The next morning, no one had a clue where Scorpius was-again.

"What happened to 'he'll be at class'?" Romana asked worriedly as we made our way to the Great Hall.

"He'll show up." I said, trying to play it cool. However, even I was starting to worry. Scorpius disappeared a lot. But he always got in touch with me to let me know he wasn't dead or something.

"He better or Weaslette's gonna blow a gasket." Romana sighed as I opened the door.
"Scorp's my best friend, I know he'll show up." I assured as we walked in through the large doors.

All of a sudden, I felt a small body run into me, latching their arms around my waist.
"Allie! You'll never believe what class I have first! Charms! Thats gonna be so much fun! Will you be there? My schedule says its with Slytherin-wait, you're in fifth year though, so I guess not. You were so right, though, Hogwarts is amazing!" Anna said all in one breath causing me to chuckle a bit, but my eyes soon fell on the red and gold tie. Nerves built up inside me as I noticed that the entire Gryffindor table was staring at us with a mix of shock and rage.

Anna suddenly started to try to lead me towards the table, "I was talking with some of my new friends, and they kept on saying you and Scorp and Romana and everyone in Slytherin are evil. So I thought, if they just met you, maybe you can show them you're not?"

"Anna-"

"Say, where's Scorp anyway?"
"I'm not sure, but Anna, go back to your friends, I will see you later." I said quietly, glancing around. The audience had spread to the Ravenclaws and a few Hufflepuffs, even some teachers were looking at us with mild interest.

Anna's face fell, "But, Allie-"

"Anna, please." I begged, leaning down a bit so I could look her in the face.

Sighing slightly, she nodded and left after giving me a fleeting hug.

Romana just stood there with raised eyebrows. I ducked my head, grabbed the crook of her elbow and drug her to the Slytherin table.

Waiting there among the other Slytherins was a head of platinum blonde hair who I was about ready to kill.
"Seriously, Scorpius?" I hissed as I sat next to him, handing him his schedule.
"Sorry," He mumbled as an apology, and looked over his classes. "So, who's my buddy?"

"Rose Weasley." I smirked as he started to choke on his drink.

Ever since third year Scorpius had had a crush-obsession-on the Weasley girl whose maturity was too big for her age.

"Are you OK?" Romana said chuckling a little at Scorpius.
"Fine," He assured.

I rolled my eyes at my best friend and reached for a croissant that was in the bread basket in front of me, when the entire basket was suddenly snatched away.

Looking up, I saw James Potter holding the bread basket and glaring at me.
"Um...good morning?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"What were you doing talking to a first year?" He demanded angrily.
Oh, Merlin, do all Gryffindors have a hero complex?

"Said first year's name is Anna." I rolled my eyes. "And she came up to me."

"Sure." Albus scoffed as he sat across from me, coming up behind his brother. "Are all Slytherins liars?"

"Are all Gryffindors morons?" I retorted, standing and yanking the bread basket out of James' hands.

Sitting back down, I grabbed the croissant and some butter, buttered the thing and tore a bit off, popping it in my mouth. Glaring at me, James sat down across from Romana.

Rose soon came up and sat down on Albus' left, sitting in front of Scorpius who had his head buried in a book.

Clearing her throat, Rose gained Scorp's attention. With a smile, she held out her hand.
"I'm Rose Weasley." She smiled.

"Scorpius Malfoy." He greeted with a small smile, shaking her hand slightly. Quickly, his eyes fled back down to his book as a light pink blush started to creep up his neck.

"Nice to see you're alive, Malfoy." Dean chuckled, ruffling Scorpius' hair.

"Hey, Dean, why don't you go see Fluffy?" Scorpius asked with a smile, and cold eyes to Dean.
"Who?" Dean asked, looking at me confused.

I swallowed the food in my mouth. "The giant, blue, three headed dog Hagrid released into the Forbidden Forest a couple years ago." I shrugged nonchalantly.

Dean's expression was hilarious.

"Hey, what do you have first?" Romana asked, looking at her schedule in a vain attempt to ignore the Gryffindors in front of us.

