Chapter 6

"Snobs and Dragons"

** "Run Jay-Lee! Run as far as you can go! I'll chase you to the ends of the earth if I have to! You can't run forever!" Draco was hissing these threats as he flew swiftly threw the air after the angel who seemed to be losing to him. "See you are already getting tired! What makes you think you can go on? YOU are too weak!" The being in front of him stopped suddenly in mid-air and turned to face him. "NO Draco! You are the weak one! You are letting your pride get in the way of what you really want! Only the weak hide behind their social status and pride! You can't let go of you Father's dream long enough to make your own a reality!" He began falling into bottomless hole. Falling, falling, falling...**

Draco sat straight up in bed. Sweat was poring down his face. His breath was uneven and his eyes whirled around the room searching for Jay-Lee. He soon realized that it had been a dream.

He wasn't a dragon and he wasn't really chasing Jay-Lee. There was no bottomless hole or anything dangerous near him. What surrounded him was worse--silence. Silence except for his mind which was screaming the words Jay-Lee had clearly spoken in his dream. Only the weak hide behind their social status and pride. He knew this was true. Every time someone threatened him he turned and reminded them of how 'high up' he was on the 'social ladder'. That wasn't what was confusing him. It was what she had said about his pride. He didn't hide behind his pride when it came to belittling others.

All at once it was like a light came on. She meant he was hiding from his feelings. He let his pride take over because he didn't want to show weakness. Weakness would shatter his pride. His father's pride for him too. It would throw away any chance of becoming what his father wanted him to become. You can't let go of your father's dream long enough to make your own a reality. This dream had stated it all too clearly. He wasn't living his life; he was allowing his father to live it for him.

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Jay-Lee splashed the cold water from the girl's dorm sink onto her flushed face. The dream she had just had nearly scared the life out of her. The only thing good was what she had said to Draco in it. "Does he really have feelings that he is hiding from me? I'm so tired of fighting. Just like he said in my dream. 'See you are already getting tired! What makes you think you can go on?'. He's right. I am tired. Why do I think I can keep on going?" Jay-Lee had never realized how much her "game" played with her own emotions. "I'll be all right. Shit I've had harder times than this. He has no feelings for me. I saw it in his eyes the other night. He doesn't have feelings for me because he doesn't have feelings at all!" It occurred to her that if he had no feelings then there was no point in trying to play on them. Shit. She was too tired to think.

Neither she nor Draco slept that night. They lay awake thinking of the dream that neither of them were aware they had shared together.

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"I'll kill you bitch! Watch what you say to me! What did you just say? NO, fuck you!! I think you need your snobby ass knocked off the 'social ladder' bitch! What? You little pussy you can't even come to my end of the hall to tell me that? That's ok I'll make it easy for you and I'll come down there! You just stand right where you are. I'm on my way!" Jay-Lee took off down the hall like a bull after a red flag. "Get your ass back here I'm not through with you! I swear your ass is MINE! OH you BITCH!" Pansy took off running. Jay-Lee ran after her. When she realized she couldn't find her she took a breath and looked around. Everyone was crammed in one little corridor watching wide-eyed. Luckily there was not a teacher in sight. That was strange because they were usually all over. Then she remembered the staff meeting they were attending.

"Jay-Lee! I thought you were going to kill her. Why didn't you just use your wand?" Questions were coming from everyone.

"Screw my wand! I'ma get her with my bare hands! She better watch her back!" Jay-Lee was saying this loud enough for Pansy to hopefully hear.

Everyone was used to Jay-Lee fighting with Pansy by now. It was the same thing week after week: Pansy would run her mouth, Jay-Lee would snap and take off after her. Pansy would run like hell.

This time was different though. Jay-Lee had been standing by Hermione talking about the Christmas party that was coming up when Pansy had began yelling at her from the other end of the rather long hall. Jay-Lee ignored her. Then Pansy did it. She insulted Jay-Lee's grandfather. Jay-Lee hadn't even heard the whole thing. She didn't care to hear it either.

"I still think you should 'kick' her off the 'social ladder' Jay-Lee! Hopefully she'll hit her head on a few of the lower rungs and realize her shit stinks too!" Fred was still fired up and ready to see them fight.

"I'll get her, soon enough. She's so stupid that she forgets we go to the same school. I'll show her what a real fight is and unlike her I back my talk up."

Everyone laughed and then started to clear away. Jay-Lee sighed and straightened her black skirt. It was cut at an angle, which went from above her knee on one side, to mid-thigh on the other. She had a red shirt that was low cut and safety pins up and down the sides. She stared down at her lace up black boots that came just below her knees. "I would have loved to kick her in the face with these." Jay-Lee laughed out loud while imagining Pansy getting a big mouthful of her boot. "That would teach her to shut up."

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Draco sat back and laughed as he heard a girl talking about how Jay-Lee almost killed Pansy. Then he half-listened to Pansy as she claimed Jay-Lee wouldn't come to her end of the hall to fight. Draco knew that was a lie. Jay-Lee had a red hot temper. Pansy obviously didn't realize what she had gotten herself into.