Snippet #2366828

On the complete other side of the platform was a young girl with thick black waves trying to see over the piles of books, robes, crates, boxes, and everything else she was currently holding in her arms. She'd always been much slower than the rest of her family, so there was no one left to help her out. By the time she'd even managed to cross over her siblings were boarding the train.

"Eden, sweetie, do try to hurry," her mother chastised gently as she dropped a kiss on her head and started back towards the entrance. "I've got to get back to the pub. Have a good year!"

"Yes mum," Eden Longbottom--who was hoping and praying with everything in her that she could just make it inside the train without killing herself first--replied softly. However, such hopes for her were unreachable, because at her feet a normally very lazy orange cat was swerving in an out between her legs, more excited than her owner by a long shot. In fact, in the next second, the cat's tail got stuck under Eden's foot, and she went toppling to the ground.

Both cat and girl shrieked out of surprise, one darting away to keep from being hit not only by the girl but everything she had been holding as well, and the other just dropped her forehead on the ground. Please...just let me disappear...

Fits of laughter shot up around her and she was torn between wishing at least one of her parents were there to help her up, and being extraordinary glad they weren't there to see her epic display of grace.