"So you and Harry, huh?" Silver grinned. Her and Zende had skipped Divination a couple days later - as promised earlier - with the aide of Fred and George's Puking Pastilles.They started walking around aimlessly.
"Yep. Me & Harry." Zen smiled.
"Is he mad at Ron?" she asked her. Zen shook her head.
"Thats a first!" Silver laughed.
"Well, we both agreed that if it weren't for the accidental slip up, that it would take even longer for anything to happen," Zen shrugged.
"Yeah, he's a bit chicken when it comes to things like that," Silver laughed.
"You're telling me..." Zen laughed a bit. Silver and Zen reached the common room and flopped down on the couch together. "So we have an hour to ourselfs, what should we do?"
"I really don't know!" Silver shrugged, relaxing on the couch.
"Silver, look what we came up with!" Fred said. Silver and Zende both jumped, not expecting anyone to come in.
"Where the heck did you come from?!" Silver gasped.
"What's this?" Zen asked as the twins just shrugged at Silver and placed a long peice of paper on the table. Silver picked it up and read it.
"101 Ways to Annoy, Harass, Confuse or Generally Scare You-know-who?" Silver laughed, raising an eyebrow. "You guys are going to get yourself killed!"
"Everyone's so uptight and tense when it comes to..him..thought we'd have a bit of fun with it," George shrugged.
"If teachers caught you with that..." Zen trailed off. "I don't think Harry would quite like the list either, but it is brilliant."
"That's why it's not going public!" Fred said, "yet."
George nodded. "We'd like to finish school first."
Silver shook her head, laughing while she read the list. "Voldie-poo." Just then, Harry and Ron came in and George took the list and hid it behind his back. "Divination's done!" Harry said, happily.
Ron yawned. "Never had such a good nap."
"What's next?" Zende asked, getting up.
"Herbology." Ron sighed. "Think I might get to squeeze in another nap durring this class?"
"Hermoine's in it with us," Silver groaned. "So I doubt it." With a heavy sigh, Ron followed his twin brothers and Silver out of the common room. Harry and Zende walked together, a bit behind the rest of the gang.
Two floors below, Fred and George split from Silver and Ron so they could go to Transfiguration. They couldn't afford to miss McGonagall's class again. As the remaining two headed down the staircases to go down to the grounds where the greenhouses were, Silver let out a groan, "Hermione, I can't stand her! I'm really not looking forward to this class. Of course, only because she's in it."
"Oh, don't worry 'bout it, Silly," Ron said drapping an arm around Silver's shoulder. He liked to call her Silly, only because it worked with her name.
Silver sighed, "Yeah, I know, but she really, really bugs me!!"
Ron laughed, "I know! Can never put you two in a room together by yourselves..someone will end up with their head chopped off!"
Silver grinned, "That'd be her."
"You know, I'd love to see that!" Ron laughed as they reached the Grand Hall.
"Oh, who wouldn't?" Silver grinned. As they headed down the Grand Staircase, they spotted Draco coming up from the Slytherin Common room by himself. He obviously noticed Silver and Ron, as well. Draco waited until the got down the stairs. "What's he doing?" Silver asked taking a deep breath.
"Who knows, probably to harrass us, like normal," Ron said tightening his arm around Silver, with a glare fixed upon Malfoy as they hit the bottom of the staircase right passed him.
"Hey, wait up you two," Malfoy sneered. "Don't you recognise when someone's waiting for you?"
"Bugger off, Malfoy," Ron sneered back.
Silver looked at Draco as he appeared beside her, "What are you doing waiting for us anyways? Don't you have better things to do, than to hang out with 'mudblood lovers?'"
"Silver, oh my dear, Silver, why would you say something like that?" Malfoy asked her with an eyebrow raised with a smirk on his face.
"Gee, I wonder why," she said with the same stupid look.
"Ooh, ouch," he grinned, "I gotta split from you two so no one will see me with such losers, or should I say, that loser over there," he pointed to Ron, which made Ron glare even more. "Later Silver," again he winked at her, and brushed his hand against hers, as normal sending shivers down Silver's spine, then started to walk infront of them a ways.
"What is his problem?" Silver watched him walking ahead of them.
"I don't know, but one of these days I'm going to beat the hell out of him if he doesn't leave you alone," Ron said full of hate.
"Ron, he's more after you than he's after me. It should be me saying that, not you," sighed Silver.
Harry and Zende must of saw because before Silver and Ron knew it, Harry and his new found love interest was right beside them. "What was that about? Why does he keep on bothering you, Silver? I swear I'm going to kill him!" Harry huffed.
Zende laughed, "Slow down there cowboy, one question at a time."
"Yeah, sorry," Harry said with a sigh. Before they all knew it, they were down at the greenhouses and entering them, taking their spots. Silver stood in the way of Hermione so she couldn't stand with the rest of them.
"Um, excuse me," Hermione tapped Silver on the shoulder, "you're blocking me from my friends!"
