A/N: Thank you to everybody who reviewed^_^ It meant a lot to me knowing that you are reading my story:D
Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me. They all belong to the talented J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. people.
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Chapter Eight: "Will it Last?"
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I wonder how I ever make it through a day
How did I settle for the world in shades of gray
When you go in circles all the scenery looks the same
And you don't know why
And I looked into your eyes
Where the road stretched out in front of me
And I realized
I never lived
Before your love
I never felt
Before your touch
I never needed anyone
To make me feel alive
But then again
I wasn't really livin'
I never lived
Before your love
I wanted more than just an ordinary life
All of my dreams seemed like castles in the sky
I stand before you and my heart is in your hands
And I don't know how
I survived without your kiss
'Cuz you've given me a reason to exist
And I don't know why
Why the sun decides to shine
But you breathed your love into me just in time
I never lived
Before your love
--Kelly Clarkson's "Before Your Love "
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Ever since that night Draco and I have been seeing each other a lot. He laid off on being mean a bit.just a bit. But of course, he and I still fight. But only for fun and game.
"I got a confession to make." He whispered into my ears. I still have to tutor him Muggle Studies until he can increase his grade.
"What is it?" I tried my very best to concentrate on the book. But his sparkling eyes kept distracting me.
There were some students in the library today, so we got more studying done than usual.
"Remember a week ago? When we first started cleaning up Professor Sprout's office?" He pulled my chair toward him. I could tell that he was trying to scoop my body up on his laps, but I refused.
"Stooopppp We have to concentrate on studying. Break time comes later." I giggled. "Draco, we weren't exactly cleaning up. There wasn't anything to be clean up."
I was flipping through the 'No Magic Here' trying to avoid his body language. It was tough staying away from each other for so long. And now that we were together again, it was hard to separate us. There were couple of kids spying on us. There had been talks about him and I for quite a while now. However, we didn't really care, as long as we have each other.
"Well.yea, about that. Aummm, I was the one who planned it." His voice started to break off in a trail.
Without really noticing it I continued writing down my note. "Planned what?"
"You have to understand that I didn't know it was going to come out so well."
"Stop playing game and tell me what it is you're trying to say." I dropped my quill and shut the book. His words were getting interesting. My body turned toward his waiting for the acknowledgment.
To show his nervousness, Draco carefully rolled up his long sleeves. My curiosity was getting the best of me. I got really impatience with him when he started yanking on his silver and green tie.
"Spill Mr., I don't have time to watch you undress." I narrowed my eyes together and shake my head.
I think my word gave him the impression to try my patience. He got on top of the desk and threw off his cloak. His white shirt was slowly being undone. I was so embarrass and yet a little eager. The sniggering from girls in the library slapped me back to reality.
"Draco! Do you mind giving me a private dance?" A girl in her 7th year did a sexy walk for him.
"Oy! Sexy man! Can you please come over here for a minute?" Some petite blonde girl on the opposite side of the room gave Draco an invitation.
"Babe, my dormitory is empty right now. Why don't you get your hunky body to my room?" I heard a voice from some where.
I couldn't say that I was not jealous from all those eyes drawling on my guy. Their droolings weren't helping either.
Before he had the chance to throw off his shirt revealing the hard body I pull him off the table so he could stand up straight.
"Aaawwwwwwwwww. Some girl just wants to ruin it for the rest."
"What do you think you're doing!?" I screamed at him.
"Sorry ladies. I'm taken." He turned to them for a final word. To show them so, he gave me a kiss on my forehead.
"Sssshhhh." I buried my face into his chest while shaking my head in laughers.
He pulled my head up with his strong arms and gave me a quick kiss on the lips. Then smilingly dressed himself up again.
"Oh, come on Cho. Don't tell me you didn't enjoy that?" Draco got back in his seat.
I buried my head in my arms on the table. It was extremely hard to control my laughter.
Soon afterward I felt his arms around me. The stripper boy rested his head next to mine and whisper, "If you want a private show, just flick your wand and I'll be straight over."
I thrusted him away and said, "You filthy boy!"
But to be honest, it was quite funny. To show him that I was serious I went back to the subject where we were on. "What was it that you were going to tell me?"