"Uh..." I said, pulling my schedule out of the folds of my robes and unfolded it. "Here we go, da da da, I have-ugh."

"What?" Romana asked with smirk, taking the schedule from me. "Ooo-thats sucks for you."

"OK, whats going on?" Carter asked, from farther down the table.

"I have double potions." I explained causing him to laugh hysterically at me.

"Sucker!" Carter smiled, laughing along with every Slytherin, knowing that every time I tried potions, something usually blew up or melted. I was great at the theory part of potions, but, when we got to the practical, I fail.

I rolled my eyes and stuck my tongue out at him.

"Sooo mature." Rose and Scorpius said at the same. Scorpius, though, said it teasingly while Rose said it slightly haughty yet teasing at the same time.

Out of nowhere my watch started beeping incessantly. I scrambled trying to make it shut up, gaining the attention of the Gryffs.
"Can you please get that stupid thing to shut up?" Scorpius complained, covering his abused ears.

"Sorry, I forgot to leave it at home." I explained, banging it against the table.

Muggle technology that has not been magic-proofed tends to have a heart attack when placed somewhere like Hogwarts, and I didn't have the money to magic-proof my watch.

Finally, it stopped, but I doubted I'd be able to use it again.
"Man, thats the third time I've done something like that." I moaned.

"We know!" Abby called from farther down the table with a smirk.
"Actually its the fourth." David corrected.

"Huh?" I asked.
"Remember, last year. You brought your Fire Kindle and got electrocuted-you were in the infirmary for a week." Scorpius reminded.
"Oh, right-and its a Kindle Fire."
Scorp rolled his eyes.

"OK, well, I've got to get going so that I'm not late for potions." I sighed, standing up and shouldering my bag.

"Again." Dean smiled.

"Is it pick on Aladdin day or something? Leave me alone." I complained, giving everyone a glare as I walked out.
"Yo, Parker, wait up!" A male's voice called as I walked down the corridor. However, it didn't sound like anyone in Slytherin.
Turning around, I saw Albus Potter rushing towards me with a piece of toast in hand.

Oh, right, the project. Great.

Once he got within about a foot of me, I turned on the ball of my foot and started to head to the dungeons.

"Hey, can you slow down?" Albus asked, having to trot to keep up.
"Not my fault you're slow." I quipped coldly.

"Did I do something?" He asked, confused as we took the many turns to the dungeons.

"Besides calling every Slytherin a liar? Yes." I snapped, speeding up slightly.

This seemed to confuse Albus even more.

"Um, well, I'm sorry?" He said confusedly.

"Look," I said angrily, stopping on a dime. "We might be 'buddies' and all because of this stupid project, but that does not mean we have to talk. At all."

"So, we're going to see each other every day, yet never talk to each other?" Albus asked, eyebrows raised.

"Great, the moron has a brain." I smiled sarcastically. "But yes."
I started walking away and Albus caught up again.

"I think that sort of defeats the whole purpose of...this." He said.
"Not my problem." I snapped.

Albus groaned behind me, causing me to roll my eyes. Gryffindors, I sneered in my mind. The moment the thought passed through my mind, I stopped. Anna. Anna was in Gryffindor. This was going to be harder than I thought.

"Are you alright?" Albus asked, sounding concerned and putting a hand on my shoulder.

"Fine," I growled, shaking off the hand.

I walked into the potions class and took my usual seat in the back.

Just as I was hoisting my cauldron onto the countertop, the stool beside me made a protesting screech as it was dragged across the floor.

Turning, I saw Albus sitting there, getting his stuff out.
"What do you think you are doing?" I demanded, eyebrows raised.

"Um...sitting?" Albus asked confused.
"Why are you sitting there?" I asked exasperatedly. "You have never sat next to me before."

"OK, I already know you hate the idea of these 'buddies', but you're gonna have to get used to it. You might be daddy's little treasure, but, guess what, you're not at your little mansion anymore." Albus snapped angrily.

Typical Gryffindor, I grumbled in my mind, always jumping to conclusions.

