Before he could hear out for Bliss's response, the compartment door opened. Alec turned his head round to face the compartment door, his hair flipping naturally in the process. ... He needed a haircut. Really. It was getting so long that, by the end of the year, his hair was probably going to cover his eyes. And then he wouldn't be able to see.

O____O

Alec shook his head and blinked at the person standing at the doorway. And then his lips broke into a big grin at the familiar brown haired boy. "Asher! Bro! Hey!" he said, getting up and fistbumping the dude back before giving him a hug, "Mate, it's been so long!" Even... if the two had met up some time during the holidays. But it wasn't for long, really. And it was sometime at the end of July so... yeah, to Alec, it had been pretty long.

Alec grinned as Bliss squeezed him during their hug. It was nice, really. A nice little squeeze. It was a lot better than those stupid one armed things some people gave. This was... nice. Yeah. "Hey!" Had he... said that already? "Erm... how've you been Bliss?" He couldn't say that they hadn't seen each other in a long time because, well, they came onto the platform together.

Bliss's giggle made Alec smile even more. Except... he was also slightly confused. Girls giggled because... they found something funny, right? Yeah... except, he didn't really say anything that was funny. Unless his hair was bad! ... A quick glance at his reflection in the mirror told him that his hair was okay. PHEW! And...then there was the stammer. Was she... scared? Or nervous? Because Alec could never get out his words when he was nervous. Never. "Yeah, I really do!" he said, smiling at her, "Erm... anytime!" Compliments from friends always did mean a lot to people, right? Yeah. "Really? Wow... You know... if Hogwarts had a band, you should join," he said, nodding his head.

She was not replying. That worried him.

Was it something he had done? Said something without realizing it? What was it!!?

Nathan was not the 'getting frustrated' type of guy so - it didn't show on his face how much it itched him somewhere that she was not saying anything. It was mind-poking. Yes.

"Tell me," he insisted. "Please," he added, softly.

Arabella-Marie smiled and said "Well i am hoping to make the team this year i just hope i show Selina that i am good enough to make the team" Arabella-Marie laughed and whispered "I was a bit scared and no i did not get into trouble as my dad is working abroad just now but i am scared to think about what he will do when he finds out"!

What.. was she supposed to say, really? Delphi didn't even know how to answer what he wanted to know. Honestly, she didn't.

"I.. don't know," Delphinia struggled, her words coming out barely above a whisper. Mostily because he was right next to her now. Holding her legs hostage. She looked away, but not before giving him a hint of a little smile. "It's just a.. strange topic.. to talk about."

That didn't even begin to cover it. Though, in a sense it actually was strange to think about - a girl liking her best friend, and she still didn't get a proper answer to her question. How did he feel? "Nothing for you to worry about," Delphi added, carefully.

Man, that was awkward. Faye thought about the situation that she had just witnessed. Strange. "It's called the Home Coming. A mubble book." Faye explained to the girl daring her to challenege the fact that it wasn't for the wizarding world.

"Did he really just break up with you?" Faye asked thinking that it was still extremely strange thing to have just happened.

Nathan eyed when she started speaking again. Well it was strange topic. But they have talked about stranger topics before - like his mother's death or the incident on her part.

Yes. Those were the topics, Nathan considered strange.

Nevertheless, he shrugged before placing a finger on the side of her chin to turn her face toward him. "lets not talk about it then," he simply added, with a smile.

Hmmm...she hadn't thought about how much Soren had been sleeping. "It's okay. Maybe he didn't get much sleep in the shop?" Again, she didn't know a whole lot about owls and she hadn't asked any questions when she had bought him...maybe she should have. Nell shrugged.

"Well who wouldn't want to be around me everyday." Her smiled turned flirty. This year was definitely looking up. She loved Hogwart's and being able to share it with someone would be fun. "I love the classes, or most of them anyway. And the trips to Hogmeade are a lot of fun too."

O_O

People never usually shouted his name out like that. Partly because he didn't have close enough friends for that. Apart from his besties, of course. But, MIKA? Theodore eyed her curiously, not quite remembering if they were friends. Eh, they probably were, otherwise she wouldn't be being so nice, right? Theo tried a smile. "Haii, Mika - I'm GOOD, duh! I'mma whole year older now!" And he had his own BROOM.

