Violet

By NarnianAslan

Chapter Four:

Smiles

Author's Note: Thanks to all of my reviewers.

Sorahearts4: Thanks, and here's the next chapter

NarniaLover: Yes, I suppose it is refreshing. I am working on a PeterxOC EdmundxOC fic as well.

Penguinsrock12: I did update

Just to note, I started school, so I won't be updating as often, but neither will anyone else. I haven't had much homework yet, so let's hope it'll stay that way. This is a year later than chapters 1, 2, and 3, so here's the ages: Lucy-10, Violet and Edmund- 14, Susan- 16, Peter-17.

Your Authoress,

Pippa Johansen

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1941

Violet Bennett sat in the small library reading a book. She had looked through the large library and found nothing she liked, but this library had her favorite author, Jane Austen. She was reading her favorite book, Pride and Prejudice. She felt someone put their arms around her and wrap her into a hug. She closed her book, turned, and saw her smiling boyfriend, Edmund Pevensie. She smiled. He leaned in and kissed her. Violet broke the kiss gently and got up.

"Oh, Ed! I can't believe we're leaving later! I'll miss you so much!"

"I'll miss you too, Vi. More than you know. Boarding school will be horrid."

"But this last year has been heaven."

Edmund smiled, "Yes, heaven," he agreed. He wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her again. The sound of an opening door interrupted them. Susan stood in the doorway.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt anything."

"It's no big deal, Su," Edmund said, and Violet nodded.

If you're sure," Susan began. "Look, Professor Kirke sent me up here to tell you two lovebirds to start packing."

"He didn't phrase it like that, did he?" Violet asked.

"No, the lovebirds part was my idea."

"I hoped as much," Edmund said.

"So start packing," Susan commanded.

Edmund and Violet nodded and walked hand-in-hand to the girls' room, where Edmund left Violet with a kiss on the cheek. Violet smiled as she began to pack up her belongings in her suitcases. She had just finished neatly placing the folded clothes in her second suitcase when she heard a knock at the bedroom door. She quickly closed her suitcase and opened the door.

Edmund stood in the doorway, looking a little stressed. "Er, Vi, could you help me?" he asked.

"Sure, what is it?" Violet asked as she walked across the hall to the room Peter and Edmund shared.

"I can't close my suitcase. I've got my other one closed, but this one won't shut!"

When Violet saw Edmund suitcase, she had to suppress a giggle. The clothes were jammed in there, very untidily. Violet sighed. "Edmund, you have to actually fold the clothes, otherwise it'll be hard to close."

"But it takes too long!" Edmund complained.

"Just fold them," Violet said as she smiled and sat down on the bed.

Edmund did so, though it took a while.

"Now you lay them neatly in," Violet instructed, emphasizing a bit on the word neatly.

"Alright," Edmund said, smiling. He laid them in, and then closed his suitcase and latched it.

"You see?" Violet asked.

"Yeah," Edmund replied. "I guess you're right. And you're done your packing, obviously. So let's get our stuff downstairs and meet Lucy and Peter, because Susan probably isn't done doing her hair."

"Alright," Violet said, and she kissed Edmund on the cheek and went to get her things. When she came back, she and Edmund walked downstairs where Lucy and Peter were waiting. Sure enough, when Susan came down, she said she had been working on her hair.

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When Mrs. Macready came down, she took them to Coombe Halt. The train came within minutes. They all sat in an empty compartment toward the middle of the train. They had all been pretty upset that they were leaving. However, very soon, they were all talking and joking.

The train stopped at Goosey Station, and there was a knock at the compartment door. Peter opened it. A girl of about sixteen walked in. She had dark brown, almost black hair, brown eyes, and some freckles across her nose. She was an amazing contrast to Violet, who had light blond hair and blue eyes, with not a freckle on her skin, besides the age and height difference.

"Hello, I'm Elizabeth Smith, from Finchley. Who might you be?" she asked Peter.

"I'm Pete-Peter Pevensie, also from Finchley."

Edmund snickered and whispered in Violet's ear, "Peter and Elizabeth Pevensie, hmm wonder if Susan and Lucy see Peter's obvious fancy for Elizabeth."

Violet had to suppress a giggle. Susan looked at her questioningly, as if to ask, "Why are you laughing?" In response, Violet smiled and laid her head on Edmund's shoulder. Susan sighed, and Peter began to introduce everyone.

"Elizabeth, this is my sister Susan and my sister Lucy. This is my brother Edmund and his girlfriend, Violet."

Everyone smiled at Elizabeth, who said, "Pleasure to meet you all. Where can I sit?" Peter gestured to the sat beside Susan, and next to an empty spot where he sat. The train jerked into motion. Elizabeth sat down.

Soon Elizabeth and Susan were talking of fashion and make-up. When the subject changed to Finchley, Peter and Lucy joined in. When Peter said he, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy were all going to boarding school, Elizabeth asked Violet if she was going.

"No, my mum says I need to stay home with my little sister, Emily. I've not seen her in over a year. I missed her so much when we were at the professor's home. She wasn't that far away, but we only had a carriage. She was near twenty miles away, which, as I've said before, isn't that far, based on where we were, but I visited her about six months ago, so I didn't really last see her over a year ago, it just feels like it."

"I know, I'm the oldest of four. I have Carmen, who's now six, and a brother and sister who are twins and four. I missed them. They stayed with a Polly Plummer."

"Really? That's where Emily stayed!"

"Then they must be good friends by now."

"They might be. Wait were you the girl who was visiting her sisters and brother while I visited Emily?" Violet asked.

"Yes! You're Miss Bennett?"

"Yes, and I suppose you're Miss Smith. "

"I am! So you live where?" Elizabeth asked.

"11 Cedar Lane, in Finchley. Where do you live?"

"26 Cedar Lane! We're neighbors!"

"I should have to visit sometime." Violet said.

"That will be grand! Peter, where do you live?" Elizabeth asked.

"13 Pine Street. Three blocks away. When did you move in?" Peter asked.

"Oh, about a year ago. I never saw you before."

"We left for the professor's house a year and two months ago," Peter explained.

"Oh, that's before I moved in."

So this talked continued for a bit, eventually Edmund was drawn in, and everyone was talking. The train slowed to a stop later on. At the station, when they parted, Violet and Edmund shared a short but sweet kiss. Violet and Elizabeth walked together to where their mums were, and they said goodbye and promised to visit each other.

On the way home, Violet nodded as her mother told her of all the changes. She felt a bit heavy hearted, knowing she wouldn't see Edmund for a year, after being with him for a year and two months.

"So, who was that girl you were talking to?"

"Oh? Elizabeth Smith, she lives at 26 Cedar."

"The Smiths? They're a nice family. Emily has made friends with their daughter, Carmen."

"Mm-hmm."

"I see you're not really interested in what I'm saying. Is it Edmund? Vi, dear, you'll see him again. The year will fly by."

"But what if it doesn't mum?"

"It will, Violet, don't worry."

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Author's Note: Alright well this is fairly short. But this is one of my favorite chapters so far. I won't be doing a chapter for EVERY year, but I will do the night before Emily leaves in 1944, then I'll do a chapter for winter 1945.

Pippa

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