A/N: A promise is a promise. We present to you chapter two! Please review/alert/favorite/go eat some pie. Happy birthday to Hermione Granger who turned 30 on the 19th and to Tom Felton and Eha!
"Oh. Should I just change here?" Renesmee asked.
"Yes!" James shouted, but Rose and Lily slapped him simultaneously. "You only need to put your robes on over the clothes you're wearing now," explained Lily.
"Well, I do have to use the bathroom. Is there one around here?" Renesmee stood up unsteadily, tugging on her robes and bracing her arm on the compartment door.
"There should be one over in that direction." Rose waved her hand to the right, not looking up from her bags.
Nessie stepped outside and immediately walked into two tall, blond boys with large blue eyes.
"Sorry!" She backed up and blushed, looking away.
"Quite alright." The boy to the right said.
They looked so similar, with their shaggy light hair and that far-off look in their eyes. They walked right past her and continued down the train.
"That was Lorcan and Lysander Scamander. They're friends of the family," said Rose from behind. She was flushed and grabbed Nessie's arm, dragging her to the nearest bathroom and forcing the door shut behind them. It was small but clean and Rose positioned herself in front of the mirror over the sink.
"Go on, do whatcha gotta do. I won't look, promise. I just want to talk without those annoying boys interrupting." Rose told her as she pulled her dark red hair back.
"So...have you...um...been going out with Scorpius long?" Nessie asked/
"Since last year," said Rose. "James doesn't like him, and I cannot see why. He can seem kind of arrogant and yeah, maybe he is sometimes, but he's sweet to me. And he's an awfully good kisser."
Renesmee calculated in her head that Rose was only thirteen. "Oh, um...great?"
"Basically." Rose said. "James is just jealous that I have a boyfriend and he doesn't have a girlfriend. He likes to think that he's such a player when really he's so immature. What about you?"
"What?" Renesmee gave her a confused look.
"I mean, do you have a boyfriend? Then we could totally bitch about the pros and cons together."
"Oh." Renesmee washed her hands and dried them, watching Rose as she touched up her lip gloss. "No, I don't have a boyfriend…I don't have a lot of friends from back home, anyway. Crazy parents and the like, you know?" She said the last part hesitantly.
"Yeah, I know. My dad would throw me out if he knew I was dating Scorpius. Some weird grudge against his father from his miserable teen years. Probably made fun of old dad for being a ginger." Rose snorted and opened the door, shoving aside the kids waiting in line and walking down towards their compartment. Renesmee hurried to catch up, muttering quick apologies to those giving Rose affronted looks. She decided that she preferred Lily's company over Rose's, as entertaining as she was, and entered the compartment only to find it full of boys shoving each other aside to get to their trunks and Lily attempting to restore order by shouting over the ruckus.
As James wrenched open his trunk, his elbow smacked into Scorpius' s side, causing him to grunt angrily. He grabbed James's arm and shoved him so he fell back onto the seat.
"Don't you push me!" James and Scorpius sprang at each other with punches while Rose rolled her eyes and drawled, "Bitch fight!"
Lily began yelling at her as she tried to pull the boys apart, and Nessie slowly backed towards the door. A sudden jolt made her fall back on the seats and the boys stopped fighting for a second
"We're slowing down! That means we're nearing Hogsmeade station. Take a look." Rose pulled the others toward the window, where the dark trees outside became less blurry with each passing second. Suddenly, something whizzed past the train as they pressed their faces to the glass.
"What the hell was that?" Albus gasped.
"I don't know, but whatever it was it was HUGE." Scorpius told him.
"Uh...guys? It looked like a giant wolf..." Rose said.
Giant wolf? Renesmee thought nervously. Her thoughts darted to Jake, her best friend. It wasn't possible he was here...or was it?
Her thoughts were distracted when Lily just rolled her eyes and said, "Come on! Everyone is getting out!" She stepped out into the crowded corridor and the others followed closely behind.
Dragging her heavy trunk, Nessie was shoved out the doors by the massive wave of students onto a station. She desperately tried to find Lily and the others, but they were lost in the crowd. "Shit." She muttered under her breath as she was pushed from all sides by students who all seemed to know where they were going. Renesmee caught a glimpse of a familiar shaggy blond head and struggled through the crowd towards it. She finally reached the side of one of the twins she had met earlier, and the other was not far behind.
"Crumpled horned snorkack!" One of them shouted.
"Where?" Cried the other, frantically searching the air.
"Ha ha! Just kidding!"
The second boy glared at him and said, "You must have wrackspurts in your brain." He shrugged and then turned around, noticing Renesmee standing awkwardly nearby. "You're that pretty girl who bumped into me."
"Uh…yeah..." Renesmee said.
"I'm Lorcan. This is Lysander. I always wear this bottle cap necklace and he always wears a radish ring. You can tell us apart that way. Oh, gotta go, we'll catch you later." With that they disappeared into the crowd.
Nessie was left somewhat confused until a loud, booming voice cried, "FIRS' YEARS! FIRS' YEARS OVER HERE!"
She heard Hugo shout, "HAGRID!" and quickly scurried toward the voice until she saw a huge man with a big bushy beard and an enormous grin.
"Hugo! Grea' ter see ya, where're the others?"
"Mmm..." He looked around and spotted Nessie nearby. "I'm not sure, but this is my new friend, Nessie."
"Nice ter' meet yer!" Hagrid boomed. He shook her hand happily and she could only smile politely as she felt her entire arm being shaken.
Hugo looked around for his family and when he didn't see them he grinned. "Come on, let's get a boat alone."
"Boat? What – Oh!" As Renesmee turned the lake came into view, and in the distance a myriad of glowing lights from the castle. Hugo stepped into the small, wooden boat first, and Nessie wondered if it could actually hold her, let alone both of them, when he extended his hand up to her. She took it and gingerly stepped in, hoping her foot wouldn't break through and send her into the huge black lake, but luckily it didn't and almost instantly the oars started rowing by themselves.
She stumbled and jammed her elbow into Hugo's side, causing him to yelp in pain.
"Ohmygod, ohmygod, I'm so sorry! Are you okay?" She yelped. She cursed herself in her head for inheriting some of her mom's old clumsiness, which happened to come up at the worst times (like now).
"Ow...yeah." Hugo inherited his father's charm, which happened to come up at the best of times (like now), but before he could say anything else he looked over to see Nessie amazed by the huge, illuminated castle in front of her. It was nothing like anything she had ever seen before. It was truly beautiful. She had always felt different (besides the fact that she was half vampire) and now she knew why. Hugo also felt the awe and the thrill of finally being a part of the school. So this is what his parents were talking about in the bedtime stories they had once told him.
"Hogwarts..." They whispered together