Ella hoped Alec didn't think she was weird for the whole lime-y comment. EEP. But he was just...blinking at her and giving her this...look. Oh great. He totally thought she was the weirdest Hufflepuff alive. She should have kept her mouth shut and-Wait! He understood? HE UNDERSTOOD! Ella BEAMed at him, nodding her head. "Right? The lime-y...est." Ells couldn't help but think that Alec knowing what she meant made him even more awesome. "Yeah, I really do like them the best...plus they're green. That's a bonus." Grin. "What flavor is your favorite?" She asked with a smile, picking out a red gummy worm and chewing on it.

So video games equaled bonding time for Alec and his dad? That was like...normal guy stuff, yeah? Ella imagined lots of boys did that kind of thing with their dads. Since Ella's brother was too little to play video games, Ells kinda stepped in and learned to play instead. "That's pretty neat. Dad and I play guitar together sometimes. He's really into music." Or he used to be...before everything happened. Oh...and what type of games? "We play a lot of Mario bros. and then some fight game...Mortal Combat, I think. Actually, that one is kinda fun." But violent...which wasn't so nice.

So Alec hadn't seen Messer? That was...weird. Ella was sure they would have hung out or something. They were always teasing each other, sure, but boys did that sort of thing when they were friends, right? "Oh...well Tag is really nice. I met him this summer in Diagon Alley." And he seemed to like sweets just as much as Ella did, which was pretty awesome. "All summer? Me either. I hope he's okay!" Maybe he had gotten sick all summer or something?! EEP. That wouldn't be good! She didn't have too much time to worry though, as Alec was inquiring about the breed of Dino. "He's a bloodhound and he's adorable, Alec! His little floppy ears and his wrinkly forehead...he's just the cutest...I mean at least I think he is." But she was kind of bias, yeah? He was HER dog, after all. The blonde was a bit surprised by Alec's reaction to the Casper comment and she smirked at Alec, eyebrows raised a bit. "Yeah!...I met him in Florean's and we um...talked a bit. Why? Do you know Casper as well?!" Maybe Casper had lied about being a wizard to Alec too!

Bliss' bright blue eyes followed Lex as she moved across the compartment and sat down directly across from her. Bliss nodded as she listened to Alexa, "Yes, all the logic was yours," Bliss agreed and giggled. "Ari?" She asked, she hadn't heard of or met Ari before, she was curious to know who she was. "Poor Archer," she sympathised, imagining how sad the train would be if an animal died on it. Never mind the fact that another would have eaten it. "I'd chase after her," Bliss agreed and nodded. Everyone would do that same for their pet. She was sure.

"Well. To be honest, she herself sounds stupid! She doesn't have the right to talk to you like that, or anyone in fact!" Bliss said, with a frown on her face. People like that annoyed her greatly, very greatly. The types of people to avoid wasn't something Bliss had thought about. She was a very people person and loved most people she met. But some people she didn't give a second glance. Bliss giggled as she watched the younger girls response to her words. "I very much doubt it actually. But you never know, it depends how bad you are," she told the girl truthfully. Bliss had so far not been in trouble and she didn't plan on getting into trouble ever.

This was all so confusing, but she didn't think that she bother thinking about it all too much. She ran into someone and they told her? Fair enough, that's pretty much what they'd done themselves. "That sounds fair enough, I guess we'll just have to wait and see," Bliss said with a shrug.

As she sat, Micha noticed how focused Ace was on the people passing their compartment. Easily distracted much? She couldn't blame him. She was too, and being in a new place with new people was no help. The whole experience was rather surreal.

"Same," she answered, being snapped back to attention by his question. Though she'd be fifteen in December. "What month is your birthday?" she asked, not meaning to pry. It seemed like she was usually older than most of people in her year by a few months.

Until he'd asked the question, Micha had tried not to think about it. She shrugged. "I suppose. It's very different from where I went before. There weren't nearly as many people." She was already homesick... just not for her home in England. She still hadn't quite gotten over the move, though they'd only been there for about a week. They hadn't even completely unpacked before she left.

The thought paining her, Micha resumed gazing at the people through their little compartment window.

He was having no trouble at all. Well.. at least he was trying to hide it. Though, he couldn't help but laugh to himself as a few younger students struggled with their own trunks. But he didn't care about most of them 'cause boys could handle themselves. It was the girls who always needed help and Coul never turned down a cry for help. Not from a girl at least.

