"You ok?" Zeke asked nicely. He was about to extend his hand to help the girl up, but Amanda beat him to it. "I'm Zeke," he added after she was safely back on her feet. He totally understood - he had clumsy moments all the time.

Whitney simply shrugged and watched Amanda stuff the junk food into her bad. What was this girl doing? "Uh,do you want some help?" Or a duffle bag?' she though but kept that comment to herself. "I could hold some of it if you want." Then she searched for her practically mpty bag and offered it to her.
Now those little dancing, Grease singing people in her head were freaking out. 'AHHHH!!!!!!' Whitney tried forcing a smile that came out rather...odd,and instead looked down at her hands on her lap. "Well,we spoke about you." It was not her fault. That was it,her mind was made up. "What was said wa-" 'No,part of it was my fault.' Whitney was absolutely confused now. "Things were said that made Amanda rethink things" There. It didn't necessarily blame her,just gave minor part of the truth.
Out of nowhere Whitney heard someone,or something, crash through the compartment door. "What in the w-" She then heard that familiar Slytherin voice and saw that curly hair. "Hello Camira." Was all she could say without laughing. It was a wonderful entrance,that much was true. "Um,are you okay?" That was when a small laugh sneaked from her mouth and she tried hard to cover it up.

Camira snorted at that. "True. Though, it's not exactly how I like attracting attention." Really, who would like embarrassing themselves for the sake of attention? Okay, so she could think of a few people, but they were practically brainless so they didn't really count. "I'm alright. Glad to be going back." It was true. She had enjoyed her summer, well, after the whole dead father auror interrogation thing, but Hogwarts was like a second home. She had missed it. "Ready to get the cup back from those undeserving Gryffies", she said with a smirk. And then she realized that the boy she'd crashed into was one of those Gryffies. Yet another oops. "How about you?"

Camira then turned to the Gryffie boy. Zeke, as he introduced himself. It seemed as though he was a gentleman. Good. The other houses weren't completely deteriorating into a jumble of mannerless waste. That was always a relief to know. "I'm alright. Thank you for asking", she said, giving him a charming smile. It never hurt to be charming, after all. "Zeke, eh? Interesting name. It's said that interesting names lead to interesting people", she said smoothly, eyebrow raised. Okay, enough. She didn't want to over do it. "I'm Camira. Camira Yaxley."


And Whitney was laughing at her. Excellent. She gave the girl a playful glare and spoke with mock hurt. "What? You don't approve of my grand entrance? How rude." After a dramatic sigh and a wry smile, she addressed her again. "How are you?" Okay, so she really wanted to ask if she and Amanda had resolved their weird tension thing, but that was just rude...and improper.

"No I'm good, I'm seeing how much capacity this bag can hold. If you hear a huge bang followed by smoke coming from my bag anytime soon let me know" Amanda said, then laughed. She wasn't sure why she made that comment, it just sounded so funny in her head.

"Well, I'm glad to be going back to Hogwarts. I mean, I'm absolutely exhausted, I just came back from Sydney, Australia last night and I had to pack all my stuff. But, you would never know that I'm tired, thank merlin for makeup." Amanda said, then chuckled slightly. "Oh, we're taking the cup this term, those Gryffindors won't know what hit them when we all work together as an unstoppable force, earning points left,right and center" She said, and smirked at the comment, she purposely said that when Zeke was around.

"Rethink? Rethink like how?"

"Nice to meet you, Camira," Zeke said. "Well, if interesting names lead to interesting people, you must be interesting too," he said with a smile.

Camira nodded in agreement. "I know what you mean. After I got back from NOLA, I slept for two days. International travel does not agree with me, it seems." Oooh, and she was talking about the cup, despite their Gryffindor company. "Oh, definitely. At least we were kind enough to give it to them for one term so they could know the feeling, but we want it back now and we'll be getting it." So true. Especially with the amount of classes she was taking. And OWLS. Ugh.

"Oh, I am", was all she said, smirking the whole time. Gryffies were fun. "So, are you new? I don't remember seeing you around. And I know everyone." Okay, so that wasn't completely true, but she knew everyone that mattered. At least in her opinion. Which reminded her. Where the heck was Nico? She had yet to see him.

