A/N: Here it is, the next chapter. It's going to be longer since chapter 8 was so short. In the chapters, the characters seem to be fighting with there conscience. (~) is the character and (*) is there conscience. It's that way in chapter 8 too.

Chapter 9: "Naked Lies"

Last Time: Draco went to return Jamie's books to her. She ignored him the whole time. She felt bad for what she did so she sent him a little note. Crabbe and Goyle want to know what's going on between him and Jamie, but he insists nothing. Someone was listening to the whole conversation between Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle.

The next day Jamie woke up. The first moments of consciousness were the worst as yesterdays' events came rushing back. Then finally last night came rushing back. Claudia was coming out of the bathroom already dressed. Jamie let out a sigh and checked to see what time it was.

"Claud," she said drowsily "It's 6:30, what are you doing up?"

"Oh, hey Jamie. I was going to watch Harry practice Quidditch. You know the match is today."

"Yeah, so is my damn detention. What if the match is not over yet? I mean Malfoy is the seeker and how is he going to serve his detention. McGonagall just assumes that it will be over by then."

"Well, leave it to Harry to make the most exciting match also the shortest."

"Right." Jamie grinned at Claudia. "Harry yo man."

"Whatever. You want to come?"

"No thanks, even though you woke me up. I'll get up in a bit and go to breakfast. I don't feel like watching you two snog on a broom."

"You know you want to watch." Claudia smirked.

"Sorry Claud, I'm not a pervert."

Claudia threw a pillow at Jamie.

"Hey! Physical violence is another form of attraction."

"Now who's the pervert?" Jamie laughed as Claudia left. The other roommates were well asleep. Jamie got up and went to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror.

"Another day, another detention." She quickly got into the shower.

Claudia practically ran to the Quidditch field. She spotted Harry on his Firebolt flying in the air. The sun was just rising and Claudia could just see his black silhouette as he performed difficult moves. She stood there just watching him before he finally noticed she was there.

"Claudia!" He landed a few feet from her and ran the rest to give her a good morning kiss.

"Hey Harry. How's your practice going?"

"Not bad. Want to join me?"

"Sure, I'll go get a broom." Harry grabbed her hand as she turned to go to the broom shed.

"Oh no, who said anything about another broom. You said you wanted to join me. Join me on my broom." Harry smirked. Claudia smiled.

"Okay, but I get to sit in the front."

"Sure." Claudia held out her hand and Harry put his broom in her hand.

"Thank you." As Harry got on behind Claudia turned around towards him.

"Oh, and sorry if we die." Claudia winked.

"Hey what is that suppose to meannnnnnnnn!" Harry yelled as they suddenly left the ground at full force.

Claudia grinned and turned around to him. His glasses and hair were askew.

"Maybe you should put your arms around me so you won't fall." Harry obeyed. He leaned in and kissed Claudia's neck.

"You fly good. Why aren't you on the team?"

"Because thats about the only thing I can do, fly. I can't maneuver or anything. Jamie is a good player though." Harry laughed. Claudia turned to him again.

"Don't make fun of my disabilities." She grinned back.

The morning sunlight was now peeping in the dormitory. Draco was in the bathroom taking a shower. Crabbe and Goyle were still fast asleep because of the loud snoring that even the shower couldn't drown out.

"Ahhh." The hot water ran down his body. The only good thing about being in a common room as low as the dungeons was the water pressure. When he finished he stepped out of the shower.

"PANSY!!" Pansy was leaning in the doorway to the bathroom very much liking what she saw. Draco, already flushed from the hot water, turned even pinker with embarrassment. He quickly reached for the towel and wrapped it around him. The damage was already done though.

"I- I'm naked! Get out!"

Pansy smirked. She was already dressed in her robes and ready for the day.

"Oh you shouldn't over exert yourself Drac. You'll give yourself an erection. And from what I see, that towel is too thin to hide anything."

Draco was fuming with fury and humiliation. Only Pansy could have caused this. He took his wand of the counter. He pointed it at Pansy and she froze where she stood. Draco was surly going to hex her now. He moved his wand in a quick horizontal motion and the door slammed straight in Pansy's face making a loud noise. She was happy that he didn't hex her but, but still annoyed he had shut her out.

"See you at breakfast Drac!" Pansy left the room.

"Stop calling me…DRAC!" By now, everyone in the dorm room was awake, but unlike most people, they were used to Draco and Pansy's morning scuffles, so they quickly dosed off again. Pansy spotted something on his dresser. She just glanced then turned away.

