A/N: Heyy here you go chapter 2. Review please. I'll try and get chapter 3 up by the end of the weekend. oh and just so you know this means flashback.
DISCLAIMER: Charlie…not mine Bill…not mine Other Weasleys….not mine anything else you recognize from books…not mine so that means the rest is mine yay :)
Charlie pushed through the barrier to platform 9 ¾ with Ginny by his side as the loud warning bell boomed overhead, signaling thirty minutes until the Hogwarts Express departed for the Scottish highlands. He watched as Ginny scampered off with Ron and a few of the other younger siblings of Hogwarts students. His other siblings all made their way to their respective friends catching up after a summer of being apart. He saw Fred and George were already animatedly chatting with Angelina, his friend Jessie's little sister in their year. As he scanned the crowd looking for her, his eyes settled on Percy and his friend Jacob, walking away, smiling cautiously at a small blonde Ravenclaw. He wasn't paying attention when somebody jumped on his back, covering his eyes.
"Guess who?" A singsong voice said into his ear as he caught her before the both fell down. He voice grew menacing as she whispered, "and don't you dare guess wrong Charlie Weasley, or I'll come find you in the middle of the night and kill you this year." Charlie chuckled as the girl burst into a fit of laughter.
"Gods, Lucie Taylor, you are the biggest bloody nutter I know." Charlie laughed dropping the girl from his back.
"Today, that's going to be a compliment," Lucie winked. She had been his best friend since their first day on the Hogwarts Express. She was a petite girl, skinny and just barely over five feet, with straight honey blond hair that hung just to her shoulders. She always wore it in two pigtails, managing to get away with the look without coming off as a little girl. Glasses had once hid her big, chocolate, brown eyes, but she had gotten a muggle thing called confacts or something, so she didn't have to use them anymore.
"I would expect nothing less from you." Charlie said returning the wink.
His eyes drifted to a large group gathering to his left. In the center of this group was none other than his brother, who had his arm slung around the waist of Cara McLaggen. Cara was, in Charlie's opinion and that of many other boys in the school, the most beautiful girl in the 5th year, maybe even in the school, and it was safe to say that he had been silently chasing after her since the end of their second. He remembered the first day he really saw her.
The first spring rain was always one of Charlie's favorite things. He loved the way the droplets felt, pouring over his skin, washing away the dead, cold of winter. Charlie hadn't missed the first storm in as long as he could remember, and that year was no exception. Charlie ran down the hill, slowing to a walk once he passed the Whomping Willow, and neared the Black Lake. He threw his head back and laughed, the cool water washing away all thoughts of school, quidditch, and Bill. He heard soft noise in the wind caught his attention. He turned to see a girl with soaking caramel colored hair sitting with her back pressed up against a large tree, her knees drawn up to her chest, and her face pressed into her hands. She lifted her face briefly, still unaware of Charlie's presence, and he saw the mix of tears and rain sliding off her face. He slowly approached the Ravenclaw girl he had barely talked to with a new feeling of confidence he had never experienced before. He wanted to talk to this girl, to make her laugh, to make the tears disappear and never run down her face again. He wanted all of this for someone who he knew nothing about. In fact, Charlie was sure he knew nothing other than that she was a Ravenclaw in his year named Cara McLaggen.
As he slid down next to her, she lifted her head acknowledging him for the first time. Charlie noticed true beauty in this girl even as tears streamed down her face. He saw the way her bright blue eyes sparkled, though rimmed with tears. He loved the way her lips turned slightly upward as he slid his arm around her shoulder. She rested her head against him and the two of them sat there for what felt like hours. When she had gotten all of her crying out, she slowly stood, whispering a small thank you to Charlie before returning to the castle. In his eyes, she was truly perfect and it was in that moment Charlie Weasley truly fell for Cara McLaggen.
She never really talked to him again after that day. The two never brought up the events of that rainy spring morning again and Charlie never found out what had made her cry so hard.
Just a week later, Charlie was walking with Lucie in the courtyard when he spotted his brother Bill, as usual surrounded by his many friends. But today someone new had joined his group. Standing close to Bill, laughing at something he had just said was Cara McLaggen.
Lucie, who poked him hard in the side, jerked Charlie from his memories.
"Wake up and wipe the drool off your face, my little lovesick puppy. You've been staring at Cara for so long you missed the five-minute whistle. It was quite amusing but now it's getting late. Let's go!" Laughing with an impatient glare, Lucie began pulling him towards the train. Charlie obliged as the two climbed aboard, settling in an empty compartment as the train pulled away from the station.
"Have you seen Adam and Jessie? I'm gonna need Adam to keep me company when you and Jess ditch us delinquents for your prefects meeting." Lucie stuck her tongue out at Charlie from where she sat, sprawled across the bench opposite him, her head propped up against a bag she had brought with her. As if on cue, the compartment door slid open and Adam and Jessie walked in. Well Jessie walked, Adam practically flew. Charlie shook his head, that boy had more energy than he thought was probably healthy.
Adam Lombardi was a shy but happy go lucky guy. He had floppy dark curls that often fell into his blue eyes. He also had a thick Italian accent, and Merlin was he hyper. It really was hilarious how wound up he could get. Most people didn't really get to see that side of Adam, he really only showed it to those he was really close to, unlike Lucie who was really just a nutter all the time.
How Jessie Johnson ended up friends with Lucie, Adam, and himself, Charlie would never know. To be blunt, she was beautiful, tall and elegant, with dark chocolate curls that hung past her shoulders; big hopeful eyes the color of emeralds. She was fiercely loyal, always standing up for the people she cared about, even when they didn't totally deserve it, and she was bloody brilliant. She could have been friends with anybody at Hogwarts, gone out with every single if she wanted to, but she didn't. Her only issue was her temper, well her lack thereof. She was pretty easy to set off, Charlie should know, he had inadvertently landed himself on the other side of one her rages pretty frequently last year, but she always came around.
"Hey Charlie, you know who the other prefects for our year are? I know Seth MacDonnell and Annabeth Simms are the Hufflepuffs, and I'm pretty sure Tyler Starks is for Ravenclaw." Jessie plopped down next to him, watching amused as Adam tried to move Lucie's legs over so he could sit down.
"Cara's a prefect!" Lucie called, pushing Adam off her, but drawing her knees up to her chest, throwing a wink in Charlie's direction.
"Hey! Shut up!" He threw his book at her.
"Hey!" Lucie cried, picking up the book and smirking, then rolling her eyes at the title. "Dragons Through the Ages. Not like you've ever read that one. Nerd."
"Shut up! I happen to like that book, thank you very much." Charlie stuck his tongue out at Lucie once again. "Oh look at the time Jess, we best be off or we'll be late for our first prefects meeting."
Jessie smirked but nodded, sliding the compartment door open, calling over her shoulder, "Oh, if we miss the trolley, get me a couple of chocolate frogs, and a licorice wand. Thanks guys." She winked and walked down the hall of the train towards the prefects' compartment.
A/N: So how was it?? Oh and sorry about adding tons of new characters, this was like an intro to almost all of my characters, so tell me what you think of them. But don't worry the plot is coming soon. Review please