a/n; hey all. here's the next chapter :D

one; getting away - Victoire

"VICKI! HURRY UP AND GET DOWN HERE!" I heard Dad yelling from downstairs. I sighed, and threw things into my trunk. I was going back to Hogwarts for my fifth year, and I honestly couldn't wait to get away from my annoying sister and perfect mother. Picking up the photo of Teddy and I from my nightstand, I smiled at it.

As I watched, the picture-Teddy scooped me up in his arms and threw me in Roxanne's pool. The picture-me was screaming profanities and trying to cling to my best friend. I normally hate water, but pools are okay, I guess. As long as Teddy's there.

"VICTOIRE LILIAN!"

"I'M COMING! HOLD ONTO YOUR HAT, DADDIO!" I screamed down the stairs, chuckling as I did. I heard my brother laughing from downstairs, and knew Dad was having a hard time not laughing as well. Closing my trunk on the happy picture, I dragged it downstairs. "Here I am."

Dad rolled his eyes, trying not to smile. "Finally. Get in the car, Lou, Vicki. Oh, and Lou?" My brother smiled serenely and adjusted his glasses.

"Let me guess, sit in the middle?" So what if me and my sister didn't get along? It doesn't mean we're going to crash the car.

...Okay, so we almost did once. But that's irrelevant!

As we all crammed ourselves into the car for the hour-long drive, I got out my Sony PSP, Louis took out his red iPod, and Dominique grabbed a book called 'Pride and Prejudice'. Urgh. How boring. My parents held hands and chatted happily the whole way there, while I was shooting people and stealing cars.

"What are you playing, Vicki?" My mum demanded when she heard more screams. When I was younger, she had an accent, but she got rid of it completely now.

"Grand Theft Auto."

"Well, turn it off." Rolling my eyes, I stuffed my PSP into my green backpack and took out a Quidditch magazine to flip through. Lou was headbanging to some sort of music, and I thought I heard the beat from 'Shake It', which happened to be his favourite song ever.

"We're here, kids." Dad called loudly over the rising volume of Good Charlotte. My siblings and I spilled out of the shiny black Volvo and stretched while Dad got our trunks ready. There were three cages - Lou's eagle owl Charles, Dominique's snowy owl Willow, and my fluffy brown kitty Dustpaw (named after a character from one of my favourite books, Inkheart). Who, by the way, looked extremely grouchy.

"Aww, Dustpaw, don't worry, I can let you out on the train." I cooed, stroking him through the bars.

My family headed towards Platforms 9 and 10 in relative silence, and I was the first one through the enchanted barrier. Once I had given my dad a bear hug, and ducked my mum's kiss, I glared at Dominique and rushed off with my stuff to find Teddy.

When he was nowhere to be found on the platform, I loaded my things onto the train and tried to find him in a compartment. Searching the train for a flash of turquoise, I finally found him in the last freaking compartment on the train. I shouldered the door open and grinned at him.

"Hey, Ted. You just HAD to have the last compartment on the entire train, didn't you?" His eyes were drawn away from the window, and lit up at the sight of me. He stood up and hugged me tightly.

"Hey, Red. I missed you," Red and Ted. That was how we were known across the school. He took in my appearance and tugged on a strand of my cropped hair. "You cut your hair. Because your mum didn't want you to?" He guessed. Well, he knows me pretty good.

I kissed his nose, standing on tiptoe to do it. I stared at him in frustration. "You loser, you grew." It was true. He was now well over six feet. I barely came up to his shoulder.

Smiling, I prepared myself for another awesome year with my best friend.

a/n; ouch, sucky ending. but whateves. i hope you likey :D