A/N: Hey guys! This chapter might not be 'that' bad. I'm not sure what's going to happen in it, so you'll have to be prepared to be surprised. I hope you enjoy, and does anyone know how to get their italics working? Do you have to have a fancy word processor or something? If you don't have to have one (which I don't - I have plain old MSFT Word) then would somebody please email me at dancing_raizins@yahoo.com to tell me how to fix it or whatever?

Thanks, and I hope you enjoy this chapter!

~Mia

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"Admit it, Harry. You're pining away for some girl," Ron said teasingly, poking Harry in the ribs.

Harry still couldn't believe what had happened last night. Malfoy had come in the room - was that /Draco/ Malfoy? Yeah, it was. Harry was in a state of shock. He turned around and saw that Mal - Draco was watching him. They locked gazes, and Draco was the one who turned away first. Harry let out a little shiver and wondered what Ma - Draco had meant of it. He couldn't get used to calling Malfoy 'Draco'...

"Harry? What's the matter?" Hermione said, holding her cup in the air with her pinky out. Harry turned his gaze to her.

"Hermione, why are you holding your cup like that?"

"What?" Hermione dropped the cup. It shattered on the floor, but through the sounds of everyone else laughing, eating, and talking, nobody noticed. She blushed and said, "Well, well, I, um..." Hermione sighed. "Ginny holds her cup like this now, so I thought..."

"Since when do you care what Ginny does?" Ron said, giving her a swift, piercing look.

"I, um," Hermione said faintly.

"Out with it, 'Mione!" said Harry good-naturedly.

A shadow fell over him. He looked up, and saw silver. Oh, not now, he thought, then Draco said, "Weasley and Granger are secretly seeing each other. I caught them in the empty Charms classroom having a snog session two days ago." He grinned at Ron to see what his reaction would be.

All the color was draining from Hermione's face. She looked around frantically, then said, "I gotta go to the li - "

"Oh, no you don't!" Ron said, dragging her back down. "And /when/ were you going to tell us about your little escapade?"

"It's all right, Ron," Harry said, shrugging.

Ron's mouth fell open. He was so shocked his jaw nearly hit the floor. "Harry - they're fucking /lesbian/!" he said in a low voice.

"No we are not," Hermione said in a prissy voice. "There's nothing wrong with liking girls instead of boys. Is there, Harry? And Malfoy - you can get lost now."

Draco put his hand on Harry's shoulder and began stroking his hair.

Harry shook him off, but Hermione and Ron didn't fail to notice. Ron's jaw opened even wider (if that was possible). "Oh, God," he moaned. "Not /you,/ too!" And with that, he sprawled out of his chair in a dead faint.

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"Ohmigod, Ginny, Malfoy found out!" Hermione said as she jogged over to Ginny, who was sitting calmly at a table in the library, studying. But as soon as she heard Hermione's voice, she looked up brightly - then she realized what Hermione was saying. Her face went whiter than a ghost's.

"But... but..." she whispered. "Now everyone's going to know!"

"And I have reason to believe that Harry and Malfoy are seeing each other!" Hermione said grimly. "Malfoy had his hand on Harry's /shoulder!/ Harry shook it off, but - "

"Probably Malfoy has a crush on him," Ginny said knowledgeably.

"You aren't - jealous?" Hermione asked her curiously.

Ginny shrugged. "I only liked Harry until I realized I was - /this/ way. You know." She looked meaningfully at Hermione, then continued. "That was three years ago." She took a deep breath. "I was so scared, Hermione! That's why I went to the dance with Neville. The Yule Ball, that is."

"Oh," Hermione said simply. "But, Ginny, what are we going to do? About - Malfoy! What is he... Do we ignore the rumors or..."

Ginny raised an eyebrow. "Just do what you did last year when everyone thought you and Harry had slept together."

Hermione blushed magnificently. Ginny looked scandalized. "You didn't really /do/ it, did you!?" she demanded.

"Well - no," Hermione admitted. "But we were seeing each other..."

"Why did you break up then?" Ginny demanded, letting out a low whistle.

"Um," said Hermione, "Ron caught us while we were kissing, and he got so mad, we got mad at each other, and then when we were all friends again, we were uncomfortable with kissing and stuff..."

Ginny nodded. It was a believable response; she knew Ron, and she definitely knew what he would do if he caught his two best friends in an 'intimate moment'!

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Harry walked out of the Great Hall, right into a mess of heat. He looked up and caught Draco's eye. "Was what happened yesterday real?" Harry said.

Draco looked confused. Harry let out his breath in a low hiss, then thought, It wasn't real, and here I was thinking it was all real - that Malfoy really had feelings for me...

"Oh, you mean what happened in your bed?"

Harry's head shot up.

"It was a dream. I had it, too. We're having the same dreams, Potter. Do you think that's funny?"

Harry shook his head vigorously. It was /embarrassing!/

"We could make it happen, Pot - Harry. I really... I never wanted to become a Death Eater. And now that my father's gone, my mother says I can do whatever I wanted. Did you know that he had me under the Imperius Curse most of the time, when I didn't even know it?"

"At Hogwarts? How could he do that? Wouldn't he have to keep an eye on you?" Harry asked. He was still being held up by the slightly taller Slytherin boy, and didn't notice as Draco actually picked him up (didn't cradle him though) and carried him to an empty classroom. Then he put his feet down on the ground.

"Death Eaters have their ways," he said simply, and then they locked gazes again. It seemed that fire sparked from their eyes, and just as Draco leaned forward to kiss Harry, the raven-haired boy shoved him away. A look of terror flitted over his face, then he whirled around and ran.

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A/N: Did you like it? Remember, feedback at dancing_raizins@yahoo.com or review!! Harry is very frightened. Hehe. Anyway, tell me what you think! It's appreciated! I must admit that I loooove reviews, but I won't stop writing just because nobody's reviewing. This story is way too fun to write for that! 'Kay, I'll see you guys later. Bye now!!

~Mia