Mikey lent forward, one foot on the seat opposite and the other on the floor. "Now I see why you don't wanna live down there" he replied. Fighting wasn't something anyone would wanna live with. He sighed and rested his head against his folded arms. Okay, what on earth was wrong with him. This wasn't normal.

Cass smiled. He seemed pretty excited for the party, but of course she wouldn't get her hopes up. It was a party, any one with the right mind would be excited.

It was just about the party. Chill.

Then she laughed when he insisted that he buy her a gift. How sweet of him. "You really don't have to." She insisted with a giggle "But if you're so insistent on it, then you should know that my favorite color is blue" she said with a smile "And I like all things with sentimental value attached to them." As she said this, her hand flew to her neck to play with the key necklace thingy that she had gotten from Christopher for Christmas. How sentimental could one get? Taking the key from the cellar. That was a laugh....but really creative

" Let me help you with the trunk" Willaim told Fee. "Are you looking forward to Jason's wedding?" William asked Fee." I hope you do not mind my company" Willaim said to Fee. " What book are you reading?" William asked Fee.

Maria nodded, still crying. "I can't stand it when they fight. I just wanna tell them both to shut up" she said softly. She took a deep breath and leaned back. "I might just do a runner in the middle of the night. Get lost somewhere. Just so I don't have to go back" she whispered.

It was complicated. A bigger mess than what Orlando had anticipated. His eyes never left her face - even when tears rolled down her eyes. She kept on saying things and Orlando kept quite. Because they had hear each other out. No other way could they figure this thing out. This unnecessary and irrelevant misunderstanding which was hurting them so much.

Orlando felt like an outsider when KT and Legend talked about their relationship and about Neptune. Because it was their topic. It was their personal and private business. He had no right to butt into it. For a moment, he wished to sit with Koala and look outside and let them talk it out. But he stood there, quite with folded arms. It surprised me how big of a misunderstanding it was that Legend, to Orlando's relief, clarified. It scared him. Loving someone should not be this complicated. But then again, he was not standing in KT or Legend's shoes. When Legend so affectionately started to explain to KT - for a brief moment, Orlando's mind drifted over to Ryden. He hadn't seen her all morning. Of course, he did not plan to leave the compartment until everything was fixed with KT. KT was a priority. Nonetheless, he wandered what Ryden was doing right now?

However, the moment words that shocked him more than anything had through out the year, left her lips - his head came back to the compartment and to the girl standing in front of him. Then why did you both replace me?

He remained quite, staring at her - and just letting Legend say whatever he had to. To defend himself and Orlando, in his OWN way. Of course, he brought up his history with KT. The history which Orlando never had with them and yet he was here - wanting to protect his friendship with her. It seemed so unbelievable.

When Legend let her go and finally stopped. Orlando let the silence linger for a few seconds before speaking up. "I know, you are scared KT. Scared that if you let your guard down, which you have been so fiercely keeping up all this time, you will get hurt. But I explained to you that day .. in the stable and I will explain to you here as well. We are your friends. We are like family. And it's not just because you decided to put up with us or thought we may be worthy of your time. It was also because we realized how special you are. And how precious your friendship is to us. To me, you have always been one of a kind, KT. Always. One of a highest regard. No one can take that place. At least I won't allow it. But you .. you seem to be determined to do exactly that. You are closing yourself down, completely. Pushing us away .." he sighed, breaking his gaze away from her face and taking a pause. You have been protecting yourself for so long that you are letting misunderstandings get to your head. Don't do that, KT. Please don't." he stopped again - taking a step forward and placing his hands gently on either side of her cheeks and using his thumbs to wipe away her tears. "You cannot be replaced. No other girl can take your place. Just like Legend said: to us, you are irreplaceable."

Vashti walked through the train, searching for a compartment to sit in, preferably with someone she knew. Not that she was against making new friends, but it was the end of the term and it seemed odd to be making brand new friends at the end rather than the beginning of term. Or at least, in her mind it was. But if she couldn't find a compartment with her friends that wasn't full, she'd be fine with sitting with someone she hadn't met before.

Agh, Merlin - her trunk and owl cage felt like they were getting heavier and heavier in her arms the longer she walked. So less thinking, more looking!

Finally, in the back of the train, she found a compartment that was mostly empty. There was only one other person in there and she was quite sure it was a person she knew.

Letting go of her trunk for a moment, she used her now-free hand to open the compartment door and poke her head in. "Hey you. Mind if I sit here?"

Jonathan is taking into account the things she would like. It is her party and well, the gift he should at least get her is something she would really like to have. So she likes blue and loves something with sentimental value. Hope Jonathan could think of something nice and fancy with that. After this train ride, he will go directly to his aunt's house and then circle the whole Diagon Alley for her gift.

