You know what was the best ever? ...Gummy worms. Ella sat eating them, well mostly the green ones, as she looked out the window. The quiet was exactly what she neede-

O___O

Sophie? Merlin's beard! Someone was excited...or nervous? Ella couldn't really tell for sure but she knew something was up with her best friend.

Ella's green eyes studied the brunette as Sophie grabbed her by the shoulders and began to shake her. "Soph...Soph....Sophieeee!" She said just as energetically, placing the gummy worms to the side and grabbing her friend's shoulders as well. Shake. Shake. Shake.

She didn't know what to do? Ella watched as her friend fell back and raised an eyebrow. "You don't know what to do...about what, exactly?"

Details, bestie.

Oh noooooo. Nooooooooooooo!! That was not good! Her father would curse Oakey again! And make him cry again! And she wouldn't be able to do anything! AGAIN!! Uuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh!

"Ella, dad is gonna curse Oakey again!!" One could say Sophie was exaggerating, but she truly wasn't! "He did it last time on the platform! I'm afraid he'll do the same tonight!" That was why she wasn't with Oakey right now, actually. Maybe avoiding him that day would help her go to her parents without having to tell them everything that night... and Oakey could be spared... for a bit longer. Hopefully! "I didn't owl them!"

Sophie couldn't sit still and grabbed a lock of her hair while shaking her head. Nothing would work. NOTHING! Her father would hate Oakey forever and there was nothing Sophie could do!

Desperation mode ON!

Oh....OH! Now Ella understood why her best friend seemed to be losing her gobstones. The Oakey/Mr. Campbell situation was kinda not good at the moment and now that Sophie and Oakey were together, she could understand her bestie's concern. First things first, though. Sophie needed to calm down a bit.

"Soph? Deep breaths, okay? We're going to figure out how to deal with this." Yes we, because Ella was on Team Sophie and she wasn't going to sit by and let her friend's father curse her friend's boyfriend. That wouldn't be good. "First off, he doesn't know about you and Oakey cause you didn't tell him so...so there's that." Which means he wouldn't come right out and attack the boy or anything. "And...well your mom will be there, yeah? Won't she like...keep your Dad under control or something?" Moms were meant to do that sort of thing, yeah? ...Not that Ella would know from experience.

...Sigh.

Sophie nodded her head energetically and continued playing with her hair frantically as Ella told her to take deep breaths. She did take the deep breaths, but faster than she was supposed to and it miight have sounded a bit like she was going into labor! Gaaaahh! Because yeah, hard time trying not to panic over here.

Well, Ella had a point. "You're right!" Sophie exclaimed, widening her eyes at her blonde friend. "Maybe I shouldn't tell him at all!" That soudned like a bad idea though... things could get worse if he found out by himself later. "Maybe... maybe I should secretly tell mum and ask her to tell him once we're back home and Oakey is faaaar away from us!" THERE! Sounded like the perfect plan!

"He can't go anywheeere near us when we get out of the train then!" Or maybe not even while they were on the train! WHATIF something happened on their way back to London and... SOMETHING, and her father showed up and saw them together and cursed Oakey's head off and and and!!!!!!!

But maybe she was overreacting... maybe...

"Mum will be there, but my dad has his ways!" As creepy as that might sound. It was true. "... Elliot told me her father doesn't like her boyfriend..." Was she really quoting Elliot now? Talk about desperation. "What if this happens to me as well??" Nooooo!! Sophie wanted Oakey and her dad to get along!!! "AND THERE'S MUM'S PLANTS!!" Sophie reminded herself, throwing her hands in the air and looking at the ceiling before flopping down on the compartment seat, covering her face with both hands.

Ameliah looked impatiently out the window, having just woken up from a nap. Still not home yet?!?! POUT. When was she gonna see Loooogan? Now that she was awake, she couldn't get back to sleep, so she stood up and started humming instead.