Jamie got out of the shower and put in her one chopstick.

"Oh well. I'll use a duplicating potion later if I can't find the other."

Claudia had not come back yet and people were still asleep. Jamie made her way down to breakfast. No Gryffindors or Slytherins were there. There was only one Hufflepuff and two Ravenclaws. Jamie sat down by herself at the Gryffindor table. She told her plate what she wanted.

"Eggs, toast, sausage, and a screwdriver. No make that two, I need it." A screwdriver was orange juice with vodka in it. As usual it didn't show. Jamie had ordered it many times and it would never show. She just got plain orange juice.

"Well, it was worth a try."

Draco hurriedly got dressed and ran to his dresser and grabbed something. He would need it later on. He grinned at the object and left for breakfast. His hunger over powered his objections to seeing Pansy. Draco saw Pansy at the bottom of the steps waiting for him. He simply ignored her and kept walking.

"Are you still on about that. That was so '5 minutes' ago. Get over it Drac."

"Do not call me that. You got a lot of nerve. Why don't you just give up? You're never

going to get me." Draco grinned at the face she made.

"Whoever said 'I' wanted 'you'? You think too much of yourself. You disgust me."

"Yeah, but my body doesn't, the way you was ogling over it."

"Bastard."

"Bitch."

"What's that?" She was eyeing the thing in his hand.

"None of your bloody business."

"It looks like-

As Jamie drank from her goblet, Draco walked in, followed by Pansy. She was grinning and moved her eyes toward Jamie. She waved at her, Jamie, a little confused, waved back. As Draco strutted in, with that 'I'm Malfoy, worship me' walk, which was damn sexy, he turned around. Him and Jamie made eye contact. He then looked at her hair and grinned. His eyes moved to what was twirling in his hand. Jamie followed his eyes. He was twirling her chopstick. Jamie's eyes widened in surprised then quickly narrowed as she glared at him as if saying 'You stupid git, you took it!'. He performed that famous smirk and winked at her. Jamie's eyes just simply started, expressionless. Draco turned back around and kept walking. Pansy witnessed the whole thing. That's what that thing was. She was right. It looked like Jamie's chop stick.

Pansy then looked at her hair and noticed that she only had one chop stick in her hair.

'I hate this game that they play with each other.'

Jamie sat back and folded her arms over her chest.

~I need that chopstick back

*He's not just going to give it to you.

~Look at him, he's looking at me as if saying 'Come get it, if your brave enough'

*You sure when he say's that, he's talking about the chopstick?

~Oh, shut up! After all that crap last night, I actually said thank you. I should have stuck with my first thought that just simply said 'Fuck him'

*You want to, yes

~Oh gods, fuck off, that's not what I meant. Why is Pansy walking over here?

Pansy had gotten up from sitting next to Draco and walked over to Jamie. She stopped in front of Jamie. 'Oh god, what is she up to now?' Draco thought.

'She's too much of a competition. She won't simply back off if I threaten her. She would probably kick my ass. Time to improvise.' Pansy thought.

"Can I help you?" Jamie asked her still leaning back. Pansy sat down right in front of her. The few people in the Hall was all looking, especially Draco.

"As a matter of fact you can. Do you like Draco?"

"What?!" 'Oh gods, what s that slut telling her' Draco thought. He stopped twirling the chopstick and was now intently concentrated on what Pansy and Jamie was doing.

"It's a simple question. Just answer it."

'She puts it so frankly. 'Hi, want to fuck Draco?' She's an idiot' Jamie thought.

"I don't have to answer anything. Besides, even if I did, it's none of your business." Jamie smirked.

Draco noticed. It was like he was on the sidelines rooting for Jamie, looking at both of the opponents' facial expressions to see who was winning. 'Go Jamie, I mean Peters' he thought. Pansy got annoyed and just kept talking.

"I just wanted to know."

"Why? What's it to you. Oh, and for further reference, I don't like him. So you can have him or throw yourself at him, or whatever it is you do." Pansy turned red.

"I do NOT throw myself at him." Jamie sighed.

"Sure, I belive you."

"I wanted to know, because as a fellow student and female I must tell you."

"Tell me what?"

"Well, Draco isn't like that."

"Like what?"

"Well, it's only the truth. I mean, I would know since I'm his best friend."

