Chapter 4

A/N: Sorry it took so long for a new chapter, I've been really busy, Geometry and English are killing me with homework and I really don't see the point! And to those who reviewed:

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And now our Feature Presentation:

Saydee sat down next to Draco about halfway through dinner letting her body relax on his while sighing in relief. Draco put his arm around her waist and rested his head on top of hers, and they sat for a moment in a perfect trembling bliss, shock waves being sent barely noticed through their bodies from each other's touch. Then Saydee sat up and kissed Draco briefly, then said, "I'm kinda hungry." And she looked over the food in front of her, deciding what to eat.

"What took you so long to get here?" Draco asked, sparking a conversation.

"Just talking." She replied, finally deciding on steak and kidney pie. (A/N they eat that right? I'm so bad w/ English food!) Draco just shrugged and turned to his own dinner, not wanting to press her. "Are we still 'studying' tonight?" She asked, sarcasm present in that particular word.

"I have no idea what you are talking about." Draco said, a mix of mock innocence, sarcasm and arrogance in his voice. Saydee just laughed it off, they both knew what it was, nothing more needed to be said. "No, really I can't. We have an emergency quidich practice right after dinner."

"Oh, ok." She said with a look of slight disappointment on her face. Just as she said this the rest of the Slytherin team came up behind them and tapped Draco on the shoulder.

"Let's go!" Aiden Ash said, the captain of the team, said.

"Alright." Draco responded, then turned to Saydee "I've got to go, see you later." He finished, almost being pulled from the bench by his teammates.

Jenisa and Analyse scuttled across the bench, a few seats down to sit next to Saydee, it seemed like ages since they had talked.

"Hi!" They said in unison.

"Hello." Saydee replied, wanting and not wanting to tell them everything that had happened, but she knew one thing, she wouldn't just tell them, she would wait until they asked and she didn't have to wait long

"So?" Jenisa prompted.

"So what?"

"Ugh! You know, what's up with you and Draco?"

"Well," she started, "hhmm. Can I not tell you here? Let's go back to the common room."

"Alright."

Draco was walking out with the team, when a large eagle owl came swooping down and delivered a letter to him. 'Must be urgent,' Draco thought, 'from father?' He opened it and read the short note to himself as he absentmindedly walked to the pitch.

Draco,
I have heard about this girl you are seeing, and I am writing to tell
you I do not approve. I feel you need to know no more, and I expect
that you will soon break off these relations. I trust you will do as
I have asked, or you know what will happen.

Lucious

Suddenly a rush of horrible memories came flooding back to him. 'NO!' He thought, pushing the thoughts out of his head. 'Not now.' And he continued to walk down the path, regaining his all too well known composure.

The three girls walked back to the common room talking casually as if nothing had happened, gossiping here and there. Saydee, meanwhile, was picking her brain, figuring out what to tell her friends, and what not to. She finally decided as they reached their destination and plopped down on the comfortable couches. She told them everything, except one thing, the feeling that ran through her whenever she touched Draco. 'I'm not even sure he feels it, but he has to, right? That feeling, like electricity, yeah, it's electrifying.' She thought.

When their conversation was running low on things to talk about Saydee excused herself to get her homework, 'I've got to do something to keep me awake, I can't sleep now, I don't know what might happen.' She thought. She lay across a large armchair looking out the window at the quidich field, but furiously trying to make herself concentrate. 'Stop, if you don't study, there is no way you will pass your transfiguration test.' She tried to read her notes, but kept looking up, then she noticed the green dots where no longer air-borne, but had formed one large clump in the middle of the field. 'Concentrate!' She finally looked back to her book and never out the window again. Her eyes soon began to droop and slowly blink closed.

Draco was speeding down the pitch, wind whistling in his ears when he heard a deafening thump and then a few gasps and a scream. He whipped around in mid air, flawless performance, he was a lot better at quitach than he used to be. Then he saw it, Aiden was falling to the ground and landed with a huge thud. Draco immediately began speeding to the sight where his limp body lay, he was the last to arrive.

"What happened?" Draco asked as soon as he landed.

"Wasn't paying attention and hit the goal post." Someone replied.

"That's great! We have a game in two days!" Pucey almost yelled.

"We'll have to get a replacement." Another added.

"It's such short notice!" Someone else.

"We should get him to the hospital." Warrington

"We've got to finish practice!" Pucey protested.

"We can't leave him here!" Warrington said, advancing on Pucey.

"HEY! How about you take him to the hospital wing, Warrington and we will continue practice." Draco interjected, finally being heard.

"Alright." Everyone agreed. Warrington conjured a stretcher and it levitated Ash's body all the way to the castle as the rest of the team kept practicing. Toward the end of practice Warrington came back.

"How is he." Most inquired.

"He's fine, he's fine! He woke up while I was still there, then passed out, but he did say two things. One: get a replacement and two:" He paused, looking around. "Draco is temporary captain."

The common room was all cleared when the team returned, except for a figure lying in a chair, a book in their lap, asleep. Draco said goodbye to everyone, he knew exactly who was asleep in the chair.

"Always falling asleep." He mumbled under his breath.

"I'll bet you don't know why she does that." Came a voice from behind him. Draco spun around quickly, it was Jenisa.

"You're right." He said plainly letting his guard down, though not completely.

"She has night mares." She replied plainly. "Her father," she paused, unsure, "well she should really tell you, when she is ready." She stopped, thinking over what she was going to say. "Her family isn't the greatest."

"I've heard." Draco mumbled.

"She wakes up most nights, thrashing the blankets and yelling." Jenisa continued not hearing Draco's comment. "She has been putting silencing charms on her bed lately, so she doesn't wake the rest of us up."

"Why doesn't she try a-" Draco began.

"Sleeping drought?" She asked guessing his half-asked question. "They don't work."

"Why?" He asked simply.

"I don't know, just her family, that's what she always says, she doesn't even live with them anymore."

"Since when?" Another simple question.

"Last summer." Draco looked very shocked. "Look, I probably told you more than I really should of, I'm sure she will tell you eventually, give her time." And with that Jenisa was gone, up the stairs, and had disappeared into her dormitory, leaving Draco, and his sleeping beauty.

He stood for a good five minuets thinking over what Jenisa had told him, he was facing the chair Saydee was sleeping in, but looking out the window above. 'I don't understand.' He kept saying to himself. The information came as such a shock to him. Saydee always seemed like the perfectly happy sweet girl, even though she was in Slytherin, she seemed like she should be in Gryfandor. As Draco thought about it more and more, everything fell into place, the letter, the journal entry, what Jenisa had just said, but there where still major gaps. He continued to think and as he did the more apparent it became to him that there was something severely wrong with her past, but what? . . .

Draco felt something going around his waist and before he knew it Saydee had pulled him down into the seat with her. He reacted quickly though, and pulled her into a sweet passionate kiss. As they pulled out, a bit breathless, still trembling slightly, Draco managed to say,

"We need to talk."

"Ok, about what?"

A/N: Oh! Cliffhanger?!?!? Hehehe, review!