The cards game was a bonding moment for the girls, after it they felt closer to each other and their friendship increased. It was Nella's cards so she felt like she contributes the most in cheering up her friends. Evelyn was just glad they felt better after that because she is the one who annoyed them in the morning. Hazel felt that she learned more about the wizarding world in a fun way and it was easier for her. Tina needed that distraction and she was like she always is the day after. Well, Tina just decided to move on and not thinking about this until the weekend, she could complain about everything with her sister, she would actually know what she is feeling in contrast of her friends who can't realise it. At first, Tina only tried to be there for Queenie and didn't want to tell her how she felt about their parents' death. Clearly, it's didn't work because of Queenie's Legilimency, she knew exactly how she is feeling and forced her to talk about that, so it's really bonded them. They only had each other from now on, they need to support each other, and that was something Tina struggled with. She wanted to protect Queenie but she can't when her sister knows everything that happened. It was never easy to her that her sister is a Legilimency. She never had privacy, she couldn't be the protective big sister to Queenie, she always needed to be honest and open. Probably that why she tries to keep her privacy with her friends and didn't tell them everything, she couldn't avoid it in the conversations with her sister, but with her friends she has a choice. She could be happy with them and ignore her problems and this is what she wanted from this relationship. She really enjoys to hang out with them. Before they went to sleep yesterday, they talked about the characters on the cards and told Hazel about famous people in the wizarding world. This created a big problem in the morning; they forgot to wake up.
"I can't believe we are late!" Tina called as they ran to the bathroom.
"We should have go to sleep in time!" Hazel added.
"We're not late to any class just to our room bathroom time." Evelyn reminded them.
"Yes, because Regina didn't think she should be nice and wake us up!" Nella declared.
They didn't have much time to change for their robes, it wasn't very comfortable to do it fast. Hazel didn't finish to dress the robes when the girls of the second room opened the door. Hazel always has been the last one to finish dressing because she wasn't use to wear robes yet.
"Why are you still here?" Marine asked them.
"Get out! It's our time!" The curly red haired, Janet Hickory yelled at them. The other three girls nodded.
"Why you wake up late?" The Afro-American girl, Lavonna Kelly, asked softly. She was nicer than the rest of the girls in the room.
"We just talked and lost track of time." Hazel explained, blushing.
"I'm shock that Regina let you talk that much." Diamond Knight chuckled.
"She didn't, she yelled at us to be quite the whole time." Nella said.
"That is more like her." Gertrude Joyce rolled her eyes.
"Wait, where is Regina?" Lavonna asked.
"She is always wake up before us to be here alone." Tina rolled her eyes.
"Well, are you getting out of here? It's really are turn." Marine reminded them, holding the door to hint them to get out.
"Alright, we are leaving!" Evelyn said, rolling her eyes.
"I guess I won't do braids today." Hazel said, her brown hair all over her shoulders.
"But I didn't put my flowers in my hair!" Nella called, pointing at the flowers near the sink.
"So one day in your life you won't put flowers in your her, Swamp Girl." Evelyn told her and grabbed Nella's hand to drag her out of the room. Nella quickly collected the flowers as Evelyn dragged her out of the bathroom. Hazel and Tina just smiled and got out. All of the girls from the second room chuckled because of Nella and Evelyn.
"But what if Professor Moss will teach us about one of my flowers? You should have seen how she liked my Foxglove. Regina was really hated it." Nella said as they arrived back to the room.
"Just put the flower here in our room. You really need a mirror for that?" Hazel asked her.
"You even had mirrors in your forest house?" Evelyn teased.
"Yes, I had a mirror back in my house. Besides, the mirror tells where exactly I should put the flower. It's very important thing." Nella told them.
"Right, your using in the talking mirror." Tina noted.
"Wait, the mirror is talking?!" Hazel asked in surprise.
"Yes, you didn't hear the mirror talked to Nella?" Evelyn asked.
"No..." Hazel muttered.
