Seth put his book down and looked around his already full compartment.

"Sorry ma'am, this compartment is already full." Seth politely replied as he once again placed the book in front of his face and began reading.

He preferably wanted to be alone, as to why he purposely filled up the compartment with so much of his belongings.

What the-?!

Seth placed his book down once again and saw the red head, push past through the people trying to sit with him. Made him chuckle...only a little.

He furrowed his eyebrows in confusion.

"I didn't save you a seat, Peyton. I intentionally placed my stuff on that seat you're in, so no one can bother me?!" Seth replied. He knew no matter how much he would fuss over her, she wouldn't leave.

She's crazy! Seth thought to himself.

Oh this was going to be a fun ride. Contemplation of jumping out of a window, was a thought.

"Nice to meet you Laura. Thank you for letting us join. Come along Panda and say hello." Rowan beamed at the girl. She couldn't help it. She had so missed school and her friends and was thrilled to be back. "Sorry if she takes up too much room. I didn't realize that Panda would grow to be nearly the size of a German Shepard," Rowan giggled as she sat. "Your owl is beautiful. So what year are you Laura?"

Find a free compartment.... that was the number one goal for Lily right now. She still hadn't found any of her friends so she just figured that she would either find them or find an empty compartment and her friends would find her. After walking halfway down the length of the train, she finally found a place to sit and wait for her buddies. So she dragged her owl and her broom in placing them both on the seat across from her and plopping down, placing her now empty shoulder bag behind her head. The tall redhead, dressed in her Hogwarts robes, closed her eyes and stretched out her legs planning on taking a nap while waiting.

Laura looked at Rowan and then her book, she put it away. "You know I've always wondered what would happen if you left you school books on the train by accident." Laura smiled, seriously that question had been bugging her for the past few years, "See I don't think the train driver would want to bring them back and if no one knew they were on here, then they would be lost." Laura giggled. "It's okay I think your cat is lovely." Laura smiled as Rowan said her owl was beautiful. "I know." Laura then listened to what Rowan said. "I'm in my th.." Laura stopped. "I mean I'm just starting my fourth year." Laura held out her hand for the other girl to shake. "I'm a Hufflepuff, what about you?"

Rowan accepted the offered hand and replied, "Fourth year Ravenclaw. As for the books, I've noticed that things have a way of returning to people in time." She absentmindedly scratched Panda behind the ear. "I once lost my favorite sweater. It turned up in the common room two weeks later."

Christmas had been wandering the train for a while looking for a place to sit she came across a girl who looked like she was the same age and said "Hey there mind if i join you"

Laura looked at Rowan and smiled. "That will probably happened." Laura listened to Rowans story. "Well that is awesome, I'm glad that it returned to you, I would hate to lose my favorite sweater." Laura would search for her sweater for ages and then turn the place upside down to find it.

Well.

Here she was. On the train. Finally. Going back to Hogwarts. Something which she was so so SO happy about. But also a bit bittersweet. Because she hated leaving her sisters home...at least Dani was going to Beauxbatons...poor Sam would just have her toddler brother for company. And the new baby...once he was born. Hmmm.

Elliot dragged her trunk along behind her, wishing Max was here to do it for her. Hehehe. She was spoiled, and she knew it, and she didn't care...not one bit. Heh. She peered into compartment after compartment, looking for an empty one. Or an almost empty one. Yeah, she would settle for that. She didn't ANY sign of Maxwell...or Bee, or Presley, or Jayden, or even Aurora...hmmm...

This was lame.

Uuuugghhh.

She picked an empty one and slipped inside smoothly, not bothering to shut the sliding door herself. Leave it open...maybe someone interesting would come...hmmphhh. She plopped down on a seat and debated on whether to take out her latest read...maybe she would try to sleep..who knew. Hmm. She was feeling in much higher spirits than usual...it was weird. She almost felt like whistling.

Almost...

Lily had nearly fallen asleep when she heard a voice, startling her awake. Looking around, she saw a new girl. "Huh?...oh. Um... no, c'mon in." She said, moving her stuff off of the other seat and putting it next to herself. Her owl flapped her wings a bit, making some noise as she was still in her cage, because she was agitated that she couldn't be out flying around. "I'm Lily... fourth year Ravenclaw."