The joking face vanished. "I.mmm.I got the permission slip from Snape so we could invade you guys' practice."
"What?" I couldn't make out what he was saying.
He raised up his voice a little, "I also knew that the two teams were going to start fighting. Professor Sprout's office was so close, and it was just perfect. But for some how you and I were assigned the same detention. Before you got to the room I used the Sweeptheo spell to clean the place up. That way we would get the chance to hang."
I-COULD-NOT-BELIEVE-HE-JUST-SAID-THAT! "WHAT!?" I got up from my chair so fast that I heard a crashing noise.
Draco soon too got up, he was trying me down. "Sorry, I just wanted.to, spend time with you."
My face was so red that it seem like I was an active volcano. "Do you have any idea how the detention and the fight will look on my record? And the point my house got deducted? For your silly little game."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. Yes, I planned it out, but I didn't know it was going to work out this good." He was too coward to look me into the eye.
"Good? Are you nut? Bad, Draco! Bad! Argh! I'm getting out of here. "
I started packing my books and materials. But Draco kept taking them out of my pag.
"Don't touch my stuff. I don't feel like playing your stupid game."
He blocked my way from leaving, "I'm sorry, please stay."
I gave him a hard kick in the-you-know-where and escaped.
I guess I was so mad that I couldn't think straight, because I walked into dead ends so many times .
"Aaarrrggghhh! How big is this freaking school?!"
I couldn't think right, and sure enough I couldn't even find my way to the dormitory.
"Ahoy partner!" Lucky Ariel came to my rescue. "Are you lost, my dear?"
She slipped her arm through mine and we started our walk.
"Wanna go for a walk?" She asked me. I sure needed one to clear my head. We went outside and enjoyed the great view of the castle and the sea surrounding.
"Are you nervous about the game?" We finally settled on the big rock out viewing the shimmered blue sea.
"No, not really. I want to kick some Slytherin butt!" I exclaimed.
"YEA! That's mine girl!" We gave each other a high five.
"Cho?" Ariel spoke.
"Mmm?" The outside was so calming. No one was out there except us.
"What's a macrocardia?"
How did she know about that? I look down upon her from the rock and tried not to give myself away, "No idea, why?" I played innocent.
"I heard Mr. Malfoy said something about it with with Draco." Ariel started twisting around her hair. She, of course, didn't seem to know what it was. If she did, she would have been paying more attention.
"Really? That's interesting. What is he doing here in Hogwarts? Do you remember the conversation?" Since she didn't seem to care, I had to play along.
"Well, I think Mr. Malfoy just came to see Draco in a rush today. I just saw him a while screaming at Draco. He said something like 'Do you know where it is at? It was on the train. We need to find it NOW! It is very important. Soon he'll come and get us, and I'll be powerful. But first we need the macrocardia. We must do what ever it takes to get it. Blah, blah, blah'. It was kind of boring. He kept on talking about the same thing over and over again. I couldn't care less, except I had to walk their way. So I had to hide behind the corner waiting for them to leave." Now she was playing with my hair. Ariel loved doing different crazy hair styles. I was her lab mouse. I didn't really like people to play with my hair, but I need to find some more information out from her.
"Wow, that was horrible that you had to stayed there for so long. What did Draco said about it?"
"He didn't seem to comprehend what language his father was speaking. It was kind of weird. The other one was yelling about some macrocardia, while the other didn't understand a word. Anyway, who cares? Look what I did to your hair. Aaawwww, you look so pretty." With a whish of her wand, Ariel gave me a mirror that she had summoned.
"Oh.yea, thanks Ariel. My hair sure looks good." No, it didn't. On the right side, my hair was lying flat against my scalp. While the other side was in a big bun. I have no idea what she was doing.
"OH GOSH! I'm sorry Cho, but I got to run. I got to.well, yea, I got to go." She got up in a hurry and was ready to get on her heels.
"Where are you going?" I was thinking of how to get my hair to its original place.
First Ariel tried to ignore my question, but I kept asking, "Where are you going?"
"Igatadatewitrogie"
"Pardon?" I lean my ear a little closer.
