Draco didn't speak to me for several months. Halloween came around too fast for my liking. Kayla, on the other hand got a lot closer to Harry, and couldn't wait until the Halloween feast. They became a little more than friends. This bugged Draco. He was angry that a Slytherin and a Gryffindor were going out. I overheard him talking to Crabbe and Goyle saying, "it's, just, unnatural. Slytherins and Gryffindors are supposed to be enemies."

The Halloween feast was brilliant. This year, instead of floating bats, we had floating bubbling cauldrons. Before the feast, Draco decided to confront me.

"I'm sorry I've been so rotten to you lately. I will try to tone down the mudblood stuff." He said cautiously. Trying was good enough for me. I really missed him.

"I think we can start over." He said.

Dumbledore gave his usual Halloween speech. The food was awesome. Everyone stuffed their faces with pastries, candy, and gulped down butterbeer. That dinner was the best dinner I had in a long time. I couldn't tell you how good it felt to be talking to Draco again. After the feast everyone had their own House parties. The Slytherin party lasted a couple hours. After the party everyone was tired and went to bed. I made Draco hold back a while. I made sure everyone else was out of the common room before I talked to Draco.

"Er…. Draco?" I asked nervously.

"What?" he said back. "Well, I was just wondering … wondering why you didn't tell anyone else I was a muggle-born?" I asked.

"Because you are my friend, and I knew you were right about you being more of a friend to me than Crabbe and Goyle. It just took me a while to accept the fact that you were different and in a way, exactly the same." He said, "I was just confused, that's all". I smiled at him. I gave him a hug. It felt a bit awkward, so I cleared my throat and said, "well, I'm glad we.. Um, cleared that up." Then I went up stairs and had the best night's sleep I'd had in 3 months.

CHAPTER 5

Practice was much more pleasant now that I was on speaking terms with Draco. Although it was still a little weird being so close to him so fast. I felt like I needed to tell him something really important. The only problem was, I didn't know what that important something was. Well I filled Draco in on all the stuff he missed. I hadn't been seeing Kayla much because she spent 75 of her time with Harry. Draco didn't mind that she wasn't around. They always hated each other. Several times I had to drag Kayla away from harry because we had a class or something.

"We have a Quidditch game this coming Saturday" said Draco, scanning his schedule for anything the least bit interesting. "Who are we playing?" I asked, spraying a bit of eggs all over the table into Goyle's face. "Sorry" I said. "We play Gryffindor, then next Friday we play Hufflepuff." He said. "That'll be a nightmare for Kayla." I said laughing, "she won't know who to cheer for. She might as well not come at all".

Draco began to imitate what she might do, "oh, come on harry!!! Wait, come on Annelise, wait, Harry lets go. Score Annelise! Come on Draco, you can fall off your broom if you try hard enough! Score Gryffindor, no score Slytherin, no… wait, and score gryf.. I mean Slytherin!" I laughed.

"She probably won't take sides. But if she does, it's gonna be Gryffindor" I said.

"She spends most of her time with them. She might as well join their house" Draco chortled.

"You wouldn't even care!" I said.

"Yeah, I wouldn't" he agreed.

"You are something else," I said as we left for double potions. Double potions was Draco's favorite class, for Draco was Snape's favorite student. Besides, Draco couldn't possibly miss a chance to get under Harry's skin.

Potions was a real treat for Draco, but for Kayla, no. We were making a potion that made you tell the truth. Draco put a couple of drops into Harry's water bottle. "So, harry, who do you really love? Kayla or Cho?"

"Kayla" he responded. That was the only good part.

Then he asked, "why didn't you want to be in Slytherin?"

"Malfoy, and Ron told me it was bad," said Harry dully.

"Before Kayla, who did you have a crush on?" asked Malfoy rubbing his hand together.

"Cho Chang" said harry in the same tone. At this Kayla looked outraged.

"Now, what is your deepest most darkest secret?" he asked, rubbing his hands so hard together that they were turning red.

"Siri---" He couldn't say anything more because Kayla dove for Harry and clapped her hand over his mouth. She made him stand up and she pulled him off to the Hospital wing without speaking to Snape. Snape thought this was really funny and just sat there at his desk, pretending he wasn't listening. But I knew it was because he had the biggest smile on his face I had ever seen.

About 20 minutes later, Kayla returned with Harry and walked back to her desk, and on the way, kicked Malfoy hard in the shin. "Ouch!" yelped Draco. The rest of the period, Draco was flicking little pieces of wiggentree bark at the back of Kayla's Head. After he did it a few times, I made him stop.

Draco was complaining about how he nearly had his hands on Harry's secret all the way to the Great hall. "Come on, I would've done what Kayla did if she hadn't gotten there first" I said.

"I know, but you had to admit, that was pretty funny!" said Draco with glee. "Yeah" I said. Kayla was exceptionally mad at Draco for what he did to harry.