"That's hard to belive but whatever. So what were you saying? Like what?" 'Uh oh, Jamie's losing. What is Pansy telling her?' Draco thought again.

"Well- Pansy beckoned Jamie forward and Jamie leaned in. Pansy whispered something in her ear. Jamie's eyes brightened up in shock.

"Why should I believe you?" Jamie asked.

"Because, unlike you, I've seen him in action." Jamie ran out of the Hall with lightening speed. Pansy smiled and walked back to the Slytherin table.

"What did you tell her?" Draco asked preparing for the worst.

"Remember Drac, you don't like her. Why should you care?"

"If you said anything about me, I SHOULD care! Now what did you tell her?"

"Now, I never said it was about you." Pansy got up and started to walk out when Jamie walked back in. Tears in her eyes.

Draco looked at her.

"Parkinson! What the bloody hell did you tell her?"

"Bye Drac." After Pansy left Claudia and Harry walked in and sat in front of Jamie blocking her from Draco's view.

'Was Jamie crying?' He thought.

"Hey guys! How was the practice?" Jamie asked smiling.

"It was great. Jamie, you have tears in your eyes. Is it because of Malfoy?" Claudia whispered to Jamie. Jamie laughed.

"You could say that."

All day Draco was interrogating Pansy about the conversation she had with Jamie. Of course Pansy wouldn't tell.

'What could be so bad that could make Jamie cry. The only time I saw her cry was when…It was because of me.' Draco finally decided that he would ask Jamie in Potions class.

Potion class finally rolled around. Everybody was tense around Draco and Jamie after what happened yesterday. They didn't know that Jamie and Draco came to some kind of silent apology.

Everyone sat by his or her respective partners, Claudia and Harry with complete satisfaction. Everyone was in the class and sitting down except Jamie, she hadn't came yet. Draco took out the chopstick and started twirling it in his fingers.

~Where is she?

*Why Draco, was that a little concern in your voice?

~How could it be, I wasn't even talking, I'm thinking. Damn, my conscience is starting to

sound like Jamie

*And how much you love it

~Ha!

Jamie finally rolled in. Everyone went silent. Draco looked up at the door and saw Jamie. She spotted him and tried to restrain a laugh. It ended up coming out as a smile, which everyone saw. She then saw the chopstick and narrowed her eyes. She took her seat next to him. The class was uncomfortably silent. Jamie couldn't take it anymore. Claudia quickly realized this happened at the table at dinner and started talking to Harry. Everyone else caught on quickly.

They all had potions class 3 days in a row because if the so-called importance of the potion they were making. They needed much practice on it. Jamie started taking stuff out of her bag and placing it in front of them. Draco had returned all the notes she had taken too. She felt a pair of eyes on her and looked up at Draco.

"Yes?" She was still fumbling with stuff in her bag.

"I'll wait until your done." Jamie eyed him and finally got what she was looking for in her bag, a folded sheet of paper.

"I'm done, what do you want?"

"What did Parkinson tell you this morning?" Pansy was well away and couldn't here their conversation, but she had a feeling what it was about.

Jamie started to smile.

"Would you stop smiling and tell me?"

"If you give me back my chopstick and answer all of my questions, honestly." Jamie smiled. "Oh, and you have to ask me nicely. Deal?" Draco put the chopstick in his robe and folded his arms. Jamie took the hint and shrugged. Draco gave in.

"That's all I have to do?"

"Yup."

"What are the questions?"

"First, why did you return my stuff back to me?"

"Because we are working together on this project and to leave it there would have put my grade in jeopardy because you seem to have taken ALL the notes."

"Reasonable enough. Next question. How did you get the password for the common room?" Draco raised his eyebrows.

"I have my ways." Jamie kept looking at him. "Okay, I overheard Neville say it."

"Okay. Why did you take me chopstick?" The honest reason was because he didn't want them to end there with Jamie just ignoring him. So he took something that would keep Jamie in reach.

"Just to bother you." Jamie gave him an evil look. "It's working by the looks of it too." Draco smirked.

"You ARE a true bastard."

"It's a living. Anymore of your worthless questions?"

"Just one. Do you like Parkinson in that way?" Draco instantly grinned.

"What's it to you? Are you jealous?"

"Please. I don't obsess over guys who are obsessed with themselves."

"Get over yourself."

"Yeah whatever. I've heard that ONE before." Draco was about to respond when Snape walked in.

"You know what to do." Snape said. Draco and Jamie were the only ones who got to work. Jamie kept her voice down.

