Chapter 4: The Party

We walked back to my room and figured that if one of us stood beside the closed door of the bathroom, the other person could take a shower without being five feet away from each other. I took the first shower while he waited impatiently for me to finish. Every few seconds, Draco would slam his fists at the door yelling, " HURRY UP! YOU'RE TAKING TOO LONG!" I purposely took my time, for I loved to provoke him. Causally I put on a black strapless dress my mother insisted for me to wear and brushed my hair. As I did one last check on my face, to see if there was any blemishes, Draco had had enough.

" GET OUT OF THE BATHROOM OR I'LL BUST IT OPEN!" he yelled. Before I could think, he burst through the door, and I was lucky enough to have clothes on. He seemed very enraged.

" Draco, you know you could have just knocked on the door and politely asked for me to finish," I calmly said and walked past him and shut the door behind me. After about a couple of minutes, he came out of the bathroom with a white collared shirt and black pants. He glared and walked straight past me. He was going rather fast and when he was about five feet away, BAM he was pushed into me by some unknown force. I collided onto the floor with him on top of me. I was pinned to the ground.

"This is rather uncomfortable," I uttered through his clothing. He tried to move up and soon was off me. Holding a hand to help boost me, I grabbed on and he pulled me off the ground. I could see his silver eyes. It was more of a light blue than silver.

" Great, now we've figured that we both can't run away without being pushed back into each other," he said.

" We should make the best of it," I replied and gestured for him to hold his arm for me.

Reluctantly, he did and I latched on. " Do you think we should tell anyone about this?" I asked as we descended down the stairs.

" No, just keep it a secret until we tell our parents," he whispered whereas many people were greeting us at the bottom of the steps. I tugged on his arm for him to follow me.

. " Where are we going?" he asked.

" To talk to Pansy. She's right over there," I mumbled.

" No…I don't want to talk to her! I'm going to talk to Flint and Blaise," he whined.

" We are going to talk to Pansy."

" No, we are going to talk to Flint and Blaise."

" Pansy."

" Flint and Blaise." We stopped walking and began to argue. People gave us bewildered looks.

" Pansy."

" Flint and Blaise." I felt a force pushing me closer to him.

" Pansy." I said and soon our faces were centimeters away.

" Ahem, Hello Draco and Jessica," a voice interrupted us. We rotated our gaze to the voice to see Flint and Blaise staring at us with bewilderment. Draco smirked and step towards them, having me to pursue.

" Hello, Flint, Blaise," Draco started.

" Heard you both had to go home early the other day. Wow, you two fought violently," Flint said.

" Yeah, I'm surprised you both are even right now close to each other," Blaise added. True, Draco and I were pretty close, though I couldn't explain the reason for it. Every time we were arguing, something seemed to push us closer to each other. They started to walk and I followed them for obvious reasoning and was stopped by Pansy.

" Wow, I never knew you could punch a boy that hard," Pansy said. " Where's the marks?" she asked. Draco was still talking to Flint and Blaise and he was strolling farther and farther away. Without thinking I grabbed onto Pansy's arm and pulled her to walk with me towards the boys. They finally stopped walking and sat at a table. I pushed Pansy down on a chair a few seats away from the boys, which was enough so that the curse wouldn't do anything, and sat beside her. I pretended to talk to Pansy as I heeded every word Flint and Draco said.

" You know Draco, if I was thinking clearly, I'd say you two seem to be actually talking now," Flint whispered to Draco, but was loud enough for me to hear.

" Our punishment is to be stuck in the same house, so we may as well talk," Draco said and eyed me. I turned my gaze back to Pansy.

" I'm going to get some brandy. Would you like any?" she offered. I shook my head and she headed off to get her drink. I stared at the table and acted as if I was apathetic.

" Well Draco, if that's the punishment, then why are you both following each other. It's as if you both can tolerate one another," Flint asked. Draco appeared abashed. Pansy came back with her drink, but I could smell that it wasn't her first one.

" Draco, darling, would like to dance?" she inquired. He appeared nervous.

" You know Pansy, I think you've had a little too much to drink tonight," I said and got off my seat and tried to take the beverage away from her.

" No, no, I'm fine. Draco, come let's dance!" she pushed me away and walked to the Draco. He got off his seat and got away from Pansy's open arms.

Instead he came to me and whispered, " The only way to get away from her is for us to dance." He snatched my hand a led me to the other side of the room. Suddenly music was heard from the background and we started to dance. Nervously, I stepped with him through the music. The music slowed down and I laid my head on his shoulder and we slow danced. I had a weird feeling in my stomach. I felt a happy sensation indulge me. Why was I happy? The music subsided and a clinging of glass was heard from the other side of the room.

" Come everyone and be seated!" my mother called from the head of the table. Draco and I walked back to the table and didn't even notice that we were still holding hands. As we were about to sit by our friends, Narissca instructed us to sit by Draco and my parents. We sat beside our parents and waited for my mother to go on with her speech.

" Now, I'm sure you all are wondering why we have asked you to come this party?" she said. There were murmurs of "Yes". She waited for the murmurs to settle and continued. " As now I would like to ask for Lucious and Narissca as well as my husband John to stand." They stood up and she proceeded. " The Malfoy's and the Rossington's would like to announce DRACO AND JESSICA'S ENGAGMENT!" my mother bellowed with a smile. There was utter silence.

" WHAT?" both Draco and I said together. Our parents looked at us and still bore a smile.

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