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Oh yes, and sadly I didn't remember what floor the entrance to the kitchens was so I just said it was the second floor. Please don't kill me with flames if I'm wrong. It's kind of hard to keep all this stuff straight.

By the way, I got tired of writing 'Emily said, " blah blah blah" so I think this will from now on be in first person…..yeah I got that right…right? Haha. Jk. I think.

"He was dancing with her to," Lavender paused nervously, Expecting me to throw something at her, "to, you know, improve. He's going to some….some ball……Em, you okay?"

I could feel that my face had gone pale. I, for the freaking third time today, couldn't move my limbs to strangle her and ask her why she hadn't told me this before. I just stood there, staring at her like an idiot.

"He did…..but isn't she…but wouldn't that make her……what?" I said, confused.

"Um, please don't kill me." She said backing away from me a little.

"I'm not going to BLOODY kill you why didn't you BLOODY TELL me that you knew BLOODY well who the BLOODY woman was? WHY!" I yelled.

I could hear people gathering outside of our compartment, they gathered to see what all the screaming was about, waiting to hear what happened next. I was glad the curtains were closed so no one knew who it was screaming and yelling like a banshee.

"I," she paused, ready for me to stab her with something, anything, then "I don't know. I'm sorry Em, I.…it was stupid! I was stupid! I didn't want you going out with him because of Luke! Because I knew Luke liked you, I saw the way he moped around the common room when he knew you were with Malfoy! I saw the way he paced around all night waiting to make sure you got back safely! You didn't see that! You didn't hear him reciting how to profess his love for you! You were out with Malfoy that night and neither he nor I knew where you were!" She yelled back at me.

And just my luck, Luke, and Matthew, and almost the whole sixth year class heard every word of what was just said because Luke and Matt had opened the door to get back in the compartment.

Lavender and I didn't speak the rest of the way to Hogwarts. When we had finally arrived she shot a wary glance in my direction.

'So, she wants me to say sorry first.' I thought to myself.

The only words I said to her were, "Not happening" and then I grabbed my trunk, along with Nighty's cage and stalked off down the narrow hallway of the train.

When I finally reached the door to get off the train a pair of hands put their fingers over my eyes. I was startled at first, but then I realized the person was playing a game with me. I began to say people's names, hoping to get it right.

"Uhhm, Luke." I said.

The hands shook my head no.

"Uck, Lavender, if it's you I…"

The hands shook my head no again.

"Malfoy?" I asked inquisitively.

The hands began to shake my head yes, and then apparently changed their mind and shook my head no.

"Then who?" I asked.

The hands came down, and I turned around to find Matthew standing there, trunk and cat cage in hand. Matthew had a cat for his pet. It was a beautiful golden brown color with black spots here and there. It had an especially cute black spot right on its head in the shape of a heart.

"If you've come to make peace for Lavender then..."

"I haven't. I think that this whole situation can be resolved if you would just stop being so hard-headed and go out with Luke!" he said with an exasperated sigh.

"Why?" I asked as I stepped off the train and made my way towards the carriages.

"Em, he likes you, he really does!" he said, and then added, "He talks to me about you non-stop! It's pretty much like I might know more about you than you because he talks to me about you all the time!" he said.

"Matt, I like Luke, he's really nice, and makes a good friend. Friend, get it? I mean, at least just for now. Malfoy has been really sweet to me and I'd hate for him to get hurt just because I didn't resolve a few things with him." I said staring angrily into Matt's eyes.

'Who is he to order ME around?' I thought to myself angrily.

"Fine. But when something happens, don't expect Lavender or I to be there." He said.

"What's that supposed to mean!" I asked, as several emotions dug their way under my skin, anger, sadness and pain, all at once.

"It means we're tired of you blatantly ignoring Luke's, for lack of better words, obsession with you. We aren't going to always be there for you, and however many times we try to tell Luke that," He paused as I stepped into a carriage, alone, "He won't stop. He loves you Em, and he's not going to stop worrying over you until you two are together." He said, and then added, "Look, Em, as much as I agree with Lav, I'm still your friend. I just might not always be there, ok?"

Matt stepped away from the carriage, and the carriage began to move, and my tears began to fall. Just then someone opened the carriage door. It was Draco. He saw me crying and wrapped his arms around me and pulled me close to him.

"It's okay….shh….shh...It'll be alright, Emmy, shh...shh...Shh, its okay." He said soothingly rubbing small circles on my back as I cried into his shoulder.

When we were close to the castle I stopped crying. I was trying to come up with a plan to explain to others why my face was all red and puffy if they asked when Draco pulled me to him and kissed me. It was so soft; it was as if he was telling me, just by kissing me, that he was sorry for whatever he had done. I pulled back and looked at him. His eyes staring intently at me, waiting to hear what it was I had to say.

