Sorry this is gonna be short, but I have school work piling up and im failing a few classes so I have to focus on school. The next chapter will be longer, I promise. ^_^

I managed to get myself back to the common room without causing any further damage, other than the tons of grass I stepped on, the spider I squished, and the pebble I kicked. But nothing happened to me so im pretty sure that makes everything ok. I took a seat with my fifth year friends,(as Fred and George call them) and watched the schools introduce themselves, do their little entrances, made eye contact with a few durmstrang boys, (even I have my girly-preppy-flirty side) and ate some yummilicious food that made my tummy go 'yay'.

I checked the time some hours or so later, and it was 7:43. I got up and made a lame excuse, the girls bought it, but when one of the guys got questioning I said quickly, "I need a new pad, and some pills because these cramps are seriously going to either kill me or make me kill somebody else" and it actually worked.

'Hmm, I thought that only worked on TV. Guess ill have to use it more often.'

I made my way swiftly to the astronomy tower, after getting lost a couple times until one of the paintings walked me to the tower. I loved how they could talk and move around, it was one of my favorite parts of the whole magic thing, to be able to interact with people you may not have had the chance to meet. It definitley couldn't be flying because I'm a complet klutz and a spaz when im on my feet, so is it really going to help if I'm on a thin little broom stick in the air going over 5 miles per hour? No, I think not.

Once in the tower I sat down Indian style under the window and began to play with the little ants that crawled by. I was rounding them up and then I was going to race them. If you've never had an ant race before, you should seriously try it.

"What are you doing?" I heard a voice question from behind me, as I focused intently on the little creatures before me.

I looked up and saw Draco standing at the entryway, his tie loosened hair slowly coming out of place. I immediately looked back down and made sure none of my little minions had escaped from my grand plan.

"Im ant racing."

"Sounds, interesting."

"It really is." I said, staring at the lead ant.

"So how insane are you?"

"Clinically."

"I see. I need to talk to you."

"Ok, talk." I had just let the ants take off and the one I decided should win was last, so I was focusing rather intently of shoving the other ants back while letting mine take the lead. Its actually a lot harder than it sounds, just letting you know.

"Get up." He said moodily, taking a step closer to me as I could hear the edge in his voice.

"No." I said, jokingly hoping to relax him, thinking he was just taking charge the way I liked.

"I need to talk to you, and its important get up."

"Im not going to get up if your gonna order me too." I answered, my voice borderline testy when I realized this was just him being a demanding little prat.

"I can say whatever I want to your kind."

That immediately caught my attention. And ignited my temper when all I wanted was for him to say please.

I slowly stood up to see him staring fiercely at me, he looked kind of hot. But I was too pissed to ogle. For more than two seconds.

"What the bloody hell makes you think you can talk to me like that! All you had to do was ask nicely and maybe say please and I would have complied!"

"I already said I can do what I want, and you know what, forget it. You're just a filthy muggle loving mudblood!" he shouted with his voice filled with rage and anguish.

SLAP

I felt myself starting to cry as I felt my hand connect with his face.

"How dare you call me that!" I managed to say through ragged breathes.

He didn't say anything. He just turned his head to face me, and before I could blink a spell was hurtled at me and I was on the ground.

"Don't touch me!"

"Get over yourself Draco! You're not all powerful and important! When are you going to learn that not everything is going to be handed t you, that your not entirely important! Your no more special than me, face it, your blood may be pure by wizard standards, but it's tainted in horror and evil! You're as bad as your monstrous hateful father!"

SLAP

This time he struck me.

"Don't you ever, speak of my family like that!"

"I can do what I damn well want Draco!"

He glared at me, and I glared back. I felt the tears stinging in my eyes but I refused to let them fall. I knew I had said some hurtful things, but I have pride dammit! And it's not like he was apologizing. Then I noticed something, his eyes. They looked so alone right then, alone and desperate. I was tempted to get up and hug him, whispering I'm sorry just so that look would go away, but he swiftly turned and walked away.

I stared at him as he left. The tears began falling and they wouldn't stop. I hadn't cried over a boy since I was 6 and the little neighbor kid hit me and knocked me over. Sure I cried but the next day I kicked him in the shin and was all better. But, I wasn't crying because I was hurt, but because of that look he had. That was a look nobody should ever have in their eyes. And I had crossed a line when I brought up his family during the argument. I was just so angry at him. I just curled up in the corner of the room and leaned my body against the stone and cried. My ant had won.