Silver turned around and faced her, "Oh, I'm sorry," she smiled sarcasticly, and only blocked her way even more.
As class droned on, Silver kept glancing over at Malfoy who seemed to be watching her all through class and would give her that look, the smirk and the eyebrow lift. She was way confused it wasn't even funny. Finally, class was over and the four friends booked butt out of there trying to avoid Hermione, especially on the way to lunch, even though they knew they'd have to put up with her there, unless she decided to go to the library, as always.
During lunch, the gang all sat together of course. Harry, Zen, Fred, George, Ron and Silver. As they all expected, Hermione went to the library. The twins, Ron and Silver were all huddled in a small circle laughing, likely over their list of 101 Ways to Annoy Voldemort.
"Whats going on there?" Harry asked Zen quietly.
"Probably going over that list or adding..." Zen said before realizing it.
"List?" he raised his eyebrow at her "What list?"
Zen sighed. "Well.. the twins made alittle list... basically a joke list.. 101 ways to annoy Vol--." she started.
"demort.." Harry finished. he looked at her suddenly. "Your not afraid to say it either?"
"No," she told him, "it's him, not the name." He just nodded. "Anyway... so yeah.. they made a joke list... with things like 'call him voldie-poo' or something."
"I see." he shrugged simply.
"Well.. they knew teachers would have a fit if they found it. They weren't sure how you'd react to it... So...that's why you didn't know yet. Silver and I were the first to read it when we skipped class," she explained. "I kind of asked them not to show you yet.."
"It's better that they made it then someone else," Harry smiled. Before Zende could respond, there was a loud screech, indicating it was time for mail.
"Mail!" Ron said excitedly.
Zen's owl dropped off an envelope and took off. She had written to her parents a couple days before and told them about Harry and asked them if he could have a couple pictures."Harry!" Zen called getting his attention from talking to Silver. "Got something for ya."
He raised his eyebrow, "Do you?" he asked. She nodded and handed him the envelope after taking out the letter. He pulled out the two pictures and stared at them. Then looked at her curiously.
"I asked my parents a couple nights ago if you could keep them...looks like they wrote alittle on the back too," she shrugged and smiled. Silver had peered over Harry's shoulder to look at the pictures.
"You mean... they're mine now?" he asked surprised. She nodded. "Wow... thank you," he glanced down at the pictures and then back at her and kissed her softly infront of everyone, making her blush slightly. He just grinned at her and looked back at the pictures for a while. Zen just finished reading her letter and sat back watching everyone else.
Finally, classes were over and everybody seemed to be hanging out in the common room before dinner. Harry and Zende were off in a corner of the room, talking, making out. Doing whatever couples do together. Silver started to get fed up with the whole 'Harry and Zende' thing. It was cool at first, but after awhile, she just wanted to explode. Harry's her best friend, her brother, her cousin. Lately, it just seems to her that Harry's spending all of his time with Zende and just blowing her off. Like earlier, she had asked him if they could be alone and talk for a while, just to play catch up but he said no because he had plans with Zende, maybe next time. She figured she'll never be able to talk to him. Even Zende started to ignore her abit. She had Harry now, no need to have other friends, it seemed like. Silver decided to just give them a taste of their own selfish medicine. She gave up trying to talk to them. Any of them. So, she thought it'd be best just to ignore them as well, since that's what they seemed to like to do.
The twins were nowhere to be heard off. They were probably in their secret place. Silver understood. Or did she? She just can't figure out why everyone is suddenly the way they are. Leaving her out, acting like she wasn't even there. Atleast there was Ron. Probably the only person she could talk to and would notice her presence. Silver flopped into a chair kind of away from everyone. Ron sat down beside her, "Alright, whats up?"
Silver looked up at him and let out a heavy sigh, "Is there suddenly something wrong with me? Am I all of a sudden annoying? Tell me Ron, I want the truth."
Ron just looked at his friend like she was crazy, "What are you talking about? You're like the coolest person I know. Why would there be anything wrong with you?"
Silver sighed and crossed her legs indian style on the couch, "It's just, I wanted to spend time with Harry, just to sit and talk, you know? Since we haven't been able to do that in a while, and he told me that he had already had plans with Zende, and he wanted to spend time with her. They've been spending time together since Hogsmeade. And Zende is pretty much ignoring me. I just..I don't know what to do, or think."
"I know how you feel, Harry's been blowing me off too. But just remember, this is like his first relationship and he wants it to work," Ron said putting his hand on Silver's knee.
"I know, Ron, but it's just the point of it. He can still have room for his friends too. It's not all that hard. Isn't it like, 'Friends before girlfriends,' or something like that?"
"Yeah, but you just have to get where Harry's coming from I guess," Ron moved his hand from her knee, to her hand and put his fingers in Silvers opened hand, and ran his thumb over it.
