Due to small class size, all the houses were put in together in Sixth Year Arithmancy. This meant it was another class that that Draco and Alexas shared.

In a quiet moment, Adrian leant over to Alexas and whispered, "What's the deal with you and Malfoy? You're being awfully friendly all of a sudden."

Draco and Alexas shared a look that said, 'you've GOT to be kidding.'

"What are you, nuts?" Alexas asked him. "We just decided to bury the hatchet, that's all." Adrian didn't look too convinced. "Do you think I would lie to you?"

"Well, no." he said reluctantly.

"Then trust me."

At dinner, Draco sat at the Slytheryn table, surrounded by the usual butt-kissers. He could see the whole of the school and it was sickening. Half of them were fidgeting looking like they had to face down a dragon when all they had to do was give a card to someone. The other half was just as bad; making use of a time that should be for eating looking doe-eyed at someone else.

Blaise had his usual little floozy, this year she was a fourth year who was gushing about how cool he was and how she thought someone like him would've never even looked at her. Draco very nearly told her just why he was interested. Blaise had this habit of collecting girls' hearts – and their first times. After that, he completely ignored them. Sometimes, the people Draco got associated with really made him want to hurl.

A paper plane collided with the side of his head. Looking around, he saw Alexas waving and miming throwing a plane. Then she made motions of opening something.

Realizing what she wanted, he unfolded the plane and read the message inside. It said; 'What's up? You look as if you're about to jinx someone.'

He pulled a quill out of his bag and added; 'I'm just tired of watching everyone making kissy-faces.' He re-folded it and sent it back.

When Alexas read the message, she smiled. Setting it to flight once more with 'Sickening, isn't it?' Then she sighed, thinking about Valentines only reminded her that she didn't have one. Her thoughts drifted back to the ball. She just couldn't stop wondering who it was that she had spent that night with. It kept popping up at random moments when she wasn't expecting it.

She actually caught herself wishing that she had de-masked. "Oh come on. Like it would've worked." She muttered to herself.

"What was that?" Adrian asked.

"Never mind. It was nothing."

Sickening. Draco supposed that it was, but right now, he wouldn't mind doing it himself. Especially if it was with that girl he'd met at the ball. If only he'd followed her, maybe he could've found out who she was. Who was he kidding? As soon as she had found out who he was, she would've been repulsed.

He was just so sick of what he had to pretend to be. He didn't need to pretend around Alexas, but it just wasn't the same. Maybe she knew who that girl was, or could help him find her. He made a mental note to ask her about it sometime.

Later that night, everyone was just sitting around in the Prefect common room amusing themselves in various ways.

Alexas looked up from her transfiguration homework at Ron and Cliff playing wizard's chess. "Hey Draco?"

Draco stopped staring into space. "What?"

She pointed at the two locked in the battle on the board. "Look at them. Cliff's first name is Roger and his is Ron."

"Yeah, so?"

"They both start with R. They both like Wizarding chess, and are both prefects. It's almost like they're the same person."

He rested his chin in one hand. "Except that they're completely different."

"Alright. So apart from the fact that they're totally different, they're exactly the same." Their eyes met and Alexas grinned. It was so infectious that Draco couldn't help returning it.

"Hey Cliff!" she called suddenly. "You know that you're only fighting yourself?" They looked at Cliff's puzzled face, then each other again and burst into laughter.

When the laughter died off, Alexas turned back to her homework. She tried to keep her mind on it, but somehow she just couldn't concentrate. Her thoughts just kept drifting back to the ball. She remembered how peaceful it had felt just to sway to the music in her unknown prince's arms. With out realizing she was doing it, Alexas began softly humming Frank Sinatra's 'Witchcraft'.

Draco was pulled away from his thoughts when his ears registered that song. "Why are you humming that?" he asked.

She started. "Oh, sorry. I didn't realize I was."

"You didn't answer my question."

"Just remembering a happy memory." She said evasively. "I'm going to go finish this in bed. There's too much noise in here." She said hastily, making him think that it wasn't the real reason she wanted to leave. Just because she could sense other people's emotions didn't mean she was good at hiding her own.

Then he thought about what the song was. Could it have been her? He chuckled to himself at that. The mere idea of it was absurd.

A/N: They're both so stupid, aren't they? R R!