Chapter 1: The Worst Train Ride Ever

Summary: Everything was going just fine. I had two amazing brothers and amazing best friends but everything changes when Will, the guy I fooled around once thinking I was never going to see him again, and Anne, the sister I left behind when I ran away, start to attend Hogwarts. And add the fact that somehow the slytherins got to know everything I've worked to hard to keep away from people. Hell is about to break lose, the secrets I've been trying to keep are about to be spilled, everything will soon change. But the question is: Will I be strong enough to watch my world crumble?

Author's Note: Okay, so this is the first chapter of my first fanfiction. I hope you like it.

Disclaimer: As much as I wish I don't own Harry Potter

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"I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out."

― Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

"Merlin, when does she think we are leaving? Next year?" I hear my brother, Damian, say as I walk down the stairs with my trunk.
"Don't be so grumpy," I say rolling my eyes at him.
"Come on Elle, we're gonna be late," Daniel says taking my trunk.
"I'm sorry, okay?" I say earnestly. "Where are Abby and Luke?"
"Luke's at work and Abby is waiting for us outside," Damian says as we walk out the door.
"Morning Elle. Took you long enough," Abby says as soon as we get inside the car.
"When doesn't she take long enough?" I hear Daniel and Damian say under their breaths.

Okay, so let me explain. I come from a pure blood family, the Lyttons. But when I talk about them I don't think of them as my family because they aren't any more so for me they are just the Lyttons. I don't live with them anymore and I'm glad.

Damian and Daniel are my older twin brothers. Even though they are twins they don't have many things in common. Damian has brown hair and deep green eyes while Daniel has dirty blonde hair and pale blue eyes. Anyways, Damian and Daniel are fun to be around if you're not me, of course. They are very overprotective over their "little baby sis". But while Damian is responsible, Daniel is more impulsive but I guess they kind of complement each other.

Abby is my older cousin and — when I say older I mean like really older — and Luke is her husband. Abby was disinherited and crossed out of the Lyttons because she married Luke, who is a muggleborn. They are really great persons; the Lyttons don't deserve such amazing persons. Abby and Luke took us three in their home without a second thought when we decided to run away and in the process we were also disinherited. So Abby is like our mom and Luke like our dad.

We are driving — yes, driving as in driving a car — to the train station because as Luke is a muggleborn he inherited everything his parents had when they died, so he sold out the house and everything but kept the car because Abby just loved it and she loves to drive it too.

"If we are late I'm blaming you," Damian says as we walk towards platform nine and three quarters.
"We're not gonna be late and I already said I was sorry," I say.
"Come on kids we're just in time," Abby says tying to avoid a fight.
"See?" I say to Damian who just rolls his eyes at me.

We walk through the barrier and I can see the so familiar red train which says "Hogwarts express".

"Elle!" Someone shouts tackling me to the floor. I look up into Sirius Black, deep stormy gray eyes.
"Hey there," I say smiling.

Sirius stands up and gives me a hand to stand up, smiling with that smile that has melt so many hearts. He is the best looking guy that had ever set foot in Hogwarts. He has girls all over him. He even has a fan club. For everyone that is Sirius Black but for me he is just my best friend. We met at one of those stupid pure blood balls I used to go when I was still in hell (the Lyttons mansion). Since then we are best friends. He is real fun to be around. He ran away from home last year and he was disinherited just like me.

"Hey Sirius," Abby says.
"Looking good as always Abby," Sirius says winking at Abby.
"Dude, careful with our sis," Daniel says and freaks out when he realizes Sirius has just flirted with Abby who was already used to it. Sirius flirted with anything that wore a skirt, "and stop hitting on Abby. She's MARRIED!"
"Hey Daniel," Sirius says chuckling.
"I still wonder why we let her be best friends with someone like him," Damian says faking to be in deep thought.
"Probably because of my amazing personality and killer good looks," Sirius says with fake arrogance but one he doesn't lack of.
"No," Damian says shaking his head.
"Come on guys get on the train, it's gonna leave soon," Abby says.
"Okay, you," Daniel says to Sirius, "take care of her," he says pointing at me.
"And you," Damian says to me, "behave yourself. We get to know EVERYTHING"
"See you later," Daniel says cheerfully walking away with Damian.
"Elle, take care okay?" Abby says kissing my cheek, "and if the twins go too far just write"
"Thanks Abby," I say hugging her.
"What about me?" Sirius says pouting.
"You take care too and take her of Elle," Abby says rolling her eyes and hugging him too.
"Okay," Sirius says cheerfully.
"Bye Abby, I'll see you at Christmas," I say as Sirius takes me away. In one hand he is holding my trunk and in the other my hand.
"Where are the boys?" I ask.
"In the compartment. I came here looking for you," he says winking at me.
"And have you seen Lily or Marie?" I ask.
"Nope but ask James he probably has," he says.

