~*Getting Lost*~
A/N: SORRY ABOUT THE BIG SPACE ON CHAPTER 1!! Enjoy rest of story. PS. I will try to keep the chapters daily. PPS. I had so much fun writing this chapter! Hope you have fun reading it!
I somehow made it back to London with my trunks. I met mom who met me at the McDonalds. She raised her eyebrow at the trunks, but said nothing. (Ryan had my hawk.) Except, "Where did you get those trunks with your initials? They are so cute!"
"I found them at some store," I said my insides flopping over.
"Oh, okay."
We rode back home with no conversation for a couple of minutes. Oreo crawled out of his pouch and into my lap. I took a deep breath, and told her everything that happened, even handing her the letter. She seemed surprised enough, but when we got home, she hugged me in her death grip. She laughed and laughed and told me how proud she was of me. I couldn't help but blush and say that it wasn't that wonderful, but she said, "Yes it is! My only baby girl is a witch!"
I couldn't help but blush furiously. I laughed and said, "Mom, I'm kind of tired. Can I go to bed?"
"Sure honey," she said. "Do you want some hot chocolate?"
"No thanks!" I picked up Oreo and walked into my room, shut the door and somehow managed to crawl into my pajamas before falling fast asleep.
I woke up the next morning to Oreo licking my face. I giggled, and lifted him up and touched his nose with mine. He meowed in protest, so I laid him down. I trudged downstairs to see my mom downstairs in her robe.
"So there you are you luga-bed. I've been waiting!" She said in her sing-song voice.
I groaned. "Please! Not now!"
She laughed and ran up to me tickling my sides. I laughed out loud until tears fell from my eyes. I managed to push her off and yell, "STOP! STOP!"
The rest of my summer went without much incident, except that Midnight, my hawk came to me right before school. Mom dropped me off right between Platforms 9 and 10. She kissed me goodbye as I ran up to Ryan.
"You know, I'm in 2nd year," he said, quite randomly.
"Er… so?"
"I get to torture you." He pushed me playfully. I groaned.
"Shut up!"
"I'll go in the platform first!" Ryan ran toward the barrier between platforms 9 and 10. I stared in disbelief as he ran right through. I gulped, closed my eyes and ran toward the barrier. I opened my eyes, only when I collided into something solid.
"OUCH!" Ryan screamed.
"Oops, sorry. Are you okay?" I asked him.
"Remind me to punch your eye out the next time I see you, " he said with an evil grin, but gave a quick wink.
"Eek!" I screamed as some prefects loaded my stuff onto the train.
I ran onto the train and ran into an empty compartment. Moments later the door opened. Thinking it was Ryan I jumped up and shouted, "BOO!"
It turned out it wasn't Ryan, but Harry. He jumped back, startled. I blushed and said, "Sorry, I thought you were my friend."
"It's okay," he answered back.
I quickly left the compartment and searched in vain for Ryan. When I found his compartment he let me in. He had another boy that was sitting with him. He introduced me to him. "Andy, this is Bella. Bella this is Andy."
"Hey," I replied.
"Hello," he answered back.
As if on cue, Oreo popped out of his pouch right then, meowed and crawled onto Ryans lap. Ryan began to pet Oreo. Then Oreo began to purr. Oreo purrs really loud. It's like a motor buzzing in his body. Andy and Ryan laughed at this. Oreo scowled and hopped back onto my lap. I petted him, and his motor started again. I sighed and placed him to the side. I glanced out the window while Andy and Ryan began to talk rapidly. I was in deep thought when a plump lady asked, "Anything off the cart dears?"
I nodded and so did Andy and Ryan. We all grabbed a little something off the carts. I grabbed my Chocolate Frogs first. I ripped it open and ate the frog inside. I noticed a card, but threw it to Ryan who was eying it eagerly. I gave all the cards to Ryan and ate all the frogs. Then I reached out for the cauldron cakes. They were delicious. I ate some pumpkin pastry that tasted oddly like pumpkin pie. Then I grabbed the last candy I hadn't eaten yet. In bright letters it said, "Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans."
Andy had noticed it and quickly told me, "You better be careful with those. When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor. They have the good ones, like Lime, Lemon, and Chocolate. But they've also got spinach, sardine, grass, and dirt."
Ryan piped in, "I got a Booger flavored one once."
"And a vomit one too!" Andy said.
I stared at the red one I took out, stared at it doubtfully and ate it whole. "Blood!" I coughed.
Ryan and Andy began to laugh. I tossed the rest of the beans to them and right then, a girl with bushy brown hair opened the compartment door. When she opened her mouth to talk, I noticed her rather large front teeth. "Hello, have any of you seen a toad around here? A boy named Neville lost one."
"OH! So that's what it was! I thought it was a chocolate frog and I put him back into one of the boxes. Had a bit of trouble though, squeezing him in. Well, lucky I was full then huh?" Andy said it all so fast all I caught was "Oh, squeeze and huh?" Andy reached into his bag and took the unfortunate toad out of the box and handed him to the girl.
"Thanks," she said. "Oh and you should be getting into your robes. I expect we will be arriving soon."
"I expect we will be arriving soon," Ryan mimicked when the girl had left.
I snorted. "Well, I'm getting dressed in my robes." I said defiantly. Once I finished, so had the boys and the train had stopped. We stepped out and I heard a booming voice all out, "Firs' years! Firs' years! Follow me!"
Ryan shoved me over to the giant, and then walked away, leaving me with all the other first years. We all climbed into boats, and somehow I ended up in the same boat as the Harry Potter character. I scowled.
"Hi!" he said brightly.
"Hi…" I answered back.
"Sorry about running into you that time," he said even more brightly.
"Why won't he shut up?! Why?!" I asked myself.
"It's all right," I grumbled. "It was my fault anyways."
He smiled again. I really wanted to smack him in the face to wipe that butt-ugly grin off of it. But it stayed and it grew even bigger when Oreo popped out. He took Oreo out of his pouch and held him up.
"Give me back Oreo!" I screamed. I reached for Oreo, but Harry playfully put Oreo out of my reach. "Give him back!" I yelled. I pushed Harry. His balance got knocked off and he grabbed the side of the boat, dropping Oreo into the icy cold water. "No!" I screamed as I watched my precious kitten fall into the water. I leaped out of the boat and into the water. It really was icy cold. I shivered and then remembered my poor little Oreo. I dived under water and opened my eyes. No help. It felt like my eyes froze in their sockets. I was scared. I reached out with my arms and hands feeling around the water. Then it hit something solid. Oreo! I grabbed him and swam back up to the surface. I looked around. Great. No sign of the boats anywhere.
I tried to find my way, but it felt like I was completely lost. Lost and cold. I could barely move, I managed to swim onto a large rock. I sat there shivering. I held Oreo close to me so he wouldn't get terribly cold. I took off my robe and covered both of us with it. I heard him meow faintly. Then he fell asleep, or was out cold. I hugged him a little bit tighter and began to cry. I cried and cried, and I let go of Oreo and hugged myself. I was so scared, and so cold. So scared… So cold… So dark… So bleak… So tired…
THE END OF CHAPTER 2
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