Chapter 1 Just Another Year

I sat looking out the window of the train, waiting for my friends to finally arrive. I've been here on the platform for over a half an hour now. I had to come early, it was demanded really. They just wanted to get rid of me. I was getting bored sitting here in an empty compartment as there were families out on the platform hugging and saying goodbye to each other as they talked about Christmas plans.

I always wished my family was like that. I don't remember when my family was ever hundred percent happy. Probably in my dreams is when we were all a big happy family, but in reality it never was and never will be.

"Hey, Kat." I turned my head to see my best friends, Lily Evans and Sherry Louise.

"Hey," I smiled at the two of them as they both sat down in the compartment.

"How was your summer?" Lily asked.

"Fine," I shrugged, looking out the window again.

"It's always fine." I could tell by Sherry's voice she was rolling her eyes.

"Well, you know my sister." I said, coolie

Kelly was my twenty-five year old sister. She's alway's hated me. It's mostly because she's the Squib of the family. Well, we don't really know if that's really it. Kelly and I have a muggle father. Our mother was the witch in the family and I happened to follow in her footsteps as my sister couldn't. She's loathed me ever since they saw the signs of my magical appellates. I do feel sorry that she could never go to Hogwarts and be a witch, but there's times where I take it all back.

Everytime I ask her to hand me something, she'll stump out of the room, yelling at me to wave my wand if I want it so badly. There have been time's where she trys to make me use magic so I can get expelled for school and not beable to do magic. And all of those times she's fail measurably.

"Hello, Bitsy Bunny." I couldn't help, but smile at the voice.

I turned around to look at him with a sirious look on my face, "How many times have I told you not to call me that?" I crossed my arms over my chest.

"Only just a million and one times." He smirked as he sat down next to me.

"Oh, stop being a smart ass, Sirius." I laughed.

I've been friends with Sirius since I was eight, after my father passed away. When my dad mysteriously died, my mother kind of snapped and started working nonstop at St. Mungos and since no one could watch me (Kelly wouldn't ever baby-sit me), my mother had to drop me off at one of her old friend's house. The first month of staying there Sirius wouldn't come near me. He said it was because I was a girl so I mostly spent my time with Regulus, his younger brother for the first four weeks, but after that Sirius started warming up to me.

Since's the Black's were pure-bloods, my mother had to lie to them about me and my sister and our dad. If they found out that my mother married a muggle, they'd shun us because they disliked muggles and mudbloods. My mother had said that my father, "a wizard', had died from playing quidditch (Not really believeable, but hey they bought it) and she said that I was an only child. Kelly was eighteen at the time and had already moved out and was on her own once she graduated high school.

"You know you like the name, Bunny." Sirius put his arm around my shoulder and I shook my head.

Deep down inside, I kind of, maybe did like the nickname, but no way in hell was I ever going to admit that to him. He'd just keep on calling me it until I die. I've been hoping that he'd forget all about it, but for the past four year's he's been calling me it and there's no hope he'll ever stop.

"Shove off," I pulled of his arm and dropped it in his lap.

"Aw, what's the matter with you?" He pouted, but I looked out the window to ignore it, noticing that the train had started moving, making it's way to Hogwarts.

"Her sister." Lily told him.

"What did she do now?" Sirius asked me, being serious this time.

"What she alway's does." I said.

"Forget her," Sirius said. I could tell he was a bit annoyed. He hated my sister because of her jealousy towards me and how she treats me.

When Sirius and I turned eleven and went to Hogwarts, I told him about the lie my mother had created. I told him everything for my sister not being about to do magic to my muggle father. At first when I thought about telling him on the train, I thought he'd ignore me, but then he got sorted in to Gryffindor (and so did I) and I said what the heck Katarina. He's not like his family. He's different.

Sirius was different. He broke the Black tradition of always being in the Slytherin house. He hated what everyone thought about blood and that you had to be pure-blood and if you weren't you shouldn't be a wizard. He had nothing against muggle's and didn't care that my father was one. I loved him for that. After he was put into Gryffindor and his parent's found out they ignored him. They didn't like how their own blood has become a blood-traiter. They hated it and that's what made Sirius happy about being in Gryffindor. He didn't have to follow in his families footsteps and praise the Dark Lord.

So Sirius and I are simliar in that way. Both of our families aren't fond of us.

"Stop that, James." Everyone's head turned towards Lily and James' direction to see Lily smack James in the arm as she slid farther away from him, with her arms crossed, looking out the window.

"Aw, come on, Evans." James said throwing his hands in the air.

"No, Potter, I will not go out with you." Lily said, coldly as she still looked out the window.

It had started to rain and I could already hear the rawr of the thunder from the distance. I pulled it off ignoring it, until there was a flash of lightning and a loud rumble of thunder that made me jump onto Sirius' lap. I heard him chuckle in my ear. He, along with everyone in this room, knew that I wasn't a big fan of thunder storms.

