A short chapter...I know but the next will be better, I promise. A note: This is HarryxDraco so if you don't like the pairing...Shove off. Also, and rather sadly, I do not own the characters because...well because I am quite simply not that special. The words however are mine and I would mucho appreciate if you would not steal them because they do mean a lot to me. If you want to borrow any of them, ask me first and I may...MAY say yes but only if you are nice. Otherwise, enjoy!
Chapter One: Waiting for a Chance to Change Your Life
Blonde hair shone platinum under warm, mid-day sun and fell neatly over a pale face. Faintly cloudy eyes darted over the greenery that was Hogwarts' grounds during springtime. It had been a long fifth year already but the boy didn't mind. He had found someone to secretly devote himself to and yet he had found a way to hide his adoration behind taunts and torments. He wore the traditional clothes of a student of Slytherin though his heart longed for a Gryffindor, and a Gryffindor boy at that. It was the truth: Slytherin's god was in love with the golden boy of the school. It was only through meditation and training that he kept himself from revealing himself in front of others. Now he stood waiting outside for the Gryffindor trio to exit the school and enter his domain.
"Hello mud-blood. I see you still haven't decided to go home." He drawled as Hermione came into his sight. The girl frowned faintly and looked away, having harbored a secret longing for positive attention from the Malfoy for ages. Ron spat something unintelligible and Harry held him back. "Still unable to make full sentences, I see." Draco said to the red-head with a cool laugh.
"Shove off Malfoy. Don't you have something better to be doing like snogging Pansy?" Harry retorted with a viscious glare and smirk. It seemed to sedate the blonde who growled something under his breath about Crabbe and Goyle before shoving off of the building and stalking away.
When he was considered out of range, Hermione spoke up. "Have you noticed that he always seems to be where we are?" She asked of her two male friends.
Harry nodded though Ron seemed rather confused. "Yeah, I have. And he may just blame it on coincidence but I think he's trying to confront us whenever he can." The black-haired male said as he cast a glance at the still moving figure of Draco. He silently liked the fact Malfoy was pushing his presence on the trio, a secret longing for the 'bad boy' who cheated his way out of things.
"Yeah, you're right." Ron added quickly, not wanting to be left out of the conversation. Hermione rolled her eyes slightly but smiled at the boy.
Seeming satisfied with her friends' answers, the girl nodded her head and began to walk toward the lake. "Well we'll just have to outsmart him won't we?" She questioned with a sly grin toward Harry who smiled in return and nodded his head, though he wished they could work harder to make their whereabouts known to Draco. Unbeknownst to him, Hermione had the exact same notion as he did and was already trying to create a way to get him to notice them more. Ron looked rather left out, not quite grasping what was going on and only knowing what they were saying out loud.
Meanwhile Draco was working out a solution to his problem of getting Harry alone. His main plan was to get Crabbe and Goyle to distract Hermione and Ron while he confronted Harry. The only trouble was how to get his lackeys to do what he wanted without growing suspicious. He finally decided on simply asking them to stop two of the trio and hoping that it was Harry the ignored. He knew that they could provide a good enough distraction if he asked them. It should have been easy enough but then again, when was anything ever easy.
"Crabbe, Goyle, come on." He said smoothly as he continued walking past the two, who quickly fell into step behind him though his movements were fluid and theirs were hulking.
"What are we doing this time?" Crabbe asked as he looked at the rather scrawny blonde who was their commander.
"We are waiting for the sky to turn green of course. What do you think we are doing idiot? We are working on ways to disband Potter's group. You two need to stop two of them when they are together. I'll take care of whoever you miss." He said as he shooed them away. "Hurry up though. I don't have all day to waste." He added as they nodded slowly and wandered off in the direction Harry and his friends had gone earlier. 'And don't stop Harry…' He mentally told them though he daren't speak his thoughts aloud. Merlin knows what would happen if he did.
Near the lake Goyle and Crabbe had begun to harass the Gryffindor trio, effectively causing Hermione to leave in a huff while Harry and Ron were verbally duking it out with the two Slytherins. Draco sighed as he realized that they had successfully sent the wrong person in his direction. Still, he would have to use this chance to find out more about Potter, which would invariably mean being somehow kind to the Granger girl who seemed rather upset by whatever Goyle and Crabbe had been saying. Well that was to be expected he supposed. They would have of course been using all of the insults and comments that he made plus a few of their own that they had formulated after spending so much time with him.
"Hey Granger, what did my lackeys say this time?" He called to her, gaining a red-eyed gaze.