Astray

Chapter 7

It was a few minutes later and Coralie was still glaring out of the window, James was glumly staring at the ground, and Sirius was whistling like he didn't just see the fight between Lily and Coralie. Suddenly there was a loud knock on the compartment door that interrupted the thick silence. There stood the two other boys Coralie had seen on the platform.

"Hello, we were wondering if we could sit here?" The tall one asked rubbing the back of his neck.

"Yeah, sure," she quietly mumbled as he took a seat beside her and the other one sat beside James.

"My name's Remus, what's yours?" Remus said sticking out his hand for her to shake.

"Coralie, but most call me Cora," she said shaking it.

"I call you Cori, I'm James by the way," James said shaking Remus's hand. She glared at him because she was still mad that her best friend took someone else's side. At the look she gave he lowered his gaze back to the floor.

"Well I'm Sirius," Sirius said trying to get rid of the awkwardness.

"I-I'm P-P-Peter," the short boy said raising his hand.

"Well, it's nice to meet you all. I hope you aren't all backstabbing traitors like someone I know," she smiled innocently at them.

"Yeah, me too. Oh wait," James blushed when he realized she was talking about him.

"We'll be there soon so I would change if I were you," she said standing up and clasping her plain black robe around her neck, grabbing Artemis and walking out of the compartment.

She walked down the hall and peeked into the other rooms as she passed looking for someone. When she found who she was looking for she threw open the door and jumped inside.

"Molly!" She exclaimed jumping into the older girl's arms and starling her.

"Cora!" Molly said scrambling to catch her.

"I missed you, Molly," Coralie said nuzzling her neck in Molly's.

"I missed you too, but there are some people I would like you to meet," Molly said smiling down at her. That's when Coralie realized they weren't the only ones in the compartment. There were two identical boys sitting across from them with the same shade of red hair as Molly and beside her was her boyfriend Arthur Weasley.

"Oh, okay," she said blushing.

"Coralie these are my younger brothers, Fabian and Gideon. They are starting their first year at Hogwarts too," Molly pointed to each.

"It's nice to meet you both," Coralie, still blushing, extending her hand for them to shake, but they had different plans, yes indeed.

"It's nice to meet you as well, Coralie," they said in unison both taking a hand and kissing it. She felt her face grow even redder as she jumped back into Molly's lap.

"Oh, boys you're scaring the poor girl," she scolded, stroking Coralie's hair as the twins laughed at her.

"Coralie! There you are! We were looking all over for you! We were worried after you stormed out like that," James burst through the door with the other boys behind him.

"I did not. And it's not any of your business if I did, James," she spit his name as if it were venomous as she glared at him. Artemis ran his head underneath her hand as though to calm her down though so she apologized.

"I'm sorry James, I just didn't like how she said those horrible things about you and you still took her side over mine when I was the one trying to defend you," the corners of her eyes softened as she spoke.