But at the moment, he didn't really see any girls in need of help, so he tugged his trunk into an empty compartment before somehow managing to toss the thing onto the top shelf.

And now? Now was time for relaxing. Because he'd need to be fully rested and prepared to flirt with any and all of the girls he knew he'd be encountering within the next couple of hours. So with the compartment all to himself, he sat down, put his legs up on the rest of the bench, leaned back and crossed his arms behind his head.

It was just like Kurumi to see the LOGIC in things and realise that whilst Aparecium was mostly filled with over exaggerated dragon dung, there had to be some baseline of truth SOMEWHERE. "Not necessarily," Elijah continued to defend, "Sometimes people make things up just to be malicious and stir trouble. Particularly people who choose to remain anonymous. Cowards."

Yes, Aparecium. COWARDS!

"Course I see you as a good friend! No one else would take the time out to help tutor me and you've always been very nice to me," he said genuinely. That nice moment was short lived, however, when she began being all LOGICAL again. This is why Elijah didn't bother developing his brain and LEARNING, because if you did then you would overthink things and then cause inconvenience in other people's lives.

"Sure, you can take care of yourself, but it's always nice to have other people wanting to look out for you, no?" At least Elijah thought so. "I have no idea why they mentioned Lewis. Perhaps whatever nitwit wrote this believes that it should be the sole responsibility of the boyfriend," distaste again, "to 'keep an eye' on his girlfriend."

SPOILER!!: ASPENNNN <3

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Aspen wasn't exactly feeling up to friends or family or anything familiar. She was avoiding things that began with F apparently. So, that's how she ended up in a compartment with Elijah and Kurumi. Neither of them began with F.

She heard the tail end of this no doubt riveting conversation between Hufflepuff and Prefect.

Before she sat, without asking, Aspen paused to stare in turn at each of them. Then, quietly offered, "I can show you how to keep an eye on someone. Properly."

And literally. A sloooooooooow smile appeared on the Ravenclaw's face and she waited for a volunteer.

It was then that Aspen Odessa arrived into their compartment. Elijah really liked Aspen, not that he would ever admit that to anyone EVER. But, he liked how she was different to other girls and rather quite interesting. Quirky, almost. "Heyyyyy Aspen," Elijah flashed her a smile as she sat, shimming closer and closer to her so that their shoulders were almost touching.

He had been about to ask her allllll about her summer when the 'Claw offered to show Kurumi how to keep an eye on someone... Oh Merlin, no! She wouldn't DARE. Elijah eyed her, willing her to shut up since he'd thus far done a good job of keeping Kurumi naive to the whole thing. "I'm sure you don't want to give away all your trade secrets,"Elijah gave off a fake laugh, putting an arm around the girl and patting her on the shoulder maybe a little too hard. "Such a good gal, Aspen. How I have missed you," he said the last part through gritted teeth.

Did I say Elijah liked Aspen....? Hm.

That's all Ariella had heard theses past few days, and weeks. The sorting hat will know where to put you. They were right, of course, but Ari just really wanted to know what house she would be in. Thankfully she wouldn't have to wait much longer now...

"So what are some of the classes like?" Ari really wanted to know about those! She had bought all of the books she would need and had skimmed through a few of them, but it would be nice to hear about them from an actual student...

Ronnie walked along the corridor of the train with her arms full of sweets from the food trolley, looking for an empty compartment to sit in. After a while of searching, she finally found one and slipped into it. Once she put her things away, she plopped down onto the seat and relaxed, looking out the window. Merlin, she was tired. She had done so much this morning to get ready and was very exhausted.

Dora always had the hardest time getting her trunk to the luggage compartment in the back. It was so HEAVY and she'd lost her uncle at the station and so had no one to help her get the thing onto the train and in the back.

Not that she would have asked for help even if she did have someone. Isidora liked to do things for herself if she could help it.

Everyone was always so ROWDY on the train and so she was moving carefully, but deliberately, searching for an empty compartment only there was none. Maybe someone would share? Maybe this new boy share.

"Hey," She let herself in and took a seat across from him. Her blue bag went to take the space beside her. "You're not looking to sleep are you? I wouldn't do that on this train." Any train really.

Olivia had a relaxing break from school, she was excited to go back because this year she would be considered one of the older kids instead of one of the younger kids, well more of a middle aged kid instead of younger or older. Either way, she loved school. Olivia slammed down the newspapper "This is ridiculous, I can't believe we will be having increased supervision on the Hogwarts express and at Hogwarts". She rolled up the daily prophet and tied a string of twine around it so it wouldn't come undone.

