Chapter 4

~~~~~The Fear~~~~~

As I looked at Ron and saw that he put the key away in his pocket, I wondered what would happen next. He came towards me and all I could do was remember Draco's words of how Ron was a violent person.

"What are you doing?", I said to Ron. And all he could do was look at me. He reached towards me and I started to panic. I was expecting the worst to happen to me.

All I could do was wait and see what would happen, but as his hand almost reached my face I closed my eyes. All of a sudden, I feel something in my hair. He had brought me a flower!

"I wanted to say that I am sorry for ..", was what Ron was saying when my friend Temple came out of nowhere.

"Is everything ok?" asked Temple looking at me first and then at Ron. She had a worried face. She was a student from Ravenclaw. I had met her in my potions class a while back when we partnered up for an experiment.

"Everything is fine", I said and just looked at Ron.

"Yeah, I was just trying to talk to Rachel before I was rudely interrupted by someone!" and he looked at Temple with an angry face. I had never seen this side of Ron and I kept on remembering what Draco had said to me before.

"Sorry", exclaimed Temple and walked towards the door. It was still locked and she asked me for the key. I asked Ron for the key and he pulled it out of his pocket and gave it to me. This was my chance to get away with my friend.

"I still have to talk to you Rachel", Ron said. I looked back and told him that I was tired and it was almost time for me to head back to my room before curfew.

"We can talk tomorrow when there is more time", I said. Ron got furious and said, "Rachel I LOVE YOU!!!!"

I turned around and just looked at him with nothing to say. Temple turned around and just looked at me with an astonished look to her face. "How embarrassing!" I thought to myself.

"This is neither the place nor the time Ron, just leave me alone." As I shouted, going back to my room.

~~~~Back in my Dormitory~~~~

As I walked back to my room, I heard some noise coming from there. I peeked inside the door and to my surprise it was Joanna and Harry hanging out on her bed. I waited outside till they were finished. When Harry came out, he saw me and walked towards me.

"Don't tell anyone about this if you know what's good for you", said Harry. I just looked astonished and went into my room.

Joanna had the biggest smile on her face but came off when I came into the room. I didn't talk to her and she didn't talk to me, and so I got ready for bed. As I almost got ready, Hermione came into the room with a big smile as well on her face.

"What are you so happy about?" as I looked at her smiling face.

"Ron kissed me!!" and looked back at me and Joanna.

"WHAT?!?!?!?!" I said looking at her furiously. "What do you mean he kissed you?" looking at Hermione with intentions to slap her. But then I remembered that if I did anything they would find out that Ron kissed me first.

Joanna looked at Hermione and said that the exact same thing happened to her with Harry. I just kept to myself and went to bed, and wondered why Ron would say that he loved me and then go on and kiss Hermione. It didn't make sense to me at all.

~~~~The Next Morning~~~~

As I woke up, Joanna and Hermione had already left the room. As I got up, someone knocked at my door. As I opened the door, I was surprised to see who it was. It was DRACO!!!

"I wanted to come and see you," said Draco. I just looked at him astounded and wondered what was his deal. I remembered that Melissa had a liking to Draco, but I didn't care what was going on since what happened last night with Hermione and Ron.

"Why?" I asked looking at Draco from the door.

"I heard what happened in the common room with you and Ron," said Draco. I was astonished to hear that Draco had heard what had happened.

"Who told you this?" I said, but I already knew who told him. I was just checking to see if he would lie to me about who told him.

"Temple told me," said Draco. With him telling me the truth I came up to him and gave him a hug. As far as I was concerned, Draco was my only friend that I could trust right now.

I told Draco to wait for me while I got dressed. He said that he would wait for me outside. As I finished getting ready, I was about to walk out the door when I heard someone talking to Draco. The argument was getting heated and then all of a sudden I heard them screaming. As I stormed out the door to see what was going on, it was Ron and Draco fighting each other. I tried to stop it, but while I was trying to stop it Draco got distracted from me and Ron took that opportunity to sucker punch Draco.

"Alright, just stop this!!" I screamed at both of them. I looked at Ron and then I looked at Draco who was on the floor covering his eye. I went towards Ron and just looked at him and turned around to help out Draco.

"Are you ok?" I asked Draco as I helped him get up from the floor. I helped him up and started to walk with him towards his room.

"What? Do you like him? Is he better than me?" asked Ron.

"Yes, I like him because he doesn't go around saying things and then does other things with another girl that same night." I said. Ron didn't say anything, he was a loss for words.

"That's what I thought," I said as I walked away from Ron.

"Let me get you some ice for that eye," I said as I went to go get him some ice. When I returned, Draco grabbed my arm but I felt that he was not himself. Something was suspicious about him, but I didn't know what it was.

"I really like you Rachel, I know I hang around Melissa a lot but I like you more," said Draco. My eyes widened up so big that I thought my eyeballs would have popped out of my sockets.

"Is that why you were fighting with Ron back there?" I asked Draco.

"That was mostly the reason we started fighting. You know how I told you that I was going to wait for you outside, well I was when he showed up. He came up to me and asked me what I was doing here outside your room door. So I told him that I came to see you and that I was waiting for you. Ron's reaction towards that got him infuriated and started going off that. He just went crazy. What really got him going was that I told him that you hugged me. That is what initially started the fight and then that is when you came out," said Draco.

"I don't know what to do anymore. Everything is going up side down for me. First with Ron, and now you come to me with this. Everything is just coming to me way too fast before I can resolve anything," I said. As I looked at Draco, our eyes locked on to one another and then that's when the unexpected happened. Draco and me kissed.

As we kissed, the door opened and it was Melissa. Her eyes widened and stormed out. I chased after her but she left before I could catch up to her. When I came back to Draco's room, to my surprise Ron was in there. But the weird thing about it was that he was wearing Draco's outfit. I could not believe that Ron would do such a thing to me. I just stormed out telling him that he would regret what he had just done to me.