Chapter 3,

Horrible secrets make great Friends.

I moved here fifth year only a few days before my 15th birthday. Because I was born in September I am a bit younger than the rest of my class. As I started school a week late I had to be sorted by the hat in dumbledor's office. I found the old ma extremely interesting the twinkling eyes, and knowing smile, I had a feeling he knew more than I did and that that knowledge would come back to haunt me, but at the time I did not know how true that feeling would become.

Anyway back to being sorted, as I was sitting there the hat was saying so many trivial things in my head mostly along the lines of wisdom, and cunning, perfect Slytherin. And a pure heart too, that quality is not so Slytherin but too much of you shows that side, Slytherin it is! I then sat there for a few minutes after the hat was removed not really knowing what this meant. And then Professor Snape came to take me to the Slytherin common room.

I guess what it meant though was that I was stuck with a bunch of snobby prats screaming "pure-bloods shall rule during the dark lords reign" They said it in such whiney voices that I just wanted to choke them. Even draco did it, but, it seemed he did it more out of necessity rather than actually giving a crap. In fact later on he confessed to me how much he desperately hated his family, His mother actually loved him and he her, his father though was a different story all together. A cruel one too. Maybe I will get to it one day but not this one. Anyway going back to the snobs of Slytherin.

Because they all treated me like a disease I was given my own room. Merlin knows what would have happened to me if I had stayed in the normal 5th year girls commons. That is about where is started, Draco called me an enigma one day while we were paired together for potions. That was probably because I was perfect in all my classes, apparently better even then the golden trio's Braniac Hermione. She was nice, a bit too timid though. But I was also sly enough to get half-ass work past the teachers for full points. Even Mcgonnagal who pays so much attention to detail im surprised she doesn't spell our work to find even the most minute of problems, always gave me full credit points. That is why Draco called me an enigma, that and also because I did not care wether I was a pure-blood or not.

To him I was also interesting, we two were always close at the beginning. He also thought I was pretty as he told me later on that I was just the right size. For what I still don't know. But knowing Draco he more than likely told me that to make me think. He constantly challenges me in strangely muggle ways. He loved to challenge me at potions the most though. He is as you should know Snape's favorite student and Draco and I constantly tried to gain his attention. One day while we were "secretly" ruining each others potions we seemed to become friends. As Draco turned to me and asked.

"What drives you, why are you always trying to be the best?"

I was surprised at the question, it was something I had always wanted some one to ask so they could understand but no one ever did. And he was the one I never really expected to ask. So I just turned to him with a slightly sad smile and replied.

"My parents," I said, " they always pushed me into things I hardly want to do and if I do, like coming to Hogwarts, they push me even harder to be perfect," At this I stopped and looked him in the eyes.

"Sometimes I just wish they would beat me instead of putting me through the mental anguish they so love to torture me with. That I could take, that wouldn't hurt me, not as much as it does now."

When I finished saying that I pulled back the sleeve of my school robes and showed the old puffy, red, scars. "Pain doesn't hurt anymore, when it's all you've ever felt."

Draco just smiled at that and he pulled my sleeve back down, and staring into his potion said "you've never had to deal with magical beatings. Not like I have."

I watched him and smiled, the rest of the class passed without incident and we both managed to save our potions before time ran out. But Draco and I knew something about each other no one else knew, That love was a source of both our pains, and because of that we became true friends through our truly horrible secrets.

And that is the end of chapter 3, see I told you they would get longer. Anyway im sorry my thoughts are so scattered as you can see they all connect at one point, but my brain goes in 20 different directions at one time and I cant focus too well for very long. Anyway until next time. Later dayz,

Raelyn!