A/N: Okay, I know I haven't updated in a long while… but I've had testing in school and I am moving to a new house right now… So, just deal with it… It's not like you don't think I'm going to update ever again… I've been writing the story in the middle of classes when I should have been doing my work that I haven't done yet… Oh well, I'll pass my classes… No worries… Now on with the thing you really want to read and not my excuses… (DRACO IS HOT!!!!!! WOO HOO FOR HOT GUY!!!! Just a little note from Autumn Rhapsodie)
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The last week before school went by quickly. Daemon came over a few times, but Autumn refused to see or speak to him. She would lock herself in April's room and not come out until he left. Jake, Autumn, Draco, and April went to the club once more, the day before they had to leave, but they didn't see anyone exciting.
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On the morning of September 1st, Jake and April were woken up first. Jake had been sleeping in April's room since the night after the club. Birds were chirping loudly in the window. A humid summer breeze was blowing throughout the room. Jake was only in his blue plaid boxers and April was in a white tank top and solid blue boxers. A house elf was getting April's trunk and tried to drag it out of the room. Having no success, the little elf bewitched the trunk to levitate a few inches off the ground and walked out of the room trailing the floating trunk.
April pulled the comforter back over her head and tried to go back to sleep. Jake had gotten up to try to help the house elf, laughed at April's attempt to try to go back to sleep from the chirping birds, and climbed back onto the bed to pull the covers off of April.
"Stop… Let me sleep more…" April grunted almost incoherently.
"We have a train to catch…" Jake said softly kissing her forehead that was now exposed to the air.
"WHAT?!? What time is it? Where's my computer? And why are you on top of me?" April asked as she saw her computer missing, tried to sit up quickly, but hit her head on Jake's chest.
"We have time to take showers. Your computer is with your stuff going to the school, and I was waking you up. We are being driven by Pansy's limo," Jake said smiling.
"Okay, I get first shower. Go wake up Draco and Autumn. I don't think I could go in there when they could be 'doing' something," April said getting a towel and her robe.
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Jake walked into Autumn's room and found Draco and Autumn still sleeping. Thank God, Jake thought. He walked over to the opposite side of the bed and pushed Draco out of the bed then quickly hid behind Autumn's side of the bed.
Draco woke up suddenly. He looked around wildly. Why am I on the floor? He wondered. He stood up quietly looked and saw Autumn still asleep, unaware of anything going on outside of her dream. Draco looked at the muggle alarm clock near Autumn's side of the bed. It was time to get up if they wanted to make it to the train. Draco crawled onto the bed to wake Autumn up. As he moved closer to Autumn, Draco saw someone on the side of the bed laughing. Draco grabbed the person's hair and pulled them up. Jake looked up at Draco and smiled extremely wide.
"What the hell are you doing in my room?" Draco asked as his eyes narrowed on Jake.
"Actually, this isn't your room, it's Autumn's room," Jake said right before Draco started to pinch his ear. "Oww, oww. Why did you… ouch."
"You know exactly what that was for," Draco said as he heard the water in the shower turn off.
"Draco, can you just forget that I pushed you off the bed and let go of my ear?" Jake pleaded.
Draco looked at Jake with pure hatred in his eyes. "You pushed me off the bed?" Draco asked trying to keep his voice down so as not to wake up Autumn.
"Umm, no. I didn't, I was just joking. You rolled off the bed," Jake said trying to advert Draco's wrath elsewhere.
"Yes, that would make sense, except that I don't move around when I sleep," Draco said getting off the bed and pushing Jake into the nearest wall.
Jake had Draco's arms holding his shoulders against the wall to where he couldn't move. "Draco, I was just playing around. It was time for you to get up anyway."
"Yes, thanks ever so for getting me up on time," Draco spat. "And I call the next shower." Draco let go of Jake, woke Autumn up, and then walked into the bathroom to take a shower.
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Jake had walked back into April's room before Draco took charge of the bathroom. He was sitting on April's bed while she picked out her clothes to wear for that day.