We get in the train just before it starts to move. We walk in the compartment and there are James Potter, Remus Lupin and Peter Petigrew.

James is tall, has brown eyes and messy black hair. Oh and he also wears glasses. He loves quidditch but if there was something he loves more than quidditch is Lily Evans.

Remus has sandy blond hair and chestnut eyes. He always looks very tired and out of the four he is the most sensitive and responsible.

Peter is the one who doesn't quite fit. He isn't handsome like James or Remus or Sirius. He isn't funny or outgoing. I don't really know why he hangs out with Remus, James and Sirius.

The four of them are the marauders. The most popular boys at school, everyone knows who they are. They are the school's pranksters, the teachers' nightmare, the girls' dream and the boys' envy.

"Elle!" James says hugging me.
"Hey James," I say smiling and hugging him back.
"Hi Elle," Remus says after James backed away.
"You don't save from me Lupin. You should have learned that long ago," I say hugging him and chuckling he hugs me back.
"Hey Pete!" I say hugging him too.
"Hi," he says shyly.
"So James have you seen Lily yet?" I ask knowing he already has.
"Yep. She's still in denial," James says confidently. I don't know how he does that. I mean Lily rejects him in the worst ways possible and the guy just keeps on trying to get her. That is either love or James is really, really, really determined. Probably the first one
"Don't crush his hope," Remus says before I could open my mouth.
"Okay, just because you asked me," I say winking at him.
"Hey! How come any time I ask you to shut up you don't listen to me?" Sirius asks frowning.
"He's my favorite!" I say simply and Sirius starts to pout, yep he's pouting like a three year old. "You're childish."
"Am not!" he says childishly.
"Of course not," I say rolling my eyes.
"I am not childish," Sirius says.
"I know. I'm off to look for the girls," I say turning around and opening the compartment's door. Sirius is still pouting.

I leave and start to walk through many compartments trying to find Lily and Marie. Finally I find them. Marie is reading a magazine and Lily is reading a book. Slowly I open the door and none of them notices me. Then I shout boo!

"Merlin Elle!" Marie and Lily say after I had scared them.
"Yes I missed you too," I say cheerfully.
"You scared us," Marie says.
"Yeah, well, that was the point," I say. "Lils has Jamesie already come to visit you yet?"
"I wish he hadn't," Lily says between gritted teeth.
"What happened?" I ask.
"He came and started saying he had missed me and all that stupid stuff he always say," Lily says angrily.
"The boy just loves you," Marie says ignoring the death glare Lily is sending her.
".him," Lily says emphasizing each word, "and I think I make it pretty obvious."
"You should give him a chance. The boy's head over heels for you," I say nonchalantly and taking a seat next to Marie.
"I hate him, I hate him, I hate him!" Lily shouts, like some crazy witch.
"A bit louder Lils, I think they didn't hear you in Mars," Marie says sarcastically.
"Why can't you be good best friends and say: 'yes Lils we agree with you, James Potter is a git?'" Lily asks throwing her hands in the air.
"Because that's not true," I simply say.
"You are the worst best friends ever," Lily says matter of factly.
"We love you too!" Marie and I say loudly. Every time we piss her off we try to fix it with our 'I love you's.
"I'm off to the prefects' meeting," Lily says knowing she couldn't and wouldn't win the argument.
"See you later Lils and have fun," we call after her and she decides to ignore us, well whatever.
"Okay, I'm off to look for Michael," Marie announces after Lily left.

Michael is Marie's boyfriend since, I don't know, always? Marie's parents are wizards and so are Michael's. They are neighbors since they were two and they grew up together. They have been together since they were little but everything got 'official' when they were in second year at Hogwarts.

"And what am I supposed to do?" I ask Marie raising an eyebrow.
"Go back to Sirius," Marie says. She had always had this idea about me and Sirius but it's just ridiculous.
"He's being a pouting child," I explain, not trying to point out that Sirius and I will never be an item because Marie NEVER listens.
"Why's that?" Marie asks.
"Maybe I said Remus's my favorite," I say.
"He hates it when you do that," Marie says rolling her eyes.
"I know," I say.
"Then stop doing it or deal with it. Anyways I gotta go, have fun okay?" Marie says before going to look for Michael.
"You're such a good friend," I call after her.
"Thanks!" she says.

Bad friends the ones I have. One leaves me for a boring meeting with nerdy guys and Remus and the other leaves me for a boyfriend whom she sees almost every day.