OHYEAH.

"Yeah, umm..." Theo scratched his head. He hadn't seen his besties as much as he would of liked to, but not to worry, he'd be seeing them EVERY DAY at school! "West's dad took me and West broom shopping, so we can kick Ravenclaw's BUTT in Quidditch..." And yes, he had totally forgot that Mika was a Ravenclaw. They needed to hang out? "Okaaay...... how was YOUR summer?"

OH, okay... A thank you would have been lovely, you know. Theo didn't LIKE giving away his chocolate frogs for free, but whatever. Rude!Old!Person... Anyway... as for the whole foot thing, Theodore just sighed and shrugged his shoulders.

"Just don't worry about it, then. I'll just suffer in silence." He placed his foot back onto the other seat, then allowed himself to relax a little. Had this boy even introduced himself yet? Eh, he'd start it off, then... "My name is Theodore, if you wanted to know."

Sorry... poorly foot made Theo cranky.

Her teeth found her lower lip to chew on when Nathan decided to turn her face to look at him again, her itsy bitsy smile growing the tiniest bit at his words. And his own smile. "Okay.." That, she could do. For how long they could avoid that, Delphi wasn't sure. But for now, the remainder of their trip.. yes, that would be easy. "So.." What had they been talking about before 'the request' came up?

Getting antsy after sitting so long, Olivia left her compartment sliding the door closed behind her. She saw a book on the floor that probably shoudn't be there, she bent down and picked it up. "Did anyone loose a book on dragons?" she called out, waving the book in the air.

SPOILER!!: everyone

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Okaaaaay.

Someone sure had a few screws loose.

Rolling his eyes, Logan continued to look out of the window as the crazy girl babbled on to the other boy who was probably hiding at this point.

Poor bloke.

Hearing a normal person address him, he happily turned away from the window and looked to Kendall. He nodded as she asked if he was new to the school, and then listened as she talked about some experiment they were doing. When she asked him if he wanted to participate, he nodded again. Experiments were fun, and who would object to eating chocolate?

"Nice to meet you guys. Are you really able to change your appearance?" Yes, he had been semi-paying attention to the conversation with the weirdo.

As Patrick got up and headed towards the door, Logan sent him a wave. Man, he felt sorry for the dude. It looked like he migjt have a stalker.

Logan blinked at the boy as he asked him to mend his ankle. Barely managing to catch the Chocolate Frog tossed at him, Logan stuffed it into his pocket.

"I could fix it. But are under age students allowed to do magic on the train?" He didn't know the rules for this school. Nor was he overly confident in his abilities.

Sure sure Mika was weird...but she was also just a wee little kid compared to the older students she was talking to. She smiled over to Logan and nodded excitedly as he asked whether she could change her appearance.

"Yeah I can change my appearance but I'm not, well... talented at it yet I never knew that I was one for the longest time" she admitted sheepishly.

SPOILER!!: Kendall

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Kendall had thought about trying to steal the box of truffles back already, but that had only gotten even more likely as she'd watched Patrick take what seemed like a dozen at once. She hadn't counted, but it was an awful lot and it made her worry that no matter how many time he'd assured her there would be enough for their experiment. Thirteen truffles was definitely not going to be enough to make her bounce off the walls. She was still sitting down after all, but she'd grinned at him as he'd questioned her compliment. "Course I think so. I wouldn't've said it if I didn't, and that would be awesome. Would I always get free chocolate if you did become one?," she replied, completely intending on the last question to be taken literally. She didn't want him to stop giving her stuff just because he was being all professional about it all, and she didn't want to have to resort back to stealing it. He probably would tackle her again if she'd tried, but then the tornado that was Mika had arrived and she'd at least managed to get the truffle box back. Even though that became awkward once Accio had jumped up on her lap as well, so she'd just sort of wedged the box onto the seat next to her as she'd started petting her cat.

