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Meeting Friends

It was past midnight when Raid made her way up to Gryfindor common room. As she entered she looked around guiltily for anyone who may have seen her entrance. Mercifully the room was empty. The fire was low, but still gave off warmth. Raid collapsed in to a soft armchair in front of the hearth. Thoughts crowded her mind of  the events of the past few hours. She, a Gryfindor, was the new girlfriend of a Slytherin! And not just any Slytherin, Draco Malfoy! If there was anyway to betray her house, this was it. But it felt so right be in his presence, in his arms. What would Hermione say? What would Harry say? This brought a grin to Raids face, Harry, of course, would hate it. She hated having enemies, but Harry was so wrong about her it was laughable. Dating Draco Malfoy would be the ultimate betrayal to him.

And Draco's dark side, what of that? Raid could guess enough to know he was involved in the Dark Arts, but how heavily was he immersed in them? Did he expect Raid to join him in practicing the Dark Arts because of her parentage? She wouldn't, never.

A noise from the girls stairwell made Raid leap to her feet. She relaxed when she saw it was Hermione

"Mio, I…" Raid began.

"Don't worry Raid, I already know about you and Malfoy." Hermione said, sighing as she remembered Harry's outburst earlier. She walked over to the chair opposite Raid and sat down.

"How? How do you know?" Raid asked, sitting back down.

"I saw you by the lake with him." Hermione said simply.

"Oh, Did err, anyone else see? Raid asked tenetively.

"Yes, Harry saw." Was the reply.

"Oh."

"He wasn't too happy." Hermione said, grinning.

Raid gave her a small smile.

"Mio, look  I'm really sorry. Really I am, but I just…" Raid began quietly.

"You can't help how you feel." Hermione finished for her. "I know Raid, You can't control how you feel. God knows I've tried."

The last part of what Hermione had said did not sink in to Raid.

"I'm sorry for everything, you've lost your two best friends because of me and now I'm with the person you hate most in the world. I'm so sorry." Raid said and put her head in her hands.

"Raid, don't worry. How the boys feel about you is their problem, but we're speaking again now anyway, well, sort of. And as to Malfoy, well, as long as you don't expect me to be nice to him, I suppose I could cope with you two begin together." Hermione said smiling.

Raid looked up and looking relieved grinned back.

"Thanks Mio. That means so much to me. Hey! What did you mean about you not being able to help what you feel?" Raid asked, what Hermione had said just dawning on her.

"Oh, err… nothing. Hermione said, looking guilty.

"Go on, who is it? Tell me." Raid pleaded.

"No-one!" Hermione half whispered, half shrieked. It was a strange combination and came out in a very high pitched squeak.

"Go on." Raid whined.

Hermione looked at the floor.

"George." She whispered.

"Weasley?" Raid shrieked.

"SHH! Keep your voice down!." Hermione said frantically.

"George? Hmm, yes, I can see it." Raid said slyly. "Why do you feel so bad?"

"Well, because of Ron. I think he kind of likes me more than a friend, and its his brother. So I feel bad." Hermione said sadly.

"Well you don't like Ron like that do you?" Raid asked.

"No!" Hermione answered, shocked.

"Well there you are then. He hasn't made a move on you, so that's his loss, and you don't like him anyway. So there's no reason for you not to get with anyone else." Raid said excitedly. "You and George should so get together."

"I don't know Raid." Hermione said looking apprehensive. "I mean, why would he be interested in me?"

Raid rolled her eyes.

"Hermione, you're very pretty. You just have to act it, then people will notice." Raid said.

Hermione scoffed.

"I don't think so."

"Its all in your attitude. If you act like you're pretty then you will believe it."

Raid danced up the stairs to the dormitory, Hermione followed at a slower pace shaking her head, thinking that Raid was completely nuts.

Hermione groaned as she woke up and saw Raid dancing around the dorm with her headphones on and humming to the music. Raid was wearing a pair of low slung hipster jeans with wide flares at the bottom and another of her small thin strapped tops. Her hair was still blue, but today was about three inches long and spiked in random directions. It made her look like a large fairy. The thought made Hermione grin as she got up. She picked up her jeans and a t-shirt as it was Sunday and wandered to the bathroom waving to Raid who was still dancing.

When she came out Raid had put her headphones away and was looking wistfully out of the window at the Forbidden Forest.

"What are you doing today?" Hermione asked, pulling a brush through her hair.

"I'm meeting Draco. What about you?"

"I'm going to catch up with Ginny, it seems like ages since we've spoke."

The two girls parted at the door of Gryfindor common room.

Raid spent the day with Draco. They spent the day mainly alone outside, away from the other students. They knew the gossip would be terrible. Raid discovered that Draco possessed a wonderful sense of humour and also, despite the fact he was one of the brightest students in the year, was amazingly naive about muggles and technology.

