DISCLAIMER: I DONT OWN HP

Chapter 2

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The two boys advanced onto the two first years almost predatorily. Albus gulped and looked over to Scorpius who's eyes were blank and guarded. Scorpius raised his wand defensively and shouted:

"停!" A silvery barrier appeared in-between the Slytherins and the Gryffindors. Without a second thought, they bolted away from the older boys.

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"Hm… Silver" Essence picked out a shimmery silver nail polish from Tazlyn Nott's nail polish baggie.

"Oooh yeah, that would match your complexion!" Autumn Zabini cooed. Essence looked at her two roommates, and assessed them with her eyes. Tazlyn, with lightly tanned skin and soft, light brown hair in two french braids. Her button nose dotted in freckles and blue-brown eyes a perfect mix of her mother- Daphne greengrass- and her fathers. Autumn, with her golden-brown skin and hazelnut coloured skin. Her straight, wavy-at-tips hair was half braided in a crown. Her deep chocolate-brown eyes looked just like her fathers.

"Well I'm definitely using holo gold" Autumn picked out the shimmery colour and applied it to her long nails. Essence watched as her nails dried themselves in a split-second due to their magic.

"I don't have this type of nail polish at home" Essence remarked. "We use the muggle ones" Taz wrinkled her nose.

"They take too long to dry". Essence nodded, agreeing. They both peered at Autumn who had used dark blue to draw swirly tribal patterns over her ring finger's nails, then doing the tips for al the others.

"Woah!" They echoed, staring in awe at the dark girls nails. "Do mine!" Taz half-begged Autumn. She chuckled and agreed.

"Fine. But only because we have no homework tonight." She took Taz's hand and started to draw silver trees over the dark green that Taz had chosen. After that, Autumn did little bows on Essi's hands. They packed up the polishes and got up from the floor.

"Who's bed is who's?" asked Essi, looking around the circular room. three simple, wooden single-beds the room, all made and carved of dark oak wood and lined with dark green sheets and sliver detailing. the desks besides each had three drawers, a homework rack and a plush green chair. Bookshelves lined the space above the beds, and a single potion rack was used as a bedside table. The entire room was filled with fluffy back carpet, and in the center was a bubble of green beanbags and silver pillows. Above each desk was a large window, with black-silver curtains, giving a view of the fishes. A chest was at the back of each bed, giving them a closet.

"I call the middle bed!" Autumn yelled, grabbing her trunk and pulling it to the middle bed. The two other girls groaned. She had gotten the best view!

"I guess we'll just split?" Taz and Essi shrugged and grabbed their trunks. Essi looked over her space, it was very cozy, and very her. She had gotten the left bed, closest to the bathrooms. She took out all her school books, and carefully placed them on the bed. She took out her Wiz phone and snapped a photo of the peaceful bedroom corner and sent the photo to her mother, with the caption 'I'm a Slytherin!'. Hermione replied almost instantly.

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'Essi's texts'

'Hermione's texts'

'Draco's texts'

'Scorpius's texts'

'Albus's texts'

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(A/N: I know its confusing, I will post this in many chapters, and maybe have to add more)

'^Image sent^ I'm a Slytherin!'

'Oh! Well thats great Sweet! Are you happy?'

'Yes! I'm sharing a room with Tazlyn Nott and Autumn Zabini'

'Nott and Zabini?'

'^Image sent^ Yes! That's us three now'

'I'm so proud! Other friends yet?'

'Yeah! Me and Albus's friend Scorpius'

'Scorpius?'

'As in Scorpius Malfoy?'

'THE Scorpius MALFOY?

'Yea! How'd you know?'

'Well..'

'His father went to school with us.'

'Really? That's-'

'Pretty cool'

'Yea, his father owns Wiz Tech'

'What!? He never told us that'

'Well, you found out now'

'Thats okay'

'I have to go now. I'll text you later! Your dad and I send our love'

'Aww! Tell Ron that we'll miss him!'

'Essence Deus…'

'Love you mother!'

'…'

'I Love you too'

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"Dude! Where did you learn that spell?" Albus asked, panting in their common room, finally outrunning the older students.

"…I can just speak Chinese" Scorpius explained. "I shouted stop in Chinese and it just came out" Albus went over his words and swallowed.

"Well, thats pretty cool!" Scorpius gave a small smile. He fished a Wiz out of his pocket and Started to text his father.

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'Scorpius.'

'Father.'

'How was the sorting'

'Alright'

'…'

'Father?'

'Yes?'

'I-'

'Yes?'

'I think I-'

'Yes?'

'I think I made a-'

'A what?'

'I think I made a friend'

'…'

'Father?'

'I'm so proud of you'

'…Thank you'

'Who is it?'

'Essence Weasly'

'I'm proud Scorp'

'And Albus.… Albus S Potter'

'…'

'Father?'

'…'

'Father- Please say something'

'I'm not mad Scorpius'

'O-Okay?'

'I'm proud, I really am'

'But?'

'But.. Seriously Scorp? Gryffindor?'

'What?'

'I mean, I wouldn't have preferred Hufflepuff but-'

'Father!'

'What?'

'I'm a Slytherin!'

'You are? I'm so damn fucking proud! My son's a Slytherin!'

'Yeah! I am!'

'Oh! but then Scorp-'

'Yeah?'

'Cross-house relationships are hard to keep and-'

'Stop fretting, dad!'

'I swear I'm not fretting!'

'They are Slytherins too!'

'Oh! Good'

'Yeah, so-'

'Wait'

'I knew it.'

