Briana awoke the next morning with the sun shining down on her face. The light from the sun illuminated the dormitory as the rest of the girls continued to sleep peacefully. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, Briana stalked over to the window adjacent to her bed and looked out at the few clouds surrounding the ball of light in the light blue and purple sky. She stared at the clock on the wall to discover it was merely six o'clock in the morning. Briana had always been an early riser, which she had never considered to be a bad thing. Remembering that breakfast began in thirty minutes, the girl decided she might as well get ready for her first day of classes.

Briana walked to her bureau and took out her school uniform and a towel. She took her makeup bag from another drawer and quietly crept out of the room to the bathrooms. One of the questions Briana had asked her friends yesterday was where she ought to go about taking showers and such, and Chuck explained to her that the girls and boys in each house all shared the bathrooms in their common rooms, something he found phenomenal. She thought it was rather odd and quite surprising, but went along with it anyway. Briana peered carefully around the part of the bathrooms where all the showers were. The green and black tiles of the floor were all completely dry as she noted that there were two rows of shower stalls on each side of the room, holding twelve on each side.

There didn't appear to be any other person in the shower room as she slowly walked to one of the stalls in the middle of the right side. Closing the stall door behind her, Briana turned around to find that the shower stall was actually much larger than it looked from the outside. Ah, magic. A tower of shelves even stood in one corner of the stall for Briana to set her things on so they could remain dry as she cleansed herself. She stripped down and turned one of the knobs of the shower as warm water immediately began to fall from the shower head. Briana happily stepped into the water and closed her eyes as she let the refreshing water land on her face, completely waking her up. She washed her tangle-free hair with pomegranate scented shampoo as she merrily sang a song.

"I'm gonna pick up the pieces, and build a Lego House. If things go wrong, we can knock it down. My three words have two meanings, but there's one thing on my mind; it's all for you. And it's dark in a cold December, but I've got you to keep me warm. If you're broken I will mend you, and I'll keep you sheltered from the storm that's raging on. Now I'm out of touch, I'm out of love. I'll pick you up when you're getting down, and out of all these things I've done, I think I'll love you better now."

Briana stopped singing abruptly when she heard the squeak of someone else turning on a shower. She hastily turned the water off and dried herself before she put on her Slytherin uniform. Briana then left the showers to the part of the bathrooms that was practically a powder room, housing nothing but vanities, stools and power outlets. She let her dark brown hair stay naturally straight, applying her light make up then heading back to her dormitory. The teenager grabbed her schoolbag that held all her school books and supplies, and quietly crept out of the room again as the clock struck six thirty-four.

In the Great Hall, there weren't very many people; three Gryffindor's, a handful of Hufflepuff's all reading the Daily Prophet, a dozen Ravenclaw's who were all reading books, and absolutely no Slytherin's. Briana was the first of her house to make it to Breakfast that day. She sat alone, admiring the Great Hall as she chewed on scrambled eggs and chewy bacon. Not ten minutes later, Chuck was sauntering towards Briana with a smirk on his clear face. She cocked an eyebrow curiously at him as he took a seat next to her.

"You're a really good singer," he told her, still smirking as he put some hash browns on his plate.

"So that was you in there?", she narrowed her eyes at him.

"Indeed," he nodded and began eating his breakfast. "You sing Ed Sheeran pretty well."

"Thanks I guess," Briana poured herself some cold orange juice as Alex joined them across the table.

"Good morning, Booboo!", Briana smiled at him.

He nodded at her, with amusement and annoyance on his face at the same time, "Morning."

"You smell like the Owlery. Were you sending someone an owl?", Chuck eyed him wondrously.

"Um, yeah... I was just, um... sending my mum an owl."

Briana stared at him, "I thought your mum was in Azkaban..."

"Oh yeah, I meant my.. Grandmother. Yeah. She's just been checking on me," he nodded to himself and hastily began to devour some toast.