"I hope you're right," Silver leaned her head on Ron's shoulder. The common room started to filter out slowly as everyone headed to the Great Hall for dinner. After it was pretty much emtpy, Silver and Ron headed to dinner together, walking silently with each other the whole way there, in comfortable silence, enjoying the company of each other. As they got to the Great Hall, and walked in, they noticed everyone was already there and eating. The two friends made their way to the table and sat down, trying to keep to theirselves, that is unless Fred and George try and talk to them. Silver wasn't really in the mood for Harry's newly found snappiness to everyone always bugging him. Ron and Silver sat next to each other talking quietly and eating, laughing occasionally.
Harry and Zende sat there keeping to theirselves. "Have anything planned for tonight?" Harry asked Zende.
Zen just gave him a look, "No, not that I can remember, why?"
"Well, I was just wondering," Harry began, a bit nervously; he looked so cute when he was nervous, "if you wanted to go to the Astronamy Tower, with me tonight."
"The Astronamy Tower?" She asked confused.
"Yeah, people go up there to watch the stars and whatnot, and well," Harry blushed a little embarrassed, "couples go up there to be alone. I mean like, people's always around, so I was just wondering if you wanted to be alone for a while. Just you and me."
Zen smiled at him, "Yeah, of course."
Harry looked away for a minute, hiding a relieved sigh. Zen just laughed at him alittle.
"Harry, we're dating. You don't have to be all nervous," she told him.
"I know," he shrugged. "Meet me here at 9?" he asked."We'll bring my cloak."
"Sounds good to me," Zende smiled.
They finished eating, and headed to the common room to wait for 9 to roll around. Fred, George and Silver were in a corner trying to sell the Puking Pastilles to first years. Not too long after, Silver left the common room. Harry and Zende stayed in their little corner talking, pretty much blocking out the rest of the world.
Nine o'clock finally rolled around and Harry went to get the cloak, as Zende waited for him by the portrait hole. He came back with the Maurder's map hidden in his pocket. "Ready to go?"
Zen smiled at him, "Of course." As soon as they got through the portrait hole, they went under the cloak.
"Try not to breathe too loud," Harry said, opening up the map looking at it, making sure it was clear to go.
"Yes, daddy," Zende said with the roll of the eyes and a smirk. They made their way up to the tower with ease. As they got there, Harry led her to a nice, big couch.
Zende sat down, watching Harry as he sat next to her, "I love to come up here to look at the stars," Harry looked at Zen, "when it's couple free."
She just laughed, "Oh, I'm sure."
"Oh, not funny!" Harry laughed.
"Then why ya laughing," Zende asked with a laugh.
Harry just shrugged and looked up at the stars, "See that bright star right there?" he asked.
Zen looked up and nodded, "The North Star."
He shook his head, "No, thats the North Star," he pointed to the brightest one, then pointed back to the one he was talking about, "I say that's my parents...watching over me...I know it sounds corny..but it keeps me happy.."
As Harry sat there watching the star, Zende felt bad for saying what she did, "Oh.." Was all she could say.
Harry shook his head, " Anyways," he turned to her and smiled. Placing an arm on the back of the couch and one on her waist, he leaned in and kissed her gently. Zende placed a hand somewhat on his shoulder, the other one on his side, and kissed him back, but with a bit of force.
Silver left the common room after a few first years decided to be brave and try the Puking Pastilles. She went wondering the halls like she normally does just to clear her head and to be alone. Alot was running through it lately and she was tired of always thinking. It was be nice just to not think for a while. She kept walking along the halls blocking everything out as usual, when she felt a tap on her shoulder. Silver turned around to become face to face with Draco. A very sexy look Draco. She did a double take. "Whoa.." she barely breathed when she saw him standing there, in clothes someone would never wear during school hours.
Draco just smirked, "See something that you like?"
Silver tried to snap out of it and let her eyes travel his body, before meeting his, "Going somewhere?"
"Out," he said with that look he always gives her, "like I occasionally do, just to escape everything for a while." Draco looked her up and down, "Looks like you could use some time away from this place, too."
Silver just gave him a look, "Just exactly how do you do that? You can't exactly appariate."
"I have my ways," Draco grinned.
"Besides," she began, "I'm not even dressed to go out."
"Then go to your dorm and change."
"Are you determined that I go with you or something?"
"Yes, I am, I'll even walk with you almost all the way there and I'll stand there and wait for you, got it?"
She just looked at him like he was crazy then let out a sigh, "Yes, daddy," then headed back to the common room with Draco at her side.
A little ways from the Gryffindor common room Draco stopped, "I'll stay here..gotta protect my reputation, you know." Silver just rolled her eyes and walks quickly to get changed. As she entered the room, it started to slowly empty out. Ron was sitting in a big comfy chair by the fire writing something. She quickly made her way up to her dorm without being seen. Going through her clothes, trying to be quiet to not wake anyone up who might be asleep, Silver tried to find something to wear. "Screw this," she whispered and thought really hard before the perfect outfit appeared on her body, then looked in a mirror to see if she looked the way she wanted to. With that, she left the dorm, and the common room without being seen and headed back to Draco. "Alright, I'm ready now, let's go."