"I love you too." I said, and saw a smile spread across his face.

"I've been waiting to hear that for quite some time now." He said.

"Well, now you've heard it." I said all feelings of anger for him gone.

I wasn't going to let some stupid deceiving 'friend' taint the image of the Draco I knew. For all I knew Lavender had lied to me about Draco cheating on me or some stupid cotillion teacher and I was probably right. She just didn't like Draco. Not many did, other than those two atrocious boys, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle. I looked past him, out the window and saw a redheaded boy and a mousy brown haired girl in a carriage together. They looked worried. The boy was saying something I couldn't quite make out. Draco turned and saw that I was staring at their carriage.

"Don't pay any attention to those two. One's a foul mud-blood and the other is a disgrace to pure-bloods. They're useless." He said, a small smirk playing across his face.

"Why?" I asked innocently.

"Because, they just are, they're both perfect for each other though." He paused and laughed. "The red head is a Weasley and the brown haired one is Granger. I don't think you should go near them. The red headed one might put a vex on you." He said, the smile still spreading across his face.

"Alright then." I said.

The carriage came to a stop and we were in front of Hogwarts. I reached for my bag and Midnight's cage but Draco stopped me.

"I'll take your trunk for you until we reach the castle so you don't have to carry it." He said, smiling sweetly at me.

"Thanks, but let me warn you it's…." I said, but it was too late, Draco had already tried to pick up my trunk.

"Bloody hell! What's in this thing?" He asked.

"Uhm, stuff?" I said. "Here, I'll take it."

"Oh no, if this thing is heavy to me it will be ten times as heavy for you! I'll take it." He said.

So I grabbed Nighty's cage and walked out of the carriage, Draco following behind me. On the way up to the castle I was lost in the thought of my plan to find out who that boy was I had seen earlier. I would skip dinner, because I was not hungry and it would give me the time I needed to write the letter. I turned to look at Draco and saw him fiddling with the lock on my trunk.

"Did it come open?" I asked.

"What?" he said, startled, "oh, no, I mean, yes. It started to but no it didn't come open the whole way." He said.

"Oh, ok. Here, let me close it." I said reaching for the trunk.

Draco set down the trunk and I walked over to it. I looked at the lock. It was an odd sort of lock. It was the type that used letters instead of numbers to unlock it. It truly was a very crappy lock because it never worked, but I used it nonetheless, it was the only lock I had. I spun the lock until it the letters read L E P. I always thought that a funny arrangement of letters, but then again, the trunk did belong to my mother before I went to Hogwarts last year.

I opened the trunk and then shut it, spinning the letters until no one would be able to guess what the combination was. I stood up straight and Draco picked up the trunk once again. We walked in to the entrance hall through the big doors and Draco handed my trunk off to a house elf that happened to be there. I turned to tell the house elf where the trunk went but the house elf was no longer there.

"You'll get used to that sooner or later." Draco said, another smirk playing across his face.

"I guess I'll have to huh?" I said, smiling back at him.

Draco walked over to the doors where the great hall was located.

"You coming?" he asked.

"No, I've got some," I paused, "things, I need to attend to."

He looked at me for a beat, and then said, "Alright then. You want to meet up after dinner?"

"Um, I don't know…sure, why not. What time?" I asked.

"Meet me by the picture of the giant pear on the second floor, at around ten thirty." He said, "There's something I want to show you."

"Ok." I said and then turned to leave, as I did so Draco grabbed my wrist and turned me towards him, giving me a kiss on the top of my forehead. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a girl with dark hair glowering at me.

"Who's that?" I asked, motioning towards the girl.

"Oh, pay no attention to her." He said, "She thinks that she's my girlfriend, she's not. You are, if she starts bothering you let me know. I'll tell her to bug off."

"Alright." I said and then turned and left.

On my way to Gryffindor tower I let my thoughts stray to what Matt had said earlier 'When something happens don't expect me or Lavender to always be there' what could possibly happen? I'm in Hogwarts! This place is safer than a bank! But then I thought of the Death Eaters that almost killed a student a few years ago while he was playing Quidditch. Even though I had lived most of my life as a muggle would, I still knew a bit here and there about the magical world. I knew that almost fifteen years ago there was an evil man who had tried to kill a baby boy by using an unforgivable curse, but lived. I knew that he went to this school. That's when it hit me, the name of the boy I had seen earlier, the name of the boy in the picture, his name was Harry Potter. That still did not answer my question though, why is his picture in my attic?

And the plot gets still more interesting. I hope you all liked this chapter. I hope to get more reviews!