When I first started at Hogwarts, I never expected to be sorted into Slytherin, but that's exactly what happened. My family's reaction was less than satisfactory because they stared at me as if I were Voldemort himself, and I felt completely isolated from everyone at my respective table even though they had clapped for me like I just won the Quidditch World Cup. However, it wasn't too long before a girl named Isabella started talking to me.

"Hi! Glad to see another first-year Slytherin girl. My name is Isabella Marx, what's yours?" she asked with a bubbly tone.

"Hi Isabella, my name is Lily Potter", I smiled. She stared at me, wide-eyed.

"As in... Harry Potter's daughter?" she questioned, clearly stunned.

"The one and only", I confirmed.

"Wow! A Potter in Slytherin? Never heard of that before"

"I'm just as shocked as you are"

"A Potter in Slytherin? That's new", a male voice stated and I immediately recognized who it was as he slid in next to Isabella.

"A Malfoy in Slytherin? Somehow, I'm not surprised", I smirked and none other than Scorpius Malfoy smirked back.

"Very cheeky of you, Miss Potter. I presume you know who I am", he stated, still smirking.

"Well, judging by the blonde hair, grey eyes, and general cockiness, I'd say you're Scorpius Malfoy", it was at this point that Isabella started paying a great deal of attention to him, but Scorpius didn't notice and just laughed.

"That's right", he confirmed, "Now if you're a Potter, what's with the orange hair?"

"I'm also a Weasley"

"Double threat. Nice to meet you, Lily", he then casually stuck out his hand and I gladly shook it, truly intrigued by him. He didn't seem as bad as my brothers had always led me to believe, despite the fact that he was very cocky.

"Do you know my older sister? She's in your year", Isabella suddenly interupted, turning toward Scorpius.

"And your name?" he asked.

"Isabella Marx"

"Ah, your sister must be Hadley"

"Yeah", she confirmed dreamily. It was fairly obvious that Isabella had a bit of a crush on Scorpius, even though she'd seen him only moments before. After the sorting and dinner was over, I followed the rest of the Slytherin first years to the dungeons with Isabella by my side. As it turns out, she was my roommate along with two other girls named Hannah Snowdon and Felicite Tomlinson. Throughout the night, the four of us talked about what we liked to do, what our families were like, which house we thought we'd be sorted into, and other things like that. I learned that each of us had at least one sibling, Felicite having the most at six. Just as we were all about to go to bed, Isabella (now known as Izzy) spoke up.

"Have you girls seen Scorpius Malfoy? He's even cuter than my sister described!" she gushed.

"I know! My older sister said he was the cutest third year boy and was she right!" Felicite added.

"Who's Scorpius Malfoy?" Hannah asked no one in particular. Both Izzy and Felicite turned to her, their eyes wide.

"You've never heard of the Malfoy's?" Izzy questioned.

"I've heard of them, I just didn't know we went to school with one"

"Of course we do! He's only the cutest boy in the entire school, nevermind among the third years", Felicite clarified.

"Imagine how hot he'll be come next year", Izzy winked. As the two of them gossiped about Scorpius, Hannah and I remained quiet. That is until Izzy suddenly turned to me.

"I think he was hitting on you tonight, Lily", she giggled. I stared at her questioningly.

"I highly doubt that. I'm two years younger than him and he doesn't even know me", I justified, but Izzy wasn't having it.

"Did you not see how he looked at you? He barely even noticed I was there!"

"Probably because I challenged him"

"Well, still. I think he has a thing for you", once Izzy and Felicite finished their conversation, the four of us went to bed in order to be alert for our first day of classes the next morning.

When I woke up, I was excited to start my first classes at Hogwarts. The day went by fairly quickly and I realized that my favorite classes were Potions and Transfiguration, but my true love was flying. I was the first in my class to pick up my broom and mount it, as well as fly around before everyone else. I had never flown before, but always wanted to and had seen James fly. Even though I didn't think what I did in flying class was that great, everyone else seemed to because when I sat down in the Great Hall for lunch, I felt as if everyone was looking at me.

"I heard you flew pretty well today", Scorpius stated as he sat next to me.

"You did?" I questioned, curious.

