"One sunny day the world was waiting for a lover, She came along to turn on everyone, Sexy Sadie the greatest of them all – Hey!" I say as I spin around to see Lily Evans smirking at me. "Franks, we're leaving in ten minutes." She says, hiding her laughter. "Excuse me miss lily! I was listening to that!" I frown, snatching back my headphones, "John and Paul will get very upset if I leave them to sing alone, so please run along now dear cousin!" Lily turns around and exits, tossing her beautiful red hair behind her.

Oh yeah, Lily is my stunning, smart, and awesome cousin. She's also my best friend. I'm Frankie Evans, and my dad's her dad's brother, and yeah we're a pretty close family. Except for Tunia, but that's not important. Ever since we've been youngin's people have always thought that me and Lil were twins, but my hair has lightened to a strawberry blonde, and she's grown like several metres in height, so not so much now.

Anyways, Lil and I are like batman and robin, I'm batman 'cause I'm the cooler one, although she'd beg to differ. She's prettier, smarter, more popular and nicer, so I get to be the superhero. My favourite colour is purple, her's is blue. We both have the same eyes, almond shaped and bright green. We've always been really close, and I tell Lil more things than anyone else. I'm the older one, by 3 weeks, which annoys Lil heaps, as I always tell her to respect her elder.

Up until we were eleven, we spent every day together, we went to the same primary school and would pretend we were sisters. When I turned eleven, I got accepted to Beauxbaxtons. Lil got accepted into Hogwarts, which shocked everyone. Beauxbaxtons and Hogwarts are magic schools, my mum was a witch and attended Beauxbaxton's so we weren't surprised that I was a witch too, but on the Evans' side there's no magic. I was thrilled when I found out, because it meant that I could tell Lil my secret.

Anyway, so I've been at Beauxbaxtons for five years, but for sixth and seventh I'm moving to Hogwarts, and I'm moving in with Aunt Sadie and Uncle Tom, while my parents stay in France. Beauxbaxtons was okay, but it was full of veelas and let me tell you, I am no veela. My hair has multiple kinks in it, which no straightening spell can seem to fix, my cheeks are always too pink, and I'm short as hell. Lily seems to have gotten the gorgeous gene as she is at least a foot taller than me, with curves in all the right places, and a smile that seems to melt every guy's heart. Especially Sev's, the boy next door.

Lil loves reading, her blue converse and complaining about this guy James. I love sleeping, eating and the Beatles. They're this really good muggle band that my dad told me about. Yeah I love the Beatles.

"Franks, we're leaving in five!" Lily knocks from outside. Oh she's so polite, knocking on her own bedroom door. "I'm coming woman!" I am not polite, evidently.

"Okay have you girls both got everything? Lily did you pack your toothpaste? Frankie, love, do you have Ringo with you?" Aunt Sadie says, looking around for my pet owl. We just ran through a wall, that's something new. At Beaux's we used to come to school in a carriage that was run by drunken horses. Okay they weren't drunk, but they drink single malt whiskey or something, kind of weird in my books, but whatever.

"Franks, do you have Ringo? You have to get on the train now." Uncle Tom says, wiping me out of my drunken horse daydream.

"Oh um, yeah, he's already on the train. Okay well, thanks heaps Uncle Tom," I say leaning to give him a hug, "Thanks aunty sadie! See you guys soon!" I look around as Lil says bye to her parents, I catch eye contact with Petunia, and wave goodbye. She turns away, back to the corner she is hiding in.

Ugh sometimes I could kill her. Yes I know, I'm terrible, seeing as she's my cousin and all. But seriously, she does not treat me or Lil like family. At all. See, Petunia was nice to Lil and I, sure. I mean, we used to all hang out, and Tunia would dress up as a fairy too, she would braid my hair while I attempted to braid Lil's, she would even make me play-doh cupcakes. But when she found out that Lil and I were witches, she freaked. Well according to her, we freaked. We turned into freaks, that she couldn't possibly be seen in public with. So now she barely talks to us, and I've gotten over it, sure I was sad when we were kids, but now it just pisses me off. But Lil is gutted, it pretty much broke her heart.

"All aboard, the Hogwarts Express!" A loud trumpet-like voice booms over the platform speakers. "Come on Franks!" Lil pulls me onto the strange red train, just before the doors close.

Knowing me, and my ability to be uncoordinated in any given situation, the fright of it all, means that I trip over my bloody trunk, and fall, face first onto the ground.

"Oohmphhh!"

