Chapter 4

"Get out of my way Draco!" Jennifer shouted at Draco, who was trying to get to her door before she could.

Jennifer finally reached her door but as she opened it, Draco came up from behind and shut it with a bang.

"Draco, get out of my way!" Jennifer shouted breathlessly.

"What is an owl doing, flying into your bedroom?" Draco emphasized every word, bringing his face closer and closer to Jennifer's.

"How am I supposed to know? If you just let me in, maybe I can find out!" Jennifer replied, trying once again to get into her room.

"Not so fast little girl" Draco drawled, as he pushed her back. He stood in the doorway casually, leaning against it. "If you answer this one question, truthfully, then you may enter" Draco smirked, obviously enjoying this.

"Draco, I have no time for games!" Jennifer said, exasperated at him.

"Just one question. Why is an owl flying into your room in broad daylight?" Draco asked slowly, as if he was talking to a little kid.

"Like I said before, if you let me in, maybe I can find out!" Jennifer replied through clenched teeth.

"It's a simple question!" Draco said casually, not bothering to move away.

"And it's a simple answer!" Jennifer almost shouted at him. "Argh! You know what you are Draco Malfoy? You're a self-centered, spoilt little brat! You're like a pebble in my shoe!" She spat out.

"And you know what you are?" Draco said quietly and menacingly, drawing closer to Jennifer's face, "You're a witch" he said barely audible.

Jennifer's eyes opened wide, searching Draco's face for any signs of him joking. She didn't find any. Draco knew that he was right and started to smile smugly.

All of a sudden, they heard a large crash coming from inside the room. Jennifer pushed the shocked Draco aside and barged through the door.

The room was a mess. All of Karina's books and paper's were on the floor and the lamp beside Cathryn's bed had fallen off the bedside table and lay in pieces on the floor. Pots and pans had come off their hooks and were lying on the floor along with some cutlery that was laid on the table to dry. Jennifer carefully stepped into the room and found that most of her possessions were gone from her bedside table. She looked over her bed and found a smashed photo frame along with several figurines her mother had given her that looked to be in better condition than the photo frames.

"That is a mess!" Draco whistled.

"What do you expect? The poor minute owl was probably trying to stay in the air with a letter." Jennifer realised that the owl was nowhere to be seen and started to look around the room for it. She found it perched on top of the bookshelf.

"Wouldn't it find somewhere to stay though?" Draco asked, still looking around the room at the mess.

"It has" Jennifer said, dragging a chair and placing it underneath the bookshelf. She stood up on the chair and tried to reach for the owl.

"But wouldn't it go straight to you, instead of your room?" Draco asked again, walking slowly towards the chair.

"It's trained to go to my room and lay the letter on my bedside table. But it's a new owl, so I'm not sure." Jennifer jumped off the chair and put one of Karina's Encyclopaedias on the chair. She climbed back on and stood on the Encyclopaedia. She reached for the owl again and grabbed it. But as soon as she did that, she fell of balance and the chair tipped over, she started to fall over but she didn't hit the floor. Instead she felt someone catch her.

Jennifer looked up to see Draco holding her steady. She stepped off the chair and quickly walked out of his arm, feeling uncomfortable inside. She went to the windowsill and untied the letter from the owl's leg. She put the letter on the table next to her and released the bird out of the window. She watched it fly away for a while before remembering what Draco had told her before they went inside.

.::.If he knows that I know about the magical world just by a simple owl, then that must mean.::.

"You're a wizard!" Jennifer suddenly said, turning around.

"You're a quick one aren't you?" Draco rolled his eyes and looked around the still messy room. "Shouldn't you clean this up before the others come up?" he asked.

"Oh! Yeah!" Jennifer realised the mess and started to pick up the broken pieces of her photograph. Draco stood aside, observing her. "Are you just going to stand there?" Jennifer asked, looking up to find Draco looking at her.

"Why don't you use magic?" Draco asked matter-of-factly.

Jennifer sighed and stood up. "Because I can't."

Draco tried to hide a smirk that Jennifer promptly ignored. He then pulled out his wand, muttered a few words and in a few seconds, everything was back where it was supposed to be and the broken lamp and photo frame where fixed.

"Thanks" Jennifer mumbled.

"Are you a squib?" Draco suddenly asked.

"I'm not a squib. I just didn't attend a school of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Jennifer replied softly, reaching for her letter.

"Why not?" Draco asked.

"You do ask a lot of questions don't you?" Jennifer retorted, placing her letter on her bedside table and standing up.

"Don't you like me asking you questions?" Draco asked, knowing this was going to spite her even more.

"Not nosy ones like those! You have no right to pry into my personal life." Jennifer said, eyes flashing.

"It's a free world, I can do whatever I like" Draco smiled sweetly.

"And this is my room, so get out!" Jennifer pointed to the door, signaling him to go.

"But this is a public school, so I can stay in here if I want!" Draco said, sitting down on Jennifer's bed, making himself comfortable.

"You are not staying here!" Jennifer said shrilly. Draco didn't seem to be listening to her so she threw up her hands in defeat. "Fine! Just fine! You stay in here, it's a free world and I'll go out! You can't stay in here forever!" and with that, Jennifer went to leave the room. But as she stormed past Draco, she felt something grab her hand. She roughly turned around to see Draco grabbing hold of her hand.

"Let go of my hand Draco." She said maliciously.

"It's a free world isn't it?" Draco said, standing up, not letting go of her hand.

"Whatever! It's a free world! Do whatever you want! As long as it doesn't involve me!" Jennifer tried to get her hand free but Draco was holding on too tight.

"But this does involve you. Otherwise it might not work." Draco said smiling at the writhing Jennifer. She suddenly stopped and looked into Draco's eyes. She never noticed how blue they were. She also saw a twinkle in his eyes and she couldn't help but smile.

Draco then pulled her closer and they passionately kissed.

"Maybe it does work better with me involved." Jennifer said when they pulled away. She was smiling from ear to ear and pulled him in for another kiss.

"Draco? Jennifer?"

They pulled apart suddenly and looked towards the doorway where there were 4 smiling people standing, watching them.