"Yeah. In fact, I also heard that you're being considered for the Quidditch team", my eyes widened at this.

"You... you're serious?"

"Completely. Madame Hooch thinks you'd be a great chaser, and I hope you make the team. We're in need of a new one"

"That's right, I almost forgot that you're on the team. My brothers told me Slytherin hasn't lost a game since you joined", he smirked victoriously at this, clearly proud of himself.

"Glad to see they know how to admit defeat. James apparently isn't as good as he likes to think", I wanted to agree seeing as I couldn't deny how good Scorpius is, but James is still my brother, so I just smiled.

Throughout the rest of lunch, I got to know Scorpius a lot better and quickly realized that my brothers were all wrong about him. While he may be cocky and sometimes a little vain, Scorpius actually has a lot of redeeming qualities to him. Besides playing Quidditch, he also loves to read, play chess, and spends a lot of time outdoors just appreciating everything around him. He also told me that he has quite the knack for drawing, but doesn't do it much at school because he doesn't want to be judged for being anything other than an athlete. He learned a lot about me as well, which felt weird to me because I didn't even tell my roommates everything about me, yet I felt strangely comfortable with Scorpius.

When he was distracted by his food for a moment, I turned to look over at the Gryffindor table and saw my family sitting together. They consisted of James, Albus, Rose, and Hugo.

"I'll be right back", I stated, standing up to walk over to my family. On the way there, I felt a lot of eyes on me, but ignored them.

"Hi guys", I smiled once I was standing in front of them at the end of the Gryffindor table. They said nothing and continued eating in silence. I raised an eyebrow, wondering if they had heard me.

"Hello?" I tried again and still got no response. In fact, it took several seconds before James finally spoke up.

"Why don't you go talk to your new snake friends?" he snapped. I was instantly taken aback by this, not expecting for him to say such a thing to his own sister. I thought this would make me cry, but tears never came to my eyes. Instead, I stood up straight and stated,

"Fine, that's exactly what I'll do", before stalking away and back to my seat next to Scorpius.

"Well, that didn't go so well, did it?" he questioned.

"My family are a bunch of gits!" I exclaimed, extremely frustrated. His face softened then and he put his arm around my shoulders for a side hug.

"It'll be okay, Lily. They'll get over it", he assured, but I didn't feel so sure about that.

The next morning, Scorpius was right about one thing and that was that I made it onto the Quidditch team! I no longer had to take my flying class because of it, but that was fine with me because I always loved watching Quidditch and now I would be able to play it. As soon as Scorpius found out, he looked for me and found me in the Slytherin common room with Izzy.

"Congratulations, Lily! I just heard you got on the team", he stated, sliding next to me on the black leather couch.

"Thanks, Scorpius", I smiled, "I'm really excited"

"As you should be. Get ready though, next week is tryouts and then the following Wednesday is the first practice"

"Thanks for the heads-up. Do I have to go to the tryouts?"

"You don't really have to, but it is fun watching some people fail miserabley at trying to get a spot", he smirked, something that I was quickly getting used to.

"Hi, Scorpius. How are you?" Izzy suddenly asked, making me stifle a giggle because she made it so obvious that she liked him. Scorpius turned to her and smiled knowingly.

"I'm just fine, Isabella. How are you?" Izzy's eyes widened and I had to hold off my laughter again.

"I-I'm great! Thanks for asking", she had that dreamy sound to her voice again, and I could tell Scorpius was holding in his laughter as well.

"Well, congrats again Lily and I'll see you girls later", he winked before standing up and walking to the boys' dormitories. Once he was gone, Izzy looked back to make sure he was out of ear-shot before turning back to me.

"He remembered my name!" she screeched, hurting my ears. This time, I couldn't keep myself from laughing, "What's so funny?" she questioned, sounding hurt.

"I'm sorry, Izzy. It's just... you make it kind of obvious that you like him", I stated, my laughter fading.

"I... I do?"

"Yes"

"Oh, man! I never wanted him to know!" she exclaimed, burying her face in her hands and shaking her head.

"Don't worry, Izzy. He's a nice guy, he'd never say anything", I assured her, gently rubbing her back.