𖧷𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑡𖧷

𝙲𝚑𝚙𝚝. 𝟷

Beatrice;

The second I sit down voices surround me.
Where are you from?
Why did you transfer here
Hi I'm ....
What's your name? Dumbledore didn't say it loud enough
Knox right??

I had just been sorted into the "Slytherin house". Many questions surrounded me and although I could have tried to answer them I just sat there and ignored everyone. I turned to my right to see a dark brunette girl, she seemed to be the only one at the table besides the boy next to her who hadn't talked to me or asked me any questions.

"𝙱𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝙺𝚗𝚘𝚡,"

She turns to me making sure I was talking to her then positions herself so she's able to shake my hand. Her grumpy face turned into a smile full of perfectly straight white teeth.

"Astoria Winchester, pleased to meet you Miss Knox"

I smile at her. She seems sweet, once people see me talking to Astoria they quiet down more. Maybe they're scared of her, but if they were I didn't understand why. Astorias smile made me feel like she was the sweetest girl in the world.

"Would you like to go to the Slytherin common room? Or dorms, I'm sure you wouldn't mind sitting here but I cannot stand the constant sound of these first years chewing with their mouths open"

I smile at her, making sure to note that she does not like it when people have improper table etiquette.

"𝙸 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢"

She smiles and immediately stands up taking my hand as she does so. As I turn to look at the rest of the table I spot the boy from earlier. He was not looking at me this time though, he was looking at another boy. The boy he was talking to had curly dark brown hair, and a few cuts on his face. Before I can analyze anything else about the two boys, I am snapped out of it from Astoria tugingmy hand to signal that she wants to leave.

After what felt like years of walking up stairs we finally made it to the Slytherin common room. Although I still did not understand all of this, it was nice to see we had our own "common room". On the way Astoria and me talked a lot about my old school and how it was only girls. She said she'd kill to be in an all girls school because it meant she could get away from all the insufferable boys in this school. She showed me the bathrooms and many hidden hookup places along with most of the classrooms. With each classroom she had a new story about a teacher who once taught in it or still taught in it. She had many funny stories about a teacher she called Snake, she said his real name was Snape and to be careful because snake tends to leave students mouth all the time and he isn't scared to give them detention the second it does.

She opens the doors to the common room after telling the magical painting our "room password" which was snicker doodles. It was a funny password but easy to remember, I'm sure that is why they picked it. Especially since Astoria told me how many times the first years forget the password and end up getting locked out of the dorms for hours on end. It felt like years but I am guessing it was closer to an hour that we had been gone. We walked into the common room and it smelt of green apples, cinnamon, vanilla, and a hint of pine. There were floating lights, but they were dimmed so the vibe of the place was very nice. Astoria led me to a fire place surrounded by black couches, each had a cluster of people. Except for one love seat, it had a very grumpy looking blonde boy sitting in it. Astoria spotted him first and quickly strutted over to sit on the arm of his chair.

"Pardon me for being so rude, this is Draco"

She states as she nods her head in the direction of the boy sitting in the chair she's currently sitting on. Next she nods in the direction of a dark colored boy who was sitting at a table closer to the fire place playing chess with a chestnut color haired boy.