"What took you so long to wake Draco and Autumn up? Why didn't you get into the shower after me? And why are your shoulders all red?" April asked as she held up a pair of black low-rise capris and a black spaghetti strap shirt with 'my cat doesn't like you' written in white on the front.
"They took a while to wake up, Draco called it before I did and it's nothing," Jake answered as he nodded at the outfit and got off the bed after hearing the water turn off.
"I wouldn't want to take Autumn's shower turn, she might curse you or something once we get to the school," April said getting dressed with her back turned to Jake. She had heard the bed ease up as he stood up.
"So, I get the last shower," Jake complained in more of a statement than a question.
"Would you need it to be a cold shower?" April asked walking closer to Jake once she was done getting dressed.
"You just want to tease me? Oh, I feel loved," Jake pouted with his bottom lip stuck out.
"It's better than nothing though, right?" April asked.
"How about we do that later, on the train perhaps?" Jake suggested.
"Okay, I guess we might be able to do something, if I want to that is," April said acting as if she didn't care.
"Well, I guess I'll let Autumn take a shower because I'm a nice guy," Jake said sitting back down on April's bed. He then patted the side of the bed that he was sitting on. April shook her head the first few times, but finally gave in and sat down next to him.
"Are you nervous about the school?" Jake asked April watching as she sat fidgeting on the bed.
"I shouldn't be. I mean I know Autumn and you and Draco and Pansy and their friends… but the only people I know are Slytherins and what if I'm not in Slytherin? What if I'm stuck with Potter and his wonder freaks? I would just kill myself. I was mean and rude to them and I don't know anyone else anywhere. Autumn is a shoe-in for Slytherin. I'm not. I'm the nicer of the two of us. I might talk about you behind your back, not to your face. So, I guess you can say that I'm nervous." April didn't look at Jake once when she was talking to him.
"Some of the other houses aren't bad… okay, one house isn't that bad besides Slytherin. Ravenclaws are smart and some could be in Slytherin. Hufflepuffs are just gay. Gryffindors are goody-goody two shoes. You would not be in there. No matter what. There has never been someone that was put in Gryffindor when they could have been in Slytherin…" Jake said trying to comfort her.
"Except Potter. I heard him talking to the freaks he calls friends and he had said that the sorting hat almost put him in Slytherin. So, you never know anymore. Although, I really don't see you as a Hufflepuff or a Gryffindor. So you have a 50% chance to be in Slytherin. It's whatever is more dominant. So don't worry about that just yet. Jake get in the shower because you stink and we have to get going soon," Draco said as he stuck his head out of the bathroom doorway.
"What if I'm a freak like Potter? What if the hat decides that I could suffer with Hufflepuffs? What if…" April was silenced by Jake kissing her.
"I have to get in the shower so we can get going. Don't worry about it. We can talk about this later. Just get ready to go," Jake said taking his lips from April's and getting up to get in the shower.
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They soon left the house with Pansy and arrived at King's Cross station 10 minutes before the train left at 11 o'clock. They had their trunks put away and went in search for a compartment to sit in. There was a buzz of people who had seen the two new girls and who had heard about Harry Potter getting beat up by one of the new girls. April and Autumn had many people staring at them as they walked by. Pansy left after she saw her friends and went to find a compartment as well. Draco and Jake walked on and on toward the back of the train where there weren't as many people. They walked into the last compartment to see it was empty.
"At least there is one empty compartment. God, are there always this many people on the train?" Autumn said flopping down on one of the seats.
"Not usually. Maybe people are just sitting one to a compartment? Or there are a lot of first years." Draco sat down next to Autumn putting his arm around her shoulder.
"Can I worry now?" April asked sitting opposite of the two. She hadn't said anything until they came to the compartment.
"Worry about what?" Autumn asked as Jake sat down next to April and pulling her close to him.
"She's worried that she won't be a Slytherin and that she would be stuck in Hufflepuff or Gryffindor," Jake said right as the compartment door opened and the famous freaks walked in talking and laughing until they saw who was in 'their' compartment.
"Sod off Malfoy. We've been sitting in this compartment since first year," Ronald Weasley said face starting to turn red.
"Not your second year. You drove your father's flying car with Scarhead and broke your wand," Jake said lazily.