And tried to unwedge the box as Logan had agreed to eat the truffles too. There might have been less in the box now after whatever Patrick had taken, and they weren't technically hers either, but she was taking charge of them while she didn't have all of the other chocolate that actually had been given to her. At least then she knew she'd get more. Especially as she'd heard Patrick manage to get a word in edgewise and she'd turned back to her friend in surprise. She didn't know he could make that noise, and then he'd up and fled. Minus his trunk, but with Orion... and the bag that she knew still had her chocolate in it! She really hoped he came back eventually, or she'd have to resort to holding his trunk hostage until she got her present back. And apparently now she was the focus of Mika's energy, which made her take three more truffles from the box between herself and Logan. Chocolate was necessary, or she'd really start worrying.

"My mama gives me lessons, sort of. She doesn't really know much, since it's my papa's family that has the metamorphmaguses in it, but she helps me control it," she answered hesitantly. Is it even metamorphmaguses? "And I usually only can do my hair," she added, using her free hand to point to her pink streaks. That had taken on an odd violet hue as her hair had started to flicker slightly in her confusion to dark blue. She didn't want to get glommed onto any more than she'd known Patrick had, 'specially when Accio was still on her lap. Accio who now was getting the blonde's attention. "His name's Accio. I also have a puppy at home named Pooka, but she can't come to Hogwarts. So my brother gave me Accio last Christmas." That wasn't going to make her end up with anything weird, was it? She wasn't sure if Mika's pygmy puff was okay after all. Her hazel eyes, still sightly wide, had gone back to Logan as he'd jumped in with questions again about her ability, too. "Appearance?" Okay, Mika had done that weird thing with making herself look younger, but she didn't do that. And she could barely control her hair even, although she closed her eyes for a moment and managed to get everything but the pink to go back to auburn. With another couple of truffles in her system. Now the chocolate was calming her down.

Mika smiled over to Kendall and Accio. "Accio - like the spell? My sister told me about the spell its really really cool and it brings things to you." She smiled happily.

Mika wasn't a stalker.

Nope.

She was an enthusiast.

"That chocolate looks so good I wanna learn how to make it" she smiled excitedly. "Oooh thats cool I like your flickery-hair bit, we should start a club for metamorphamaguses" she smiled excitedly.

SPOILER!!: Theo

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O_O

People never usually shouted his name out like that. Partly because he didn't have close enough friends for that. Apart from his besties, of course. But, MIKA? Theodore eyed her curiously, not quite remembering if they were friends. Eh, they probably were, otherwise she wouldn't be being so nice, right? Theo tried a smile. "Haii, Mika - I'm GOOD, duh! I'mma whole year older now!" And he had his own BROOM.

OHYEAH.

"Yeah, umm..." Theo scratched his head. He hadn't seen his besties as much as he would of liked to, but not to worry, he'd be seeing them EVERY DAY at school! "West's dad took me and West broom shopping, so we can kick Ravenclaw's BUTT in Quidditch..." And yes, he had totally forgot that Mika was a Ravenclaw. They needed to hang out? "Okaaay...... how was YOUR summer?"

OH, okay... A thank you would have been lovely, you know. Theo didn't LIKE giving away his chocolate frogs for free, but whatever. Rude!Old!Person... Anyway... as for the whole foot thing, Theodore just sighed and shrugged his shoulders.

"Just don't worry about it, then. I'll just suffer in silence." He placed his foot back onto the other seat, then allowed himself to relax a little. Had this boy even introduced himself yet? Eh, he'd start it off, then... "My name is Theodore, if you wanted to know."

Sorry... poorly foot made Theo cranky.

Mika smiled at Theo - excitedly of course. Sure they hadn't hung out a lot the year before but that was because Mika had been all depressively you know - home sick. Now she didn't have to pine about flipped seasons because pfft she now lived in London.

She loved london. It was closer to school and diagon alley and broomstick shops. "Oooh that sounds fun! I know whole year old is the BEST like superduper amazingly better its the bestest." She giggled a bit. Yeah this girl was CRAZY hyper happy like usual. "Oh so you are going to try and beat Ravenclaw eh?" She asked with a sly smile. "I will have to give you a good run for your money in this quidditch business. My sister bought me one!" she chuckled.