'Weasly and Potter are in Slytherin?'

'Yep'

'Seriously I never thought i'd see the day where-'

'…'

'…'

Father?

'Father?'

'…I'll text you later Scorp…'

'Whats wrong?'

'Your mother had another spell'

'What!?'

'I'm taking her to '

'Okay, text me later'

'I Love you bud.'

'I Love you too'

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Essence woke up in a curled up position to two heavy weights resting on her chest. She opened one eye and four stared back at her. She was so startled she fell off the bed.

"AHHHH" The two other girls heard the shriek and raced to see what was wrong. They found Essence backing away from her bed slowly and they started to laugh.

"Its not funny!" She shrieked shrilly. "You never told me you had cats!" Halloween (Hallo) and New years (NY) purred contently. While Hallo was pumpkin orange in colour, NY was a black mass of fur with eyes that shifted between green and amber. But alas, Essi was also unable to hold in her laughter and she joined the girls before long. The awakening bell rang, signalling the time of 5am.

"Time" Taz reminded.

"Right. What are you wearing?" Autumn asked, walking over to her chest. Essi looked up, confused.

"We are only allowed to wear our uniforms, what else?" The two girls shared a look.

"You poor, poor girl" Taz shook her head "We forgot you are a Weasly"

"You see," Autumn continued, "Every girl in Slytherin has their own sort of uniform, even some of the boys".

"It helps separate uniforms" Taz smiled and pulled out a typical school skirt, but the sides had dark green snakes running down the sides. Autumn pulled out another regular grey skirt, but on her left, in fine, gold calligraphy, was written: 'We're all in the same game; just different levels. Dealing with the same hell; just different devils.'

"Jeez! I didn't know this" Essi huffed, pulling on a regular school skirt, and arranging it so it fell to her knees. She tucked in her blouse and pulled up the black school robe. She did her tie carefully and turned to face the others. She stopped short when she saw Taz, her skirt barely up to her mid thighs, no robe on, but the blouse puff-tucked cutely. Her tie had been clipped with a silver clip and a black jacket was up around her waist. She wore knee-high socks and her black flats were shimmery from certain angles. Autumn was worse, with a black trench coat on, a green tie neatly tucked in, and the skirt up to mid thigh, though only a bit was left out. Autumn didn't wear socks, but a pair of black leather platforms and gold hoops. She felt a bit left out as she looked at them. They turned to face her and both gasped.

"Girl, that's what the Gryffindors wear!" Taz amended.

"I-I have nothing else" Essie said, looking down. The other two shared a look and smiled.

"Yes, but we do!" in a flash, they had thrown a mountain of clothes at her. She smiled gratefully and tugged on a a-line buttoned mid-thigh skirt, a black cardigan, and knee-high black boots.

"Cute" Taz smiled at her, followed by Autumn's

"Adorable!"

The three girls then rushed into the bathroom to wash up their faces and add light makeup. Once again, Essence watched as the girls added bronzer, mascara, eyeliner and nude lipsticks to their faces, then started doing their hair, curling the tips with their wands, braiding for taz and pulling back the front for Autumn. She watched as they clinked their matching amulets and shook their matching charm bracelets. Envy rose up in her as she watched two best friends interact, wishing she had grown up alongside them. She had in-fact, grown up with boys, and a mother who told her she had to be fourteen before even using lipstick, let alone getting a a full face of makeup at eleven. Her mother had promised she could pierce her ear on her 12th birthday though, so that was okay.

For now, she loosely braided her blonde hair into a side, and tried to not let jealousy overtake her.

"I'm going to go see if the guys are up" She gave them tight smiles, then left with her bag to breakfast.

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Turns out, the two boys were already at the Slytherin table, but looking around the great hall, she noticed that most of the Slytherins, were in fact, wearing their own uniforms. The Puffs' wore black hoodies and sweaters, while the Ravens were wearing sleek, almost formal wear. the Gryffindors were the only ones who stayed 'traditional' really.

"Hey" Essi greeted as she slid down across from Scorpius and Albus. Two heads swirled to look at her, two guarded looks and emotionless masks in place. Once they noticed it was her, their looks softened.

"Oh, good morning " Scorpius greeted formally. Essi rolled her eyes.

"Good morning " Essi mock-greeted back.

"Essence" Albus smiled and nodded his head.

"How was your first night?" Essi asked while spreading honey on her toast. The boys shared a brief look.

"Oh, it was great" Scorpius replied. "And yours?"

"Great as well. Me and my roommates did our nails and they helped me out this morning" Albus smiled thinly. Scorpius looked her up and down.

"Autumn and Tazlyn?" Scorpius asked and she nodded. As if on cue, the two walked into the room, another two girls following them. Autumn had put on a black beret and Taz was wearing a simple black headband. Behind them was Robin Goyle and Eliza Rosier. Eliza was wearing a simple, cropped jacket with a mostly crisp and clean uniform. a rose was embroidered in gold across the right side of her skirt. Her black, silky hair fell to her waist. Robin wore a leather jacket, her tie askew and knee-high boots. the bottom of her skirt was cut in ragged lines. Robin's light blonde hair was pulled back in a flipped, tight ponytail. The four walked over and sat down. Eliza and Autumn squeezing the boys and Taz with Robin on her right.

"Morning Scorp" Autumn intoned quietly

"Good morning Autumn" Scorpius leaned over and let his lips brush her cheek. "Slept well?"

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A/N:Sorry! I got two Chapters done in one day and its quite short. Apologies again!