Here it is! Book 2! I started working on it December 17th, and it's finally here for your enjoyment! Yeah I've had it for four days! I was waiting for there to be 30 reviews or 15 favorites, and thanks to Dancing-Souls giving the thirtieth review, you get an entire chapter of Book 2 instead of just an excerpt!

Also, the last thing I posted in Book 1, if you get Book 1 to 100 reviews and/or favorites, then there will be an audio recording of it with bloopers and pictures of things I'm describing.

Please note: This Chapter is in Jaelah's point of view.

I don't own Harry Potter or it's characters, but I do co-own the characters in this story :)

As I sat in the opening feast for the year, I looked down the many tables of Hogwarts. The first years had been sorted, and all had been accounted for, unlike last year when Vespera was missing when her name was called.

I looked down the Slytherin table, and saw everyone being their normal selves, sophisticated and well mannered. None of them looked like they had that much of a worry to deal with, except for Draco.

Draco, was a mess. I wouldn't forget the day that he, that we, found out about Vespera.

I woke up at 6:40, which is late for the Slytherin girls who get woken up by Vespera every morning. I jumped up and shook the other girls awake, "Come on, we have 40 minutes to get ready, Vespera didn't wake us up."

I glanced over at her bed, and she hadn't made it up yet. I looked curiously at the foot of her bed. Vespera was one of those people that always laid her clothes out at night, before she went to sleep. Usually, if we woke up late, she was either sitting on her bed tying her shoes, or already in her uniform waiting in the common area.

Still, I thought nothing of it.

I quickly got dressed and went out into the common area, still looking for Vespera. I spotted Draco's blond head, and walked over towards him. "Good Morning Jaelah. It's odd seeing you here before Vespera, what's holding her up? I have to ask her why this," he pulled out the snake she had given him for Christmas, that had previously been crystal clear, had now turned pitch black.

I shook my head, "She's not up there Draco, I figured she'd be down here with you. She's not one to leave the common room without the rest of Slytherin." I walked over to the prefects, "Vespera isn't in the commons area, or the dorm, or the showers. Her uniform is still hanging up at the end of her bed."

The oldest male prefect's eyes opened wide, everyone knew of Vespera's rule following. He stood up and walked in the middle of the room, "Everyone! Silence! Have any of you seen Vespera Salazar-Malfoy?"

No one moved, a few people began to whisper, but no one said anything. I took Draco's hand and held it tightly, this was not good.

"Prefects, escort the others to breakfast, I'm going to alert Professor Snape." The guy said.

"Alert Professor Snape to what?" Snape had explicable timing, as always.

"Sir, Vespera Salazar-Malfoy is missing. Her school uniform is still in her room, and she's never left before any of us before. She's a smart student, and she hasn't broken any rules sir. The Slytherin house is worried," the prefect boy frowned deeply.

"Mister Malfoy," Snape turned towards Draco and held out his hand, "The figurine Miss Salazar-Malfoy gave you for Christmas." Draco handed it to him, frowning. The look on Snape's face though worsened. It grew with anger, and upsetness. "Take the students to breakfast, alert Professor Dumbledore. Miss Phantomhive, Mister Malfoy, both of you go up to the Headmasters office. Wait for us there."

We nodded, and walked up the staircase, we were stopped on the way up, by Professor McGonagall. "Mister Malfoy, Miss Phantomhive. Why are you traveling this way? Classes have not started yet, therefore you should be in the Great Hall."

I covered Draco's mouth, before he could be rude and get us in trouble. "Professor, we were on our way to Professor Dumbledore's office, as per request by Professor Snape. Before you can ask why, it is due to Vespera going missing, and her school uniform being on her bed still."

McGonagall's hand went over her face, "Oh my."

The worst thing was though, the look of the boy that was behind her. He looked like he had just died on the inside. "How long will it take before they find her? Is she still okay?"

I looked at Fred and shook my head, "I'm sorry Fred, but no one knows where she is. They'll be doing a point-me spell soon." I looked at Draco, and knew I had to break the news to him soon. "She's not okay. There was a spell put on the Serpent figurine that she gave to Draco for Christmas, it was set to turn different colors. I helped her work on it before our argument. We decided that black wasn't an okay color, so we found a spell based off of that. Black means near death, or dead. The darker the black, the more likely she's dead." I grabbed Draco's hand tightly, and looked right in Fred's eyes, "I'm sorry Fred, but it doesn't seem likely that Vespera is still alive with how black it was."

He kept shaking his head, "No. She can't be. No. No no no." Tears were streaming down his face, and I heard multiple pair of footsteps running up the stairs.

