Leala desperately wanted to put her headphones on and block out the rambunctious noise of the full compartment. And when she said full, she meant it. Next to the window on the compartment, Camryn sat leaned against the window, looking down at her girlfriend fondly, who was oblivious to Cam's stare (or was use to the stare and choosing to ignore it) and was reading what seemed to be a transfiguration book as she was tucked into her girlfriend's side.

On the other side of the compartment, Miah sat next to one of her best friends, Amara Levo, a girl who was typically a loner, but had found a place with Leala and her friends. Miah was stuffing her face with some caramel corn she had packed (the third bag she seemed to have gone through), leaning on Amara's shoulder as she seemed to be explaining something with wide gestures. The pair both had mischievous glints in their eyes, and Leala knew that while Amara might appear quiet she was very much a trouble maker, especially when paired with Miah. She made a mental note to keep an eye on the two.

Near the door on the same bench, Hannah sat with Lily Evans, a charms book between the two as they seemed to be discussing its contents. Leala let out a small laugh at that. School hadn't even started, yet the pair seemed to already beginning to stress out about it.

Lily's friend Severus sat awkwardly between the two groups, a bored expression on his face. When Hannah had introduced Lily to their friend group, Severus had been a shadow behind the girl following her everywhere. While Lily had immediately clicked with their friend group, even Miah who seemed to have a distaste for preppy and happy people, aside from Leila and Leala Though Miah had admitted that the first time the two had met Miah on their first trip on the Hogwarts Express, that she had been terrified of the two and their preppiness. However Severus was still quiet and awkward with the group, not even talking with the other Slytherins in the group. But he still hung out with them, only because Lily was also there.

Leila layed on the compartment floor, her legs kicked up behind her. She played with her pygmy puff, who sat on Montgomery's legs. Monty himself was leaned up against the bench opposite of Leala, reading a book, paying no attention to Leila or Bob (her pygmy puff).

Leala was seated next to Cam and her girlfriend, Alicia and was also reading a book. This one was about the advanced care of magical creatures, which was Leala's favorite subject. Morgan was sprawled across most of the compartment bench, her head resting in Leala's lap, snoring loudly.

At least she isn't sleepwalking like last time, Leala thought to herself. That was a nightmare. However, the compartment was still beginning to stress her out with the bustling with noise, especially with her anxiety. In all honesty, Leala was not sure how Morgan was still sleeping. And Leala simply wanted to drowned out the noise, and therefore her stress and anxiety.

Sadly she couldn't reach her Walkman with Morgan's head in her lap and the business of the compartment. She could see it sticking out of her bag that was overhead on the other side of the compartment, seemingly taunting her; just within sight and just out of reach.

However, Leala wasn't one to give up. This was music they were talking about, and she would do just about anything for music. Gently setting down her book next to her as to not disturb her sleeping friend, she carefully reached her hand down to her wand, which was strapped to her valve by her wand holster.

Gripping the wood tightly, she flicked it softly and quickly, muttering a quiet Accio Angela (yes she had named her Walkman; don't judge her). And just when it seemed her plan was going to go off without a hitch, Leila decided to be spazzy. She threw her hands up, probably in excitement, honestly Leala had no idea Maybe she was thinking about glitter; it was a high possibility.

And though Leila as not super coordinated when it came to her arms, this was the one time she seemed to have impeccable aim. And her target: Angela. As the Walkman was magically coming towards Leala, she watch in horror as it was hit down and into the foot of the compartment by Leila.

Leila's eyes widened in shock, realizing what she had done, knowing the value the device had to her friend. Leala herself was also in shock, but soon snapped out of it at the suffocating silence that filled the crash of her Walkman.

Wasting no time she jumped up, causing Morgan to fall out of her lap and onto the floor with a crash. Morgan, who was unaware of the events that had just transpired, let out a groan, along with a string of words Leala should not repeat, confused as to why her sleep was disrupted.