His friends nodded at him, but neither of them truly bought the story. More people began to file into the Hall as it became seven in the morning. The room began to grow loud as the buzz of people's conversations steadily grew louder and louder. Kaylee, Blaise and Draco all entered the hall at half past seven, seating themselves around their other friends. The three of them began to eat their breakfasts and making light conversation when Severus Snape made his way to their group. He had been passing out schedules to the members of Slytherin house and was now there to give them theirs. The tall, dark professor handed Chuck a stack of papers before he left quietly. Chuck distributed the schedules throughout the group as they all read them and eagerly compared their classes. Letha even came running over to compare schedules with her friends as well.

Briana made notes to herself on her parchment to remind herself who she had each class with. In the end, her paper looked like this:

[Enter Le Schedule aqui]

It quickly became time for their first classes, and luckily for Briana, she had History of Magic with more than half of her friends: Letha, Blaise, Chuck and Alex. They said goodbye to Draco and Kaylee who were both heading to Astronomy. When they got to Professor Binns's classroom, they found that everyone was given assigned seats, all at tables of three. Miraculously, Blaise, Letha and Alex had all been seated at a table together while Chuck and Briana were assigned at a table towards the back of the room with a Ravenclaw boy who appeared to be sleeping. The room filled with sixth year Ravenclaw's and Slytherin's before the Professor entered the room. Briana gently elbowed the Ravenclaw boy as he sat up, seemingly wide awake. The boy's stark green eyes met Briana's as she informed him.

"I think class is starting now," she told him kindly.

"Good, I've been needing a nap," he joked, smirking lazily at Briana.

She laughed for a few seconds as Chuck rolled his eyes at the boy. Class surely started as Professor Binns lectured the students about Giant Wars, apparently feeling it was a worthy subject to review. Half the class was passing notes rather than taking them, quite a few seemed to be sleeping while a handful of students actually paid attention; all of them Ravenclaw's except for Chuck. Briana herself tried her best to pay attention but soon grew terribly bored and began to doodle on her parchment, remembering that History of Magic was Chuck's best and favorite subject and knew that she could just ask him for any assistance she needed.

The Ravenclaw boy the two of them were seated with began to draw with Briana on her parchment. She was drawing a cupcake when he began to doodle a pudgy looking boy chasing after it. The cartoon caused her to laugh quietly as the boy withdrew his wand from his robes and pointed it at the parchment. He muttered a spell and the drawings came to life, the cupcake seeming to hover as the boy ran in place seeming to chase after the pastry. She clapped her hands delightedly as Chuck peered over her shoulder to see what all the excitement was about.

History of Magic ended soon after and Briana learned that the boy's name was Roger Davies, captain of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. He seemed like a nice enough fellow, Briana thought he would be pleasant enough to work with, but Chuck on the other hand seemed to be thoroughly annoyed by Roger. Maybe there was more to the Ravenclaw that Briana didn't know, but after learning about Chuck, Briana knew not to judge people too quickly.

Up in the Astronomy tower, Draco and Kaylee found themselves sitting in the back of the class, terribly bored and unproductive. About halfway through Professor Sinistra's spiel of how the class would work and how they would take occasional night trips, Kaylee turned to Draco with a dull look upon her tanned face.

"So what's with you and Briana?", she asked him, clearly desperate for something entertaining to consume her attention.

"What's that supposed to mean?", Draco eyed the girl cautiously.

"You've known each other for a number of years; there's got to be something there, I can feel it."

"Well I don't feel anything," he lied.

"Really?", Kaylee looked somewhat disappointed. "That's sort of a shame, maybe you will over time."

"Why is this such a shame again?"

"I personally think Briana fancies you a bit, but I wouldn't know for certain unless I asked her."

Draco tried to sound less interested than he actually was, "Why do you think that?"

"A woman's intuition," she pointed at him informatively. "I see the way she eyes you, from time to time. But like I said, I don't know for certain."

