A/N: Okay, this is my first ever Albus/Scorpius fic that isn't a one shot... I hope you all like it. YAY! Please review, it helps me lots. :) and on with the story….
My father had eased my worries that day on platform 9 ¾ when he told me that the Sorting Hat took peoples choices into consideration. I had my mind set on being a Gryffindor, knowing that the Sorting Hat would choose that for me. That was until I saw him. I was sitting in a carriage on the Hogwarts Express with my cousin Rose Weasley when a blonde-haired, gray-eyed boy stopped outside the door. He was alone and had been looking for somewhere to sit. Rose, being the nice and outgoing one asked if he would like to sit with us, and he did. The only thing that registered in my mind that whole train ride was the boys' name: Scorpius Malfoy.
We arrived at Hogwarts and I had never seen anything more magical and amazing in my entire life, the castle was better than I had ever imagined and just to think that my parents and uncles and aunties had all walked the same halls made it that much more fun. A tall and strict looking teacher greeted us briefly before informing us of the rules and all that junk. She called herself Professor McGonagall and told us she was the headmaster. She then led us into the great hall where all the other students gawked at us as if we were aliens and James, my brother, thought it would be a hilarious idea to scream out 'Ickle Firsties! How cute!' which received him a well-deserved dirty look from the headmaster. She then placed a big, old, dusty hat on the students heads… which I realized was the Sorting Hat. It screamed out the house to everyone and they all clapped. When it was Scorpius's turn he walked up nervously and the sorting hat was on his head for less than a minute before screaming out 'SLYTHERIN!' after this, for reasons unknown, Slytherin suddenly seemed like the house I should be in. I didn't care that James was going to tease me till the day he died because something inside me changed that moment… Slytherin was my destiny, whether James wanted it or not. Anyway, I wasn't brave or daring or any of those, so it's not like Gryffindor was for me…
When McGonagall called my name she stuttered, stared at me for a moment and she looked as though she'd cry but then quickly turned back to the strict woman image and placed the dusty, smelly old hat on my head. The Sorting Hat had tried to tell me that I should be in Gryffindor but something inside me was forcing me into Slytherin. So when the sorting hat screamed out my house to the entire school I was relieved when James didn't yell out 'I TOLD YOU SO ALBUS!' there and then.
I hurried over to the Slytherin table and looked around. Scorpius was two people away from me and I wanted to sit closer to him, but then I realized that even if I was sitting next to him I'd probably be too shy to actually talk to him anyway. McGonagall finished sorting the students and made a quick speech before a massive, delicious feast appeared in front of me. I ate mainly in silence because I didn't know anyone, and Rose had been sorted into Ravenclaw so I was sitting away from her.
To my surprise I ended up sharing a dorm with Scorpius, a boy named Lorcan Scamander who had sandy blonde hair and hazel eyes and a few others who hadn't bothered to introduce themselves to me. That night I slept well, knowing that the next day I would hopefully make some new friends and start my life here at Hogwarts.
My first year at Hogwarts ended up going very quick and I made very little contact with Scorpius. I didn't make many friends but it was okay because I had a few. Lorcan was a pretty nice guy and we would hang out with Rose sometimes, I also had Zach Zabini who was a tanned kid with dark hair and dark eyes. A few months into the year a girl named Arista Parkinson who had short brown hair and green eyes started liking Scorpius and it was obvious to anyone who seen her around him. She'd beg for his attention but he always seemed to shrug her off, and for an odd reason it made me happy. I tried to speak to Scorpius on a few occasions but always ended up stuttering like an idiot or just not speaking at all. When it came close to the end of the year James and his friends played a prank on me which resulted in me sneezing out flies for about an hour and after mum heard about it she sent him a howler in front of the whole year and he didn't play any pranks on me again. Although Uncle Fred and George sent him a letter asking for the spell so they could try and put it into liquid form for their joke shop, which made me a little angry but I couldn't blame them. I couldn't wait to go home at the end of the year though, I missed mum and dad like crazy… and I guess Lilly a little too. Over the holidays we all went to Grandpa and Grandma Weasley's house for a few weeks where I got to spend a lot of time with Rose, which was a good change because Lilly was even more annoying those holidays, wanting to know every little detail of what I did.