Everyone had been sorted into their houses, Lexi and her siblings all got sorted into Griffindoor, we had dinner and then went up to our dorms, it was at about 3am when I went down to the common room to see that Lexi was also down there.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I just don't sleep a whole pile"

"Is there a reason?"

"Sleep insomnia"

"What's that?"

"Even though I am tired my body won't shutdown to sleep so then I get over tired"

"Oh, ok, are those your natural eyes?"

"Yes, these are my natural eyeballs, they're like my mum's, my hair colour is like my dad's natural hair, he dies like all the colours of the rainbow"

"Are you close with your dad?"

"Yes, we used to dance in the rain when it was chucking it down, can't do that now though because I'm here"

"That sounds weird"

"It is but it was a thing that only him and I would do, Charlotte and dad used to talk about bloody cars, Michael used to bake cookies with him"

"He sounds like a nice guy"

"He is, he's a bit wacky and he worries about the stupidest shit but I wouldn't want anyone else to be my dad"

"Do you know how your mum died?"

"All I know is that magic was involved somehow, she was alive when I went to bed and when I woke up the next morning she was gone"

"Do you remember much?"

"At best my memories are blurry and distorted, I do remember that she was always gardening so she did smell of soil a lot and she was a red head"

"What does your dad do for a living?"

"Warehouse worker and running from life"

"What do you want to be?"

"I want to actually live my life and not go through the motions of what someone else wants me to do"

"That sounds pretty cool"

"It does, doesn't it, I've got a question for you, who is Ron Weasley?"

"I'm, uh, nice, uh, I'm brave, uh, I'm good at Quiddich, I can't think of anything else"

"You're funny"

"No, that's Fred and George"

"Not necessarily a joker but you have a sense of humour"

"I don't know, I've never really like known who I am, I mean I have 5 older brothers to live up to"

"I don't have that problem because I'm the oldest"

"There must be cons about being the oldest"

"Well obviously but that's with anything, dad is a bit stricter with me, I also remember when we were struggling to buy food but the other two don't really"

"So is there much else to Alexis Smyth?"

"Not that I know of, I have a feeling that Draco and I might have some sort of family blood lineage somewhere, I talked to him earlier, he doesn't like talking about his family"

"He got sorted into Griffindoor and his dad basically disowned him, so he spends the summer with us, we have a tradition of knitted jumpers for Christmas, I'm going to warn you that you might get one, Harry, Draco and Hermione have gotten one each Christmas since first year"

"We don't put presents under the tree, we each have a line of them in the living room, on Christmas Eve before I go to bed I have a white hot chocolate"

"That's definitely different"

"So is your knitted jumpers"

"Yeah, that's true"

"The common room is very cosy"

"I mean it's not any cosier then at home"

"I have moved house more often than most people"

"So it'll be weird being in one place all year"

"Exactly Ron"