The first week of school seemed to pass at a snail's pace, luckily I had Evie in almost all of my classes, except for care of magical creatures (which only had Susan Bones and Blaise Zabini in it beside myself) and astronomy, so we got to spend about the same time together as before, and she could help me with my homework (because she's in the oh-so-smart house of Ravenclaw).

Soon though it was the end of Friday's last period (double potions) and I took my time packing up as Slughorn dismissed the class. I really wasn't looking forward to this evening, Friday was the day that I was scheduled to patrol for my prefect duties, and I really didn't fancy spending my evening with Malfoy, I just wanted to relax for Christ sakes.

I followed Evie to the great hall and sat down next to her on the Ravenclaw table. Loony Lovegood was sitting opposite us (I know its mean to call her that, but I heard the nickname and it fitted so perfectly that that's how I refer to her in my head, I would never call her that out loud, I'm a Hufflepuff remember, kind and all that jazz). Anyway the crazy girl was sitting batting her hands in the air, probably trying to scare away nargles or some other weird creature.

I spooned some lasagne onto my plate and looked around the hall, seeing the usual Friday buzz, this only spins my mood further into the dark pits of despair.

"At least try to smile Ari" Evie said in an attempt to console me, "it's only for a few hours, and Draco's not that bad, think about it, you could be worse of, he is pretty fit".

At this I turned to my friend as if she had two heads, did she just call Malfoy 'not that bad'?

"Evie what are you talking about, he has basically pretended I don't exist for the last six years unless he wants to make my life miserable, and he's so stuck up and haughty. Not to mention how he treats other students at this school who don't worship the ground he walks on" sadly I couldn't deny the fact that Draco Malfoy was in fact one of the fittest boys to grace the earth, hey I'm a girl, what can I say?

At this Evie just looked at me and shrugged as I changed the topic, we were in the mist of talking about the latest robe styles in witch weekly, when we heard a cough behind us and turned round. We turned around to see Malfoy standing there with his stupid smirk on his stupid face.

"What do you want ferret?" I glared at him, which earned me an elbow in the ribs from Evie.

"Well in case you forgot, we have to do our rounds" he explained in an annoyingly patronising voice, so I stuck my tongue out at him which made his eyes narrow at me as he walked out the hall. I rolled my eyes and followed after muttering a quick goodbye to Evie and grabbing my stuff.

I walked out the hall and looked around to see Malfoy already stalking ahead of me in the direction we were patrolling. "Hey wait up" I yelled, "you could at least wait for me, and anyways I need to drop my stuff off in my common room before we patrol".

At this he turned around and rolled his eyes, "hurry up then Lukas, I can't wait forever you know". So I quickly ran to my common room and dropped my things on the first chair I saw (lucky the Hufflepuff common room is so close to the great hall huh?) then I went to rush back to Malfoy. Until I realised who I was about to rush back to. So then I decided to take my own sweet time getting back to the place where I had said to meet him, just for kicks.

When I was approaching the stairs I saw Malfoy standing there with a big scowl on his face: mission accomplished. As I reached him he suddenly grabbed my arm and pulled me into an alcove, where no passing students could see us. I began to get a bit frightened at this and my breathing quickened, then he turned me around and we were standing so close my breath hitched again, god I had to get a grip on my emotions.

We stayed in that position, our noses almost touching, me mesmerised by his stormy eyes narrowed into slits with anger. I could feel his body fuming, that's when I realised where we were. I quickly cleared my breath and took a hasty step back (well as far as the small space would allow) and almost spat at him "what an earth are you doing? Why drag me here?"

To this he seemed to get angrier and finally replied "I told you to be quick Lukas, not dawdle your way along the corridors, do not test my patience".

Okay, so I admit I was a little scared, he was a suspected death eater after all, but I couldn't let him know it, so I made a pfft sound and stepped away, turning my back on him. At the same time saying in my best sarcastic voice "oh I'm soo scared, baby Malfoy's all upset" then I shouted over my shoulder "come on we've got to do our rounds" I didn't look back so I assumed he followed.

A couple of corridors later I head Malfoy's footsteps jogging to catch up with me and so I stopped and waited for him to catch up. When he did I carried on walking in silence. We didn't talk for the rest of the patrols. It was kinda boring, seriously either suddenly Hogwarts students have suddenly gone all goody goody, or they just got way sneakier, I don't know, because we didn't find one person doing anything they shouldn't be, or out of bed, and I mean there was ALWAYS one.

I think our failure of finding anyone up to no good just added to the tense atmosphere, so when I finally announced I was going to bed, it came out more like a squeak. Malfoy just grunted in agreement, but followed me back to my common room nonetheless. Which I found strangely sweet of him as the Slytherin common room was quite far away from mine, anyway I said goodnight and went inside. I thought I heard a "Goodnight Ariadne" coming for the Slytherin's direction, but then I was pretty tired. I shook my head and went to bed, thinking that Draco sure did confuse me sometimes.