"I got a date with Roger." She finally spilled. Her face was redder than the Weasleys' hair.
"Roger David? Our captain Roger? Our Keeper Roger? The one that ate the left over cake? The cake that was sitting next to the spoiled milk for 2 weeks, Roger?" I couldn't help myself from laughing. Yes, I know it was bad for me to laugh at my best friend.
Ariel didn't seem happy about it, because she took off before I could gain my face's control.
"Wait. hahahaha..Ariel.I'm sorry." I was practical rolling on the grass from the amusement.
"Hey, Ariel! I saw two birds pooping on a cake by the tree over there! Maybe you should give that to him. But you have to wait for a while until the bacteria spread around the frosting. Hey! Promise me you won't have cake at the wedding!"
"Shut up Cho!" She shouted her last word to me before walking inside.
The next morning, there was a big commotion down in our common room. I didn't really care, but all the girls were making too much noise that I had to force myself downstairs.
"Could you all please shut your mouth? Some people are trying to get some rest here!" Ariel announced.
Her eyes were all fluffy, and she looked like she just had been attacked by 10 werewolves. There were some people that had to hauled themselves down the staircases, each of them looked like zombies.
"Aaawww, look at it. How cute."
"I know, I want one just like it."
"Who ever this belong to is one lucky person."
"Look! Look! It's clipping its hands. It can talk!"
"What is it?"
"Oh! I know what it is." Some guy by the corner spoke up. I think he was the first guy's voice I've heard so far. "It's a teddy bear. My neighbor got one that looks something like it."
"IT'S A BEAR!!?? IT'S GOING TO KILL US!
"RUN!"
I got knocked over by people that were trying to get far from it. The people that knew what a teddy bear was just started cracking up.
"You guys, it can't hurt you. It's like a stuffed toy or something like that." I told them. I knew about the teddy bear since my dad is a muggle.
"Oooooohhhh." Voices erupted around the common room.
"There's a card next to it." Jordan pointed out.
"Go look at it." Roger pushed Jordan forward.
"Why don't you go look at it!?" He backed off.
"C'mon, would someone please go look at it so we can get this over with." One prefect said.
"Fine! I'll go look at it. You crazy people." Roger went to grab up the white furry bear.
"I love you. I love you." The entire time he was holding it, that bear just kept on talking.
Girls were making the aaaaawwww sound. Roger took out the white little card that was cover in silk. The tag was just too gorgeous, and everybody was on their feet waiting to find out what expression was inside.
"Dear Cho," Everybody turned to look at me when they heard that. I couldn't imagine why someone would send me a teddy bear. All the faces turned back to Roger as he continued.
"I'm sorry for what I did. I know you must hate me right now, but I really need to speak to you. I hope I can still count on you in need. I don't know what will happen. Please meet me at our place.
Love, You-Know-Who"
"Cho! That is so sweet. Who's the guy?"
"It's Harry Potter isn't it? Isn't he?"
Everybody was giving me questions, but my head was blank. Why would Draco send me a muggle's gift? It was really risky on his part. If anyone found out, his reputation would go down the drain. It was really sweet of him.
"Ssooo, do you want this?" Roger shoved the bear into my arm. I just looked down at it and saw how beautiful the bear really was. It got beautiful white fur, with gorgeous blue eyes. There was a silver and blue ribbon tied around its neck. It was one beautiful female. She had on a dark blue and gray dress. Sort of weird.seeing a bear in a dress.
"What are you going to do Cho?" Ariel's voice interrupted my trail of though. I turned my shocked face toward her. Then I look down at the bear again.
I knew that I had to go to him. Whatever it was that he wanted to talk to me about it must had been important. Even though I was still mad at the boy, I had to be there for him. I handed the bear over to my best friend and walked out from the common room.
"Where are you going?"
"Hey!"
My fellow Ravenclaws didn't know how to react to my behavior, but I ignored them. I was going see Draco Malfoy.
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A/N: Kai- Thanks for telling me the mistake, I think I fixed it now.
Dragonfly- I feel so flatter that you love my story. Thanks for caring.
