Chapter 2

"Pansy! Hurry up," Katie said with a nervous voice. She looked ill with a very pale face.

"I'm sorry its just that my skirt was-----Katie are you ok?" Pansy said with a stern voice.

"Im….ok I guess, im just nervous to start class again. Like every year" she said trying to place a smile on her white face.

"Its going to be fine Katie" Pansy softly whispered as she put her arm around her.

All of their friends were ready and waiting at the library archway, where they would always meet because they were in different houses. When Pansy and Katie met them in the library archway they slid their chic backpacks on their shoulders and headed off to DADA.

They were in the middle of discussing defending yourself when the Night Owls decided to show up half and hour late to class withought even excuse. They all went to their seats in the back behind the Pretties. The girls were discussing the different types of wands you can use to defend yourself when the bell rang.

"Guys lets go to lunch, I want to get good seats." Lavender said exasperated of talking about wands for the past hour.

"Sure Lavender lets go." Pansy said trying to change the subject to the Hogsmaid outing on the weekend.

"So guys what do we want to do in Hogsmaid this weekend?" pansy said smiling with glee because she knew exactly what her friends would say.

"SHOPPING!!!!" they all said in unison as they separated and went to lunch.

The boys were all sitting in the library with their new computers the Americans of the school brought for them this year. They had all gotten new Whichbook accounts and were checking their messages. Draco got up and walked towards Terry. Terry had been secretly browsing Daphnes photos on Whichbook, admiring them and thinking really hard about what he should do about hes new found obsession. He was thinking about it so hard that he didn't even notice when Draco walked up behind him and looked down at his computer to see what he was up to.

"You really like her eh Terry?" Draco said in a soft sympathetic voice trying to sound like he could talk to him about it.

Terry jumped up and his laptop went flying.

"WHAT! I DON'T LIKE HER! WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT?!" Terry was practically freaking out trying to cover up liking Daphne.

"I don't like her. I don't like girls, I hook up with them, you know that Draco." Terry said trying to give him a player smile but I came off looking desperate.

"Terry, youre allowed to like a girl. Especially one that is as smart and as beautiful as Daphne." Draco said reassuring his friend.

"And you are also allowed to be nice to her and not act like a player around her like the rest of us. You have to go for it before its too late. Do you understand me?" Draco said in a teasingly serious tone.

"I know Im allowed but the thing is that we have talked before but not for a long amount of time, so I never got the feeling she liked me as more than friends." Terry said starting to cast a spell on the broken computer looking a little sad.

"Oh budger up Boot. Youll be fine. Just ask her to the Yule ball that we are hosting again." Draco said with his classic confidant, yet cocky smirk.

"Ok….. I will. Let me just go back to the rooms and shower and change." He said putting his wand away and closing his computer. "I will ask her to the dance. The worst thing that would happen is if she says no. Right?"

"Oh for merlins sake go and get ready or ill ask her for you!" Draco said standing up gesturing to the door as if saying that he could go right now and ask her.

"NO! I mean no. that wont be necessary I can do it by myself, I am fully capable.

"Ok then have fun!" Draco said laughing as Terry was walking out of the library into the archway.

Daphne had just finished going over a few magic exams with a teacher when she found a small, quiet spot in the castle she had never noticed before. It was right in front of the dining hall. It was an opening in the wall, with stairs that when you walked down there was a little window and a ledge that was quite wide.

"A perfect spot to read" she thought.

She opened her new leather bound book and lost herself in it. It was about a girl who was brought up to be a normal muggle but one day she finds out she isn't an ordinary girl, but in fact she is a which. A pure blood which. She read chapter after chapter. She was almost finished with the book when she heard a noise. It was footsteps to the side of her. She looked up and saw Terry standing there looking a little nervous.

"h-hey Daphne" Terry said with voice cracking.

"How are you?" he questioned her shyly.

"Im doing pretty well…are you ok? You don't look so good" she said getting up and approaching him unknowingly provocatively.

"Please don't do this to me." He said pleadingly.

"Stop doing what….what have I done" she said almost scared she had done something wrong.

He walked down the stairs more until he was about a foot away from her and said, "You didn't do anything, its just me. The thing is that im in love with you Daphne Greengrass. I always have been. If you don't like me back that's fine but I just needed to tell you how I felt."

(The funny thing that nobody knew was that she always kinda liked Terry too, but she was scared to tell him how she felt. So when he told her how he felt about her she was ecstatic.)

When Daphne didn't say anything he took that to be a bad thing and started to turn and walk away, wanting to kick himself for making such a fool out of himself. She stopped him mid-stride and said,

" ILIKEYOUTO…..I mean I like you to Terry. Ive always liked you but was scared to say."

Withought another word Terry quickly walked down the stairs softly placed his hands on her neck, cupped the back of her head and kissed her gently. Soon gently became passionate and passionate became love. They had ended up sitting on the ledge of the window. After both had finished kissing one another they cuddled in each others arms for a long time. He placed his chin on the top of her head as she leaned back on his chest and he asked her,

"Would you honor me with your presents at this years annual Yule Ball?"

She simply nodded sweetly against his chest and smiled. He kissed the top of her head and in his mind he was thinking, "this could possibly be the thing that has ever happened to me and im going to make sure nothing ruins' it.