"Mom! Have you seen Paddington?"

"No, honey, I haven't. I'm sure he'll be back soon though."

"Thanks!" I shouted back down at her.

Paddington is my owl. I named him Paddington after a character from one of my favorite books from my childhood [i]Paddington The Bear[/i]. Yes, I named him after a fictional bear, but hey I was little and my mom read me Muggle books back then.

I got him just before I moved to London with my family from the States. We moved from our town in Ohio so that I could go to my dad's old school, Hogwarts. Well that, and my dad had gotten a new job at the Ministry. My mom was a Muggle and had grown up in Ohio and met my dad when he was on business for the Order of the Phoenix. After they met my dad offered to be a full time Order representative in the states, and transferring over to the states Ministry.

I had just finished putting some of my things in my trunk, when Paddington finally flew in my window.

"There you are! I've been waiting for you, Paddington!" I told my owl as I shut him in his cage, just for safe measure.

You see after I was done packing I was going to be going over to The Burrow to spend the rest of the summer, and go to the World Cup with, my best friends Fred and George Weasley. All I had left to find was my bikini. I couldn't wait. I hadn't seen them in a month. One whole horrible month where I'd been stuck in the States, with my family.

*Flash back to the Hogwarts Express first year*

I hadn't been in England long enough to make any friends so, I was trying to find an empty compartment. Luck have it I found one. As I was trying to lift my trunk up onto the rack (which was no easy feat, being just short of 5 foot then), when the twins happened to be passing by. Seeing that I was struggling they opened the door, with their own things in hand, and offered to help me. I was a little thrown off at first, seeing how they had asked at the same exact time, saying the same exact thing, something I would soon grow used to. After I recovered, I gratefully accepted their offer and asked if they had anywhere to sit.

"No, we haven't actually-," One of them started off, as he lifted one end of my trunk,

"We were hoping that we would be able to sit here with you" The other went on, grabbing the other end of my trunk.

"This compartment is much to big for little old you anyways" They both finished together. Yet another thing I would get used too after a while.

"I was hoping you would stay too. I feel like this is going to be an interesting train ride boys" I told them with a smile.

"I'm Fred, the better looking twin, and this one over here in George" Fred introduced them as they put their own things up on the rack.

"Well Fred, the better looking twin, and George, I'm Emma"

After we introduced ourselves, all kinds of questions about America were asked by the twins. My accent having given me away for being American.

"Why are you in England?"

"What's America like?"

The questions went on and on.

After I answered all their questions I had my own, mainly about siblings and such, already knowing most things about Hogwarts and England from my Father.

"How many siblings do you have?"

"What are their names?"

"Are there anymore twins?"

"How old is your sister?"

"Does Ron really whine that much?"

They answered all of my questions with out any hesitations.

Of course there were plenty of jokes played on me. We became fast friends after that. I was sorted in to Gryffindor (my dad was so proud being a Gryffindor himself) and the twins joined me not long after. From then on we've been pulling pranks together and getting in trouble.

*Back to present day*

Finally, after tracking down my bikini I was ready to go. It was now about 3:00, they weren't expecting me for another half an hour so I made myself some pizza rolls. One of the perks of living with a Muggle mother, I got to eat a lot of foods that wouldn't be found in the wizarding world.

By the time I was done eating, I checked my outfit in the mirror, once I was happy with what I saw, I yelled for my parents to tell them that I was leaving and they'd better come and say their goodbyes.

"Mom! Dad! Come here, I'm leaving for The Burrow!"

After about 5 minutes they were both finally with me by the fireplace.

"Bye sweetheart, I'll see you at Christmas." My mom said as she gave me a bone crushing hug.

"Mom, can't breathe."

"Oh sorry honey," She said patting my shoulder.

"It's OK, mom. Just next time remember that I need to breathe in order to come back." I told her with a smile. She just swatted at my shoulder and moved over so that I could give my dad a hug.

"Bye daddy, I'll miss you."

"Bye Emma. Here's some money for your school things and throughout the school year. I'll see you at break" He said all of this while handing me the money and giving me a tight, although not bone crushing, hug.

"Thank you daddy. I'll see you guys soon" I said as I pulled away from my dad and into the fire place.

"Don't give Mr. and Mrs. Weasley to hard of a time now" My mom scolded me once I got in the fireplace.

"I'll do my best." I told her with a cheeky grin.

My dad sat my trunk length wise beside me and handed Paddington in his cage to me.

"Bye guys." I said just before I took a handful of the powder in to the fireplace and shouted "THE BURROW!"