It had been a week since Draco had met Elizabeth and was starting to get bored sitting around doing nothing all day, so he sent a letter to Elizabeth, asking her if she wanted to go on a double date that night. She received the letter and didn't know how to respond, so she decided she would just show up and hope he was there too.
"Why are we going out again?" Rick asked from the lounge room. It had reached nightfall and Elizabeth was getting ready.
"Because he asked me and it's not polite to just reject someone on a double date," she replied from her bedroom.
"So who's he taking?" he asked, now standing at the bedroom door. She flattened her red dress and turned to face him.
"I don't know, but if you don't want to be late I suggest we leave now."
"Right now? I was hoping we could spend some time alone beforehand," he said in a suggestive tone and smiled at his girlfriend who kissed him lightly before going into the lounge room and picking up her handbag. She pulled him out the door and into the elevator. He tried to make out with her but she refused.
"Why won't you let me kiss you?"
"It's not polite to just make out before a date Rick." The elevator opened and they went to the restaurant Draco had told her to go to. There they found Draco already seated with another girl who had short brown hair and looked a little bit like a pug. He stood up and shook hands with Rick, who acted rather rude to Draco the entire night. Pansy, the girl Draco had brought with him got along rather well with Elizabeth.
"Excuse me, I have to use the restroom," Elizabeth said after having eaten the seafood dish with Rick. She thought that the seafood might have been off a little and so felt sick to the stomach. After having returned to normal, spending around ten minutes in the restroom she came out to find Draco waiting for her.
"Draco, what are you doing here?"
"I actually wanted to talk to you alone," he said and looked back at their table. Pansy was talking to Rick but he was being his usual stuck up self to even bother responding to her.
"What did you want to say?"
"I didn't actually; I just want to kiss you." She pulled him into the shadows of the bathroom and gave him what he wanted.
"I know your favourite colour," he said out of the blue. She stopped kissing him to ask him what it was.
"And what is it?"
"Purple, judging by the ring on your right hand, purple stud on the top of your ear and the purple streak of hair you have behind your left ear." At the mention of this she tucked her hair behind her left ear.
"No one knows about that! How do you know?"
"I happened to notice it last time we met."
"Well you are right, it is purple," she said before adding, "we'd better get back to the table before they think something suss is going on." She gave him one last kiss before they returned to the table and soon paid for the cheque and left. Draco and Rick were in the same elevator and he observed Rick without Rick noticing. He really was a rather rude pig who definitely did not deserve Elizabeth.
Elizabeth went home, thinking of the conversation she'd had with Draco. Rick had never asked what her favourite colour was; it was all just about the physical stuff. He hardly ever had had a proper conversation with her. She rang Rick, who picked up on her third time of trying to get through to him.
"Rick, do you know my favourite colour?" she asked straight away.
"What? Yeah, why ask a strange question?"
"Well I was just wondering if... if you still loved me."
"Love you? Of course I do babe," he said and she could tell he was lying.
"Then what's my favourite colour?"
"It's simple, it's blue."
"No it isn't Rick, its purple."
"Close enough," he grumbled.
"Not as close as I'd think, wouldn't you?"
"What is it with you? Why are you acting all weird?"
"Because someone else knows me more than you do, and he hasn't known me for that long!" She huffed and hung up the phone. Things between her and Rick were becoming fragile, ready to shatter at any given stage and she could only hope that Draco would still be around and like her to save her.