"Leave her, the mirror doesn't talk very loud." Tina told Evelyn.
"Try to talk to it in the evening." Nella told Hazel.
"Wait, so it's like the mirror of the evil queen?" Hazel asked.
"What's the evil queen?" Evelyn wondered.
"You know, from Snow White, the fairy tale?" The three girls stared at her and waited she continue to explain. "You don't know Grimm's Fairy Tales?" Hazel bewildered. The girls shook their heads. "But these are classic children stories!"
"For No-Majs maybe. We grew up on magical stories like the Beedle the Bard." Nella told her.
"Right..." Hazel blushed.
"We should go eat." Evelyn stopped the discussion.
"But my flowers..." Nella said and grabbed Asphodel. She played with it on the way to the dinning room.
"Why you're not using as a bracelet?" Hazel offered.
"That a great idea!" Nella called and wrapped the stalk on her hand.
"Hello, class. Today we'll start learning on plants for potions. Our subject is Asphodel." Professor Moss told her class.
"Yes! I brought one by myself!" Nella called, showing everyone her flower bracelet.
"Impressive." Professor Moss smiled at her. Regina rolled her eyes, she hated when she didn't get the attention.
"Asphodel is a flower from the lily family. It's also named Royal Staff. The flower has long slender leaves and can be found worldwide. In potions, we're using powdered root of Asphodel.' Professor Moss explained about the plant.
"Asphodel is ingredient in Draught of Living Death potion, am I right?" Nella asked.
"You are correct, Nella." Professor Moss smiled in pride to her.
Nella was very glad this day. It was clear that Professor Moss was fond of her. DADA lesson wasn't special. Professor Jauncey taught them about dark creatures.
"Professor Moss like me very much, I'm sure I'm her favorite student." Nella said at lunch.
"I'm the favorite student of Professor Pringle. Not every year a first-year student qualified for the team." Evelyn smiled.
"Well, I don't think Professor Jauncey like you very much." Nella teased.
"Hey, that lesson was alright." Evelyn retorted.
"I know, I'm not saying she hates you, only she doesn't like you." Nella mentioned. Evelyn rolled her eyes.
"They became very close..." Hazel whispered to Tina.
"You're right." Tina told her. The four of them were friends of course, but Nella and Evelyn were closer to each other. Tina and Hazel on the other hand, communicate less and were more disturbed in their problems.
"Today we'll talk about Ilvermorny foundation. I hope you all did your homework about William the Pukwudgie and Isolt. Put them on your desks, I'll collect them in the lesson." Professor Sophie Prott said to the class.
Regina raised her hand. Professor Prott signed her she can speak. "I just wanted to add that there is a rumor about the Pukwudgie who clean her statue that he is William."
"This is correct. Because no one ever found out the life span of pukwudgies." Professor Prott mentioned.
"Exactly." Regina nodded.
"Isolt met the three other founders when she and William saved them from an hidebehind. James, her future husband was a No-Maj, he was a friend of the Boot family and they adopted the boys together."
"My great-great-great-grandfather clearly." Regina muttered in pride.
"Wait, why Isolt could have married with a No-Maj and today it's forbidden?" Elena asked.
"They told us it's forbidden yesterday." Hazel whispered to Tina.
"We talking about three hundred years ago. There weren't rules back then, and you'll learn about this particular law very soon." Professor Prott answered.
Something was broken. "My quill!" The boy called. He had chestnut hair who fall on his face and hid his blue eyes. His quill broke in his hand he pressed it too hard.
"It's Elton Fillmore, he is also a No-Maj-born." Hazel told Tina.
"What have you done?" Professor Prott asked with stern voice and came to see what happened. Elton panicked when he saw she went close to him and somehow the ink spread on the blank parchment.
"How you did this mess?!" The professor asked him.
"I'm sorry, I'm very sorry." Elton lowered his head.
"Poor Elton." Hazel muttered to Tina.
"You didn't tell us you bonded with him." Tina said.
