p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"Winifred/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"strong style="line-height: 1.7em; display: inline; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-top: 0.7em; white-space: inherit; clear: none !important; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;"December 2nd 1994/strong/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"strong style="line-height: 1.7em; display: inline; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-top: 0.7em; white-space: inherit; clear: none !important; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;" /strong"So," Draco whispered to me in potions, "are you going to the ball?" I shrugged./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Maybe, why do you wanna know?" I asked while raising my eyebrows. He rolled his eyes./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Just curious."/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Well, I want to go but I'm going to have to reuse one of my old dresses... Why you're not thinking of asking me are you?" I asked him, hoping he wasn't. We decided long ago that this was going to be a secret, nobody could find out about this, especially Ron. He already hates the fact that I'm a Slytherin and dating his "sworn enemy" is out of the question. Plus it would ruin Draco's reputation, I'm just trying to hook up; I'm not trying to to ruin someone's life./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "No, of course not," he stated, "but... I might have a surprise for you after the dance," he said with a wink. I rolled my eyes./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Okay Malfoy, whatever you say."/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Weasley, Malfoy, do you have something to share with the class?" Snape asked, everyone turned around to look back at us. I blushed./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "No sir," Draco said with a straight face./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "I assumed so. I hope you two will stop flirting and listen to my lesson," Snape turned back around to the chalkboard and continued to teach. I buried my face in my robes out of embarrassment. I looked over at Rosalie who gave me a weird glance. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" After potions, the girls didn't bring up the interaction in class, thankfully. I don't know what excuse I'd be able to come up with on the fly. "So," I started, breaking the silence, "Rosalie has Cedric asked you to the ball yet?"/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" Rosalie smiled and let out an excited noise. "Not yet, but he said that he was planning something later this week... So not yet," she said with the biggest grin on her face. Cedric is good for her, I can feel it. I have never seen her this happy in the years that I've known her. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" I nodded. "That's good to hear," I said. We all walked out to the courtyard and saw the twins pelting other students with snowballs. They claim that summer is their favorite season but I don't believe it. They always seem to enjoy themselves more in winter, they're like little kids. We got closer to them and Fred immediately whipped around and at full speed, threw a snowball at my chest. I expected another snowball to hit me from George but it never came./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Sorry Winnie. Thought you were Ron," Fred said with a laugh. I rolled my eyes. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Sure," I said with sarcasm in my voice. Fred pulled me in by the neck and started to rub my hair./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Come on Win, I said I was sorry. Let's build a snowman before lunch, what do you think?" he asked. I pulled away from him and fixed my hair as best as I could. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "If it will get you to leave me alone, then fine," I stated. I started to roll the snow onto the ground into a ball./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Bending over, aren't you, Weasley? I'm not surprised," I heard a voice say. Draco... Of course. I sighed and stood up. I did not want to deal with his torture today but I guess people have been getting suspicious./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "I'm not in the mood, Malfoy," I said before turning around to face my friends and brothers./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Not in the mood? Oh that's a first," Malfoy laughed and so did Crabbe and Goyal. I clenched my hands into fists but quickly released them. I knew this was all an act but for some reason I couldn't help but feel hurt. "Saw you getting close to Blaise in charms today, you know he wouldn't want a blood traitor like you," he spat. I turned around and stomped up to him in the snow. The three of them continued to laugh. I got close to him, about half an arms length away. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Do you want another broken nose?" I asked him. He laughed harder./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "And are you going to get Granger to do it for you?" He sneered. I clenched my fists again. He deserves it. He needs this warning. I let my anger get the best of me and socked him, right in the jaw./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "You bitch!" he exclaimed. I heard Rosalie stifle a laugh. I turned around and walked back to the snowman./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"strong style="line-height: 1.7em; display: inline; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-top: 0.7em; white-space: inherit; clear: none !important; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;"December 2nd 1994/strong/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"strong style="line-height: 1.7em; display: inline; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-top: 0.7em; white-space: inherit; clear: none !important; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;" /strong"So," Draco whispered to me in potions, "are you going to the ball?" I shrugged./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Maybe, why do you wanna know?" I asked while raising my eyebrows. He rolled his eyes./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Just curious."/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Well, I want to go but I'm going to have to reuse one of my old dresses... Why you're not thinking of asking me are you?" I asked him, hoping he wasn't. We decided long ago that this was going to be a secret, nobody could find out about this, especially Ron. He already hates the fact that I'm a Slytherin and dating his "sworn enemy" is out of the question. Plus it would ruin Draco's reputation, I'm just trying to hook up; I'm not trying to to ruin someone's life./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "No, of course not," he stated, "but... I might have a surprise for you after the dance," he said with a wink. I rolled my eyes./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Okay Malfoy, whatever you say."/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Weasley, Malfoy, do you have something to share with the class?" Snape asked, everyone turned around to look back at us. I blushed./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "No sir," Draco said with a straight face./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "I assumed so. I hope you two will stop flirting and listen to my lesson," Snape turned back around to the chalkboard and continued to teach. I buried my face in my robes out of embarrassment. I looked over at Rosalie who gave me a weird glance. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" After potions, the girls didn't bring up the interaction in class, thankfully. I don't know what excuse I'd be able to come up with on the fly. "So," I started, breaking the silence, "Rosalie has Cedric asked you to the ball yet?"/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" Rosalie smiled and let out an excited noise. "Not yet, but he said that he was planning something later this week... So not yet," she said with the biggest grin on her face. Cedric is good for her, I can feel it. I have never seen her this happy in the years that I've known her. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" I nodded. "That's good to hear," I said. We all walked out to the courtyard and saw the twins pelting other students with snowballs. They claim that summer is their favorite season but I don't believe it. They always seem to enjoy themselves more in winter, they're like little kids. We got closer to them and Fred immediately whipped around and at full speed, threw a snowball at my chest. I expected another snowball to hit me from George but it never came./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Sorry Winnie. Thought you were Ron," Fred said with a laugh. I rolled my eyes. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Sure," I said with sarcasm in my voice. Fred pulled me in by the neck and started to rub my hair./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Come on Win, I said I was sorry. Let's build a snowman before lunch, what do you think?" he asked. I pulled away from him and fixed my hair as best as I could. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "If it will get you to leave me alone, then fine," I stated. I started to roll the snow onto the ground into a ball./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Bending over, aren't you, Weasley? I'm not surprised," I heard a voice say. Draco... Of course. I sighed and stood up. I did not want to deal with his torture today but I guess people have been getting suspicious./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "I'm not in the mood, Malfoy," I said before turning around to face my friends and brothers./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Not in the mood? Oh that's a first," Malfoy laughed and so did Crabbe and Goyal. I clenched my hands into fists but quickly released them. I knew this was all an act but for some reason I couldn't help but feel hurt. "Saw you getting close to Blaise in charms today, you know he wouldn't want a blood traitor like you," he spat. I turned around and stomped up to him in the snow. The three of them continued to laugh. I got close to him, about half an arms length away. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Do you want another broken nose?" I asked him. He laughed harder./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "And are you going to get Granger to do it for you?" He sneered. I clenched my fists again. He deserves it. He needs this warning. I let my anger get the best of me and socked him, right in the jaw./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "You bitch!" he exclaimed. I heard Rosalie stifle a laugh. I turned around and walked back to the snowman./p