Chapter Ten of The Cuddly Dragon
The day had finally came.
Lymekya was a mix of emotions as she packed her things into her trunk, the last few days had been her best, spending most of her time with Draco and his friends, usually at the Pastry Shoppe or just wandering Diagon late at night. Lymekya and Draco decided not to venture back to Knocturn since looking in the old shops the first night, but they hopped to explore again when they came back for second year.
"Lymekya, have you seen my Hogwarts a History book, anywhere? I must have misplaced it already.." Hermione calls from across the room.
"Um..." Lymekya starts, looking around her things that were heaped in piles around her, "No, sorry, not yet at least. Maybe ask Mum or Dad." she says, sorting through all her books just to be sure.
As Hermione left the room, Lymekya went back to her thoughts of being terrified but excited to finally be getting on the train today. She was worried she was going to fail her classes like always and be picked on by other students. The thought made her tense up and shiver until Draco came to mind. By the way Blaise and Theo talked, Draco's family was very popular, and she assumed he would more than likely be popular at school. Possibly even help her make friends...
She sincerely hoped that this was going to be the start of a new life and that she'd conquer all her classes with good marks. She already knew Hermione was going to get good marks if not perfect, as she had seemed to have already memorized all her school books plus more.
Lymekya sighed and looked over at her sister who had already came back into the room with her now found book. This school year was going to be tough, but at least she had her sister.
"Found it?" she asks Hermione as she starts piling her clothes and extra robes into her trunk.
"Yes, it was out on the couch." Hermione replied as she too started packing her trunk, that turned out looking much more organized than Lymekya's was turning out to be.
"My mind is such a mess!" Hermione says exasperatingly, throwing her hands out as she glares about the room.
"It's just nerves, 'Mione, relax. Sit down and take a break before you forget something." Lymekya says with a laugh.
"Forget something? Oh you don't think I'm forgetting anything do you?" she says looking around the room quickly.
"No 'Mione, I'm just saying, you should relax before you do." Lymekya replies as she sits on her closed trunk, so she could lock the tight fit.
"Just stop worrying." she says now rocking back and forth on her trunk.
"Just like you?" Hermione retorts shooting a glare at her sister.
Lymekya rolls her eyes, "At least I have something to worry about, you'll be top of your class, as always. I actually have to try, unlike you."
"Oh girls, stop fighting." Their father says poking his head into the door, "All ready?" He says nodding to the trunks. "I'll go down and see if Tom can help us carry them down stairs." he then slips out, only for their mother to walk in the room.
"You girls ready for your adventure?" she says with a smile.
Both girls said yes with a nod, but in a very unbelieving tone.
"Uh-huh, that's what I thought, first day jitters." She pulled out two mint chocolate bars from her purse and handed them to the girls. "Hopefully this will help, Just don't eat too much at once, You don't want a tummy ache."
"Thanks Mum," they both replied in unison before unwrapping the chocolate and taking small bites, before all of a sudden their mother burst into tears.
"Oh I feel like my mother! Shipping you girls off to boarding school, It's so horrible! You must let me know if you want to come back home, either of you! I will come at once. I wont leave my baby girls!" She cries hysterically.
Lymekya stood and hugged her mother tightly with Hermione following making it a tight group hug.
"Don't worry Mum, we know you wont leave us. You can write every day if you want, we'll write you all the time, too, Okay?" Lymekya says patting her mother's hair.
"Yeah, Mum, the school has owls we can use if Houdini can't do it." Hermione continues, trying to reassure their mother.
Jean smiled hesitantly and wiped away her tears. "Ok.. just make sure you write a lot. Both your father and I would love it. Then in the summer we can scrap book them all with pictures from staying here. How does that sound?"
Lymekya could still hear the clingy worriedness in her mother's voice and nodded her head with a genuine smile, "That would be awesome, Mum, sounds like a date!"
Jean grinned and kissed her cheek, then Hermione's, "Ok, girls, I'll try not to pine after you too much." she says after they hear Nathan talking to someone in the other room. "Lets roll them out there, She says standing to grab the two extra trunks of clothes that were going back home.