"Yeah, I've been homeschooled for the past few years. All my siblings besides my younger sister, Hannah, are too little for school, and my parents needed help with them, so I chose to stay home for a few years. My parents decided I was missing out on too much this year, so they hired on a nanny to help out so I could go away to school. Not sure why they didn't do that ages ago, actually..." he trailed off. He vaguely realized he was kind of going off on a tangent and hogging the conversation, so he stopped talking there.

"Yeah, they just polished the cup for us this term, so it should be pretty darn shiny when it sits in our trophy cabinet at the end of term" Amanda said with a smirk. She realized that Camira hadn't found out the bad news about Nico, it was going to be a interesting term without him, but she'd still owl him and tell him what's going on with Slytherin. "Um Camira..I have some bad news for you.. Nico's not coming to Hogwarts this term." She said, bracing for the storm.

Blossom after saying goodbye to her parents and baby brother, boarded the train to go to Hogwarts. After grabbing some sweets from the snack cart Blossom sat down at the back of the train. Not having any friends yet she was hoping she would meet someone who would like her for who she was and be a friend to her. She took out of her suitcase a book. It was the book version of one of her favourite movies, Sydney White which was a modern version of the original Snow White. Her small greyish-black owl,Luigi tweeted noisily. She ignored it reading her book and eating a chocolate frog.Then she fell asleep after reading for a bit.

Camira just listened to him talk, taking a seat...finally. It was amazing how much of themselves people would volunteer without you having to say a thing. "I was homeschooled for 1 year randomly. I like Hogwarts much better. I'm sure you'll love it", she said with a wink. "Always plenty to do."

Camira turned to Amanda, smirking slightly at the talk of the cup. Oh, how she loved it. Her smirk quickly turned into a look of confusion as Amanda spoke about Nico. "What...What exactly do you mean, he's not coming?" She looked quickly around the compartment like he was going to burst in and greet them at any moment. Not coming? There must be some mistake.

Elizabeth had been sitting there in silence after her momentary loss of control with what she said, nervous about what it was going to cause, especially since she couldn't decide if Mari was more upset over feeling guilty Kayla was mad at her, or because of some weird theory about her and Robert. There had been that look earlier. Which was completely wrong, since she just saw him as a friend. Even though she did think it was funny he had told her he could hit her if he was annoying. Having permission for that was a new thing for her.

But then she heard the door slide open again, and her eyes went to the opening after glancing at Bella, who still seemed comfortable getting attention from Robert. And she smiled as she saw Ludo sticking his head in. "Sure. I don't see why there wouldn't be any room," she said, glancing at Mari and Robert again. "Just shut the door again behind you, cause I'm not sure Bella won't try to get out eventually if we leave it open."

"Well I don't know the real reason for it, all I know is that he isn't coming back to Hogwarts for his last term." Amanda said, she knew the storm was about to come, so she crawled under the seat, protecting herself before the explosion happened.

"Ah. Well. Thanks," he said. "Sorry, I have a bit of an... er... talking problem?" Amanda said something about someone (Nico?) not coming back this term. Zeke was kinda confused. Who's Nico? he wondered. Ooh, this girl doesn't look very happy, he thought, noticing the look on Camira's face.

Camira stood there in silence for a moment. Nico was not coming back. Nico...was ...gone. What the hell? And why didn't she know? Why hadn't he seen fit to tell her?! Damn it! Why did she even care anymore. "I see. I see. And he told you this." It wasn't a question. She stood up quickly and paced as much as she could in the little compartment. "Right. But not me. I wasn't important enough to tell. Even though..." No, she refused to rehash that in her head. She trembled lightly, knowing full well that she needed to calm down, but not caring to at the moment. "Because...because he didn't want me to know. He wanted to end our..." What? What was it? "friendship." She suddenly pointed her wand at the window and before she could say anything, it exploded. She flinched slightly as pieces of glass hit her but otherwise showed not indication of even noticing what had just happened. "Of course. I should have known. No different then the last time."

She fell back into her seat, staring at everyone for a while. "Sorry", she said, her voice breaking a bit. She took a deep breath and sighed before using repairo to fix the window. "Are you alright? The glass didn't hit you, did it", she asked with concern, suddenly feeling guilty for possibly hurting them. "Nico is...was a friend. Someone important to me." What else was there to say?

