Just then, Bella noticed her parents and younger sisters exiting the building. She said goodbye to Serra and Hailey and went to walk beside them. It was Narcissa's first year at Hogwarts and she had been talking about it constantly since they arrived. So, Bella and Andromeda walked behind their parents in silence, ignoring Narcissa's constant chatter about going to Hogwarts.

They walked a little while and stopped. The girls took their parents' forearms and they apparated to the mansion, took their trunks and school bags and headed for the train station. Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narcissa sprinted through the wall to platform 9 and 3/4, and boarded the train.

When the sortings were over, Narcissa had joined her sisters at the Slytherin table, of course. They enjoyed the feast, afterwards to be taken to their common rooms to settle in. The first year Slytherins seemed amazed at the under-water area, and kept looking out the windows in awe. Bella rolled her eyes, and walked up the steps to the dormitories. She started unpacking her trunk and her school bag when she ran into a small, black, leather book. She opened it and stared at it's blank pages. She closed it and turned it over. There on the bottom of the back cover stood a golden nameplate. Tom Marvolo Riddle. She furrowed her brow and laid it down on the side table beside her bed and continued to unpack. She gazed into the distance, thinking of Tom, while continuing to unpack her trunk.

When she had finished that task, she laid down on her bed and looked up at the ceiling, still thinking of Tom Riddle and the small, black book. She wondered who Tom was, and how the book had come into her possession. She was so deep in thought, she didn't notice when her younger sister, Andromeda walked into the room and sat down on the bed beside her. Andromeda took her own trunk and started to unpack her things in silence. She seemed to notice her normally very loud sister's lack of words, because when she looked over at her, she looked worried and confused.

"Bella? Are you okay?" She asked in her shy and quiet, very unlike her sisters', voice. Bella gasped and looked in her sisters direction, clearly not knowing that she had been there.

"Huh? O-oh, yeah. I'm fine, Dromeda," Bellatrix reassured her sister.397

"Are you sure? It's just, you're being real quiet. Which is really unlike you," She laughed.

"Yeah, I'm sure," Bella said, joining in on her sister's laughter. When their laughter faded, Andromeda went back to unpacking while Bella went back to thinking about the little black book she had found in her bag earlier.

A/N: Please R&R!
-tbc-