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A/N: hello all…this is Peachy16 and Hermione Potter aka Kasumi SSK…we're writing a joint fic. The characters are basically based (lol) on our friends and us but we still keep the original characters intact. Of course, Gwen is Peachy and Sydney is HermionePotter. Now that all of that is out of the way, we hope you enjoy our fic because we certainly enjoyed writing it so far.

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Peachy and Mione017

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Sydney and Gwen were staring blankly out across the cobble-stoned walkway. The train was two hours late and they were slowly dozing off. Just as Gwen's brown eyes began to close, she heard a group of incoming first years squeal in excitement. The high pitched squealing startled Gwen and next thing she knew, Sydney was knocked off the bench onto the walkway she was studying five minutes earlier.

"Oops, sorry, babe," Gwen apologized mockingly. She tried to stifle a giggle but it didn't work too well. She just stared at her small Chinese friend on the ground.

"You idiot!" Sydney said as she brushed the dust off her new Hogwarts robes and pushed her rectangular glasses back into place. "If it is ok with you, I would like to go to my first day in a clean robe."

"Ok, ok. Psh." As Gwen said this, Sydney pushed her slightly and Gwen ended up on the ground. At this point they were both laughing hysterically and the barely noticed a group of boys walk by and look at them as if they were idiots. Sydney watched as Gwen's eyes followed the ringleader of this little group until he was totally out of sight.

"Ahem." Sydney coughed. She nudged her friend and raised her eyebrow with a smirk.

"What?" Gwen asked innocently.

"You like him don't you?" Sydney asked.

"How in the world can I like someone if I just saw him," Gwen countered.

"Oh, you SO love him."

"I don't love him."

"You looooove him."

"What's love got to do with it?" After Gwen realized what she just said, she cracked up once again. Just then, a girl was bushy brown hair tripped and spilled all her books everywhere.

"You stupid prats," the girl said. Gwen and Sydney just looked at each other. She so did not just call them prats.

"Sorry, Mione." A tall redheaded boy said as he helped her to her feet. Gwen just looked at Sydney who was getting up to help the poor girl pick up her books.

"Oh thank you. You really shouldn't," the girl said as Sydney tried to help.

"Oh its no prob," Sydney simply said and reached for a book Gwen was grabbing. Gwen slapped her hand and took the book from her and handed it to the girl. At this point the red head was joined by another boy about his height with jet-black hair. They just looked at Gwen and Sydney and said nothing.

"You aren't from around here are you? Oh, oh, how rude of us, I am Hermione Granger and these are my friends Harry and Ron." the girl said sweetly. Sydney just stared at the boy with dark hair, Harry. Gwen nudged her.

"H-Harry Potter? The Harry Potter?" Sydney stuttered as Harry blushed. Gwen just glared at Sydney and wanted to hit her.

"Hi, nice to meet you guys. I am Gwen Murphy and this is my friend Sydney Hsuan. Yeah, we definitely aren't from around here." She said as she shook hands with her new acquaintances. Sydney was still staring.

"Well, sorry to rush this introduction but I really don't want to miss the train. You can share a compartment with us. Let's go," Hermione said as she busily began to grab her things and rush towards the scarlet steam engine. Ron quickly ran to catch up with Hermione and Harry walked along with the gawking Sydney and bubbly Gwen.

Once on the train, the group was trying to figure out where to put their stuff and have room to sit.

"Well if you put, oh wait, no that won't work. Hmm, well then…" Hermione mumbled to herself.

"Hermione, if you would just put all the stuff there, then look, it works." Harry said as he arranged the trunks and other assorted baggage. Ron was already lounging by the window and Hermione sat down beside him. She dug in to her trunk and pulled out a brown paper bag full of fruit while everyone else settled in.

"I call window!" Gwen exclaimed and raced Harry to it. She jumped on the seat and Harry almost landed on her.

"Sorry," he said while straightening himself out and sat down at the other end of the seat. This left only on spot for Sydney to sit in was between Gwen and Harry, no that she minded or anything.

"So where are you from?" Hermione asked.

"Oh, sorry. We are from the States. Just transferred here 'cause our parents got transferred here to help the Ministry out. It was pretty lucky that both our families had to move here." Gwen replied.

"That's fascinating!" exclaimed Hermione her face lit up with interest.

"Right…" said Sydney. "It's really not that interesting. Well, it's way cooler here anyway."

"Are you from New York? Hollywood?" Ron asked sounding like a little boy.

"No, unfortunately, no." replied Sydney.

"Where are you unfortunately from?" Harry joked.

"Tucson, Arizona," Gwen answered sadly.

"Never heard of it," Ron said

"Exactly," replied Gwen.

"Oh! I know where that is!" exclaimed Hermione. "It's 300 kilometers south of Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, is it not? Of course…give or take a couple kilometers."

"Umm…yeah…200 miles I think," Gwen replied uneasily while Ron was shaking his head disapprovingly.

"What is it exactly that your parents do?" Ron asked while shoving a large piece of apple in his mouth. Hermione glared at him for his poor manners.

"You poo! That was my apple. Geez…" Hermione chided Ron.

"Well our parents are here to help out with the international relations and regulating muggle awareness. The Salem Institute has found a new memory charm that is the best yet," Gwen said. Suddenly the door burst open and in the doorway stood the boy that Gwen was checking out earlier. His frame almost blocked the view into the corridor, where Sydney saw two stupid looking fellows standing behind their attractive leader

"Well, well, hello ladies. Welcome to Hogwarts. Allow me to introduce my self, I am Draco Malfoy," he said smoothly.

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How's that for the first chapter? It really is basically an intro to Sydney and Gwen.

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to be continued…