Summery: Lily and her friends are the outcasts that no one knows about. The moment James sets his eye on Lily; the whole world seems to turn upside down. Chaos, troubles, pranks and bets follow around… but in the end of it, true love and friendship conquer it all…AU
Disclaimer: don't own Harry Potter. Not now, nor ever.
The Pumpkins
By: Ruby89
Chapter one
Jane Wayrock pulled her luggage after her in search for an empty compartment. She sighed when the next one was full and continued down the train. It was her first day at Hogwarts and all she felt was a great urge to drop everything on the floor and burst in tears.
She was 16, and was a happy teenager before her family moved to England and signed her to attend Hogwarts. She liked her old magical school, but her parents insisted on giving her the highest education possible.
She was tired, cranky and miserable. Why on earth there wasn't a single empty compartment on the whole bloody train?
After checking another few compartments, she found an empty one who it's only occupant was a girl who sat crossed-legged on the seat. Joan sighed in relief and opened the door "mind if I'll sit here? The rest are full"
"Go ahead" the girl answered calmly.
Jane pushed her trunk forward and fell exhausted on the seat in front of the girl. She turned to apologize for interrupting her when her jaw dropped in surprise.
The girl was sitting cross-legged and barefoot, her hands resting lightly on her knees. She had a long black hair which reached her waist and fell down like a waterfall. Large black glasses covered nearly half her face. Jane couldn't see the color of her eyes because her eyes were closed. But the thing that shocked her was the fact that the girl was floating five inches above her seat.
"How do you do that?" Jane asked in awe.
The girl opened her eyes to look at her, and Jane noticed a pair of grey eyes which looked ten times bigger because of the glasses. "Practice" the girl said only.
Well its official, Jane thought to herself when the silence was back in the compartment, the kids in this school are weird.
"What's your name?"
Jane blinked at the sudden question and it took her a few seconds before she answered "oh emm… my name is Jane Wayrock"
"Alama Gaylord" the girl stretched her hand forward and shook Jane's palm. She smiled slightly and asked with interest "you're new?"
"Yeah, my family moved four months ago to London"
"Must be tough, what year are you in?"
"Sixth"
"mmm. Same as my friends and I"
"Your friends?"
"Yes. If you'll stay long enough you might meet them" for some reason Jane thought she heard a skeptic note in Alama's voice, like she didn't believe that Jane will stay.
The door suddenly slammed open and both girls jumped in surprise. Alama fell back on her seat and slipped to the floor with a loud thud "oomph". She stood back up and glared at the tall girl that entered the compartment "Charlie c'mon! I was just about to break my record!"
Charlie laughed and tried to close the door with her foot because her hands were full of food and candies. "Sorry Ali. It was quite difficult to walk with this pile without any one tries to steal a little" she threw the contest on an empty seat next to Jane and sat on the other side of it.
"Did you buy everything?" Alama asked eagerly, removing her glasses. Jane looked at her surprised. The cool, indifferent girl she talked to disappeared, and in her place took a different kind of person.
Alama licked her fingers that were sticky from chocolate "this is Jane" she motioned her head in Jane's direction "she's new"
"Really?" Charlie looked at her curiously for a moment before smiling "I'm Charlotte Tersanna. Want some?" she motioned towards the pile next to her.
Jane hesitated for a second before accepting the offer. She observed the two girls that chatted together while eating a chocolate frog. Charlie was a tall girl with warm chocolate eyes. Her short blond hair reached her shoulders and had red strikes in them. She wore old baggy clothes but seemed comfortable to sit in them.
"So" Charlie smiled "do you know anyone from here?"
"No, no one except you two"
"Make it three" another voice came.
"Sam!" Alama and Charlie called happily before they rushed to hug the girl who entered the compartment. She had light brown hair and deep black eyes. The first thing Jane noticed was her very fashionable cloths and haircut.
"Samantha Richards, at your service" the girl smiled at her revealing straight white teeth.
"Nice to meet you" Jane smiled back "I'm Jane"
"Well now that we're all acquainted…" Sam dropped her luggage with a sigh "Charlie? Help please?"
Charlie giggled softly and helped her to put it up. "Finally" Sam sighed in relief "you have any idea what kind of a morning I had? I broke three nails while trying to lift this blasted luggage. Three!"