Lily whips around, startled by the racket. "Franks! Are you okay?" She says, reaching down to me, god she's a saint. "Oh yeah, peachy keen jelly bean." I say, lifting myself up. Oh god, I can feel my cheeks burning up. Wonderful.

"Huh, yeah don't worry about me everybody. You guys just turn around and pretend I don't exist. Please." I squeak, to the stunned audience that have surrounded me. Bloody brilliant start.

I turn around and follow Lily to a compartment downstairs. "Lily! Frankie! Come over here!" I turn to see Sam Logan smiling up at me. Samantha Logan is a family friend of ours, and Lil's best friend at Hogwarts, I've hung out with her heaps of times and she's seriously cool. Sam is the sort of girl that you look at and smile. She has long curly blonde hair that spirals down her back and brown eyes. She's always drawing, or off in her own little world. I hug Sam, and sit down next to her.

The compartment is empty except for me, Lil and Sam. Just the way I like it. Sam pulls out her drawing pad, and starts to sketch some Disney stuff. Sam comes from a pure blood family, the Logans are one of the oldest wizarding families. Last year for the Evans annual Christmas Party, Sam and her 'rents came. We were minding our little cousins, and put on Snow White. Sam had never seen it before, and totally fell in love with Disney.

I look over at Lil, who is reading some potions book. Okay, we haven't even started school, and she's already studying. Typical Lil. I put out my walkman, and put in my Sgt Peppers CD. This is good stuff.

After a while, I get incredibly hungry. I'm always hungry, but this time it hurts. I think I got too caught up in Sgt Peppers. I open my bag and take out the food I brought. A packet of salt and vinegar chips, a bottle of apple juice, a can of grape soda, a packet of starburst, four mars bars, and a packet of skittles. Sweeeeeet. Literally. Haha I'm so funny. Okay, so I know that I can eat chocolate frogs and every flavor beans and what not, but when it comes to food I don't want it to jump away from me. I don't want my jelly beans to taste like rotten eggs, all I want is food. Yes, I get a little emotional over food.

I sit happily with my feast and start painting my nails. Dark purple and sparkly sounds good for my first day of school. I hear Lil snap her book shut, and I turn to look at her. "Franks, you're hopeless I swear." She smiles, and turns to me. She takes my hand and the nail polish bottle and starts to paint. I start to sing, Lil starts to cry "stop Frankie! STOP IN THE NAME OF MERLIN!" I ignore her and sing louder.

Life is good.

"Fraaaanks, we have to put on our robes now" Sam says in that sing-song voice of hers. I really should get a sing song voice, that would be pretty cool. I do think I need a new voice. Yes. New school, new voice.

"Um Franks? Get changed, unless you want to go in your trackies" Lil says. "Ex-cuuse me, buuut I liiike myy traackies. Veeery much sooo!" I say in my attempt of a sing song voice. "Why do you sound like a cat?" Lil snorts. Stupid cousin and Sam with their pretty Hogwarts voices.

I mumble misfortunes to myself as I stand up on my seat to get my trunk, and reach up but fail miserably. "Owwww!" I whine, as I crash to the floor. Lil reaches up and gets both our trunks down in one swift movement. Damn graceful and coordinated cousin. "Thanks Lil." I mumble.

I follow a sign that says change rooms, down a corridor and into a cubicle. I look around the cubicle, of course a magical train would have a change room the size of my bedroom. Shweeeeet.

I get changed into my robes, and then turn towards the mirror. The mirror has never been my friend. I look at my dull reflection, and reach into my bag for straightening serum. I put some onto my hands and rub it onto my hair. My hairs smooths for about 3 seconds, and then twists up again into a knotty kink. "Ah, fuck it."

I walk out of the change room, and straight into someone else. I was always good with first impressions, hah. "Shit. Sorry!" I look down at the poor soul, I've knocked over. He's about the size of a goblin, and looks about five. The poor kid runs away, terrified. Seriously I knew I had kinks in my hair, but am I that scary?

I walk out of the cubicle, and back down to Lily and Sam, who are both ready in their robes. Sam, is still drawing, but Lil on the other hand is staring out the window with a creepy dazed look on her face. Maybe she's been possessed.

I look at my deranged cousin again who is staring out of the window. I follow her gaze and gasp. There in front of me lies a huge black lake, and in front of it, a giant castle. It would look creepy if I hadn't seen pictures of it a hundred times. Lily turns to me, with a huge smile replacing the possessed look, "Franks," She says, "we're here!"