Chapter 18

Man I so cannot think of good titles anymore. Oh well…say good-bye to the happy 'couple' for now. BIG FIGHT!

Leah sat in the front row, next to Draco, trying her hardest to pay attention to what was going on. She should have been crying her eyes out because it was the funeral for her grandmother…but all she could think about was last night. She sighed and closed her eyes, thinking. She opened her eyes when she felt a hand on her own and looked at Draco.

"You ok?" Draco whispered.

"Yeah…just thinking." Leah whispered back. Draco nodded. Leah went back to thinking about what happened the other night.

Flashback

Leah woke up from a bad dream yet again. She sat in bed for a few minutes before throwing off the blanket and climbing out of bed. She adjusted the tank top before leaving her room. The door to the guest room was open slightly and, being the curious creature she was, Leah peeked inside to see Draco fast asleep, lying on his stomach with one arm and leg hanging off the bed and the blanket tangled around his other leg. Leah could see that he wasn't wearing a shirt and resisted the urge to go into the room.

"My god…what the hell is happening to me?" She muttered to herself before heading down the stairs. She looked at the movie collection before picking Charlie's Angels and putting it into the player.

There was a thud from upstairs just after the part in the movie where Natalie had done the flippy thing. Leah looked up at the ceiling then sighed and looked back at the screen.

"Bloody hell. Hope she didn't wake up from that." Leah looked at the stairs to see Draco walking down them, rubbing the back of his neck. He stopped on the bottom step and looked at Leah. "Alright…you already were awake."

"Yeah…bad dream…again." Leah said. "Movie?" She nodded at the TV. Draco looked at it, looking slightly confused, but joined Leah on the couch. Somehow, within five minutes, they had moved until they were right next to each other. They also wound up arguing about the movie.

"Are they witches?" Draco asked.

"No…of course not." Leah said.

"Then they wouldn't be able to do that." Draco said, referring to how the girls managed to stay alive even after the castle blew up.

"It's a movie…it's fake…it's meant to be fun." Leah said.

"There are a lot of things meant to be fun." Draco said, suggestively.

"Down boy…try keeping your mind out of your pants." Leah said, looking at Draco. He could tell that her personality was changing from her own self…and into Sierra.

"Well…see…there's the problem." Draco said. He put his arm around Leah's waist and pulled her until Leah was straddling his waist. Leah tilted her head. "You've got me thinking about it…and now that I'm thinking about it, there's really no way I can't…" Leah put her hand over his mouth to make him stop. Draco looked at her.

"You're thinking too much." Leah said, removing her hand and replacing it with her mouth. Soon they were back in the position that they were in earlier, but this time Leah was underneath. Draco's hands were rested on Leah's hips and hers were behind his neck. Both completely forgot about the movie. Draco pulled away after a while and looked down, breathing deeply. Leah closed her eyes, breathing the same.

"We really gotta stop." Draco said, after a minute.

"Why?" Leah asked.

"Well…I'm gonna use one of your sayings…A) we keep going and things could turn out bad." Draco said. "And B) This really isn't helping you."

"Ok…you lost me." Leah said.

"Trying to hide the hurt you're feeling by making out with me." Draco said. "Not that I'm not enjoying it…it's just…I really doubt that this is some kind of comfort thing…and just something to numb the pain."

"Quit being smart." Leah said. "If I wanted someone to be smart…I'd have invited Hermione."

"Well…sorry." Draco said. After a while, Leah yawned. "Come on Leah. Let's get ya back to bed."

"Couch comfy." Leah said. Draco sighed and got off of her before picking Leah up. Her arms wrapped around his neck and Draco carefully cared her up to her room. He realized her bedroom door was closed.

"Umm…Leah…door." Draco said. Leah sighed and reached down, turned the knob and pushed open the door. Draco walked into the room and lied her down on her bed.

Present

Anything after that, Leah didn't remember. All she knew was that, when she woke up, it was to find that Draco was asleep on the inflatable chair near her bed. After checking to see that they only had time for a fifteen minute shower each, Leah quickly woke up Draco, laughed at the fact that, because he wasn't wearing a shirt, his back was stuck to the chair, then took a shower and changed while he was showering. They got to the funeral two minutes late but that was fine.

Now, they were standing near the entrance, the eulogy being finished, and Leah was accepted the sympathies of the guests and Draco was there for her support. So far, they really hadn't talked about what happened the night before.

"Park?" Leah asked as soon as the last guest had gone.

"Huh?" Draco asked.

"Park…playground…I know wizards have them too." Leah said.

"Uh…sure." Draco said. They walked back to Leah's house first to change from the black cloths.

Leah sat in her room, wondering what to change into. She had grown up with the knowledge that, on sad occasions, the park was the best place to go. That's why it was kinda hard for her to run away because everyone knew where she would go…most of the time.

