"I'm sorry, sir, but the records aren't open on weekends." The snotty, purple-haired witch behind the counter said, not even bothering to glance up as she blew on her nails to dry them.

"You don't understand! This is a serious emergency!" Draco stressed throwing Kate a disgusted once-over.

"Please!" Kate tried in her most pitiful voice, "You have no idea how much I need to see those records!"

Purple hair finally glanced up and put on her monotonous voice again, "I'm sorry, but the records-"

"FORGET IT!" They both yelled and immediately glared at each other.

"What are we going to do now?" Kate asked as they made their way out the doors and onto the sunny street.

"We?! I'm sorry, we are not going to do anything!" Draco spat, "I happen to be very busy and I don't have the time to sit around and wonder what sort of mistakes I made when I was drunk."

"Well, it's not like I'm thrilled with this situation, either! I just thought that maybe for once you could drop your egotistical jackass persona and act like an actual human being!" Kate snapped, stopping in the middle of the sidewalk and jabbing her finger viciously in Draco's direction.

Draco took a deep irritated breath, "I'll stop here Monday morning and check myself. I'll just send you an owl or something and we'll have this whole thing cleared up by tea time." Without waiting for her answer, he turned and began stalking away.

"Fine by me!" Kate yelled defiantly and whipped around to head in the opposite direction. She was in desperate need for some chocolate and female bonding.

"You WHAT?!" Emma exclaimed, dropping the paintbrush in her hand.

"Scourgify," Kate flicked her wand at the crimson puddle rapidly forming on the floor and flopped onto the sheet-covered couch, "I'm not positive, but I've got this sick feeling at the pit of my stomach… and he was such an ass about it!"

Emma let out a small laugh and hugged her, "well, he is an ass, so you have to expect that he'd act accordingly. Don't worry about it! Admit it, though, you could have done a lot worse in the looks department. Ow!" Kate jabbed her wand at Emma's ribs; she just didn't need to be reminded of that fact. She could be married to the hottest guy in the world, but if he was irritating, chauvinistic, and mean, what good was he?!

"EM, WHERE'S THE EXTRA CANARY CREAMS?!" Fred yelled from down the stairs. Emma and Fred had moved in to the apartment above Weasley's Wizard Wheezes a week previous and Kate could see that her friend was already starting to regret it.

"THEY'RE IN THE BACK! BEHIND THE FANGED FRISBEES!" Emma yelled back and added to Kate, "he's a sad, lonely, self-important jerk. Don't. Worry. About. It. Let's bake something, that'll make you feel better! We'll make some pink and blue cookies and take them to Lindsay. I'm sure she's dying for some company; Oliver means well, but he can be so stifling."

"EM, THEY AREN'T BEHIND THE HEADLESS HATS!" Fred yelled again.

Emma sighed deeply and yelled, "THE FANGED FRISBEES! NOT HEADLESS HATS!"

A pause, then, "OH! LOVE YOU!"

Emma laughed, "SAME TO YOU!" and pulled Kate up from the couch, "What am I going to do with him?!"

Monday morning came without any word from Malfoy; Kate had spent the remainder of her weekend helping Emma and Fred paint the apartment and she had a lunch date with Lindsay the very next afternoon. She'd hardly thought about Draco and was actually feeling cheerful.

"Hey, Lee!" She smiled as she got into the elevator, seeing Lee Jordan again.

He looked somewhat startled, "'Lo. I… were you alright on Friday? You seemed kindof… down."

The elevator lurched to a stop on floor three and Kate felt like she had been doused with a bucket of ice water as she saw a familiar platinum-blonde form step on to join them. Kate was suddenly aware that she was standing quite close to Lee and Draco cocked an eyebrow. She hoped he would just ignore them and think about how great his hair was. Or whatever Draco thought about.

She blushed, "Oh yeah, I was just tired. Sorry I didn't come to your party."

"It's alright, I thought maybe I had done something wrong." He laughed nervously, "You know, I, ah, I just got a promotion so I've got to go to a lot of Quidditch games and events. Maybe, if you're not too busy, you would want to come to the next one? I mean, it's usually pretty fun even though it's for work." She could tell he was trying hard to read her. She could also tell that Draco was paying a great deal of interest to their conversation. She was determined not to let him ruin what could be a good thing with Lee, but she also couldn't escape the fact that she felt really awkward flirting with someone in front of Draco.

"Of course, that sounds like fun! Just let me know when the next one is." Can't this elevator go any faster?!

Lee apparently did not notice the tension and beamed as the elevator announced floor seven, "Brilliant! I'll see you later, then."

She smiled as the elevator doors closed. Lee was incredibly sweet and not too shabby-looking at all; maybe she could put this whole mess behind her and have a shot with Lee. Draco cleared his throat.

"Yes?"

"Nothing, I didn't say anything." He sneered and as a blessing, the elevator announced floor 10 1/2 and she practically ran to get out.

The day seemed to crawl by as she tried to get her work done. On one hand, she was excited that Lee seemed to be interested in her. But it was hard to get too happy about that when she remembered that she could possibly be a married woman. Finally around ten, an ordinary-looking paper airplane zoomed in and landed at her elbow.

"We are. Floor ten at 11:30."

Amazing Kate thought, Even in his notes he's domineering and condescending. It appeared she was going to have to face Draco once again and try to get an annulment. She sent up a silent prayer that things would go smoothly and this would be the last time she would have to see him. Unfortunately, it seemed luck was not on her side.