CHAPTER 10
"Bloody hell your a heavy sleeper, you awake yet?.." The voice was fuzzy and I
couldn't open my eyes from all of the sleep that held them together.
"Ginny?
Last time you woke me up I told you to go away, can you possibly imagine I would
do the same?"
The voice laughed, it was deeper than Ginny's, "no, its Draco."
I jumped so I was sitting up straight, wiped my eyes and looked at him. His
light blonde hair and sparkly eyes, "how did you get in here?"
"Snape
overheard me say that I wanted to apologize to you and all of the other
Gryffindors are at a meeting, so he let me in."
"Oh.. Wait, apologize for
what?"
"The other day before we arrived at the castle, and in the hall when I
ran into you."
"Oh, well that second one was my fault but.. Apology
accepted." I could finally see properly and he looked surprisingly relieved,
what did I mean to him anyway? I never spoke to him except for certain
classes.
"Good! .. Oh, by the way I like your pajamas.." He chuckled and I
looked down at my shirt printed with cats all over them on a green fabric. I
pulled up the blanket to cover myself.
"That could have gone a hole other
way.. Lucky I was wearing something." I laughed and Draco joined in, he was
being nice, I mean he always had, but still it was not his reputation. A
question popped into my head, and a good one at that.
"Why would Snape let
you in? I mean, he doesn't let anyone go into Slytherin. Why would he let you
into Gryffindor?"
"I asked him that too when we were walking up here, and all
he said was he wanted me to give you this." Draco held out quite a large black
package, I untied the sting on the top of the box and stared at Draco before
opening it, "go on then, open it." With his encouragement I opened the lid of
the box and swung it back on the bed. I removed a small layer of paper on top, a
piece of fabric?
"Oh, its a dress." I pulled it out of the box and laid it
on the bed, I couldn't tell how long it was or the shape so I stood up and
headed over to stand in-front of Draco. It was a dark red dress with a low
V-neck cut, it reached just above my knees and then I noticed that the bottom is
cut on a slope that draped nearly to my ankle.
"Its beautiful.. What has he
done this time?"
Draco chuckled and walked over to stand near me, he pushed
me closer to a mirror near Ginny's bed, "correction, it will look beautiful on
you." I blushed, I saw it in the mirror and he smiled.
"Uh, thanks.." I had
just received an apology and a compliment from Draco Malfoy, am I dreaming? I
pinched myself to find out, "ouch!"
"What was that for?"
"Just wanted to
find out if i'm dreaming." He chuckled again, and I couldn't help but laugh at
his cocky tone. Draco went to sit on my bed and I followed and sat next to him
placing the dress on the back of a chair on the way.
"Are you going to try it
on?"
"No, not yet. Why do you think he sent it?"
"The Yule ball, I thought
it was obvious." I hung my head low in my lap.
"Damn, you had to remind me
didn't you, I nearly forgot about it too."
"What? You don't want to go
either?" He looked amused and pleased, I always wanted to talk to Draco, as
friends.
"No not really, I hate dancing." He laughed and turned to face
me.
"I guess what all the Slytherin girls said was true, you are such a
tom-boy sometimes." I chuckled and then found the obvious question, "the
Slytherin girls talk about me?" He nodded, "You are the topic of choice at the
moment, honestly I think their jealous." I smiled at him, "jealous of what? My
father can be a complete ass plus he's the only family I have now, everyone
thinks i'm a freak and I probably won't make it into the quidditch team this
year." I dwelled on it, it never really sunk in until I said it.
"What? Thats
not true.."
"Don't lie, I already know it is and honestly I don't care
anymore. Bloody hell, I sound like my father.." He chuckled and I felt like
hitting him for agreeing with me.
"I thought you sounded sort of hot.." The
urge to hit him slowly backed down.."Did you just compliment me again, are you
sick or something?" I put my hand on his forehead and felt a throbbing heat,
mostly beating from his checks, he was blushing, was it possible for Draco
Malfoy to blush? I chuckled, I obviously thought that this boy had no emotion,
"what are you laughing at?" Draco stood up self-consciously looking at himself
in the mirror.
"Your blushing!" I fell to the ground with laughter and
noticed that I was still in my pajamas, but I didn't really care about that
now.
"I am not!"
"Yes you are!" I laughed harder and saw the door open,
Ginny walked in but I still couldn't stop laughing and continued to squirm on
the floor.
"Bella, what - Draco? What are you doing here? Are you blushing?"
She smiled and finally realised that was what I was laughing at, she even
giggled herself.
Draco knew we were kidding and laughed for a minute then
stopped, "i'm out of here, i'll talk to you later Bella." He stomped out of the
room and shut the door behind him, I heard someone talk and ask what he was
doing in the Gryffindor common room but it was drowned with laughter.
"Come
on Bella.. What happened?" I could actually stop laughing after a little bit and
felt guilty at laughing at Draco like that. After I told Ginny what had happened
she answered with all types of questions like, 'so Snape was actually being
nice?' And, 'Draco likes you?" I answered yes to the first one even though I had
my suspicions, and no to the second one, 'there was no way in hell that was
going to happen!'
"What are you talking about, he could like you."
"Did I
say that out-loud?"
"Yeah, weren't you supposed to?" She giggled then fixed
the hair.
"... What the hell is wrong with me lately?"