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The train was completely empty when the two boarded. Juliet did this on purpose, to hide the fact that she'd been leaving for a family matter. The sick state her mother was in was far from something she wanted anyone to know, purposely making a train ride for herself and Ron before sunrise. Ron kept quiet, mainly because he was still half asleep across from her.
His eyes fluttered slightly, trying to stay awake for her but was failing. Juliet on the other hand was wide awake, mainly because she hadn't slept any the night before. She felt guilty for leaving her mom and cousin at home, she felt guilty for involving Ron, but most of all she felt guilty for not trying harder to help her mother. She felt sadness at the fact that they didn't have enough money to get the poor woman the best of doctors, she felt sad her poor cousin had to deal with this alone along with taking a train back and forth from Oxford to London every day, she felt complete sadness that when she'd show up as home her mother wouldn't recognize her.
"Jules." Ron spoke, his morning voice still very much there as the Weasley boy rubbed his eyes, sitting up better to look at her, "How long is the train ride?"
"Almost two hours, you can sleep until then if you'd like, Ron, I won't leave you." she tried to make a humorous comment but couldn't bring herself to laugh, not even crack a small smile at the most.
"I'm not even tired." Ron lied through a yawn, his words caused a half smile to appear on her face for less then a second before it fell again. Juliets eyes moved out toward the window again, looking at the sky that was just now starting to barley rise.
"Do you like sunrises, Ron?" Juliet asked him, her head falling on the window in tiredness as well.
"Never been awake enough for them." Ron said to her as he'd looked out the window, "And you say their lovely but not worth being awake this early for."
"When did I tell you that?" Juliet asked him, not being able to remember the conversation that went on between the two. Ron flushed when he realized that dream Juliet had told him, not reality Juliet.
"Er, it's been a bit." Ron made the excuse as Juliet nodded her head, turning her head away when they rode past trees that began to prevent from seeing out much. The sun that peaked through the green made her look golden, her eyes glistening from their usual brown color to pools of honey. Ron knew she was sad, but he still found her beyond beautiful.
"I feel like I have to warn you." Juliet said suddenly, her flushed face meeting his eyes with a worried expression, "My home, it's not very big. I mean, it's quite homey but it's rather small. We live on the more dangerous side of London, it's not as nice as you'll think it is. It's not that we don't take care of it, we do, very well actually, we just don't have much money because not enough people come down our street so they don't see the book store and naturally we don't charge much anyways which isn't your fault but I just-"
"I don't mind." Ron cut her rambles off, seeing as though she was trying to make excuses for her own family's lack of money, "I don't come from a money hungry family either, Juliet."
