Sage walks into the great hall after she hears Professor Dumbledore announce her arrival. Walking up to the front Professor McGonagall sits her on the stool and places the sorting hat on her head. 

“You are a very difficult one to place aren’t you,” Sage heard a voice ask in her ear. “You certainly have the wits to be in Ravenclaw, and you’re very brave which is perfect for Gryffindor. You’ve been through a lot in your past that has made you very distrustful but very loyal indeed. Oh and you have a lot of ambition and determination. Best put you in, Slytherin!” 

Sage jumps lightly as the  Sorting Hat shouts her house. Many claps come from the Slytherin table and she gets off the stool walking towards her house table. 

“Pardon me, but would it be ok for me to sit here,” she asks a boy with curly brown hair and brown eyes. He looks at her and nods. 

“My names Mattheo Riddle,” the boy says extending a hand to her. She smiles and shakes it saying, “I’m Sage Vespertine, it’s nice to meet you.” All of a sudden a voice speaks up from across the table. 

“Already making friends with the new girl are you, Riddle,” speaks a boy with bleach blond hair and a smirk. Mattheo looks up at him with a slight smile before turning back to Sage.

“Sorry about him. That’s my friend Draco along with Pansy, Blaise, Theodore, and Lorenzo. And also my brother Tom,” Mattheo says. Sage flashes a small smile at everyone introducing herself. “What year are all of you in,” she asks them.

“Oh everyone here except Tom is in their 5th year. He’s in his 7th,” Mattheo responds. “What about you?” “I’m in my 5th year too,” says Sage.

“Do you know what dorm you’ll be staying in yet,” Pansy asks Sage. She nods but says, “I’m not sure who it’s with yet though. It’s dorm 3B I think.” 

Pansy’s eyes widen and she exclaims, “That’s my dorm! There aren’t any other girls there so you’ll be my only roommate.” Sage nods and looks around the Great Hall. “It’s huge here,” she says with wide eyes.

“I’ve only just noticed your accent. Or lack of one. Where are you from,” Tom asks Sage, speaking for the first time. 

“Oh, I’m originally from America. I got transferred here from Ilvermorny,” she says. “Why,” Blaise asks. 

Sage wasn’t about to spill her whole life story to some people she just met so she simply said, “for reasons.” No one questioned her on it. 

“Everyone may now be dismissed to their dorms and let’s all have a magnificent year,” Dumbledore exclaims dismissing everyone. “I swear if that Umbridge woman is actually going to work here, I’m going to rip out my hair,” Draco says as she looks over at the Slytherin table. 

“She can’t be that bad? Right? I mean I’ve only just got here but I don’t think the school will let her do anything too bad,” Sage says. Theodore chuckles, “clearly you haven’t met any of the previous Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers.”

“How many have you had,” Sage asks as she follows the group to the Slytherin dorms. “A new one every year since we’ve been here,” says Lorenzo. 

They enter the common room and Sage looks around in shock. “It’s so much better here than my last school,” she says looking around at everything. 

“Come on I’ll show you our dorm,” Pansy says grabbing her hand and dragging her upstairs. “Your stuff will already be in there so no need to worry about unpacking.” 

They enter the dorm and Sage collapses on her new bed. “I think I’m going to like it here. What time do classes start,” Sage asks Pansy sitting up. 

“Breakfast starts at 7:30 a.m., classes start at 9:00 a.m., lunch is at 11:45 and goes till 12:45, and dinner, like tonight, is at 7:35 p.m., and curfew is at 10:00 o’clock,” Pansy answers. “Classes are usually an hour and fifteen minutes to an hour and a half. Unless you have a double class then it’s around three hours,” she explains. 

Sage nods taking in all of the new information. “Don’t worry about it. You’ll be fine. The boys and I will help you when you need it,” Pansy says. Sage mutters a thanks and asks, “there is a library here, right?” 

“Yep, I can give you a tour tomorrow after classes if you want,” Pansy says. Sage smiles. “That would be nice, thank you.”

“You should probably get ready for bed. I’ll wake you up in the morning and then we can go down to breakfast with the boys,” Pansy said before going to change into her night gown. 

Sage let’s out a content sigh. Before going into her dorm bathroom and getting ready for bed. 

Once done, Sage climbs into her bed. “Goodnight Pansy,” she said. “Night,” Pansy responded. And soon she drifted off into a peaceful sleep. 

Meanwhile with the Boys

They had just finished watching the girls go to their dorm and are sitting on one of the common room couches. “I’m not going to lie, she’s kind of hot,” Blaise says. Mattheo rolls his eyes at him. “What? You already falling for her or something,” Theodore asks Mattheo with a slight smirk.

“No, it’s just annoying how you guys seem to only care about looks. I mean we just met her,” Mattheo argues. 

Lorenzo says, “I agree with Mattheo but she is really pretty.” Draco shrugs. “Your opinion doesn’t count, Draco. You’re dating Pansy,” Tom snaps. Draco raises his hand in defense. 

“I’m going to go to bed. See you all in the morning,” Lorenzo says standing up. “Me too. Goodnight,” Mattheo says leaving with Lorenzo.

“Night,” everyone chanted back.