Jonathan frowned as she played with her necklace. D-does she have a boyfriend? Or someone special that doesn't go to Hogwarts? He doesn't want to ask but his guts were already pushing him to ask her this one "That's really pretty" he said going nearer and looking at the necklace clearly.

The next question would be 'is it from your boyfriend?' but Jonathan won't ask that. NEVER. But--- but....

The boy was startled from sleep as the compartment door was opened. He lifted his head and glanced around as he saw a head being poked in and heard the figure's words. He grinned, once he woke up a bit more and nodded his head. "I do, but go ahead." he chuckled, gesturing to the seat across from him. The boy's blue eyes caught sight of all of Vashti's belongings. "Do you need help with that?" He asked softly, standing up swiftly and pushing Woody's carrier away from him.

Jayce moved closer to the door, pulling a quick hairflip to get the hair out of his eyes before moving past her, and grabbing her trunk. He wasn't about to let her answer. Why? He was... in a generous mood today.

He did mind? Well then. Hehe. "Oh, well, in that case," she said with a grin, taking hold of her trunk and, instead of leaving, starting dragging it through, holding Calandra's cage in front of her so she could fit through. Did she need help? "No, I-" have it all under control, was how that sentence would have finished, but Vashti was cut off when Jayce suddenly grabbed her trunk anyway. That was...nice of him. "Um... Thanks." Why was he being so nice all of a sudden?

The answer wasn't hard to think of: graduation. It had to be.

She set her owl's cage on the seat beside her as she sat down across from where Jayce had been sitting. "So," she said slowly, "looking forward to the summer?" Stupid question, but it was the first thing she thought of.

Caroline had finally found a compartment for her and Kita. After stepping over one of her cats tales and tripping over the others and being plowed down by a first year. They finally made it to the back of the train. She pulled the door opened and walked on inside the compartment. Kita had stopped to talk to someone, but she sound be over in a few minutes.

Sitting the owl cage over on one of the seats and pushing her truck all the way to the end by the window. She threw a few other things into the overhead. Pulling a letter out of her trunk she ripped it open and started to read it. It was from her father..... this should be interesting.

Jai decided to sit at the back of the train. He hadn't seen His friends since the feast and thought he would keep it that way. The realization this late was not only not soon enough but also incredibly bad timing. The moment he met her he saw that she was a sweet girl but soon found out that she was spoken for. They were good friends and in the short time they knew each other stuck through horrible things.

Now, as Jai sat in the corner of the compartment he stared through the window, kicking himself, mentally. He liked her but couldn't utter one word of it. It haunted him but what was the thing that was strong enough to knock the wind out of him was the fact that he would be spending a lot of time with her this summer. Only time will tell.

Carter was walking down the hall. He had Apollo locked up in his cage and Carter was holding it in a way that it kind of blocked his view. So he didn't see the cat in the middle of the hallway. No. He was much more concerned with finding Josh than watching where he was going.

And soon enough he tripped over a cat tail.

He sat down a squawking owl and picked up the cat. "Who's is this?" he yelled to the general vicinity holding it high over his head. "I may have accidentally squished their tail."

The boy chuckled at her reaction. Merlin, her certainly was going to miss her. He'd miss annoying her and fooling around and all that really. He'd miss seeing her face and all that. The boy frowned, realizing everything he was going to miss. It was too much. His time here had gone way too quickly. It had felt like just yesterday he'd been walking through the gates with Eirian for the first time. "-have nothing." he finished for her, pulling the bag in. He shrugged at her thanks, feeling it was no big deal and that he actually wanted to do it for her. "Want me to put it up there?" He pointed to the above compartment. That's where his was.

The- Well, not graduated boy glanced at her owl cage curiously, ignoring the yaps and barks coming from Woody's carrier- thing. "You have an owl?" Merlin, he was slow. "Vacation?" he repeated. "Well, not particularly." the boy shrugged, uncertain of what else to say on the subject. What was he going to do with his life?

"What about you? Doing anything fun?"

Caroline had had barely gotten the letter opened, and all she seen was, Dear Caroline before she heard a cat. She had heard the same sound if a few minutes ago. looking around where did the bloody cat get to. She folded the letter up, and quickly headed on into the hallway if Kita stepped on that cat Tarzan was in trouble.

"Tarzan if you dont get that fluffy little.... oh." She came out of the compartment fussing at the cat. Who wasn't on the the floor but in the air being held by Carter......

Oh yeah that she was definitely in trouble, no tuna for him.

She stared for a minute. Not being able to speak. Then she stepped over and grabbed the cat. "Aww poor Tarzan. Did he step on you" she petted him on the head. Then she turned to Carter who wasn't getting the same treatment "Why did you step on my cat?" He better have a good answer. Yes, it was the cats fault she'd stepped on his tail once today too.

