Well, Jake had everything and was managing to heave it along with him. He'd stored his trunk and checked his cat and tarantula were still with him before collapsing into one of the seats... where he abruptly curled up and began snoozing lightly, ready to wake up when something else happened.

And his dreams were filled with... beaches.

Wandering along the train for a few moments, his mind filled with... Something that wasn't Hogwarts. Anything that wasn't Hogwarts. He wasn't to keen on going back, but he was going to be made to, no matter what. Passing a few filled carriages and a few empty ones, something caught his eye... Something..

Pink.

The moment he saw the lightly coloured hair, everything that Shana had told him about... Jake, wasn't it, or was it Jack? Sliding open the compartment door, he sat down opposite the boy, crossed his arms, and sat totally still. If he woke up... They were going to talk...

Through the haze of his dreamland, Jake heard sliding of the compartment door. He stretched out on the seats he was laying on and opened his eyes, staring up at the ceiling of the compartment, before someone else in there caught his eye.

Looking round, still laying down, Jake gave a small smile. "Hi," he said cheerfully, taking in the boy's posture with faint curiousity.

The end of Hogwarts. This was to be her last journey on this train. And in general it made her quite upset. Tugging at a strand of brunette hair, she wandered along the corridor, looking for any compartments which had people she needed to say goodbye to in. That was when something pink caught her eye.
Sliding the door open, she smiled a sad smile at Jake, before nodding at the other guy he was with. "Hi Jake."

Seeing somebody else enter, Jake took his feet off of the seats and smiled at Vannie. "Hi," he said, tilting his head at the sight of the sad look on sad look on the girl's face. "What's wrong?"

Jake had, of course, overlooked the fact that Vannie would be leaving this term.

His eyes still fixed darkly on the boy, he almost was startled when he woke up. Looking out the window for a moment, then back at the pink haired boy/Jake he returned the greeting, "Hey." And if the twelve year old boy thought that he was Australian, not American, he was going to sit on him.

Beginning to choose his words from within his head, he eventually said, "You know Shana, right?" He was about to say, "you know my little sister, who isn't actually". That would just really freak him out.

As Jake moved his feet, Vanessa sat down on the seat two up from where he was sat, still smiling at little at him. "Whats wrong?" She repeated, didn't he know she was leaving?
"Jake....I'm graduating. I'm not. " She coughed. Meh this was hard to say. "I'm not coming back."

Selena made her way into a mercifully empty compartment, set Arielle's basket in place and the little grey kitten on her lap and pulled out her copy of "Quidditch Through The Ages". The book have become her favorite wizarding title, though she doubt she would be allowed anywhere near a broom until she comes of age. Flipping the cover open, she read with neverending interest as her pet purred contently

Sigh, Tammy glanced out of the window and sighed. It wasnt a big sigh considering she was of course coming back to Hogwarts but it was a sigh that signified she knew when she came back it would be her last year there. And of course the one year that meant even more responsibility. Head down studying and more focus on lessons. The horror, the torture. The partial guilt of having to leave Nattie behind. Gulp. Alone.

And then the big wide world was going to open its arms to her. Eooowh. Not fun! Snap out of it Tam, its a year away. First its time to have a decent summer. Not a grieving summer. Sigh.

Slumping down beside the window she glanced around her own empty compartment and slung her satchel opposite her and pulled her feet subconciously up beside her.

Thomas walked to the train looking behind him, looking at Hogwarts. He walked to the back of the train looking for an empty compartment. He found a compartment and he sat down on one of the seats waiting for his friends. He couldn't belive that he finished his first year so quickly. He put his owl cage next to him and gave his owl, Jacky some owl pellets.

After a thorough walk through of the whole train and not remotely finding what she was looking for, Helena gratefully found an empty compartment. She knew it probably wouldn't remain as such for long, but it was the best she could do then. After stowing her luggage on the racks, she took a seat by the window and pulled her dark curls into a ponytail at the nape of her neck, staring out into Hogsmeade Station.

Simone quickly hopped on the back of the train, looking for an empty compartment, owl cage in one hand, trunk in the other with vincents cage on top, and her backpack on her back. She couldnt use magic anymore, otherwise it would still be following her, like it was when she met up with Professor Morgan.