"Are you going to answer my question or not?"

"Is it that important?"

"I would say so."

"Fine then. No I don't like her."

"Oh. I don't see what Parkinson's so worried about then." Jamie said this more to herself then Draco.

"Worried about what? Would you please tell me what Parkinson said? I kept my part of the deal, tell me." Jamie smiled at him.

"Well, since you asked so nicely. I will tell you, I never said when." Jamie saw the look on his face. "Okay, I'll tell you now, why do you want to know so bad anyway?"

"Be-Because I saw you crying." Draco blushed but kept steady eye contact with Jamie. Jamie burst up laughing. This was really getting on his nerves. He waited for her to finish.

Snape took that time to walk over to them. "Peters, minus 5 points for interrupting my class." Jamie stopped and looked at Snape. "Your class would need to be doing something to be interrupted." Indeed the class was not working.

"Minus 5 more for talking back to a teacher!"

"But- Jamie was cut off by Claudia whispering "Jamie, just stop." Jamie looked at Snape.

"Yes professor."

Draco nudged Jamie so that they can continue their conversation.

"Malfoy, I wasn't crying. I was laughing. After what Parkinson told me, I went outside to laugh my ass off. But thanks for being so concerned."

"Your welcome. Now what did Pansy tell you?"

"That you were gay." Jamie smiled. Draco jumped out of his chair like he sat on one of Hagrid's blast ended screwiest.

"WHAT!?" The whole class turned.

"Mr. Malfoy! Please take your seat." Snape added reluctantly "5 points from Slytherin. You and Peters obviously need new partners. Ms. Chase, you w-

Jamie cut him off.

"I promise professor it won't happen again."

"Very well. You will not get away so easily if it happens again."

"Yes professor." As Snape turned Claudia mouthed a 'thank you' to Jamie. Jamie grinned back.

~Claudia didn't deserve to be split up with Harry

*You did that so you could stay with Malfoy

Jamie didn't even want to fight that comment. Pansy knew what got a rise out of Draco.

"You didn't belive her…did you?" Draco whispered to Jamie. Wow, he sounds different when he whispers.

"No, that's why I went to go laugh. She obviously loves you and she thinks I'm trying to steal you away from her. Funny how she would think that." Jamie smirked. Draco came to find he liked that smirk more and more.

"She will pay for this."

"She's only obsessed with you, nothing bad."

"Nothing bad? How many girls do you think she told that to that believed her? You're the only one who would have enough sense not to."

"My, Malfoy, was that a compliment?"

"You don't know how to take a compliment when you here on, do you?"

"Nope, and I shall never learn."

Snape had told them to continue working on their potions based on the notes that they had. He also told them that the potion is very hard to remove from cloth and fabric when not completed. You would need a special potion for that. Hair, was another story.

"Chop the bowtruckle bark thinner Ms. Peters."

"I can't, the knife is to dull."

"Well, then chop harder." Snape walked off to go nag some other student.

"That git, he knows the bloody knife is dull." Draco started laughing.

"You know, chopping is always considered, but smashing it into the table is much more amusing." Jamie gave him a look that could kill. She was doing all the work. He grabbed her hand and guided her with the knife.

"Here do it this way. At least you'll get through the bark." Draco was cutting as if the knife was razor sharp. Pansy was looking at everything, fury rising in her veins. Draco finally took his hand off of Jamie's. Jamie was annoyed that he could do it so simply, but did like the physical contact. Jamie raised the knife and brought it back to the table with such force that the piece she chopped flew into the air and landed on Snape's turned back. It didn't fall off either. Jamie and Draco burst up laughing. That took Pansy to the edge.

"Mr. Malfoy and Ms. Peters 50 points each!" Jamie and Draco kept laughing.

"Sorry professor." They said in unison. He turned back around and the bark was still on his robes. No one seemed to notice but Jamie, Draco, and Pansy.

'That whore!' She thought as she threw ingredients in her cauldron. Crabbe, her partner, was trying to get her attention. She accidentally threw the wrong ingredients in her cauldron and the next thing that happened was that it exploded. The contents went flying and so did the cauldron. It got all over the students' clothes, including Jamie and Draco's. The cauldron landed on Harry's wrist braking it instantly.

"Whose cauldron was that?" Snape yelled. Pansy raised her hand.

"Minus 20 points." There were groans of disagreement as Snape only took 20 points away. Snape then walked over to Harry and looked at his right wrist.