Draco wasn't faced with as big as a decision for changing. He grabbed his dark green shirt and black pants and put those on. He stood outside in the hall and wondered if he should wait for Leah…and wondered how long she'd take.

"Hey…" Leah said, opening the door slightly.

"What?" Draco asked.

"I need your help with this zipper." Leah said, opening the door more and going farther into the room. Draco walked into the room and closed the door. Leah was standing in the middle of the room, looking at herself in the full body mirror on the back of the closet door. She was in a light blue dress that ended just above her knees and had spaghetti straps.

"So…where's the zipper?" Draco asked.

"On the back you idiot." Leah said, smiling. "Or else I wouldn't have asked." She turned her back to Draco and moved her hair over her shoulder. Draco stepped forward and went to pull the zipper up but stopped and looked at Leah's back. "What's wrong?"

"Nice bruise." Draco said.

"Oh god…it's still there?" Leah asked.

"Still?" Draco asked. Leah moved away from him and turned to look at her back in the mirror. Draco watched her.

"Oh great…just great." Leah muttered. "Can you do the zipper please?"

"Yeah." Draco said. Leah went back to where she was and Draco pulled the zipper up. "There. So…can I find out what the bruise is from?"

"No." Leah said.

"Why?" Draco asked.

"Because I don't know." Leah said. "All I know is that, sometime over the summer…I woke up from a bad dream and it was there. Hasn't gone away since."

"Well…that's a fine story." Draco said.

"Oh great…are you gonna be like everyone else and not believe me?" Leah asked. "You know…I really don't care if you do or not."

"Ok what the bloody hell is happening?" Draco asked. "Weren't we just…semi happy?"

"I don't know and I don't care." Leah said. She left the room. Draco went after her. "God…if it's not one thing that's pissing me off…it's another."

"Well you're bringing it on yourself." Draco said. They were in the living room now. Leah spun around and looked at Draco. The quick movement caught him off guard and he stopped really quickly.

"I brought it on myself? You're the one that fucking asked." Leah said. "Why did you wanna come in the first place? Did you really just wanna get away from the school or are you spying for Voldemort?"

"Why should I tell you?" Draco asked. "So what if I am?"

"You are such a fucking asshole." Leah said. "You know what…I'm gonna say it now...stay away from me!"

"Gladly." Draco said.

"Which means go back to the fucking school…NOW!" Leah said. All of Draco's stuff suddenly flew down the stairs, into his bag and hit Draco in the chest with force that knocked him over. Leah's necklace started to glow again but neither of them noticed it.

Draco stood up. He went over to the fireplace, Leah followed. She grabbed a pouch and reached into it before throwing some floo powder into the fireplace.

"Get out now." Leah said. She didn't even wait for him to leave before she marched off into the kitchen. Suddenly the phone rang and Leah jumped before walking over to it and answering it. "What?"

"That's a nice greeting." Sabrina's voice answered. "What happened? TV go out again?"

"Hey mum. No…I'm just…really pissed off." Leah said. "The funeral just got to me…that's all."

"I'm sorry for having to send you by yourself sweetie." Sabrina said. "There was no way I would have been there fast enough. It's really hard to apparate from country to country…and we do not want the ministry getting suspicious. They just barely bought the 'Charlie asked me to help out with the dragons' excuse."

"Good thing Grandpa is the best aurora they have huh." Leah said. "Fudge wouldn't wanna risk him quitting by getting us in trouble."

"Yeah…look babe I gotta go. Grandpa would kill me if the bill got way to high." Sabrina said.

"Ok…I'm gonna head back to school soon anyways. Nothing good to do anymore here." Leah said. "Bye mum." They hung up and Leah went upstairs and packed. She heated up the pizza and gave it to the neighbors before, reluctantly, using the floo powder to get back to school.

The first official day of classes that Leah had (the first one didn't count to her) she walked with Hermione to Defense Against the Dark Arts class and sat with Harry. She really had to do everything within her power NOT to copy Harry and start talking back with Umbridge. She really wanted to, but she was waiting for the best time. Harry was given detention.

When Angelina, who was the new captain of the Gryffindor quidditch team, found out that Harry couldn't be there to help pick out the best new keeper for the team, since Wood was gone, she got really pissed off.

Leah had to sit through quite a few hours, having been forced to be there for the try-outs, teaching George about how to play Cat's Cradle (string game). In the end, when Angelina asked them what they thought, they just nodded and murmured. Turns out that Ron got it and Leah had to apologize a few times for missing his try-out.

Ok…I'm pretty sure the try-out thing did not happen that early but I just wanted to put it in now. STRAIGHT TO THE GAME! Oh...and don't worry about the Leah and Draco thing...they'll be fine when it comes time for seventh year to come along. But there will be some stuff happening in 6th year...mainly because he has to be the one who finds out about Leah's little problem and why she...well...you'll find out.