Chapter 27: The Knight bus

Lucy sat on the curb at the end of the road she lived in on Spinners end, she had hit a dilemma. She had no idea how she was going to get to the burrow! She stroked Angus who was fast asleep on her lap, Lucy checked her watch and saw it was five thirty and it was begginig to get dark. Lucy at this point wished she had a broom so she could fly to the Weasley's house, but then again the Ministry would have a go at her and she would be sent to Azkaban with all those dementors. At the thought of dementors made Lucy shudder...

Just then the wind picked up a little bit, and it seemed rather eerie...Lucy hugged Angus tighter and he purred not realising what was going on. She looked around her to make sure no one was going to attack her or anything, luckily there was no one there, but Lucy's thoughts were suddenly drawn to a triple decker purple bus, it was coming towards her! Lucy shrieked slightly and stood up. The bus pulled up and a boy of well man of eighteen hopped off. 

Lucy stared at him in disgust, he was wearing rather grubby clothes, had too many blemishes and looked as though he could do with a good wash and he tried to make himself look welcoming, Lucy sneered and stepped back a few paces. 

"Hello there misses, I am Stan and this is the knight bus for the stranded witch or wizard" he said lazily patting the side of the bus gently, Lucy still looked in disgust but she spoke anyway she couldn't help but still sneer

"OK first of all it isn't 'misses' it's Lucy Snape and second have you ever in your life heard of zit cream or maybe a bar of soap?" Lucy hissed at him

"Alright! Alright! Keep your wig on!" 

Lucy snarled at the bloke

"So where is it you want to go misses?" He asked, he was obviously winding her up now

"I would like to go to the burrow" she growled 

"Well come on then! We can't just stand around all day waiting for the grass to grow! Come on! Come on! We haven't got all day!" 

Lucy frowned and hopped on the bus, this 'youth' was doing her head in already and the bus ride hadn't even started

"To the burrow she says Ern" Stan was speaking to an old man at the wheel and above him was a shruken Jamacian head, thing...And it suddenly began to speak

"Yeah Ern! To the burrow!" It said, the old man called Ern jumped and began to drive the bus extremly fast 

"So you say your a Snape ay?" Stan asked Lucy

"Well yes er no...Severus Snape adopted me and I took his surname"

"You hear that Ern? This misses was adopted by Severus Snape" Stan sniggered and Ern grunted he was obviously concentrating

"So then misses why would you be heading to the burrow?" Stan asked stroking his chin, Lucy swore she was going to punch Stan if he called her misses one more time

"Because i'm good friends with the Weasley's!" Lucy shrieked the last part as the bus took a sharp turn making the bus jolt and the chandiler to shake above 

"Very well...But it's Christmas eve! Shouldn't you be at home with your daddy?" 

"Well...er...I er wanted to go to the Weasley's because like I said they're good friends" Lucy stuttered and then she was thrown back onto an empty bed 

Stan nodded then pulled out the Daily Prophet and began to read it, Lucy looked at the front cover and saw Sirius Black laughing his head off Holding an Azkaban card with his number on it, Lucy sighed she knew Sirius Black in wolf form and he wasn't a bad guy, he meant no harm but he was trying to kill someone, but it wasn't a student or teacher, it made Lucy wonderd who he wanted to kill and why...

"Old Lady at three o'clock!" The Jamican face said, just then Ern slammed on the breaks sharply and Lucy was thrown against the window, Lucy groaned as she helped herself up again, the bus started again. Suddenly the bus pulled up.

"We're here" Ern grumbled

"Here we are misses!" Stan said brightly folding up his newspaper and tossing it behind him 

"Good..." 

Stan held out his hand for money, Lucy stared at it she didn't have any money...But because Stan had been rude to her she gave him a high five, but then sneered and wiped her hand on her skirt. She hopped off  and heard Stan shout

"Take it away Ern!" 

The she heard the face

"Yeah! Take it away Ern!"

The Knight bus shot off again and Lucy was glad to get away from it, Lucy clutched Angus with one arm and brushed off her skirt with the other, then she looked up and saw a big house leaning above her. This must be the burrow...