AN: Chapter 2! Huzzah! This is written straight after Chapter 1, I made my account as soon as I had this idea, not thinking of the 2-day wait before I can actually upload anything ^^; Enjoy, my friends! Remember to review/comment viciously!
Chapter 2
"Kim, darling?" Brenda knocked on the door to her daughter's room. "Can I come in?"
"Okay, Mum." Kim's voice escaped from behind the door, and her parents entered the room. Kim removed her headphones and turned on her revolving chair to face her parents. They saw a skinny, mildly gawky girl, with slightly stringy, long, brown hair in a low ponytail, and rectangular glasses. She was, of course, eleven years old.
"We went to see Dumbledore today, and he wants to interview you to see if you can take the laptop to Hogwarts." Indeed, Kim's computer was, in all its glory, a small and easily portable laptop. She was very proud of it.
"That's good. Thanks, Mum, Dad." She smiled at her parents, before putting her headphones on again and speaking into the set's microphone. "How are you today?" Her parents, mistakenly, thought that she was talking to them.
"We're fine. Um – how's the project coming along, dear?" Frank was determined to accompany his daughter along the way with the big 'project' she was working on, but as Kim was the only one of her immediate family who was talented with computers, he could only provide support and ask his daughter how she was doing.
"Very well, Dad. The new script I found got rid of half the work, and I was working with a pre-made one to begin with, though I had to reprogram half of it…" She continued in the same fashion for a while, with her headphones on – she was mostly talking to herself, really. Eventually she ground to a halt, and her parents left her in her brightly-lit room.
Frank and Brenda were hopeful. Their experiences at Diagon Ally and the build-up to school were perfectly normal – Kim even started to show outward signs of getting excited, which was enjoyable for all.
They began to have doubts, however, when they were approaching Platform 9 and ¾. Kim was gently scratching her white rat between the ears while reading something on her laptop's screen. She was perfectly silent, something that neither of her parents had been on their first trip to school. Well, the trip to their first trip to school. They decided to put it out of their minds; if they were nervous, then Kim would notice that they were nervous, and they knew that they'd prefer Kim oddly calm to Kim nervous.
"We're here." Frank braked and addressed Kim, who ripped her attention from her computer, carefully placed it in one of her suitcases, and they made their way to Platform 9 and ¾.
"We love you, honey." Kim was told, by both her parents, and she responded with a (highly rare) smile.
"I love you guys, too. Negi-chan is the best, thanks for getting her." She was referring to her white rat, who was happily chewing a small piece of wood in her cage.
"Remember, Dumbledore will come find you when you get there."
"Got it. Bye guys, I'll send owls." Kim calmly disappeared into the column, leaving her optimistic parents behind.
On the other side of the column, Kim's heart sank. Now she was out of her comfort zone; no mum, no dad, just Negi-chan and her laptop on the trolley in front of her. She carefully set up invisible walls around her; don't look at anyone, don't smile, don't show them anything, be polite, she repeated to herself in her head. She smiled a little and thanked the lady who took her luggage, carefully slipping her laptop into a smaller bag which she took with her. She boarded the train, and exhaled silently. She'd made it onto the train. Now, she needed to find somewhere to sit.