She grumbled a bit and sighed, "Summer was amazing but I found out my friend Kaiden isn't here this year sooo yeah no bookclub partner if there is one...I wanna do something totally mischievous this year like midnight duels and the like" she slyly.

Trudging down the train Isaac had said he'd be back and left Sprite in the carriage with Ronnie and Dylan. His hands in his pockets, he spotted Ed and Nell in one of the carriages as he passed smiling to himself he just kept on walking past and didn't stop. He just needed time alone to think about things. He was frustrated and just felt like meh. He knew that Amelia loved him, and knew she wouldn't hurt him, not purposefully anyway. He was just seriously confused as to what the heck had happened that summer! He'd had it all planned that he'd spend most of it with her in Wales. And they'd go out on that adventure they'd talked of, with checking out all the King Arthur places she knew and see what else they could find!

He'd gotten almost to the back half of the train when he finally turned around. What good was it going to be just to walk around sulking. Maybe he should pop his head into Ed's carriage, if nothing else but to tease him and Nell a little. And see if Ed had forgiven him for rushing him in order to get him through the entrance 9 3/4. He just needed to get his mind off of Amelia. Frustrated he sighed and kept walking, he should have grabbed his bag of beans from his bag 'cause now he was feeling hungry again, the cookie hadn't helped much.

Making a face he glanced in Ed's carriage window again, smiling to himself. Well at least the guy appeared happy with Nell. She was a sweet gal!

Amelia was walking down the corridor looking into the different carriages to see if she could spot anyone that she knew, and was disappointed to find that she couldn't.

She was even more disappointed to notice that she couldn't because she hadn't seen Isaac at all during the Summer. She'd sent him a note with all the details and been left standing at the point she'd asked him to meet her at for three hours before she gave up. She was hoping that nothing was wrong with him, but if he was fine she would not be impressed with him.

Speaking of not being impressed with Isaac, there he was. "Isaac," she called out, her voice coming out slightly frustrated. He definitely didn't look as if he'd been hurt, but he did look, angry? Well, whatever he was he'd just have to deal with her being sad about the Summer.

Sighing he abandoned the thought of dropping in on his friend Ed, and decided maybe he should just go on back to the carriage. He was turning to head that way when he heard someone call his name from back the way he'd come. Turning around slowly he saw Amelia standing there.

What did he want to say? He just stood there staring like she had like five heads or something. Was she really there? Yep, he'd noted the rustration in her voice. Well she was frustrated? What about him??? He'd waited the entire month of July to hear from her! Darn it he was just standing there stunned that she'd managed to find him, and all he could do was stare. He poked himself angrily trying to get himself out of the cloud he appeared to be in, and moved forward slowly.

"Amelia." he said softly. He'd been so worried something had happened to her, it was the only explanation he had figured with her not responding to his note. His frustrations were draining away a bit, he was still irritated but she was there now what else mattered? Ok, other then the look of frustration on her face... Picking her up he swung her around as best he could without knocking her against the carriage doors or the walls. Setting her down gently he hugged her. He couldn't help it he'd been worried!

As Cora was contently listening to the other kids laughing and chatting, she suddenly heard someone ask about a missing book. Mortified, Cora looked up to realize it was her book. Shaking slightly, as she got nervous whenever she spoke to anyone, Cora spoke quietly.

"Oh, um, that's mine actually. I thought I lost it. Thanks." Cora's words were barely audible, but she said them with a sweet smile. She really liked other people, she was simply a bit (okay VERY) shy.

Cora saw that the girl seemed nice, so she continued, "I'm Cora, by the way." She added a polite smile at the end, secretly hoping the girl would continue the conversation.

When he turned around to look at her Amelia couldn't help sending him a tiny smile. Because while she was frustrated with him she was still happy to see him now.

She let out a small undignified squeak as Isaac picked her up and swung her round, clinging tightly to him. She didn't know why he'd picked her up but she certainly wasn't going to complain about it. At least not when it meant she was in his arms again. Although she was still unimpressed when he finally put her down.

