Chapter Two

We get to the train station in about an hour. (Our car had been destroyed by the bombs so we had to walk, you see.) We don't want to stick around and wait for the bombs, and we definitely don't want to be late for our train and be left here so we leave early.

"Do you have your ticket Lucy?" Susan asks me, it's a bit stupid really seeing as I've had the ticket in my pocket since I was given it just in case the bombings started and I had to get out of the house quickly. (This did happen so I was lucky I thought ahead.)

"Yes Susan." I say exasperatedly, does she think I'm stupid? We need these tickets to get onto the train! I wasn't about to leave them behind now, was I?

"Good now I think they've put us into the same compartment as the boys were going to be living with. I think they did that so we can get to know them before we start living with them." She mumbles; I just nod my head; it isn't really useful information at the moment.

We get onto the train and into our compartment, then wave goodbye to Mum. After several minutes, the train starts moving and the compartment door slides open. Two boys step in. One is taller and seems strong and sturdy; the other one is smaller and seems almost frail but fast and with hidden strength.

"Hi, you two must be the girls were going to be living with." The taller of the two says kindly, if a bit shyly. I look to Susan. She looks like she knows him for a moment before she answers.

"Yes, that's right I'm Susan and this is my younger sister Lucy," She said pointing at me. She might have sounded a bit rude to others but I know that she is only being like this because she hadn't met these two before; it's just what she does with strangers.

"Who are you?" She asks, sounding slightly less rude.

"My name's Edmund and this is my older brother Peter," the smaller of the two says. Edmund, it's a nice enough name but he seems … Overconfident? No… Mean? No again…

"Oh I know obnoxious!"

It takes me a few seconds to realize that I had said it out loud. "Oops," I say, blushing, "Sorry you just seemed that way from the way you were speaking I didn't mean to say that out loud, I'm sorry." I say now furiously blushing, I could feel the warmth coming up to my ears and going all the way down to my neck.

"It's alright, I get that a lot, and you only just met me so it's alright." He says, seemingly unfazed, they both sit down on the seats opposite me and Susan.

He seems nice from the conversation that I had with him, we talk the whole train ride about everything. He's funny, sporty and smart, not too bad on the looks either. Actually he is quite handsome; I soon find myself only listening to Edmund, not the others. It's only natural that I would only listen to him, though, he is my age after all and he's really interesting. Peter and Susan are doing it too; they aren't paying any attention to us, which is a good thing I guess. It means that we won't be interrupted. We are off in our little world and they are off in theirs.

All too soon it is time to get off the train. It is still fun but it isn't the same, it's as if someone is watching us. It was isolated back on the train, but out here it feels like anyone could hear our conversations. Edmund seems to notice my change and keeps quiet as well, so that only Peter's and Susan's voices are filling the air, as we wait to be taken to our new home. (Well our new home for another six months at least.) (A/N okay I just went with six months because I didn't know how long they were staying there for.)

It is about ten minutes before our ride comes. We are taken to the professor's house and told to unpack. We do as we are told and after that we all set about the house in search of something interesting.

A few days later it is raining outside. So we decide to play hide and go seek, Peter is it and we all dash out of the room; Susan going off to the left and me going straight forward. I don't know where Edmund went but I don't look back to find him. I run to the only spot I know about. Unfortunately, Edmund beats me to it.

"Sorry, I already have this spot." He whispers; I then do the only thing I can do, and run upstairs. I try the first door I see but that doesn't budge. I then try the second door which flies open, I run into the room. I see a large, carved wardrobe that covered by a long white sheet; I gently pull it off and climb in. I start to walk backwards so that I will hit the wall and be invisible to anyone who looks in here. But I just keep walking backwards

'It's bigger than it looks' I think. A few more steps back and I fall on my bottom into a whole new world.

(A.N. What do you think? Review please!)