Aaawww, u guys reviews. Thank you so much to everybody! *hug*
Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me. They all belong to the talented J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. people.
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Chapter Eight: "Will it Last?"
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I wonder how I ever make it through a day
How did I settle for the world in shades of gray
When you go in circles all the scenery looks the same
And you don't know why
And I looked into your eyes
Where the road stretched out in front of me
And I realized
I never lived
Before your love
I never felt
Before your touch
I never needed anyone
To make me feel alive
But then again
I wasn't really livin'
I never lived
Before your love
I wanted more than just an ordinary life
All of my dreams seemed like castles in the sky
I stand before you and my heart is in your hands
And I don't know how
I survived without your kiss
'Cuz you've given me a reason to exist
And I don't know why
Why the sun decides to shine
But you breathed your love into me just in time
I never lived
Before your love
--Kelly Clarkson's "Before Your Love "
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Ever since that night Draco and I have been seeing each other a lot. He laid off on being mean a bit.just a bit. But of course, he and I still fight. But only for fun and game.
"I got a confession to make." He whispered into my ears. I still have to tutor him Muggle Studies until he can increase his grade.
"What is it?" I tried my very best to concentrate on the book. But his sparkling eyes kept distracting me.
There were some students in the library today, so we got more studying done than usual.
"Remember a week ago? When we first started cleaning up Professor Sprout's office?" He pulled my chair toward him. I could tell that he was trying to scoop my body up on his laps, but I refused.
"Stooopppp We have to concentrate on studying. Break time comes later." I giggled. "Draco, we weren't exactly cleaning up. There wasn't anything to be clean up."
I was flipping through the 'No Magic Here' trying to avoid his body language. It was tough staying away from each other for so long. And now that we were together again, it was hard to separate us. There were couple of kids spying on us. There had been talks about him and I for quite a while now. However, we didn't really care, as long as we have each other.
"Well.yea, about that. Aummm, I was the one who planned it." His voice started to break off in a trail.
Without really noticing it I continued writing down my note. "Planned what?"
"You have to understand that I didn't know it was going to come out so well."
"Stop playing game and tell me what it is you're trying to say." I dropped my quill and shut the book. His words were getting interesting. My body turned toward his waiting for the acknowledgment.
To show his nervousness, Draco carefully rolled up his long sleeves. My curiosity was getting the best of me. I got really impatience with him when he started yanking on his silver and green tie.
"Spill Mr., I don't have time to watch you undress." I narrowed my eyes together and shake my head.
I think my word gave him the impression to try my patience. He got on top of the desk and threw off his cloak. His white shirt was slowly being undone. I was so embarrass and yet a little eager. The sniggering from girls in the library slapped me back to reality.
"Draco! Do you mind giving me a private dance?" A girl in her 7th year did a sexy walk for him.
"Oy! Sexy man! Can you please come over here for a minute?" Some petite blonde girl on the opposite side of the room gave Draco an invitation.
"Babe, my dormitory is empty right now. Why don't you get your hunky body to my room?" I heard a voice from some where.
I couldn't say that I was not jealous from all those eyes drawling on my guy. Their droolings weren't helping either.
Before he had the chance to throw off his shirt revealing the hard body I pull him off the table so he could stand up straight.
"Aaawwwwwwwwww. Some girl just wants to ruin it for the rest."
"What do you think you're doing!?" I screamed at him.
"Sorry ladies. I'm taken." He turned to them for a final word. To show them so, he gave me a kiss on my forehead.
"Sssshhhh." I buried my face into his chest while shaking my head in laughers.
He pulled my head up with his strong arms and gave me a quick kiss on the lips. Then smilingly dressed himself up again.
"Oh, come on Cho. Don't tell me you didn't enjoy that?" Draco got back in his seat.
I buried my head in my arms on the table. It was extremely hard to control my laughter.
Soon afterward I felt his arms around me. The stripper boy rested his head next to mine and whisper, "If you want a private show, just flick your wand and I'll be straight over."
I thrusted him away and said, "You filthy boy!"
But to be honest, it was quite funny. To show him that I was serious I went back to the subject where we were on. "What was it that you were going to tell me?"
