Chapter 3: New friends?

It was the night of the concert and I was nervous. My hands were sweaty and my heart was racing. I had chosen to wear my new black lace up boots and my black mini dress. My arms were decorated with designs of my own that I'd done in henna earlier that evening. My hair was straightened and spiky at the end. I drank a little pouch of blood as I waited for Draco to show up. He came walking up the path only a few minutes later, holding his hands behind his back.

"Hi." I said sort of shy, "Ready to go?"

"Sure. But I have something for you first." He said as he pulled his hand around and held out a bunch of beautiful red roses.

I blushed slightly and took them gently from his hand. "They're beautiful, Draco." I said

He smiled and motioned for me to follow him. We started walking down the path to Hogsmeade. We chatted quietly with our hands in our pockets trying to just keep to ourselves. I couldn't help thinking how cute he was tho. I mean come on. That cute blonde hair all messed up and the way he got excited over snakes. I smiled to myself as we walked.

When we finally reached Hogsmeade we found it packed full of people.

"God. That singer is so hot!" I said as we danced to the music.

"I guess but I sort of like their lead guitarist better" Draco said, a small smile coming across his face.

"I know! But there's another guy that I like even better," I said glancing at him, "And he's not even on the stage."

"Really?" He asked, "Where is he then?"

I smiled more and shook my head as if I wasn't going to tell him. He playfully grabbed my arm and shook me gently.

"Tell me!" He said while shaking me.

"NEVER!" I declared while I laughed.

"Fine" He said, letting me go.

He was silent for the rest of the night. Every once and a while I'd glance at him and see a sort of sad smile on his face. The rest of the night was fun but not as fun as it had been. When we were walking back to the school it was even quieter.

"Ok," I said, "What's wrong?"

He just shrugged and continued walking.

"I like you ok?" I said with a small sigh

He looked up. "You do? Why didn't you just say so?"

It was my turn to shrug then. I felt my cheeks get hot with blush and dropped my gaze. We were quiet again as we came up to the gate and then walked up to the doors. We were even quiet when we walked into the Slytherin common room. It wasn't until we came to the door that lead to the girls dorms that he finally said something.

"I like you too, Ebony" He said quietly before walking off into the door of the guys dorms.

I stood with my mouth open for a little bit before I walked away and into my room.

Well that was a long chapter. It's actually one of the longest books in the original too. Which, by the way, has moved sites and you can now find it here: [ my immortal rehost 2 .webs chapters 122 .htm] (just take out the spaces and [] ) I can't wait to write for you guys again! -Raven