After a very chaotic plane flight, involving the loss of no-name and a ferocious cat hunt, the spilling of apple juice and many annoyed flight attendants the plane finally landed in England.
The two claimed their luggage and caught a double decker bus to the train station, and Emily realized they could sit on the roof of the bus. She put her trunk near the bottom of the steps, and rushed up them. The bus started as she reached the top of the bus, and she had to grab onto a boy to keep her from falling. "Sorry!" She exclaimed.
Abby peeked up and saw Emmy grabbing onto a boy about their age. He had black hair that fell elegantly into his face and was rather good looking. Next to him sat two other boys. One with messy black hair and bright hazel eyes and another that was rather pale with short brown hair and his nose in a book. She found the latter kind of cute.
The boy Emily had grabbed onto smiled at her, "No problem," He said. "I'm Sirius, the guys call me Padfoot, but just call me Sirius." He added.
"Emily, and Abby calls me Emmy, but you can call me Emily," She said, grinning, picking up no-name which she had dropped in the process. "and this would be no-name."
"No-name?"
"I haven't thought of a name yet," Emily said, laughing.
"You should name it Little Padfoot," Sirius said.
"Hey! I like that! Abby, can I name him after this hot guy instead of the first one I see at the train station?" Emily asked, but then realized what she had just said.
"But we did a spit-shake" whined Abby "You can't go back on a spit-shake. Its our law!"
"Are you guys headed to the train station too? Where are you going?" The boy with glasses inquired.
Emily stopped pouting and paused for a moment. "We're uh. . . umm. . .going to school?"
"Hogwarts" she said "I'm Abigail Turner, but the last person to call me that was in a coma for weeks. It's Abby. And this" she said pulling out her grey kitten "Is Hook. We are transfers from America."
"You think I'm hot?" Sirius inquired, causing James and Remus to sigh.
Emily made a funny face, involving blushing and scrunching up her nose.
"That wasn't supposed to slip."
"Of course she does!" said Abby, butting in. "But don't feel special or anything, she thinks all guys that aren't totally ugly are hot. But of course, your accent probably does help a bit. Nobody has a British accent in America. We think they are totally sexy"
Emily turned and mouthed, 'Thank you!' to Abby, before turning back to the others. "Wait! Where are you guys going?"
"Hogwarts," Sirius replied.
"Abbs! They'll be the first ones I see at the train station, so can I name no-name Little Padfoot?"
She looked thoughtful "Not until you actually reach the station" she said "That way the spit-shake is official"
"Deal," Emily replied, grinning and setting down the soon to be Little Padfoot. She looked around, remembering they were standing on the roof of a bus. "Whoa- look at that Abbs!"
"Sweet!" she said her highlights blowing in her face. "Ugh." she said, "Lets sit down, I already see the beginnings of a bad hair day"
"You have fun with that," Emily said, leaning over the edge to get a better view of things. She pulled her curls up into a pony tail to keep them out of her face.
Sighing Abby plopped down in the seat next to the boy with the book. "So, what are all your names?" she asked curiously.
"I'm James Potter," The boy with the messy hair said, offering a hand.
The boy with sandy colored hair glanced up from his book, "Remus,"
She shook his hand then turned to Remus. "Watcha Readin?" she asked.
"What? Oh...just a book about werewolves." He said, marking his page and closing it soundlessly. "What do you think of them?"
As he asked the question all three of the boys snapped their attention to Abby, waiting her reply.
Abby felt a little nervous at their stares "Oh!" she said "I'm a complete supporter of Werewolves, my aunt is a werewolf and she is certainly not evil. I think its horrible the way they are treated. It's not like they choose to be bitten or choose to be a werewolf."
"Aunt Summer?" Emily inquired, "Yeah! She's the coolest! It must really suck for her though. I mean, I've heard the transformations are pretty painful."
The boys all got a strange look on their face.
"Yeah, we've heard that too," James finally said.
Abby felt that the boys were hiding something but tried to ignore it for now "So" she said "Whats it like at Hogwarts?"
"Amazing," Remus replied, setting his closed book in his lap. "It's one of the best schools of witchcraft and wizardry in the entire world."
"That's why we're switching," Emily said.
"Do you seriously have to wear those ugly robes all the time?" complained Abby "And do I have to wear the skirt?"
"Oh stop complaining, I'm just as thrilled as you are about it," Emily sighed, rolling her eyes.
"But" she said "Those robes totally kill creativity! And making the girls wear skirts, thats just sexist! Are the girls aloud to wear pants?" she asked Remus.
He shook his head, "But you don't have to wear your robes on the weekends."
"Yes!" she said pumping her fists. then she thought about the robes and stuff "I'll just have to...spoof it up a bit" she smiled slyly.
"Alright Abbs, you get to help me too." Emily said. "If you're going to pretty-ify the ugly robes, you're doing mine as well."
She smiled. "Gladly" she said then frowned "I wish you would let me highlight your hair" she pouted
"Last time you did yours you wanted to do mine pink! I don't want pink highlights!"
"But I like pink" she said pouting then turned to the guys "In case you haven't noticed."
"I think they noticed Abby," Emily said, grinning as they began laughing. "How about blue? I could deal with blue, if they were thin highlights."
"I don't have blue" she said "All I have is Pink"
"You could die it pink, and then change it to blue. I know a spell," James said.
