My Summer

Hi, my name is Taya, and you will not believe what happened to me over my fist to London. See, at first I thought that it would be so boring since I wouldn't be able to watch my favorite tv shows (you'd be mad too and you know it,) but what I got was far from it.

As I was saying, my name is Taya, and I went to London for the summer with dad, my mom, my friend Kristen, and my brother who I called Brother (keep that bit of information!) I was feeling kind of down, since I was missing almost all of my favorite episodes of *Buffy The Vampire Slayer* and my friend was feeling kind of down too. It was our last day there, and we would be taking a train from King's Cross Station to my aunt's house. Now, you may think this would be the most boring part of the trip, but quite the opposite, this was where my journey began.

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"Mom, can Kristen and I go find some snack shack or something? We're starving!" My friend just nodded along with me.
"How much money do you have left?" She asked us. We both fished out coins from our pockets, we had about 13 or 14 pounds left (it was before the transfer to Euros so it was okay.) My mom finally agreed and looked on a small map of the station and told us that we had to walk near platform 9 and across 10, simply enough for us.
"Kristen, what platforms did my mom say?" I asked as we walked passed 8.
"Uhm-" she gave a nervous laugh.I should of known from experience not to ask her to remember anything for me. So we sighed and walked on.
"Finally!" We found it, there wasn't much of a line, it seemed the people in front of us were in a group so it wouldn't be long. That's what I thought at least, until they had to count the money.

"Wait, that's a this one? No? Okay, maybe it's a this one?" There was s boy, looking about our age (14 at the time) holding up various coins to the person at the snack bar.
"It's this one you dolt!" Said a girl grabbing a coin from his hand and holding it up. "No it's not Ginny not let us figure it out!" Geesh there were a lot of them. There was two twins, one girll, the one about our age and a mother all in front.
"This is taking too long," Krisen whispered to me, "we're going to miss our train!" I silently nodded. I was getting fed up with this. No offense to the family, they were a family because they all ahd flaming red hair and that was a dead give away, but they had an accent and everything, they must live here, how could they not know the currency?

"Excuse me?" I said standing up to them, they all turned around. "Do you need some help with the money?" They all looked at each other. "Here, I said grabbing the boy's hand as I picked out the money and laid it on the counter. I could see why they had trouble, they bought a lot of candy! I almost laughed.
"Thanks, dear." The mother says.

"No problem." And I nod as they all walk away, the boy (what else was I to call him?) Kept throwing glances back out way. I bought our candy, paid and then noticed that the family that was head of us left 3 or 4 candy bars back.
"Hey Kristen, I'm going to go give these back to those people okay? Go tell me mom I'll be right there."

She just shrugged and kept eating her Skittles. So I took that as a yes and I went the direction the family went. When I finally saw them, they all had carts with huge trunks on them. 'Long trip I guess,' I thought.

"Hey wait!" I yelled, during my musing I saw that those twins and the little girl were already gone, only the boy and his mother were there. "Did you want this?" I was jogging towards them. The boy was joggin into the wall! That wasn't very smart. I'm not sure what exactly happened. One minute I was jogging next to him and the next, well, we fell threw the wall.
"What the f-?" I asked looking around. The boy looked at me shocked and started mumbling something that sounded like, "Bloody hell- not good- muggle- crap..."
"Excuse me?" I asked and he jumped. "Uhm- where am I?" He tried ot break out into a sprint, luckily with my reflexes, I reached out and caught his collar. Sure it might not of been the nicest thing, but what else was I suppoesed to do? Let him go and be stranded there?
"Please no, I'm going to get in *so much* trouble if they know I brought you here." He said trying to get loose. At the time, a girl with bushy brown hair, about sholder length, came walking towards us. "Uh-oh."

I let go of him, and turned my attention to the girl. "Excuse me, but you can you help me?" She turned to me and just shrugged.
"Of course, what do you need?"

"Well, I don't belong here, and Red-Head here won't help me any." She looked at me here.
"What do you mean you don't belong here?"
"Well, I was just sort of walking, trying to give him," I nodded my head towards Red-Head (nice nickname huh?) "But then he walked through the wall and-" I saw the look of shock on the girls face too.
"Not good- Come on, the train's going to leave" She said to the boy who was still looking quite pale.