Heh. Lime-y. It was an interesting new word. Wait, had Ella come up with a whole new word? That was... awesome! Really. Alice could be Queen of the World and Ella could be... the Queen of Words? Yeah... how awesome would that be?! And, judging by the way Ella was beaming at him, she seemed to like the idea as well! Except...how did she know what was going through his mind? Was she really good at mind reading?! O___O Alec coughed and tried to think of something she would approve of. Like gummy bears in robes. Ella would approve of that. "You're coming up with some really awesome words today, you know," Lime-y... lime-y-est... both awesome! "That's a good choice. The green ones are really nice!" As for him... "I... I dunno. Maybe the yellow ones? They remind me of Hufflepuff!" GRIN.

... Ella played guitar games! Did this mean... that she can play the guitar as well? Or... did that not apply to instruments as well? Alec... was a bit confused now so he ruffled his hair. "That's awesome! So... can you play the guitar?" He kind of wished he could. It seemed like a pretty awesome instrument, the guitar. ... Alec GRINNED at the mention of Mario Brothers. "Wow Ells! Those are some... pretty great games!" And maybe they could play Mario Brothers together one day. Yeah... along with Tag!

"Yeah, Tag's awesome! It's good that you two met over the summer." Yeah! And who wouldn't want to meet Tag? The dude was just amazing! ... Oh. So Ella hadn't seen Messy at all as well. "That's... erm... weird. Maybe..." Or maybe he was going away and never coming back and this was his way of telling everyone? Alec shook this thought out of his head. No, Messy wouldn't do that! "Do you think he's coming back to Hogwarts?" He had to... otherwise Alec and Ella and Alice would go over to his house and... and... Ella could write mean letters, right? He would... mention this plan later, maybe. After they talked about Ella's new dog! He couldn't take her mind off of her dog when she was talking about him as if she loved him more than she loved ice cream. It made Alec grin some more. "Yeah? Does he like that he's the Dino and you're the saur?" GRIN some more. Until... mention of Casper came around. That's when Alec ruffled his hair again. "Do you... think he's like Theo?" he asked, leaning forwards slightly, "Erm... yeah, I met him in Flourish and Blotts and... well... I called him Theodore. And I hugged him." Yeah... he could be casual about this... even if he kind of wanted to laugh right now.

"Ari, Silvia, Nice to meet you both!" She tucked her hair behind her ear. "Yeah, my name is quite weird. You can just call me Awar or Lesta or Ah." She said, laughing. One of the girls looked older than the other. Maybe she was one of the older students. "Hope you don't mind me asking, but what year are you guys in?"

Ella smiled sheepishly at Alec, shrugging her shoulders. "Yeah? I thought they were kinda silly, actually...but thanks." Maybe just maybe if Alec thought they were awesome, they really were. He was an expert on all things awesome, yeah? And he thought the green ones were nice too? Brilliant. "They are really nice." She agreed, nodding her head before popping an orange gummy worm into her mouth. The badger looked up and grinned at Alec when she heard his choice, thinking that was a great pick too. "Hufflepuff...yeah! I never thought of that before but they kind of remind me of that as well. That's good thinking, Alec."

The small blonde smiled at the hair ruffle. That was definitely Alec's trademark, yeah? If anyone ever tried being Alec for a day they'd definitely need to get that down before they were successful. Oh, and they'd need to practice being really nice as well. Mhm! "Play? Yeah...I mean not really well or anything. Logan taught me during first year. It was...fun to learn." Though she hadn't been practicing as much as she should have. She was gonna change that this term, though. She smiled when Alec went on to praise her game choices. "You think? I mean...yeah. They are quite fun." And her dad seemed to like those ones best.

"Tag seems awesome...Did you know he devoured an entire chocolate dragon like...SO fast? It was pretty epic." And Ells had been impressed. Eating habits like that earned people serious cool points in Ella's eyes. ...O__O Coming back to Hogwarts? Messer had to come back, didn't he? How could they be SuperPinkyHulkAsaurus without PINKY? They simply couldn't! The third year looked at her friend, clearly concerned. "He has to come back, right? I mean...we need Messy around." Who would Ells practice Defensive spells with if he wasn't around? Frown! "I'm sure he was just a bit...busy or something." Right. No need to be alarmed...yet. The thirteen year old cracked a wide smile when Alec made quite a funny comment about Dino. "He's the Dino and I'm the Saur...Alec that's just...brilliant." And she giggled, thinking it over again in her mind. "You're quite funny, you know." Just saying.

