Chapter two: Stop giving me choices..
The ride to King's Cross station was far from enjoyable. Having my sister constantly brag about her popularity, and hearing her say that it was a shame I wasn't as popular as her. Yeah, another reason to hate her. Actually, there is a very good reason why I hate her. See, Alice is everything I wanted to be when I first came to Hogwarts, popular, loved and most of all gorgeous. I wanted all the boys to gawk at me when I walked into the room, but I don't even get a second glance. She's younger than me, and acts like I should act, perfect. You see, I do have a good reason to hate her.
When we finally arrived at King's Cross, we all ran through the barrier onto platform 9 ¾. The long scarlet steam engine never fails to make me breathless, it's still as breathtaking as it was 6 years ago.. Ahh, sweet memories- not. Alice bounded off to see her popular friends, waving goodbye to mam as she did so. "Bye mum, see you at Christmas." I said, hugging my mother.
"Goodbye sweetheart. Send my love to your father, and tell I miss him will you? Just so he knows." She replied, her eyes glistening with unshed tears. It breaks my heart seeing her like that, Dad rarely is home with us, it kills her. All those Christmases and birthdays without him are really taking their toll on mum. They need to see each other soon. I squeeze her hand, and haul my trunk towards the steam engine.
I find a compartment with ease, as I am one of the first people on the train. I settle my trunk on the luggage rack along with my owl and grab my satchel and find my copy of the daily prophet. I casually lean against the window and read. I hear a tap on the window and instantly my head snaps up, ouch, whiplash.. At first I think it's Gwen, but no. It's Scorpious bloody Malfoy. He arrogantly swaggers in and sits himself opposite me. For a few moments we sit there in silence.. I'm wondering what he wants, or if he's going to set off a stink bomb and leave me to wallow in the stench, but no, he just sits there. "What do you want, Malfoy?" I snarl, my eyes not leaving my prophet.
"Finally! She speaks!" he smirks the infamous Malfoy smirk. The smirk that makes his wild fan club go wild, the smirk any girl would die for it to be aimed at them, the smirk that makes me want to hit him. "If you're here to annoy me, you can go away. I'm not interested." I smile.
"Sweetie, I just wanted to say hi." he says sarcastically, then swaggers down the hall. Big headed twat.
"LUCIEEEEEEE!" Squealed Rose and Gwen together as they both entered the compartment. "Hullo." I said, hugging them in turn. Jordy and Albus were trailing behind them talking about quidditch. "Hi." I smiled, hugging them both. The train ride was full of " How has your holidays been?" and "OMG! That's brilliant!" and "Quidditch is going to be awesome this year." now we were all just minding our own business, Jordy was reading quidditch through the ages, Rose had her nose in Hogwarts a history: limited edition, Gwen was reading the quibbler, Al was scribbling potion notes, and me? Well I was just staring out of the window, watching as the fields and trees zoomed past and out of sight. How the moon was full and beautiful, the stars shining brightly, twinkling and being all sparkly. I loved the sky always had, ever since my dad took me to the Astronomy tower in first year, he took me up and we looked through the telescopes counting the number of stars, the constellations we could see and how we hoped we could do it again sometime. We never did though.
The train ride passed quickly, we had all changed into our robes and we all were clambering off the train into the horrible weather which had just started, The rain poured and poured, lightening filling the sky with bright sparks, the thunder rumbling and echoing through the entire train station. I caught sight of Malfoy, was it just me or did her look beautiful? Oh God, no. His bright blonde hair was all wet and stuck over his for head, his steely grey eyes seemed to emit some kind of glow, a warm glow. Oh God, shut up Lucie. I linked arms with Gwen and we ran to a carriage, quickly scurrying into the carriage, with Albus, Jordy and Rose. "It's too cold!" Rose sniffed, running a hand through her frizzy red hair, looking at it with horror.
Maybe this year wasn't going to be too bad, huh?
Sorry about the stupid writing! Please review. I deleted my other stories, they were too different from J.K's original plot. I needed a change in character. You know? Anyways, hope you enjoyed the story so far.
I'm sorry if you don't like Lucie, or anyone else.. Tell me? Also I apologise for the shortness of the first chapter. I didn't want to describe her too much and give it all away.
Lots of love, Caity!xoxo