Vashti smirked a little when Jayce asked whether she wanted her trunk to go into the compartment above. "Nah, that's okay. I think it'd be better if it stayed down here and took up space," she teased. Then she shook her head, her smirk turning back into a little, faintly teasing smile. "Of course I want it up there, you silly Gryffindor." Hehe.

Her eyes turned from Jayce to the carrier on the seat where the barks were coming from - her owl, Calandra, also eyed it warily. So he still had that shoe-eating monster, eh? "Yeah. I got her for my birthday." Along with a broomstick. Quite a surprising birthday, it was. She hadn't ever expected to get either of them.

She couldn't blame him for not really looking forward to the summer holidays though. It was kind of an extended holiday for him anyway since...well, since he wasn't coming back next term.

Vashti shrugged. "Not really. I mean, I'm just staying around here and going to Diagon Alley, which is fun I guess, but nothing that I don't do every summer." She wasn't complaining though. She wanted to enjoy the last few times she'd be going to Diagon Alley for school supplies. She didn't have many left.

Jai looked up to see Carter and Caroline. His closest guy friend and her. The girl he made friends with and...'Keep your mouth shut.'he thought as he saw the two of them. Caroline was being a bit short with Carter. One of Jai's eyebrows shot up as he heard her response. But he wasn't going to get into it.

Katie sighed at his words. She knew that. That breaking up with someone didn't always mean falling out of love, feelings didn't always change. Just like hers hadn't. But that wasn't her point, wasn't he the one who had moved on? Or was trying, atleast? And yet, here he was, reminding her for what felt like the millionth time that he still loved her. Or maybe it just felt like the millionth time because she didn't know how to respond to that right now. But he knew how she felt.

He still hadn't let go. Legend was bad at listening to her demands such as this one. But she still wasn't going to react the way she absolutely would have, in a heart beat, when they had been eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen years old. Legend would have gotten hit right away after not listening, had that been the case. Looking up when she felt him loosen his hold on her a little more but still not completely letting go, Katie frowned. Why in Merlin's moldy old underpants was Legend grinning? She didn't find anything funny or happy about this. Behind her, was Orlando smiling too? Because Katie didn't find anything to be amused about. This wasn't a joking matter.

She looked away when he began to explain. She still didn't like the subject. Still didn't want to hear about Neptune, or what did or did not happen between Legend and the Ravenclaw. Ignorance was bliss, right? If only that were possible.. and then, something he said had her turning back to meet his gaze, almost hesitantly. So he hadn't told Neptune the way she had thought? Katie still wouldn't have felt better about the Ravenclaw knowing despite that, if Legend hadn't explained the rest. Advice? "You couldn't have told me that sooner?" Katie murmured, a bit pained as she realized exactily how stupid the whole thing really was. Like before she'd completely misunderstood, spent her last night at Hogwarts crying, and ended up being attacked in her compartment, maybe? Even last night, she had known he hadn't meant to hurt her. It still had, though. As he uttered those words, Katie could only nod her head slightly. She knew that, too.

When Legend tried to say again that Neptune was only his friend and he was trying to help her, Katie said nothing, choosing to let it go because.. it really didn't matter. That much was obvious now.

Was she serious? No, she was joking. Did he think she would have asked if she weren't being completely and entirely serious, if she didn't believe it? Dark eyes fluttering into view as she blinked a couple of times, trying to clear her rather blurred vision as Legend spoke. Clearly, he wasn't too pleased she had thought so. That she felt that way. And although she didn't feel much like laughing, Katie surprised herself when a little giggle escaped her mouth as Legend brought up 'when they were younger'. The tinsy trace of a smile that came with the laugh only lived for that split second, vanishing as she looked down. Forever. Was he sure of that? She listened on silently, not daring to interrupt.

When Legend finally let go, Katie actually hadn't expected it. And now, it was Orlando's turn to talk. He who had been extremely quiet while Legend got out what he needed to say, but then she supposed that was because they had planned this. It was bad enough that her crying hadn't come to a full stop, and Orlando's first words caused a couple of tears to swiftly fall. Whether because that was the truth, because of how silly she suddenly felt, or another reason entirely - it was really all of the above and then some. Orlando was right, they were her friends, and they were like family. But he still thought far too much of her. Katie could never understand why.

It was quite possible Katie had never felt more vulnerable than she did in that moment, more see-through, as if Legend and Orlando both could read her mind or something. That scared her, too. She didn't want to push them away. It hadn't been her goal. But then, by not trying - not trying at all to make things better, she kind of had done exactily that, and she was aware of that.. and Katie felt ashamed. Eyes closed when Lando brushed away her fallen tears, Katie closed the little gap between them to put her arms around him, hugging him tightly as more tears fell freely. "I think it's you guys who put up with me," she murmured, taking a deep breath. "I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. I'll stop, I promise."

