A/N: Thanks to all who read chapter 1 and reviewed. I really appreciate it! I won't be updating very rapidly, because school is super busy right now, but I will continue, don't fret!

Chapter 2- The Disappointing Sorting

"...SLYTHERIN!"

My heart sank. Slytherin? How could he be in Slytherin? Why couldn't it be Gryffindor?
Hey, I'd even settle for Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff.. but Slytherin? I watched as Josh smirked at me, and then went to the Slytherin table, where there were loud congratulations from everyone.

After the sorting, Professor Dumbledore stood up and made a small speech. My mind was still racing, I didn't hear much of it besides when he said, "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment Tweak!" I looked up from the Gryffindor table at him, confused. His bright blue eyes were sparkling. He ended the speech with a Thank You. All of a sudden, food appeared by our plates. I was starving, and I dug in. A girl with big, bushy, brown hair and big front teeth came and sat down next to me.

"Hello!" she said cheerily.

"Hi," I replied, glumly. I was still upset about Josh not being in Gryffindor, but I'll still see him again, right?

"I'm Hermione, and in Gryffindor, too. You looked kind of lonely down here by yourself Mind if I sit here?" she asked, indicating the seat right next to me.

"Sure, go ahead, and I'm Kiley, by the way."

"Nice to meet you." she said, taking some chicken. I looked up, and I saw a black-haired boy with green eyes. He was sitting next to a tall, thin boy with red hair and many freckles.

I patted Hermione's shoulder and whispered, "Is that Harry Potter?" I had remembered reading about him in countless history books that were stored in my parent's study. All the books said the same thing- he was the only one who survived the killing curse. He made Voldemort loose all his powers. That was only when he was only a baby. How could someone do that? I had seen a dozen pictures of him when he was smaller, and you could find descriptions of him everywhere. I glanced over at him again, and the description matched him.

Hermione only smiled and said, "Yeah, I met him on the train. Didn't you hear him get sorted?" I shook my head. "I think you're the only one who didn't notice, everyone else was in complete silence."

"No, I was only waiting for my friend to get sorted, I was too nervous to take anything else in."

"Oh. Who is your friend?"

"Josh Hanson."

Hermione thought for a moment. "Didn't he get sorted into Slytherin?"

"Yeah, I was really hoping he would get into Gryffindor."

Hermione raised one of her eyebrows. "There's a big difference between Slytherin and Gryffindor, you know. I heard that not many good wizards come out of Slytherin." My heart sank even lower, if that was possible.

"We'll still see the Slytherins, though, right?" I asked.

"Yeah, in class, but Gryffindors and Slytherins never get along."

I was felt like I was going to cry. Had six years of friendship meant nothing? I wondered if Josh was thinking the same thing. Was he enjoying himself? My stomach began to hurt I pushed my plate aside and waited for everyone else to finish eating.

"Gryffindor First Years! This way!" bellowed a voice from behind me. The boy looked as if he were about 15 years old. He was tall and had bright, red hair. He looked as if he could have been a brother to the boy who was sitting next to Harry. I stood up, and waited for Hermione to join me. Once she did, we followed the crowd to the common room.

"Where do you suppose the Slytherin common room is?" I asked.

"Well, we don't know for sure, but I suspect its in the dungeons."

"Oh." I said, gloomily.

After a while of walking, we reached the Gryffindor common room. The Gryffindor prefects gave us the password into the common room, (Caput Draconis) and everyone went inside, talking excitedly. I walked up to the girls' dormitory, only to be surprised that all my trunk was already there. I got dressed into my Pajamas, and plopped down on my bed, still thinking about Josh. Tomorrow morning we had Transfiguration first, with the Slytherins. After a while of thinking, I drifted off into an uneasy sleep.

The next morning came all too early for me, even though I was excited. I got dressed, and headed down to breakfast, with my wand and books. I looked over at the Gryffindor table and Harry and his friend were sitting at one end. Well, might as well meet him. We're in the same year and the same house.. I casually went over and sat on the other side of both of them. "Uhhh, hello. I'm Kiley, I noticed we were in the same year and house and all so I thought I'd introduce myself." Even to myself, it sounded stupid, but it was a start.

"Errr.. hi Kiley. I'm Harry and this is Ron." said Harry, gloomily. I suppose he's probably sick of meeting people. I mean everyone keeps looking at him, talking about him. His popularity should go down though, once people get to know him.

There was silence for a bit, I don't think they really wanted me sitting here. I looked over at Ron, he seemed annoyed. Maybe I should just leave.

"Morning, Kiley." I looked up only to see Hermione there.

"Morning." I replied. I wasn't really a morning person, but today I was excited to a point and the rest of me was nervous. I was also still worried about Josh. I mean, would our friendship still last? Yes, I told myself, It has to. Although, in the back of my mind I was thinking no, it's not, you dork. You're a Gryffindor, he's a Slytherin. It'll never work out.

Once Hermione came, Ron was in an even worse mood. I guess he didn't like her either Breakfast was pretty much eaten in silence, besides Hermione randomly trying to start up a conversation. It gave me some time to think, though. Once I got to transfiguration, I'd sit next to Josh. I'm just hoping and praying that everything is the same between us. If he barely talks to me, I'll take that as a sign that he wants me to get lost. It'll be hard, but I think I'll be able to find some other people to hang out with- I mean, Hermione's here Plus, Dean and Seamus also got sorted into Gryffindor. I was pulled out of my thoughts when I heard Ron say something.

