Pansy walked down toward the dungeon from the library. Draco was supposed to meet her to study for a Transfiguration test, but he failed to show up. She had sat at a table right by the doors so he would see her, but he never came. She looked through her notes, read portions of her textbook, fluffed her hair, loosened her tie, and undid a few buttons on her blouse, all with no purpose. Madame Pince had thrown her out at closing time, calling her a tart and saying the library was a place for reading and studying, not rampant teenage hormones.
"She shouldn't be calling me names," Pansy fumed. "Just because I want to look good for a study date with my boyfriend, that does not make me a tart."
This was the third time Draco had failed to show up after agreeing to meet her somewhere. At the beginning of the month, he had forgotten she would be meeting him in the Entrance Hall before breakfast. Just last week he left her in the Owlery well past curfew, forcing her to sneak past Filch, Mrs. Norris, and Peeves on her way back to the Common Room. Now this. It was getting absolutely ridiculous.
She went past an empty classroom and heard something inside. She pulled out her wand and stepped closer cautiously. Inside were sounds of heavy breathing punctuated with… Was that a slurp? Oh, eurgh, nasty! I know it's a random empty room, but why can't they do that in their Common Room or behind some tapestry in a less used corridor? Time to put these prefect powers to some use.
Pansy opened the door quickly and saw something that would be forever burned in her brain: Harry Potter entwined with Draco Malfoy. Her Draco! With Potter! That is wrong on SO many different levels. "Oh my- What the bloody hell do you two think you're doing?"
That broke them apart.
Draco looked at her. "Oh, I was supposed to meet you to study, wasn't I?"
She was shocked. He was completely ignoring the fact that she just caught him with Potter. That he was even with Potter! It was disturbing.
She couldn't handle it and turned out of the room, running to the Common Room below the lake without a second glance back. Halfway there, she remembered that she had dropped her books after she opened the door, but she did not want to go back and get them. It just wasn't worth it.
"Parseltongue" she gasped and entered the Common Room. She saw a familiar face sitting on the couch and ran over to him. "Blaise! Blaise, you'll never guess what I just saw!"
"My guess is Draco snogging Potter," he replied sarcastically. "If it's not that, then no, I will never guess it."
"How did you know?"
Blaise spat out the water he was drinking. "What?! That was a joke! What the bloody hell did those two think they were doing?"
"That's exactly what I asked!" Pansy screamed.
Blaise looked alarmed at this development, but even more alarmed at her outburst, so he clamped a hand over her mouth and led her up to his dorm. Once they were safely inside, he released her and said simply, "Explain."
She took a deep breath. "So, you know how I had a study date with Draco in the library? Well, he never showed up and Madame Pince threw me out and called me a tart and on the way back here I heard them making out in a classroom so I was just going to throw them in detention for public display of affection, but then I saw who it was and I ran. How would you react if your boyfriend, or girlfriend, or whatever, was snogging someone who not only wasn't you, but was the same gender?!"
"Calm down, Pansy. There is only one problem with this."
"What? That Draco was snogging Potter?"
Blaise started nodding when a voice from the door said, "No." The two turned and saw Draco standing there. "I'm not your boyfriend."