Glass Love

Chapter 1

Glass is beautiful when the sunlight is reflecting off it, at least that was what Orla was thinking as someone bumped into her. "Watch it, redhead." Draco Malfoy protested with disgust as Orla scoffed. "You're the one that bumped into me."

"Well, she's not a Weasley." Blaise laughed as Orla spoke in a heavy Irish accent. "Clearly." Draco states before sitting down at the booth in the Slytherin car. "You must be a Malfoy." Orla says sitting down next to him while glaring profusely at the two.

"I'm surprised you know." Blaise says, attempting to intimidate her accent. This made her blood boil and suddenly, there was a loud cracking noise beside the three. Everyone in the moving cart went silent looking towards the huge crack in the window.

"Did something hit us?" Pansy and her friends stood up looking out the windows, expecting something to be attached to the train. After a few moments, conversation picked back up.

Orla stood up and stared at the crack before clearing her throat and walking towards the back of the train. Sitting down, she pulled out a book from her bag before looking back up towards the two jerks. 'I'll hex them both later.' Orla thought before reading her book 'Atlas of Celestial Anomalies.'

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Draco looked back towards Orla with curiosity before turning back towards Blaise. "I can't wait for this year to be done already and it hasn't even started." Blaise shook his head at Draco before looking back at Orla. "We're going to have fun with that one this year. She sounds very Irish. I wonder why she's attending our school and not the one in Ireland."

Draco shrugged before looking up at the glass that was cracked and wondered what could have hit the window that hard. He had not seen anything fly towards it, but then again, he was caught up in a conversation with the new girl to even notice such things.

Soon after sunset, the train parked at the platform allowing all of the student to unload and stretch out before riding the carriages to the castle where they would spend the next months training to become better witches and wizards.

Orla carefully placed her book back in her bag before hefting it on her shoulder and walking onto the platform. Everything was so different here in Britain and it unnerved her a bit. Taking a deep breath in, she started to follow all of the other students towards carriages pulled by thestrals. It made her a bit sad that she could see them, but that part of her life was behind her now.

"You'll be safe at Hogwarts, my darling." Her mother's thick accent rang through her head as an older man helped her into a carriage. The Malfoy boy was waiting there with a few of his friends. 'Perfect. Just what I wanted.' She thought rolling her eyes.

"Funny how we keep ending up together. Maybe we should go out sometime." Blaise says with a nod looking towards Orla. "If you would like to." She replies before leaning on edge of the carriage and looking at all of the greenery that hid the path.

"Of course, since you haven't even asked me my name, I don't think so. Your manners could use some work." She said with a teasing smile while keeping her eyes on the trees. Soon, a beautiful castle came into view making Orla's eyes widen a little. She had never seen Hogwarts before.

She was quite beautiful he had to admit.

Once Orla turned towards him, he was entranced with how green her eyes were. That when he noticed around the pupil, she had patches of.. white?

"My name is Orla Ricci." Orla introduces herself with a small smile while looking into Dracos eyes. 'That name sounds so familiar to me.' Draco thought before nodding and looking away. There wasn't much conversation after that.