Christmas smiled at Lily and said "Thanks and it is a pleasure to meet you, I am Christmas a fourth year like yourself but im in Gryffindor"

Even though this girl was clearly younger than him, she had a much better understanding of the English language than Alex did. My familiar? That was an interesting phrase...fancy. Alex wasn't that fancy but he didn't mind when others were like that. Whatever floats your boat.

"Nice to meet you Ellura," Alex said with a smile. "I'm Alex. What house are you in? I'm going to guess NOT Hufflepuff or I probably would have recognzied you," he said with a grin.

Maxwell walked through the train, where was Elliot? He hadn't seen her since they hit the platform, Carrying Tiberius in one hand he decided to look for her...his trunk already away in a compartment..

He spotted her as she got the last of her things up in the compartment, ughh he should have been there to help her...Carry her things...she's a lady..she shouldn't have to carry her own things. Maxwell stepped in and met her eyes instantly, sitting next to her and reaching for her hand. "Where'd you run off to, baby? I was looking all over for you.." He said and kissed her hand, gently. Tiberius walking in and strutting all around the compartment before taking a seat in the bench across from the couple and falling into a little cat nap.

If he thought that was a funny joke it wasn't. And if it was true then he was extremely rude. Peyton decided the latter was not right.

"You don't have to lie. My brother isn't here to scare you," she grinned. It was obvious Seth was scared of her brother and that's why he had disguised the compartment as full. Seems legit.

She opened her trunk and brought out a small, pink parcel. "Cookie?" she offered. They were bunny shaped and absolutely scrumptious. She had made them herself after all. Heh.

Elliot's eyes flickered to him, and she smirked a bit. Hmm. "Where did I run off to? Where did you run off to? Hmm? I had to carry my trunk myself...I'm fairly certain Empresses never have to do that...you owe me." She joked, letting him kiss her hand but not really giving him anything else. Not a kiss or a hug or anything, really. She reached over and grabbed the huge cat, not caring that he was already half asleep, and plopped him on her lap. She stroked behind his ears and smiled nonchalantly.

She Sighed and leaned back...

"OWLs year, Max...you promise me you'll try hard, right?" she sounded stern...and she shot him a bit of a glare. "It won't be easy. BUt I'm sooo willing to help you...if you want my help, that is," she shrugged and rolled her eyes. Mehh.

"I suspect Panda had something to do with mine gone missing. She can be a bit of a rascal." Rowan noticed the book near Laura. "If I may ask, what book are you reading?" Rowan loved to read and was always looking for a good book.

Seth sat there in awe, looking like "Grumpy" one of Snow Whites' seven dwarfs.

"Pey-" He was going to scold her, but she offered cookies. You can never turn down cookies or that's bad luck for seven years. "Sure" Seth shrugged and couldn't help smiling. That and he was kinda hungry.

Maybe having some company wasn't so bad? Scared. Wait?! Did she just say he was scared of her brother John? He was NOT- ...okay yeah he was. Only a little bit. x)

Lily nodded slightly before pulling her shoulder bag out from behind her head. "Nice to meet you too. So have you been to Hogwarts before? I've never seen you around." The claw opened her bag and started digging around for something, glancing up at the lion every now and again. Her owl started to settle down, still eye-ing the new person and the redhead suspiciously.

Maxwell noted the lack of affection...he disliked it. Very much. But whatever. He wouldn't say anything about it. "Me? You ran off...i came through to the platform and you were gone...i was looking for you.." He said shrugging, Tiberius not happy about being moved at all...nope. But after she started petting him he started to purr, forgetting he was sleeping.

"Yeah, OWLs...i'll do my best i promise.." He sighed and ran his fingers through his short hair. "I'll take what help i can get." He caught the glare and chuckled a little bit. "So my chest is feeling better...best i've felt since we got back to england.."

Christmas smiled at Lily and said "This is my first year at Hogwarts i am transferring to Hogwarts from Beauxbatons where i did my first three years of my education"

Zhenya jumped on the familiar train. Funny, she had missed an entire year at her beloved school, not even said goodbye to anyone. Just, left.

She was all alone, and hadn't been in contact with anyone. How much had people changed? She had changed. The year away was necessary though, she didn't want to end up being a 13 or 14 year old stress head.

She boarded the train, ow 15 years old - more grown-up, much more independent, but she carried with her a darkness that had followed her to Russia and back. She blamed it on the changes she had seen at home. But now, she wasn't there. And being back at Hogwarts, she was hoping it would soon disappear.