However, Leala was too concerned on the state of her Walkman to be super concerned about her friend (she could be selfish sometimes). She scrambled over to the device, past Monty, who finally looked up when Leala pushed passed him unintentionally knocking his book form his hand, to let out a protest.

Picking the Walkman up quickly, yet delicately, she began inspecting it for damage. Letting out a sigh of relief at no visible damage, Leala started to turn around to chastise her friend for the panic she had caused her and the damage that could have done to Angela, when said device was plucked out of her hands.

"Eh, Prongs, what you think we got here?" Leala almost let out an audible groan at the teasing voice, one that she sadly recognized. She looked up slowly, hoping beyond hope it wasn't who she thought it was. This time, when her brown hazel eyes met the grey ones in front of her, she did let out a groan. Crouching in front of her and holding her Walkman was the one and only Sirius Black, the most annoying boy Leala ever had the absolute displeasure of meeting.

Long silky raven black hair fell around his shoulders, and an arrogant and annoying smirk twisted across his lips, eyes lighting up with amusement and mischief. In his right hand, he held her Walkman, turning it over carelessly, seeming to inspect it. When he almost let it fall out of his hands, she gritted her teeth in annoyance.

Behind him stood the second most annoying person Leala had met and Sirius's partner in crime: James Potter, also known as Prongs. Leala had no idea why. A smirk also rested across his face as he answered Sirius, "I don't know Padfoot." His voice was teasing and Leala had the sudden urge to slap the smirk off his face. "It seems to be some strange muggle device. I say we confiscate it, Pads. You know for safety reasons."

Remus, who stood behind his two friends next to Peter, who Leala could barely see due to his height, rolled his eyes at his friends antics, giving Leala what seemed to be an apologetic smile. But Leala didn't care because he still did nothing to stop his friends and get her walkman back.

No one touched Angela without her permission. The last person who had done that ended up with horse head in their bed. Her father loved the Godfather and she therefore had seen it a million times; don't worry though it wasn't a real horse head, merely a transfigured one. However it did chase the occupants of the room around trying to bite them. It was quite hilarious.

Leala tried to reach for her Walkman, but Sirius held it just out of reach as he stood up in order to keep it away from her. She follow him up, getting out of her crouching position. She kept trying to grab the device, her eyes flashing in frustration.

"Now, now, it's not polite or just grab things."

"Says you, Black. Give it back."

"Naw, I think I'll keep it."

"Give it back, before I hex you." Leala turned to see Lily standing next to her, her wand out in warning. She was glaring at the pair, more specifically James.

"Awe, Evans don't be that way!" James said, a grin spreading across his face at the sight of Lily. "How about this: Padfoot will give little Leia here her strange muggle device if you go on a date with me." Lily's face twisted up in disgust. And Leala's face heated up in anger. Not only did he get her name wrong (and with a name like hers it really got on her nerves when people got it wrong), he was using her friends. That was probably the things she hated the most. "Come on. Once in a lifetime opportunity here."

Just as Lily was about to respond, Leala beat her to it. "Never mind, Lils. Nothings worth going on a date with a pig." She heard Miah let out an 'oooooooh' in the background and almost let out a laugh at the girls response.

James scowled at Leala. "What ever Leanna," (again with the name!). He turned to Lily a smirk plastering itself across his face again.

"Ignore Lucy. What do you say Evans?"

"I think Leala said it all." Leala smirked at the pair of mischief makers, glad to finally see James's grin wiped off. However Sirius still had Angela. And Leala loved her friends and really would do anything for them, but that didn't mean she leave behind Angela. Her mother had gotten the Walkman for her as a Christmas gift.

She had grown up surrounded by muggle culture due to her mother being a muggleborn and had found a love for muggle music. Her mum knew of her love for music, so when the Walkman had come out, she had gotten the device for both Leala and her sister.

Leala had immediately loved the gift and had thanked her mother profusely for it. Over time, she had found that it helped calm her anxiety, allowing her to block out the world and the stress it caused her.

