Chapter Two: The Pains of Trains
I passed by a load of people, some I knew and some were new. The hustle and bustle was the same every year and so were the activities. There were acquaintances exchanging polite hellos to each other. Then there were enemies who were eyeing up each others outfits and hair cuts to find some new deficiency to make fun of while the other turned away. And the friends; the boys exchanged quick hugs and fist bumps and the girls hung on the each other while laughing and whispering the latest gossip, because there was always gossip. Lastly there were the couples. Who looked vastly out of place within all the hustle and bustle because most just stood facing each other with the occasional kiss.
A boy and girl in the fourth year were about five feet away from me looking into each others eyes in the deepest sort of love that only teenagers could be in. They weren't a hollywood couple gorgeous or living an extraordinary love story, as far as I could tell. They were just your basic pair who could just as easily be your friends and neighbors. That's why I had to turn away. Unlike all those stupid romantic comedies I watched with my cousin Lily over the summer, it was too real. And I felt a sharp pain in my chest and I forced myself to turn away to seek my stupid cousin who made me watch the stupid romantic comedies.
Luckily I didn't have to look long. I saw her waving at me energetically over the shoulder of my friend Camille, who turned around to see who she was waving at. I hastily walked over to them. None of us bothered to exchanging hellos because we had all seen each other within the week, in Lil's case, within the last 42 hours. Instead Camille proceeded to grab me by the fatty part of my arm and drag me towards the entrance of the train.
"Lets get a cart before they're all taken."
"We can just crash with Albus, Louis and Lysander."
"They probably won't have room."
"They always have room." I retorted as Camille was still dragging me from the platform,
"Guys, it's too early in the morning to be acting bonkers."
"She's right they probably will sit with their girlfriends-" Lily added before ending the sentence with a stricken look. Camille glared at her.
"What are you two going on about? Is this about me not coming over last night for your last-day-before-the-obression-of-school party? Because I told you I had to help find Hugo's Prefect badge before Mum-"
I froze and stopped struggling against Camille's grasp, which by-the-by was quite painful, especially so since she too was frozen in horror like me and tightened her grip in reaction to what we were seeing.
Lorcan was strolling towards the train with his prefect badge gleaming on his chest. He was tall, tall enough to be seen over most of the crowd on the platform. He was wearing a beige sweater that made him look like he just came from a horse race and he was wearing a pair of clean sneakers. The kind thatlooked stylish and fancy with out seeming too pretentious. His dirty blonde hair was styled exactly how I remembered it, neat with out looking too pretentious, again. He looked exactly how I remembered him, all expect for the auburn haired piece who he was holding hands with. I felt my insides cave in on themselves and my mind was oddly blank. I tried to put a name to her face, I only remembered her last name. Belby.
My head was spinning until both of them left my sight when they entered the train.
"Oh my god Rose I'm so sorry!" Lily said while patting my newly freed arm, "We were going to tell you on the train but…"
"Him and that girl- whats her name?" I turned around to look at Camille since I couldn't stand the pitying looks Lily was giving me, "What's her god damn name? Belby something right? Belby what?"
"Annabel Belby." Camille responded looking rather nervous.
"Annabel?" I responded quietly. Damn, it was a pretty name. As painful as it was to admit she was pretty too.
"Yeah, she's in the 5th year. Gryffindor I think."
"Shall we get on the train?" Lily said uncertainly. I looked up at the platforms clock and saw we had five minutes. Our parents had left earlier. Since we were all grown up and everything. We got on the train without saying anything and it began its journey back to Hogwarts.