"That would work," Emily replied.
"Okay, we'll do it when we get to Hogwarts!" she said brightly "So whats there to do at Hogwarts?" she asked boys.
"Well," They said, looking at each other. "You guys aren't... the good girl type, are you?"
She frowned at him "Do you see me wearing ironed jeans, and polo shirt and perfectly white sneakers, with my perfect hair pulled back into a ponytail and an angelic smile on my face?" she asked him seriously
Emily laughed, not believing they had actually asked that question. "If you didn't catch on, that meant no." She got out in between laughs.
"So?" abby said waiting "What's there to do?"
"Well. There's always sneaking out at night," Sirius said.
"Then there's Honeydukes- the sweetshop. There's a passageway that can sneak you there," James added.
"And of course just being mischievous," Remus put in.
She smiled "What's the library like?" she asked dreamily.
"You like to read?" Remus asked, suddenly perking up, and sounding very surprised.
"I love to read" she said her head in the clouds "The library at Salem had like 3 books it was so depressing. I love to read all kinds of books but my all time favorite book is Peter Pan"
"You didn't seem like the type," Remus said, smiling. "Hogwarts has a huge library. Peter pan must be a muggle book, I've never read it before."
"Remus is in loveee," Sirius whispered to Emily.
"Don't judge a book by its cover" Abby said giving him a wink.
Remus blushed, "I..yeah..books...lotsa books..."
She smiled and dug through her backpack until she found her latest copy of Peter Pan and handed it to him "Here, you should read it. It's a great book. Just make sure I get it back, I don't want to hurt you. You're a nice kid."
Remus chuckled nervously, and James plopped down next to him and threw his arm around his shoulders.
"Don't worry about that, to Remus, his books are like his kids."
She laughed "I'm the same way" she said. "So will you guys give us a tour when we get to Hogwarts?"
Emily and Sirius suddenly broke into laughter. James and Remus glanced over before looking at each other and in unison saying, "I don't even want to know,"
Abby ignored them "Well?" she asked to James and Remus.
"Of course," Remus said.
"We'll give you a tour like no other," James put in, grinning.
"Great!" she said and suddenly the bus stopped and they all lurched forward in their seats.
"Train Station!" shouted a voice.
Standing up Abby slipped hook into her pocket. When she got to the lowest level she grabbed her trunk and walked through the station. Turning to Remus she asked "So, where is Platform 9 3/4 anyway?"
"Through the barrier," He replied simply.
"Oww!" Emily exclaimed, having tripped stepping off the bus. "Hey! Little Padfoot! Get back here!"
"Barrier?" she asked confused, ignoring Emily.
"The barrier between platforms nine and ten," Remus said.
Emily managed to grab the kitten and rushed to catch up with the rest of them, hearing Remus' last statement. "What do you mean the barrier between platforms nine and ten?"
Abby looked ahead "All I see is a brick wall" she said feeling confused. She reached up to make sure her glasses her still on. After she confirmed that they were on she walked over to the wall. "Yup" she said "Brick Wall" she reached out to tap it but her hand went right through. "Wow!" she said "Cool!"
"Careful!" Sirius exclaimed, pushing her through and grabbing Emily and pulling her through. "Sorry," He added, helping Abby up off the ground. "We don't want any muggles to see. It would cause quite a bit of disruption."
She glared at him and rubbed her shoulder "That wasn't very nice," she said.
"Are you okay?" Remus inquired. "He really wasn't trying to hurt you. It's just... if we caused any more disruptions in that area, we'd get kicked out of the train station."
"Sorry" she said "I didn't get enough sleep last night. Just a little grumpy" Reaching down she picked up her hat that had fallen on the ground and plopped it back on her head.
"Abigail Joan Turnerrrrr," Emily said, skipping up next to her.
"Emily Elizabeth Taylor!" she shouted, "Are you exited?"
"Are you kidding me?!" Emily exclaimed. "This is the worst day ever!" She added sarcastically.
Abby laughed and walked on the train "Okay Sarcastic one, which compartment shall we go to?"
"Hmm. How about. . ."
"There's one in the back that's always open," Remus said. "I've got to go to the prefects meeting, be back soon guys."
He turned to depart and his hand brushed against Abby's, which caused his cheeks to turn bright red and his step to quicken.
She smiled "Hes a little shy, isn't he?" she asked the other boys.
"He's quite taken to you," James said with a laugh. "It took us a year to get him to talk that much. I'll see you later," He added, "I've got to get to that meeting as well."
Abby laughed, blushing a little. "So care to be a gentlemen and escort us to the compartment?"
"Of course," Sirius said. He offered and arm to Abby, and took Emily's hand, causing her to blush slightly. Abby allowed him to escort her to the compartment.
When they reached it Sirius put all their trunks up onto the racks above.
"Careful with mine," Emily said, glancing up as she placed Little Padfoot on the ground after making sure the door was securely closed. "It's got my guitar inside."
"Wait!" said Abby "leave my trunk down, I need to work on these robes." Bringing out her robes and her wand she started to work on making them prettier.
Sirius left Emily's trunk down as well, recalling that Abby was going to fix up Emily's robes as well. He sat down on the ground next to Emily and began playing with the kittens. Remus returned in about an hour, but James still hadn't returned.
"Oh my god," He said, hurrying into the compartment. "Sirius, get your butt out here."