Our Crazy Messed Up Lives

The Train

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                I wiped my hands on the dry grass. The blood from the last guard had dried slightly, and was refusing to be cleaned off.

“Come on, Eros,” Black smirked. “Just leave the blood on your pretty face. We need to move.”

“Tch,” Ler said. “His pretty face isn’t so pretty anymore.”

“At least it looks better than yours,” I replied, standing. “Let’s find the brats.”

Jack

It was the day the train left. We used some more Floo powder to get to the Leaky Cauldron, and then we walked the rest of the way to King's Cross Station. Mum put all my things on a trolley and we ran at the wall together. On the other side, there was a scarlet train surrounded by students and their parents. Mum helped me lift my trunk onto the train and kissed me on the cheek. The train wouldn't leave for another ten minutes, so I found an empty compartment and waited, watching my mother and sister wave at me from the other side of the window.

Onceler

I screamed like a little girl when the man apperated into our room.

"Time to leave!" he yelled. Judging by the bathrobe and beard and going off of Sunbeam’s description, I guessed that this was the headmaster.

"Not you again," Sunbeam said. The headmaster ignored her.

"Are you ready?" he asked looking around at the almost empty room. “I see you are all packed!”

"Sure," Sunbeam muttered. “Guys?” The little kids gathered around us. Her falcon hopped on her arm, my owl perched on my shoulder and Bekah’s cat was curled up on her head.

"Then hold on tight!" The headmaster grabbed mine and Sunbeam's shirts and the others held on to us. It really felt like we were being forced through a straw. Once the dark faded away, I could see a big, red train. It was surrounded with people. "Your trunks are already," the headmaster looked at the back of his hand. "In compartment 13. See you later!" He vanished.

 

Rebekah

We walked down the train car until we found compartment 13. It was one of the bigger ones, meant to hold a large group of people.  There was already another person there, a boy. He had dark brown hair and even darker brown eyes, and I could tell just by looking at the lines around them that he usually smiled a lot. Our trunks were already on a rack above his head. I sat down beside that boy, Onceler sat on the other side of me, and Sunbeam sat on the other bench with her family.

"Hey," the boy said, and then returned to looking out the window.

“Well he isn’t very talkative,” Onceler muttered. I nodded in reply, before I started to talk with Mack about Batman some more.

Sunbeam

The other boy was cute, but he hardly even acknowledged our presence until the train was almost a mile from the station. It probably didn’t help that I was staring at him the whole time. I was trying to figure out why the headmaster had put us is the same compartment as him.

"I'm Jack," he said. "And you are..?"

"Rebekah, but you can call me Bekah."

"Onceler."

"I'm Sunbeam," I said. "And this is Will, Mack and Lu." I pointed to them as I said their names. They all glared at him indiscreetly, just like I taught them.  He seemed a little scared, and I smirked at the look on his face.

"Aren't they a little young to be going to Hogwarts?" he asked, scooching back a bit farther on the seat.

"They aren't going to the school to learn, they are going so that we can stay together," I sighed. "They are the only family I have left."

“And it’s the same for us too,” Will said. “We wouldn’t leave Sun for nothing.”

"I- oh." He paused. "I'm sorry." After a long and uncomfortable pause, he cleared his throat and spoke again. “Is that a falcon?”