Among the Stars

            For the second time in her life, Wisteria Evans is in awe of beautiful scarlet train sitting in front of her. With a smile already coming to her face, Wisteria is knocked over by a sudden force slamming into her side. Before she can look up she hears a familiar voice say,

       "Jane." Mrs. Tuft stands above her daughter with a disaproving and slightly amused look on her face. "Hello Wisty, how was the last few days of your summer?"

       "Peaceful." Wisteria says as Jane gets off of her and she stands herself back up. "Without the girls around there was an odd sense of quietness."

       "I know what you mean." Mrs. Tuft tells her.

       "I'm happy to be going back though. I missed the school."

       "Well, it wont be long now!" Christine says loudly as she approaches, already having gotten away from her family.

       "No it wont." James says as he slides up beside Lily. "And I can't wait until I'm seeing your lovely face every day again Lily-pad." Lily glares at him. For a moment he looks disappointed, but he quickly recovers and says, "My lovely Lily, your temper seems to get the better of you often. Perhaps I should stop calling you Lily-Pad and change your pet name to Tiger-Lily."

       Lily's glare intensifies. "I'm not your pet." She snaps at him before turning abruptly in the other direction, whipping him in the face with her hair, and then walking away.

       Sirius' familiar chuckle is heard before he is seen. He walks over to the group of friends from where his brothers were standing. Mercury glares at their group for a moment before turning to talk to his friends and drag his little brother onto the train with him. Christine gives Sirius a small, sad look, but hides it well and quickly.

       "James, have you seen Remus or Peter yet?" Sirius asks as he slings an arm around his friends shoulders.

       "Remus is on the train saving us a place and Peter is running a little late, as usual."

       "Wonderful. Well, I think I'm going to join Remus then." Sirius starts to walk away before looking at Wisteria, Jane, and Christine and giving them a small, polite smile. "Ladies." He mumbles.

       As he walks away Penelope comes running up to the girls and links her arm with Wisteria's. "Come on. I just saw Shay get on the train."

       The four friends pile onto the train, find the fifth member of their party, and before they know it, they're once again on their way to Hogwarts.

       After arriving at Hogwarts, riding the carriages, and sitting through the sorting ceremony, in which Regulus Black was sorted into Slytherin and Daniel Broodmore was sorted into Gryffindor, the students get to enjoy their first feast of the year. Near the end of the feast, Wisteria finds Michael's eyes. They have a silent conversation using their eyes and both stand up at the same time.

       "Where are you going?" Jane asks.

       "I'm stuffed, and exhausted. I'll talk to you girls in the morning." She gets a chorus of goodnight's as she makes her way to the large doors of the Great Hall, but instead of going to the Ravenclaw tower, she walks outside to the tree that she had claimed as her own.

       As she gets closer she can make out Michael's figure leaned up against the tree. He looks elegant and tense at the same time. Casual, but awkward. He seemed off and it broke Wisteria's heart.

       "This is beginning to be a regular thing." She says in attempt at a lighter topic of conversation. Michael doesn't respond. "How was your summer?" She asks half-heartily, hoping for a response with all her heart, but not really expecting one. "I didn't really hear from you very much. You must have been busy." He doesn't respond. "I heard that your brother went to America for most of it. Did you go with him?" He mumbles and Wisteria can't make out any of the words he's saying. "It takes two people to have a conversation you know."

       "Then perhaps you should find a different person." The way he says it, it sounds like he's trying to be rude and snappy, but can't quite bring himself to do it.

       "I don't know why you're acting like this, but I would greatly appreciate it if you would stop." Wisteria tells him, telling herself to be sensible and not overreact. "I hold my friends very close to my heart and I don't like it when I lose one."

       "Who said I wanted to be friends." He says, his voice quiet, but more confident than a moment ago. "I never wanted to be your friend, and I never considered us to be friends."

       Even with the knowledge that it wasn't true Wisteria feels tears rise to her eyes and her throat close up. "I know you don't mean that." Her voice sounds small and weak. He must sense that because his face hardens as he pushes himself off the tree and walks away without another word.

       The next day Wisteria wakes up later than everyone else. They must've sensed her rotten mood last night because they let her sleep in a little. Luckily she still had enough time to make her way to the Great Hall for a quick breakfast and to pick up her schedule.

       Wisteria is walking down the hallway in the direction of the Great Hall when she feels a sudden weight on her shoulders and look up to see two identical red-head boys with their arms slung around her.

        “Hello Lily.” The one on the right says.  Wisteria opens her mouth to correct the boy, but the one on her left speaks before she gets the chance.

        “How nice it is to see you again.”

        “So,” The one on the right continues, “We were thinking of pulling a prank on Slughorn as our opening prank for the year.”

        “The best opportunity for this of course would be at a Slug Club meeting, you’re in Slug Club right?” The one on the left asks, but once again Wisteria is cut off before she can correct the mistaken boys

        “So we were wondering if you could either sneak us in,”

        “Or take one of us as your plus one to the next meeting so that we can go through with this plan of ours.”

        Wisteria slips out from under their arms and turn to face them. “I’m not in the Slug Club.” She says and the boys look taken aback. “Also, I’m not Lily.”

        “What do you mean you’re not Lily?” One of them asks.

        “Blimey Fabs…” Says the other. “She’s not Lily. Look at her eyes.”

        “They’re… hazel? Well that can’t be right. If you’re not Lily, then who are you?”

        “Her sister. Wisteria.”

        “Lily has a little sister?” One of them says, shocked.

        “Twin, actually.”

        Now they really look confused. “Why were we not aware that our favorite red head outside of our own family is a twin as well?”

        “What a sad world we live in where friends don’t even bother to tell each other about their secret twin.”

        “We apologize for the confusion… Wisteria, was it?”

        “Yes.”

        “Well Wisteria, my name is Fabian.”

        “And mine’s Gideon. We’re the Prewett twins.”