Chapter 2
It's The Way You Make Me Feel

"Pansy! Hurry your ass UP!" I screamed from outside the bathroom door. Today was the fabulous day. The day of red, pink, roses, presents, and most importantly, love. Valentines Day used to be my least favourite day of the whole entire year, but now I see it in a different light. Maybe it's not so bad, but it still sucks for me this year. Of course, Harry is going with Cho, and is going to break things up. So I am stuck with 'Tweedle Dumb, Tweedle Dumber' (Okay, Jade and Pansy) and the rest of the Slytherin girls gang. And I say this with all the heart in the world, but none of them were asked by a guy, and that is absolutely not my fault. Personally, I wouldn't ask any of them unless I had a death wish, which I clearly do not.

But me, I was asked 5 times! Yes, I am that good. Well, seems to me as word got around that I'm not that horrible to be around and I won't curse you if you don't date me (....cough...Pansy...) so some other houses tried to take their chances. I got one 3rd year Hufflepuff, 5th year Ravenclaw, 2 6th year Slytherin's and one lonesome 7th year Gryffindor. I was starting to make it a joke because I was running out of excuses.

"I'm sorry, I'm going with someone else", "Your not really my type", "Aren't you dating someone else?", "Do you go to this school?", "I've *sniff* come down with *sniff* a bit of a *sniff* cold. (cue disgustingly huge sneeze). I was in stitches when I got to the common room last night. Just tripped over myself laughing on the way there. Draco looked at me like I was crazy, and Blaise just shook his head.

Back onto topic, Harry and I have spent as much time together as we can in the last two weeks. After classes mostly. I think Malfoy is getting suspicious that I basically leap for joy when the last class goes out. I honestly can't help it. But I told him that I just have to pee, go to the library or something good like that. Harry wanted to make it up so badly, but I told him he didn't have to do anything because the whole 'Going-To-Hogsmede-With-Cho' thing doesn't bother me that much. And one more thing came into my mind. What about summer? My parents clearly hate Harry because of his legend which means they will hate all of my other friends, so I'm pretty much screwed. I don't know what I'm going to do about that but I don't want to think that far ahead. I still have five months.

Just then, Pansy threw open the bathroom door, causing me to snap back from LaLa-Land, and look back at her.

"God, can't someone get ready?" Pansy glared at me. I rolled my eyes and walked back towards the door and out to the common room. Unlike some people, I was just wearing jeans and a sweater. The rest of the hyenas were all glammed up, spending an hour doing hair, makeup. Hey, at least their mothers will think they are pretty. I woke up, had a shower, blow dried my hair, put it back in a ponytail and but on some chap-stick. And my logic makes complete sense, because I don't have to impress anyone, because I've already got a boyfriend! I got down to the common room and the only one waiting was Jade. She decided to get off her high horse and be nice to me. Or maybe that's because I playfully had my arm around Malfoy one time when she was right behind me. Oh, good times being evil.

"Where is she?!" Jade yelled.

"She's coming, keep your pants on." I left the common room just as Pansy was running down the stairs to meet Jade, who ran to catch up to me.

***

"Oh, you know you're cool when all you do is walk around." I said, groaning as the girls and I walked around all the shops. Not that it's boring, its horrific. And the whole time there was one topic of conversation. Draco Malfoy. "Oh he's the hottest thing I've ever seen!" "He looked at me once!!" "Have you seen his body? Damn." But it was quite good, because the whole time I thought of Harry. And that's better than Malfoy. Not that he's bad looking, no, just he's way too unpredictable, in a bad way. One minute he's my friend, then he's mad at me, then he's hitting on me. At least with Harry I know he will be happy to see me and he's not going to be mad at me for no reason. Jade glared back at me from the front of the pack.

"Sod off Bekki." I smiled sarcastically.

"Gladly." I replied, but just then, Pansy whipped around and said something I wasn't expecting.

"Look, it's the Prat-Who-Lived and the Crier." My attention quickly went to Pansy as she laughed. "Watch this."

She turned back around and shrieked at the two in front of us.

"Potter and Chang!" she screeched. Oh god, this isn't good. I forced myself to the front of the gang, and my eyes immediately hit Harry. I felt my insides squirm and I tried not to look to happy. The rest of the girls were laughing hysterically. "Urgh, Chang. I don't think much of your taste. At least Diggory was good-looking!"

Oh shit, oh shit shit shit. All the girls were glancing at them as they continued to walk. I was frozen for a minute until I followed them. I waited till everyone was past me and Cho and Harry started to quickly walk past. As Cho reared forward, Harry somewhat hung behind, and glanced at me. "I'm so sorry" I mouthed as he walked past and he smiled, as if to say "It's alright." Thank god. I caught back up with the girl, who were congratulating Pansy, and quickly morphed into the back, as if not to be seen.

***

I quickly split up with the girls, as they went on a 'Stock Malfoy' rampage. I was a little thirsty, so I walked into the 'Three Broomsticks' to have a butter beer. As soon as I got in there, I spotted Hermione and Luna, with some lady who didn't look so great.

"Bekki! Over here!" Luna shouted, standing up from her seat and waving me over. They both smiled and I meandered over to their table, I was certainly not in a rush.

"How's it going?" I asked them, sinking into a seat at their table.

"It's great, just waiting for Harry." Hermione replied. Wait, this is very confusing.

"Isn't Harry with Cho?" Hermione smiled and took another drink of her butter beer.

"Yes, but he is meeting us after."

"Oh… alright. Well, I guess you guys are busy, so I'll see you later." And I left them, but not really sure why. For some reason, that other lady there made me uncomfortable. She seemed to be glaring me down. So I walked around the other stores for a while until it was time to go back.