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Rose stepped onto the train just before the warning whistle sounded and she waved quickly at her family on the platform. Soon the train would be fully filled, Rose thought worriedly as she watched the students that still stood on the platform hurry in.
"Write us!" She heard her mum yell above the noise of the train and Rose raised her hand with her thumb stuck up, signing that she'd heard.
"Well then," Rose mumbled to herself as she grabbed her trunk in one hand and her old cat in the other. "let's find us a seat, shall we?"
She was overcome by an odd sense of loneliness, of course it'd been busy as always, but unlike the previous years Rose'd been unable to find any of her friends. Even Albus was no where to be seen, which was quite strange considering his parents standing beside hers.
As Rose struggled down the corridor, balancing her trunk and cat in her hands, there suddenly sounded a loud sound which could be compared to a small bomb.
"Out of the way!" A familiar voice yelled and Rose hastily jumped aside. James Weasley rushed passed with Fred II Weasley behind, a dark smoke following the two.
Rose coughed with a grin. Always the same with those two. She started walking again, almost bumping into Christopher Longbottom who rushed out of a compartment. A fellow 5th year, but a Huffelpuf.
"Oh!" Rose exclaimed as she broke out in a large smile. "Chris, you don't even know how glad I am to see you at this moment. Do you know where my friends are? Gosh, that sounds pathetic."
"Not at all, I was just on my way to Anna, care to join me?"
"Please." She smiled relieved, "How was your vacation?" She asked walking behind him.
"Same as always." He flashed her a grin. "How was yours?"
"Also the same, but it was pretty fun. A lot of family came over so you could say it was a busy one, softly spoken."
"You've got a pretty large family, haven't you."
She dodged a pink furrball that went straight at her head before she answered. "Yup."
"I heard you were going to be the Gryffindor prefect this year."
"Yes! I hope it won't be too much work, to be honest."
"Don't worry, a sixth year friend of mine is a prefect as well and he told me it's easy as pie." Chris opened the compartment's door, sliding it open before Rose stuck her head in.
"Hi!"
"Rose!" Anna exclaimed as soon as she saw the red headed girl. "I've missed you so much!" she pulled Rose into a hug.
"Er, Anna, my loving girlfriend. Where's my I-missed-you-so-much-hug?"
Anna let go of Rose with a scowl, "Look inside your fancy muggle phone, maybe you'll find it there."
"That's so not fair-"
Rose turned away from the bickering couple and faced the rest of her friends. Thomas sat laid back beside the window, waving lazily with the beheaded chocolate frog in his right hand. Lucas beside him, throwing flavoured beans up to catch them with his mouth. On the left side sat Daniel and Lucy, playing wizard chess.
"Rose?"Lucy looked up with raised eyebrows. "I thought you were expected in the prefect wagon."
"I am." Rose replied gravely, "But I thought to leave my trunk here so I can find you when I'll go back. I mean, they don't expect us to stay the whole ride, do they?"
"They probably won't." Lucy said reassuring before taking the trunk from he. "Well, what are you waiting for? Chop chop! You've got to go!"
She smiled as she made her way out of the compartment and walked down the corridors until she reached the prefect wagon. She slid the door open and her smile most immediately faltered when the first person she saw was a blond haired boy whom she was so not ready to see.
"M-malfoy? What are you doing here?"
"Wanted to ask you the same thing, but then again, why should I even be surprised. Course perfect Rose became a prefect."
"Hey-"
Scorpius pushed passed her, "By the way, Weasley. You're late."
Rose huffed as she went in, greeted by a not amused professor. "Miss Weasley." Professor Dorsey said with raised eyebrows and his hands in his sides. "I most highly hope this won't become a habit. As a prefect you should give the right example to your fellow students, if you can't find it in yourself to do so, I'm afraid being a prefect isn't cut out for you."
"But-"
"What, miss Weasley?" he asked threateningly.
"I'm sorry, professor."
"Alright. Don't let it happen anymore." He retreated to the front of the wagon, where there was a small table placed. Rose followed him, maneuvering between the chairs that were placed around the table.
Dorsey turned with a paper in his hand, giving it to her with a tight lipped smile. "Since you were late, you missed the presentation. But here I wrote down all your duties as a prefect, also all the meetings are written down there. Please do make sure you'll be there, and on time, miss Weasley. Have a good day now."