She walked down the corridor untill she finally found an empty compartment. "YAY!" she said quietly to herself, dragging all her stuff in with her. She placed the trunk in the rack, along with Dulce, and Vincent. She pulled her backpack off her back, and dug around to find her Ipod, and book. So she was reading Pride and Prejudice again...it was her favorite.

Placing her backpack on top of her trunk, she sat down, sprawling herself across one seat to get comfortable, and began to read, doubting anyone would sit with her.

Torin quickly found an empty compartment and sat down He couldn't believe that he was going home already. He really was starting to love this place, the flooding aside. He really wanted to talk to Reese...

He sighed and sat down with his leg spread out across the seat.

Laa Dee daa Dee Daa.Blink.Blink.Right.Left.Right.Left.Breaatth.Sha na walked along putting her fingerrs all over the windows of each cart.Tee hee.They were all "Shana Marked" Now and everyone had to love "Shana Marked" Things right.Peering into some of the Carts she saw A Boy.Ohh Lookie who it is Mr.Insane,BunBunz Lover. She giggled quietly to herself,She sneakily opened the door when he wasn't looking,Creeping in she jumped on him as he sat all quietly.TORIN! she said Sitting on his lap and hugging him.

"Well, hello!" he said slightly surprised as Shana sat right in his lap. Well, he certainly never expected that. He hugged her back. "How are you doing? Glad to be heading back home?" He wondered if she had anything exciting planned for her summer. Or if she would just be hanging out on the most part like him.

E always liked to travel in the back of the train, which should be the only thing in common she had with her twin sister and her bestfriend at the moment. She was aware that the next time she went back home on that train, she wouldn't come back. Next year would be her seventh, the last one, which meant whole the things she refused to think about just yet.

The teenage girl was walking slowly hoping to find an empty compartment where she could be all alone, since she and Tammy weren't really talking.
Tammy. Her bestfriend had spend the year in grieving, crying for her mother's death and she hadn't take anybody's help. Now, she even has other friends, Eva thought. It's sad, I've known her since forever and when I tried to help her overcome her pain, she just walked out and stopped talking to me.
And thinking of Tammy.... There she was.

She girl knocked on the door and leant agaisnt the wall. If Tammy had avoided her the entire year, there were no reasons why she'd talk to her now, but Eva still had hope.
"Knock, knock." her tone was smooth and friendly, even though slightly sad because of what they had gone through over that year. We could have there for each other... She cut off her line of thoughts, focusing on the present and studying Tamzin Wood, trying to see how much the other girl had changed.
"May I?"

Yooo. she smiled,Bwahaha.Deciding it would be really funny to mess with Torins head,she thought up a idea.Bwahaha.She smiled.I'm good,And How'ahh youuuu Duuude ? BunBunz still not lovin' ya yet ? Hows it going on you writting those love letters ? Of corse she was Joking but mabye shes gets something out of him,You know moore secrets.Ha Ha.Oh Umm I think I'll be coming home with you,You better buy me a birthday present its my birthday and I will be coming home with you cause Im umm yeah stuck,You know at the feast I tried to stick Miles to a bench,I didnt acctually check if he got off that bench.Oopsies.And yeah I must've got glue on my trousers cause I cant get off your lap.

Tammy gave a lull of her head to the right as she glanced up at the person at the door. She was tempted to turn her back, but also tempted to embrace her ex bestfriend. But she wasnt going to. Not at all. She gave a little scowl but nodded slowly and reluctantly. "Sure." She mumbled, not breaking eye contact with Eva.

Despite feeling a incy bit of hatred for her friend she gave a light chuckle and smiled a bit wider. "Ive missed you E."

He was having a hard time keeping track of all that she was saying to him. But he caught Bunbury's name easily. "Uh, I'm good. And she doesn't love me and I'm still writing the letters." He sorta knew that she was joking, but he wanted to tell her anyway. Why not? He wasn't ashamed. "Well, Happy Birthday. What would you like me to get you?" She was such an odd girl. And poor Miles. "I really hope that you aren't serious when you say you are glued to me." That would really get on his nerves.