Ella stared at her friend as she started breathing really oddly. O__O What in Merlin's beard was she doing? That's not the kind of breathing Ella had meant. The blonde tried her best not to laugh because this was NOT funny, even if Sophie did look a bit silly at the moment. MUST NOT LAUGH. MUST BE SUPPORTIVE. "That's right Soph, keep breathing..." As in please start breathing like a normal human being again.

That's not exactly what Ella meant, not telling Sophie's Dad...but then again, it did seem like it'd prevent him from offing Oakey. "I...maybe just don't tell him right away?" Wait until Oakey was a safe distance away and then all would be good...for the most part. Oh! And Sophie was thinking along the same lines as Ella was? BRAINTWINS! "Yeah...yeah, that seems like a good idea! Then your mom can help you explain things to your Dad! Team work seems like a good idea!" See? So everything was going to be fine!

"Sophie? It'll be okay...Oakey will just have to erm...avoid your Dad on the way out? Maybe I can...hang with him for a bit and make sure he's safe?" Oakey watching didn't seem like it'd be that bad of a job and Ella was up for the challenge as long as she didn't have to drink any veggie smoothies!

"Well your Dad is..." O___O Wait...Elliot? "ELLIOT? I thought you didn't like her or something..." Cue confused look because Ella was absolutely puzzled now.

"Sophie..." She said more quietly now, giving her friend a small smile. "Things are going to be okay. Try to calm down cause you're starting to freak me out."

Ronnie walked along the corridor of the train, holding her kitten Oliver close to her with one arm and carrying a whole load of sweets in the other. She pushed through people, peeping into compartments as she walked. Merlin's beard! WHERE WAS AMELI-

Oh!

There she was!

Ronnie managed to slide open the compartment door, even with all the sweets and the cat in her arms. "Hey, Ameliah!" she said as she made her way in. She dumped all the sweets onto the seat across from Ameliah. She was sure Ameliah wouldn't mind her joining her. They were pretty much like... best friends...right?

Yeah. Pretty much.

Ronnie plopped down next to her sweets and sighed, setting Oliver on her lap. She began stroking him. "Oh, do you mind me sitting here..?" she asked. "I dunno if you wanna be like...alone or not..." She had to make sure just in case...

Ameliah was snapped out of her trance as she heard hef name. "Wh- Oh, yeah, course!" she said happily as she sat down with achocolate frog that she may or may not have taken from Ronnie's stack. Talking passes time too, right?

She let Mel out of her pocket now that she could trust the puff to not get into anything. Cause now she had two sets of eyes!
Mel scurried across the floor, expertly hopping onto Ronnie's seat. Brrrr? There seemed to be some other furry thing in her way.

With a laugh, Am grinned at Rons. "Sorry I was a little out of it for a second. Been just wanting to get to Logan, y'know?" It was a natural thing, even more so when it became hard not to think about how much she'd come to love Logan.

So anyways.... "So, I never really got to hear about how you and Adam... Got together." The Claw looked questioningly at her friend.

After a little while of odd breathing, Sophie ruffled her hair a bit violently and when it was all over the place she pulled it down to cover her face. Silent freak out moment.

"I won't tell him right away." Sophie assured Ella and herself of it. "Yeah... or maybe she can tell him... while I'm not around." But that could be worse! And it would make Sophie avoid her dad for a while. Eep.

Oakey should just avoid her dad. That made sense. "You're right! He can't go anywhere NEAR my dad tonight!" Sophie said nervously. Ella was offering to keep him safely away from her dad? "That's a good idea! Please, do!" What would she do without her best friend?? "Thank you, Ella!"

Yes... Elliot... "I don't... but she told me that." Sophie actually knew a lot of things about Elliot. Even one of her deepest weaknesses. "I'm afraid things will turn out that way... I don't want it to happen to me..." It didn't seem to affect Elliot, but it would surely affect Sophie.

Still lying on the seat with her hands over her face, Sophie slowly shook her head. Things would be okay...... were they? "I really hope so... but... I don't see how..." The badger trailed off, uncovering her face and letting her arms drop by her sides. Siiiigh... "How did your father like Harvey?" She asked looking at the ceiling.

