"ZION! ARE YOU OUT OF BED YET!? I CAME IN AND WOKE YOU UP THIRTY MINUTES AGO!"
I groggily open my eyes then process what was screamed by my dad. He's always so pissy in the morning. Oh yeah I need to get up. SHIT! Shit shit shit shit! I need to get out of bed!
I jump out of bed when realising I'm going to be late for the train. The Hogwarts express. I run over to my dresser where my blank robes have been laid out, by Beatee our house elf, and throw them on.
"ZION! WERE GOING TO BE LATE!" My dads voice echos through the corridors.
I rush about just to brush my teeth and put my freshly polished shoes on and to put some pomade in my hair, before my dad shouts again. I've always tried to make sure my curls either look great or that their not there. I run out of my room and down the dark oak staircase making a thudding noise with every step. As I hear my brothers bedroom door open I look up to see his chirpy face dressed smartly ,as always. I pull a funny face remembering how he was last night in some slight hope to reassure him but before I can even see his reaction I feel myself fall. I missed the bottom step and tripped landing in a messy heap right at my dads feet. Our dog Marley runs over to me and starts licking my face and I groan and push her off me. Before I can even get up my father speaks.
"Get up your going to get your clothes dirty and I don't want you to make a fool of the family." I guess he's in one of those moods. I sigh and lift myself off the floor. I brush myself off and see sofien smirking at the top of the stairs. I stick out my tongue at him playfully before my dad backhands my head and I bite my tongue.
"Don't do that it's childish." He says as he walks into the foyer. Merlin he's on one today. I follow him in with Marley at my heals. She knew I was going as she saw the bags, i don't know how but she always knew whenever one of us was going ,even on a sleepover and got all butt hurt or overly affectionate. I preferred her being overly affectionate like she was now. My dad lights one of his fancy cigars as I sit down on one of the antique sofas. Marley sits at my feet panting up at me waiting for attention which I gladly give to her.
"Zion listen to me." Asad said gently after taking a drag and sitting on the opposite sofa. "You have a reputation to uphold do you understand that?"
I look up at him and nod gently. He was just screaming at me saying we where going to be late and now he's giving me one of his lectures!? Bloody hell. He looks at me for a moment before sighing and taking another drag from his foul smelling cigar.
"I'm telling you this because i want you to make sure your doing the right thing and associating with the right people. I'm proud of you for being friends with Sirius. He comes from a good strong name. But don't be fooled many wizards may come from a good pure blood name but they aren't to be associated with-"
Bloody he'll leave me alone! I've heard this all before god i just want to leave now. Telling me we're gonna be late and now your sitting lecturing me. Oh Marley. Her fur has gotten so prickly. Oh gods.. I'm gonna miss Marley so much.
"-Do you understand what I'm asking of you Zion?"
Bollocks. I look back up at him and stop stroking Marley. With a bit of a sheepish look on my face I give him a nod. He stared at me for what felt like minutes before looking away and putting his cigar out on the crystal ashtray and standing up. He walks out the room and I see sofien standing there.
"Your lucky you get to be with mum now." he mumbles coldly. Why the hell is everyone so moody today!? Before I could even reply my dad calls us both to leave for the train station.
We use the floo network to appear in a posh coffee shop at platform 9 ¾ and of course my dad had to get a coffee. He buys me and sofien a pastry but scolds me when I get the flakes down me. I brush them off and eat quickly. I see Sirius with his mum looking at some boy with his face squished against the train window. I chuckle a little before my dad speaks.
"Have you got your wand?"
"Yes."
"Have you got your money for food on the train?"
"Yes dad."
"Good." He says with a faint smile rising on his face. He pats my shoulder and says.
"You know what you have to do to keep me proud. Now off you go."
"Are you not going to walk me to the train?" I ask with a bit of upset. He wasn't even going to give me a proper goodbye?
"No. Now off you go. Don't be late." I sigh and give sofien a wave. He looked too angry to give a hug. I just turn around and leave the cafe and walk onto the train to find Sirius. It doesn't take long. He's in a compartment with three other boys. One had glasses and a bright smile, did he sleep with a coat hanger in his bloody mouth? Another boy who was plump and blond, sitting twiddling his fingers like some child. And then the last boy who I saw pressing his face against the window at Sirius, Merlin is he lanky? And what's with the hair?
I didn't even realise I was scowling till Sirius smiled at me and I felt my face change.
"Zion come meet our new mates!"
