Luna woke up the next morning, her mind still foggy from last night. She had been up late trying to figure out how to approach Draco without him or, more importantly, Daphne getting the wrong message.
Daphne was a popular girl, and a powerful enemy. The blonde got picked on regularly by Daphne's 'gang' but she knew that to give her any kind of ammunition for hatred was a terrible idea.
Luna's head ached just thinking about what Daphne might do if she found out that she was seeking out Draco today. The truth was, even Luna knew it was a bad idea, but she had to straighten things out and ask him why he felt he needed to tell Daphne that she called him by his name, it was only a name. There had to be a reason he was uncomfortable with it, and the curious part of Luna wanted to delve into his mind and find out why, but that was out of the question.
The blonde absent-mindedly glanced at the clock on her bedside table. She had to look back again as she couldn't believe the time. She was late for potions.
Professor Snape was going to be so mad at her, her mind raced over possible excuses as she pulled on her robes and dashed out of the common room.
She was grateful she was late, at least she wouldn't have the chance to run into Daphne. But she couldn't walk leisurely, the rational part of her mind scolded her as she picked up the pace to get to potions.
As she arrived in the dingy corridor outside her potions classroom, Luna took a moment to prepare herself.
She pushed open the creaky old door and came face to face with her potions class, who all had the same look on their face. It was a look of sympathy for the blonde. She gulped as Professor Snape strode across the classroom to tower over her.
"Miss Lovegood..." he began.
"Sir, I'm so so-"
"Save it. You will make up the half an hour after class." Professor Snape finished and handed her a textbook. "Let's not make a habit of this."
Luna nodded and walked to the empty seat in the class, of course, next to a Slytherin.
At the end of class, after they had been dismissed by a particularly quiet Professor Snape, everybody left the classroom in a hurry, apart from Luna. She stayed in her seat and closed her textbook, having finished the assignment they were working on.
"Make yourself useful and go and organise the ingredients cupboard" Snape mumbled.
"Yes sir" Luna replied and hurried off, putting her textbook in her bag on the way.
When she was inside the cupboard, after a few minutes of picking pieces of toads off the floor she heard the classroom door swing open.
She couldn't hear the other voice but she could hear Snape talking loudly to the other person.
"I do not care for your family affairs, we have discussed this. You can sort this out on your own."
Luna moved closer to the closed door of the cupboard and opened it enough to peek out, but she could only see Snape.
"I have some errands to run, we will discuss this further when I get back, wait here."
Snape left the room and Luna turned her attention to the jar of toad's eyes that she had almost knocked over, placing it back on the shelf properly.
As soon as she was sure Snape had left the room, she left the cupboard to find the mystery student.
Her jaw almost dropped when she saw who it was.
"Lovegood." Draco sighed.
"It's a bit better than Loony, I'll accept it. Draco..." Luna began.
"Stop calling me that."
"What is the big problem with your name? Such a big issue that you felt it neccessary to tell your girlfriend that I called you by it."
"What are you talking about?"
Luna sighed. "I understand if you have a problem with me, most people do, but I was not calling you by your name to be spiteful or to wind you up, there was no need to tell Daphne."
Draco almost laughed "I never said anything to Daphne, you really are loony."
"My name is Luna. I guess you don't believe in using anyone else's names either."
Draco scoffed. "I don't have time for thi-"
He was interrupted by Snape walking back in.
"You can leave now Lovegood." Snape said slowly, his eyes darting from her to Draco and back again.
"Yes sir."
Luna pushed open the door, and stepped outside, bumping into Daphne.
"I should've known you'd be here Lovegood."
"Daphne, I-"
"What is your obsession with my boyfriend?" Daphne sneered.
"Believe me, I do not have an obsession with..." Luna hesitated saying the next word and changed her sentence "...with your boyfriend."
"Could've fooled me, always following him around." Daphne laughed, and placed her hands on Luna's shoulders ready to shove her again when the classroom door swung open.
Draco looked at the scene and pulled Daphne's hands off Luna "Daphne, we're leaving, leave Lovegood alone."
Daphne shot him a look.
"She's not worth it." Draco replied quickly and pulled Daphne down the corridor, leaving Luna shocked at what had just happened.
She ran through it in her head, had Draco just...protected her?
She was interrupted from her thoughts by footsteps hitting the cobbled floor.
"Luna!" Ron's voice came. Luna turned to face him, he was with Hermione and Harry.
"What are you doing down here?" he asked.
"...Nothing" she replied "I had detention."
"Well, come on, let's get out of here, Malfoys around here and he's in a foul mood."
Next chapter out asap. I promise