AN: Here is the first chapter of my collaborative Harry Potter story, written with my friend. Taylor is my persona and Alyssa is hers; I know that OCs generally turn people off, but we would absolutely LOVE feedback on it. We have several chapters written already, but the first few are fairly slow compared to later on. I hope that you'll stick with us - because really, it's all for fun. Everyone likes fun. :)

1

Alyssa

"TAYLOR!" I yelled, pushing through the crowd of people as I made my way towards her head of almost black hair.

"ASSYLA!" She yelled with more delight than me, and practically sent people flying as she ran.

"I thought we went over you calling me that!" I cried back, as we came within meters of each other.

"Who said I was listening?" She said, as we ran into each other, hugging fiercely to make up for the past few weeks of summer of not seeing each other.

"No one did. That's why I love you so much." I remarked, breathing deeply before letting her go, and really looking at her.

"Hey, you got a tan!" I commented, smiling.

"Yeah, you tend to get those when you're in the Caribbean." She shrugged, and smiled.

"Liar."

"Yeah, I am. But if I wasn't, what would I be?" She shrugged again, and I laughed.

What? We were eleven, we're entitled to having a mind that roams every where in the matter of like, five seconds tops.

"You wouldn't believe what I got in the mail the other day," She said, as we walked down the road, in the sunny streets of London.

"I'll bite; what'd you get?" I asked curiously. Knowing her with her grades in school, she probably got some kind of college application, asking her to start early with them.

"I got a letter from a boarding school my parents signed me up for a while back." She told me, but her face said that there was something she wasn't telling me; Which isn't right.

To hell with keeping secrets.

"Oh? Are you going?" I asked, playing along. I was gonna get whatever she was hiding.

"Yeah. I think it sounds really interesting, what they teach there-"

"How's it different from what regular school teaches?" I interrupted. She frowned, as if she was thinking.

"Well…it has…um…"

"Yeah, I thought so. PLEASE, don't go; I won't last without you! Who am I gonna get to help me with homework? Or-Or to help me with BOYS?"

"Who said you need my help with that? I thought you were doing fine with that all on your own." She crossed her arms, and frowned.

"I was lying when I said I was doing well with Jason…" I looked down.

"Alyssa! You told me you were going steady with him!"

Jason was the guy I liked, at the school I went to. With black hair, curly, and blue eyes…He was gorgeous. Taylor had been trying to hook us up, and thank god we were in separate classes; she would have noticed sooner or later when Jason wasn't talking to me, and I was desperate.

"Well, maybe I sort of…lied?"

"God, Alyssa! I thought you were doing well!" She started walking away.

"I can't talk to him though! It's so uncomfortable…" I crossed my arms. She came back to me, and hugged me softly.

"And you're just a wimp when it comes to scoring boys." With that, she went running ahead and I got what she had said.

"HEY! COME BACK HERE!" I yelled, before chasing after her.

RIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGG.

Oh shut up, stupid phone. I hate you.

With my eyes still closed, I removed my arm from under the soft cushy blankets, and picked it up, fumbling as I brought it to my ear.

"…mmmmmm….helllloooooo…?"

"Did I just wake you up?" A familiar voice teased in my ear, and I rubbed my eyes, trying to get the sleep to back the hell off.

"No, stupid. I'm being groggy and miserable at seven in the morning for no damn reason. What the hell do you want at this time? Aren't you still supposed to be sleeping? It's summer vacay."

"Check the calendar." She said simply, and I pulled myself out of bed, to look at the calendar, only to nearly drop the phone.

"School starts today." I whispered to myself, and fully wide awake, I scrambled around the room to pick up my clothes, making sure my trunk was fully packed, not wanting another repeat from last year to happen…(Forgot that I hadn't packed; Too busy that summer tanning…)

"Hey, I'll meet you at the train station, okay?" I said urgently into the phone, and she laughed.

"Running late, AGAIN? You really need to learn to do this shit earlier." She laughed again, and with a quick good-bye, hung up. I threw the phone onto my bed, and ran around, finding all the things I needed for the shower. I bolted it.

Within an hour, I was showered, cleaned, shaved, dressed, and packed.

And…I still had more than an hour and a half to kill.

This is boring as shit.

I grabbed my basket from the corner in my room, and looked around.

"Salem…?" I called for my cat, and seeing a pile of socks move a bit, I got them out of the way to reveal my little kitten, Salem. She was all white, with a huge patch of black on her back, and blue eyes. Seeing me, she mewed softly, as if to say, thank god you saved me! The stench was getting so bad, I felt as if my nose were being burned off with acid!

"I know; But maybe next time you'll think about crawling under a pile of dirty laundry, won't you?" I teased her, than lifted her up and put her in the wicker basket, closing one end. It was almost like the basket Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz had, but it was the perfect size for my kitty, and it was padded in the bottom with a little cushion.

So cute.

"I guess this is good-bye than…" I muttered, as I saw Taylor outside with a big trunk.

"Yeah…" She sighed. She looked at me quietly, than threw her arms around me.

"I'm going to miss you so much! I wish you could come so bad. It would make life better."

"Well, before you go…what's the name of the School you're going to?" I asked. I didn't want to ruin the surprise.

She seemed to debate it, but deciding on something, she whispered in my ear.

"Hogwarts school for Witchcraft And Wizardry."

I smiled.

"I guess I should tell you my secret, than…" I grinned, before I saw my mom come out of the house next door with my trunk.

"But…How…What…HUH?" She gawped at the trunk, turning to look to me, than to the trunk again, than finally to my mom.

"You two will be going to the same school. Now hurry up; we have to go." She smiled, and urged us forward.

Taylor smiled from ear to ear.

"And here I was thinking I was going to be all alone!" She said, before taking my hand and pulling us toward the car quickly, our trunks trailing after us.

I snapped from the memory; it always made me smile, no matter what. I grabbed all of my things, took one last look around my room, and shut the door, reminiscing in memories.

Til I remembered something.

"Shit! My wand!" I cried softly, before dropping everything softly-I was still carrying Salem- and ran back into my room.