Disclaimer: I own none of the HP characters however Astrid is mine, and so are a couple of filler ppl you don't recognize from the books
Chapter 4: Renaissance
Morning came too early for me. I was still worn out from the previous night. I shook my head worried what people would think about the display Draco put on. I really hoped no one saw the kiss in the common room, but if they did oh well. I pulled on my uniform half awake (not feeling like waking up earlier to take a shower) and put my hair into a loose pony tail. I wasn't perfect but it would have to do for today. I walked down the stairs slowly before realizing I had potions again today and then rushed out of the common room. I really didn't want to get detention again. Cho and Luna caught up with me as I made my way past the great hall.
"Hey! We would've woken you up, but we thought you needed the sleep. But we got you a muffin!" Cho said, I gave her a grateful look, "Thanks, you have no idea how much I needed to sleep partly to stop thinking about what happened last night." I took the muffin from her hand and began eating ferociously. "Yeah, that was really weird. Why would he come all the way up to our house to see you?" I shot Cho a hurt look, she quickly recovered, "I mean he was so nasty to you yesterday. Why did he suddenly decide he likes you?" I replied, "No clue, but I think part of it was the alcohol talking." Suddenly Luna chimed in, "You know a lot of time when people are drunk their true feelings come out because they lose their inhibitions." I snorted, "So you think Draco Malfoy likes me?" Luna gave me a mischievous smile, "Well by the way he was kissing you I'd say yes." Cho's eyebrows disappeared into her hair, "You what!?" I looked sheepishly around, "Well it's not like I had a say in it; he had me pinned to the floor!" Luna and Cho looked at each other and died laughing. "Ok, not like that! You guys are so perverted! He fell on top of me because he was so drunk and he kissed me without my permission," I said defensively. Just as Cho was about to say something we reached the potions room and we were ushered in by a very pissed looking Snape.
"Ok students quiet down so we can get to work!" Snape barked. I took my seat next to a very sick looking Draco. He looked up and I smirked at him. He gave me a glare before laying his head down on the table and trying to go to sleep. "Mr. Malfoy!" Snape snarled, "There will be no sleeping in my class!" I shook with laughter as I saw Malfoy's pained looked on his face as Snape yelled at him, "Detention! Mr. Malfoy… And Ms. Chennault for disturbing my class with your laughter!" Draco gave me a smug look before saying, "See you should never laugh at someone with a hangover." I snorted and replied, "You did this to yourself Malfoy. And have you ever heard of a sobriety potion?" Draco brightened, "You have some? I ran out." I gave him a disciplinary look and answered, "Yes, I do. But not with me, they're in my rooms." He looked surprised, "They're? As in you have lots of them? And since when is it Malfoy again? I remember what happened last night you know." I blushed as I thought about the kisses we shared and he waggled his eyebrows suggestively. I laughed and punched him lightly in the arm for making fun of me. It then hit me. Last night had changed us. We were no longer biting out comments at each other, but maybe that was because neither one of us had the strength to get into an argument. I hoped it wasn't. I liked this pleasant conversation we were having, I liked this side of Draco. I realized I was staring at him again and looked down. "It's ok you don't have to stare at me longingly to make me feel better I know I look like shit," he said with a smile, my face flushed. I had been caught again. "Sorry I zoned out for a sec," I covered. He gave me a disbelieving look before continuing, "So anyways what are we supposed to be doing?" I answered, "Preparing the polyjuice potion, because it will take 1 month to make. It's a group project," I looked around, "but I guess we were supposed to be in groups of three. Oh well were the only group of two. That's okay because I've made this potion before." Draco gave me a surprised look, "You have? It's pretty difficult. I had to make it a couple times for some of Lucius's little adventures." A dark look passed over Draco's face. I had a feeling Draco had a dark past that he wanted to get out of. I mean, that's why he was trying to carve that mark out of his arm. He snapped me out of my thinking by saying, "Okay let's get to work, so I can go to sleep faster." I rolled my eyes and we began working on the potion.
After we got done in potions Draco followed me up to my house to get the sobriety potion. I decided to let him in because had already been in there. I went up to get the potion, came back down, and he drank it greedily. The potion only takes a few minutes to fully take affect and I was relieved when Draco started to look less pale and worn. "Ok now that I'm sober I can do this and know I'm completely in my right mind," he said and before I could ask him what he was talking about his lips were on mine. He pushed me up against the couch and we both fell onto it, but that didn't discourage us. Draco got on top of me and began kissing me again. He trailed his lips down my collar bone to my chest making me shiver. It felt so good to have someone to want me. His hands reached under my shirt and cupped my breasts before I realized we needed to stop before we got caught. I pushed his hands off and wriggled to get up. He looked at me curiously, "Don't you want this?" I nodded, "Yes but not here where anyone could walk in on us and I don't want to just be some girl you hooked up with." Draco smiled , "You will never be a hook up its far too late for that anyway, you saw my nice side." I giggled before adding, "Ok I mean I liked this," I blushed and continued, "but-" Draco cut me off with a kiss and said, "But you want to be treated like my girl friend. Correct?" I nodded and said, "I just don't want to be thrown to the side after you've used me." He grabbed me forcefully and pushed me up against the wall a kissed me, "I want you, so I don't plan on letting you get to far out of my sight." His words sent shivers down my spine. "Okay cool. So where do we go from here?" I asked. "Well the Halloween Ball is coming up in Hogsmeade this weekend. You want to be my date?" He asked me. "Do we have to dress up?" He smirked and said, "Well you're supposed to go as famous couples, but we could go as Adam and Eve and not wear anything." I laughed and said, "Umm… I'm going to have to say no to that one. I don't know who we should be but I will be your date." Draco brightened, "Ok then, what class do you have next?" I looked at my schedule and said, "Nothing I have a study period." Draco replied, "So do I so we can get in some much needed snogging we've been missing out on." I rolled my eyes, "Come on let's get to the library and then we'll find out what were going to do." We walked towards the library hand in hand, I realized the after this things would never be the same.