Believe in Heaven
Chapter 4

Luna woke up early the next day and left quickly to have breakfast. The main hall was completely empty. It wasn't such a big surprise. After all, it was just 7 AM. But there was someone else there. That one person could be anyone. A random Hufflepuff or just another Ravenclaw that wouldn't even notice Luna's presence. But... no! It had to be a Slytherin... it had to be that Slytherin! Luna sighed.

"We've been meeting a lot lately... too much, actually." said Draco in his usual cold voice.

"Of course we are! When you stalk someone that's what usually happens." Luna answered, trying to sound indifferent. She shook her head and sat down on a chair.

"Stalking you? I wished you looked good enough to be stalked by me." he answered sharply.

Luna closed her fists and took a deep breath. He annoyed her so much! She had to control herself down not to kick his most precious body parts (the genital ones).

"What? Are you angry?" he asked. "Are you, Loony? Or this is just one more of your personality disorders?"

Luna got to her feet and stared him directly in his eyes. She was a lot shorter than him and her face could barely hit his neck. Luna pointed a finger to his face.

"Who do you think you are saying those things?" Luna asked. "You have no idea the things I've heard people talking about me but... this is the first time anyone dares saying things to me directly. How--dare--you?"

"You're..." Draco opened his mouth to answer with even sharper words but he noticed tears in her eyes. He tried to speak anyway but she got closer to him until her face was inches from his.

"What? You can't answer me, Malfoy?" she asked. "You disgust me, you know! The things you do... and how you treat people..."

Draco pointed a finger to her face and Luna swallowed hard. He put his finger on her forehead and pushed her back to her chair.

"You're not very different from me now, are you?" he asked, grinning. "You're attitude isn't any better than mine."

Draco waved to her and left, without having breakfast. Luna watched him leave. Her body was frozen... she couldn't move. Luna shook her head and looked down to her lap.

'What he said...' she thought. 'I'm... I'm not like him... am I?'

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The rest of the day Luna spent thinking. She hardly ever paid any attention to classes anyway.

The thing that bothered her the most were his last words. Not the firsts at all because people had spoken horrible things like that before and that didn't really bother her. But saying that she was like him did bother her. And the worst thing was she couldn't say he was wrong.

Luna wasn't the prettiest girl ever. She wasn't the smartest. And people always thought she was weird, but she never tried to change herself. Not to mention she was, indeed, a pure blood. He was right. Luna wasn't very different from him.

Luna left her last class and went to the library to start her homework. The fifth year was the hardest and she should get very good grades to have more chances on different careers.

Luna took a few books from the shelters and sat on a distant table. She was almost finishing her homework when Madam Pince asked her to leave. Luna left and sat on a couch of the first room she found to finish. It was just a paragraph and it would be quick to finish.

Luna ran her eyes through the piece of parchment, checking spelling mistakes. She gathered her stuff and left the room. When she turned right toward Ravenclaw common room she bumped on something. And Luna had the horrible feeling that it was her usual blonde stalker: Draco. Or did you have any doubts that it would be him?

"Haven't you done enough damage, Malfoy?" she asked turning her back to him. There were other ways to get to the Raveclaw common room.

"So you really got hurt, eh? Well, just doing my job." he answered, smirking. But there was something weird about his answer. Even though it was just as rude as always, but he didn't seem to be really irritated saying that.

"What are you doing here anyway?" Luna said, noticing he wasn't leaving after answering her question.

"I came looking for you because..." he rolled his eyes.

Now that was too much! Draco Malfoy looking for her? That was one of the good points of life: one day the enemy will look for you. It doesn't matter if it's to do something good or bad.

"That's new to me!" Luna exclaimed, putting her left arm on her waist.

"I came to apologize for what I said earlier." Draco said, ignoring her preview comments.

"You... apologizing?" Luna's eyes widened more than usual.

"You're not good enough to be like me anyway." he said, crossing his arms.

"But I guess you were right. I'm a little like you. And I'm glad someone told me that... otherwise I would have never noticed." Luna answered, smiling and pulling her books closer to her chest. "But I'm not thanking you or anything.

Her heart was beating really fast she was... nervous? Why? And her face was really warm! Luna looked up to Draco and saw he was staring at her. She just waved quickly, almost dropping her books, and ran. When she was far enough she turned her head again and smiled, with an intensified blush.

"Thank you."


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A/N: Now, you must be thinking: "OMG! Two chapters that FAST? What happened to her?" Well, the thing is... I'm going to travel on vacation! Yay! ^^ And I'll be back oooonly in October soooo... no chapters until somewhere around October 7th. -.-

Now, just cross your fingers and hope for the 5th chapter to come out earlier! That is... if you WANT a 5th chapter of this weird, weird thing. ¬¬;

Just one more thing, I'm sorry for the total OOCness. ^^; But I've warned you last chapter! Well... I think I did anyway... ._.; But if you liked it, just wait for the next chapter and you'll get even MORE OOCness! ^-^

Ah! Sorry for the short chapter, hai? ^-^


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09/09/2003