Talk about Casper was making Ella a bit frowny again. Mostly cause he had said some not so nice things during their chat. Ella leaned forward slightly as well, looking at Alec thoughtfully. "No...I don't think he's at all like Theodore. He seemed kind of...mean, actually." Frown. Ella hated talking negatively about people but she wasn't going to lie. "He said wizards are...freaks." And the blonde's green eyes widened a bit as she said it, wincing at the word 'freaks.' That was just a really mean thing for him to say. WAIT WHAT?! "You...um you actually...hugged him?" Ella bit her lip to try and stop the laughter from escaping but she just couldn't hold it in. Alec...had hugged CASPER. Bahahaha! That was actually pretty hilarious! She couldn't stop giggling and sat back in her seat, clutching her stomach, trying not to send gummy worms flying all over the place.

Lesta. That's what Ari would be calling her, she liked it the best out of all the nicknames Awarlesta had given.

"I'll be starting my first year! I'm really excited!" Ari wasn't sure how many times she had spoken those exact words but it had been a lot, that much she was sure of!

EXACTLY!!! Everyone knew that when your pet was in trouble you were supposed to be willing to jump out and save them. What they had done wasn't stupid, it was the smart thing to do. See this was why she liked talking to kids her own age, the always understood much better. "Yeah just like we did. We chased after them but then one of the older girl's said we should have waited for someone older to do something about it. As if." She said with a roll of her eyes. It just annoyed her that she had been trying to be a hero and all she had to show for it was some cussing.

"Yeah I know that...but it's not like I could actually say it to her. She had a pretty scary look on her face and her words were pretty harsh too." If she admitted to nothing else she had to admit that the girl scared her...just a little... She swallowed hard when the girl said it all depended on just how bad she had been. She knew for sure, by the reactions her and her friends had gotten, that what they had done might have been pretty bad. Now she was even more grateful that they hadn't been busted by a Professor; the thought of spending the train ride then half the opening ceremony being lectured didn't appeal to her very much. "Have you ever gotten into trouble before? Do you know what happens if you do?" Maybe this girl could give her some idea of what she could have run into it.

She shrugged. "I don't really care whether they're here or not really. I don't see what kind of difference it makes." It was true. She would have done nothing different even if they were standing right beside her. She wasn't one for pretending. What you saw was what you got and she made no apologies for that.

SPOILER!!: Kurumi and Elijah

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Which was when someone else came into the compartment and Kurumi turned her gaze away from Elijah and the parchment in her hand.

Oh! Kurumi recognized this girl...she was always giving her weird crosswise looks and glares during lessons. Maybe a good eye roll here and there. Not to mention that whole fiasco with Paulie in Charms. Kurumi actually knew her little brother better than she knew the Ravenclaw, come to think of it.

Cocking her head to the side, Kurumi blinked at her for a few moments. "There is a proper way to do that?" she asked with the innocence of a first year.

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It was then that Aspen Odessa arrived into their compartment. Elijah really liked Aspen, not that he would ever admit that to anyone EVER. But, he liked how she was different to other girls and rather quite interesting. Quirky, almost. "Heyyyyy Aspen," Elijah flashed her a smile as she sat, shimming closer and closer to her so that their shoulders were almost touching.

He had been about to ask her allllll about her summer when the 'Claw offered to show Kurumi how to keep an eye on someone... Oh Merlin, no! She wouldn't DARE. Elijah eyed her, willing her to shut up since he'd thus far done a good job of keeping Kurumi naive to the whole thing. "I'm sure you don't want to give away all your trade secrets,"Elijah gave off a fake laugh, putting an arm around the girl and patting her on the shoulder maybe a little too hard. "Such a good gal, Aspen. How I have missed you," he said the last part through gritted teeth.

Did I say Elijah liked Aspen....? Hm.

Aspen simply stared at the Prefect and her "innocent" question - like those kinds of looks that bore physical holes into walls from intensity. "Where there's a will, there's a way, Prefect Hollingberry." So if one was WILLING to properly KEEP an eye on someone... then... you bet there was a way.