"Because I didn't. But he seems the best from the rest of the No-Maj-borns in this year. Elena for example just get excited from everything, like she doesn't care to leave her all life behind." Hazel explained. Tina nodded.
"Wait, where is your homework?" Professor Prott asked him.
Elton blushed, "I barely succeed to hold the quill I can't write anything with it..."
"He's right, it's not that easy to write with those things." Hazel moved the quill to emphasis her point.
"You do a better job then him I guess." Tina mentioned.
"Professor please, he still new to our world, it's just hard for him to write in quills." Emmett Holgerson tried to protect his roommate.
"Then you, as his roommate can help him." She reminded Emmett, who blushed either. "Remember you need to write everything I said." She continued with her lesson.
"How come we stayed alone again this day? Where is Hazel?" Nella asked few moments of silence in the room. Again, it was only the both of them. Regina was at her state gathering, Hazel and Evelyn went to somewhere. Tina just worked on her homework quietly.
"She went to speak with Elton." Tina told her.
"The quill boy?" Nella asked.
Tina nodded. "Exactly."
"Wait, where is Evelyn? She doesn't have Quodpot practice or the gathering." Nella asked.
"She said she is going to talk with Indigo, from the Quodpot team. You didn't hear her saying this when you organise your flowers?" Tina asked her.
"I guess I wasn't focused..." Nella admitted.
"Besides, you should start to get used to me, also tomorrow we are the only one here. I didn't know you hate me." Tina mumbled.
"I don't hate you! I just get used to be around a lot of people and it weird for me to be here only with you!" Nella explained. "We need to find more things to do in our free time. The Florida gathering is only in Thursdays, and I have nothing else to do in the afternoons."
"You have. It's calls homework." Tina reminded her.
"I meant like a hobby. You don't even have a gathering; don't you want to find something to do?" Nella asked her.
"No, I'm good." Tina answered.
Hazel returned to the room smiling, "I'm going to do homework with Elton." She took her staff and went out the room.
"I don't think the boys from the second room have much luck. Clarence transformed into hawk, Elton can't held a quill and Professor Prott blamed Emmett for that." Nella joked.
Tina chuckled, "I guess you are right."
After a few moments of silence Nella sighed, "They both found a new friends."
"Are you jealous?" Tina teased.
"No, I don't. But you need to found another thing to do besides homework." Nella mentioned again.
"I found myself things to do. I'm not bored or anything like that." Tina explained.
"Well, I'm bored." Nella threw herself on the bed.
Later, when all the girls where on the room, someone unfamiliar came. The door was opened so the girl, who had silvery-blonde hair, got inside. "Hey girls, my name is Astrid Vega, I'm from the last room. Me and my roommates decided that we should bonded more all the girls, from Thunderbird, so we're going to get to know each other and talk a little bit in our room, so are you coming?" She asked them. Regina rolled her eyes but didn't said anything.
"Yes, of course." Nella shrugged.
"Sounds interesting." Hazel mentioned.
The five girls went after Astrid in the hallway to the last room. The rest of the girls from this year were already there. They sat in circle, all the twenty-five girls in the first year of Thunderbird.
"So, who first? We are really going to do this in an alphabetic order?" Lonnie Reyes asked, she was in the third room, meaning she was also in class with them, so they recognized her.
"I think we should start with the first one in the alphabet then move to the last, and then the second will talk and the second from the end, like that." Astrid decided.
"The four of us in W, how you want us to know which one of us is the last?" One of the girls who probably from Astrid's room said.
"You all know it's you, Mabel. Now, we should start. Which one of you is the first?" Astrid asked the five girls from the first room.
"Of course, I am." Regina had a wide smile. "My name is Regina Calderon-Boot, I'm a descendant of Chadwick Boot the founder of our house. My aunt is Theresa the charms professor. I'm living in New Mexico because my mother is from there, but my cousin and aunt live here near the school. Since we are descendants of the founder we are also automatically represent our house in the Charms Chalice."