Alama and Charlie exchanged amused glances. "horrible" agreed Charlie.
"You poor thing" Alama shook her head sympathetically.
Sam sent them both a disgusted look "oh I know you're laughing behind those angelic faces of yours. You won't fool me. But do you have any idea how much money I spent on a manicurist? Until I would be allowed to use magic legally, the fate of my nails is lying at the hands of a money-hungry rude woman who is unfortunately" she sighed "making my nails look divine"
The other girls burst in laughter. Sam glanced at the pile of food and her eyes widened in shock "Charlie! This is… how much you spent on that?"
"We decided to buy this while waiting for the rest of you" Alama explained.
"In other words" Charlie smiled at Sam and threw her a few candies "we were starving"
"Like I said before" Sam smiled happily and unwrapped the chocolate frogs "make it three"
"And four" a tired voice added.
"Lils!" the girls jumped up to hug the redheaded girl with two low tied pigtails who just entered.
"Freeze" Lily ordered and the three girls stopped in their tracks. Lily put her luggage on the floor and spread her arms "ok, you can hug me now" the other girls giggled and laughed as they gave her a group hug.
Lily dropped in her seat and leaned backwards with a sigh. She closed her eyes and stretched her hand in Jane's direction "Lily Evans"
"Jane Wayrock" Jane shook her hand with a curious gaze at the redhead. Between the floating girl, the tomboy and the rich one which the word 'money' was screaming in every aspect of her, Lily seemed to be the closest thing to posses an average behavior. That until Lily kicked her shoes off her feet, put her head on Alama's lap, leaned her long legs on the wall and started to rub her temples.
"Where have you been?" Charlie asked "I was looking for you half an hour ago before the train started to move"
"Bathroom. Headache" than she covered her face with her hands and groaned.
"Tough morning?" Alama stroked Lily's hair gently.
Lily sighed and opened her eyes "I received a very long lecture from my parents since the moment I opened my eyes till the moment I went through the barrier" she glanced sideway at the rest and narrowed her eyes at Sam. "Girl, what happened to your nails?"
"At last some compassion from one of you!" Sam sighed and leaned backwards "you don't want to know…"
"Trust me" Charlie rolled her eyes "you really don't. But c'mon, tell us what happened"
"They insisted on reminding me how much Transfiguration classes are very important for my future"
"Darling?" Sam raised her eyebrows "your parents are muggles, do they even know what Transfiguration classes are?"
"No, but unfortunately they do know the meaning of failing the subject" she said bitterly "our dear professor Minnie McGonagall sent them a latter, a much described one may I tell you, which included the details of all my previous exams and quizzes. And the cherry on the top of this whole business, was to tell them that if I won't pass the subject I won't be able to graduate"
"Now that's tough" Alama looked down at her friend.
"There's more" Lily mumbled.
"There's more?" Charlie looked at her worriedly "what else?"
"They wanted me to explain what the meaning of the grade T is" Lily sighed miserably.
"Well, that's not bad" Charlie smiled in encourage.
"My sister was in the room" Lily added dryly.
"Oooh, that's bad" Charlie sighed in understanding.
"Ouch" Sam squeezed Lily's hand sympathetically "you should have come straight to my house"
"So I'll encounter precious Veronica every morning?" Lily raised her eyebrows "no thanks. I prefer to stick with my own big sister" she turned her attention to Jane "in which house are you in?"
"Well" Jane was slightly taken aback that the conversation turned towards her direction "I've been sorted in the summer to Gryffindor"
The four girls exchanged glances "that means that you're with us" Charlie said finally.
"If you won't find someone to join to, you're welcome to join our club" Lily smiled at her.
"Club?"
"Yep" Sam smiled cheerfully at her "we're the proud outcasts of our year"
"Of the school" corrected her Alama.
"We are the people who don't belong to any other group simply because we don't want to" said Charlie
"The group that doesn't get along with popular kids" smiled Sam
"The group that no one knows about" said Alama
"And the ones that know us, simply consider us weird" added Charlie
"Because we don't give a damn about what other think of us and do what we truly like to do" commented Sam
"In other words" Lily smiled at her "we're the Pumpkins"
A/N: hope you liked it. It was a small idea that came in my mind and I thought it will be cute to write it down. so, leave me a review and tell me what you think!
Cheers to all!
Ruby89