Draco nodded his blonde head thoughtfully before steering the conversation in a different direction, "How about you and Solomon?"

"Chuck and I? What is there to tell?"

"Are the two of you just about to shag each other, or is there more depth to this... thing?"

Kaylee stared at him for a minute, "I'm honestly not sure, I haven't known him very long, so..."

"I suppose only time can answer our questions, yeah?"

"Not necessarily, Malfoy."

He cocked an eyebrow, curious about her words, "What's that supposed to mean?"

"We can sort of make answers come about prematurely, can't we?"

"...what?"

"Ugh, you're so thick sometimes!", she brought her hand to her face dramatically before explaining more slowly. "I was thinking of something called private investigating."

"If you're talking about playing match-maker, then you and Chuck would be perfect for one another," Draco rolled his eyes at the girl.

"Oh, why can't we do it! I can find out if Briana likes you, and in return you can follow up on Chuck's feelings about me!"

"I don't know... Seems a bit childish, to me..."

"Draco! Please! It's gonna be fun on top of it all!", she begged him, clasping her hands together in front of her desperately.

He stared at her a bit apprehensively for a minute before he gave in with a sigh, "Alright then."

Kaylee squealed happily and clapped her hands once then went in to give Draco a hug, but he gave her a warning glance which caused her to back off immediately and sit back down a bit awkwardly, busying herself with fixing her hair.

Briana found Kaylee and Draco waiting for her in a corridor nearby, because the three of them had Defence Against the Dark Arts together next. Apparently Snape was teaching the class this year for the first time, which seemed to make the Slytherin's quite happy. The three friends sat together in the back of the dark room as their fellow Slytherin's entered the room happily, and the Hufflepuff's arrived, looking quite petrified. There was soft chatter before Snape entered the classroom which caused the discussions to stop quickly and entirely. The Professor's slow, drawling voice echoed throughout the room as he explained that they would be put through a series of tests as a review of everything that they learned the previous years because he didn't "want to waste time teaching students who didn't possess the necessary skills to continue the class".

Upon leaving the lesson, Kaylee continuously questioned Briana about something that happened during one of the tests. In the challenges they faced, several Dark Magic obstacles and creatures waited for them, one of them being a Boggart. It had chosen to scare Briana of all people, and sought out her deepest fears. It soon took the form of a creepy faced clown with spiders crawling all over its body as the clown stood beside a dead body on the floor. The whole thing was extremely disturbing to anyone who saw it, but it made Briana's face pale and she screamed her heart out before she composed herself and shakily used the Riddikulus spell.

"So, you're afraid of clowns who own spiders and murder people?", Kaylee asked.

"Sort of," Briana mumbled, not wanting to discuss the topic.

"Was the dead body a specific person?"

"I don't know! I was honestly too busy pissing myself to take a look, in case you didn't notice!"

"Alright, alright! I was just curious!", Kaylee finally dropped the matter. "So where are you guys going now?"

"We both have a free period now," Draco informed her.

"No fair! I have bloody Herbology. But luckily I have it with Chuck," Kaylee smiled as Briana and Draco both sent her a knowing look.

"No, no," she quickly defended herself. "It's a good thing because he's brilliant at Herbology, you know?"

"Sure," Draco muttered, causing Briana to giggle as Kaylee sent them a glare then walked off to the greenhouse.

Briana followed Draco back to their common room. The two of them were lucky to have no class as their third period, because lunch came right after which gave them quite a large amount of time free of classes. Draco took Briana upstairs to the dormitory he shared with Blaise, Chuck, Alex and Flint. When he opened the door for her, Briana was quite shocked to see how untidy the room already was. She wondered how on Earth they managed to dirty up the room this much in a matter of two days.

