An Unexpected Friendship

*~Chapter One~*

Kylee Baise groaned as she opened her eyes to see her mother leaning over the side of her bed, trying to wake her.

“Just a few more minutes, then I’ll get up, I promise,” Kylee begged as her mother pulled open the curtains.

“Absolutely not, Kylee! It’s the first day of school and you have to be at the train station in an hour! You’re lucky I made you pack last night or else there’s no way that you would be ready in time,” her mother replied.

“Alright, I’m up.” Kylee knew that once her mom took “that tone” there was no arguing.

“Good, breakfast is in ten minutes,” her mother replied cheerfully.

Kylee drug herself out of bed and grabbed the only pair of clothes she had left unpacked. She quickly got ready and ran downstairs to eat breakfast. When she walked into the kitchen her mother and father were already at the table.

“Morning dad,” she said as she kissed his cheek.

“Good Morning,” he replied as she sat down.

Kylee’s mom set a plate of pancakes in front of her after she had settled in her seat.

“Are you going to come with us to the platform,” Kylee asked her father as she dug into her breakfast.

“Um, I can’t, Kylee. I’m really sorry, but the Ministry needs me to come in early to help with a problem that just came up.”

“Oh, well, that’s ok, I understand,” she replied while trying to hide her disappointment.

“Well, I think that we’d better be going. Are you finished eating,” her mom asked as she was getting up from the table.

“Yeah, let’s go, I want to get a good seat on the train.”

Kylee, her mom, and her dad all walked out to the driveway. Kylee and her mom got into the car while her dad put her trunk and owl in the backseat. After he was done he leaned into the window and kissed her mom goodbye.

“Have a good time at school. I know you’ll make friends in no time,” he told Kylee while he kissed her cheek.

“OK, I will, Bye,” she replied.

“Bye,” he called while they backed out of the driveway.

*~Chapter Two~*

    They arrived at the train station with ten minutes to spare. Kylee worked on lugging the trunk out of the car while her mom went to get a trolly. When they got the trunk, and her owl, Llaya, on to the trolly they went up to the space between platforms nine and ten. Kylee's mom explained that in order to get to platform nine and three quarters you have to run at the wall. They both grabbed on to Kylee's cart and took off running, just at the point where Kylee was afraid that they were going to run in to the wall, they were on the other side. The platform was bustling with activity as students rushed on and off of the train to load all of their trunks. Kylee told her mother that she would be right back and rolled her trolly along side the train until she found an empty compartment. She then attempted to unload her trolly and get it in to the compartment, but succeded only in nearly crushing her foot.

"Do you need help with that," a voice called from behind her.

"Actually, yes. Generally I wouldn't admit defeat, but I packed so much damn stuff that I can just barely lift it," Kylee replied while turning around to see a tall, handsome blonde boy standing behind her.

"I can see that. Here, you take that end and I'll grab this one," the boy directed.

They then spent the next minute or so loading her trunk, and Llaya, on to the shelves above her seat.

"Thanks, I would have never gotten that in here before the train left me behind," Kylee said while turning around to face him.

"It would have been a shame to not see your pretty face at school. I'm Draco Malfoy, son of Lucius Malfoy, I'm a sixth year Slytherin, what about you? I don't remember seeing you before, and I'd remeber you," Draco stated flirtatiously.

"Oh, I'm Kylee Baise. I'm pretty sure that you haven't seen me before, unless you've been to America lately, I just moved here."

"Really? Well that explains why I haven't been graced with your presence before. I hate to leave you, but the trains going to leave in a minute and I need to go say bye to my parents."

"Oh! I told my mom that I would be right back, she probably thinks that I got lost, so I think I need to go."

"Yeah, same here. I hope to see a lot more of you at Hogwarts," Draco stated as they exited the train car.

Once they were out of the train they both went their separate ways. Kylee worked her way through the crowd and over to her mother. She could already tell that her mother had been worried about her from the look of her face.

"Oh, Kylee, there you are! I was getting worried about you. I thought that you had gotten lost, or kidnapped, or something hoorible like that," her mother said while pulling her into a tight hug.

"It's alright mom, I was having some trouble getting my trunk onto the train and then this nice boy came over and helped me."

"Oh, a boy, huh? So I see that you will have no problems with making friends. Whats his name?"

"His name is Draco, Draco Malfoy," Kylee stated while trying to avoid looking her mother in the face. She knew her mother would be smiling at her and then she would get teased about "having a boyfriend."

Sure enough, when she looked up her mother was smiling, but luckily the train whistle blew right then and she was saved from the teasing.

"Well, I guess you need to go get on the train...I'll owl you all the time to check on you, OK?"

"Yeah, mom, but I'll be fine. I don't want you to spend all of your time worrying about me,OK," Kylee asked as she pulled her mother in to a hug.

"OK, I promise I won't spend all my time worrying, I'll just spend all of it thinking about you and your boyfriend. Now go get on the train," her mother said while laughing at the expression on Kylee's face.

Kylee gave her mom one last hug and took off running for the train. She just made it in to the car when the train started to move. She opened the window and waved to her mom until the train turned the corner. She had just got settled in her seat when the compartment door slid open. She looked up just in time to see three people walk in.

"Oh, we didn't know anyone was in here. We checked earlier and the car was empty. Do you mind if we sit with you," a girl that looked about her age asked.

"No, not at all. I would love to have some company. I just moved here and I don't know anyone," Kylee said while smiling at them.

"Oh, well now you know us. I'm Hermione Granger, this is Harry Potter, and this is Ron Weasley."

"It's nice to meet you, I'm Kylee Baise. Sorry, I'm not trying to be rude and put you on the spot, but are you THE Harry Potter?"

"Yeah, lightning bolt scar and all," Harry said while pulling back his hair to reveal his scar.

"Wow, I've heard about you back home," Kylee replied.

"Where are you from," Ron asked.

"I was born in America and lived there until last year, but my parents are from here."

"That's cool. Your going to love Hogwarts, It's a really great school."

"I'm sure I will, I've heard a lot about it from my parents."

At that moment the compartment door slid open once more and in walked Draco Malfoy, along with his cronies, Crabbe and Goyle.

"Kylee, I've been looking all over for you," Malfoy said, "What are you doing hanging with these three?"

"Oh, hey Draco. Um, I was just talking to Harry, Hermione, and Ron about Hogwarts."

"Ah, well just be careful about who you hang around," Malfoy replied, "Oh, Mudblood, McGonagall says that your neglecting your prefect duties, so you better hurry up and get up to the front compartment."

"You better not call her that agian, Malfoy," Ron said through gritted teeth.

"And what if I do, are you going to get your friends to beat me up," Malfoy replied with a sneer.

Ron jumped out of his seat, but Harry held him back. Malfoy turned and walked out of the compartment with Hermione in tow.

"Why did Draco act that way towards you? He was so nice to me earlier."

"Yeah, well Malfoy and us have been enimies from the very begining, but you can make your own choices about him," Harry replied.

After that they settled in to their seats and had an enjoyable ride. After a while Hermione returned and they talked for the rest of the journey, quickly becoming friends.