Draco just looked at her like he's never seen her before, "Damn, you're looking good," he grinned and lead her out of the school and onto the grounds. Before Silver knew it, they were some place completely different. They were definately not at Hogwarts anymore.
Silver didn't have time to say anything before Draco took her hand and drug her off somewhere. They came infront of a rather nice look club. There was a long line but Draco just skipped it and went right past the guard. "Hey, hey Draco," the guard slapped his hand, "How's my man doing?"
Draco slapped the man's hand back and answered him, "Couldn't be better."
"Brought someone with you for a change I see?" the burly man asked.
"Sure did," he smirked.
"Go on in, man," he let them through.
"You occasionally go out?" Silver yelled over the music. He just shrugged and made his way over to the bar with Silver towing behind him.
The bartender saw Draco and walked over to him, "Yo, regular?"
"Nah," Draco shook his head, "I'm with somebody tonight, just give me two koolers." Silver stood beside Draco.
The man pulled out two koolers and sat them on the bar infront of Draco and jerked his head over to Silver, "That her?" he grinned making Silver wonder.
"Sure is," he said putting an arm around Silver's waist and handed her the drink. He opened his and took a drink. Silver followed and did the same. After they finished drinking their drinks Draco looked at Silver. "Want to dance?"
Looking around at the other people dancing, she felt kind of hesitant, but answered anyways, "Yeah, sure." He grabbed her hand and lead her to the floor and stopped somewhere near the middle. Silver looked all around at the dancing people. Draco pulled her to him, "Just follow me, you'll be fine." He put his hands on her lower back, bring her closer to him and started rocking side to side with the beat. Silver followed his lead, placing her arms around his neck, obeying the beat. As they continued dancing, Silver couldn't help but wonder, then asked, "Why me? Why did you bring me with you?"
Draco looked down on the blonde and laughed a bit, smirking from ear to ear, "Haven't you figured that out yet, Sil? I like you."
She could have sworn she had just heard Draco Malfoy admitting that he likes her. "Excuse me, you..you what?" Silver couldn't even try to fight the smile trying to form on her lips.
"You heard me, babe," he said pulling her even closer, if possible.
"Oh," she blinked.
"What? Is it wrong for me to like you because of who you are," he sneered not even knowing it, but realized on the look on Silver's face he quickly changed the emotion on his face making sure she got the hint that he didn't mean to do that.
"No..no of course not..it's just that..I like you too..since um," yet again she couldn't help the blush painting across her cheeks, "the first time I saw you." She knew it sounded corny, but it was the truth. "Before I even knew who you were."
There wasn't a smirk, a sneer, or a grin on his face, but a smile. An actual smile that probably no body, not any body, has seen on Draco Malfoy. Silver couldn't help but smile either. They continued dancing for a while in comfortable silence, occasionally laughing as they lost beat. After a while a slow song came on. Draco wouldn't let go of Silver if his life depended on it. He wrapped his arms around her waist, which caused her to snake her arms around his neck. As the song wore on, they got closer and Silver's head eventually ended up on his shoulder. Even after the slow song ended and a fast one started, they stayed that way. Silver loved the way Draco smelt. Something like a mixture of vanilla and mint. The steady breathing of Silver on his neck caused him to tremble. He couldn't take it anymore, he had to do something before he exploded. "Silver," Draco whispered.
Silver looked up, inches away from his face, "Hmm?" He didn't say anything, he just leaned down and kissed her as gently as possible, causing goosebumps to grow all over her body. She kissed him deeper, letting him know it was ok. After what seemed like an enternity, Draco finally pulled away, licking his lips, smiling, resting his forehead on Silver's. "We better get going, it's getting late." Silver just nodded as they made their way across the club and out into the cold London air. Just like before, they were back at Hogwarts before they knew it. They quickly made their way back up to the castle. "I'll walk you to your common room, I don't want you getting caught," Draco said unlacing their fingers, snaking an arm around her slender waist. Walking in silence to make sure they didn't get caught, they finally made it to the Gryffindor common room. "Well, this is where I leave you," Draco left out a rather disappointing sound. Silver just nodded. He let go of Silver, bringing her towards him and gave her a g'night kiss. All she could do was smile. "Sweet dreams, beautiful," Draco said before he disappeared down the staircase.
Silver stood there for a moment, smiling like crazy, before hearing something and going into the common room. As she got inside the portrait hole, she walked along down the small hallway into the common room and saw someone asleep on a chair. She walked closer to find out who it was. It was Ron. There was some parchment about to fall out of his hand. Silver picked it as it was about to drop and read it, curiously. She about dropped it when she read, "Silver." It was a letter to her. She kept on reading. A letter explaining how the truth might effect their friendship, but she must know. Ron was in love with her. She sat the parchment on his lap carefully to not wake him. She was in such a great mood, until then. Silver was so confused. Her mind was finally rid of all the thoughts she was thinking, until she read that letter, bringing it all back. She made her way up to the six year girls' dorm, whispering a spell of somesort changing her into her pajamas and crawled into her fourposter, pulling the curtains around, before laying down and falling asleep.
