I'll probably do a Christmas story soon. Thank you for reading!

"NICOOOOOO!"

He could hear Hazel yelling as she towed two other girls across the Great Hall, followed by a girl laughing her head off. He assumed these were her dorm mates. He grinned as he stood up to greet her. One of the girls she was dragging arched her back and looked at Carter.

"Hello, brother dear. Long time no see. " He rolled his eyes. This was obviously Carter's infamous sister, Sadie.

"And that's how I like it!"He retorted. Sadie sniffed She had blonde hair with assorted red highlights and a smirk on her face. Perfect. Another smart sarcastic girl to deal with. He frowned.

"Wait, aren't there supposed to be 5 in a dorm?"

Another girl in a hijab yanked her way off Hazel.

"Alex was supposed to be our fifth, but he favored the boys company over his own sister!"

It was clearly all good natured banter and had been said a million times over.

"I'm Sam, by the way, in case you were wondering. I've seen you before, at my dad's trial."

Before they could say anything, she carried on talking.

"Yes, I said trial. He's in Azkaban right now for killing a muggle. But that doesn't change anything about me. Understood?"

The laughing girl pushed her way forwards. She had dark purple hair with black tips, black lipstick and mascara and she was surprisingly…short. What she lacked in height she made up for in passion. Nico had a feeling that even though she was muggleborn and they all had far more experience with fighting; she could floor any of them in three seconds flat. This was obviously Rebel.

"So?" she said, smirking. "You're not going to give your best friend a hi, Gio?"

He rugby tackled her and they started talking in a very fast pace about what classes they had. Apparently, we were all in the same class. Sam groaned.

"Seriously, Reb, were not allowed makeup in school hours! And I thought it was wash out dye! Is it permanent?!"

She just laughed and said teasingly,

"I was born with it, so it's not going to wash out anytime soon. And the makeup is fine! No one's going to notice." She noticed me staring at her and glared at me. "So you're Nico Di Angelo. You seem shorter than I remember."

"You're one to talk!" I scowled. Her cheeks flared pink and she stepped forward, looking like she was going to smack me. Suddenly a new thought hit me 'Wait, what do you mean, you remember? "

Her frown dipped and she stepped backwards and sat down on a seat, where everybody else was having breakfast. I followed suit and sat down opposite

"You really don't remember? We were in the Lotus foster home together. I was only there for a few days before I ran away. You gave me a black eye because I had the Happy Meal toy you wanted."

"Oh." I looked away, embarrassed. To break the silence I asked her, "What were you doing in the foster home? What happened to your parents?"

She made a noise like a strangled cat and bit her lip , hurriedly struck up a conversation with Hazel, hiding behind her curtain of lavender hair. I wasn't going to get answers anytime soon. But that's okay. I was willing to wait. Sam beckoned me over.

"See that guy, With the black robes? We've got him next. Don't get on his bad side!"

"Why?"

"His name is Snape- has a grudge against everyone and everyone has a grudge against him. He teaches Potions. Wait- breakfasts over- tell you later!"

She got up and left him wondering whatever made him so scary. It must be bad, the way he was looking at Rebel…

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