Chapter 2:
You're going to be alright
For the next week, Omnivera wandered around London, looking for a place she recognized. Clyve and Marvina didn't let her out of the house very often. Most of her time was spent in her room, reading novels that helped her escape reality. Her real parents, she thought, whoever they were, must have left her some good common sense because she at least had the good knowledge to look on the maps near the Bus stops and find out exactly where she was. She realized shortly after gazing over the laminated map on the side of a Telephone pole that she was on Northdown Street, which is just a short distance to King's Cross Station. Her expression turned from grim to happy. 'King's Cross Station, maybe I can catch a train..' Her thoughts stopped her in her tracks as she came to an abrupt realization. 'I have no money.' She looked down the street she recently came from, and then looked up Northdown Street. 'Well,' her mind interjected. 'Going forward with nothing is better than going back with... nothing.'
In a short duration of time, after wandering around feeling slightly lost, and extremely alone, Omnivera finally makes her way onto Pentonville Road and in the distance, she believes she can see the King's Cross Station ahead. She stopped on the sidewalk when she realized that everyone who crossed her path was looking at her very strangely. She looked down to find that she had forgotten she was barefoot, and still had her hand-me-down boxers from Clyve she used as pjyamas on. She ducked in behind a small wall that was concealing an even smaller building. She glanced around as she saw many people her age walking hurridly past with fair sized trollies contaning trunks and... owls? Actually, it wasn't just owls. Some of these people had rats, cats, and worse of all, toads. She hated toads.
She saw her chance to be unnoticed when she saw cluster of people heading towards the station. The ducked in behind a fair sized woman with curly red locks. The children, unmistakeably hers, never noticed Omni's presence as she skuttled closesly behind the mother. Finally, the entrance of King's Cross Station made her heart swim. She glanced up at the place beside it, noting that she'd never heard of a place that would serve alcohol and call it the 'playground'. The guard to the left of the entrance gave her a questioning look as she gazed around like she had never seen the world before.
The place she entered was unlike anything she's ever seen. The Train Stations in movies were outside, and you waited to board, and naturally, got on. This station was different. The station was inside a building, but the windows in the ceiling let the light through, making the place appear sunny and bright. To the right, she looked down and gazed upon the tracks that would hopefully steal her from the place. To the left, she gazes at the different Plaforms. Platform Six, Platform Seven, Platform Eight. The mother in front of her with the fiery hair turned to her children and made her voice loud enough that many other people could hear. 'Come on, now! Platform nine and three quarters, this way!' She took her place as leader of the pack and strutted forward. Omni's mind poked her. 'Wait... platform nine and three quarters? There isn't such thing... wait. No. There isn't three quarters of a Platform between the two... is there?' She hustled to keep up to the woman as they stopped in front of a brick pillar. On the left of the pillar was the number nine, and on the right was the number ten. They were standing dead center in front of the pillar when the mother turned to her eldest son. 'Alright Percy, you first.' The eldest boy made a run at the pillar, and vanished completely. Omni sucked in air harshly in surprise. She'd never seen quite a sight like that, except for on Television. The mother turned to the two twins, who were standing side by side. She directed her voice to the one standing to the left. 'Fred, you next!' The twin on the right pointed to his left and said, 'he's not Fred, I am!' The twin on the left interjected. 'Honestly woman, you call yourself our mother?' The woman gave a slight sigh, pointed to the platform and said, 'Ohhh, I'm sorry George!' 'George' proceeded to the Platform and looked at her. 'I'm only joking... I am Fred!' The real George followed directly behind him. A small voice behind Omni made her turn around. 'Excuse me!' A sheepish shaggy haired boy with very round lenses on his glasses shuffled slowly towards the family. 'C-c-could you tell me, h-how to.' The woman smiled and giggled at his nervousness. 'How to get onto the Platform? Yes, not to worry dear. It's Ron's first time at Hogwarts too.' The only red haired male left remaining gave the shy boy a smile, as the boy returned it. 'All you've got to do is walk straight at the wall between platforms nine and ten. Best do it best at a run.' The boy stepped, facing straight in front of the pillar. He looked up and down at it, giving a small look of doubt as to whether he'd be able to run through brick. He took a deep breath and started for the wall, and just as the twins had done, he vanished. Omni gave a slight squeal this time, as the youngest red haired female turned around to look at her. She tugged her mothers robes as the pleasant woman turned around, giving Omni a slight smile. 'Why hello there, dear! Is there something I can help you with? Are you trying to get onto Platform Nine and Three Quarters?' Omni fiddled with the hem of her boxers as the woman looked down with a look of concern. 'Are you going to Hogwarts? Are you lost?' Still fiddling with the hem of her boxers and wouldn't look up at the woman trying to help her. She looked around the platform, and put her hand on her daughters shoulder. 'Alright, here's what we're going to do. I'm going to get you through the Platform, and you're going to find my son Ron on the train... you remember Ron right? You were standing here when he went through.' The young girl gave a weary nod and continued to look down. The woman stepped beside her and placed a hand on her arm. Omni looked up at her, and then to the platform they were facing. 'Since you don't have a trolley, this should be fairly simple. Just do exactly what the others did. Take a deep breath, get a good run at it, and go directly between platforms nine and ten. Understand?'
Before giving any indication that she understood, Omni took a deep breath and ran full tilt between platforms nine and ten. When she came out the other end, she came to another platform, with a giant black and red train that had 'Hogwarts Express' on the front of it. She left horribly alone and unaware of what to do when the woman appeared behind her with the red haired daughter in tail. The woman put her hand on Omni's back and rushed her fowards. 'Come on, dear. You're going to be alright.'