Originally Posted by lemondrop13

Sloane looked up and down the corridor, absorbing every detail she laid eyes on. She didn't want to miss any part of this experience. She would want to put every detail to parchment later when writing to her family.

Sigh. Her Family. They'd all said their goodbyes fairly quickly and without lingering, not because they didn't care about each other, but because they did. To draw out the goodbye and linger on the platform would have made it increasingly more difficult to part. Instead, like ripping off a bandaid, they hugged and kissed and promised to write regularly and then Sloane was hurrying herself onto the train.

Now here she was looking for a compartment. She was ever so tempted to find an empty one, but she knew NO ONE here and acknowledged that she would never survive Hogwarts on her own. She threw open the door to a compartment with a student sitting near the window and began to enter. Then she noticed the girl looked very upset. Maybe she won't want to be disturbed. I should go... Sloane tried to back quickly out, but the door that she'd thrown open with some force had come back at her and squished her against the door frame. Great. Awesome first impression, doofus! Sloane looked at the girl sheepishly, eyes wide like a deer in headlights.