After she left the two girls giggled a little, " Mum's worse than both of us together." Hermione says, closing her trunk before pushing it out after her mother.
Lymekya took a deep breath and took one last look around. She felt that this place was her middle ground, that if she stayed here she'd never have to go to either school. But she had to take that step forward.
She was brave... Wasn't she?
It was all too soon that they were all at the train station, unloading their trunks and pets onto rolling carts. Luckily they had gotten there hours early, because they couldn't figure out where their tickets told them to go. Their parents had continued looking while the girls had went into a bathroom to change into their robes. When they were all together again, the girls both started to lose hope, thinking it may have been an evil trick someone had played on them as all the guards they had shown their tickets to laughed in their face and told them the tickets were a fake.
They were getting ready to give up and leave when the crowd parted and they saw a large man shuffling through.
"Hagrid!" Lymekya shouted happily.
"Kya, wha' yer doin'?" He calls out as he walks over, many passersby stopping to stare or quickly move along past him.
"Hagrid, the tickets are wrong, there is no 9 ¾." Jean says nearly hysterical.
"Oh, oh, calm down missus, jus' no one tol' yer. It's like Diagon Alley. Yer know, like the bricks. Yer jus' gotta know.."
"Well we would have missed if you hadn't have came along." Hermione says with a smile.
"Oh, well er.. follow me then." he says looking a little uncomfortable but proud. He led them back to platforms nine and ten.
"But see Hagrid, it's not there." Lymekya says pointing at the space as she looks at him.
"Well there isn't gonna be a sign o' course, don't want muggles getting' in do yer?" Hagrid said with a huff before his cheeks turned red. "Oh er, sorry, I mean, yer know, like their sort." he says nodding his head towards a particular rowdy family, with screaming, tantrum throwing children.
"Oh it's fine, Hagrid, Don't worry yourself." Nathan says patting Hagrid's arm with a good natured chuckle.
"Righ'," he says nodding back to the wall, "alrigh' now, watcha do is, yer grab yer cart and you run, right into the wall. Don't be scared though, yer dun' wanna crash."
The entire family gaped at Hagrid.
"You what?!" says Jean loudly, making Hagrid step back.
"Jus' … Jus'..." Hagrid says, turning in all directions as if looking for someone to help them.
"Ah, Jordan! Lee Jordan!" Hagrid calls before a boy turns his head.
"Hiya Hagrid!" the boy says walking up to them, nodding to the family in greeting.
"Yer goin' through?" Hagrid says pointing at the wall."
"Of course. Want to get a good compartment, don't I?" The boy says with a laugh.
"Will yer show'em how it's done?" Hagrid says, now pointing to the family, "They're muggle borns, you see..."
"Oh really? Well then it would be my pleasure." He says bowing beside his cart. "Now y'all better watch close!" he says before grabbing his cart, looking around, before running straight into the wall.
They all cringed, Jean even whimpered and closed her eyes.
But the boy had disappeared... into the wall.
"So it's like Diagon's wall, but different." Lymekya says with a grin, excited to go through it now, she looked over at Hermione who looked rather sheepish, still not wanting to try it.
"Common' 'Mione! It'll be fun! You can't miss school!" Lymekya taunts with a laugh. "Well I want to hurry, I'm supposed to meet Draco."
"Oh er, they can go through with you, Yer parents I mean." Hagrid says before waving to them, "Well I need to go, try'an find 'Arry. See you girls at school I hope."
"Sure will!" Lymekya says happily waving after him.
Lymekya looks at her family, "I'll go first and wait for you guys." she says, nearly jumping up and down from excitement.
"Alright sweetie..." Jean says hesitantly.
"Honey, we will be right behind them, relax." Nathan cooed at her.
Lymekya looked around as she gripped her cart. She then stared at the wall, her eyes wide open as she ran, not wanting to miss anything. While she expected to feel at least some sort of impact, she slipped easily through the wall and entered a whole new world.
Author's Note
Wasn't too happy with how short this chapter was, but I was hoping to show that Lymekya and Hermione do not always get along. Plus, I'm finally going to start getting to some fun stuff. :D Hope you enjoyed the read!
Still looking for betas.
~DracoMalfoy'sSimi