A/N: Hey nerds! This is my first Albus/O.C. story so I hope you like it. I like this pairing and I wanted to experiment with it so here goes. Bye nerds!
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
Finally it was time for me to go to school!
I'd been waiting for three years ever since my sister got her letter, and my mother told me about the amazing school of Ilvermorny, a school for american witches and wizards to learn magic. My sister Marie had started going when she turned eleven, and each summer she came home with stories of new adventures of her year at school.
It was the day that I would go to the train station and get on a special train to my brand new school. I woke up and immediately got into my favorite t-shirt, it had a huge golden snitch on it, got into my favorite black jeans, grabbed both my notebook and my camera, and I ran downstairs to the kitchen and plopped down in my seat at the table. My mother Katlyn served me a big plate of bacon and, a couple of over-easy eggs.
"How was your morning, Cassidy?" Marie asked.
"I've asked you not to call me by my full name, Marie." I replied through gritted teeth, glaring at her.
"How was your morning, Cass?" My brother Ethan asked sensing a fight coming on between us. My sister always refuses to call me by my nickname, she says it's improper.
"Perfect, I slept like a baby." I replied now through a mouthful of bacon.
My sister cringed and said " Egh, chew with your mouth closed, please."
"Fine." I said and swallowed my bite.
"What's up dude?" My father, Randall, asked, ruffling my hair.
"Nothing much, just really excited. First day of school and all." I replied.
"You didn't tell her?!" My mother asked him, exasperatedly.
"Oops, thought I had." He replied sheepishly.
"Told me what?" I asked suddenly very curious.
"Ummm, buddy, you're not starting school today." My father said smiling.
"Why not?" I asked, still confused.
"We're moving to England." My mother said.
"WHAT?!" I asked so surprised that I was almost furious. I started to make the curtains blow up in the windows, and the glasses on the table were shaking, looking as if they would shatter any second.
"Moving to England won't be too bad." My brother said trying to calm me, just as one broke.
"That's not my problem, it's just that I wasn't told." I said calmer now. " What school will we be going to then?"
"Hogwarts, it's where your mother and I met." My father said. The glasses on the table had stopped shaking, but it still seemed windy in the kitchen.
"I guess it'll be alright." I replied, slumping in my chair. The curtains stopped swaying and everyone at the table let out a breath that I hadn't realized they were holding in.
That's another thing about me, I can't really control my magic. When I get really mad, or surprised, or just flat annoyed things start happening, like that morning. It scares my family sometimes, but mom says it's just because I'm a really powerful witch.
So that day I found out that I wouldn't actually be going to my new school for a month.
Later that week we'd gotten packed up and so we left for the airport. We got on the plane and flew for what felt like forever, I slept most of the time but still, forever.
We got to England and spent the rest of the month unpacking and settling into our new house.
The day before I was to go to Hogwarts I decided to go for a short ride on my broom.
I hiked up to a small patch of trees that would shield me from any muggles that happened to be walking around the neighborhood, got on my broom, and took off.
After about a half an hour I was flying around and suddenly a boy flew straight into the side of my broom. I almost fell but he caught me with surprisingly stronger arms than he looked to have. "Who are you!?" He asked surprised to see another person on a broom.
"Cassidy Leons, who are you?!" I replied.
"Scorpius Malfoy of course!" He exclaimed like my question were the stupidest thing he'd ever heard.
"What's your problem flying into me like that then?" I asked.
"My problem, I didn't know you existed." He said still seemingly annoyed.
"Well that's probably because I only got here a month ago." I murmured.
"Land for a moment." He said.
I did as told and flew to the forest floor. Once I landed he started bombarding me with questions.
"Where are you from?" "How did you get here?" "Where did you learn to fly like that?" "This might be considered rude, but what's your blood status?" He asked all at once.
I replied by answering them all at once. "I'm from Texas. I got here in a muggle contraption called a plane. My father taught me to fly when I was four. And I'm pureblood, for your information."
"Well now that I know that, I'm guessing that you'll be going to Hogwarts." At my nod of affirmation he continued. "What house do you expect to be in?"
"I have no idea, I don't know anything about the houses here." I replied now curious as to what I would do depending on the house I became a part of. "If I were still in America, I'd expect to be in Horned Serpent."
"I don't know what Horned Serpent means, but I can tell you about the Hogwarts houses". He replied smiling.
"Ok." I said leaning my broom against a big rock and then climbing up on it to sit down. Scorpius climbed up and started explaining the houses.
About an hour later I knew everything I could possibly need to about the four Hogwarts houses. I walked back up to my house after promising to look for Scorpius on the train in the morning. I told my family about Scorpius and they congratulated me on being the first to make a friend in the new environment.
The next morning I put on the brand new outfit my mother had bought me. A regular tee with a baseball on the front, and a regular pair of blue jeans. I ran downstairs waiting for the clock on the wall to tick all the way to 10:30 when we would leave for the train station.
When we got to the train station I said goodbye to my parents and rushed onto the train to look for my friend. I finally spotted him after walking almost the full length of the train. "Hey." He said when I sat down across from him.
"Hey, what's up?" I replied.
