Chapter 11

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"Are you mad at me too, Gin?" I asked, testing the waters.

"Of course not! Why would I be mad at you?" she asked.

"Didn't Ron tell you what happened?"

"No, Harry did. There is no reason for Ron to be acting the way he is," she started, "and I can understand why you didn't write or anything. But, you know how Ron is, always acting before thinking."

"Thanks, Gin. It's nice to know that I have some friends that aren't judging me," I said giving her a hug.

"No problem, Kay, and yes I'm going to call you that now; but I have to go grab at least a piece of toast before classes start. So, I'll see you later, but we really need to hangout and have some girl time," she said with a smile.

"Definitely," I said returning it.

This time

After bumping into Ginny outside the Great Hall, I made my way to the Transfiguration room; only to find that I was half an hour early. After choosing a desk in the middle of the room, I pulled out my Transfiguration textbook and started reading it to calm myself down. About half an hour later, students started filing into the room.

When Harry and Ron walked in, Harry started to walk towards me to take his normal seat on my left; while Ron just glared and walked over and sat in the corner by the window.

"Is he still mad?" I asked.

"Yeah, but for whatever reason, I don't know," Harry sighed, "I that he is being quite stupid; I mean you don't choose who your parents are, so he really has no reason to be mad at you."

"Once again, thanks for being there, Harry." I said with a smile, "By the way, I ran into Ginny today outside the Great Hall. She said you told her everything, and that she agrees with you."

"That's good, I knew it was only a matter of time before she went looking for you," he said with a smile.

"Thanks for the warning, Harry," I said with a laugh.

Just then professor McGonagall walked in, "Good morning class," she said. "Now I know that this is only the first day of classes, but since this is advanced Transfiguration, we will b-"

"Sorry I'm late professor, but the moving staircase deci-"

"Save your excuses Mr. Malfoy, and for so rudely disrupting my class 10 points from Slytherin. Now, take a seat," she said with a scowl. After Malfoy sat down, professor McGonagall continued on with her lecture.

'Of course the only empty seat is next to me,' I thought in irritation.

'Wow, I didn't know you thought so highly of me, Kaia,' Malfoy thought dryly.

'Are you kidding me? You can speak telepathically?' I thought back in confusion, 'I thought that only people in my family could speak that way.'

'Apparently an exception has been made for me,' he thought with a smirk.

After a pretty uneventful day of classes; well besides Snape scaring Neville so badly that he messed up his potion which exploded and melted his cauldron, I went back to my dorm to write a letter to my parents, both adoptive and biological, and get a head-start on my homework.

When I finished my homework, I started on my first letter to my parents at Balthazar Castle.

Mum and Dad,

I just discovered that Draco and I can communicate telepathically. I know that normally only people within our family can speak this way, but is that also a normal trait in the relationship between a guardian and their ward? And can you send me all of the books with information pertaining to the dragones?

Please respond soon

Love,

Kaia

After finishing my first letter, I started on the second.

Hi Mum and Dad,

I miss you guys, and I am keeping my promise to write to you. I know that I didn't write every day like I said, but now that I'm back at Hogwarts, I'll have even less time to send an owl since I'm head girl. But anyway, enough about me, how have you guys been?

Love,

Hermione

When I finished my second letter, I got up to go to the owlery. When I turned a corner outside of the Entrance Hall, I ran into something, or more accurately, someone.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry-"but when I looked up, I saw that I had run into Blaise Zabini. "Zabini, what are you doing around this part of the castle this late?"

"I do believe that is none of your business, Granger," he said with a smirk.

"I'm head girl, and it's almost curfew. So I ask again, what are you doing wandering around this late at night?"

"Alright, fine, I just went to see professor Dumbledore. But for what reason, you do not need to know," he said with a sigh.

"Fine, just hurry back to the common room before I have to take points off of my own house," I said with a sneer.

"Sure sure," he said dismissively, "by the way Granger, you'll find that I'm different from the rest of the Slytherins, and… since I'm Draco's best friend, you'll be seeing a lot more of me," he said as he walked away.

"What are you on about, Zabini?" I asked curiously.

"You'll find out soon enough," he called back to me.

'Why are guys in Slytherin always so cryptic?' I thought exasperatedly.

After sending both of my letters, I went back to my common room. When I went inside, I saw Malfoy sitting in a chair near the fire looking almost murderous. Thinking that I could slip past him without being seen, I headed for my room.

"And where do you think you're going?" he growled.

"Up to my room, of course, where else would I go?" I asked, "And why are you so mad?" I already knew the answer to the question, but I asked it anyway.

"I couldn't find you after classes. I looked everywhere; I even asked Potter and Weaslette if they had seen you when you didn't turn up for dinner. They told me that you sometimes didn't come to dinner because you were doing homework. But after dinner when I came back up to the dorm and still couldn't find you, I started to freak. I couldn't even sense where you were, and I even tried to talk to you telepathically, but it obviously didn't work," he said in a deadly whisper.

"Listen Draco-" I started.

"No, you listen, I need to know where you are, or the part of me that is your guardian goes crazy. I know that you can take care of yourself. So save me that argument, but just please do me a favor and check in with me before you go anywhere with anyone," he said tiredly.

"Okay, Dra-" I started.

"Promise me Kaia," he said.

"I promise."

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