A/N: Hey. :) I am so sorry for the delay in my chapters! Life has been pretty difficult lately and I have been feeling very unmotivated. So please read and review to tell me how I am doing! I could really use some motivation!

"What the hell am I doing?"

That was the only really coherent thought going through Gwendolyn's head while standing between platforms nine and ten in the Kings Cross Station. Her other thoughts were jumbles of "I can't do this." and "Dear Merlin girl! Get your shit together and run!" . But her feet were ignoring her conflicted minds commands and stayed put. What really got her to run was the loud toll of the clock to her right saying that her train would be departing in five minutes.

With a startled jump she took a quick glance around before running, eyes closed, into the solid brick wall in front of her.

She didn't feel any sort of sensations while phasing through the wall, but she did feel the change in the atmosphere telling her that she was no longer in the presence of muggles. She stood there, frozen for several seconds while trying to release the breath she didn't know she was holding which turned out to be very difficult. She feared what she might see when she opened her eyes. What unwanted memories would come flooding back. But she was once again startled out of her depressive musings when a very loud and excited voice called out her name.

"Gweennnnn!" Was all she heard before she was nearly tackled to the ground from her right . She opened her eyes widely to be greeted by a view of a messy blonde bob and shining blue eyes.

"Clara!" Gwen exclaimed. "I can't breathe!" She was trying to wrestle her way out of her best friends suffocating grip, but that just make Clara grip her all the tighter.

"You haven't seen me all summer and that's all you have to say? I have to admit Gwen, I'm hurt!" Clara mocked, while dramatically bringing one of her hands to rest on her heart and keeping the other still wrapped around Gwen. Gwen just laughed softly and hugged Clara back.

Gwen hadn't realized how much she missed her best friend. She hadn't changed much during the summer. She was a bit tanner than usual, but who wasn't during the summer. Her hair was a bit shorter, now ending at her shoulders rather than her shoulder blades and she was still extremely gorgeous. Gwen couldn't help but feel jealous of her form time to time. Clara was willowy and tall standing at 5'7 while she was curvy and short at 5'2. But she loved her anyway and couldn't think of any better person to be her surrogate sister.

After a few seconds they separated and Clara started talking and leading Gwen to the compartment that she saved for them.

"You were almost late again." Clara teased while helping Gwen push her large trunk onto the rack above her seat.

"And the sky is blue, and the grass is green. Really Clara, that is nothing new." Gwen replied with a grunt, successfully heaving her giant trunk onto the rack.

"Well then, what is new?" Clara asked while passing Kai, Gwen's barn owl over to her.

"Nothing." She answered honestly while cooing her beloved pet owl. She felt a little more saddened while thinking about how much she had digressed since the battle. She was doing so much better since her mothers death and was finally starting to live again, but it was all taken away once again in the form of another death.

Before she could be pulled back into her black hole of depression she quickly put her fake happy facade back on and tried to convincingly show her best friend that she was as happy as she was the previous year.

"What about you? How was the trip to France?" She asked, trying to bring the subject off of her.

"Oh my god Gwen, it was amazing!" And for the next hour Clara gushed about the wondrous taste of french food and how amazing french guys were in bed. Gwen was pretty sure Clara's parents would be going mad if they heard some of the things she did behind their backs.

Gwen continued listen intently to get her mind off certain things, nodded and awwwwed at the right places and rolled her eyes whenever she used a rather colorful string of profanities in a sentence. Gwen would be lying if she said that she never swore, but she has nothing on Clara.

Is wasn't until her stomach growled loudly that Gwen became aware how hungry she was. After all she hadn't eaten since her unplanned impromptu pancake bake that morning.

"Well I'm getting something to eat." She announced before getting up with her small coin bag.

"Get me something too will ya?" The blonde asked as she was leaving. "I'll pay you back."

"No need."

After ordering many different of fruity candies and jellies for Clara and a tremendous amount of assorted chocolates and chews for herself, Gwen was making her way back to her compartment. She would've made it there a lot sooner if she was paying attention to where she was going instead of digging in the bag grab a chocolate frog and bumping into someone.

"Oh shit! I'm sorry!" She exclaimed. She bent down and quickly picked her dropped bag of sweets. After making sure nothing has spilled she looked up to see the face of the very tall person she has bumped into and apologize one again for her ditziness and language. But when she met his eyes she was too shocked to speak. She didn't expect to bump into him. His best friend. She just stood there, staring into his seemingly empty gray eyes.

Empty, like hers.

"Its fine." Draco Malfoy said in a soft emotionless voice. He quickly handed her the chocolate frog that he caught and maneuvered himself around her, walking quickly into his own empty compartment.

Making her way back to her own compartment, she quickly tossed Clara her candies and absently started to munch on her own chocolate frog.

"What took you so long?" Clara asked the confused girl in between bites of her jelly slugs.

"Long line." She replied quietly, still pondering the unexpected appearance of Draco Malfoy.

So here is chapter four. I know this one is a bit shorter than my previous chapters, but I have already started on the next chapter and it should be up soon! :D And Gwen is not in love with Draco all of a sudden! One of my greatest pet peeves is an author having her main character have one glance at some guy and all of a sudden they are head over heels. She is just simply curious.

Please tell me what you thought of this one! Did you like it? Did I get anything wrong? Let me know. :)

Oh and since I almost forgot: I don't own anything except my oc's!

-IAmTheStars