Chapter 2: Few can see
Lily opened her door to see no one in sight. She walked over to the banister and peered down to see her father turning her Hogwarts trunk upright and rubbing his head.
"Daddy, what happened?" said Lily, down the stairs to the brown-haired man.
"I accidentally dropped you're trunk down the stairs but its okay now" Mr. Evan's said, smiling up at his daughter.
"Oh, I understand, you thought you'd be the macho-man that you can't help being and so you carried my trunk down the stairs on your own without assistance….I'll let you know that there is some very expensive valuables in there, the fact that you have naturally paid for them is no matter, and if I find out they are damaged you'll be a cow's breakfast" Lily grinned winking at her Dad.
"I understand, and I'll be sleeping with one eye open, don't you worry, but I think it's time you got ready, we have to leave in an hour to get to the station and Cassidy's mother phoned this morning to see if we could take Cassidy and Nicole with us seeing as they only live a road away" her Dad said taking a look at his watch.
"Fine…if you're THAT eager to be rid of me, I'll go get ready" Lily smiled down at her dad, who had begun to drag her trunk towards the front door.
Forty-five minutes later, Lily was dressed in jeans, her converses and a striped sweater with her Prefect's badge in her front pocket, hugging her mother, giving her sister a sinister smile, which was returned with a glare, and seating herself in her Dad's jeep. They drove down two roads and parked in front of a white house with bushes near the front. Lily and her Dad got out the car and rang the doorbell, and as the door opened a cheerful girl stood in the doorway.
"Lily!" she screamed, hugging her and kissing her on the cheek.
"Hey…you gave me a wet kiss" Lily said, wiping her cheek.
"That's what you get when you're owl does a poo in my hair" Cassidy mumbled. "Hello Mr. Evans, my mother just asked me to thank you again for taking me and the brat to the train station, she had to dash and my Dad's already left for work around 6" Cassidy added with a smile.
Five minutes later, Cassidy, Lily, Mr. Evans and "the brat" Nicole were sitting peacefully in the car, except for the fact that Cassidy and Nicole kept bickering in the back seat.
They reached King's Cross within half an hour, and the girl's loaded their trunks and owls onto trolleys and walked with Mr. Evans through the traffic and into the crowded station.
"You have to walk through that wall Nicole!" Cassidy said pointing to the wall between Platform's 4 and 5.
"But, I thought Mum said it was 9 and 10" Nicole said.
"No, I think you might have heard wrong" Cassidy said with a grin.
"I know I heard her say 9 and 10" Nicole said.
"Who are you going to believe, me, seeing as I've been going through that wall for six years, or you and you're stupid ears" Cassidy stated, grinning childishly at Lily.
"I guess you're right" Nicole said walking towards the Platforms.
"Hey…Nicole that's the wrong one" Mr. Evans shouted. "You have to go to 9 and 10"
"See I told you" Nicole said.
"Aw Mr. Evans you ruin all my fun" Cassidy giggled, but shut up as soon as her sister decided to kick her in the shin, sending Lily into a fit of giggles.
When they finally reached the Platforms 9 and 10, and were ready to enter into the magical world, and Nicole had checked at least ten times over that this was the real Platform and so she could send Cassidy multiple glares, Lily was able to hug her Dad goodbye. Mr. Evans said goodbye to the girls and warned them to behave as he walked back to his car.
Cassidy and Lily turned to the Platform.
"Okay Nicole, run through there right…NOW" Cassidy said pushing her as she ran through to the Platform, covered by tourists who had just walked past.
"Ready Cass?" Lily said turning to her.
"What do I look like to you, an amateur?" Cassidy grinned, as they clasped hands and ran through to the barrier and into the other side.
They found a gawping Nicole and dragged her over to the train so that they could load there luggage into the racks and to find an empty compartment, knowing that Olivia and Sydney would be late like usual.
They finally found an empty compartment and left Nicole to run off along with the other hyperactive first years which were crowding the hallways screaming and making friends.
"Lily, I've got something to show you" Cassidy said dumping her bag on the seats. She pulled up her t-shirt midway to reveal a bell-button piercing.
"You got it done!" Lily shouted. "Tell me you're parents don't know"
"They weren't meant to, but with brat around, how could I stop them knowing" Cassidy said but she smiled all the same.
At that moment, though, the door slammed open to reveal an annoyed Sydney.
"When I get my hands on Ellie, I am going to kill her with my bare hands" Sydney said, slumping in her seat and folding her arms on her chest.
"What did she do?" Lily said, throwing her Owl Bubbles, some snacks.
"Well, we were walking towards the train and out of nowhere pops up Remus Lupin, and she goes and shouts out really blatantly asking me if it wasn't him the one I fancied him, I nearly died of embarrassment there and then, and then the idiot runs off as he starts to blush, and he was about to walk up to me but I just had to run off. I'm going to kill her with a spoon" Sydney said.
"Aw, ignore him Syd, and you know what, we can do some first year hunting, I can smother Nicole and you Ellie, it'll be like first year hunting sports day. It could be so radical" Cassidy grinned.
"That could be so much fun" Sydney grinned.
There was a loud bang, back out on the platform causing the girl's attention to turn to out the window and they all smiled as they saw a girl with black hair with red streaks come out of the smoke.
"You know, James, if I find any dungbombs in my bag again, you'll have more than just a kick in the leg, I'm going to kick you right up the-" Olivia screamed, through the black smoke, to a boy with black messy hair who was holding his leg.
"Now apologise" Olivia said in a would-be calm voice.
"I don't know how too" James smiled.
"Don't test me James Harold Potter" Olivia said.
"Fine…sorry…and just don't use the middle name please…it sounds so…old" James said.
"Just like you" Olivia smiled, as she turned and waved at the girls who were standing at the window, as she pushed her trolley towards the doors.