Ronnie watched as Mel hopped up onto her seat. She smiled. "Heya, Mel!" she said, patting the little puff's head.

Oliver opened one eye as he heard shuffling on the seat. He then opened both eyes when he saw a weird creature sitting by his Ronnie. He sat up, his ears perked. *sniff sniff* What was that thing?! Oliver growled a little. No. This was HIS Ronnie. He was NOT sharing. Hissssssssss.

"Oliver! You be nice!" Ronnie said. Jeez, what had gotten into him? She sighed, looking from the kitten to Ameliah. "Do you wanna hold him?" she asked. She was sure Ollie would get distracted by being on a new person's lap...since he loved being around other people and all.


Ronnie nodded at what Ameliah said about Logan. "Oh, I totally understand." she said with a laugh. "Don't worry, we'll be at the station in no time." she said, glancing out the window at all the scenery that was flashing by.

Oh. Now they were talking about Adam!
"Oh, well...one day, we were exploring around the castle," she began, turning from the window to Ameliah. "And we stopped to take a rest in a corridor, and he was noticing how my cheeks kept getting red when I talked to him and stuff...and we ended up telling eachother that we like each other. Then we just...got together." she finished with a small shrug. It felt nice to finally be talking to another girl about Adam. She hadn't really talked about him before to any of her friends...she didn't really have the chance. She tried once with the firstie Alexa...but she thought it was yucky. "So," Ronnie said, continuing to pet the pygmy puff, "How'd you and Logan get together?"

Carigan decided that the front cars would be best. After all, the food was up there right? It seemed like the whole year had passed by without her. She had no time to do anything with her friends, just silently doing homework in the most forgotten corners of the castle. Maybe fourth year wouldn't be as hard on her. If only her head aches and nightmares would let up.

Now... where to sit?

Snort.

"Yes. A compliment no one should be proud of." Hehehehe. A lot of people adores the little fellow, but he can be embarrassing at times. For Mordred at least. Oh. Right. "Honestly, I won't count that one. It was as if I went to spend time with your mother, and not you." Mordred sighed and sat up again. "How's she? Any improvements?" Meaning, is she still as stubborn as you, Applehead? He was hoping that stealing the picture would help Bee's mother to cope. She was almost convinced that the girl he was with was her daughter.

"Okay. I take that snort as, nothing-happened-because-I'm-boring-and-I'd-rather-stay-in-the-library-to-study-like-a-true-Ravenclaw." Mordred teased as he sat back and folded his arms across his chest. He can go for days teasing Beezus. The Slytherin paused and studied his friend who was happily eating her sugar quill. "So, is it true that you and our captain are dating?" Straight to the point, just like a boss.

Girl thing. It's always...ALWAYS a girl thing.

Fine then, it must be pretty gross and all that.

But then again, a certain question came up to his curious gears. "Okay...so...if you're having this...'IT' day...or is it days?...Um...why...are you all moody? I mean, okay..I get the pain and stuff...but...I see girls get moody without showing sign that their stomach...I mean, abdomen is hurting." Mordred brushed his hair with his fingers and stared at the ground confused. "It's...really weird...it's as if you girls see that everyone in this planet is an idiot." Because yes, he witnessed his mother getting angry and always irritable when she's having her own 'IT' day.

Beezus returned her gaze at the Slytherin and eyed him curiously. A compliment no one should be proud of? But, why not? Ethan was adorable. Hyperactive, yes but he was nice. Unlike Zia. "I beg to differ, Dred. Ethan's a sweetheart. If it's possible, I'd even love for my cousin to be friends with him so she'd develop some manners." Her cousin was such a sarcastic kid. Still looking at him straight in the eyes, the brunette raised an eyebrow at his next words. "Well, I'm sorry. I did not expect things to happen." Everything went unexpectedly and she was utterly unprepared for it all. That was why she only shrugged when he asked if their were any improvements on her mother's condition. To be honest, she didn't know because she never inquired after their visit. She needed more time....to well, cope up with the shock.