"Yep. Me & Harry." Zen smiled.
"Is he mad at Ron?" she asked her. Zen shook her head.
"Thats a first!" Silver laughed.
"Well, we both agreed that if it weren't for the accidental slip up, that it would take even longer for anything to happen," Zen shrugged.
"Yeah, he's a bit chicken when it comes to things like that," Silver laughed.
"You're telling me..." Zen laughed a bit. Silver and Zen reached the common room and flopped down on the couch together. "So we have an hour to ourselfs, what should we do?"
"I really don't know!" Silver shrugged, relaxing on the couch.
"Silver, look what we came up with!" Fred said. Silver and Zende both jumped, not expecting anyone to come in.
"Where the heck did you come from?!" Silver gasped.
"What's this?" Zen asked as the twins just shrugged at Silver and placed a long peice of paper on the table. Silver picked it up and read it.
"101 Ways to Annoy, Harass, Confuse or Generally Scare You-know-who?" Silver laughed, raising an eyebrow. "You guys are going to get yourself killed!"
"Everyone's so uptight and tense when it comes to..him..thought we'd have a bit of fun with it," George shrugged.
"If teachers caught you with that..." Zen trailed off. "I don't think Harry would quite like the list either, but it is brilliant."
"That's why it's not going public!" Fred said, "yet."
George nodded. "We'd like to finish school first."
Silver shook her head, laughing while she read the list. "Voldie-poo." Just then, Harry and Ron came in and George took the list and hid it behind his back. "Divination's done!" Harry said, happily.
Ron yawned. "Never had such a good nap."
"What's next?" Zende asked, getting up.
"Herbology." Ron sighed. "Think I might get to squeeze in another nap durring this class?"
"Hermoine's in it with us," Silver groaned. "So I doubt it." With a heavy sigh, Ron followed his twin brothers and Silver out of the common room. Harry and Zende walked together, a bit behind the rest of the gang.
Two floors below, Fred and George split from Silver and Ron so they could go to Transfiguration. They couldn't afford to miss McGonagall's class again. As the remaining two headed down the staircases to go down to the grounds where the greenhouses were, Silver let out a groan, "Hermione, I can't stand her! I'm really not looking forward to this class. Of course, only because she's in it."
"Oh, don't worry 'bout it, Silly," Ron said drapping an arm around Silver's shoulder. He liked to call her Silly, only because it worked with her name.
Silver sighed, "Yeah, I know, but she really, really bugs me!!"
Ron laughed, "I know! Can never put you two in a room together by yourselves..someone will end up with their head chopped off!"
Silver grinned, "That'd be her."
"You know, I'd love to see that!" Ron laughed as they reached the Grand Hall.
"Oh, who wouldn't?" Silver grinned. As they headed down the Grand Staircase, they spotted Draco coming up from the Slytherin Common room by himself. He obviously noticed Silver and Ron, as well. Draco waited until the got down the stairs. "What's he doing?" Silver asked taking a deep breath.
"Who knows, probably to harrass us, like normal," Ron said tightening his arm around Silver, with a glare fixed upon Malfoy as they hit the bottom of the staircase right passed him.
"Hey, wait up you two," Malfoy sneered. "Don't you recognise when someone's waiting for you?"
"Bugger off, Malfoy," Ron sneered back.
Silver looked at Draco as he appeared beside her, "What are you doing waiting for us anyways? Don't you have better things to do, than to hang out with 'mudblood lovers?'"
"Silver, oh my dear, Silver, why would you say something like that?" Malfoy asked her with an eyebrow raised with a smirk on his face.
"Gee, I wonder why," she said with the same stupid look.
"Ooh, ouch," he grinned, "I gotta split from you two so no one will see me with such losers, or should I say, that loser over there," he pointed to Ron, which made Ron glare even more. "Later Silver," again he winked at her, and brushed his hand against hers, as normal sending shivers down Silver's spine, then started to walk infront of them a ways.
"What is his problem?" Silver watched him walking ahead of them.
"I don't know, but one of these days I'm going to beat the hell out of him if he doesn't leave you alone," Ron said full of hate.
"Ron, he's more after you than he's after me. It should be me saying that, not you," sighed Silver.
Harry and Zende must of saw because before Silver and Ron knew it, Harry and his new found love interest was right beside them. "What was that about? Why does he keep on bothering you, Silver? I swear I'm going to kill him!" Harry huffed.
Zende laughed, "Slow down there cowboy, one question at a time."
"Yeah, sorry," Harry said with a sigh. Before they all knew it, they were down at the greenhouses and entering them, taking their spots. Silver stood in the way of Hermione so she couldn't stand with the rest of them.
"Um, excuse me," Hermione tapped Silver on the shoulder, "you're blocking me from my friends!"
Silver turned around and faced her, "Oh, I'm sorry," she smiled sarcasticly, and only blocked her way even more.
