Chapter 5

Silver masks and all that jazz

Draco looked bewildered at the package lying on his bed. He reached for it but drew back as if scared it would bite his finger off. But with a sudden movement he snatched it from off the bed. He looked it over. There was no writing on it to indicate whom it was from. But at last he guessed it would be from his mother. He sighed. He could always rely on her to send him chocolates and cakes. He untied the string around it and began to undo the wrapping paper. Once finished he opened the box. He was a little startled to find nothing but a silver mask and a note. Unfolding it he read to himself:

My dearest Draco,

Tonight is the night. I will reveal who I am. 10 is the hour in which we shall meet. But I am a little scared as you see. I'm not used to people knowing I live them. I am always in the shadows. So please. When u discover who I am. Please don't scream and run a way. At least talk to me.

Love,

Your secret admirer.

"And now to start panicking." He said. He was not used no not knowing things that went on. He usually always knew. Everyone told him things. Even if he had to force it out of him. Or his father would tell him. Getting up he put the mask and note in a secret compartment of his bedside table. It consisted the most precious things to him. The other note he had received. His grandfather's pocket watch, a tiny teddy bear his mother had given him as a child and a little rocking horse he had gotten from his father before he had been corrupted. He was always a member of the dark society but he had been loving and caring at one point.

Draco sat at diner only picking at his food. He was much too nervous. Three hours and counting. He looked sown the table at Pansy. She was looking down right miserable. Even when her friends tried to entice her in conversation she just brushed them off.

He sat in the common room. 2 hours to go. He was getting skittish. The mask and note where still in his desk. An hour and thirty minutes... he was going mad. An hour left and he had almost ripped everything to shreds. Twice during that half an hour Pansy had tried to indulge him in conversation about her beauty HA which he refused.

30 minutes. It was time. He walked up to his dormitory and retrieved the mask. He walked quietly past the students in the common room and out the door. He snuck along the walls as not too be seen by prefects or the head boy or girl. As he left the castle he broke into a run. As he was running down the hill he put on his mask. It was a little harder to see and he had to slow down incase he tripped over anything. He started breathing heavily and finally made it to the edge of the forest completely breathless and tired. After he had calmed down he stood up and looked around. No one was in sight. He was getting a little uneasy. She wasn't there. He started to panic when he saw a figure walki9ng towards him. It was getting closer and closer and he realized it was a clocked person with a silver mask. It parched Draco at a slow pace. He realized it was a girl. But he couldn't make out distinct features to find out whom it was. she stopped when she was 5 feet away from him.

"Hello Draco". She said. "I've been wanting to talk to you for a long time." She removed her hood and Draco stood stunned.

A/N hey every one. its been a wile i know. but i finaly have it up. i left you hanging so your read the next chapter. i feel you will be pleasantly surprised at who it is. its no one you guys guessed so hahaha. lol well im outy... MAGGIE MAC!!