"And what is Vod-ka?" He asked Raid after she had explained how she and some muggle friends had got very drunk in the summer and one of them had fallen in to a pond.

"I'd forgotten how much of a muggle drink Vodka is!" Raid exclaimed. "You'll have to try it some time." She said evily.

Draco's attempts to use Raid skateboard she found hilariously funny. However he did progress from falling off as soon as it started moving, to being able to stay on whilst it was moving, then falling off when it slowed down because his weight was too far forward and the board would shoot from underneath him. Leaving him either flat on his face, or flat on his back.

At the end of the afternoon Draco finally managed to keep the board going. He turned his head and shouted at Raid.

"Look! I can do it!"

A few seconds after that, he crashed, quite dramatically, in to a wall.

Raid ran over to help him, he was lying in a tangled heap with a Hydrangea bush. She retrieved the skateboard and helped Draco up. He was limping as she led him to a patch of grass and sat down.

"I thought I was getting the hang of this skrateboarding thing." He grumbled and rubbed his ankle.

Raid laughed.

"You are sweetie, you are. And its skateboarding by the way." She said with an evil grin.

Draco scowled at her. She saw he had a scratch down his right cheek.

"Are you badly hurt?" She asked, concerned.

"Terribly." He said.

Raid put her hand on his.

"Poor baby." She said in a very unsympathetic tone.

Draco glanced at her, she was staring at the castle. Quickly he jumped on her, sitting on her stomach, pinning her down with his legs.

"Liar." Raid said accusingly.

Draco just grinned down at her. Then he lowered his head to hers and kissed her gently.

The next week passed fairly quickly. Nothing exceptionally exciting happened. Raid split her time carefully between Hermione and Draco. She also became friends with Ginny. Ginny and Hermione spent a lot of time together and Raid began to join them. Ron and Harry had told Ginny what they knew of Raids story. Raid told her everything she had told Hermione, once she was sure she could trust Ginny. Within the week the three became fast friends, they were often seen studying in the library together or chatting animatedly in Gryfindor common room. Ginny was livid with her brother for siding with Harry against Raid. She wasn't talking to him.

Draco and Hermione and Ginny had stayed apart for the week. But finally on Sunday when the three girls were studying in the library, they all met.

Draco came over to the table they were sitting at, he kissed Raids cheek and sat down. Hermione and Ginny ignored him. The four sat silently for a moment until Ginny spoke.

"Malfoy, can I borrow that book for a minute, if you're not using it." She asked, gesturing to the book that lay closed at his elbow.

"I suppose the Weasley's are still too poor to buy their own books, so they need to scavenge from the more well off." Draco drawled lazily.

Raid glared at him.

"Look ferret boy. It has nothing to do with whether she owns the book or not. She just wanted to borrow that one." Hermione said coldly.

"Shut up Granger. It has nothing to do with you. You are just a Mudblood." Draco said nastily.

 Hermione scowled and drew out her wand.

"That's enough! All of you!" Raid snapped, slamming her book closed. "Draco, you will not come over here and insult my friends like that. You will not call Hermione that name again, and you won't insult the Weasley's either. I know these are your views, but you do not need to share them with us. Got that?" Raid whispered forcefully, aware that Madam Pince was staring at them.

Draco just glared defiantly at her. She scowled at him, got up and stalked out of the library. Her blue hair, which seemed to be her favourite shade, as well as the purple, shining in the candle light.

Hermione and Ginny gave Malfoy withering looks and he too got up and walked swiftly out of the library.

"Raid!" He shouted, running to catch up with her. "Raid wait!"

She did not stop, so he ran faster and caught up with her. He grasped her shoulders and turned her round.

"Raid."

"Get off me!" She snarled and pulled from his hands, turning away from him and walking a few paces away. Then she stopped.

"Raid I'm sorry."

She turned back to him.

"Are you really?" She asked.

He walked up to her and put his hands on her waist and looked in to her eyes. She did not resist his touch.

"I'm sorry." He repeated, sincere. "I can't help how I feel about them, its what I've been brought up to believe. But…" He paused as she saw her mouth open in protest. "I won't insult them in front of you. But you can't expect me to change."

"I'm not asking you to." Raid sighed. "I wouldn't ask you to change for me, you have to want to change for yourself."

Raid put her arms around his neck and they embraced tightly.

"So am I forgiven then?"

"Well I think you still have some making up to do actually." Raid said seductively in his ear. "

* Ok peeps. It was kind of a filler chapter just to show you Draco's still a bit of a baddie. But you cant help but love the bad guys anyway I swear the next chapter is better, lots of dramatics hehe. My favourite. Review. Review. Next chapter up soon! *