"You say it!" Jasmine hissed.
"No, please, I can't, I'll mess up so bad!" the second girl, Ember, wailed.
"I'll do it." one of the girls grinned.
"You sure, Bella? Ok." Jasmine shrugged.
Bellatrix Lestrange slowly edged nearer to the compartment handsome Tom Riddle was in, and opened it.
"Hai."
"Hi." He said plainly with a slight smile.
Bellatrix's cheeks flushed bright pink. "W-We were wondering i-i-if you would like to, um, sit with us. In our compartment. Or if, um, uh, we could, uh, sit with, uh, you. Like, if you don't want to that's fine and all but it's just a friendly offer, wait, no, not friendly, it's really nothing, I mean—" she blabbered on, oblivious to the other girls' shushing gestures
"— and of course, it would be a good thing, not a, um, well, you know, I'm not forcing you to, it would be a nice thing of me, uh, I mean, you, because, um, I'm sure you're very ni—"
"Ok I'll sit with you!" Tom said suddenly.
"Yay. Th-thank us! I mean, tank year. NO! Uh, thank you! Very much!"
The girls entered the compartment.
"Hello. What's your name?"
"To—" Tom hesitated for a moment. "Marvolo. I'm Marvolo."
"Hello, Marvolo. Can I call you Marvy?" Bella smiled.
He shrugged. "Sure. And you are…?"
"Bellatrix Lestrange, daughter of Druella and Cygnus Black. Um, but my mother is quite ridiculous, I mean, she thinks muggles are interesting. But my friends call me Bella."
"Hello, I am Jasmine, and this is Ember". Jasmine gestured to Ember, who was smiling in a clown-like way.
A trolley came past. "Anything from the trolley, dears?" an old witch smiled.
"I don't have any money. Hogwarts only cover the basic school fees for me."
"Oh. Well, I have money. I have very rich parents." Bellatrix grinned. "I'll have some of everything."
A few minutes later, they were all feasting on every possible sweet and chocolate.
While they were eating, they were in a very awkward silence that nobody dared to break. Tom slowly reached in his bag for the book "how to conquer social awkwardness". He hastily flicked through.
"How's things with you?" Tom smiled nervously. They raised an eyebrow.
"Um… good?" Bella answered even awkwardly-er.