Disclaimer- I forgot to do this the first chapter, so I will now. I do not own anything in this story that is from the world of Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling does.

A/N- Here's the next chapter! Please R&R.

When he wakes up the next morning, Draco notices there is almost no one left in the dormitory. He looks over at the clock, and sure enough, he only has 20 minutes to get to his first lesson.

"Crap," he mutters as he rolls out of bed. He opens his trunk and puts on his robes and goes down to the Great Hall.

"'Bout time you got here." Blaise says to him as he sits down. Draco looks at him and glares.

"I didn't sleep well, okay?" Draco snaps at him. He runs his fingers through his blonde, unbrushed hair.

"Whatever." Blaise says back. "Is Draco gonna eat today, or starve himself again?"

"I didn't starve myself to begin with. I just didn't eat." Draco replies in a sharp tone. He pours some pumpkin juice into a goblet and slowly sips it. Then he grabs a granola bar and shoves it in his mouth. "'Appy?" He asks as he chews.

As the two are walking through the corridors on the way to their Charms class, an unfamiliar girl with silky, wavy brown hair and warm, hazel eyes appears and walks through the door, entering Charms.

"Who is that?" Blaise asks. She has to be in their year, because she had just entered their class.

"Who cares?" Draco snaps. "I'll be back." Draco adds as he turns and starts running to a different corridor- an empty one.

Draco backs up against a wall, and then slowly slides down until he is sitting on the floor. He then takes a few big breathes. Not a minute has gone by when memories from this past summer start flooding in.

The girl in the shop walked up to Draco.

"Do you go to Hogwarts?" She had asked him. He wasn't paying attention, so she asked him in a louder voice.

"Hmmm…? Oh, oh yeah… I do." He looked up and saw her standing there. He was about to ask her who she was when she answered automatically.

"I'm Gabriella." She had said. "But you can call me Gabby or Ella. Or just Gabriella. It doesn't really matter. Anyways, I'm going to Hogwarts this year, transferring from a different wizarding school across the country."

"Well, Gabriella," Draco said to her with a sly smile. "Lucky for you, since I go there too, you will already know one person."

Gabriella just smiled. Then she had said something else. "You haven't told me your name yet."

"Oh, oh, right. It's Draco." He told her.

"Well hello to you Draco." She had said. "I was wondering… do you want to hang out sometime?"

"Sure. I would love to."

"Great." She said with a smile. That same smile she had now shown about 3 times.

Draco had no idea what had happened to him that day. Just seeing her made him feel different. He wasn't his usual self. 'Oh well', he had thought to himself later, the day he met Gabriella, and had those thoughts.

It is him thinking about what happened after he met Gabriella, the girl in the shop that causes Draco to run out of the empty corridor and down to his dormitory, tears streaming down his face.

A/N- So for those of you who reviewed the first chapter, I want to thank you, and you encouraged me to get this one up sooner. It makes me happy when I see I have a review. P.S. - I know Draco is a bit out of character in the shop memory, so I'm sorry if that bugs you, but hopefully you can figure out why. If not, you will in the next chapter!