The joking face vanished. "I.mmm.I got the permission slip from Snape so we could invade you guys' practice."
"What?" I couldn't make out what he was saying.
He raised up his voice a little, "I also knew that the two teams were going to start fighting. Professor Sprout's office was so close, and it was just perfect. But for some how you and I were assigned the same detention. Before you got to the room I used the Sweeptheo spell to clean the place up. That way we would get the chance to hang."
I-COULD-NOT-BELIEVE-HE-JUST-SAID-THAT! "WHAT!?" I got up from my chair so fast that I heard a crashing noise.
Draco soon too got up, he was trying me down. "Sorry, I just wanted.to, spend time with you."
My face was so red that it seem like I was an active volcano. "Do you have any idea how the detention and the fight will look on my record? And the point my house got deducted? For your silly little game."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. Yes, I planned it out, but I didn't know it was going to work out this good." He was too coward to look me into the eye.
"Good? Are you nut? Bad, Draco! Bad! Argh! I'm getting out of here. "
I started packing my books and materials. But Draco kept taking them out of my pag.
"Don't touch my stuff. I don't feel like playing your stupid game."
He blocked my way from leaving, "I'm sorry, please stay."
I gave him a hard kick in the-you-know-where and escaped.
I guess I was so mad that I couldn't think straight, because I walked into dead ends so many times .
"Aaarrrggghhh! How big is this freaking school?!"
I couldn't think right, and sure enough I couldn't even find my way to the dormitory.
"Ahoy partner!" Lucky Ariel came to my rescue. "Are you lost, my dear?"
She slipped her arm through mine and we started our walk.
"Wanna go for a walk?" She asked me. I sure needed one to clear my head. We went outside and enjoyed the great view of the castle and the sea surrounding.
"Are you nervous about the game?" We finally settled on the big rock out viewing the shimmered blue sea.
"No, not really. I want to kick some Slytherin butt!" I exclaimed.
"YEA! That's mine girl!" We gave each other a high five.
"Cho?" Ariel spoke.
"Mmm?" The outside was so calming. No one was out there except us.
"What's a macrocardia?"
How did she know about that? I look down upon her from the rock and tried not to give myself away, "No idea, why?" I played innocent.
"I heard Mr. Malfoy said something about it with with Draco." Ariel started twisting around her hair. She, of course, didn't seem to know what it was. If she did, she would have been paying more attention.
"Really? That's interesting. What is he doing here in Hogwarts? Do you remember the conversation?" Since she didn't seem to care, I had to play along.
"Well, I think Mr. Malfoy just came to see Draco in a rush today. I just saw him a while screaming at Draco. He said something like 'Do you know where it is at? It was on the train. We need to find it NOW! It is very important. Soon he'll come and get us, and I'll be powerful. But first we need the macrocardia. We must do what ever it takes to get it. Blah, blah, blah'. It was kind of boring. He kept on talking about the same thing over and over again. I couldn't care less, except I had to walk their way. So I had to hide behind the corner waiting for them to leave." Now she was playing with my hair. Ariel loved doing different crazy hair styles. I was her lab mouse. I didn't really like people to play with my hair, but I need to find some more information out from her.
"Wow, that was horrible that you had to stayed there for so long. What did Draco said about it?"
"He didn't seem to comprehend what language his father was speaking. It was kind of weird. The other one was yelling about some macrocardia, while the other didn't understand a word. Anyway, who cares? Look what I did to your hair. Aaawwww, you look so pretty." With a whish of her wand, Ariel gave me a mirror that she had summoned.
"Oh.yea, thanks Ariel. My hair sure looks good." No, it didn't. On the right side, my hair was lying flat against my scalp. While the other side was in a big bun. I have no idea what she was doing.
"OH GOSH! I'm sorry Cho, but I got to run. I got to.well, yea, I got to go." She got up in a hurry and was ready to get on her heels.
"Where are you going?" I was thinking of how to get my hair to its original place.
First Ariel tried to ignore my question, but I kept asking, "Where are you going?"
"Igatadatewitrogie"
"Pardon?" I lean my ear a little closer.
