Chapter 2…. Traveling Back To My Heart

They kept walking until they reached the end of the yard where the road started, and James mother stretched out her arm and pointed her wand high up in the sky. A few seconds later, the Knight Bus arrived, and Erin stood out on the stairs.

"Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard, my name is Erin Hunpike and I will be your conducer for this morning."

"Good morning Erin, the boys need to get to Kings Cross."

"Surely Mrs. Potter, how are you doing this morning boys?"

"Good," James and Sirius said at the same time.

"Ok maim, that will be two knuts and three sickles." Erin said getting her a receipt.

Mrs. Potter handed him the change and Stan stepped off the bus, picked up James luggage, and carried it onto the bus.

"Oh..." Mrs. Potter said with tears in her eyes.

"Mum." James said with the sound of him begging his mum not cry in his voice,

"I will see you soon honey, and you too Sirius." she said hugging James, "You be good, and owl me if anything happens."

"I promise mum."

"Ok boys were ready to go." Erin said carrying Sirius luggage on to the bus.

"I love you boys."

"Love you too mum, bye."

With a wave goodbye, James and Sirius stepped aboard the bus and headed to the back.

"Let's go up on the second floor, there are too many people down here." James said looking around, where only two or three beds were free.

They did not get very far when the bus took off with a bang; it must have been going at a speed of hundred and twenty, they fell onto a bed with a girl already sitting there, it embarrassed James but Sirius seemed not to care.

"Wotcher." Sirius said picking up his face off the mattress.

"Um... Can you hand me my glasses?" James asked getting up off the bed.

"Sirius, geroff my bed." the young girl said, flashing her Slytherin patch on her cloak.

"Oh honey I do not care about that patch…" Sirius said before James pulled him off the bed.

"I think you have a disease or summat." James said pushing Sirius in front of him.

"You think that just because I fancy the ladies."

"Uh…" he sighed walking up the spiral staircase.

Walking up the staircase was not very easy with the speeding bus knocking them back and forth, but they had ridden this bus many times before so they were used to it.

"Ha!" Sirius shouted out when they reached the top floor, swinging himself by holding onto the metal stair railing,

"What?"

"I just remembered the first time we rode the Knight Bus."

"Oh yeah, that was so much fun." James said falling down on a bed.

"Remus about died when we showed up on New Years Eve."

"It was snowing! He thought we rode that motorcycle of yours." James said laughing, rolling around on the bed.

"I think it was more like, 'do not tell me you rode that death trap in the freezing cold! Ha!"

"Oh, that was good times."

"It will be good to see Remus, use your old invisibly cloak, trips to the Whomping Willow, making Snivellus life a living hell…"

"I forgot how much fun it is to be at school."

Then just as soon as James and Sirius got comfortable lying on the beds talking about new plans for their last year at Hogwarts, Erin stepped on the brakes and both of them fell into the floor and heard a voice shout.

"Kings Cross!"

"I think I broke my leg!" Sirius shouted out laughing peeking over the edge of the bed.

"If you broke your leg I think you would not be laughing." James said, "Crack on."

James ran down the stairs with Sirius far behind, with their luggage already outside of the bus. They ran quickly to get each of them a trolley, loaded their luggage, and raced to the platform between nine and ten.

"Ok, James you go first."

With a run James disappeared in the brick wall and awaited for Sirius on the other side, a few seconds later Sirius appeared out of the wall and they took there belongings to lye with the other luggage to be loaded onto the train. With ten minutes until the train departed for the castle James and Sirius thought, they would walk around looking for anyone they knew.

"Crack on Sirius! I fancy a talk with Lily."

"I think you should say 'I would fancy it if Lily would talk to me!" Sirius said in a low voice jumping up and down.

"What would I do without my best friend?" James asked sarcastically.

"I am always here for yeah, I am always here." he said patting James on the back.

"Sirius, James!" a voice shouted from what seemed the train.

"Who said that?" James asked.

"I do not know, maybe it's those voices I have been hearing." Sirius said looking around the platform.

"Behind you Sirius… I am finally here to get you!"

"AH!" Sirius screamed as he jumped at least a foot and turned around to see the voice that spoke but all he saw was Remus Lupin's red face from laughing from the train window.

"Remus, I am going to kill you!" Sirius shouted jumping up to Remus face trying to hit him.

"That was good Remus, points!" James said tapping on the window, with his knuckles.

"Crack on guys, Peter and I have this compartment all to ourselves."

"What number is it?" James asked,

"Oh you will find it; it is next to Lily's."

One word, and the boy goes into deep daydreaming, it was like he was in a coma but standing up and also awake, 'What should I say when I see her?' James thought, 'I know! Hi Lily, How was your summer? I bet she has gotten so beautiful over the summer, the sun always does that to her skin and brightens her long red hair and her eyes, it is as if they sparkle more, or summat'.

"JAMES!"

"Oh, yeah… what is it?" James replied shaking his head.

"And you thought I had a disease." Sirius said grabbing his arm and pulling.

"We'll be there in a second if James does not faint before then." Sirius said to Remus as he put his window back up.

Meanwhile, Lily was sitting in her own compartment with her friends Alice and Molly.

"I can not believe that I have to put up with Potter all year! He will be tailing after me more than he does now." Lily complained looking at her Head Girl badge.

"I do not know why you're so angry about it; James is very smart, why else would Dumbledore make him Head Boy?" Molly said looking out her window.

"I know he's very smart he is just so annoying at times."

"Oh Lily, speak of the devil!" Molly shouted out staring at the door.

There was James standing in the door, not saying a word, just staring as if he was looking at an angel.

"Yes?" Lily said looking at James.

"Um… Evans! You sure look beautiful today! It is going to be a pleasure working with you." James said running a hand through his hair.

"James, I surely would not fancy breaking your nose and we have not even arrived at the castle." said Lily as she straightened out her skirt.

Just then a shouting Sirius came running along and grabbed James by the neck of his shirt.

"There you are." With a very sweet smile, he looked into the room where Lily and her friends stared, "Sorry ladies, this belongs to me." And with a pull James shouted out "Bye Lily!" as he was dragged behind Sirius, to next door where Remus sat by the window reading A Brief History of Time while eating chocolate, and Peter getting out his school clothes from his bag.

"Look what I found! Can I have him?" Sirius said walking in the compartment with James and shutting the door.

"He sure is a treat." Peter said laughing.

"Did you have a nice talk with Lily, Prongs?" Remus asked, not lifting his eyes from his book.

"I would have if somebody did not pull me away."

"And you would have also made a fool of yourself." Peter said.

"James I think you and Lily have to go into a compartment to have a talk with the prefects." Remus said folding up his book and putting it in his bag.

"Uh… I will go ask Lily!" he said jumping up but before he could make a step Sirius pulled him back down to his seat.

"Sit, I will ask."

"Crack on Padfoot; Let him have some fun," Peter said.

"Ok, go on." Sirius said waving his hand in the air.

With a jump in the air, James ran over next-door, peeked inside and caught Lily's eye.

"Evans! Do we have to go in the same compartment with the prefects?"

"What a year this is going to be." she said under her breath. "Yes James, I will come and collect you when we do OK?"

This seemed to shock James, he stood up straight, messed his hair up a little and said.

"Excellent, I will see you then." then left the room once again.

"Girls, this is going to kill me."

"Oh Lily, calm down, maybe he will change." Alice said getting her school clothes out of her bag.

"And Luscious Mafloy will have a talk with Dumbledore and want to be in Gryffindor."