Disclaimer: I do not own HP in any way, shape, or form. I am not making any profit off of this work. I do not own the original HP characters but I do however own my original characters.

Rated: M for sexual content, language, adult themes

A/N: Am terribly sorry for the short length of my chapters.

Chapter Three
"Midnight"

Bella didn't remember much after the Sorting but did, however, pay close attention to were the entrance to her house common room was and the password. The common room itself was dark and had a somewhat cave like feel in some places. The huge leather chairs and couches reminded Bella of thrones.
Bella walked down the steps that lead to the girl's dormitories. The three girls she had to share a room with were named Millicent Bulstrode, who was rather ugly and owned an equally ugly cat, the Parkinson girl, Bella didn't know her first name and didn't care, and one other tattling girl that Bella hadn't gotten the name of. The dorm itself was dark like the common room but the four-poster beds held brilliant green silks and were draped over the tops of them and the covers were green as well. Bella noted that her luggage had been brought up.
Since she wasn't at all sleepy Bella began unpacking. She took a small silver bowl from her trunk and placed it on her night stand, along with a green Pocket Sneak-a-Scope which looked rather like a small top that stood on its end by itself and she also placed what appeared to be a small picture frame with nothing but a blank picture in it on the night stand. She noted that the other girls were all in bed now and complaining that she was making to much noise. Bella ignored them and kept unpacking. She now had all her clothes stacked neatly on her bed and was stuffing her spell books into a school bag. After which she propped the bag up on the floor against the nightstand. But there was one book that she had not put in the bag, which she placed near her pillow. She also took out her Standard Seize 2 Cauldron and placed it next to her bed then she began neatly putting her clothes back in the now empty trunk. Then she pulled off her robs and put on a pale green night gown, sat down on her bed and picked up the book she'd left out and spent an hour or two reading.

Later that night Bella lay awake looking up at the endless green silk above her. She was finding it very hard to sleep...
What am I doing here? Bella turned over on her side. I wonder which of these beds my mother slept in, if any. There're so many memories here, I can feel them. This room is thick with them. Bella looked at the empty picture on her nightstand. Mother... She reached out a hand and touched the picture frame. As if brought to life from her touch, a moving picture of a woman appeared in the frame. She was very beautiful with black hair and dark eyes however there was an almost mad look about her. Will I end up like you too, mother? Is it a good thing if I do? Bella was somehow aware of a clock striking twelve. I wish you where here, mother. Bella took her hand away from the frame and the picture of the woman faded away.

Bella sat at the Slytherin table in the Great Hall the next morning eating her food without a word. Today would be her first day of classes. Bella looked up as she heard a lazy sounding voice drift her way.
"Hey, Grundy," said the blonde boy named Malfoy. "Like mother like daughter, wouldn't you say?"
"Tell me Malfoy," said Bella coolly. "which would you prefer, a broken nose or a broken jaw?"
With a glare Malfoy walked away.
Bella was boiling inside. She didn't care if Malfoy was in her house what he had said stung. And how the bloody hell does he know about my mum!