It Started With A Prank War {The Marauders}

Chapter 27 - I Guess

I'm free. That's all I could say. The summer holidays were over and I ran onto to the train without saying goodbye to my mother. Hugh, I said goodbye to him before we left the house.

I was free. After two months of torture. I was free. As the train started moving, I leaned against a compartment door and sighed deeply. I won't be going back for another few months. Hopefully not ever though. I wanted to ask Marlene if I could stay over at her house but then Hugh, who knows what my parents would do to him if I left.

The state I was in, was not one to smile about. I had tried to comb my hair, I had tried to cover my cuts and bruises but I had too many. Including my burnt arm, which I had tried to heal but failed miserably. To make it worse, I was rather thin as I had not eaten in days.

I sighed and walked down the train as it started to move. I looked in each compartment, trying to find Marlene, Alice and Lily or even the Marauders. I had to explain I got their letters four days ago, because my parents had been hiding them.

"Fall!!" I jumped and turned around. It was Sirius, who was grinning like he always was. Inside the compartment were the rest of the Marauders, who by the looks of it, had just finished greeting each other.

"Sirius! Bloody hell. Hey!" I forced a smile and walked inside of the compartment. "How are you guys?"

"Couldn't be better." Peter stated and smiled.

"Are you okay?" Remus asked, looking at me with concern.

"I'm fine." I said quickly.

"You're skinny." Sirius stated.

I gave him a look and said. "Thanks. So how was your holidays?"

"It was good, how was your's?" James asked quickly.

"Fine." I sat beside him and sighed. They all raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"You don't look 'fine'." Sirius stated.

"Well I am. So what did you guys do? Play Quidditch? Read books? Eat chocolate?" I added, looking at Remus who had just opened a chocolate bar.

"Yeah we did. What did you do?" Peter said again.

"I didn't do much. Your summer sounds much more better than mine so let's talk about that-"

"You didn't answer any of our letters." Remus stated, frowning. I sighed.

"Look-"

"And why is there a bruise on your cheek?" Sirius touched the bruise make me wince.

"Ow..."

"And why are you so thin?" Peter added.

"And you're wearing a long sleeve shirt in Summer!" James said and grabbed my arm, looking at the sleeves on my shirt.

"I always wear long sleeve shirts!!" I exclaimed, pulling my arm away from him. "Look-" The trolley lady opened the door and I yelled. "FOOD!!"

They jumped and looked at me weirdly. "What?"

"Food! Chocolate and sweets and lollies and Fudge and all that delicious stuff..." I stared at the food hungrily as my stomach rumbled. The Marauders frowned at me like I had gone insane.