Victoria ran towards the wall of platform 9 3/4, unable to hold back. After all, it was all that stood between her and her one and only best friend of two years, Ron Weasley. Meeting him was the only thing that made her cruel summers bearable, the light in her darkness.
As soon as she crossed the gates between the muggle world and magical, a weight was lifted off of her shoulders. The train station practically glowed with the magic she'd been deprived of all summer long. She felt like she could truly be herself here, she didn't need to hide behind the mask of a muggle. Her friends back home were nice, but their relationship hadn't been the same since she boarded the train to Hogwarts that fateful August day so many years ago. Stepping onto the Hogwarts Express again, a wave of memories from that year rushed back to her. Her anxieties while walking down the aisle, the door of a compartment opening, a ginger haired boy walking straight into her.
She let the memory wash over her as it had done so many times before, directing her gaze towards one of the train compartments ahead. Even through the translucent door, Ron's fiery embers of hair stuck out like a sour thumb. She could tell he was in there. Taking a deep breath, Victoria walked up to the compartment.
She locked eyes with the boy it held. She expected to be filled with the warmth of Ron's chocolate brown orbs, but the gaze she was met with was hauntedly freezing. She let the cold surround her, for better or worse judgement. His stare was dangerous, she felt like if she held his eyes for too long she would be frozen... but she couldn't look away.
"Hello," The unfamiliar boy called to her, "I'm Ed."
YOU ARE READING
Our Ginger Haired Love
FanfictionWhen Victoria started her first year of Hogwarts, she was as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs. Thankfully, she made friends with the year's golden boy, Ron Weasley. But when she meets someone new her first day of her third year, a b...