"And by the way, just so you know, I'd always be game when it comes to spending time with you." She lowered her eyebrow and smiled at him, finishing the remains of her sugar quill.

OH! OHOHOHOHO! He did not just call her boring. Just as she sat back up, Beezus opened her mouth to say something but shut it almost instantly then she left her seat, stood up and lunged towards him, poking him on his stomach. "Who's boring, huh?" POKE. "Huh? Huh? Who's boring?" POKE. POKE. POKE. "I'm not boring, you scumbag!" The Ravenclaw giggled, punching him slightly on the shoulder before retreating to the space beside him. And then she froze at his next question. How did he know about that? *BLINK* "I...errr..." She couldn't hide anything from him. If there was one person she would divulge all her secrets to, it would be him. Not Erin. Not even Indy. But Mordred. What can she do? She trusted him and he'd proved himself worthy of that trust. "Yes, it's true." There you go. A straight answer to his straight-to-the-point question.

UGH.

Seriously? They were talking about "it"? Why did he have to be so curious? Beezus scrunched her face into a frown, staring, almost gawking at his face while his eyes were on the floor. "Orangefeet, you're too curious for your own good, you know that?" Heh. Not really. She just didn't know how to explain these kind of things to him. It was awkward and she did not want them to be awkward. "It's basically due to a lot of things. But to put it simply, our hormones are all over the place Mordred." Beezus nodded matter-of-factly. "And it's not weird. All you guys," Yes, you. Insensitive boys who lack common sense, "..are idiots in nature anyway." She remarked with a giggle.

Were the mood swings too obvious? Because she was starting to notice it now. Gah. She sounded so ridiculous.

Dylan entered the front cars after having visited the food trolley and had bought his first of many food trolley supplies, he had decided to buy them in bunches so this was his first which was chocolate frogs and some gummy sweets. He looked into the compartments to see who was around.. maybe he could trick or prank someone.. or maybe have the old boring hangout. He had a few people he wanted to meet but they didnt seem to be around here so he was not sure where they were and how to talk to them. He hoped they would come here or at least he would see someone who knew where they were.

Mel backed up a little. But but but... she wanted to be friends! Wibble. But the funny creature was bigger than her. And had scary teeth. Retreeeeeat! The puff hid behind Nice Ronnie.

Hold ze kitteh? Moi? "YES," Ameliah said, taking Oliver and setting him into her lap. Awwwwww...! The little kitten was just so cuuuuuuute!

Am glanced out the window. "OOO!" They were getting close! Maybe all the pacing/napping passed more time than she thought! Her leg began to shake again from excitement.

Aw! She smiled as Ronnie went over the story. It seemed a lot more... eventful than when Am had gotten together with Adam way back. It was more like: So, wanna get together? Sure! Bleh. It seemed boring.

Logan? Am started to get a little antsy again, but contained it for Ollie's sake.

"Weeeeeell, a few weeks into the school year, I sent a letter to Eimes saying that I was starting to really like Logan. Of course, her being Eimear, she showed it to Logan I guess, he sent me a letter, I spent ten minutes giggling slash squealing, aaaaaaaand told him I really wanted to be with him too," That summed it up, right?

Ella watched as her friend transformed herself into a little lion. No seriously, the crazy hair ruffling had turned her hair into a bit of a mane and Ella couldn't help but smile faintly at the sight. Soph knew she was meant to be a badger, yeah? Heh...moving on. "Sophie? I...do you need some gummy worms or something?" Cause the blonde was seriously starting to worry about her friend here.

Ella nodded, thinking that that was probably for the best. Actually, she still felt strongly that Sophie should have owled her parents to give them a heads-up but it was too late now. "I think...after you talk to your mom privately that you two should tell your Dad together." Nod. "He's your Dad, Soph...and as much as he maybe dislikes Oakey, he just wants you to be happy." That's what her Gran was always saying in defense of her own father when he acted all Dad-crazy.