"Zeke, I advise you to get down now.. the hurricane's about to hit and her name is Camira." Amanda said to him from underneath the seat while she's protecting herself. "I'll explain who Nico is later.." She added, making sure no part of her body was exposed.

Amanda screamed when she heard the glass break, and felt the glass shards hit in her face, both arms and a bit in the chest. She started to scream more then cried. This was utterly terrifying to her, she didn't want to break the news to Camira for this very reason.

When Camira first glared Whitney was a little shocked but realized she was joking. "Now I didn't like it." And she stopped thinking if she should go on. "I absolutely loved it" she finished and started laughing again. Once she calmed herself she answered the question. "I'm doing pretty good,happy to be going back. You?" Once again thoughts of Hogwarts popped into her head.
"Okay!" she said with a huge smile.Things like that were expected when it came to Amanda; she loved it.
"Just...gah!" Why did he have to ask so many questions? "Just rethink the whole relationship. But,all she wanted to do was talk to you. That's all I really did. Technically-" He was going to hate her. He liked her,with some confusion in between, and she'd pretty much ruined that.
Whitney heard what was going on and knew it was not good. Camira and Nico were...just that: Camira and Nico. She could already tell that Camira was not all too happy that Nico wasn't coming. Perhaps more upset then she herself had been. She didn't want to say anything so she simply moved as far away from Camira as possible before she got hurt.

Ria walked along the full compartments pulling her heavy trunk behind her and wondering where her fellow third year's were . After poking her head in several compartments with no success in finding them , she found an almost empty compartment except for a sleeping girl. Ria entered and decided not to wake her up, she tried to hoist her trunk quietly but there was much clatter and noise, she looked around hoping the girl didn't wake up.

Camira looked at Amanda and realized she was crying. And cut. Oh my God! She had done that! "Oh god, Amanda, I'm so sorry." But there was no time for words. She focused her concentration and cast a nonverbal spell, watching as her chest wound closed slowly. She repeated it over and over until every wound she could find had been healed. Ironically enough, Nico's constant use of nonverbal spells had annoyed her to no end and so she had learned how to do it over the summer so she could best him when they got back. Right. And now she'd hurt a friend because she couldn't control her childish emotions. Not acceptable.

Amanda sat in the corner, tears still streaming down her cheeks. She was having flashbacks to when she was almost kidnapped and she rocked back and forth like she was going crazy. She stopped screaming for now, but didn't want to be touched. She was still absolutely in a state of shock and paranoia from that event.

Oh damn. What had she done? And now she didn't know what to do. She forced herself to calm down. "Amanda. You're alright. I fixed it. Your fine. No more scratches." That had to be why she was crying, right?

Amanda didn't look at Camira, her eyes stared at the wall, unmoving as she continued to rock back and forth. "You don't get it Camira.. that glass shattering.. brought back flashbacks from my past" She said, in a disjointed sentence. That was totally unlike her, normally she'd be speaking in full sentences and not rocking back and forth in a corner.

Ah. That made more sense than the no longer existing wounds. "Just remember, Amanda. You're on a train back to Hogwarts. You're alright." She wanted to tell her she was safe, but that would make no sense since she'd just exploded glass and started this whole mess. She didn't know what else to say she she gently but firmly put a hand on Amanda's shoulder to try and stop her from rocking.

Amanda stopped rocking in the corner and felt someone's hand on her shoulder, she looked up at and it was Camira's. She slowly started to return to normal. "Let me explain something to you, whenever I hear glass shatter, I scream, cry and rock back and forth in the corner. Its because when I was 7 after my parents were murdered, this guy came to my house and broke in through the window and grabbed me. So whenever I hear glass shatter, its like I'm reliving that event all over again" She explained properly to Camira.

Camira listened, feeling more guilty with every sentence Amanda spoke. Nice one, Yaxley, she thought to herself. "I'm so very sorry, Amanda. I didn't mean...I .... it was just so shocking to hear. He didn't tell me." Like that wasn't obvious. She needed to explain why she'd reacted so strongly. But she couldn't now. Not in present company. She had nothing against Whitney or Zeke, but she didn't know them well.

"I understand that, I mean.. it was shocking for me to hear. Of course I didn't react like Hurricane Camira there." Amanda said honestly, taking a deep breath. "Listen Camira, its alright, you didn't know about that, but now you know that I turn different once a glass shatters." She said honestly, coming out with the truth finally.