"Nothing much, candy?" He replied, holding out a handful of candies.
"Sure, got any Pepper Imps?" I asked.
"Yeah here." He said handing me a few of them.
After that we fell into a comfortable conversation. We played Wizard's Chess and Exploding Snap, and then we fell into another conversation, and before we knew it we were at Hogwarts looking at this amazingly beautiful castle.
Since we'd transferred to a new school my siblings would be sorted with the first years, but thankfully they wouldn't be in first year they'd be placed in the same year they'd have been in at Ilvermorny.
The sorting ceremony went surprisingly quickly. Marie was placed into Ravenclaw, Ethan into Slytherin, Jayden Zabini into Hufflepuff, and soon it was my turn.
"Leons, Cassidyy" I heard. So I walked up to the stool that had been placed at the front of the room, I sat down and the hat barely touched my head before it screamed "HUFFLEPUFF!" I jumped off the stool and ran to the table in the middle of the room, which was decorated by a yellow and black tablecloth.
Then it was Scorpius's turn, he walked up front confidently, or so it seemed for everyone else. But I could tell that underneath the smirk playing on his lips he was very scared. He sat on the stool and pulled the hat over his eyes. "Hufflepuff!" it yelled to my great surprise and happiness. He bounded down the steps and ran to me, engulfing me in a hug as soon as he got there.
That night after the feast the Hufflepuffs threw a welcome party for the first years in the common room. Let's just say it was a good thing that noone had any classes the next morning because the party didn't end until 5:00 a.m.
The first year girls dormitory was set up like this when we all got there: Four four poster beds, two on each side of the room, a dresser next to each bed for the girl who would be sleeping there, a door on the far left of the room led to a large walk-in closet that we would all be sharing, and on the far right side of the room there was a small bathroom with two walk-in shower cubicles, and of course a toilet and four sinks each with a mirror above it.
The other girls and I had introduced each other before bed the night before and decided that we would just pick a bed for the night and that the next day we would all decided how we wanted the room to be situated for the most efficiency for all of us and who would get which bed, mirror, and dresser, and that we would also discuss how to split the closet so that each of us got a fair amount, and if more than one of us needed to get in at the same time if would be easy for all of them to work at the same time. So I couldn't unpack until all the others woke up and being an early riser, I woke up first so I decided to grab one of my favorite books and read until the others were awake.
When they woke up we got straight to work. It took about half an hour to get everything set up. But it looked good when we did finish. The dressers now each had a nametag in the corner of the top drawer, our trunks were unpacked and pushed underneath our beds, the mirrors in the bathroom each had a nametag in the bottom right corner, and the sinks were stacked with things that belonged to the name on each mirror. We had split the closet with thin dividers marking where each person's section would start and end. Then when we finished we sat in a circle - well more like square - on the floor and decided to get to know each other, since we'd be sleeping in the same room for the next few years. We started by introducing ourselves again.
I started " My name is Cassidy Leons, and I'm from America."
"Rose Weasley, pleased to meet you, my family said I would've been Ravenclaw if I weren't so social." A tall redhead, with blue eyes spoke up next.
She was soon followed by an excitable looking girl with mousy brown hair and hazel eyes. "I'm Alice and I'm pleased to meet you all." She smiled brightly.
Then a small girl with bright green eyes and blonde hair said quietly "I'm Natalie Peterson, muggle born."
After the introductions Alice and Rose told us that they knew a couple of the boys in first year Hufflepuff, and I remembered that Scorpius had been sorted into Hufflepuff too, along with that Zabini boy. So we decided to go and see if they were up considering with our combined relations we knew all but one of them.
We got to the boy's dorm and the only one who was up was Zabini. We asked him if he minded us coming in and he shrugged so we walked in and all but Natalie chose a boy to wake, Rose went for Albus Potter, Alice her brother Frank, and I of course went towards Scorpius. Or at least that's who we thought we were waking. Alice thankfully did end up at her brother's side considering her method of waking him was a kiss to the cheek - which surprisingly he jumped awake at and pulled her onto the bed to start attacking her by means of tickling- whereas Rose and I weren't so lucky. I ended up with Albus and Rose with Scorpius.
I leaned over the side of his bed slowly and whispered in his ear "Get up sleepyhead you're missing half of your day already." To my great surprise however instead of waking up and telling me to shove off like I expected - Scorpius had fallen asleep on the train and I'd had to wake him - he grabbed me by the waist and pulled me onto the bed next to him saying that he just wanted five more minutes and asking me to stay with him. As this happened I heard the reaction I'd been expecting come from the other end of the room.
When Rose realized that she'd found Scorpius instead of Albus and that Alice was still wrestling with her brother, she looked over to find me trying to pry myself out of the arms of her cousin, who had an extremely strong grip. She rushed over and helped me free taking my place and turning over on her side to tell Albus that he couldn't have five more minutes it was time now, apparently this happened often because now he reluctantly got up and put on his glasses.
A/N: In the next chapter I will hopefully introduce the startings of my relationship goals for this fic, though the relationships won't start until at least third year maybe even after. Hope you enjoyed this! See you next time. Please review, it helps a lot. Bye nerds!