She would have proceeded, but Elijah was invading personal space and thinking himself much more personable than he was. It was surprising to Aspen that he KNEW her name now, and even more so that he was decidedly and suddenly chummy with the touching.

"You aren't sure of anything, and least of all my secrets," just facts, always just the facts from Aspen. She let his arm and patting stay, but...

...more or less tried to pluck his eye from the socket with her fingers. "Where there's a will, there's a way," she repeated with a grin.

Maxwell forced a smile. "Well, i'm sure you won't be too sad to know that Ariana and i broke up...I broke it off cause i know she still has feelings for just and i won't be the replacement.."

Taylor engulfed him in a hug, "That is sad but you did the right thing." She looked at him, "Do I have to be nice to her still?" Tay frowned.

Maxwell hugged her back and laughed a little. "Yes, she's still my friend...or i hope she is..just be nice.." He said laughing again and trying to focus on the positive. "But i think i'm okay...I didn't expect us to last to long anyway...on the bright side, you can set me up again." He said half jokingly. "But i think i might wanna wait like a week or two...although i'm sure she'll be back with Justin when we pull into the station.." He said recalling how well Ariana had taken their breakup.

Tay grumbled and frowned, "Why? She is evil and a brat to me! Why do I have to?" She crossed her arms and pouted, "I didnt even do anything to her until she started being a demon to me! I dont even know why she hates my guts." Taylor sighed, "I dont wanna be nice to her!" Her mood instantly brighten at his second thing. Tay giggled, "Wait you are going to give me permission to set you up?" Her eyes twinkled in delight as the options flickered through her mind. "Yeah, a week or two at least..."

Maxwell sighed. "How about if she stays nice you will and if not you can be as mean as you like?" He asked hoping that would satisfy her. He nodded and chuckled as her mood lightened. "Yes, you have permission to set me up..my only rule is no Snakes and i prefer blue eyes." He said knowing it was rather specific. "A week or two sounds good to me."

Awar gasped, "It's my first year too!!" She jumped up and down. Finally, someone her year. "I'm very, very excited too! My brother has told me lots of Hogwarts and I'm very happy to finally be here!"

"I' going into my third year," Silvia said. She was relieved when the new girl had said they could call her by a nickname, seeing as Silvia wasn't sure if she would be able to remember her full name.

"Sometimes classes can be a little boring, but usually they're rather enjoyable. A lot of the professors plan games occasionally, to help us practice new spells. We played Capture the Flag in Charms my first year," she said, remembering how exciting her very first lesson at Hogwarts had been, "and last year we had a boat race on the Lake in Transfiguration. The History of Magic professor sometimes takes us on field trips to really cool places. And we even raised a dragon in Care of Magical Creatures last term." That was what had really hooked her interest in Magical Creatures, a class that Silvia had felt relatively indifferent about her first year. There was always something exciting going on at Hogwarts. "Is there a class in particular that you're interested in?"

Nerida had grabbed her things took it to where they needed to be put released her cat before doing so. Though she picked her up to make sure the little rascal didn't get herself into any trouble...Well at least until the train left the station, she would be holding onto her....Or until she found a good compartment. She entered a compartment quickly when she saw a heard of first years running for the trolly. Seeing the compartment wasn't empty she was about to introduce herself, when she recognized him as the boy she met on the Western Concourse.

"Hello, DJ, what a coincidence that we are to run into each other again." After finishing her sentence her blue cat squirmed out of her arms and sat on the boy. "Oh sorry about that, well at least you know she likes you!
" She glanced around the compartment before asking "Do you mind if I sit with you, it seems you are sitting alone and I think it will be rather hard to retrieve Sky from you for now."

Logan really wasn't happy now, especially with all the giggling. Frowning and apologizing didn't help either. She had ruined his nap and then laughed at him.

Though seeing that she felt bad made him forgive her some. "It's okay."

Pout.

Yes. Logan had said it was okay, but did he really mean it? Possibly not. She knew it was likely he was just saying it not to make her feel bad. It didn't help though she still felt guilty, very guilty. She knew she wouldn't have liked it if someone had done the same to her.

Renesmee bit her lip once more, this time she looked at Logan's lip as she did so. It was only now she realised how nicely shaped they were. They'd surely be something to kiss, but Ness stopped herself from thinking further. Logan seemed upset with her and she didn't like that one bit.

"I..I thought it would be funny." She really did. "If you want I'll get you a chocolate to make up for it?" She still felt bad.