The train
The platform 93/4 was crowder than usual, Bellatrix barely recognized anyone there.
“Half-bloods... they walk around as if they own this place” Cygnus scowled.
“Oh dear, stop stressing yourself.” Druella caressed Cygnus’ back. “It’s bad for your health.”
Bellatrix had to stand still while her father gave her a sermon, once again, about pureness, the family and honour.
“You’ll write, right?” Andromeda hugged her big sister. That day was awful to the Black sisters, time was their enemy apparently, because they never performed the spell that was going to bind them together.
“I will.” Bellatrix caressed her sister’s long straight hair.
Little Narcissa couldn’t even utter words, her eyes were full of tears. “When will you come back?”
Bellatrix hugged her too. “I’ll be home for Christmas, Cissy.”
She sat on a wagon and glanced outside; her family was already gone.
“Hello, Bellatrix.” A familiar voice called her name, it was none other than Blair Zabini, twin sister of Bruno Zabini. She had brown skin and big doe eyes.
“Blair, I didn’t know you had arrived already.” Bellatrix patted a seat next to her. “Come, last time we saw each other you promised me to tell me all about Dexter Carrow and you.”
Blair’s face changed slightly. “Oh, right.” She sighed. “We broke up.” She dropped a suitcase to the floor.
Bellatrix gasped. “What! But last time we saw each other was not that long ago... three, four months, was it?”
“Are my parents still looking?” Bellatrix looked through the window, no sight of Mr. Or Mrs. Zabini. “I think they’re gone.” Bella looked at Blair as she groaned and laid dramatically in one of the seats.
“Finally, God!” Blair sighed. “I wasn’t really dating him!” She snorted. “Do you take me as desperate? No, I’ve been dating his older brother, Colin Carrow.”
“Why did you lie to me?” Bellatrix frowned slightly.
“Bella, you know our parents they control every single aspect of our lives!” A hand mirror came out of her suitcase and she started doing her makeup. “If I told you and a grown-up heard it would have been the death of me, they’ve would’ve sent me straight to Durmstrang!”
“I assume they don’t approve because you’re eleven and he’s sixteen, right?”
“My parents don’t care about that stuff.” She paused to concentrate while doing her lashes. “If I were to be engage tomorrow with a respectable pureblood, they would marry me off and forget about me.” Bellatrix thought about this, and her own parents would have reacted the same way.
“So, he’s not respectable?” She gasped. “Is he a blood-traitor?”
Blair smirked. “He’s a rebel... He wants to run away to the U.S and study art there.”
“He plans on betraying his family? To avoid his duty?” Bellatrix looked astounded. Do people really dare to do that? She asked herself.
“He talks with passion and excitement!” She sighed, her eyes showing what Bellatrix could only identify as love.
“Are you mad? You’re running away with him?”
“No!” She laughed. “I just love giving him the hope that we might run away together, it makes him kiss me more passionately and...”
Their wagon door opened. “Blair, I swear to Merlin if I heard another word about Colin, I’m telling mother!” It was Bruno, her twin brother.
“I want to hear the rest though...” Rudolphus Lestrange joked as he appeared from behind.
Bellatrix rolled her eyes. Not him. That pretentious and stupid Lestrange was going to be the death of her.
“Bellatrix Black.” Go. Away. Bellatrix frowned at him. She didn’t hate him for any particular reason, but he was beyond annoying, he always acted so righteous in front of her parents but alone, she pushed her buttons, making her want to strangle him. “Have they ever told you you’d be prettier if you smiled more?” With a flick of her hand, Bellatrix smacked Blair’s suitcase on Rudolphus’ head.
“No boys in our wagon.” Bellatrix crossed her arms.
“Easy Black!” He grunted of pain. “A truce while we’re at Hogwarts, hm?” He extended his hand, but all Bellatrix did was slap it.
“Bruno, I told you to leave me alone!” Blair frowned.
“What did Father say, huh? I have to chaperone you until we get to Hogwarts.” Bruno narrowed his eyes.
“Father’s delusional! I can handle myself very well, plus I have Bella, she knows wandless magic, do you know wandless magic Bruno? Hm?”
Bruno sat next to Bella. “I’m staying and that’s final!”
“Yeah! Get her, Bruno!” Lestrange chuckled. “We’re going to have so much fun, you and I.”
“He’s not even going to get sorted in Slytherin, he’s a softy trying to act tough!” Blair scowled. “Have fun in Hufflepuff!” She mocked him.
“I am not falling for any of your antics again” Bruno ignored her insults.
“If you ignore me, I might start talking, you know I love to talk, in fact, I talk so much I might even talk about the Fawley incident...” Blair smiled ominously.
“No, you didn’t!” And they started screaming at each other again. Just as they were fighting, Bellatrix cached the figure of a person she had never seen before. A mudblood She thought. A beautiful mudblood. It was a girl with porcelain skin and curly blonde hair. But her curls were different, they rested softly and effortlessly above her shoulder. In a glimpse she was even able to catch the colour of her eyes, they were blue as the sky.
Mid-journey everyone inside that wagon fell asleep besides Bella, she looking through the window in awe. She was disgustingly rich, yet she had travelled very little. Everything was so green, and the sun lit everything in away that made the eleven-year-old girl emotional.