She began tapping her fingers in different patterns, a trick her sister had taught to calm down. It seemed that Hannah had picked up on her nervousness. She set down her book and stood up, making her way over to Lily and Leala. Her face had turned red and she stood in front of the two boys, ready to kill (she kinda always was).

"Now listen here, Black—" but Hannah we cut off by Miah, who also seemed to have caught on to Leala's nervousness and had also made a plan. However Miah's plan was very different from Hannah's.

"DUCK!" Miah yelled as she chucked something at the group of boys. Hat something happens to be a dungbomb. Sirius looked down at the bomb at his feet. "Oh, crap." (Except he used a much more colorful word). While he was distracted, Leala swiped Angela from Sirius's hand while Lily quickly shut the compartment door. The group watched as the windows outside the compartment turn pitch black and yells emitted from outside the door. Leala turned to her friend with a grateful smile as the rest of the compartment burst into laughter.

_

It has been an hour or two since the incident with the Marauders (as the boys were called at school) and Leala was happily listening to music, her headphones in and eyes closed with Morgan's head back on her lap. The compartment had gotten surprisingly quiet. Camryn and Aliscia had left the compartment earlier (probably to go off somewhere to snog) and it seemed most of the other occupants were asleep (they were teenagers after all) and Hannah could hear the soft music coming out of her headphones. Hannah recognized it as Hotel California. Leala had showed Hannah her favorite songs due to Hannah being "uneducated" in the world of muggle music because of her pureblood status.

"Hannah?" Hannah turned to Lily who had called her name. "We have to go to the prefect meeting." Hannah let out a groan and let her head fall back onto the back of the bench she sat on.

Don't get her wrong, she was excited to be a Prefect. Her parents had of course been ecstatic since this was the beginning of the path that they had always wanted. That she had always wanted.

But that didn't mean that she wanted to go to the meeting. She simply wanted to continue reading. She was currently reading a muggle book that Leala had brought for her: To Kill a Mockingbird. She remembered when Leala had first shown her muggle books. There was just something about them that she fell in love with (much to her pureblood family's disapproval).

However, Hannah could not simply ignore her duties in the favor of fiction, no matter how much she wanted to. She also didn't want to leave Lily alone. She had heard that James was also a prefect and he was sure to bug Lily.

Letting out a sigh, she slid the book into her bag and got up.

_

Oh why did Hannah always have to be right?

As soon her and Lily had arrived at the Prefect meeting, James had been bugging Lily with his flirtatious and cheesy remarks. And that also meant he was bugging Hannah, who promised not to leave her friend to face the love sick boy alone, no matter how annoyed she got. She had gotten very close to breaking that promise...multiple times. Sadly, overtime she came close to abandoning her friend, she heard the annoying voice of Leala telling her to stay and "be a true friend". Gosh, sometimes Leala and all her annoying morals got on Hannah's nerves.

However there was one refuge from the onslaught of James' failing charm: Remus Lupin. One of James' friends, and by far the least annoying Marauder (except for maybe Peter, but he just did whatever James and Sirius told him to do). He had been standing with James while he tried to flirt with Lily. Though, Hannah wasn't sure it could be called flirting seeing as James, at best, had the charm of an Acromantula.

While he had stood silently by James's side, Hannah could tell Remus was annoyed by his friend. She caught him rolling his eyes at James's behavior multiple times, and Hannah couldn't help but agree. She found herself looking him up and down. While they had been in the same house and year for the past four years, Hannah had avoided the Marauders and their foulness like the plague, and had never really paid attention to the boy before.

Though she was sick of James, she didn't want to abandon her friends, so she walked over to Remus and bluntly started a conversation with him as if they were old friends. At first the tall boy seemed startled at her sudden appearance, but soon started conversing with her about the advantages of bezoars. Hannah was moving her arms in dramatic motions as she animatedly talked with Remus, who seemed to be equally engaged in the discussion.

