Luna found herself smiling at nothing again for what was probably the millionth time since Christmas.
"Luna, you're making everything really obvious if you keep doing that, and you know what Harry would do if he found out." Hermione giggled.
"Do you think we'll have to lie about it for good?" Luna turned to Hermione.
"Well, I would say yes, but clearly, I don't know Draco as well as I thought I did" the brunette smirked at her blonde companion.
"Clearly, me neither." The blonde laughed. "It's just a shame he won't come tonight." she sighed, referring to the New Years Eve get together her and Hermione had planned with a few Hufflepuffs that were also staying behind for the holidays, I mean we only have two more days before his friends come back and we'll hardly see each other."
"Maybe he'll come around" Hermione smiled in an attempt to cheer the blonde up.
"Maybe" Luna chuckled. "It's not like anyone in his house will be there." she shrugged.
Evening arrived swiftly and Luna hadn't seen Draco all day, despite looking for him almost everywhere.
She waited at the bottom of the stairs for Harry to finish getting dressed.
"For once, we're waiting for Harry" Hermione chuckled.
Hermione and Luna were both formally dressed for this evening, they had hoped for a proper party, but with it still being school, the teachers had only agreed to let it go ahead if it was made a formal event.
Hermione had chosen a dark pink dress and Luna wore a light blue one. They had guessed Harry would be wearing formal robes, though he was taking his sweet time putting them on.
Eventually Harry almost ran down the stairs into the Gryffindor common room.
"Luna" he smiled "I wasn't expecting to see you in here."
"Neither was I, I was supposed to be with..." she forgot who she was talking to and tried to save the sentence "someone." she laughed.
Harry arched an eyebrow at her and eventually laughed. "I will never understand you, Luna" he smirked.
"Me neither" Luna replied. "Shall we go? It's 10pm already, we don't have too long."
"Yes we should get going." Hermione added, following Harry who was already leaving.
The three of them stepped out of the portrait to come face to face with the one and only Draco Malfoy.
"Malfoy." Harry gritted his teeth.
"Potter." Draco spat back at him.
"Mind if I have a word with your friend?" Draco's voice was still thick with venom.
"Which one?" Harry replied, his voice just as hostile.
"Lovegood." Draco replied.
"No-" Harry began but was interrupted by Luna who stood between him and Draco.
"Harry it's fine...really" she smiled before subtly pushing Draco down the hallway, while he shot looks at Harry.
"Come on Harry," Hermione whispered "She'll be fine."
Harry reluctantly let himself be herded by Hermione out of sight of Luna and Draco.
"Draco" Luna smiled at him.
"Hi" he replied, pulling her into a hug.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, burying her chin in his shoulder.
"Well...I know I said I wasn't going to go to this thing tonight...but...I felt like going"
"Really?" Luna asked, pulling back just enough to look at him.
Draco nodded. "Despite what Potter says."
Luna sighed "There's no way you two can work it out is there?"
"No, I'm sorry."
"Maybe we should just go" Luna smiled weakly.
He took her hand and entwined their fingers together, walking towards the Great Hall.
Luna was lucky in the fact that Harry was nowhere to be seen for the majority of the party.
Draco had wanted to stay away from Hermione, but Luna had persuaded him to at least be civil, and by the tone of things just before midnight, he was just about enjoying himself.
"I still have no idea where Harry is" Hermione sighed "He's going to miss the countdown."
Draco scoffed, only to recieve a light elbow in the ribs from Luna.
"Draco please" Luna mumbled.
"Sorry it slipped out" he chuckled.
"My elbow will slip out again if you say anything else" she scolded, still whispering.
"Sorry to interrupt, but, the countdown's starting." Hermione awkwardly pointed out.
There wasn't many people in the hall, but that didn't stop the noise of people counting becoming almost deafening.
Draco stayed silent during the countdown, while Luna simply mouthed the numbers to him.
At the strike of midnight Draco pulled Luna into a kiss, earning them a smile from Hermione.
Their kiss was cut short as Hermione quickly shook Luna out of it and pointed out something the other side of the hall.
Harry. With his jaw on the floor.
Draco's P.O.V
Draco hadn't recieved too much hatred from Harry over his relationship with Luna, considering they both hated each other as much as two human beings could.
Though, after everybody had returned to school, Luna had thought it best if they went back to meeting in the shadows, for his sake.
Everything had been fine for the first couple of weeks. Until Slytherin house started to notice Draco's improved mood and weird acts of random kindness.
Draco was sitting in the common room, after having a late night meeting with Luna, fiddling with another letter he had recieved from his father.
They didn't seem to bother him much nowadays, he usually read them to Luna, which helped him feel better.
This time however, he was interrupted by a voice behind him.
"Draco, I still love you."