1Chapter Three
Stephanie heaved her heavy trunk onto the bustling train. She let out a large sigh then glanced around at all the people hurrying around, almost as if they were in a bee hive. Taking the handle of her trunk, she set off down the hallway of the train, hoping for an empty compartment, or Sirius and Daisi, whichever one came first. Finding neither, Steph opened the door to a compartment with a lone girl. As the door slid open, the girl looked up at Steph, her emerald-green eyes bright and her auburn hair flaming with light.
"Excuse me?" Stephanie asked. "I cannot seem to find an empty compartment, may I please sit with you?"
"Oh sure, have a seat," The girl said with her thick Scottish accent, smiling as she motioned to the bench across.
"Thank you," Stephanie smiled and pulled her trunk into the room. She stowed her trunk away, and collapsed on the bench. "I'm Stephanie Campbell."
"Lily Evans. Your not from Britain, are you?
"No, I'm not. I'm from America. I suppose my accent gave it away, huh?"
"No, it was your nose," Sirius shouted as he walked by their compartment. "You have a very American nose."
Lily turned and stared at the strange boy who walked by. "Who was that?" she asked Steph.
"Oh that was just Sirius. He's special."
"Not as special as ME!" Daisi sang as she trailed behind Sirius.
Stephanie just dropped her head into her hands shaking with silent laughter while Lily remained confused.
"Now who was that?"
Daisi walked into a dimly lit compartment, mumbling about people speaking about her when she is right there, ignoring her very presence.
"Ahh just the lady I was speaking of," a male voice said with a silky smoothness. Daisi glanced up from her muttering to see a pale boy with shoulder length bleach blonde hair and hard gray eyes sitting in the compartment with two overwhelming large things presumably of the male species.
"Oh, hey Lucius. What be up with thee?" Daisi said mockingly. "Wait, did you say you were talking about me?" Her face held a curious stare.
"What concern is it of yours?"
"Just that you, know if you were talking about me, I should know what you are talking about," Daisi attested.
"No, what I speak about does not concern you. However, if you are willing to change that . . ." He let the sentence hang in the air suggestively, allowing his thirteen year-old hormones to surface.
"Well, that's why I asked," she emphasized.
Lucius smiled, thinking she understood, and pulled Daisi onto his lap.
"Yo, dude! Personal bubble," she exclaimed moving her arms in circular motion. Lucius just continued to smile.
Suddenly, another person, a young girl with limp blond hair and cold blue eyes, entered the compartment. When she noticed the position of Daisi relative to Lucius, glared openly at Daisi.
"That's my seat, thank you very much," she hissed.
". . . Ok I'll just go then," Daisi said standing up. Before she left, Daisi leaned down and placed a kiss on Lucius's cheek. "Bye Lucius. Nice seeing you again Narcissa" Daisi gloated. Smiling at Lucius, Daisi left a fuming Narcissa , joyful Lucius, and confused goons behind.
She then set off down the hallway, when she spotted Sirius walking in front of her and happened to catch him shout, "You have an American nose." Knowing the only person with an American nose, Daisi knew Steph was in the compartment. As she neared it, she heard Steph explain that Sirius was special. Smiling evilly and thinking that Steph was speaking to her imaginary friend, Daisi sang, "Not as special as me!"
"Blood- What the bloody- DAMMIT!" Steph screamed.
"What?" Lily asked, try desperately not to break out into a fit of giggles for her new friend's sake.
"I'm talking Britain like again!"
Lily, unable to contain it any longer, erupted into laughter, with Stephanie following soon after. After they clamed down, Lily and Steph heard the laughter of other people and numbers being shout above the ruckus.
"6. . . 7. . . 8 . . . 9. . .!" Glancing at each other curiously, they got up and headed toward the noise. "Is she going to be ok?" They heard someone ask up ahead.
Nearing the compartment, which many people were crowded around, they pushed and shoved their way through to the front. The sight that greeted them was quite humorous. Daisi was lying on the ground in the middle of the compartment, her face bright red, surround by Sirius and three other boys. One had wire-rimmed glasses and messy black hair. Another had sandy-brown hair and hazel eyes. The last had a mousy look with strawberry blond hair and watery blue eyes.
