The Night You Cried

By troubled pixie

Chapter 4

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A/N: yes another long wait... i think. sooo many thingz has been running through mai mind. I'll try to continue this, I'll TRY. I'll try to make this chapter longer...

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Maria followed her friend around the rest of the day. Her head was bowed most of the time, but suddenly popped up whenever they walked past Draco or when Draco was making snide comments about Harry. Her head would pop up whenever she heard Draco's name mentioned, or when she heard threats that sounded like something Draco would do.

"I think I'll go back to our dormitory..." Maria said, quietly to her friend.

Ginny nodded quickly. She was too busy giving Harry a tour of the school, even though Harry knew where everything was.

Maria walked slowly to the Gryffindor common room, until she was stopped by Draco.

"Hi." Draco said.

Maria smiled and tried to keep him away from the Gryffindor portrait. "Wobble duck." She quietly said.

"Wobble what?"

"Duck. Wobble duck."

"What kind of password is that?"

Maria laughed. "A Gryffindor password. I suppose your passwords are probably foul words, such as mudblood?"

"Actually, it is mudblood." He smiled.

Maria walked into the common room. She watched the portrait close the hole, but it did not.

"Why are you not closing?" she asked.

"That young boy seems to know the password. I don't close until everyone who says the password proceeds inside." The portrait said. She returned to her sleep and finally closed after Draco walked in.

"That portraits been a bit dumb lately. Go walk outside. I don't want to get in trouble for having a Slytherin, such as yourself, inside."

"Well that Slytherin chooses to stay here with that pretty young lady, such as yourself, he danced with during the Yule Ball."

Maria sighed and lead him behind a secret portrait hole.

"Why are we going here?"

"It's a secret spot... you can get in here from one of the portraits near the Slytherin dungeons."

"How do you know?"

She continued leading him through the secret portrait hallway into a nice, warm room with fire burning. There were a few couches in the center and a few shelves with jars full of sweets, enough to let you survive for years. (A/N: lol even tho itz bad fer yoo) "Dumbledore calls this the secret lovers lounge, while I call it the lounge where all hell breaks lose."

Draco slightly laughed. "You took me here because?"

"We can talk in here if you want... even though you probably won't like it, judging by the fact that I'm in Gryffindor."

"Something's changed... after we walked pass each other many times earlier... it's just changed."

"I certainly can't trust you anymore. Just go..." Maria walked back to the common room.

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Late at night...

Maria yawned. She walked down the steps to go sit by the fire to warm herself up. She felt a strange chill crawling up her spine everytime she slept for a few minutes. She stared at the portrait that hung next to the Girls' dormitry stairs. The frame had seemed to have glowing edges around the portrait. There was somebody in there. She walked inside the quiet hallway and heard a strange noise getting louder and louder as she approached the lounge. It was just Draco snoring. He lied on the couch and seemed to look like he was staring at the ceiling most of the time. She knudged him on the shoulder and pushed him off the couch to wake him up.

"Huh?" He said, sleepily.

"Why aren't you in your dormitory?" Maria asked.

"I couldn't sleep." Draco said.

Maria stared at the wood in the fireplace. "The fires been burning ever since the afternoon."

"Maybe because it's always on."

"No... it's because someone was in this room. The firewoods enchanted to burn when someone approaches the lounge or is IN the lounge."

"That's not true."

"Yes it is. I've been here more than you."

He helped himself sit up and down on the couch. "Well..."

"What's the real reason of why you're here?"

"I was..."

She sat there patiently waiting.

"Waiting for you..."

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A/N: prolly that was short 2 lol.... i was sooooooooo tired kant help but stoppin there... REVIEW please