Her words made Eva smile:
"I've missed you too, missy." she quickly entered and sat down next to Tammy. She had to control herself not to mention their problems over the last year, but the conversation had started off well and she'd rather not ruin it. "So, how's it been?" she asked it like they had talked the day before and nothing had ever happened. It's not worth crying over spilt milk, the young witch concluded.
"Is there any cute guy on this train worth catching?" she asked winking at her friend, trying to make the conversation a typical girl's talk. Deeper conversations would probably have to wait a little longer, until both girls restaured trust in each other.

Where was EVERYONE?

Reese walked down the hall wearing her outfit that she put together just for the train ride home. As she walked down the hall, she looked into each compartment as she passed by it. She was actually looking for Jack, but he was nowhere to be seen. She was starting to think that she should go back to the compartment in the front of the train that was empty. Yet, it was too far up there. She did not feel like walking all the way back up there, so she was stuck finding a compartment in the back. The only problem was that EVERY compartment was full. Grr.

She continued down the hall until she came across a compartment with only two people in it. And she knew those two people! Oh, happy day. She knocked on the compartment door a few times and then opened it up. "I hope you don't mind me sharing this compartment. I can't seem to find..." the compartment that Jack is sitting in "An empty one," she finished off.

Pushing for a few moments, she looked at her two friends and then walked into the compartment and closed the door behind her. She sat her trunk on the rack in the compartment and then she saw her two animal cages on the seat. Sitting down beside the cages, she placed her purse on the floor by her feet. Then, she took off her awesome sunglasses and placed them on her lap.

After placing all her stuff in it's appropriate spot, she looked back at Shana and Torin. "So, what's up? Ready to go home?" She asked them.

"Better, but couldve been better really." She smiled and wrapped an arm around her friends shoulders. "Cute boys? Oh E, we are going into seventh year. Do you have to?" She chuckled softly. "Nope, I havent seen anybody as of yet. But you have to meet my two best friends, Lo and Peter. They are amazing." Foot in mouth itis or what Tam? "I... uh- oh god." She stumbled out what she tought could be taken as an apology.

Aah, there was Reese. He loved how she like always appeared when he wanted to talk to her. It was like she could read his mind or something. "Not much here. Just don't wanna go home. What's up with you? You manage to find Jack yet?" He wasn't really going to go into the Jack thing if Shana didn't really know about them. He was done with the whole thing really anyway. Not really his business beyond maybe casual conversation. Though if Jack ever hurt Reese, Torin would beat him up.

Eva smiled widely and hugged her bestfriend.
"I really missed you, Tamzin Wood." she told her friend. She shook her head. It was sad, but it was also the truth. "Yeah... Seventh year, already. I can't believe it: How far we've gone since year 1. Gee... It's sad, we've spend 6 years of our life year - going on 7." she paused. "I guess I'm feeling a little too sentimental." she added with a grimace.

Wait... what?
Eva's smile disappeared comepletely. She bit her lower lip in a way that would make everyone else wonder if they weren't in Ellie's presence.
"Right..." she said, making her best stop stop the tears that had began forming on her eyes to fall. She took a moment to regain compusture and then raised her head again to look at Tamzin. "Right..." she repeated. "You know, I'm not sure if I want to." she added. She was now the one acting distant. She was disappointed. She had tried to help her friend and Tammy had trade her for someone else, which made her feel... empty.

There was something else. She had started to think Tammy was weak. For Merlin, that had happened to her when she was younger and she had dealed with it, taking her friend's help and learning to live a different type of life. She had not turned her backs at the people that liked her the most. In a way, she had walked out of her mother but with fair reason. Because you don't ask a 12 to tell her twin sister that her father is dead. You just don't do it. Eva cut off her thoughts to get to a simple conclusion: I've there and now I'm here. I'm fine.
But Tammy... Tamzin had refused to take help, had turned her backs at her when she was trying to make sure she would be okay and had found other people.

She had then one question for Tammy:
"Did you mean it? When you said you missed me, did you really mean it?" she asked in the most seriousn tone.
So, it was happening. She was turning into Lucy's Hope smaller version. Oh, crap.