"Bye mom!" I say running down the staircase with my trunk.

Mum pokes her head out of the kitchen and walks over to the bottom of the stairs crossing her arms. "Now wait just a second, I'm coming with you to drop you off!"

I put my trunk down by the door and grab my scarf and shoes."Mom it's really not necessary" I say putting my shoes on. "It's my fourth year now, I can go on my own now, can't I? Please?" moms taken me to the express for the past 3 years, she doesn't like change, so her allowing me to go alone would be amazing, a new sense of freedom if you will.

She shoots me a worried look before eventually giving in. "Well, alright I suppose you're old enough now" she says with a warm smile."Write to me as soon as you get there! Love you!" she says blowing me a kiss as I head out the door.

I make my way over to Kings Cross and board the Hogwarts express. I absolutely love Hogwarts, it's home. I can't wait to see my friends again and watch the Quidditch games with them. Oh, and how I love watching the Quidditch matches. I make my way through the train and eventually find an empty compartment to settle into. While I wait for my friends to arrive I place my backpack next to me and pull out a book that I've been reading this summer: 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'. Surely, just as the book starts to get good I hear various footsteps approaching.

The compartment door slides open and I'm meet with the faces of all my friends. Blaise, Draco and Pansy and of course Crabbe and Goyle, I don't necessarily consider the two my friends, but they're just always around Draco, so they're always around me as well. Before anybody enters the compartment, Draco shoos Crabbe and Goyle away by sending them a cold glare.

We all greet one another while taking a seat and placing our bags overhead, Blaise and Draco across for me and Pansy next to me. We all exchange what happened over our summer vacations. They share the same stories each time about how they traveled to some luxurious land and spent their whole summer there. I, on the other hand stayed home most of the summer, I didn't mind it though, even though I'm a pureblood Slytherin, mum would rather spend her money on other, more important things.

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We soon arrive at Hogwarts and enter the great hall for the routine sorting hat ceremony. We all take a seat at the Slytherin table and settle in as the ceremony starts, We don't pay much attention to who gets sorted into our house, we just make sure to cheer for them loudly as they make their way down to our table.

After the ceremony, dinner appears and just like every year, the new kids smile in awe at the vast amount of food.

"Wow, all this for me" one says, looking over to me for approval as he drools over the food.

I nod and chuckle as I do so.

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After dinner we're instructed to head up to our respective dorms and unpack our things. As we the four of us walk up and enter the dimly green lit, Slytherin common room, we spilt up and walk over to dorms. This year I share a room with Pansy, just like the last three years. Pansy and I have been good friends over the past couple years, although she can easily get on my nerves. While Draco and Blaise on the other hand, are much more relaxed, well at least Blaise is, he's honestly my favorite out of everyone.

"I'm gonna go see how the boys are settling in" I say to Pansy as I throw my bag down on my bed. I'll unpack later, or well, eventually, just not now.

"Meet me in the common room after?" she questions as she organizes her clothes into the dresser.

"Sure" I announce before walking out our shared room.

I travel down the stairs that lead up to the girls dormitories and arrive in the common room before climbing up the stairs that lead to the boys dormitories. Technically girls aren't allowed on this side and vice versa, but everyone will be so busy moving in, I doubt they'll pay much attention to me. I walk down the hall poking my head into every other room seeing if I recognize any of them. Eventually at the end of the hall I successfully spot Blaise and follow him into his supposed room.

"So's this your room Zabini?" I ask slouching back into a leather arm chair that's in the corner of the room.

"Fuck Y/n, announce yourself at least" he says, after having jumped a little at the sound of my voice.

I laugh. "Who're your roomies?" I question crossing my legs, as I observe him scattering his things about the room.

"Crabbe and Goyle" he sighs.

"S'posse they're out then?"

He nods.

"And Draco?" I announce standing up, walking over to lean against one of the bed pillars.

"Right across from us, got a whole room to himself" Blaise responds with a grin as he hangs his robes in the closet.

I slowly approach the door and observe the room across from us, from the small crack that was left ajar I could see a king sized bed in the center and long white-blonde figure resting upon it, as I'm observing him I notice that I've subconsciously started biting my lower lip and decide to focus back in on where I'm at.

I turn back to Blaise shaking off my previous thoughts, "Need help unpacking, bestie?" I announce, approaching him.

"That'd be nice" he laughs.

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Once we've all settled in, we meet up in the empty common room and reminisce about previous years.

"Remember last year when you and Draco got a detention for stinking up the entirety of the Potions room?" Blaise teases, lightly nudging me.

"It would have just been Y/n serving that detention if she hadn't forced me into making me her accomplice" Draco announces, suppressing a quiet chuckle.

"Accomplice!" I shout with a smile, "If I remember correctly, you insisted on being my lab partner."

Draco rolls his eyes in defeat.

"Ok ok" Blaise laughs, "I think that's enough for tonight".

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Thank you so much for choosing to read this story I assure you it does get better! These few first chapters are here so we can see more of each characters personality but I promise it gets better! Also Cedric will get introduced soon :))

disclaimer//pansy gets written out in chapter 8//also this story doesn't follow the actual story line of hp i will use some things here and/or there and alter them//