"Elle!" I hear Damian saying.
"Damian" I say turning around to find him buying some candies with Stephanie.

Stephanie by the way is Damian's girlfriend. They have been together for six months already. She's brunette, has brown eyes and is in Damian's year.

"Hi Elle," Stephanie says smiling.
"Hey Steph," I say smiling back.
"So what happened? Where's Sirius?" Damian asks.
"In a compartment with the marauders," I answer.
"I told him to take care of you," Damian says frowning.
"Don't be like that love," Stephanie says getting on my side, "it's not like Sirius is her bodyguard"
"But—" Damian tries to argue.
"But what?" Stephanie asks with a raised eyebrow daring him to contradict her.
"Nothing," Damian says shaking his head, "but I should get her a bodyguard"
"Sure good luck with that Damian," I say rolling my eyes. "Where's Daniel?"
"Right here!" Daniel says hugging me from behind and tickling me at the sides, which I hate because I'm very ticklish.
"Stop it!" I say pushing him away.
"Where have you been?" Damian asks.
"Broke up with Anna," Daniel says.
"Another broken heart for the list?" I ask. Daniel changed girlfriend as fast as he changed his socks.
"You're one to talk," he says.
"Actually I am," I say.
"Just... Shut up," Daniel says.
"Right... I'm leaving," I said turning on my heel.
"Where are you going and what are you going to do?" Damian asks in that father like voice.
"Some compartment to shag some random guy," I say.
"WHAT?" my brothers shout.
"Calm down. I'm just going to look for Sirius," I say.
"Oh, okay," they say.

I start to walk looking for the guys' compartment when I see a compartment full of boys. I just enter without a second thought.

"Look who's here," Snape says.

Oh no. I just entered a compartment full of Slytherins and of all Slytherin compartments I had to enter to THEIR compartment.

There are Severus Snape, Aidan Mulciber, Edward Avery, Evan Rosier and Basil Nott. They were all purebloods except for Snape who was a half blood. Mulciber, Avery, Rosier and Nott used to go to all the pureblood balls I used to go and they also used to come to my house to "play" and sometimes I went to theirs but I never really liked them.

"So little Lytton blood traitor girl decided to pay us a visit," Rosier says, his eyes traveling all the way through my body. Disgusting.

"Not on purpose" I say glaring at him.
"Got bored of Black?" Avery asks with that annoying malicious voice.
"No and I'm leaving," I say and turn to leave.

"Why the rush?" Nott asks blocking the door.
"You're blocking my way," I say trying to make him move.
"Come on, we've missed you" Mulciber says coming behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist and kissing my neck.
"Don't touch me," I say pushing him away successfully.
"You know, Lytton, we've got some interesting news this summer," Snape says tauntingly.
"Well congratulations, good for you."
"Not so good for you," Rosier says getting close.
"And why's that?" I knew my voice was going to start to quiver. I had to keep my answers and questions short.
"Let's say we got to know a bit more about the little Lytton blood traitor girl," Avery said with sufficiency.
"Yeah?" I ask trying not to show any emotion something I had learned to do since I was little.
"So we you're not a virgin," Nott says from the door and I immediately tense. He smirks. "Is that true?"
"It's none of your business" I say but it doesn't sound as harsh as I wanted it to.
"Was daddy gentle?" Mulciber asks starting to kiss my neck again but this time I don't push away. They know, but how?
"You were a little naughty bitch weren't you?" Rosier says casually as if he was talking about the weather.
"You know nothing about me," I say trying to sound brave.
"Naughty to sleep with someone at such a young age, don't you think?" Snape says.
"How old were you? Seven, eight?" Avery says tauntingly.
"And how about mommy did she beat you up badly?"
"I don't have to listen to all these nonsense I'm leaving," I say trying to move Nott but he doesn't move, not even a bit.
"If I were you I would be more polite," Rosier says.
"You don't know, we could just start talking and something about you may slip and suddenly everyone will know," Mulciber says.
"I don't think your friends would like to know how much you hide behind that perfect image," Nott says smirking knowing they had me in their hands.
"What do you want?" I ask tired of hearing them taunting me.
"We? Nothing," Snape says with a fake voice.
"Stop it with the games. What the hell do you want?" I ask.
"Swearing now are we?" Avery keeps on taunting me.
".?" I ask annoyed.
"What are you willing to give?" Rosier asks.
"Anything as long nobody gets to know," I say.
"Good to now," Nott says and moves unblocking the door but I don't even think of getting out of the compartment.
"Now what?" I ask.
"Now you wait for us to decide on something," Snape says.
"We'll send you a note and we'll meet somewhere," Mulciber says in my ear. I haven't notice he was there so I shiver slightly and I think he notices it. "Be a good girl and go back to your friends," he says and swats my butt hard.