"My thoughts exactly." Ella said, nodding in agreement. Too bad she didn't know where Mordred was because he'd be good in a situation like this. Surely he could keep Oakey safe while Sophie made a quick exit...although, the fourteen year old still had yet to ask if Mordred even knew about Soakey. Hmm..."Yeah...yeah, I'll keep Oakey away from your Dad and you just try to get out of the station as soon as possible, okay?" Before Oakey decided to announce his love for Sophie to the whole of the platform as well. "We're best friends, Sophie...I have your back." Grin. So no need to thank her, it was kind of Ella's job to help.

So Sophie had been talking to Elliot then...about her relationship? Strange. Ella stroked her imaginary beard as she tried to figure out how that even would happen as she listened to what else her friend had to say. "Hey...it won't turn out the same. You're letting your imagination take over Soph and you shouldn't worry until you talk to your mom. She'll know what to do, okay?" At least Ella hoped that was the case.

"They will, Soph." Things had to be okay cause Ella wouldn't stand for an upset Sophie...she'd have to go all Ellasaurus Rex and nobody wanted to see that. As for how her Dad felt about Harvey at first, Ella snorted. "I'm pretty sure he hated him at first, actually." But things had changed over time and eventually Rich Bishop saw that the boy wasn't so bad after all. "Now...they actually get along. See? Things can work out."

Carrying his usual confident smirk and guitar case in one hand, Richard Turner walked in the train corridors feeling glad that he had gotten rid of his trunk and the noisy owl, Rene. A long train ride, like from Hogwarts to London, was not something he found completely fun so he was up to entertaining himself somehow. He had not seen Aurora anywhere. Perhaps she was with some other girls talking about girl things and giggling. Perhaps she was bragging about having the most handsome guy alive as her boyfriend and giggle.

He liked it when girls giggled.

Girls. He thought about them. He thought about them all the time and he knew that he would not be able to live without them. How could anyone survive without girls anyway? Even though they had some oddities and...well...problematic behaviours, girls were at the top of the list of the things that were important to him. One certain girl though, was more important than the rest.

Whistling loudly, he eyed an empty compartment and walked in, throwing his guitar case on the seat in there.

Oliver looked around as he was suddenly moving to a different lap. YAY! He was getting MORE attention! He purred happily as the girl began to pet him. He liked this girl! She was nice! Purr purrrr.

Ronnie laughed at how happy Oliver was. Yup, she knew that'd make him happy. She glanced behind her, frowning at the scared puff who had been hiding behind her. "Awww, we're you scared Mel?" she asked, scooping her up and setting her on her lap. She rolled her eyes. Oliver got jealous too easily.

She then listened as Ameliah explained about her and Logan. A smile spread across her face and grew wider as Am went on. "Awww, that's adorable!" she said. "Y'know, you and Logan are just the most perfect couple ever! And the cutest!" she said with a smile, taking one of the Chocolate Frogs from her pile of sweets and opening it. The frog leaped out. "Where do you think you're going?" she asked as she caught him. She grinned, taking a bite off its head. "I used to think these were like, actually real frogs in my first year," she said. "So, I felt bad eating them and all and was just totally disgusted...so I just let them go and kept the cards." she finished, laughing.

Ameliah smiled, poking Oliver on the stomach a little. "D'AWWWWWwwwwwWWwwWWWwWw." Looook at him! He's so cewte, Awliver! "You know, little mister, I think I gots some treats in my pocket here!" She reached into her jacket pocket. YUP. There's some! Giving a few for Ollie to much on, she noticed her own cat pop up from under the seat.
Dwalin ran into Am's lap. Where are miiiiine? *wibble*
Am gave a few to Dwalin too. "Dwalin, this is Ronnie! Ronnie, this is my kitty!! Her name is, of course, Dwalin!"

Mel rolled over in Ronnie's lap. YUSIWASTERRIFIED.

Am blushed. "Aw, ya think soooo?" She knew they were pretty sweet around each other, but the perfect couple?
She giggled as Ronnie chased the frog. "Really? That's so funny!" They never seemed like real frogs to her. "It's Hazel's favorite candy, so we're always eating a ton. We have our own secret collection of the cards. I think we have all but ten!"