Finally departing.

[absentminded]

Open to anybody
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This day had seemed not to come any closer. Today the girl could finally go to Trio's Hogwarts :]. She had been looking forward to the day ever since she knew she was a witch and that was when she was the age of what? three?

Finally she would be able to preform the spells her home school teacher had shown her a thousand times, without receiving a letter from the ministry that she had broken a law.

A messenger bag stuffed with magazines and candy so that Alyssa wouldn't starve/be bored during the journey hung over her shoulder as she was trying to make her way towards the red train without knocking fathers and mothers who were saying goodbye to their kids over with her heavy trunk. Her parents followed her all the way towards the doors where they said goodbye and helped her getting the trunk in.

She was pretty early so had a load of compartments to choose from. They all seemed to be the same so Alyssa decided to go to the nearest free one. After stuffing her trunk underneath the seats she sat down near the window and looked outside. Her parents had vanished in the crowed so she looked at all the other parents and she grinned when she saw the amount of crying mothers.

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[harlequin]

Harley sighed and glanced at the massive train standing maybe feet from her.She let out a big sigh and ran her fingers through her jet black hair.Her icy blue orbs scanned the crowd.Too many people....She sighed and glanced at her mother Kayla and slowly towards her towering father Daniel.He frightened her even when he was smiling...like now.He never abused her or layed his hands on her as of attack or beating her he barely touched her as if she was delicate like glass and if he layed his massive hands on her she would shatter like glass.Her mother held her tight pressing her cold cheek tight against Harley's flaming hot cheek.Harley grinned and her mother kissed her on the cheek.Harley glanced at her mother with anxious but nervous eyes.Helena passed Harlequin to her father Bailey.Frightened Bailey took her in a surprising soft grasp.

Harley sighed and glanced at her foster sister Lulu and then took a step toward her but refused to hug her in any sisterly way.She just nodded and Lulu nodded back.Harley stepped back and glanced at her foster family."Bye.Be good Harlequin."They all said at once.Harley nodded and turned on the ball of her heels and turned towards the massive piece of machinery and stepped on it, hesitating and taking one last look at her family and then turned back and started towards the aisle looking for a compartment she could sit in.She noticed one girl sitting in a compartment.She did not look she was going to bite so she decided to sit with her.She slid the door open slowly and stared at the girl.

"Mind.If I sit here?"

Harley questioned breaking up Mind into its on sentence.She glanced at the girl with her icy blue orbs and awaited her response to her question.Harley straightened the ends of her Avenged Sevenfold sweatshirt and glanced down at her gray but dusty-looking skinny jeans and she was wearing her favorite red and black converses with little drawings on them of dinos and the words 'Rawr' and other stuff.Harley held her black and red striped bag over her shoulder which contained her camera and book with many drawings, not Anime or stuff like that she mearly hated Anime.She also had a small book of her interest nestled in with all the other junk inside her bag.Like eyeliner,lip gloss,mascara,and eye shadow and stuff like that. [/size][/color][/left]

[absentminded]

Gawd, it's not like you'll never ever see them again Alyssa thought as she saw mothers with running mascara. Her parents had been really easy with letting her go, she supposed this wasn't because they didn't care about her, but they knew Alyssa would be in good hands at Hogwarts. Besides, last nights they were holding all sorts of lectures about how to behave at Hogwarts, what the places to be were, what not to forget and go on like that. She had thought her head was going to burst with information, but surprisingly it hadn't. She supposed the lectures had been there way of saying, goodbye sweetheart, take care. Well, her parents had always been different then most.

Suddenly she spotted her parents' heads somewhere in the crowd. While most of the people were still standing there facing the train so they could wave their children/relatives goodbye, her parents were already heading towards the barrier that lead them off of platform nine and three quarters. She shrugged, why should she care whether her parents were waving or not. She couldn't help to feel slightly disappointed though. They seemed almost happy that their girl was gone.

But as the door to her cabin opened, her thoughts were drifted away from the subject. She looked at the girl who entered and gave her a welcoming smile. "Of course I don't mind." Was Alyssa's answer. "I am Alyssa by the way, and you are..?" Would this girl be a first year too? She wondered, but she didn't feel like asking, not wanting to shot a thousand questions to the girl at once. If somebody would have done that to Alyssa she'd probably run and hide, seeing the person as a potential stalker or so.

[harlequin]

Harley grinned and,nodded at the girl as she approved of her presence.

[/size][/font]"Thank you."Luckily because most of the compartments she would rather not sit in.Harlequin took a seat across from the girl and placed her bag next to her.Harlequin glanced at the girl who introduced herself as Alyssa.[/size]"Nice to meet you Alyssa,I'm Harlequin but everyone calls me Harley."She told her.Everyone called her Harley because it was sorta like Gnarly and it was much easier to say and shorter then saying Harlequin.So Harley decided to tell her name was Harlequin because if she told Alyssa that her name was Harley then her birth parents where obviously insane to name her that.But she liked Harley since it was much easier to say.Her name is pronounced the exact same way it sounds.

Harley grinned and wondered if the girl across from her was a first year as well.It was a possiblity.Her icy blue orbs scanned the crowd again for her foster family all of their faces blank.She knew it was not hard to let her go.She was not their bi-logical daughter anyway so it was not hard to let her go but if they let Lulu go their real daughter she was sure of the tears would start flowing but since she was not it was just as of letting go their once favorite antique table they are sad but not sad enough to shed any tears over it.Harley glanced back at the girl and decided to ask a question.Not stalker like just a curious question.