"Come on guys, let's go into a different compartment," Hermione's voice could be heard.
"Go find a different compartment. Leave, have an awful day." April smiled widely pulling her feet on the seat next to her and leaning on Jake.
Hermione just pulled Harry and Ron out of the compartment to search for another one. The two couples were left alone as the train started at exactly 11:00 am. They watched as the station was soon a memory and the trees started to pass by quickly. Boredom quickly consumed the passengers. They watched as trees flew by over and over past the train.
"I'm bored. Can't we do something to pass the time?" Autumn asked running her hands through Draco's hair.
"I know a few things we could do… but I don't know if we could risk having the snack witch walk in," Jake said putting his hand on April's thigh.
"Stop, you know we wouldn't do that here. There are so many people on the train, and where would two of us go when the others are well…" April playfully hit Jake in the arm, although he didn't remove his hand.
"Damnit, I am so fucking bored. What the fuck are we going to do for… how long is the train ride?" Autumn complained.
"We get there just in time for dinner," Draco said.
"Damnit, we have so long… it's only 12. We have 5-6 hours left on this damn train," Autumn said as she continued to look out the window.
"Hold
on," April said getting her laptop out of her bag she brought onto the train.
"We have this."
"Is that like the box that you had in your room?" Jake asked looking over April's shoulder.
"Yup, only it is smaller and it runs on a battery. And it's wireless so we can go online while we are on the train. Plus, I have two," April explained and pulled out another notebook that is exactly the same.
"Okay, here's your laptop. Autumn knows how to use it, just no looking at porn because I can check it later if I wanted to. If you guys want one, I can do a multiplying spell once we get to the school," April said handing the laptop over to Draco and settled back down next to Jake.
"Okay, so, I guess I'll talk to you later," Autumn said as she turned on the laptop and got comfy.
A few minutes later, the snack cart went by, but other than that they had no interruption throughout the train ride. Pansy stopped by once as well as some of Draco and Jake's friends. A few people would stare in the compartment window to see the new girls.
Soon, they were changed into their school robes and out of the train heading toward horseless carriages. They climbed into one and were on their way toward the front of the school. As soon as they left the carriage, April and Autumn were approached by an older woman who's hair was in a tight bun on the back of her head. She wore square glasses and looked as though she didn't smile often, or forgot how to. She looked at them sternly and nodded slightly at Draco and Jake. The girls had to follow her along with a bunch of first years. They were to be sorted last, right before the ceremony. They listened as the first years were all talking about how they were to be sorted.
"I heard that they take some of your blood and if it turns a certain color when they add this liquid, that's the house you are put in," a short girl with red hair told her friend loud enough for everyone to hear.
"If they do that, it would take forever until we get to eat and I'm starving," a larger boy said. He had dark brown hair and had three chins.
"You would eat everyone's food before they could get to it, why don't you learn a spell to lose some weight," another boy said to him.
"Come along now. Hurry up," the old woman came through big doors and then led them all through them.
They walked along through two large tables that had all the students of those houses sitting there. April and Autumn looked around and spotted Draco and Jake seated toward the front of their table saving seats. April got a really bad feeling, but tried to shake it off. They waited as this really old man, they assumed was the headmaster and almost two hundred years old. Soon, the younger kids were putting this ragged hat on their head and it would start talking to them then shouting out different house names and then the kid would go to the house that started clapping.
After all the first years were sorted, the headmaster stood up. "I would like to introduce two new students that will be coming here for their last year of school. They came from America where they had some problems. Nothing school related of course. They stayed with relatives in England and are coming to stay with us this year. I do not think it wise to question them about their personal life. If they feel that they want to talk to you, listen. I would like to introduce Autumn Darkness and April Blackstream." The lady they had dealt with before brought forth the hat and had them sit on the stool to put on the hat. Autumn went first.
"You seem easy to place. You have something that can only be placed in one house. You must be in…" The hat said in Autumn's ear.
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A/N: There I'm done. I just moved this weekend and I had to get this over to my dad's house to upload the chapter. I'm so tired. Well, read and review. Okay, thanks.
