Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all its characters are Rowling's.
Your father said it's gonna be fine. Now that the sorting has ended and you ended up sitting with the students with red and golden ties, with your family, you couldn't help but smiling to no end. Rose was on your left side, chatting up with another new girl of their house, Alice Longbottom. On your right side, well, there was this blonde boy, Scorpius Malfoy. The blonde boy with pale complexion seemed lost in thought, he was stirring the spaghetti in his plate with his fork.
"Hello."
"Uh, hello?" The blonde boy said to you with an awkward smile on his face.
"My name's Al. What's yours?" You took a bite on your chocolate muffin then, eyes never leaving the other boy.
"Scorpius."
"Why don't you eat that?" You asked while pointing at the spaghetti on his plate.
"Uh, I'm in no mood to eat."
"Are you nervous?" You saw him cringed and his eyes directed down on his plate, and then he shrugged.
"Don't worry, my dad said it's gonna be alright." You smiled at him and he grinned back. You never knew how you can be the one in the need to be assured of to the one giving others assurance. It was stupid, but again, seeing that you got a new friend you decided that it was worth it.
