Hearing the sounds of birds chirping as she woke up had always pleased Layken. There was just something about the sound that amused her. Turning her head to the clock on the wall, Layken found it to be seven o'clock. She spent the next hour in bed playing with Opal before getting up and putting her clothes on. She had opted for the comfy option of clothing for the train ride, a jumper and jogging bottoms, and would get changed on the train. She dished out food for Opal and set about making the bed. Once she had finished, she sat down to read her potions book, knowing that Snape was the teacher. At nine o'clock, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Layken said.
Snape entered the room and Opal brushed herself against his leg in greeting. Picking her up, Snape had to laugh as she tried to eat his hair.
"Are you coming for breakfast?" Snape asked.
"No thanks, I'm not hungry right now. I'll get something on the train." Layken said.
Placing Opal back down on the bed, Snape could see what Layken was reading.
"Doing some reading for what I can only hope will be your favorite subject." Snape laughed.
"I'm finding it really interesting so I can only imagine I will love potions." Layken laughed.
"Well I shall leave you to your reading and I will be back to get you soon." Snape said, turning on his heel and leaving the room.
Layken had been so immersed in her reading she hadn't realized the time until there was yet another knock at the door. Placing her book in her back pack beside her, she set about placing the last minute things into her trunk.
"Come in." She called.
"It's time for us to be going now." Snape said.
Layken checked the clock and found it was indeed half past ten. Placing Opal into her carrier, Layken lifter her and her trunk before Snape shrunk her trunk and placed it into his pocket. Snape had informed her the previous evening that they would be taking the knight bus (whatever that was) to King's Cross station. Walking out onto the main street, Layken expected to be headed to a bus stop or station or something but what she didn't expect was for Snape to stick out his wand arm and for a purple three decker bus to come hurtling out of nowhere.
"Allo Professor Snape." A pimply teenaged boy said.
"Hi, Stan, King's Cross please." Snape said.
"That'll be thirteen galleons." Stan said.
Handing the boy the money, Snape stepped onto the bus and Stan held his hand out for Layken.
"Can never tell when this thing's going to shoot off." Stan laughed as Layken stepped onto the bus.
"King's Cross, Ernie." Stan called, as he rattled on the window behind the driver.
Before Layken had a chance to even adjust to her surroundings, she was thrown forward onto a bed as the bus went hurtling forward at breakneck speed. Not even a few minutes had passed before the bus stopped and Stan announced that they were at King's Cross.
"Thanks." Snape said as the got off the bus. Snape had given her her trunk and told her that he couldn't come onto the platform with her.
Getting to the barrier was easy as the people around them paid little to no attention to them. Getting through the barrier was a tougher task.
"You want me to do what exactly?" Layken asked.
"Walk through the wall." Snape said.
"Oh yeah, I'm just going to walk through this wall." Layken said as she leaned her weight against the wall and went tumbling through it with a squeal.
She didn't hit the ground on the other side. She was caught before she fell.