Chapter 2

Draco exited the room a little after Saydee. He stayed behind straining to regain his composure, then left and fell into step a few paces behind her. He watched her go up the stairs and disappear then he turned and left the quieting entrance hall for his care of magical creatures class.

At dinner Saydee's stomach felt full of twittering sparks. She could barely eat and left ten minuets early. She did not understand why she was so nervous, it was just studying, and she did not even like him. She changed her clothes and fixed her hair, then headed for the library. Her nerves were still running wild and her heart was pounding in her chest. 'Stop, there is no reason to be so nervous, it is just studying, and it is Draco Malfoy, arrogant, disdainful, cold and pompous', she thought to herself. She was able to calm herself before she reached the library.

When she entered the library Draco was leaning against a bookshelf leafing through a book, a slight smirk on his face. As she came near he raised his head and brushed the few locks of silver blonde hair from his eyes. His smirk softened at the sight of her, and warmth was flooding his usually cold gray eyes, turning into a beautiful blue gray. Though these slight changes took place in his eyes, he did not loose his perfect composure. She smiled softly at him, feeling her knees threatening to give way as he smiled back at her. 'What am I doing?' She thought, 'and why is he so different now?'

He gestured with his hand down a row of tall bookshelves that reached all the way to where the ceiling would be if there was not a high balcony around the library, pushing the ceiling up to a two-story level. She gave him a quizzical look as to say, 'Where are we going?' He raised one eyebrow in a flirtatious way and stepped forward to lead her down the passage. They wound their way through the bookshelves and it began to grow ever darker as they delved deeper into the strange maze. They finally came to a sort of clearing in the forest of high bookcases and large leather bound books. The space contained a small square oak table and two high backed oak chairs with purple cushions. There was a lamp on the table that flooded the area with light.

"Well," said Saydee after a moment, breaking the silence, "Shall we start?" Draco stepped forward and pulled back one of the chairs for her to sit in and then sat down in the other. They took out their charms books, parchment and quills and set them on the table.

"Where to begin." Said Draco in a comical tone, staring wide-eyed at his huge charms book, sarcasm hinted in the corners of his gaping mouth.

"Hmm, where indeed." Saydee said imitating Draco's tone in a playful way. She tried to fight back a smile, but could not. She opened to the table of contents and began to name things until . . .

"That's it!" Draco interrupted, "Cheering charms, I spent a like over a week in the hospital wing after a nasty accident with a bludger, I came back and we were on cheering charms, and I was completely lost."

"OK, that should make a good starting point." She began explaining what cheering charms where and how to do them. They worked for about two hours and had progressed to walking charms, spells that made objects sprout legs and walk by themselves, before Draco had finally had enough.

"Agh! I just can't do it!" He said in frustration.

"I think that's good for tonight, you're still behind, but you have made a lot of progress." She said looking at him, Draco continued to stare at the book in front of him, a sort of angry frustration on his face. "You're doing well, really, you'll catch up in no time." She said trying to sooth him. "Same time tomorrow?"

He nodded his head, "Yeah." The frustration in his eyes ebbing away as he spoke. Saydee led the way back to the nearly deserted library and they headed off toward the Slytherin common room. As they walked they talked, mainly about random things, but as they did Saydee began to like him more and more, she could not figure out what it was she didn't like in the first place. Then they passed a group of second year girls who giggled as he approached, he sneered and then, oh there it was, he gave them the Malfoy death stare. 'That's right', she thought.

"I hate when they do that!" He said, turning his attention back to her.

"What? How they become all giddy and their cheeks redden because they think you are just so cute!?" She said.

"Well, yeah its annoying really, almost everyone does that, it really gets on my nerves."

"Oh yeah, it must be terrible," she said, her voice sarcastic, "just awful to have every girl in school think you are just the hottest thing in the world."

"They don't think that."

"Yeah they do. They like you because you are so incredibly cool, the way you sneer and act like nothing could ever bother you, it does stuff to girls." As she said this, Saydee began to realize that it did things to her too, she just didn't like to admit it.

"Can I help it if I am?" Said Draco, his words dripping with sarcasm, "No, but really, that's what they think of me?"

"I really don't think you want to know what your reputation is." Saydee said bluntly.

"No, I really do." He said, stopping abruptly and grabbing her wrist to pull her to the side of the corridor.

"Alright." She relented, finding her self against the wall and comfortably close to Draco, he was still holding onto both her wrists. "Well, to be perfectly honest, people tend to think you are very arrogant, a real tough guy, you know? And a lot of girls find that incredibly sexy. But they also think your sort of easy, well not easy, but you sleep around a lot, you know, the kind of guy that will sleep with you one night, and never call you back." She now felt absolutely terrible for saying it, his face looked horrible. "I'm sorry." She added

"No, no, I asked for the truth, can I ask one more thing?"

"Sure."

"Is that what you think of me?"

"Well," she gulped, the question had caught her totally off guard, "I used to." His expression darkened. "But after tonight, I don't know what to think." He stepped closer to her, his nose only inches away from hers. "Now you seem relaxed and, well, even sweet, I like you like this . . . a lot." She leaned into him and he did the same, then they kissed, a sweet, short kiss. Then he pulled away. She opened her eyes and looked at his cute face, and she felt like her heart was melting in her chest. His hands now gently released her wrists, and his left hand grasped her right and their fingers intertwined and they walked back to the common room like that, close, and for the first time in a while for both of them, happy.

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