"Nice, now it's your turn Mabel." Astrid told the girl who talked earlier.
"I'm Mabel Wickham, I'm from New York..." Mabel started to say.
"You are also from New York? Cool, where are you live?" Marine asked.
"I live in Brooklyn." Mabel answered.
"You don't know all the kids from New York? But you with Oscar all the time." Janet mentioned.
"That because Oscar lives two blocks from me and both of us have parents who work for the MACUSA. We grew up in the MACUSA's daycare center together. Only my mother work there, my father is an actor on Wizard Broadway, they working on a new play, 'The Falling of the Twelve Aurors', about the first Aurors of America." Marine told them.
Tina drifted away in her thoughts, she lived in New York until that year, she was supposed to be part of this conversation, but instead she just sat quietly, because she is not live there anymore. The next time she would be in the big city probably be only when she'll be adult.
"Yes, and the New York gathering is only tomorrow." Mabel mentioned.
"I want to be an actress." Louisa Nelson said, she was also in the third room.
"Who's next?" Astrid asked the girls from the first room.
"Me. My name is Hazel Dillon, I'm a No-Maj-born, I live in Illinois and I have three brothers, one older and two youngers then me." Hazel muttered.
"My name is Zephirina Westby, but everyone calls me Phiri." A girl who sat upside down and put her legs on the bed, said.
"Tina, someone else have a long name like you." Nella told her, but Tina didn't hear that. "Tina!" Nella slap Tina on her shoulder to get her attention.
"Nella, What?!" Tina called she didn't except that.
"You need to hear this girl's name." Nella shrugged. Evelyn was confused, she didn't understand what Nella wants from Tina.
"Zephirina, but please call me Phiri." The girl said her name again.
"This is a long name. My full name Porpentina, so I get it." Tina mentioned.
"Why you're not call yourself Rina? I think it's sounds better." Cecile asked.
"I don't know, Phiri is the nickname everyone used." Phiri shrugged.
"At least you can choose a nickname I didn't had another option besides Tina." She chuckled.
"You could use your middle name." Gertrude offered.
"It's Esther." Tina mumbled.
"I never heard the name Esther before. Well, I didn't hear about the names Porpentina or Zephirina either, but Esther sounds like more normal name." Elena told them.
"I think I prove my point about why my nickname is Tina." She smiled.
"We should continue." Astrid reminded them.
"Right, I'm Nella Everglade, I live in the Everglades in Florida. Yes, my family named this place. I have five younger siblings." Nella told them.
"I'm Chloe Walton, I have a twin brother who is also in Thunderbird, his name is Clint, and we are from Georgia." A girl named Chloe said.
"My turn." Evelyn said.
"You are the Quodpot girl, my sister is Perdita she is also in the team." One of the girls said.
"Indeed I am. My all family plays Quodpot. But if Perdita is your sister, why you didn't go to the tryouts, Imogen?" Evelyn asked. Imogen was with her in flying class so she knew this girl, but they didn't got a chance to talk before.
"Playing Quodpot is not my thing but I'm a huge fan of your family, and you played very well. You going to be an amazing player one day, even though you only a reserve now." Imogen smiled to Evelyn.
"Thanks! Anyway, my name is Evelyn Ferlet, I'm from Texas..."
"Cool! I'm also from Texas! Where do you live?" Lonnie called.
"Houston." Evelyn answered.
"Wow, you live in the big city, that uncommon in Texas. Most of the magical families prefer the quite towns, I live in Sweetwater, which is amazing town, there is pretty big magical community in there. We even have Quidditch team, my father plays there, he is a professional Quidditch player." Lonnie mentioned.
"Told you." Nella hissed in Evelyn's ear.
"Quodpot is so much better, and my father is the manager of the Texas team, 'The White Sparks'." Evelyn retorted.
"Which is one of the great teams in the league." The girl from earlier said.