"It's broken. Ms. Chase, take Potter to the infirmary. Everyone else, come to my desk so that I can get the potion out of your robes." Everyone quickly moved to the desk. Jamie turned to Draco. He got a streak of the potion in his hair. Jamie laughed.

"What?" She took the streak of hair and pulled it down in front of his eyes. It was pretty long, and…silky. "Oh my god."

Draco was now sporting a nice streak of pink hair.

"Nice hair." Jamie winked.

"That is not funny." Draco started pulling on it to see how far it went.

"Its goes all the way to the root." She told him still smiling.

"It's pink!" Jamie took out her wand and pointed it at his hair. "That won't work. You heard what Professor Snape said. I'm doomed."

"Oh stop being such a drama queen Malfoy. It's just hair. Oh I forgot, you rank your appearance on everything." Jamie mumbled a spell. What used to be pink was now green. "He never said anything about changing the color."

Draco looked at his hair; it did look much better green than pink.

"Look on the bright side, at least you're sporting Slytherin pride." Jamie smiled. Draco smiled to.

"Looks like you are to."

"What!" Draco, surprisingly, took out Jamie's one chopstick and pulled the strains of hair to the front of her face. It went through the whole length of her hair, like it spread all the way to the root. Hers was purple.

"Come on, what happened to all that 'it's just hair'?"

"Eww, I hate purple!" Draco took out his wand.

"What color do you want it?"

"I don't care, just not purple- Draco grinned and Jamie quickly added- or pink!" Draco mumbled the spell. It turned silver. Jamie looked at it.

"I could get used to it." Jamie swore she heard Draco say 'me too' as they went to the front of the class to get the potion out of there robes. No body witnessed this between them except Pansy. She glared at Jamie. Jamie noticed something out of line.

"Malfoy, give me my chop sticks." He gave her one.

"Both of them." He sighed and gave her the other.

"Thank you." She put her hair back up in chopstick, the silver streak hanging at the side of her face. Draco still had his green streak hanging out too. He would curse if he saw the way his hair was out of order. But it looked very sexy. Draco thought Jamie's hair looked much better down, way better.

~Wow, Malfoy's attitude has really changed

*Aren't you lucky

~I guess. Am I the only one who sees this side of him?

*Yup, and that's not all you will see

~What's that suppose to mean?

"Malfoy and Peters, I see you got potion in your hair. Well there is nothing I can do about that. It will come out in due time."

"How long is due time?" Draco asked.

"Depends on what ingredient Parkinson put in the potion. She doesn't even know." Snape responded.

Claudia and Harry came back. Harry's wrist was still a bit swollen.

"What the hell did yaw do to yaw hair?!" Claudia asked. Draco rolled his eyes.

"Claudia, such language." Jamie smiled. "The potion got in it. We couldn't get it out so we changed the colors."

"What color was it before."

"You don't want to know." Draco responded. Jamie grinned.

"Harry how's your wrist?" Jamie asked. Draco turned around realizing he wasn't in this conversation, but he heard it none the less.

"Madam Pompfrey said I couldn't play Quidditch."

"That's horrible. I guess the match will be postponed then."

"This is the last day of good weather for at least a month."

"So, then play next month."

"Why don't you play for him Jamie?" Claudia said. Draco was listening closer. 'Jamie plays Quidditch?'

"Oh no no no. I can't do that."

"Why?" Harry and Claudia injected at the same time. The whole class was listening now, even though Snape had already dismissed the class.

"Because I can't. Besides, Harry is unbeatable and the youngest seeker in a century. I don't want to break our winning streak. I don't even play well."

"Come on Jamie, you know that's a damn lie. Please?" Claudia tried to give her puppy eyes.

"Oh come on Claud, don't do that to me. You to Harry. Whose robes and broom will I use?"

"Harry's of course."

"Come on Claudia we can't force her. If she doesn't want to play, she might not play well at all." Harry whispered to her. He wanted Jamie to play, but didn't want to force her. Jamie over heard. There was a moment of silence.

"You know what." Jamie said. "I will do it." There was a loud 'yeahhh!' from all the Gryffindors. Jamie didn't even know they were listening. Draco heard the entire conversation. Jamie turned around and saw Draco leaving the room.

'I just realized I'll be going against Draco.'

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Well there is that chapter, review dammit, lol. I noticed that chapter is going into the rated "R" range due to the language, and I wouldn't like it any other way.