Hey, my name is Lady Lia Malfoy, wife of Lord Draco Malfoy. We've been married for 4 years, but known each other our whole life. So how did I, a mere servant girl, become the wife of Lord Draco Malfoy? Well it's a long story, but I'm willing to tell it if you're willing to listen.

It all started on the 25th of August 1981, when I Lia Jonas was born. You see my parents were servants to Lord Lucius Malfoy and Lady Narcissa Malfoy. Draco was born before me. He entered this world on the 19th of June 1981, only two months before me.

When Draco and I were children we were inseparable, we spend all the time we had together up until Draco received his Hogwarts letter. I missed him terribly while he was away. As the daughter of servants, I was home schooled, so that I could still do chores, even at the age of 11 I had chores. Only seeing Draco when he was home on Christmas break or summer vacation was hard, and it took a lot of getting use to.

I guess you can say that I've always had a thing for Draco, so when he at the end of his fourth year, brought home his first girlfriend, I was devastated. I was used to getting his attention, and spend a lot of time with him, but that summer he was distant, rude and all in all a stupid prick.

When Draco at the end of the summer left for his fifth year at Hogwarts, I had over the summer convinced my parents and Lord and Lady Malfoy to agree to let me go to an all witches school in the city Salem in America. I tried my best not to think of Draco while attending school.

I rarely came home, some summers I would spend with a friend in America and all Christmases I would spend at the school. Although I missed my parents, I couldn't yet face Draco. While a school I found out that what I thought was a childhood crush, turned out to be real love, and that just broke my heart even more. Thinking of Draco and his girlfriend wasn't how I imagined spending my school time.

The first time I came home was after my sixth year on summer vacation. Draco had gotten home 2 days before me, and I was both excited and terrified to see him again. I still loved him, but I had changed a lot while at school, I guess you can say I grew up. I might only have been between 16 and 17 years old at the time, but I didn't look anywhere near what I looked like that last time I saw Draco. My hair had grown about 6 inches, I had started wearing a bra a few years before, I was taller and I didn't look like a little kid anymore.

When the car pulled up outside Malfoy Manor, I was nervous as can be, but I calmed down a bit when I saw my parents standing at the front door waiting for me. As I climbed out the car my feet ran as fast as they could into the arms of my mother and father. I must say I didn't expect Draco to be there, but I still wished he was.

I knew when he came home with his girlfriend that summer before fifth year, that we were drifting apart, though I couldn't blame him for not being there when I later discovered that a friend of his were in the hospital.

I got to see him after dinner that night when I was out walking Lady Malfoy's two dogs, Misty and Clara. I saw Draco sitting on the swing set we used to play on when we were younger. I walked up behind him and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Hey, are you okay?"

"I'm fine Lia. I'm sorry I wasn't there to say welcome home today."

"It's okay; you had other things to do. How's your friend doing?"

"He'll be fine in a couple of days. They are releasing him next week. He has a broken arm and a few scratches."

"That's good. Are you sure nothing is wrong?"

"Yeah, I'm just tired."

"Okay, it's none of my business anyway; just know I'm here if you ever need to talk."

"Thanks Lia, that goes for you too. I'm glad you're my best friend."

"I'm glad I'm your best friend too."

I looked at Draco and saw him smiling. God that smile is going to kill me.

"Thank you Lia."

"For what?"

"For making me smile, it's been a while since I last smiled."

I was a little surprised to hear that, I thought he and his friends joked around all the time, laughing and smiling.

"So when was the last time you smiled?"

"I can't remember, I think it was around Christmas."

"Christmas? That was 6 months ago. I thought you and your friend had fun all the time."

"We do, but in the past year, it's been the same time and time again, so it got boring in the end."

"So you give them a fake smile?"

"Yep."

"So do you remember what made you smile around Christmas?"

"Yeah."

"Are you gonna tell me?"

"Nope."

I sat down next to him after letting the dogs run around the garden.

"You know I have my ways of finding out."

"What? Are you going to ask my mother?"

"No, I'm just gonna do this."

Draco jumped when I started tickling him, afterwards he just laughed and rolling around to get me to stop.

"Tell me."

"No."

"Tell me."

"No."

"I'm not gonna stop until you tell me."

"Okay I give up."

I stopped tickling him and looked him in the eyes.

"Well, go on. Tell me."

"Fine. Mother told me a few days before Christmas that you would be coming home this summer. I hadn't seen you in almost 2 years, so can you blame me for being happy?"

"Does that mean you missed me?"

"More then you know. I was beginning to think I did something to make you stay away."

"You didn't. I guess I just needed that time away to think."

"About what?"

"School, boys, everything really."

"Boys?"

I thought I saw Draco's face fall a little, but I could have been wishing it.

"Yeah."

"You have a boyfriend now then?"

"No."

Again I thought I saw his face, but this time it lit up a bit, but it fell once I said.

"But there is a guy that I like."

"Oh, well tell me about him."

"Well he's really cute, he's our age, he's strong, has a good personality, wonderful family, beautiful eyes, he's funny, he makes me smile, he's good at Quidditch, so I would say all around amazing."

"He does sound great."

"Yeah he really is, just one problem though."

"He has a problem?"

"He doesn't see me as anything more than a friend."

"Where does he go to school?"

"Hogwarts, and before you say anything, no I'm not gonna tell you who he is."

"As long as it's not Harry bloody Potter."

"It's not."

"You should go to the dance when school starts. He'll see you with another guy and change his mind."

"I'm already going; you're not the first one to come up with the idea for making him jealous."

"So who are you going with?"

"Well I don't really know. A friend of mine set me up on a blind date."

"So you don't know the guy?"

"Well I've met him once, but he seems like a nice guy. I don't remember his name, but it'll come back to me before the dance."

"Just tell me who it is when you find out."

"Why do you wanna know?"

"So I can tell him to treat you right, and tell him what will happen to him if he tries something."

"I can handle myself you know."

"I know, but that doesn't mean I'll leave him alone if he hurts you."

"Fair enough, so who are you taking?"

"I'll probably end up taking Pansy. Not that I want too."

"So why don't you ask someone else?"

"Well I would have asked you, but you already have a date."

"You would take me?"

"Well what better way to spend the evening, then with your best friend."

"True, but it would be nicer to spend the evening with someone you actually want to date."

"And who is it that agreed to go on a blind to make a guy jealous?"

"Well it's not easy to wait for the guy to open his eyes and see me as more than a friend and for him to ask me to the dance."

"At least tell me what house he's in."

"Gryffindor."

"You're going with a Gryffindork?"

"I'll pretend you didn't say that. My friend, the girl who set up the blind date is a Gryffindor too."

"But you're supposed to be on my side."

"So because I'm your best friend, I can't be friends with a couple of Gryffindors?"

"It's one thing being friends with them; it's another going on a date with one."

"Well it's not like it's a real date and by the way, how do you know that the guy that I like isn't in Gryffindor too."

I got up from where I was sitting, called the dogs to me and left, leaving Draco to himself.