I don't say anything I just walk out of the compartment determined to not get into the wrong compartment ever again.

"Oi, Lytton!" Rosier's voice calls. I just stop to show him I'm listening but I don't turn around. "Don't you dare tell anyone"

I nod and then keep on walking. It was just the first day of school, Merlin I haven't even got to school yet and I'm already in some big problem. They know, they know everything, but how? I just can't understand. For the first time in my life I feel helpless and exposed. No one knows about that. Nobody. Not Abby, not Luke, not Sirius, not Lily, not Marie, no one. Just my brothers and the Lyttons who would never say a thing for different reasons but they wouldn't speak a word about it. And for once Damian and Daniel and not there to solve my problems for me. I feel like I wanna crying. That's what I want to do, sit in a corner and cry. My life is going to become hell, with those Slytherins in command of it.

Suddenly I bump into someone. "Sorry," I say.
"Elle!" Sirius says.
"Oh hey," I say with no emotion at all.
"Hey what's up?" he asks worried.
"Nothing," I say. I couldn't start crying because if I did he will know something's wrong and it will make everything more complicated.
"Where have you been?" he asks. I could see he is worried. Head up, stay strong, fake a smile and move on. That's what the Lyttons always said and want it or not that is what I'm gonna do.
"Oh you know. Bumped into the twins, walked a bit," I say. I hate to lie to him.
"Okay. Elle we're gonna get thee soon you should probably start to change," Sirius says with a sweet smile. That was my smile. I was the only one he ever gave that smile.
"Okay" I say.
"Come on, I'll carry you piggyback" he says. I laugh and hop on. He carries me piggyback all the way to the marauders compartment.

When we get there the guys are playing exploding snap. I grab my things to get changed and walk to the bathroom.

"Want me to come with you?" Sirius asks before I leave.
"It's okay, I can walk to the bathroom alone you know," I say and he laughs.

I walk to the bathroom deep in my own thoughts. And for the second time I bump into someone.

"Sorry," I say and then I look up. I wish I hadn't.
"Elle?" Will asks.

William Hemingford. Of all people I just bumped into WILLIAM FUCKING HEMINGFORD! And what the hell is he doing here?

"Hey Will. What are you doing here?" I ask him, wishing it was a dream.
"I just moved here" he says.
"Oh good" I say not really meaning it.
"I've missed you" he says leaning in.
"Yeah, I gotta go" I say and start literally running to the bathroom.

So I haven't explained yet who William Hemingford is and why I had just freaked out. You see a couple of years ago Marie, Lily and I went on a trip to Wales. There we met a lot of guys and one of them was Will. He was a wizard and he attended Durmstrang and now he apparently attends Hogwarts. Well the thing with Will is that I fooled around with him in Wales and he was — or is? — heels over head for me or so Marie and Lily said. But it was just fooling around. I mean who goes on a trip with her best friends and doesn't fool around with a guy? And what happens is Vegas stays in Vegas or in this case Wales. He wasn't supposed to move! Merlin! I wasn't supposed to see him EVER again. Next time I fool with a guy I'll make sure to create a fake identity.

So after I change and kind of get over the fact that Will is attending Hogwarts now I start to walk back to the marauders' compartment. So I started walking towards it, la, la, la and then someone pulls me inside a compartment.

"Elle! Oh sweet Merlin you don't know what had just happened!" Marie screams.

"What?" I ask confused.

"Guess who we saw," Lily says.

"William Hemingford?" I ask.

"No. Yes, how do you know?" Marie asks in a lower voice now.

"I just saw him," I say.

"And what happened?" Lily asked.

"Well I bumped into him and then he said: 'Elle?' and I'm like oh Merlin this is not happening!" I say.

"What is he doing here?" Marie asks.

"You didn't talk to him?" I ask.

"Not really. We just saw him," Lily explains.

"I can't believe he's here," I say shaking my head.

"Me neither," Marie and Lily say at the same time.

"I told you he was head over heels for you," Marie says with that I-told-you-so look.

"Whatever. This year is gonna suck," I say and they simply nod; but I'm not just talking about Will.

Important fact about Will: no one who attends Hogwarts — except Lily, Marie and I — knows about me fooling around with Will in Wales. Especially not Daniel, Damian or Sirius and I want it to stay that way.

I'm so screwed. Maybe I should start digging my own grave, because I don't think I'm gonna be able to make it all the way through the year with the slytherins knowing the truth, making me their puppet and having Will around.

Author's Note: Okay so there it is. Please review!

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