"Oh my gosh, what are you doing to that poor girl!" Lily shouted, drawing the attention of everyone. She knelt next to a panting Daisi and glared at the boys.
"Just trying to see how many squeaks we can get out of her," the boy with the glasses explained matter-of-factly.
Stephanie stood by the door, surveying the scene with amusement. It was getting extremely difficult for her to contain her laughter, although she had more control then those around her. Lily sent the gathering crowd a dark, 'don't-you-have-better-things-to-do' look that made everyone around scatter, all heading back to their respective compartments. By this time Daisi had caught her breath and was in the position of standing, with Lily helping her. Without warning, Daisi spun around on a surprised Sirius, cuffing him right out side the head. She subsequently repeated the act on the boy with the glasses next to Sirius.
"You guys are so mean! Making this poor girl hyperventilate," Lily scolded, glaring at the guilty faces around her. Steph moved further into the compartment, shaking her head with a smile and stood next to Lily and Daisi, who also was next to Lily. All three were trying to send a glare to the boys. Stephanie was the only one failing.
"They weren't making me hyperventilate," Daisi remarked. "They were just tickling me, and saying stupid stuff." She sent a death glare to the two instigators, who quailed under such scrutiny.
"It doesn't matter, you were still so . . . so. . . mean!" Lily stormed. All the boys around her started to snigger and Steph could see the anger burning in Daisi's and Lily's eyes, so she ushered them out of the room, before punishments could be enforced, and walked with them, well Steph and Lily walked, Daisi skipped, back to their own space.
When they reached the compartment, Daisi broke down into a fit of hysterical laughter. Lily and Steph had to drag her off the ground and onto a bench. Lily glanced at Steph curiously then kneeled down next to Daisi.
"Hey, are you ok?" She asked tentatively.
"Oh yea! He he he, I'm fine!"
"Daisi? Why were Sirius and . . . um . . . . whoever the other guys were. . . poking you?" Steph asked, flopping down on the bench across.
"Cause Sirius let slip to James, Remus, and Peter that I squeak when poked. So they decided to try an experiment to see if it was true," Daisi explained. "I knew I should have duct-taped Sirius to the trunks and left him there!"
Lily just kind of blinked at Daisi and then looked to Steph who shrugged.
"Yea, I know. She a little crazy. Sirius said she had a certificate somewhere," Stephanie said. Lily just smiled and shook her head.
"No! I don't have a certificate. . .that says I'm crazy," Daisi explained with shifty eyes. "Well, I have to go kill Sirius! It was nice meeting you," She said looking to Lily and bowing. "Who ever you are!"
She left, skipping down the hallway and back to the boys. Daisi stopped before she reached the compartment, her anger growing with each passing second. It really wasn't right of Sirius to give away her secret poking noise. Waving her arms around in her anger, Daisi's hand lit on fire. She stopped and blinked, staring at her hand, a bit confused. The flame in her hand continued to burn, the yellow light reflecting off of the silver of her eyes. She shook her hand quickly and the fire was extinguished. 'Wow, that's a bit weird.' she thought as she continued into the compartment, much to the shock of the three boys.
James, Remus, and Peter were sitting, talking to one another while Sirius slept. Smiling evilly and motioning for the other boys to remain quite, Daisi snuck to her backpack and extracted a roll of duct tape. She slinked over to Sirius and taped his ankles and wrists together along with placing a large piece over his mouth. She then flicked Sirius's nose to wake him. He jumped and looked around then tried to sit up, which cased him to fall from the bench land and with a great "humph!" At this point all the boys were laughing and Daisi just stood over the helpless Sirius, smiling.
Sirius, now fully awake, glared up at them, shouting something that couldn't be understood through the thick, gray, shinny piece of duct-tape. Daisi flashed him a wider grin, which instantly had him lose the red of anger in his face to a pasty white pallor. As she kneeled down next to him, he emitted a not-so-manly squeak, and his eyes grew wide when she pulled out a red marker from her back pocket. Motioning to James and Remus to hold him down, she promptly drew bright red lips on the piece covering his mouth.
"Next time you decide to mention I squeak when poked, make sure I don't have a role of DUCT-TAPE in my bag."
