"Why would Flint attack you and why would you have a bounty on your head?" Grant hissed as we made our way to practice. We had a upcoming game against Ravenclaw next weekend and Draco have been training us like crazy because last year they lost to them. "I dunno, Ben's father still hasn't owled him back. I know for a fact that Ben's father won't run straight to my dad. He is like my second father and has never spoken unless I told him it was okay to tell my dad" I whispered as I walked into the pitch. Blaise and Ben had a group of guys around them. Blaise looked up and nudged Ben. Ben snatched whatever they were looking at and stormed over to me.

"Look" I took the Daily Prophet from him and smoothed it out. My father was on the front page shaking hands with a man with a ponytail.

"American Minster helps pass new laws in England" Grant read out reading over my shoulder. "What does this mean?"

"The laws he is helping out with… they aren't good, are they?" I asked Ben not even wanting to read through the article. Ben shook his head, well that explained why Marcus Flint wanted me. Flint was fired by my dad a month ago for harassing me. Flint was having an internship with my dad and had moved to America for it and everything. "They favor the dark arts. People against the dark arts are going to use you as a lead way to get these to fail. Aella, maybe you should go back home for a while"

"It will just make it worse and you know that, Ben" Draco said stepping up. Ben rolled his eyes and turned towards me. "She is going to go back and you don't think Americans against the dark arts are going to attack her as well. At least in the Slytherin house, we will protect her"

"Since when have you had a change of heart about Aella?" Grant asked raising an eyebrow. Grant rejusted his glasses and looked down at me. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Malfoy was acting trying to help out. He wanted to help protect me. That really didn't make sense. We are supposed to hate each other and here I am getting all gushy over it. I shook my head, "I'm not going to America and I don't need protection"

"Yes you do" Ben hissed whipping around. "You are in dangerous waters, Mr. Frankson" I growled and Ben held his eye contact. I would never be able to scare Ben down. He knew I wouldn't lay a hand on him. He was my brother and has helped me out more than I care to remember. I owed him a lot. "Let's play Qudditch, shall we?" I kicked off the ground and Draco nodded towards the rest of the team.

It was best just to drop this for right now. I had more important things I needed done.

000

"Dude, I don't know" Luke hissed as Izzy and I chased him down the hallway. "You are on the bloody team that Potter is captain of. I know you know something" I hissed grabbing him by his arm and slamming him into the wall. He grunted and went to pull out his wand but Izzy pulled her out just in time. "Answer her, Patterson" He rolled his eyes and placed his wand back in his pants pocket. "I am the only one tailing Potter! Jaime and Serenity are tailing Weasley while Haley, Everett, and Mark are tailing Hermione because she has a crush on Mark… And it's just me on Potter! He is not as easy as the others"

"Then I'll pull Everett off of Granger. Now spill. What has Potter been saying about these new laws?" Luke crossed his long arms over his chest and looked up and down the hallway that was clearly empty. He was becoming a pain in my ass. Even Jaime has been easier to handle than him. He was just rude and pouty every time I spoke with him. I didn't know what his problem was and honestly I really could care less.

"He said he doesn't trust you. He is keeping a close eye on you thinking you will mess up. Little does he know you are nuts" He snapped. I rolled my eyes and looked at Izzy as she poked him in the side with her wand. He flinched and glared at her. "Get Everett to help me and I will find out more in three days. Potter doesn't exactly trust me quite yet. I need some help"

"Fine. Izzy, go owl him" She nodded and started walking towards the Slytherin common room. I was about to turn on my heels to leave him when Patterson's sharp deep voice stopped me in my tracks. "How do you have everyone at your command when you are just useless piece of shit?"

I knew the only reason he agreed to this was because he wanted to get away from his family and that Jaime forced him to come with her. She really did make him miserable. I don't think she means to but she really does. He is in love with her and she is too blind to see it or she just doesn't care. I was going for the latter of the two. Jaime just seemed to hate him and at the same time she loved his friendship. I wasn't exactly sure what happened and I didn't care. It would come out eventually.

"You have seen the papers. Look at how powerful my father is" I didn't have the energy for this. "You and I both know your father doesn't give a shit about you. If a wand was at your throat, what do you think he would do? Give up his career to save his difficult daughter. Hell no! All your damn father and mother care about is money and who they are"

I flinched at his words as he stepped closer to me. "I know what they said about you when you were born. My brother overhears my parents talking about it. Your mother doesn't have the right friends, does she? Why else would they say you were a waste of space?" I flinched again and I looked up at Luke's face. It was dark and I could see anger flickered behind them every time he spoke.

"What's with that long scar on your side, huh?" My eyes widen and I slowly looked up. How the hell did he know about that? Grant and Ben didn't even know about it. I did well to hide it. At a young age, Narcissa Malfoy taught me a spell to cover all my scars.

"How did you know that?"

"Potter was talking about how during the try-outs your shirt lifted up and he saw it. So tell me, Aella, what is this secret that you are hiding?" He took another step towards me and I yanked out my wand pointing it at him.

"Go to hell" I hissed as the spell knocked him off his feet and he knew down the hallway. He grunted and sat up quickly as I took off running down the hallway trying to keep my breathing under control. I had to make sure this didn't get out to the rest of the school. Potter seeing my scar was about to run the famous Malfoy-Athanas secret.