along the back of the train looking for someone she knew. Of course,all of the compartments were full by now,but she supposed making new friends wouldn't hurt. Just as she was giving up hope she saw Amanda. Cheering up she knocked on the compartment door and waited for an answer.
While walking along the compartments, Whitney saw very few people she knew. Suddenly, she saw a familiar looking Gryffie sititng with several other people. She hesitated a moment then knocked on the compartment door.

Amanda broke her train of thought when she heard a knock on the compartment door. She got up and opened the door. "Whitney! It's good to see you again, how are you?" She said and smiled, giving her friend a hug. She shook off what she was thinking before and sat back down, moving her guitar and her owl cage.

Allie nodded at his explanation. It seemed reasonable to her. She looked down at ehr stack of cards, when Jake mentioned them.
"Oh these? They are chocolate frog cards. They have famous witches and wizards on them. I started collecting them, but I think I have them all already, because I haven't gotton a new one in a while."
Allie looked over at the door when she thought she heard someone knocking.
"Come in!" she said, to whoever it was. She was feeling too lazy to actually go and open the compartment door.

Karma laughed slightly when Leah got excited. At least she hadn't gotten bored of her yet, and that was definitely a good thing.

"Of course I'll come," she said, and followed her down the hall.

After turning into an empty compartment, she watched Leah debate about putting the trunk up or not. Seeing as how Karma wasn't that tall herself, she slid her wand out of her pocket in assistance.

"Here, move your feet. I had to do this with mine, earlier."

She flicked her wand and helped move the trunk up to the rack so it was out of everyone's way. She wasn't fully in her robes yet, just had to put the actual robe on. Her blue and yellow tie was hanging over her shoulder, and she slid it on loosely. That tie sucked, and she hated them.

"What house do you hope to be in?" Karma asked Leah curiously. "I think you seem to be a Ravenclaw."

Sakura slowly picked herself back up again before looking at her appearance in a compartment window, fixing all signs of dishevelment she got out a little lip-gloss and put it on. She really wondered where Jack was, leave it to him to ask a girl out and then abandon her. She must have been standing there for a few minutes thinking because by the time she shock herself out of it the scenery had begun to change.

Kevin sighed as he looked in each of the compartments everybody seemed to be getting to know each other well and yet he still had very little friends he hadnt even seen his friend clifford that he had met in diagon alley

Yeah, John, he did look a lot like you! But why would Set's Sneakoscope go off. Surely he's not anyone dangerous.

"I don't know, maybe he's just really mad at you for catching him earlier?" Set said as he shruged. "Oh, I'm so excited to arrive!!!!" Set was overwhelmedd with anxiousness and happiness and excitment!!!

Quickly, Whitney walked into the compartment and returned Amanda's hug. "It's great to see you too Amanda!" she said with a huge smile on her face. She was so happy to be going back to her real home. "I've been pretty good,getting over my summer. How are you?" she asked her friend while sitting down in front of her.
Whitney opened the door rather awkwardly and looked around at the occupants. She wasn't sure if she was supposed to say something or if she should just have waited for one of them to say something. Taking the chance, she simply said, "Hello."

While standing looking at the scenery Sakura started to hum the lullaby that her mother used to sing to her, and she couldn't help but wonder if this was what her mother had envisioned for her. She had to admit that it probably wasn't, well at least not the part where she was wearing a boy's jacket. Sakura started to move again when she felt a strong pain that sent her tumbling into a wall. Okay now someone would have noticed that she was sure. Although maybe not.

Cadence curled up in her seat next to Set. The adrenaline she had had earlier had worn off leaving her feeling quite tired. It had been many nights she had slept all the way throught the night. She leaned her head against her seat and tried to find a comfortable position only to realize that none could be found. A part of her just wanted to lay down and go to sleep.

"I'm absolutely exhausted. I just came back from tour in Canada and Australia like yesterday, so I have had hardly any sleep. But, while I was in Australia, I got you something" Amanda said, grabbing her bag and rummaging through it, finding the box that she had in there somewhere.

Kayla walked along the corridor at the back end of the train supposedly looking out for troublemakers and she snorted quietly to herself, she was usually the one in the middle of the trouble. Thankfully all was quiet and she was starting to get bored walking up and down the corridor feeling like an idiot.

As she walked passed a compartment she spotted Amanda and Whitney and she smiled to herself as she opened the door. "Hello girls, enjoying the train ride?" she personally couldn't wait to get to Hogwarts already.

Whitney just couldn't understand how the girl did it. Touring with hardly any sleep and still looking good. "If I didn't know that,I wouldn't be able to tell." she told Amanda honestly. Then she gasped when she heard her friends next comment. "Yay! Oh! And guess what, I got you something too!!!" Now she was super excited. She found it so ironic that they both had gotten each other something.

"Here have some of my candy bar, you look tired" Set said to Cadence. "You want to be awake for the feast" He handed her the candy bar.