Leaving Tiffany for a while at her compartment, the blonde guy walked to the luggage compartment because he need to take something. Her birthday present. It wasn't a usual Gerald Rush who remembered someone's birthday actually. But since Tiffany always remembered his and this year she gave him a new sneakers, so Gary decided to give her something even looking for something special for his little sister wasn't easy. But finally he got it and hopefully, she would be glad.

Yeah, he wouldn't give her a stack of candy. But he had something. em.. unexpected.

With the head boy badge still pinned on his jacket, hopefully he wouldn't scared student here. Nah, he wasn't that person, using his duty to scare students. Suddenly he stopped for a while at middle cars to tie up his shoelace. Everything was fine until his blue eyes spotted someone so familiar.

Impossible...

This is very.. impossible! suddenly he spoke on his mind. No, it wasn't her, right? He was just standing not too far from that girl's compartment. Oh daaarn! He forgot to wear his glasses so he MIGHT be wrong.

Zhenya? Is that really you?

Zhenya remained standing for a few moments, staring into the wall, before turning in search of a compartment. She hoped she could find one.
Looking from the left to the right, no free seats, her eyes grazed across the face of a familiar person. A pang in her heart alarmed her, registering the face before her brain did.

Gary.

Zhenya looked down and stood there. What do I do? She had no idea. She was overwhelmed with sadness, what she did to him, leaving without a word.

"Hi Gary," she said quietly, approaching him nervously and slowly. Her voice had an undertone of sadness. Her eyes noticed something on him. Head boy. Head boy!? Her lips involuntarily gave a half smile. She was pleased for him, of course.

..................

That's her, Gerald. Yeah, that's her. She's Zhenya Burton, don't you remember her? Suddenly a mysterious voice whispered on his ears right now. Stupid voice, of course I remember her. He just kept silent when his blue eyes noticed him. Somehow he did feel that he was hallucinating right now. He was biting his own tongue to prove that he wasn't hallucinating or dreaming,

Ouch!

Gerald was not dreaming. So she's real? Not a ghost that wanted to scare him or something? Silly, of course it wasn't! She's alive, she's real! And she just said Hi to him. Oh, Merlin. How could this happen to him right now? What should he feel now? Should he be happy? Mad? Excited? Surprised? Well, he was very surprised about this. Happy? Didn't know. Mad? Maybe... slightly. He didn't expect that she would be back and appeared herself in front of him right now.

This is so.. awkward.

What should he say now?

"... Hi." said him short. He felt that there's nothing much to say to her. Once again, Gerald Rush was never been a very good conversationalist. Nah, but that's not his problem right now. Suddenly he felt that there's too much things that he wanted to say but... He's stuck.

Zhenya forgot how short he could be. Her smile faded, and she averted her gave to her feet. Her skin was so white, she couldn't believe it. Damn that snow.

She stood there for a moments, thinking of what she could say. Should she say anything? Was he interested in hearing what she had to say?

She turned and started to walk away, scared of having to explain herself.

No. She turned back around, with confidence, and walked back towards him. "I'm sorry about everything, Gary," she said calmly. She looked down again. What else could she say? She had no idea if he was interested in hearing what she had to say. Was he angry at her? She would expect him to be. Was he upset? Did he hate her? She had no idea.

Just a moment after he said 'hi' to her she was... GONE? really, Zhenya? REALLY?

Weird.

Speechless, that what he felt so much right now. He didn't know what to say to her. Wait, correction: he wanted to ask so many question to her but he's stuck. He felt that his brain was... freezing. Well, maybe she was just shocked to see him here. Same as him. He was very shocked. This is.. unexpected. Very unexpected. He was about not to think much about her anymore, assuming that Zhenya was the only girl who'd ever made happy even it's just for awhile. In short: He'd moved on. But she managed herself to go back and see him again and she did say something.

I'm sorry about everything, Gary,

Okay, what would he say now? Puzzled, confused, mad, excited, and all of them were mixed in his head now. Arrrggghhhh!! But he still managed himself to calm. Taking a very deep breath, he started to speak with his very calm voice. "It's okay." a small smile appeared on his face right now. Would she wanted to explain why did she leave suddenly without saying goodbye or anything.