"Fred." Percy took Fred, and acted like the older brother that he was for once. He looked at Draco and me, "I hope that she's okay." He then took Fred up the stairs, assumingly towards the Hospital Wing.

I took Draco, and continued walking towards Dumbledore's office, leaving McGonagall, Snape, and Dumbledore talking. Then I heard Dumbledore say, "Point-Me Vespera Salazar-Malfoy." The three footsteps then took off down the stairs.

Draco went into a silent state, for a few days after we found out what had happened.

People had attacked her, no one knew who, or why. I had the suspicion that Snape knew more than he let on, because a few Slytherins began to complain about the amount of detentions Snape had given them, and Snape rarely gave detentions.

I tried to figure out what had happened on my own, and set out on my own investigation, failing in the end. I hid in the Shadows of Slytherin, I couldn't keep in the main focus, without my partner in crime next to me, and the ones who hurt her still on the loose.

Ever since Draco snapped out of his silent state, he became a total snob. He got a detention for telling on Harry Potter's gang. He became extremely put with Crabbe and Goyle, who were bad influences on him.

The Draco Malfoy I had loved, had done a near 180. It was as if he had never met Vespera, he had blocked all memories of her. He didn't want to face the truth of what had happened to his little sister.

She had been hurt, and he had the means of knowing that, before she died, but he had done nothing, because he didn't know he could.

I glanced over at the Gryffindor table, and saw Fred laughing and messing with his younger sister. He had moved on, he had at least put on the appearance of being okay. I did take notice that Ronald and Harry weren't there. Rumor had it there was a flying car involved with them attempting to get to Hogwarts.

I also noticed that Samuel Nathair wasn't sitting with his Ravenclaws, or any other table. Perhaps Ravenclaw was going to get a new seeker this year, because Sam had left Hogwarts. That decision would serve him right after what he did to Vespera last year, because of a secret.

A secret. That was my missing puzzle piece! Whatever the secret was that made Samuel hurt Vespera, must have been the same secret that made the group of Slytherins go after Vespera. Now I had another hint, and I was one step closer to figuring out the truth of what happened to my best friend, practically my sister.

I picked and shoved my food around, not eating that much. A year ago today was when I first really began to become friends with Vespera. When we went back to the common room, and had our first interaction, the miscommunication between her and Pansy about the broom.

When the prefects were told to lead all of the students to their dormitories, I was ready.

I knew the school year would be different, it only could be. Another year had passed, and each of us was a year ahead of our studies.

In addition, we had a ridiculous Defense Professor.

Rumor had it that Potter had killed Quirrell, a lot of us were relieved. Quirrell was a horrible professor. I didn't think that a professor that was worse than him was possible.

I had read all the defense books, hoping that I would get something knowledgeable from them, before the school year started (Ugh, I sounded just like Vespera did when I first met her). However, as I read each book, I found that none of them had any vital information.

Why in the world would I need to know his favorite color? Or how many times his picture had been printed in newspaper?

I take back my statement of the year being different.

This year was going to be dreadfully boring.

We all walked ahead of the first years, so we could hear the telling of the Chamber of Secrets, after Snape told the first years the rules of course.

I quite enjoyed the telling of the Chamber this year, the third years always told the first years, and a lot of people just sat and listened to the story anyways.

This year's' third years, had a way with storytelling. They not only told the story, but even made the first years jump a few times.

Of course, we had classes tomorrow, so we couldn't just stay up all night telling stories. As people began to go into their dorms Flint announced, "Quidditch opening, we need us a good seeker this year. Second year and higher, no girls." He looked dead serious when he said that, but I swore I saw the reflection of tears brimming over his eyes, as if he made up those rules, just so another Vespera wouldn't be picked.

As I was about to leave the common area, and go up the stairs, I stopped, right at the foot of the not stairs.

The stairs had been converted to a ramp of sorts? This was one of the strangest things I had ever seen, why wouldn't a person have steps? Why would they replace our steps with a ramp?

I frowned, and climbed up this un-majestic ramp, and entered the door that had a "2" printed on it. I changed into my sleep wear, and got into the bed that had my trunk in front of it. I noticed there was an extra bed in our dormitory, each of the other beds already filled. The one closest to the door was empty. There was a trunk at the end of the bed, and that was when I knew we had a new student.

"Tracey, Pansy, Millie, and Daphne, we cannot go to sleep. It appears we're going to have another Slytherin girl in our ranks. Obviously, she doesn't want to be spotted yet. Pretend you're asleep, but when she arrives, we bombard her with our questions. Agreed?"

The other girls nodded, and we all laid in bed, waiting for our dorm mate to appear.

Perhaps, this year wasn't going to be too boring after all. I smiled to myself in the darkness.

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