"But Sweetwater All-Stars is one of the best Quidditch teams in America." Lonnie argued.
"I told her this, she didn't listen." Nella rolled her eyes; she was glad she wasn't alone in that opinion. Everyone prefers Quodpot over Quidditch in most of the times, but at least Lonnie agree with her.
"No, no Evelyn is right. Quodpot is much better. By the way, I'm Imogen Wallace, my sister is Perdita Wallace she is seventh year and play for Thunderbird Quodpot team and we are from Missouri." Imogen introduced herself.
"I'm Tina Goldstein, you've all heard my full name and I have one sister." Tina said, she didn't want to tell her all life story to the all of them, so she said something short. None of them need to know that she is orphan.
"My name as I already told you all is Astrid Vega and I live in Louisiana." Astrid said.
"So, do I!" Someone called.
The girls continue introduced themselves. Tina drifted away with her thoughts again, she couldn't hear about all of them talking about their families and amazing life, she missed this life. To be part of the conversation about New York, talk about her parents' jobs, just to have a family. Everyone had good life, parents and supportive families and all she had is her sister, nothing more. Those girls didn't need to think about their future, and how they could live in the real world outside of Ilvermorny. But Tina did need to think about that. They were in an orphanage, without parents. They needed to take care of themselves. Tina tried not to think about the future, because it was so far away, but she couldn't stop herself. She was disturbed about what they do when they'll grew up, she would need to find a job, an apartment, buy stuff, she is going to be the one who will need to take care of that. No one going to help them, it's her responsibility. Then Tina realised something, she would need to find a job quickly and fast. Queenie will be back to Ilvermorny but Tina would stay alone. She would need to find what to do, and she couldn't let Queenie stay in the orphanage she would need to take care of her sister. Queenie love to act like she is the adult one who take care of Tina but it won't be her responsibility to find where to live for both of them. Tina wanted to be an Auror, it was her dream and it was a job with a good salary but she had a doubt. She can't danger her life on a daily basis, if something would happen to her, Queenie would stay alone, and how could she even consider taking that risk?
"Tina, everything is alright with you?" Hazel whispered in her ear. Tina looked at her and nodded. Hazel didn't believe to that but she didn't argue. Tina came back to listen to the conversation and found out that everyone already introduced himself. They just continue to talk about random subjects by now.
"Astrid it was nice, but I think we should go to the shower now." Regina cut off this meeting.
"I think you're right. But it was nice to meet you all. Thanks, you cooperate with me." Astrid smiled.
"I actually agree with her. We need to go to the shower before these five will be mad at us." Evelyn said and pointed on the five girls from the second room.
"Hey, now your late is justified." Lavonna said.
"Yeah, and we can blame Astrid for that." Janet joked.
"Alright, blame me I don't care." Astrid laughed.
"So how I make this mirror talk to me?" Hazel looked at the mirror Nella always used. Regina was already in the bath and the other girls waited for the conversation of Hazel with the mirror.
"What you want me to say? That's your hair is a mess?" A voice was heard from the mirror.
"The mirror is really talk." Hazel taken aback from what she said.
"We told you that." Evelyn said.
"Yes, she gave you advises on how you should look like." Nella explained.
"So, mirror on the wall, who's the prettiest of us?" Hazel asked.
"It's Nella. The flowers in the hair is a great fashion." The mirror answered.
"The mirror likes you Nella." Hazel told her.
"Nice to hear that." Nella laughed.
Tina didn't said anything in that discussion, she was exhausted, she couldn't wait more for the weekend so she could meet Queenie again.
Author note: Sorry if there were too many characters in that chapter. I just wanted to have all the Thunderbird girls from that year exist, and I thought I need an easy chapter with more bonding.
I know Tina was a bit quite here, she has a hard time now and she talk less in the last two chapters, I hope her thoughts really represent that correctly. Wait for the next chapter there will be another visit with Queenie and a flashback.
Clearly, Snow White it's one of the Grimm's fairy tales!