Chapter 9.

At breakfast that morning they sat with Pansy Parkinson and some guy from Hufflepuff that was a year older than her, Crabbe and a girl from Slytherin she didn't recognize and Goyle who had been mated with poor Cho Chang. Crabbe, Goyle and Draco were talking about going to Hogsmead tomorrow. Because they were all on the fast track to marriage they were allowed to go as often as they wished to Hogsmead during the week and to Diagon alley during the weekends. Luna didn't mind going to Hogsmead this weekend, it sounded fun but it wasn't like he was asking her or anything.

Through out the whole breakfast she noticed Pansy shooting her evil glares. Luna guessed that she was pissed at her for being with Draco and not her. She felt a little awkward sitting with them at that table, they weren't very fond of her and she knew it. Cho seemed to feel awkward too, she sat there resting her head on her hand and poking at her scrabbled eggs with her fork. When Luna thought about it she felt better with being mated with Draco than she would have been if she had been mated with Goyle or Crabbe.

They only had one class today because it was Friday. That was one of the perks they had now, but the downside was that it was Life class which was supposedly extremely boring according to everyone.

Life class was taught in a very spacey classroom on the third floor. When they entered the classroom that morning everyone seemed to groan. The classroom was filled with cribs with crying baby's in them. The teacher was a kind looking middle aged witch in a lilac robe. She had written their assignment on the board in a beautiful cursive writing.

"1. Find out what the baby needs

2. Take care of what it needs

3. Make the baby fall asleep.

Then you may leave."

After reading what the teacher had written on the board Luna looked into the crib. In it was a infant boy with black hair. His face was as red as a radish because of him straining to scream. She picked him up from the crib and started bounding him lightly from side to side.

"Hush hush, baby boy. What's wrong?" she cooed at him and lifted him up to smell if he had wet his diaper, he hadn't so she guessed he was hungry.

"He's hungry" she told Draco "is there something for him to eat in there?" she asked pointing at the cupard under the dressing table. He turned around and opened it and came out with a bottle of milk.

"Do you want to?" she asked him but he just shook his head and handed her the bottle. She gave the baby the bottle and he immediately started to suck on the warm milk. He looked serene and calm as he sucked on the milk. He finished the whole bottle and cooed happily. Luna put him over her shoulder and made him burp and then she laid him in the crib again. The classroom wasn't very quiet which made it hard for them to calm him down. He seemed wide-awake and really happy. They both sat on chairs on either side of the crib trying to calm him enough to fall asleep. Eventually they gave up and decided to wait until the classroom was quieter. Draco took out his wand and conjured birds to make the fly around over the crib much to the baby's enjoyment. He squealed with happiness and reached his tiny hands up to try to touch the birds.

Luna smiled she thought it was a sweet gesture and she saw that he would make a good father to her children. It felt so strange to her that she'd be a married girl by the end of the year. And what was even more wired was that last night she thought Draco was going to kiss her and she actually wanted him to. However he didn't and ever since then she had felt something for him. Like there were butterflies in her stomach.

Luna was snapped out of the thoughts when she heard Draco call her name. She looked at him and then down into the crib and noticed that the boy had fallen asleep. She smiled and they quietly walked out of the classroom at a very good time because it was lunch. They just headed for the great hall. There weren't many there yet so they just sat down at an empty table.

"You want to go to Hogsmead tomorrow with us. Right?" he asked hesitantly as he grabbed a grill cheese sandwich and put it on his plate.

"Sure" Luna answered and shrugged "I guess it would be nice" she added as she piled some salad on her plate and a few pieces of chicken.

"You could ask Ginny and Ron if they want to come too" he said and took a bite out of his sandwich.

"Mhm" she answered with her mouth full of salad. She guessed that'd be really fun. If she wasn't alone and had someone to talk to. Draco didn't seem to want to talk to her if they weren't alone. She understood that, she was kind off known for being the weirdest girl in school and he was… Draco Malfoy. Ten minutes later they were joined with Ginny and Blaise who were both eager to go to Hogsmead. And Ron and the Patil twins wanted to go to as well.

After luck they both went up to the comonroom and into their dorm room. Luna needed to practice her charms and Draco said he needed to study as well. Luna grabbed her spell book and a few glasses and spoons. She poured water into the glasses and put a spoon in each one. Then she took her wand and made the first spoon stir the water in the glass then she tried to make the second spoon stir as well but the first one stopped. She started over but the same thing kept happening again and again for about twenty minutes. Draco was watching her too and finally he drew out his wand and made the spoons stir all the glasses as the same time.

She turned her head to look at him "how did you do that?" she asked.

"You can't think about it too much and think of it as one spell instead of many" he said looking at her from the chair he sat in. "Try it again" he said and stopped the spoons.

She turned again and looked at the glasses. She moved her wand again and started the first spoon and then went for the next one and to her amazement the first one kept stirring. But when she went for the third one the second one stopped but the first one kept stirring.

"Good enough" she said and smiled at him. He smiled back at her and came to sit on the floor next to her. He made the spoons stop stirring and took her hand in his holding her hand over glass number one and moving it in a turning motion. When the spoon started moving he moved her hand over the next one and then the next one and the next one until all the spoons were moving. Luna looked at him with a big smile on her face. He was looking at her too smiling as well. Then he leaned in to her. Their faces were literally inches away from each other. Draco closed his eyes and pressed his lips to hers. Luna kissed him back and closed her eyes. His hand moved up to her chin and pulled her closer to him. And then it was over. Draco was an excellent kisser, but then again he had had some practice.

Luna moved her hand to her lips "umh" she stuttered but he had already gone into his bedroom. Luna put away her things and decided to go read in her room.