As Hannah let out a loud roar of laughter, Lily turned to look over at her with James still talking in the background. Lily wasn't sure she had ever seen Hannah that happy. Her face was beet red from laughter-granted she turns red anytime she feels any emotion: anger, joy, even when she was lying-and when Lily looked up at Remus, her lips twisted into a smile as a soft blush began to grow across his face.

The way he looked at Hannah almost caused her to coo aloud. He was smiling down at her and she could see that the boy liked Hannah. Though Hannah seemed completely oblivious. While she was absolutely brilliant in school, picking up on things, specifically emotions, wasn't exactly Hannah's fortay. As she continued spectating the cute scene, Lily made a mental note to talk to Morgan and Camryn about some matchmaking.

_

Leala looked up as someone open the door to their compartment. In peeked Andromeda Black, a Slytherin in her year. Leala liked the girl, she was different from her family and didn't care care about blood status. It was rare these days in the wizarding world.

She sent a soft smile toward Leala as she entered the nearly empty compartment. Leila, Amara, Miah, and Monty had left the compartment to go get food earlier and when Lily had left for the prefect meeting with Hannah, Severus had also disappeared. Morgan was asleep on the other bench in the compartment, soft snores coming out of her mouth as her chest rose and fell.

"Hey Leala," Leala smiled back up at Andromeda as she sat down next to her. She pressed the pause bottom on her Walkman and slid off her headphones. "Have you seen a necklace anywhere. It's a simple golden chain with a small golden songbird on the end of it. It was Alice's grandmother's and she can't find it."

"No, I'm sorry, I haven't, but I'll help you look for it."

"Thanks, Leala."

Andromeda walked out of the compartment and Leala followed behind her. Leala started walking down the compartment corridor. She stopped the people she passed, asking them if they had seen Alice's necklace. They had all said no, however several had commented that some of their own jewelry to be missing.

She kept moving down the corridor, until she came across the Trolley Lady. She was on the ground reaching around the bottom of the cart. Leala stopped in confusion and bent down so she was level with the woman. She then noticed that one of the wheels of the trolley was broken, the shiny golden screw missing and the wheel set to the side. The lady was searching around for the screw, but she couldn't seem find it. The women let out a string curses, her fingers fumbling in frustration.

Leala reached into her hair, pulling out a bobby pin, careful not to mess up her hair, and she pulled out her wand, muttering a small spell. The pin transfigured into a screw, and Leala held it out to the woman, "Here you go. This should fit." The lady turned to her and upon looking at the screw smiled. "Thank you!"

Leala smiled at the woman, but she was still confused. Why were all these things going missing? They were all metals...

"Oh, crap."

Leala quickly got up, muttering a good-bye to the woman as she ran back to her compartment. How could this have happened? She thought to herself as she quickly tried to get back to her compartment and hopefully find someone to help her. She had taken every precaution.

Realizing that she had passed her compartment, she quickly backtracked. As she slammed the door open, Morgan's head shot up from where it was resting on Miah's hoodie.

"What?" Morgan slurred confused at Leala's frightened and tense look.

"Stevie's missing; we gotta go."

"But, Lealaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..."Morgan groaned.

"Morgan we need to go, NOW!"

_

Morgan let out a groan as she continued to search for Leala's "pet" niffler. Emphasis on the word "pet", because Morgan specifically remembers reading in her textbook that they were not supposed to be kept as pets. Apparently Leala didn't get that memo.

And though he was good for stealing things from Morgan's annoying housemates (AKA Severus and Lucius), Stevie also stole Morgan's own things and also seemed to go missing along with all of Hogwarts' jewelry. Also, anytime anyone pointed out this fact, Leala said that "it wasn't his fault" or "that the poor thing was scared".

So here Morgan was, looking for her friends annoying niffler, being a good friend and all that crap. Gosh, being nice was exhausting. She was walking between compartments, looking for signs of the creature and trying to discreetly ask people if they had seen a tiny black creature that is a klepto without freaking them out (that part was turning out to be extremely difficult)

She had come across Cam and Alicia, who she found snogging in a dark corner. Shaking the image from her head, she shoved open the next compartment entering it with a sigh. And when she saw who was in the compartment, she let out a groan. How did she keep running into these people. She and her friends had avoided the group like the plague successfully for four years, yet all of a sudden she can't stop running into them within a few hours.

