Author's Note: Ok, I decided to write a Draco/OC story. I'm really getting into this story so the next chapter will be out tomorrow night probably. Also, there's going to be some Harry/OC as well, and Hermione/Ron in later chapters. It will definitely get more interesting, I just wanted to give you guys the setting. Also, they'll be more details about exactly what happened to Draco and Alexis' friendship. Please review and tell me what you think. Thanks!! Now on with the story :D
"Come on Lexy!"
A six-year-old boy with very light blonde hair was running along a cobbled-stone path that ran through a bright garden. Following a few feet behind him was a girl the same age as him. She on the other hand had dark brown, wavy hair that fell just past her shoulders.
"I can't run as fast as you Dray!" she yelled back to him.
Finally, the young boy stopped under a wooden gazebo in the middle of the large garden. He sat down on the bench, his not able to touch the ground. The little girl, Alexis Rae Worthington sat down beside him. "I'm not gonna play with you anymore if you keep leaving me," she said looking down at her little hands which rested in her lap.
"Sure you will," he said in a matter of fact tone.
"Really? Why will I?" she asked looking up at him with a newfound confidence and as much attitude as a six year old could muster.
"Because I'm your best friend," he said.
The little girl sneakily slid off the bench and quickly kissed the boy on the cheek before running off, giggling. The boy touched his cheek softly with a look of shock on his face. That shock soon turned to disgust as he wiped his cheek off.
"EWWW, Lexy! I could get dragon pox or something now!" he yelled before chasing after her again.
Alexis opened her eyes to the scarlet colored, four-post bed. She sighed sleepily, thinking about the dream she'd had yet again. She was no longer the six-year-old little girl who used to spend her summers running around outside the Malfoy Manor. She was a fifth year Gryffindor who, this past summer, spent her time with her best friends Hermione Granger and fellow Gryffindor Hannah Burke. The end of her summer was spent at 12 Grimmauld Place with her other best friends Ron Weasley and Harry Potter. Things had taken a definite turn since her first year when she had been sorted into Gryffindor; the first one ever in her family as a matter of fact. The rest of family consisted of Slytherins and some Ravenclaws.
She still remembered the look on Draco's face as she was greeted by the cheering scarlet and gold table. Even she knew of the hatred Gryffindors and Slytherins harbored for each other, and had to face the fact that she wouldn't be able to have the same friendships she'd held with quite a few of the people sitting at the Slytherin table.
Of course, that was four years ago and since then she'd managed just fine…sort of.
She sat up in her bed and rubbed some of the sleep out of her eyes.
"Finally, you're awake. I was just coming to wake you up!" came the voice of Hermione Granger.
"Sorry, Mione. What time is it anyway?" Alexis asked as she stretched and got out of the bed.
"Nearly 9:30," she answered as she grabbed some of her books. "Classes start in exactly an hour and half, and you still need to eat breakfast and get your schedule," the bushy haired girl declared.
Alexis couldn't help but grin; Hermione was like her mother away from home. "I'll be down in about fifteen minutes. I just need to take a quick shower and get dressed," she assured her as she grabbed the clothes she would need out of her trunk and headed to the bathroom. Hermione nodded and went back down to the common room.
Alexis grabbed one of the towels that was sitting among a pile of others. She then walked over to one of the shower stalls and adjusted the faucet so the water was to her liking before stepping in. Once she was finished and felt more awake, she turned off the water and wrapped the towel around herself before going over to the sink and brushing her teeth. She used a drying spell, followed by a straightening spell on her hair before putting on her required uniform and robe. She stuffed all her books in her bag and sat it on her bed; she'd have time to come back up and grab the things she'd need after she got her schedule from Professor McGonagall. She walked out of her dorm and down to the common room where she saw Ron, Harry and Hermione sitting.
"Thank Merlin. I'm starving," Ron said as soon as he saw her and got up off of his plush chair, followed by the other two who were sitting on opposite ends of the couch. The four of them climbed out of the portrait hole and made their way down the stairs.
"Don't you ever think of anything besides food, Ronald?" Hermione asked in an exasperated voice.
"Sure I do; lots of things actually," he replied.
"Besides Quidditch and Beauxbaton's girls," Alexis said with a smirk. Ron looked down at his feet, now red in the face, muttering something about 'I like the way they walk.'
"Did you sleep well?" Harry asked her with a smile.
"Very well, actually. Considering you two kept me up until midnight." Ron, Harry and Alexis were up quite awhile after everyone else headed up to their dorms the night before playing Wizard's Chess.
"And that's your own fault. You knew you were going to have to wake up early for classes," Hermione said, her nose slightly raised.
Ron rolled his eyes. Alexis and Harry smiled at each other and shook their heads, knowing an argument was coming.
"You don't always have to be a party pooper, you know. It's not all about school," he said angrily to Hermione.
"I most certainly am not a party pooper. Excuse me for caring about my and your education," she retorted sounding offended.
"Yeah, ok. But you are a-"
But what exactly Hermione was Alexis would never know. She immediately blocked out the bickering, which was a rather common thing when this person came into view, as much as she hated to admit it. Draco Malfoy had just appeared.