"Ouch! You dimwit! Watch where you're going. Can't you see who I am? I could sue you for the injuries!" Draco muttered as he patted the dust off his cashmere jacket and looked up. He sucked in a breath as a pair of green eyes greeted him. The air was cold and clammy, he felt his lungs filled with icy air as he stopped breathing for a slight moment. Can it be...?

No! No! The nightmare of nightmares!

He blinked his eyes, staring at Harry blankly.

"Are you going to get up instead of whining all day? You could have watched where you're going." Harry groaned as he pushed Draco off and dusted his own shirt.

"Well excuse me, I wasn't the only one who wasn't watching my way. Look at my hair! It's all messed up now thanks to you. You know, I have shut my mouth for very long about your unkempt and messy hair but that serves no reason for you to go around messing other people's hair." Draco insisted, sounding rather offended.

"Would you just stop complaining? Aren't you supposed to have your daily beauty sleep to maintain your flawless complexion or something?"

"Well, thank you for the compliment on my skin. I guess not everyone has this natural beauty I have. What about you? Sneaking around the corridors and preying on poor helpless Slytherins like me?" Draco eyed Harry suspisciously, as if he was hiding some dung bombs, waiting for a chance to get him.

Harry's eyebrow arched up. "What? Like as if you were ever innocent. It so happens that I don't feel like sleeping and decided to go for a walk. Now if you will excuse me..." Harry retorted and started walking past Draco, their shoulders brushing against the other..

Draco bit his lip for a moment and hesitated. "Hey! I'm coming with you. Just so in case we get caught by Filch, both of us are in for detention instead of just one of us." he said cautiously, his gaze slowly shifting to meet Harry's. "Just to be fair." Draco quickly added.

Mentally cursing himself, he wanted to sink through the ground at this moment. What was I thinking? Like Harry Potter would ever believe that I just want a normal stroll with him. With him? Normal stroll? Now my mind's going mad.

Harry's face visibly showed surprise and immediately to suspicion. "You're not trying to jinx me, are you?" he insisted. Draco shook his head, and pretended to be sad and hurt.

"Me? Poor lil' me? I wouldn't even jinx a fly!"

Harry bit his lip as his eyes moved from the cold hard floor to Draco's eyes. For a moment, Harry felt his whole body turn to jelly. It was the strangest feeling he ever felt. Under the pale moonlight, Draco's eyes were like a shimmering gem, shining silver and blue whenever he turned.

"Earth to Harry. Hello? What are doing? Zoning out to pay a short visit to your fairy godmother in Dreamland?"

"What? Come on! You wanted a walk so let's get going."

"But I'm cold. Let me go get a thicker jacket."

"Toughen up! Seekers should be tough enough to withstand cold." Harry teased him. "Besides, you'll feel warm enough after a walk in the compounds."

"Well, I happen to fall under a special and unique group of Seekers who need lots of care and maintainence."

"Right. I forgot. Malfoy can't stand such 'common' things, even a nice chilly walk. Just be quick and get yourself out and ready."

"Give me a minute," Draco said and entered the Slytherin dungeons, heading to his closet for a change of clothes.

"I'll take your word for that!"

Outside, Harry leaned against the cold gray brick walls, waiting. He let his mind wander, and soon, he thought about the feeling he had gotten just by staring into Draco's eyes. Draco? Now I'm getting all formal with him. Could it be? No way! I'd rather die a thousand deaths! Shivering, he felt a slight chill down his spine and dismissed all thoughts about Draco.

"I thought you said a minute?" Harry snapped. He stuffed his freezing hands into his pockets as he gritted his teeth against the cold night air. Now he starting to get cold after that long wait in the hallway.

"Well, I couldn't help it! I can't be caught dead in some horrible looking or mismatched clothes even if it is at night."

"Alright, you're warm now but I'm not! I said walk! Not sit down by the lake and gaze into it, looking for some huge squid!"

Draco glared at the fuming Gryffindor. As the words slowly registered in his head, Draco's face was suddenly flushed and was as pale as a sheet. "What did you say? G-Giant S-S-quid?" His eyes were opened wide in horror and his mouth, gaping at the lake.

Harry's lips slowly curled into a sly smile after seeing Draco's expression. "Yes, a giant squid which would grab innocent people sitting by the lake whenever he's hungry. Usually at night..." Harry's voice sounding like a narrator for a horror film.

"AHH!!" Draco screamed and hugged Harry's arm tightly, at the same time trying to drag Harry further away from the lake. Harry rolled his eyes but his face pinked subsequently. What is Malfoy thinking? Doing such an embarrassing act. Harry hoped the lack of light in the park hid his embarrassing blush.

"Your face is already all flushed! Relax. That was such a girly scream, you know that? Just like the time we were in the Forbidden Forest..." Harry sniggered as they made their way towards Hogwarts.

"It is a genuine Malfoy manly shout when in times of danger. I repeat, shout. I do not scream like a girl you ingrate. You would have been a midnight snack for the squid if it weren't for me!" he excused.

Sitting down at a distance from the lake, they lay on their backs, watching the night sky. Draco looked up at the night sky, bright stars dotted the vast blackness like little diamonds. "The sky's beautiful tonight!" he exhaled.

Harry had to agree as he admired it, taking in the beauty of the stars quietly. Draco pursed his lips together into a thin line and shifted his gaze to his hands. They were slim and graceful (Like a girl's, Draco thought disdainfully) and numbed from cold. Stealing a glance at Harry who was still looking into the sky, he wondered what made Harry seem so much like a man every girl wants.

Of course he was taller, bigger size, more muscular, not delicately shaped as himself...

I play Quidditch too, even longer than him, shouldn't I be the one with muscles?

Draco frowned.

Unfair!

Admit it, Harry is a man...and you want him too...

Draco frowned as he felt his cheeks burning and butterflies in his stomach.

I am a man too.

But you're not the type of man Harry is...cool, charming, sexy, nice...

I want to puke, Draco told himself. Unconsciously, he stuck his tongue out.

"What's wrong with you?" Harry poked him in his ribs.

Draco shrieked, smacking his hand away. "Just thought I'd remind you that I'm very delicate."

"No, you're not okay...alone in your room on a Saturday night...all alone...so lonely..."

Harry's words ate at him.

"I am not lonely!"

"I can see it in your face," Harry teased him. "I guess those lonesome nights made you this defensive, unsociable, closed up, whiny, mean..." he sighed exaggeratedly. "We won't blame you, Malfoy, we won't."

"Shut up your mouth, Potter!" Draco seethed, trying his best not to yell. "You're not much better! Alone too!"

"Who says I'm alone, Draco?" Harry asked him. "You think I'm alone...?"

Actually, Harry was alone. After Ron had confessed his feelings to Hermione, they had spent almost every other night in the Gryffindor Common Room together. Though they still cared and their great friendship with Harry was never affected, he still felt awkward, as though he was ruining their quiet time together. He definitely didn't want to play gooseberry! Because of that, he had been lonely at night, always going for walks alone in his invisibility cloak. But tonight was different, he couldn't use his cloak for he met someone unexpected. Someone whom he thought would never be alone and that just gave him the great urge to tease him about it...

Draco kept quiet bitterly. That's right, who ever said famous Harry Potter was alone?

No one.

He has somebody...somebody to keep him company, somebody to talk and laugh with, somebody to love and to be loved by...

I don't have anybody. Yes, there's Pansy, Blaise, Crabbe, Goyle, the other Slytherins... They give me comfort but still, I get this empty feeling I always feel at night. No one...I'm lonely...? I had been lonely for a long time now... but now I'm lonely and I'm in love...