After a long moment, Katie released Lando from the embrace and took a step back, wiping tears from her face with the back of her hand as she then turned to Legend, hesitant and apologetic all at once, but said nothing while she took the little steps to close the distance between them again. Katie knew exactily what she wanted to do in that moment, if she were to follow her heart. And yet, there was another bigger part of her that absolutely terrified, scared of what she was risking, what she could so easily lose again.

Not allowing herself to think about exactily how badly she could be messing things up further or the fact this could be one of the most stupid things she'd ever do, Katie let her heart win. If not for forever, just for this moment. Leaning up on her toes, her hands resting on Legend's shoulders, Katie lightly, and hesitantly pressed her lips to his.

Luna shook her head ''I lost her I thought she was with you... One of the older students pushed me out of the way!'' Lu explained she knew Rache was looking for them so leaving would just be stupid!

''I'm looking forward to it''...Hmmm?? I wonder if we're going to Diagon alley often?? Luna thought about it for a few seconds and decided it was rude to ask...

Fee smiled as she noticed William there next to her.What a little gentleman."Aww thank you",the blonde smiled and plopped down on a free seat.Looking forward to Jasons wedding?"Of course i am",she nodded,"i am really excited to see everyone."The Slytherin really missed her best friend and all the people.It was really sweet that William asked if she minded."I dont mind",the slytherin shook her head,"i love having you around,you should know that."Closing her book and laying it down beside her the blonde smiled at her friend."Its a romance novel",she smiled,"you know i am a sucker for them."

She looked out the window, watching the green meadows blur into green streaks as the train kept on going, heading towards London once more. Jonathan hasn't spoken for a long time...

Cass then sneaked a glance at his direction and noticed a frown on his face. But before she could ask, he opened his mouth to speak, but she was disappointed when she heard a complement, not that she didn't appreciate it, but she was sort of hoping for an explanation for the frown on his face. She then looked down on her necklace as she gingerly pulled it closer to her face. "Yes, it is, isn' it?" She said with a small smile "I got it last Christmas from a dear friend of mine. Why?"

A friend? A dear one as well. Should Jonathan be a little bit be scared about this friend? Is it a guy or a girl? Jonathan should definitely snap out of it. He needs to stop being such a paranoid about the whole thing. It could be her childhood best friend or someone far away from London. It could be from anyone at all.

"A friend from Hogwarts?" he tried interrogating this time. He feels bad for asking though. Jonathan has never been so intrigued with stuffs like these. In fact it would take a miracle for him to notice the little details sometimes.

"And of course we'll have to go to Diagon Alley aaaaall the time," Presley continued. "And see everyone, and we can take you guys to all of my favorite places to eat. We don't eat at home much because neither me or Leo is much of a cook, and you'll meet my father, and I'm sooooo excited!" Presley hoped that Luna was excited to. She was slightly nervous. What if her friends didn't like being at her place? What if they hated it? What if they thought her brother was a loser? What if they knew her dad was annoyed by children and only wanted to be left alone??
Still half-listening to what was going on in the other compartment. She couldn't help it. They say that eavesdroppers never hear anything they like, but Presley was delighted with what was being said about her. "The best friend I've ever had" "Work so hard towards my goal" "I want to try, I want to make it" This was quite possibly the best thing that had happened all year. She'd convinced someone to follow their dream, and now listen to all of the wonderful things he was saying. This proved that he hadn't just been placating her by pretending when they were talking. She'd really convinced him to do something! He really was taking her advice. This was one of the best feelings in the world.

Philip nodded softly. "I'm going to try. Due largely to what I think might be the best friend I have ever had at Hogwarts. Her name's Presley. We haven't known each other for long, but she's already been kinder to me than all the students I've known all these 6 years." He smiled.

"Next term, I'm going to work so hard towards my goal. It'll be really hard.. I know it will. But I want to try. I want to make it." He whispered, taking a deep breath and shaking his head. "I'm not expecting much, but.. I still need to try. If not for myself, then for Presley." He whispered somberly.

Dani smirked a little and took another drink from her water bottle- "Presley, eh?" she raised a perfectly arched eyebrow and smiled at him slightly mischeviously. "Is she... just your best friend? Or more like your grilfriend?" she asked him curiously as she picked up another gummy wan and chewed on it as she watched him closely.

Yes, the blonde was somewhat nosy- at times, but being nosy wasn't always a bad thing. And it could sometimes help people. She could help him... in what way she wasn't so sure but... yeah. Maybe. And she liked a good gossip.

Philip blushed slightly, but shook his head, trying to ignore that natural impulse. "No, no, Presley's just my friend. Besides, She's a 1st-year, I'm a 6th-year, It wouldn't work out that way.'' He said.

"If I was going to find myself a girlfriend, though.. She'd have to be a lot like her. I need someone who can support me like that, someone who will be that sweet to me every day. And you'd be surprised at how many people are complete jerks to me." Philip admitted. "Especially girls."He shrugged.