As class droned on, Silver kept glancing over at Malfoy who seemed to be watching her all through class and would give her that look, the smirk and the eyebrow lift. She was way confused it wasn't even funny. Finally, class was over and the four friends booked butt out of there trying to avoid Hermione, especially on the way to lunch, even though they knew they'd have to put up with her there, unless she decided to go to the library, as always.
During lunch, the gang all sat together of course. Harry, Zen, Fred, George, Ron and Silver. As they all expected, Hermione went to the library. The twins, Ron and Silver were all huddled in a small circle laughing, likely over their list of 101 Ways to Annoy Voldemort.
"Whats going on there?" Harry asked Zen quietly.
"Probably going over that list or adding..." Zen said before realizing it.
"List?" he raised his eyebrow at her "What list?"
Zen sighed. "Well.. the twins made alittle list... basically a joke list.. 101 ways to annoy Vol--." she started.
"demort.." Harry finished. he looked at her suddenly. "Your not afraid to say it either?"
"No," she told him, "it's him, not the name." He just nodded. "Anyway... so yeah.. they made a joke list... with things like 'call him voldie-poo' or something."
"I see." he shrugged simply.
"Well.. they knew teachers would have a fit if they found it. They weren't sure how you'd react to it... So...that's why you didn't know yet. Silver and I were the first to read it when we skipped class," she explained. "I kind of asked them not to show you yet.."
"It's better that they made it then someone else," Harry smiled. Before Zende could respond, there was a loud screech, indicating it was time for mail.
"Mail!" Ron said excitedly.
Zen's owl dropped off an envelope and took off. She had written to her parents a couple days before and told them about Harry and asked them if he could have a couple pictures."Harry!" Zen called getting his attention from talking to Silver. "Got something for ya."
He raised his eyebrow, "Do you?" he asked. She nodded and handed him the envelope after taking out the letter. He pulled out the two pictures and stared at them. Then looked at her curiously.
"I asked my parents a couple nights ago if you could keep them...looks like they wrote alittle on the back too," she shrugged and smiled. Silver had peered over Harry's shoulder to look at the pictures.
"You mean... they're mine now?" he asked surprised. She nodded. "Wow... thank you," he glanced down at the pictures and then back at her and kissed her softly infront of everyone, making her blush slightly. He just grinned at her and looked back at the pictures for a while. Zen just finished reading her letter and sat back watching everyone else.
Finally, classes were over and everybody seemed to be hanging out in the common room before dinner. Harry and Zende were off in a corner of the room, talking, making out. Doing whatever couples do together. Silver started to get fed up with the whole 'Harry and Zende' thing. It was cool at first, but after awhile, she just wanted to explode. Harry's her best friend, her brother, her cousin. Lately, it just seems to her that Harry's spending all of his time with Zende and just blowing her off. Like earlier, she had asked him if they could be alone and talk for a while, just to play catch up but he said no because he had plans with Zende, maybe next time. She figured she'll never be able to talk to him. Even Zende started to ignore her abit. She had Harry now, no need to have other friends, it seemed like. Silver decided to just give them a taste of their own selfish medicine. She gave up trying to talk to them. Any of them. So, she thought it'd be best just to ignore them as well, since that's what they seemed to like to do.
The twins were nowhere to be heard off. They were probably in their secret place. Silver understood. Or did she? She just can't figure out why everyone is suddenly the way they are. Leaving her out, acting like she wasn't even there. Atleast there was Ron. Probably the only person she could talk to and would notice her presence. Silver flopped into a chair kind of away from everyone. Ron sat down beside her, "Alright, whats up?"
Silver looked up at him and let out a heavy sigh, "Is there suddenly something wrong with me? Am I all of a sudden annoying? Tell me Ron, I want the truth."
Ron just looked at his friend like she was crazy, "What are you talking about? You're like the coolest person I know. Why would there be anything wrong with you?"
Silver sighed and crossed her legs indian style on the couch, "It's just, I wanted to spend time with Harry, just to sit and talk, you know? Since we haven't been able to do that in a while, and he told me that he had already had plans with Zende, and he wanted to spend time with her. They've been spending time together since Hogsmeade. And Zende is pretty much ignoring me. I just..I don't know what to do, or think."
"I know how you feel, Harry's been blowing me off too. But just remember, this is like his first relationship and he wants it to work," Ron said putting his hand on Silver's knee.
"I know, Ron, but it's just the point of it. He can still have room for his friends too. It's not all that hard. Isn't it like, 'Friends before girlfriends,' or something like that?"
"Yeah, but you just have to get where Harry's coming from I guess," Ron moved his hand from her knee, to her hand and put his fingers in Silvers opened hand, and ran his thumb over it.