"Are you a first year...as well?"Harlequin questioned her curiously.She had many questions to ask her but decided to refrain from all of them.Before she made her self look like a stalker.Which she is not.For a minute Harley though about her past in just 3 years she had lost her mother and her father,both from cancer.It was not a hard matter to get over but in just 4 years.Her mother died first and following the next 2 years she lost her father as well.All she had was a small memory of them in her mind.She still had her bi-logical brother and also a foster sister.She always wanted a sister.But by blood instead of foster.She sighed silently to herself and glanced at Alyssa awaiting her answer.Harlequin ran her fingers slowly through her hair as if she wanted it to have a dramatic affect or something.[/color][/left]

[absentminded]

[OOC: this one's going to be shorter, sorry]

Harlequin. Now that was one awesome name. Better then the less inspiring Alyssa. Though she didn't complain about her own name, it would do. The sound of Harlequin was just.. how to call it. Anyways, to Alyssa it was a bit of a waist of such a beautiful name to make a nickname for it. She could imagine why they'd nickname her though, Har-le-quin it was a pretty long name and besides Harley was an ok name to. Harley Davidson xD. Wasn't that a muggle motor cycle brand? Alyssa wondered. How she knew about muggle motor cycle brands was a big question, but somehow she remembered that name. "That's a cool name." she said. Even though she realized later that it sounded as if she was about to create a Harlequin fan club any minute.

For a moment Alyssa wondered if the girl could read minds. She knew that it was possible for wizards to learn how to, though she wondered if one who was still studying magic at Hogwarts had enough magical skills to actually read minds. It sounded like it was really advanced magic. However. As Harlequin asked whether she was a first year too, right after Alyssa had wondered in which year she had been, Alyssa couldn't help but thinking she had this magical skill. "Yes I am. A proud one. Are you excited?" She asked.

[harlequin]

[occ:mine too.>3]

Harlequin if you say that name for so long it sounds weird.Like Harlequin Harlequin Harlequin...at first it may seem pretty cool but after you here it so much it sounds strange.But it was her name.Unique.Not a lot of people had that name.Nor did they have Alyssa maybe a few but not as many.Mostly Alicia or most people had the name of Alyson or Allison.Harley was just what she was used to being called.Like if you called her Harlequin and she was not facing you she might not who your talking too.Crazy Harlequin..>3

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"Thanks,your name is cool also."Harlequin said being honest.It was.Alyssa.Purdy.Harlequin glanced at her with anxious eyes.She could not wait to get to Hogwarts.Gosh she really hoped she would not bounce up and down from being so anxious.She really liked the idea of being a first year and also wanted to graduate but not so fast.[/size][/font]"Me too..I can not wait."She was glad to be coming.Her hyperness was taking over.She stared out the window.At the scenery and wondering how long it would be before they got there.[/color][/left]

[absentminded]

[ooc: it's difficult to create long posts when you're just sitting still, maybe we should go trash the train or something. xD]

Alyssa grinned. "Maybe we should swap names for a week." She joked. "It's difficult to be called the same for, in my case 16 years, without getting bored of the name." Ok, maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to actually swap. She imagined that they'd go to the sorting and then the hat would call Harlequin and she'd walk up to the hat and Harlequin would be sorted into the house she shouldn't be in. Hmz. Maybe another time. It would be funny and confusing the names. Confusing people could be fun. xD

The longer they talked about Hogwarts, more desperately Alyssa wished the train would already be there. But she knew it would take like another 5 hours before they'd arrive. How were they going to spend the time? Maybe they could go checking out other compartments or trying to find the candy trolley Alyssa's dad had told her about. "It's going to be soo awesome!" She said. "Did you know you was a witch, or did you find out when the letter came?" Alyssa wondered. She couldn't imagine what it would be like to just find a letter saying you were a witch, without having known of it for all your life like she had. She'd probably have thought it was some sort of joke..

[harlequin]

[occ:I know, that would be funny, maybe we should xD.]

Harlequin listened to Alyssa's proclamation about swapping names for a week.Maybe it could be possible.But not at first maybe after 2 weeks or so.She did want to trick some people though.It would be hilarious and it would go down as a legend,possibly.Gosh she wished she had a twin or something.Then she could totally trick someone to thinking that she was her sister or something.Too bad.She did not having any sisters that she knew about.Or did she?Probably not though."That would be sweet...but maybe in like two weeks or something."She said staring out the window.

Harlequin slowly cocked her head to the side.How could you waste a few hours having fun.Maybe talk or something.Harlequin was brain dead at the moment.She really had nothing to say.Actually she did but it was too many questions.She would have to break them down.[/size][/font]"Yeah,I knew I was before I got the letter.My mom was doing some crazy stuff and I asked her about it and turns out I am a witch.Did you know before?"Harlequin said plainly.It was kinda freaky to learn it at first.But then she got used to learning that she was.It was way before she had foster parents. [/color]

[absentminded]

So Harlequin had known about the magical word as well. "Well, I basically grew up with magic." Alyssa explained. "I've known that I was a witch for all my life, both my parents were so they knew that I'd be a witch too, well, there was a 99% chance I would." Quite a contradiction, for some students the letter had been filled with amazing discoveries, while for Alyssa it had just been a piece of paper with facts upon it she already knew.

She had a thousand more questions to ask the girl, but it would be quite boring to have a conversation like it was some sort of job interview, so maybe they should do something else. "So," Alyssa started. "What are we going to do now?" She hoped Harlequin would have an idea. So yeah, Alyssa had a bag filled with candy and magazines so she wouldn't get bored, but she had known that even then she'd get bored. Sitting was not exactly her thing. "It's a bit boring to just sit here for 5 hours, don't you agree?"