I stood on Platform nine and three-quarters. I was looking for James. I wanted to meet his parents for once. Every year I seemed to miss them. I looked at my parents, they were fussing over my twin sisters, Emmaline and Ezlana. They seemed to be more fixated on Ezlana. I wished they would have been like that my first year. They came for five seconds to tell me I better be in Slytherin, then left me with my grandmother like they had for most of my life. I anxiously watched as people filled the platform, and rubbed the thick bracelet that covered my Dark Mark.
I was born with the Dark Mark. My parents and their parents had been Death Eaters. No one ever explained to why I was born with it, but my sisters had them too. Except my parents probably told them, since they lived with them in London while I lived with my grandmother in New York. No one ever believed we were sisters, since I talked like an American and they talked like Brits. But if you looked at us you could tell, all of us had long brown hair, olive skin, and brown eyes.
Finally I caught sight of Lily Luna, and from behind her James. He seemed to be looking for me. He smiled when he saw me.
"Alexia!" He yelled. My parents looked up glared then kept talking to the twins.
"Hi James." I said.
He grabbed me in his arms and spun me around. I laughed as he put me down.
"Hi Alexia!" Lily said
"Hi Lily. Where's Albus?" I asked
"Who knows." James said "Mum, Dad!"
"So you must be the famous Alexia." Ginny Potter said extending a hand.
"Yes. Hello."
"James, leave it to you to find the one American at Hogwarts." Harry said
I blushed and took Harry's hand. His other hand went to his forehead and I could feel a pounding in my wrist where my Dark Mark was.
"Harry are you okay?" Ginny asked
"Yeah fine." Harry said.
James looked at me. He knew about the Dark Mark. The whistle blew and he hugged his parents and we boarded the train, and got a cart.
"Did you feel it too?" James asked.
"Yeah." I said
"What's it mean?"
"I don't know! If I knew I would tell you!"
"Can I sit with you guys?" Emmaline said appearing.
"Come sit Emma, where's Lana?" I asked
"She found some older Slytherins."
"Ignoring Mom and Dad's advice?"
"I don't want to be a Slytherin!"
"Then don't be!" James said "We could use more Gryffindors."
"I think Mum and Dad would flip!" Emma said.
"I think you'd make a great Gryffindor!" I said.
"THERE YOU ARE!" my friend Skylar said appearing, she was already in her Gryffindor robes.
"Hi, Sky." I said.
"Is it bad to want to hex some second years?"
"Is Lily bugging you?" James asked.
"No its those stupid Slytherins!"
"We should probably head to the prefect carriage." I said "James take care of Emma."
"Yeah, yeah rub it in that you're a prefect and I'm not."
"I will thanks! Plus you could be if you didn't pull so many pranks!" I said laughing as we left the compartment.