[OPEN] Chosen Sadness

Finn was trying out something new. Every other year, she crawled into a compartment with Ducky and Nora, typically joined by Clementine and Molly and Margo and whatever other hedonistic friends they had collected for the year. From there, she stayed quiet and silent and grimaced through conversations she could not contribute to if she tried. At the end of the trip, Nora and Ducky would clap their arms around her and jostle her, like mom and dad proud of their child for surviving another awkward family exchange. And that would be enough to get her through summer.

But Nora had already left Hogwarts and Ducky was being strange and distant. So she had decided to do something very different that year.

She had picked a random compartment. She had chosen a random book. She had chosen a random song on the small music player that had been given to her by Arthur Yorke. And it was this that kept her from remaining completely oblivious to anyone else. As far as she knew, she was alone in the world.

And even though it was sort of sad, at least it was a sadness she had chosen, and not been forced to endure.

Eun Bi had walked into the train and she tried to find compartment. She didn't really wanna go in very crowded one. She soon found one where was sitting one girl, who she was sure have seen in her own common room, so she was hufflepuff too.

As soon she walked in she almost lost her balance because train did just jolted there. "Hey, did you felt it?" she asked from the girl who read there some book now. "Sorry to disturb you," she added there now quietly. She wasn't sure what was going on for sure here right now. "What was that even, what just happened?" she had to ask it too.

Eun Bi entered the compartment, but Finn doubted the other girl would extend herself far enough to disrupt the bubble that Finn had created for herself.

It wouldn't matter. They didn't find out. Finn didn't hear anything over her music, but she certainly felt the bucking of the train which almost threw Eun Bi across the compartment, had she not caught herself. It was strong enough, however, to knock her from her stubborn desire to be left alone.

She pulled an earbud from her ear and shook her head. "I did but... No I don't know." She stood and peeked out of the compartment. "We're stopped." She shook her head again. "That doesn't make sense."