Chapter Four - September First, Already?

It was that time again; August was over and it was time to go back to Hogwarts. Alice woke up with a light groan as Ting patted her cheeks lightly. "Miss Alice! Miss Alice, it's time to get up! Ting must wake Miss Alice!"

"Ting, I'm up . . stop!" Alice winced as Ting patted her cheeks.

Ting squeeked and quickly stopped, hopping from the bed. "Ting sorry, Miss Alice."

"Ting, it's alright," said Alice, trying to calm down the house elf as she slipped out of bed. "Go tell Mom I'm up, and I'll be down as soon as I take my shower and finish getting ready, alright?"

Ting nodded with a smile and rushed from Alice's room, downstairs to find Alice's mother, "Yes, Miss Alice!"

Alice stretched and grabbed her clothes that she had layed out the night before, heading for the bathroom to take her shower and get ready.

A half-hour later, Alice fell into a chair at the kitchen table inbetween her brothers. She blinked, not seeing her Mother and looked around as a different house elf served them all breakfast. Looking to Derek, she smiled and asked, "Where's Mom?"

Derek shrugged, biting into his bagle. He spoke up with his mouthful after a moment, "I dunno."

Alice rolled her eyes and picked up her bagel, nibbling at it, as her older brother Justin scarfed down two bowls of cereal, eggs, toast, and three glasses of orange juice.

Mrs. Betrayal walked into the kitchen finally, and set the tickets for the Hogwarts Express on the table with a smile. "Everything is already packed in the car, Miles will be taking you to the platform this time. Alice; Scissors is in the car and Miles has your pocket money already; Justin, Tael is in the car too." She smiled and ruffled Justin's hair, who groaned and fixed it again. "Now, Alice; If you want to go to a friends for the Holiday, go ahead and go. Justin, you're not to leave Hogwarts unless you're caught up on everything, I've already sent an owl to Professor Dumbledore," she said with a light grin as she moved to Alice to kiss her forehead. "Both of you, be careful and try not to get into any fights, alright? Be good, and do well so your father isn't so upset?" she was almost pleading, afraid of what Alice's father might do if they go into trouble.

Alice just smiled to her Mom as she picked up her ticket, and was kissed on the forehead. "Don't worry Mom. I love you." she said, trying to reassure her mother, but over what? She wrapped her arms around her tightly, hugging her and kissing her cheek before she headed outside with Justin to get into the car.

Alice blinked lightly, seeing both cars out front for once, the whole family not even going this time. She arched a brow as Justin stepped outside, and moved to the car with Miles sitting inside. Slipping into the back of the car, she asked Miles, "Two seperate cars? Do they think we're going to kill one another?"

Miles laughed lightly, shaking his head as he began to pull off, headed for London, "No, there was too much stuff, and your Mother didn't want you getting into a fight on the way to London."

"Oh," Alice replied as she sat back again; taking Scissors from his cage to hold him on the trip to London.

This time it took nearly an hour to get to London, and Alice was half asleep as Scissors cuddled close to her. The car stopping, Alice opened her eyes. She quickly returned Scissors to his cage and covered it up as Miles got out of the car to empty the trunk.

Alice slowly got out of the car, bringing Scissors along with her as the other car pulled up along side of them. She laughed at her brother in the car, who was being attacked by his owl in the back seat, the driver trying to get it back in its cage.

"Alright, come on Alice! We don't want to be late, do we?" Miles was already headed into King's Cross Station with her belongings.

Alice squeeked and hurried after him with Scissors' cage in hand. "Miles! Wait up!" She finally caught up with him, only to lose him once again as they go to platform Nine and platform Ten. She growled and hurried through the barrier to find him.

Spotting him right away, she moved over to him, "Don't do that!"

Miles laughed lightly, and bent down to hug Alice, "I'm sorry, but you're slow!" He laughed again, letting go of Alice before she could pull away from being hugged. "Don't go getting into trouble, alright?" Miles grinned, handing Alice another pouch of money. Alice already still had some money left over from Diagon Alley, but why say anything?

Alice smiled softly, and moved toward the Hogwarts Express through the crowd of people, so she was able to get on quickly and get a good seat. She stopped to wait in a small line to a certain section of the train, eyes gazing around at all the students, looking for someone she knew.

Alice couldn't find anyone she knew that she liked, but was able to spot out people she loathed. Gryffindor's on the Quidditch team; Angelina Johnson, Katie Bell. She hated everyone on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. She shook it off, and moved onto the train to find an empty compartment, to sit with Scissors, hopefully alone, the entire way to Hogwarts.

Just her luck, she found one and moved over to the window, placing Scissors in the seat next to the window. She bent down to open up her trunk and take out her robes, wand, and a treat or two for Scissors before placing it up above. When she was finally settled in, she sat in the seat next to the window moving Scissors to the next one over, the train already headed for the school.