"I got a date with Roger." She finally spilled. Her face was redder than the Weasleys' hair.
"Roger David? Our captain Roger? Our Keeper Roger? The one that ate the left over cake? The cake that was sitting next to the spoiled milk for 2 weeks, Roger?" I couldn't help myself from laughing. Yes, I know it was bad for me to laugh at my best friend.
Ariel didn't seem happy about it, because she took off before I could gain my face's control.
"Wait. hahahaha..Ariel.I'm sorry." I was practical rolling on the grass from the amusement.
"Hey, Ariel! I saw two birds pooping on a cake by the tree over there! Maybe you should give that to him. But you have to wait for a while until the bacteria spread around the frosting. Hey! Promise me you won't have cake at the wedding!"
"Shut up Cho!" She shouted her last word to me before walking inside.
The next morning, there was a big commotion down in our common room. I didn't really care, but all the girls were making too much noise that I had to force myself downstairs.
"Could you all please shut your mouth? Some people are trying to get some rest here!" Ariel announced.
Her eyes were all fluffy, and she looked like she just had been attacked by 10 werewolves. There were some people that had to hauled themselves down the staircases, each of them looked like zombies.
"Aaawww, look at it. How cute."
"I know, I want one just like it."
"Who ever this belong to is one lucky person."
"Look! Look! It's clipping its hands. It can talk!"
"What is it?"
"Oh! I know what it is." Some guy by the corner spoke up. I think he was the first guy's voice I've heard so far. "It's a teddy bear. My neighbor got one that looks something like it."
"IT'S A BEAR!!?? IT'S GOING TO KILL US!
"RUN!"
I got knocked over by people that were trying to get far from it. The people that knew what a teddy bear was just started cracking up.
"You guys, it can't hurt you. It's like a stuffed toy or something like that." I told them. I knew about the teddy bear since my dad is a muggle.
"Oooooohhhh." Voices erupted around the common room.
"There's a card next to it." Jordan pointed out.
"Go look at it." Roger pushed Jordan forward.
"Why don't you go look at it!?" He backed off.
"C'mon, would someone please go look at it so we can get this over with." One prefect said.
"Fine! I'll go look at it. You crazy people." Roger went to grab up the white furry bear.
"I love you. I love you." The entire time he was holding it, that bear just kept on talking.
Girls were making the aaaaawwww sound. Roger took out the white little card that was cover in silk. The tag was just too gorgeous, and everybody was on their feet waiting to find out what expression was inside.
"Dear Cho," Everybody turned to look at me when they heard that. I couldn't imagine why someone would send me a teddy bear. All the faces turned back to Roger as he continued.
"I'm sorry for what I did. I know you must hate me right now, but I really need to speak to you. I hope I can still count on you in need. I don't know what will happen. Please meet me at our place.
Love, You-Know-Who"
"Cho! That is so sweet. Who's the guy?"
"It's Harry Potter isn't it? Isn't he?"
Everybody was giving me questions, but my head was blank. Why would Draco send me a muggle's gift? It was really risky on his part. If anyone found out, his reputation would go down the drain. It was really sweet of him.
"Ssooo, do you want this?" Roger shoved the bear into my arm. I just looked down at it and saw how beautiful the bear really was. It got beautiful white fur, with gorgeous blue eyes. There was a silver and blue ribbon tied around its neck. It was one beautiful female. She had on a dark blue and gray dress. Sort of weird.seeing a bear in a dress.
"What are you going to do Cho?" Ariel's voice interrupted my trail of though. I turned my shocked face toward her. Then I look down at the bear again.
I knew that I had to go to him. Whatever it was that he wanted to talk to me about it must had been important. Even though I was still mad at the boy, I had to be there for him. I handed the bear over to my best friend and walked out from the common room.
"Where are you going?"
"Hey!"
My fellow Ravenclaws didn't know how to react to my behavior, but I ignored them. I was going see Draco Malfoy.
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A/N: Kai- Thanks for telling me the mistake, I think I fixed it now.
Dragonfly- I feel so flatter that you love my story. Thanks for caring.
Aaawww, u guys reviews. Thank you so much to everybody! *hug*