"And what am I going to do?!" I asked rather shocked thinking she would leave me here.
"You are coming with us. We have no way to talk to the head master, and an owl would get there no faster then the train, so let's go."
"Wait, why can't you take me back?" She sighed.

"The barrier is sealed five minutes before the train leaves. Now let's go we can talk on the train." She started walking and I followed, Red-Head not far behind. "Hurry up Ron we're going to be late because of you!" She sprinted, so I guess I had to do the same.

When we got on the train, we went to furthest back compartment, a boy was already sitting in there. His hair went every which way, his eyes were a beautiful green, and he was just loking out the window.
"Hi Harry." The girl said when we walked in.
"I was wondering when you two would get here." I guess it was just then taht he noticed me. "Oh, there are three of you."
"Ron brought her through the barrier, there was no way to get her back." The girl said as she and Red-head sat down next to each other. I remained standing.
"Sit down, we won't bite." The girl said smiling. I sat down next to the green eyed boy when I suddenly remembered,
"Oh! Here, you forgot these." I took the 3 candy bars out of my jacket pocket and handed them to the Red-Head.
"Thanks," he said as he took them and opened a Baby Ruth cautiously.

It was silent for a while, and I couldn't expect anything but, until the girl broke the silence.

"I'm Hermione, Hermione Granger, and you are?"
"Uhm- Camille but my friends call me Taya."
"I'm Ron Weasley" the Red-Head said as he reached across and shook my hand.
"And I'm Harry Potter." That sounded familiar, but I couldn't remember from where, so I just shook his hand without question.
"Can I ask a question?"
"You just did," Ron replied with a grin, almost have way down with his candy bar.
"Smart-" I said and rolled my eyes with a grin. "Really though, where are we going?"
"Hogwarts." Hermione said. That sounded familiar too, but maybe I was just thinking too much about it. "It's our school."
"Oh I see," I said quietly. "Well, what am I going to do once I go there? I mean, I can't go to school there."
"No you can't." Ron said, which was rather rude, without even looking at me.
"Thank you very much." I said sharply to him. "I meant- I can't go there because I don't attend. And plus, I left my friend and my family back at the station!"
"It'll be okay," the boy Harry said, "we'll just tell Dumbledore and he can get everything straightened out."

He patted my shoulder supportingly and then turned to the others. "Besides this, how was your summer?" I felt a strange sense of de ja vu but couldn't place my finger on it. But I would remember soon.

"Well it it isn't Potty, the weasle and the mudblood," a place boy with blonde hair said as he stepped into our compartment. *BINGO* I remembered now. "And look, you have a friend." He smirked at his two henchmen behind him.
"Go away." Ron said getting angry. "You weren't invited here were you?"
"Must I need an invitation?" I stood up, barely met the guy and he was getting on my nerves.
"Blondie, he said get out." I said calmly. He looked surprised that anyone would talk to him that way.
"Excuse me? I don't think I heard you right."
"Oh- so you're ugly *and* you're dense, what a combination. He said get out." I smiled at myself, I would never talk to anyone like this at home. Everyone in our compartment looked surprised too, but I didn't let that stop me. "Okay, do you need help with this? You turn, open the door and walk your smug little self out of here."

"You sound as if you want a fight." He said regaining his "composure" (or lack thereof.)
"If you want a fight you have it." He stood up as tall as he could, which was only about half an inch taller then me. I sighed.
"Hold on will you?" And Istarted searching through my pockets. I was wearing my cargos so there were a lot to search through.
"What do you think you're doing?" Blondie asked.
"Me?" I looked up, "nothing, i'm just looking for my can of whop ass 'cuz I think I'm going to need it in a minute." He looked shocked... In this time, his henchmen had already opened the door and started to walk out, so I help him. "Good bye." I turned him by his shoulders and pushed him out. "Well then," I sighed and sat back down, but the others looked shocked and proud at the same time. "What? Tell me you never wanted to do that."

And that- is how my summer started.

AN: This sucks- But its fun to write at least!

~taya