"I missed you this Summer," Amelia informed Isaac, her voice sad, as she buried her head in his chest. She may be being slightly clingy but she was entitled. Because this Summer they hadn't seen each other at all. At least at other times they'd met up at some point during the Summer. Even when those times were accidental. But this time there'd been nothing besides his first note asking about what was happening.

She probably shouldn't think about that though because it would just make her unhappy. Although he better give her an explanation about his being a no show.

"Yep, it's my last year!" Emmanuelle exclaimed, finally showing her excitement. She was actually looking forward to not having to study anymore. Only, everyone she had talked to so far seemed to think it was horrible. Weird. "Nope, not so much sad as excited. No more homework, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks as they say." Although, she supposed she might feel differently once the time for her to graduate came closer. And, yep, Em had guessed correctly. A first year.

A smile flickered as she gave out a small squeak. "Merlin I missed ye." he whispered holding her as she buried her head in his chest. He'd been almost afraid that she wasn't coming to Hogwarts that year! There last year! When she hadn't replied, he didn't know what to think, thought maybe she wasn't sure how to tell him that she wasn't returning!

Stroking her hair, he let her stay that way in his arms, because for one he had no doubt that's where he wanted her to be! "What happened te ye this summer? Is everything okay at home?" he asked softly. Maybe that's why she'd never replied. He'd never had her not reply! "I waited as long as I could put me mum and dad off, but I finally had te go." he said closing his eyes briefly. He hadn't wanted to go, not without Amelia!

And that trip had been a complete disaster! Nothing but his mum trying to talk him into staying and not going back. AND then finding out the portkey had been a one way trip hoping to force him to stay there besides!!!

"Of course everything at home is okay. Why wouldn't it be?" Amelia asked, looking up at Isaac with a confused look on her face. "And what do you mean you waited as long as you could? I mean, was everything okay with you? When you didn't show up I kinda figured something had happened to you, or that your parents decided not to let you come," Amelia finished, even more confused now since he mentioned waiting.

She'd replied to his note straight away, he only should have been waiting for a day or so, if that, for her response. The weather hadn't been that good, and she'd been in France at the time she sent the reply but the reply still should have reached Isaac in not much time at all.

When Isaac didn't end up showing up she ended up spending the rest of her Summer looking after Harper while her parents went away for a holiday. Second honeymoon or something. She really didn't much understand why they decided they wanted to spend time together again, but they had and since she had suddenly found herself having nothing to do she got stuck babysitting. Not that she'd minded too much as she'd gotten quite a few good pictures of Harper and done some scrapbooking as well.

But still...

"When I didn' get yer reply I worried something was wrong." he said softly, seeing her confused look on her face "I wanted te come but was afraid if something had happened me presence wouldn't be the best thing, so I waited." Biting his lip now he had a confused look now too "Me mum sent a portkey that was set te leave at midnight on the 1st of August, and I waited til nearly midnight before I made the decision te jus' go." Shaking his head, maybe he shouldn't have gone.

Ok, well that's an understatement, he shouldn't have gone at all! If his mum had had something to say about it, he wouldn't have been on the train at all! "Believe me..." his voice hinted in irritation, "If me mum had something te say about me goin' I'd haf left fer Australia back the first part of July and I'd still be there yet." Ugh he was mad at how much his mum had pressured him to stay there. He'd hated it! He hadn't wanted to be there at all, but his parents wanted to 'discuss' things with him.

Yeah the discussions were all one sided telling him he 'had' to move down there with no options on his part. For Merlin's sake, he was of age!

"But I did reply. I told you where and when to meet and sent a whole itinerary and everything to you. My owl came back without my letter, or any reply so I just assumed that you'd gotten it and didn't bother to send a reply since we'd be meeting up. I waited for hours for you, but when you didn't come I had to go home," Amelia told him, determined that he understand that she'd told him everything about what they were meant to do. It was imperative that, that was understood.

"But I'm glad that you're here now. Why didn't your parents want you to come back?" she questioned, highly confused about why they were so insistent that he go to Australia. He was of age afterall and very responsible. Besides, what trouble could he really get into at Hogwarts?

