A/n:

I have written 2 chapters of this, one sitting in Sarah's hardrive, waiting to be beta'd and the other is sitting in my harddrive waiting for Sarah to finish the other one so I can send it to her. But sarah has a lot to do since she is also beta-ing my chapter of Strawberry Window SHADE and she is soon to be working on her own chapter of that story!! It's been a busy week! My boyfriend has gone away and I'm missing him terribly, and so I thought, hey I shall write and take my mind off everything! So please enjoy...I'm not sure what I'm gonna do, but enjoy nonetheless.

Chapter 21- where do we go from here?

Over the next few days, Draco was rarely seen by anyone but Harry outside of meal and classtimes. He was keeping to himself as well as trying to keep Alex away from Harry in any way that he could. Meanwhile, Harry was beginning to worry that Alex didn't want to see him.

Harry was sitting on the couch looking very glum on thursday evening. Draco, who had just returned from sending a devious note to Alex saying that he, Harry, had too much homework to see him that night, took on a puzzled expression and asked; "What's up, Harry m'dear?" sitting down next to Harry as close as he could without raising too much suspicion. Harry just sighed and leant his head on Draco's shoulder.

"I don't think Alex wants to spend time with me anymore. He seems grumpy at me all the time like it's me that gets out of seeing him and then he stands me up when we make plans!" he said, feeling slightly ashamed going to Draco for relationship advice.

"He stood you up?" asked Draco, sounding outraged.

"Yeah, well like tonight. He was going to come over and hang out for a while, but he should be here by now and he isn't. And when I mention things like this to him, he says I'm sending him mixed messages. But what's so mixed about me wanting to spend some time with him?" Harry looked at Draco with a very hurt look in his eyes, and Draco's insides churned as he realized that it was his fault Harry was sad.

"Look, I've got to go do something, but I will be back and you can cry and bitch and complain to me and I'll feed you tissues and chocolate and tomorrow you'll feel better and you can talk with Alex about it." Said Draco warmly as he got up, though he had no intentions of doing that at all.

Harry nodded mutely and watched wistfully as Draco walked out of the room, never even questioning where the blonde boy could be going.

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As Draco wandered the halls, he finally found his way to the Ravenclaw tower and knocked politely on the edge of the portrait frame.

Terry Boot came and opened the portrait and looked very questioningly at Draco. He knew that the boy had changed since he'd started to live with Harry, so he wasn't too rude.

"What's up Malfoy? You lost?" he asked, with a warm tone in his voice. Draco was almost taken back, he was expecting a not-so-polite reception when he came knocking at the Ravenclaw door.

"I'm here to see Alex, is he around?" he asked, trying to sound friendly.

"Um, yeah sure I'll get him." Said Terry and he turned and yelled for Stewart Ackerly to run upstairs and get Alex 'that new kid'

"Third years. At least they're good for something, eh?" he laughed, as he turned back to Alex.

"Yeah," Draco laughed slightly, feeling really uncomfortable and wondering what he could say to Alex, and what he would say back.

"So what do you think of Alex?" he asked Terry, wondering if he and Hermione were the only people who thought the boy was untrustworthy.

"I never expected him to be a Ravenclaw, I would have said he was more Slytherin material, but I have noticed that he is very clever. I don't know if I all together trust him, but he has yet to prove himself untrustworthy. I don't really know what to make of him. Are the two of you friends?" Terry asked.

"Not exactly." Said Draco through his teeth as he saw the boy walking down the stairs.

'Be honest, Draco, just tell him the truth!" he muttered to himself and Terry looked at him oddly before letting Alex through the door and returning to his common room.

"What do you want?" spat Alex, looking disdainfully at Draco.

"I know I'm hotter than you, Corgan, but you needn't check me out, I'm far out of your league!" said Draco, internally kicking himself for starting off rudely. "Look Alex, I'm not here to start shit, and I'm not here to listen to your shit. I just want to make a confession and hopefully make Harry stop moping." Said Draco, looking down at his feet and feeling very embarrassed.

"Spit it out Malfoy, what do you want?" said Alex, pretending to be impatient but was obviously intrigued as to what Draco wanted to say.

"Harry doesn't really have too much homework tonight, I wrote that owl because I wanted to spend some time with him. But he'd upset because he thought you stood him up so I decided to come and tell you the truth so that you wont be mad at him and hurt him more. I was being selfish and didn't realise that I was hurting Harry more than I was hurting you. So I'll go to my room and give you guys some privacy if you want to come up to our wing now." Said Draco as quickly as he could, hoping that Alex didn't have a short temper.

When he looked up at Alex, he knew he was in for it. The boy was practically seething, Draco swallowed hard and waited for the yelling to begin.

"You were trying to keep me away from Harry? You fucking prick! You say that you're Harry's friend and then you hurt him like that, how dare you do that to Harry!" he said in a low tone, making Draco feel even guiltier.

He looked at the floor and tried to show that he felt really ashamed.

"Look at me Malfoy! Harry might buy your shit, but I don't buy the whole ashamed gig. You don't care about Harry one bit, you aren't even gay!" spat Alex.

Draco looked up and what happened next was nothing like he expected, as he made eye contact with Alex, the boy brought his fist back and smacked Draco in the face.

A/N:

That was SHIT and really short! But I needed some more Alex hatred. I'm really bad at fights and I'm having trouble-portraying Alex because I don't know what his motives actually are yet. They will come to me as I write! Lol, all I know is that he is evil and we are all supposed to hate him. Please review! I love you all! Hopefully you will see this soon. Oh, and there will be a lot of writing these next few weeks because I'm on holidays! Lots of clapping and cheering and yay!