AN: Hello! I am back from the land of writer's block! (Also guess who's in Year 12 now! So I might not be able to post for months on end bc I might be very busy depending on the time - Y'know, exams and shit)

My adrenaline was still up from the day Percy got into the Quidditch team, even though none of us were even in his house. I had hugged him as soon as he came off of the field and towards the seats. Nico gave him a double high-five and Will patted him on the back. The new Seeker of the Quidditch team, I found it a little hard to believe, not because Percy couldn't do it, but because there were lots of good Quidditch players on that team. I wondered if the players in Horned Serpent were good enough to match them (and hopefully beat them).

It has been a week since the tryouts and I, to be honest, have adjusted to life here much quicker than I would have thought. Then again, I have been taking lessons from centaurs, satyrs and wood nymphs, so 'magic school' (as Percy called it) shouldn't have been too much of a problem when it came to absurdity.

The doors opened into one of the biggest, most astounding libraries I have ever seen in my life, making every other library I have been to look like a bedroom. I saw Melody, Stella and Nisha sitting at one of the tables nearby.

"'Sup." Melody greeted as I approached them.

"Mind if i sit here?" I asked,

"Nah, it's cool." Nisha replied.

I plonked down my books and noticed their surprised faces.

"What?"

"It's only the third week and you have ten books here already!? What are you doing?" Stella asked, with a look of surprise.

"Oh! Umm… " I found myself blushing a little, "I… just… uh… light reading?"

They burst into laughter, which made me blush more.

"It's all good." Melody smiled at me, "We don't mind you reading a little more than us. At least, if we need any help, we know who to call."

Loud cackling broke the silence, echoed from deep in the shelves. Annabeth whipped her head around, and started towards the corners of the library.

"No! No, no, no, no!" Nisha hissed, signalling vigorously. The others noticed and joined in with Nisha. Melody reached out and grabbed her arm.

"Annabeth, you don't want to go there." she warned.

"Why?"

"Cindy Hunter," Melody replied, "You don't want to mess with her. She ruins your life any way she can."

"She even went so far as to set up a camera in someone's dorm to blackmail her," Stella added.

"I thought technology is banned here."

"Not to Hunter, it's not," Fraser appeared at the table and added into the conversation.

I paused, and sat back down at the table, opening up the books on Gormlaith Gaunt. The people at the table noticed my book.

"Didn't know you were into Magical History," Fraser remarked, skimming over the winding paragraph on the page.

"Oh, I guess you do now," I innocently looked up and smiled. Melody was now officially distracted, and was expertly balancing a quill on her upper lip. Stella was rolling her eyes as Nisha and Fraser snickered.

And I'd let them know more, about Gormlaith, and Tartarus, and the gods.

But I don't want to scare them.

The best thing about my dorm room at Ilvermorny is that I only had to share them with two other people.

The worst thing about my dorm room at Ilvermorny is that I had to pass Cindy Hunter's dorm. Every. Single. Night.

After I'd figured out who she exactly was, it wasn't a surprise that she was giving me a stink eye every time I walked past her. And tonight was no different. Blonde hair in an unruly style, hazel eyes narrowed, and red nose scrunched at the sight of the new kid.

And me? I smirked at her, my mind racing with plans and plots to give her a taste of her own medicine.