Thank that to Billy Goldenburg (muggle). When I was five, my mother had his mother aranged a play date for the two of us. That day of the play date, there was a thunder storm that came along when we were both playing outside in his back yard. He had tricked me into racing him into the shed. I fell for it, bee lining it to the shed, closing the door behind me, ignoring the fact that Billy would be running behind me. After a few seconds of realising he wasn't with me, I heard a click of the lock on the outside and I panic, trying to open the door. I spent over two hours in that shed, during that storm, while Billy sat in the living from watching cartoons. He's mother found out that I wasn't with him and made him tell her where I was. Let's just say my mother never let me see that dumb kid again.

"Sorry," I muttered, as I went to slide off his lap.

"Nope your staying." He told me, wrapping his arm around me, pulling me back onto his lap.

"Looks like someone wants to get into Kat's knickers." All of us looked at Peter who was all the way by the compartment door.

I feel bad sometimes for him because he's always in the background of everything. We all kind of forget he's there because he's so quiet. Every once in a while he'll speak up like he just did right now, but other than that he's quiet as a mouse.

"That's not funny," I said, flatly as I could already feel the heat rising to me cheeks.

After that Petter just looked out of the window into the hallway, not saying anything more. I felt even more bad for him. I didn't mean for him to feel that I loathed him. I didn't. I just didn't find it funny saying that about me and Sirius. Everyone always says things about that with us already (minus Lily).

Sirius and I are best friends, but I do have to admit, I do like him more than a friend. I haven't told anyone that I do, because I don't like the idea of falling for your best friend. It never goes as well as those muggle movies. It just ruins the friendship in the end and I don't want that to happen. Besides, Sirius wouldn't go for a girl like me. I'm like a sister to him.

No one really said anything after that the whole entire way to Hogwarts. I mainly just looked outside at the darkness as the sound of the rain hitting the window drowned the silence in the compartment. Every once in a while I would flinch from the thunder, as Sirius would pull me closer to him. It did feel weird sitting in his lap with his arms around me, but I kind of liked the feeling.

"Could they make this go any faster?" James complained as we all waited for the first year's to arrive and get sorted.

"It's going to be a while, mate." Sirius patted him on the back.

"I'm starving," James whined even more, actually jumping in his seat now.

"Can you please be quiet?" Lily hissed at him from acrossed the table.

"Only if you go out with me go out with me, Evans." James smirked. I could see the hope in his eyes, waiting for Lily to finally say yes after theses five years of rejection.

":No," Lily glared at him before looking up at the staff table. The hope in James' eyes vaded and filled with hurt from rejection, but then changed when the first year's finally entered the Great Hall.

It was funny watching all of their face's as they all looked up at the bewitched ceiling, in shock and excitement, but that changed when they all stopped in front of the stool and the old rugidy hat that was perched onto it. Sirius and I alway's made fun of how terrified their face's looked when their names were called and they sat down with the Sorting Hat on their head.

McGonnagall explained to them all about the hate before saying the first name, "Angione, Kyle." I blonde little boy came up. He didn't looked that scared, but you could see he was nervous to know what house he'd be in.

"Hufflepuff!" The hat yelled as the boy sighed in relief and hopped off the stool and ran over to the now cheering table full of Hufflepuffs.

"Becker, Isabelle." A small girl with red hair tripped up to the stool and sat down, biting her lip and closing her eyes as McGonnagal put the hat on her head.

After a long silent wait, "Gryffindor!" The whole entire Gryffindor cheered, encluding myself.

"We always need more gingers." Sirius said, twirling my own red hair with his fingoer.

"Oh shut up." I pusshed him lightly.

"Kendle, Amelia." McGonagal said yet another name. I could already see Jame's getting boreder by the minute as he groaned of hunger.

When all the first year's were sorted, the plates filled up with food, satisfying more than just James, who was now dumping pounds apon pounds onto his plate. Now everyone in the room was laughing and talking to their friends they haven't seen for two months.

"How are you going to eat that all, James?" Remus eyed the mountain of food that was in front of James.

"I'm hungry, Moony." James said with a mouth full of food.

"Please, chew with your mouth close and don't speak with a mouth full of food." Remus said, disgusting making Sirius, Peter, and I laugh.

James swallowed the food before talking again, "Sorry, Moony."

After everyone had finished dinner, stuffed to the hills, we all excited the Great Hall and headed towards the Gryffindor Tower as Lily and Remus showed the first years to the Common.

"There you two are," Sherry and I turned around to see our roommate, Alice.

"Hey, Alice!" Sherry said, putting her arm around our lovely roomate.

"I've been looking for you two all day." Alice breathed out of breath.

" We thought you were snogging Frank." I teased, but Alice shuck her head.

"No, he didn't do anything." she frowned. "But we did send letters through out the whole summer." She then smiled happy.

"I bet, he'll ask you out in no time." I told her as we entered the Common Room.

Everything was still the same as I felt it before in June, but I didn't stay to really see if anything had changed. I was to stuffed and sleepy to even comprehen a full sentence anymore. I didn't even bother changing into my pajama's like everyone else so I just flopped down onto my bed, crawling under the covers and falling asleep shortly after that.


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