"Are you nervous for transfiguration, Harry? Are you ready for it?" asked Ron.

Harry opened his mouth, but before he could say anything Hermione chirped in, which made them both angry and even more annoyed.

"Oh yes. Transfiguration should be really interesting! We have it with the Slytherins right?"

"Yeah," Ron said, groaning. "Well, better get going, Harry, class starts soon. I hope McGonagall isn't too bad, my brothers said she was really strict." Hermione started to get up with them, but I held her shoulder.

"I don't think they like us very well." I said.

She sighed. "Maybe things will get better."

"I think I'm just going to avoid them for a while, what about you?"

"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. They should lighten up after a while. Shall we?" she added, standing up once again. I nodded and followed her in silence. She seemed to know where she was going, although, we got lost once or twice, and had to turn around. After that, one of the staircases moved on us and we had to figure out how to get back on the same floor that transfiguration. It was a good thing we left a little early, because we got to class only five minutes before it started.

Once we got to the classroom, I saw Josh, I was so relieved, and I sat next to him. "Hiya Josh! You liking Hogwarts so far?" I asked him. This is it, this is where I find out if he still likes me or not. My hands started to sweat.

"Yeah, its great. You made any friends yet?" Total relief came upon me, he was still talking to me.

I smiled. He still acts the same, anyway. "Yup, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley and Harry Potter."

"Harry.. Harry Potter? You mean you're actually friends with him?"

"Well, okay, maybe not. I just sat next to him during breakfast this morning. I don't think he enjoyed my company much. Anyway, he's sitting over there, next to the redheaded boy, Ron." I said, pointing. Ron stared at me, in shock, while a blonde Slytherin glared at us as well. He walked up to us.

"Josh.. what are you doing sitting next to one of them?" he asked. I glared at him. One of them.. he doesn't even know me and he's insulting me! Yeah, so what, I'm a Gryffindor leave me alone, buddy. I thought to myself. Josh would never say that to someone.

"What? Kiley? What's so bad about her?" he asked confused.

"She's a Gryffindor."

"So? What's so bad about that? We're all human, you know."

"Slytherins and Gryffindors don't hang out together, Hanson. Much less, we don't hang out with people who aren't pure blood either." He added, looking me up and down.

"Maybe most don't, but I do, if you have a problem with that, maybe I have a problem with you." The boy hadn't expected that, and he kind of let down his guard. I smiled from ear to ear. Maybe things hadn't changed. He walked away, shaking his head. Malfoy went and took his seat between two overly large first years. They didn't look very clever, but they looked like they could beat up anyone who came within a foot of them, if they wanted to.

I leaned in, and whispered, "Who was that?"

"Malfoy, he's a proud Slytherin, a pureblood. He isn't too keen with people who aren't purebloods."

"You friends with him?"

"Sort of, but if he gets on my case about this, our friendship won't last long." I smiled at him, and he smiled back.

Before I knew it, class had started. Professor McGonagall gave us a small speech about not acting up in her class. Ron was right, she was strict. Our first lesson was pretty much just an introduction to transfiguration. She explained what it was, how we could use it, and what not. She even turned her desk into a pig and back again. Almost everyone clapped, that is, except for Malfoy and his friends. That was the fun part of the lesson. The next part we all had to take a lot of notes, after which my hand hurt.

Professor McGonagall told us that we were going to be turning a match into a needle. She gave us the incantation and I thought it was going to be easy. Boy, was I wrong. You had to do it just right, or it wouldn't work. After about a million times I was about to give up.
No one else was having a great amount of luck either. The only person in the whole class that even made a difference in the match was Hermione, and Professor McGonagall was impressed.

Even though I hadn't changed the match into a needle, I didn't need anything else to make me happy. My friendship was truer than ever with Josh. I don't even know why I doubted him. Nothing could ever change our friendship, we had a connection. Although,
throughout the whole class period, everyone was looking at us strangely, even Professor McGonagall, we just smiled at them, laughing to ourselves.

After transfiguration was over, I waved at Josh and told him I'd talk to him later. He nodded and followed the Slytherins to their next class.

Our next class was Defense Against the Dark Arts with Professor Quirrel. Everyone in Gryffindor had been really excited for their first lesson, but it turned out to be quite dull Quirrel didn't really teach us anything. Most of the time, he was quite boring to listen to because of all his stuttering. It made him really hard to understand, and no one really wanted to listen to what he was telling us anyway.

Next was lunch. I was relieved because I was really hungry, not having eaten a lot from the night before. I never knew that there was so much to learn in the wizarding world! I was stilll really happy to be at Hogwarts though. I walked into the Great Hall and sat down at one end of the Gryffindor table at the end of the Hall.

I searched the door into the Great Hall for any sign of Hermione. I saw her, waved, but she seemed to ignore me. Hmm, she must have not seen me. I thought, but she glanced at me, I waved again, and she never moved. I shook my head. What have I done now? She knew Josh was my friend, does she think that Ron and Harry won't like her if she's hanging out with me because I'm friends with a Slytherin? No. That can't be it. Can it?