Draco sat on his bed and began to remove his shoes and school robes, watching Briana as she wandered about the dark dormitory. Gazing around the place, she noted that the only thing the boys had seemingly managed to keep in tact were their bed side tables, all of which seemed to hold artifacts of importance to each of them. Flint's table seemed to hold a fair amount of owls from his parents, Quidditch-related souvenirs and various candy packages. Blaise's table held a family portrait in which Blaise stood next to his older sister and parents in front of the Eiffel Tower. There were also several Quidditch posters and books, plus a list of all of his friend's birthdays; even Briana's seemed to be newly etched on the list.

Alex's bedside table was the neatest and also held the least. It was solely comprised of a large stack of stationery, three quills, a black and yellow scarf for the Wimbourne Wasps Quidditch team, and the knick-knacks he had acquired from the Weasley's shops. In great contrast to his best friend's night stand, Chuck kept several things on his; a photo of Catherine, a photo of another girl who Briana suspected was his other little sister, a photo of Chuck with both of the girls, three large stacks of books, a small black journal with a lock on it, a mug for the Chudley Cannons that held several quills in it, seven bottles of cologne, and what appeared to be a small, hand-made music box.

Briana enjoyed Draco's night stand the most, probably because a few things on it had to do with her, or maybe just because she knew how much everything on it actually meant to him if he kept them right there. On his bedside table, Draco kept two large books, a moving poster of the Bulgarian National Quidditch team, a small leather green journal, a stack of owls that all seemed to be from his mother, a medium-sized blue glass bottle (which held a potion that would disguise Draco's death mark for periods of time), two jars of sugared butterfly wings, and a daisy chain laying on the surface.

What captured Briana's attention the most, however, was the mirror propped up along the wall so it sat on the table. It had many things stuck magically in place on it, all of which were a wonder to look at. Most of them were photographs; one of six-year-old Draco at a festival with his mother, one of Briana and Draco when she had first moved into the house next door, a family photo of the three Malfoy's from Draco's fourth year, a photo of Draco, Chuck, Blaise and Alex in the snow in their second year, a single photo of Narcissa alone in which she looked particularly beautiful, and then there was a photo of Draco and Briana that she had never seen before.

It was from the day that they had been reunited, less than a month ago in the Malfoy's gardens. The image captured Briana and Draco hugging each other tightly before smiling broadly at each other. Briana never knew this photo even existed, and she was slightly surprised to see just how happy she appeared in it. Nevertheless, it captured a memory that she treasures deep within and she loved it immensely.

Investigating all of the boy's belonging's told her a bit about each of them. If there's one thing Briana loves, it's to learn about people she cares for. After her thorough admirations of each of the bedside tables, the girl sat down with Draco on his comfortable bed where they engaged in conversation.

"How's your first day at Hogwarts?", Draco asked his best friend.

"Alright," she answered. "The classes are just the same as the ones at my old school."

"Not too surprising, I suppose."

"So, Draco..."

"So, Briana...?"

"How have you been holding up? Are you alright?"

"I'm fine. It doesn't hurt much anymore...", he absentmindedly stared at the area of his forearm where the dark mark was, however skin appeared blank at the moment, thanks to a special potion he had been given which now resided on his bedside table.

"Have you been... working on your... task?"

"Sort of...", he ran a hand through his hair. "I just try not to think about what it is that I'm doing."

Briana sighed and embraced him in a hug that Draco didn't return, because he was too deep in thought. Thoughts about having to murder his headmaster. He looked spaced out and pondering deeply about things, and Briana noticed.

"Stop thinking about it," she ordered him quietly.

"It's a bit difficult not to," he told her somewhat bitterly.

"Well come on then," Briana stood up. "Let's do something."

He stared up at her, "Do what?"

She shrugged, "Take me on a walk around the castle or something. I'm still new here, you know."

"You want a tour?"

"Please," she grinned at him.

"Get up then," Draco told her as he stood up himself.

She stood up happily and smiled broadly at him before he took her arm and began to lead her out of the common room and around the giant, amazing castle.