"I hope you're right," Silver leaned her head on Ron's shoulder. The common room started to filter out slowly as everyone headed to the Great Hall for dinner. After it was pretty much emtpy, Silver and Ron headed to dinner together, walking silently with each other the whole way there, in comfortable silence, enjoying the company of each other. As they got to the Great Hall, and walked in, they noticed everyone was already there and eating. The two friends made their way to the table and sat down, trying to keep to theirselves, that is unless Fred and George try and talk to them. Silver wasn't really in the mood for Harry's newly found snappiness to everyone always bugging him. Ron and Silver sat next to each other talking quietly and eating, laughing occasionally.
Harry and Zende sat there keeping to theirselves. "Have anything planned for tonight?" Harry asked Zende.
Zen just gave him a look, "No, not that I can remember, why?"
"Well, I was just wondering," Harry began, a bit nervously; he looked so cute when he was nervous, "if you wanted to go to the Astronamy Tower, with me tonight."
"The Astronamy Tower?" She asked confused.
"Yeah, people go up there to watch the stars and whatnot, and well," Harry blushed a little embarrassed, "couples go up there to be alone. I mean like, people's always around, so I was just wondering if you wanted to be alone for a while. Just you and me."
Zen smiled at him, "Yeah, of course."
Harry looked away for a minute, hiding a relieved sigh. Zen just laughed at him alittle.
"Harry, we're dating. You don't have to be all nervous," she told him.
"I know," he shrugged. "Meet me here at 9?" he asked."We'll bring my cloak."
"Sounds good to me," Zende smiled.
They finished eating, and headed to the common room to wait for 9 to roll around. Fred, George and Silver were in a corner trying to sell the Puking Pastilles to first years. Not too long after, Silver left the common room. Harry and Zende stayed in their little corner talking, pretty much blocking out the rest of the world.
Nine o'clock finally rolled around and Harry went to get the cloak, as Zende waited for him by the portrait hole. He came back with the Maurder's map hidden in his pocket. "Ready to go?"
Zen smiled at him, "Of course." As soon as they got through the portrait hole, they went under the cloak.
"Try not to breathe too loud," Harry said, opening up the map looking at it, making sure it was clear to go.
"Yes, daddy," Zende said with the roll of the eyes and a smirk. They made their way up to the tower with ease. As they got there, Harry led her to a nice, big couch.
Zende sat down, watching Harry as he sat next to her, "I love to come up here to look at the stars," Harry looked at Zen, "when it's couple free."
She just laughed, "Oh, I'm sure."
"Oh, not funny!" Harry laughed.
"Then why ya laughing," Zende asked with a laugh.
Harry just shrugged and looked up at the stars, "See that bright star right there?" he asked.
Zen looked up and nodded, "The North Star."
He shook his head, "No, thats the North Star," he pointed to the brightest one, then pointed back to the one he was talking about, "I say that's my parents...watching over me...I know it sounds corny..but it keeps me happy.."
As Harry sat there watching the star, Zende felt bad for saying what she did, "Oh.." Was all she could say.
Harry shook his head, " Anyways," he turned to her and smiled. Placing an arm on the back of the couch and one on her waist, he leaned in and kissed her gently. Zende placed a hand somewhat on his shoulder, the other one on his side, and kissed him back, but with a bit of force.
Silver left the common room after a few first years decided to be brave and try the Puking Pastilles. She went wondering the halls like she normally does just to clear her head and to be alone. Alot was running through it lately and she was tired of always thinking. It was be nice just to not think for a while. She kept walking along the halls blocking everything out as usual, when she felt a tap on her shoulder. Silver turned around to become face to face with Draco. A very sexy look Draco. She did a double take. "Whoa.." she barely breathed when she saw him standing there, in clothes someone would never wear during school hours.
Draco just smirked, "See something that you like?"
Silver tried to snap out of it and let her eyes travel his body, before meeting his, "Going somewhere?"
"Out," he said with that look he always gives her, "like I occasionally do, just to escape everything for a while." Draco looked her up and down, "Looks like you could use some time away from this place, too."
Silver just gave him a look, "Just exactly how do you do that? You can't exactly appariate."
"I have my ways," Draco grinned.
"Besides," she began, "I'm not even dressed to go out."
"Then go to your dorm and change."
"Are you determined that I go with you or something?"
"Yes, I am, I'll even walk with you almost all the way there and I'll stand there and wait for you, got it?"
She just looked at him like he was crazy then let out a sigh, "Yes, daddy," then headed back to the common room with Draco at her side.
A little ways from the Gryffindor common room Draco stopped, "I'll stay here..gotta protect my reputation, you know." Silver just rolled her eyes and walks quickly to get changed. As she entered the room, it started to slowly empty out. Ron was sitting in a big comfy chair by the fire writing something. She quickly made her way up to her dorm without being seen. Going through her clothes, trying to be quiet to not wake anyone up who might be asleep, Silver tried to find something to wear. "Screw this," she whispered and thought really hard before the perfect outfit appeared on her body, then looked in a mirror to see if she looked the way she wanted to. With that, she left the dorm, and the common room without being seen and headed back to Draco. "Alright, I'm ready now, let's go."
Draco just looked at her like he's never seen her before, "Damn, you're looking good," he grinned and lead her out of the school and onto the grounds. Before Silver knew it, they were some place completely different. They were definately not at Hogwarts anymore.