Stepping back slightly, so he could look at her better his eyes were completely confused "Amelia...I never got any letter, itinerary, nothing." Chewing on the corner of his lip, he wondere could it really have been just...a misunderstanding? Both of them waiting on a reply that never came? "Merlin, Amelia I'm sorry, I wish I'd known, I'd never leave ye sittin' like thet. I'd haf come straight away!" He'd been waiting for the letter! How could he have been so stupid? He should have gone to her!

Shaking his head "I don' know they were jus' insistent thet I stay, and making me feel guilty for refusing te. I didn' want te stay there, and hated it really, though I didn' want te tell them thet." His gaze found hers again, "I missed yer birthday again." he said softly, knowing it was in June. He'd yet to even celebrate it with her! UGH, that just wasn't right at all! "Yer of age now te."

"That's strange," Amelia said, a frown taking over her face. But if Isaac said he hadn't gotten her note than she knew it was the truth. They'd both been looking forward to seeing each other. She should have known that he wouldn't have blown her off. Although if his parents got their way she probably wouldn't be seeing him at all! She was fine with not seeing him during the Summer if it meant she could see him the rest of the year.

"I'm glad you didn't stay. I'd hate to not be able to see you during the year. I mean, we didn't see each other too much last year, but I like knowing that you're close by," she admitted softly. Knowing he was close always made her feel better. He just lit up her life if she was to be honest. Not that she'd go around telling everyone that bit of information.

"It's okay. My birthday wasn't much fun anyway. Just a few old friends came over. They would have liked you though, and it would have proved to them that I wasn't lying about having a handsome boyfriend. Maybe we can go out on a date to Hogsmeade when we're allowed?" she asked, giving a slightly pleading look. She really wanted to go on a real date with her man. It would make her year.

"Very" he said softly. Merlin if he'd only known! Why hadn't he just gone??? He knew he should have, but had wanted to respect whatever was going on! He just had figured she'd send a note, why hadn't he sent another??? He was kicking himself, he might have had the ENTIRE summer with her if he had just gone. Hugging her tightly, "This isn't goin' te happen again." he said softly. "If I don' hear from ye right away I'll send another and another til I do." Yep that was what he'd do, no more being unsure if she got the note or not!

"I couldn' stay" he said softly, he just couldn't. "I wanted te see ye. And hoped ye were comin' back." DARN IT! Why didn't he check on her anyway??? "I'm hopin' te change thet. I know we got our NEWTs this year, but I'm determined te change thet we see each other much more often." Not too much so she got annoyed with him, but enough that they were both happy!

"I still wish I hadn' missed both of yer birthdays." he said softly. He'd yet to have been at either her 16th or 17th now! A grin flickered as she said they'd have liked him. "How's Harper doin'?" he asked, the little tyke definitely had to be getting big! And yes, I'd planned on inviting ye the moment I heard about a Hogsmeade weekend coming."

Ariella nodded enthusiastically, she had indeed made friends. "Yup, they're both first years like me!" Alexa and Dylan were a nice pair of friends to have, at least that's what Ari thought. Sure they might have gotten into a jam earlier but they had both seemed really nice, and Ari got along with them really well!

Uh Oh! Ella must have over heard Ariella earlier. The first year blushed and smiled slyly up at the Hufflepuff. "Well I'll tell you, but only if you promise that your not going to give me some speech about how dangerous it was because I've hear about three of those already..." Ari squinted her eyes a bit as she stared at Ella, thinking to herself if theis girl was worth trusting. Not that it mattered really because with all the attention Ari and her friends had drawn to themselves earlier she was sure news would get around somehow! "You see, Felix attaced Archer," Ari motioned toward she owl, "And he escaped out of his cage and flew up on top of the train, and Felix followed him. We followed them up there to get them down, so Archer wouldn't become cat food...""

Mmmm! Ice cream! That sounded really good right now, especially some sherbert! "Oh yes! I love ice cream, because honestly who wouldn't! What's your favorite flavor?"