In front of her sat James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew. She had half a mind to just leave, but Leala would kill her if she skipped a compartment and lost Stevie. When she had entered the compartment, all the boys' eyes turned towards her, lighting up in confusion.

"What the hec-"

But Morgan wasn't listening. She had spotted Stevie above Peter, unsuccessfully trying to blend his black body into the light brown wood. She made eye contact with the creature and knowing that he had been caught Stevie began to leap for the door, but Morgan wasn't about to let that annoying little brat get away. She lept for the creature, calling out to Leala, who was searching another part of the train "Leala, I found the little brat!", not paying any attention to the things in her path. And those "things" happened to be James and Peter.

"Oi! What' ya think your doing?" James exclaimed followed by various curse words as Peter fell with a thud.

However, Morgan didn't care, especially since it was James Potter, the bane of her existence. She reached her arms out the try and grab the little rascal, but Stevie wasn't one to give up either. He jumped out her reach and onto Sirius's head, who let out a undignified girly scream (the people in the compartment could testify to that). Morgan twisted around and reached for him again, barely missing him yet again.

Now it was Morgan's turn to let out some curse words (though when wasn't she?). By this point, the entire compartment was screaming; and for a compartment full of boys, it surprisingly sounded a whole lot like a room full of squealing teenage fangirls. Finally, she grabbed Stevie's foot and at that moment, the door slid open.

The entire compartment turned to face the door, all looking like deer caught in headlights. Morgan was reaching across the compartment holding onto Stevie who was grasping at the wall. James was trying to fight off Morgan's right foot, which made Morgan smile) while Sirius was on the ground, his chest held down by Morgan's left foot. Peter was laying on the ground, clutching his nose (did she hit it at some point?) and crying.

In the doorway were the horrified faces of Remus, Lily, and Hannah, Hannah's face red, with what could humor or anger. Morgan suspected the ladder.

"What the HELL are you all doing?" Hannah yelled, her arms waving around in exasperation. So Morgan was right; it was anger.

"Boys, what are yo-" But Remus was cut off by Leala bursting in between the group and into the compartment.

"STEVIE!" She yelled as she reached for her pet. He came willingly to her, acting like a sweet like angel and Leala began to cradle him like a child. Everyone, inside and outside the compartment, just stared at Leala, who just shrugged.

"What? He can't help it!"

"He? That thing is a monster! He messed up my hair!"

Leala turned to Sirius, a smirk forming across her lips as she looked at his disheveled hair. She then turned back to her niffler in her arms and began to tickle his stomach

"Did you mess up the mean boy's hair?" She cooed at him. A smile slipped on to Morgan's face as she barely held back a laugh. Leala then walked out of the compartment continuing to coo at him.

"Yes you did! Yes you did! Good boy!"
Sirius let out a scoff and Morgan turned to look at him and James. Now she couldn't hold in her laughter as she looked at the two, specifically James. The boy was standing frozen in shock, his hair sticking up at odd angles and his glasses astrew across his face.

Stevie may be a little spoiled brat, Morgan thought, but at least he messed with James this time.

Morgan let out another laugh.

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A/N: I hope you guys liked the first chapter! I'm hoping to make each chapter around this length. I also want to thank and credit my two amazing betas: _miahthehuman_ and mevarney02. Also I did put somethings about anxiety in here and as the book continues on I will include characters with depression, anxiety, or bipolar. Leala's anxiety is based off my own, so if I offended or triggered anyone by it, I am truly sorry. I just wrote about what anxiety was like for me and I know it is different for everyone. Also the character's that have other mental challenges will be based off what I see in the people in my life who struggle with these things, so I am sorry if I offend anyone. I'll also put warnings before chapters that might have triggers for some people. Stay safe!