Silver didn't have time to say anything before Draco took her hand and drug her off somewhere. They came infront of a rather nice look club. There was a long line but Draco just skipped it and went right past the guard. "Hey, hey Draco," the guard slapped his hand, "How's my man doing?"
Draco slapped the man's hand back and answered him, "Couldn't be better."
"Brought someone with you for a change I see?" the burly man asked.
"Sure did," he smirked.
"Go on in, man," he let them through.
"You occasionally go out?" Silver yelled over the music. He just shrugged and made his way over to the bar with Silver towing behind him.
The bartender saw Draco and walked over to him, "Yo, regular?"
"Nah," Draco shook his head, "I'm with somebody tonight, just give me two koolers." Silver stood beside Draco.
The man pulled out two koolers and sat them on the bar infront of Draco and jerked his head over to Silver, "That her?" he grinned making Silver wonder.
"Sure is," he said putting an arm around Silver's waist and handed her the drink. He opened his and took a drink. Silver followed and did the same. After they finished drinking their drinks Draco looked at Silver. "Want to dance?"
Looking around at the other people dancing, she felt kind of hesitant, but answered anyways, "Yeah, sure." He grabbed her hand and lead her to the floor and stopped somewhere near the middle. Silver looked all around at the dancing people. Draco pulled her to him, "Just follow me, you'll be fine." He put his hands on her lower back, bring her closer to him and started rocking side to side with the beat. Silver followed his lead, placing her arms around his neck, obeying the beat. As they continued dancing, Silver couldn't help but wonder, then asked, "Why me? Why did you bring me with you?"
Draco looked down on the blonde and laughed a bit, smirking from ear to ear, "Haven't you figured that out yet, Sil? I like you."
She could have sworn she had just heard Draco Malfoy admitting that he likes her. "Excuse me, you..you what?" Silver couldn't even try to fight the smile trying to form on her lips.
"You heard me, babe," he said pulling her even closer, if possible.
"Oh," she blinked.
"What? Is it wrong for me to like you because of who you are," he sneered not even knowing it, but realized on the look on Silver's face he quickly changed the emotion on his face making sure she got the hint that he didn't mean to do that.
"No..no of course not..it's just that..I like you too..since um," yet again she couldn't help the blush painting across her cheeks, "the first time I saw you." She knew it sounded corny, but it was the truth. "Before I even knew who you were."
There wasn't a smirk, a sneer, or a grin on his face, but a smile. An actual smile that probably no body, not any body, has seen on Draco Malfoy. Silver couldn't help but smile either. They continued dancing for a while in comfortable silence, occasionally laughing as they lost beat. After a while a slow song came on. Draco wouldn't let go of Silver if his life depended on it. He wrapped his arms around her waist, which caused her to snake her arms around his neck. As the song wore on, they got closer and Silver's head eventually ended up on his shoulder. Even after the slow song ended and a fast one started, they stayed that way. Silver loved the way Draco smelt. Something like a mixture of vanilla and mint. The steady breathing of Silver on his neck caused him to tremble. He couldn't take it anymore, he had to do something before he exploded. "Silver," Draco whispered.
Silver looked up, inches away from his face, "Hmm?" He didn't say anything, he just leaned down and kissed her as gently as possible, causing goosebumps to grow all over her body. She kissed him deeper, letting him know it was ok. After what seemed like an enternity, Draco finally pulled away, licking his lips, smiling, resting his forehead on Silver's. "We better get going, it's getting late." Silver just nodded as they made their way across the club and out into the cold London air. Just like before, they were back at Hogwarts before they knew it. They quickly made their way back up to the castle. "I'll walk you to your common room, I don't want you getting caught," Draco said unlacing their fingers, snaking an arm around her slender waist. Walking in silence to make sure they didn't get caught, they finally made it to the Gryffindor common room. "Well, this is where I leave you," Draco left out a rather disappointing sound. Silver just nodded. He let go of Silver, bringing her towards him and gave her a g'night kiss. All she could do was smile. "Sweet dreams, beautiful," Draco said before he disappeared down the staircase.
Silver stood there for a moment, smiling like crazy, before hearing something and going into the common room. As she got inside the portrait hole, she walked along down the small hallway into the common room and saw someone asleep on a chair. She walked closer to find out who it was. It was Ron. There was some parchment about to fall out of his hand. Silver picked it as it was about to drop and read it, curiously. She about dropped it when she read, "Silver." It was a letter to her. She kept on reading. A letter explaining how the truth might effect their friendship, but she must know. Ron was in love with her. She sat the parchment on his lap carefully to not wake him. She was in such a great mood, until then. Silver was so confused. Her mind was finally rid of all the thoughts she was thinking, until she read that letter, bringing it all back. She made her way up to the six year girls' dorm, whispering a spell of somesort changing her into her pajamas and crawled into her fourposter, pulling the curtains around, before laying down and falling asleep.