Chapter Two
Ling Yu stood at the bottom of the grand staircase at the entryway of the school, waiting for the professors to come down from Dumbledore's office. She sighed and walked over to the large glass hourglasses containing each house's points so far. Seeing a few red rubies fall into Gryffindor's caused her to jump back, thinking that they couldn't win any at this time of day. Apparently they could though. She studied each hourglass carefully, looking to see what house was in the lead. At the current time, Gryffindor was in first, followed by Slytherin, then Ravenclaw and finally Hufflepuff. Having looked at the house points long enough she turned around only to bump into a boy with platinum blond hair.
"I'm sorry!" Ling Yu said quickly, helping the boy off of the ground. He glared at her with piercing gray orbs that seemed to bore into her soul, then shook his head. "No, it's alright." he replied, dusting his robes off. "Were you looking to see which house is in the lead?" he asked, his eyes studying her features closely. Ling Yu studied the boy's features in return before giving him a slight nod of her head, indicating that she was indeed looking at the hourglasses to see which house was in the lead.
"You don't look fimiliar," said the boy, looking around to see if anyone else was around. "Are you new?" Ling Yu frowned and then gazed down at the ground. "Yeah, I'm new." she replied. "My name is Draco. Draco Malfoy." Draco said suspiciously. "What's your name, and what house are you in?" he questioned, starting to make his way in the direction of the dungeons. "Hopefully you aren't in Gryffindor." Ling Yu shook her head, following closely behind him. "No, I'm in Slytherin. My name is Ling Yu Chang." she told him, looking up the stairs to see Snape descending the grand staircase.
"Chang?" Draco asked, becoming slightly puzzled at Ling Yu's last name. "As in Cho Chang?" he wondered, turning around to face her. A soft, yet annoyed sigh escaped Ling Yu's light pink lips as she again nodded to Draco. "Yes, unfortunately," she replied. "Cho is my sister. But, we don't get along well so my parents sent me to a wizarding school in Beijing, China..Until recently.." Ling Yu exclaimed, drifting off. "They wanted me to be with my sister, so they sent me here." "Well, I'm sorry to hear that your related to her, mate." Draco said, giving her a light pat on the shoulder.
As the two of them walked further and further into the dank, musty smelling dungeons, Ling Yu looked around very little. She mostly kept her head down, thinking about the circumstances of her being brought to Hogwarts. The reason she told Draco wasn't exactly the full truth, for her parents hadn't sent her from school in Beijing just so she could be with her sister. Cho and her hadn't got along for a long time, and they certainly weren't going to tell the reasons to anyone being that they were so personal. The real reason for Ling Yu being sent to Hogwarts was written in a Chinese newspaper that Ling Yu carried with her in her trunk with her other school things and only her parents, her sister, Professor Dumbledore and herself knew about why she had come out of the blue. 'Hopefully he will believe that reason,' Ling Yu thought to herself. 'Because I have no intention of telling him the real one, not if I can help it.'
"How did your sister react when she found out you were in Slytherin?" Draco asked, pausing so that Ling Yu could catch up to him. Ling Yu raised an eyebrow for a moment before letting out malicious laugh. "She was shocked. You should have seen her face. It was priceless." she said, smirking at him slyly. "I take it your the only one in your family that has ever been in Slytherin?" he said, smiling at her slightly. "Yeah, it makes you wonder, doesn't it?" she said, seeing the door to the Slytherin house.
"Werewolf," Draco said flatly, obviously muttering the password to open the door to the house. Within a split second after he had said it, the door to the Slytherin common room swung open; leaving room for them to enter. Draco looked back at Ling Yu before stepping into the common room, waiting for her to enter as well. She frowned, hesitating for a moment before she stepped down into the common room, standing directly behind Draco. He stared at her and then turned on his heel, walking into the sitting room where two large couches were next to a fireplace.
"Malfoy, is that you?" said a shrill voice coming up a staircase above them. A girl with dark hair and a face like a pug frowned, heading down the stairs quickly. She stopped in front of Draco and gave him an angry glare. "Where have you been! Crabbe and Goyle have been looking everywhere for you." she spat, finally noticing Ling Yu. Seeing Ling Yu caused her to narrow her eyes, turning to look at Draco once again.
"Who's this, Draco? Why'd you bring her here?" she interrogated. "Calm down, Pansy. This is Ling Yu. She just arrived and was sorted into our house, that's why I brought her here." he said coldly, glaring at her for being so rude. "She's Chang's sister." he told her, collapsing onto one of the couches next to the fireplace. "Cho Chang? Why would a Chang be put into Slytherin. They are all in Ravenclaw." Pansy replied, eyeing Ling Yu even more. "Whatever the case, I'm not trusting her." she sneered, turning to walk up the stairs. Finally Ling Yu opened her mouth, turning to look directly at Pansy with her light blue eyes. "You don't have to trust me. Then again, I wouldn't exactly trust anyone with the name 'Pansy' either." Ling Yu retorted, sitting down next to Draco.
"Wha-!" Pansy said, speechless at Ling Yu's comment. "Draco! Your going to let her talk about me like that!" she screamed. Draco yawned and sat up on the couch, taking a quick glance at Pansy, and then at Ling Yu. "Well, you deserved it." he mumbled, rubbing his eyes sleepily. Her eyes narrowed once more into tiny slits, hearing Draco's remark. "Some friend you are, Malfoy!" she said, rushing up the stairs and slamming the door to the girl's dorm. "Don't worry about her," Draco told Ling Yu. "She's just jealous because she won't be the center of attention anymore around here."
Ling Yu yawned, rubbing her eyes sleepily. "Too bad for her, I guess." she mumbled, starting to walk up the stairs. "I'm a bit tired. I think I'll turn in for the night." she replied, looking down at him while she headed up the stairs. Draco nodded and smirked devilishly at her. "Alright, the girl's dorm is up there." he told her, pointing to the door that Pansy had rushed into. "Thank you. It was nice to meet you, and I hope to see you tomorrow." she said, bowing to him deeply. She then opened the door and walked into the girl's dorm, leaving him there to think about the new girl that had just walked into his life from out of the blue.