Professor Granger-Weasley walked in, explaining that she was the new Potions Master. Of course she is, I grumbled in my head as she wrote a potion on the board and expected us to brew it with our table partner.

"Now, its not for a grade, I'm just trying to see where everyone is on their brewing." She explained with a smile. "You may begin."

After a moment of silence, Albus decided to take charge.

"Alright, you can start mincing the mistletoe berries, and I'll get the bezoar from the ingredients cupboard." Albus said awkwardly, about to go get it.

"I have one." I muttered gesturing to my case of potions ingredients as I concentrated on mincing the mistletoe. "Its in the black kerchief."

As Albus did that, he looked at me.
"Huh, I guess you can go twenty seconds without insulting anybody." He said with an arrogant smirk.

I was filled with anger and the knife almost slipped, causing me to get a white-knuckled grip on it, pretending the knife was Albus' neck.

By the end of the class, I had killed Albus ten times in my mind, successfully melted the stirring spoon, and decided that I would probably be locked in Azkaban by the end of the year for murder if Albus didn't find some way to be less annoying.

When Professor Granger-Weasley dismissed us, I was relieved to be able to get out of the room and have a study hall. The moment I was out of the class, I was off to the library, but sadly, Albus was right at my heels.

"What is wrong with you?!" I exclaimed, way past annoyed now as I looked at the dark haired boy in fury and gaining the attention of everyone in the hall.

"Me?" Albus asked, playing dumb, as he cocked his head with the stupid smirk that Potters were practically famous for. "What ever have I done?"
"Leave me alone or so help me Merlin-" I started when I suddenly noticed everyone looking at us. Some Hufflepuffs looked deathly scared of me while older Ravenclaws were raising their eyebrows at the spectacle. "Don't you people have anything better to do?!"

Everyone stopped watching, occasionally taking peaks however.

"Just leave me alone." I glared, taking off for the dungeons in a fast walk refusing to meet anyones eyes. Today was not going well at all.


The rest of the day, I avoided the dungeons at all costs and snuck into the kitchens for meals-which was hard since the elves were scared to death of me.

At the end of the day, I was wrapped in the large, multitude of blankets that Slytherin parents and old Slytherins had sent over the years with every other girls. The boys were on the other side of the room with a couch, seventeen feet, and another couch separating us.

It was dark, and I would be freezing if it weren't for all the blankets. If I had to guess, it was near midnight.
"Allie?" One of the triplets asked, poking me in the back.
"Yes?" I asked as kindly as I could manage with it being so late. For some reason, I couldn't sleep no matter how hard I tried. Something kept telling me that something bad was going to happen tomorrow.

"I-I'm scared. I wanna go home." She sobbed.
With a sigh, I flipped over so I was facing her and grabbed my wand from my sweatpants pocket. Muttering 'lumos', I held it between mine and the young girls face. Sophie's pasty skin and freckles were touched by the light, and I could clearly see the fear in her gray eyes. Tears reflected the light off her face.

"Oh, Sophie." I cooed, wiping away the tears with my thumb and pulling her into my arms, as she cried into me.

"I wanna go home." She sobbed. "I wanna go home."

"What happened?" I asked, pulling away.

"The boys in my Charms class were really, really mean." Sophie explained with a sniffle. "They tried to steal my text book. But Anna made them give it back-she's my friend now. Anyway, they said at midnight, a man without a head would come in and kill me then dance on my grave."

I grumbled in my thoughts. She was actually afraid of something that would never happen.

"Don't you know where you are Soph?" I asked with a smile. "You are in the heart of the snake pit, with two sisters that love you to pieces and housemates that won't let anyone hurt you."

Sophie smiled at me, and curled up against my chest. "G'night, Allie."
"Goodnight." I grinned. Wait a second, did she say Anna?!

Oh, Merlin.


Hope you enjoyed chapter 3! The link below (if it showed up) is to a youtube video showing the final cast of OpS.

DISCLAIMER:I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING EXCEPT ALL THE SLYTHERINS(BESIDES SCORPIUS MALFOY) AND THE PLOT! I ALSO OWN ANNA WALKER.

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