AN: seventh chapter.

To FortuneFaded6 I'm so glad you keep reviewing. It means a lot. Thanks.

A lot of confrontations about a lot of stuff in this chapter. Some things that haven't been mentioned before either.

Chp.7

Confrontations

Paige and Draco were standing outside her portrait hole. Her arms were wrapped around his neck and his around her waist. Their lips were locked together in a deep kiss, their tongues fighting for dominance. She felt herself moan into him. 'God, he's the most amazing kisser, ever!' He pulled away after a few minutes. 'Ahh, air.'

She looked into his eyes feeling a bit flustered. He smiled at her. "It's late."

"Yeah."

He stroked her cheek. "Want to go down to Hogsmead tomorrow?"

She nodded.

He seemed happy. He smiled at her and gave her one last, longing kiss, before going back to his own dorm.

She felt very light-headed. 'You shouldn't be doing this. Not without telling him,' 'Stupid conscience, go away. I wanna sleep in peace.'

'Whatever. You know I'm right'

'Shut up, please?'

'Fine.'

'Thank you.'

"Hi." She said smilingly when she found him sitting by the lake in the early morning, like she had done before.

"Hey." He gave her a smile and gestured for her to sit down next to him.

"Didn't see you at breakfast."

"Nah, I wasn't hungry."

She studied him for a while. His black T-Shirt hang loosely on him. His jeans fit him well, they weren't too tight but not too baggy either. She looked at his face and down his arms. Then she stopped.

"What?" he asked questioningly.

She traced one of the scars on his arm with her finger.

"W-w-what happened?" She asked shaking-ly. She had heard rumours, about how he was a Death Eater. Or how his father had beaten him as a child. Each option, she hoped was the farthest thing from the truth.

He cupped her chin and forced her to look in his eyes.

"Don't worry about it. It just a scar."

"I just"

"You just thought the rumours were true?"

"No, well yes, yes and no. Oh, I don't know!"

"Don't worry about it. Sure, nobody's ever asked me about it, but I don't mind you doing it."

"Well, are they?"

"The Death Eater thing, no. The thing about my father is true, I don't know what else you've heard. But 95 of it's probably lies."

"I sorry."

"Don't be. It made me realise what kind of a person my father was. It made me realise I never wanted to be like him." He smiled at her.

"I'm glad." She just loved his smile. It was infectious.

"So, you wanna get going now?"

The ride to Hogsmead seemed shorter than usual. She was sitting with all her friends talking about whatever came to mind. The boys, it seemed managed to put their differences aside for the sake of a conversation about Quidditch.

"Boys will be boys." Hermione whispered to her.

"Yeah, I know what you mean." Cole and Leo used to help each-other no matter what when one of her sisters were in trouble. At least that's what they always told her. She didn't know a lot about Cole, only that he had loved her sister, married her, got her pregnant, and turned out to be the Source, re-incarnated.

"So, we'll see you two at the 3 Broomsticks at 2?"

Paige and Draco nodded before making their way towards a hill, looking over the Shrieking Shack and Hogsmead. You could even see the tallest of the towers at Hogwarts.

"Did you know this was supposedly the most haunted house in Britain?" He asked her. 'Oh, you're so wrong.'

She nodded.

"Yeah, but rumours have it that our former teacher, Professor Lupin, would go there during the full moon. He's a werewolf." 'Not really a rumour.'

"Yeah, I think Harry and them mentioned it."

"Yeah, they probably did. He was the best teacher we've had in DADA."

"Really?"

"Yeah, but don't tell them I said that."

"Why not?" she asked teasingly.

"'Cos I said so."

"That's not an answer."

"'Cos..."

"'Cos you always acted like an ass about him being a werewolf? Or 'cos you have
you have a reputation to protect?"

"You ask a lot of questions don't you?"

"And you don't answer them."

'Aren't we the hypocrite?'

'Shut up.'

"Both, okay? Happy now?"

"Very." Then he leaned in and kissed her again. It was incredible how intoxicating someone could be. She was just, blown away.

"Umm, Paige?" They broke away immediately. Paige felt her cheeks burning a bit.

"'Mione!.....Hi!"

'Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit.'

"Hi, umm, listen could I like talk to you for one second. Please?"

"Umm" she looked at Draco "Yeah, sure. Course you can 'Mione. Umm, I'll just meet you at The 3 Broomsticks, kay?"

Draco smiled at her and nodded. Then he kissed her one more time before she and Hermione left.

"So, how longs that been going on?" She asked Paige with interest.

"Oh, you know, 12 hours."

Hermione giggled a bit.

"So, what you wanna talk about 'Mione?"

"Okay, I know this is going to sound stupid, but hear me out without interruptions, kay?"

"Okay, promise."

"Okay." She took a deep breath. "You know how in DADA you disappeared and then appeared and Ron called it Appareting? Yes well, he's wrong. I've been trying to get it into their thick skulls since forever, you can't Apparete or DisApparete on school grounds. So I started looking around for what it possibly was you could have done" She sounded frantic. She was saying it all in one breath. "And I couldn't find anything. Then I started thinking about what Zabini said, you know your secret. And him calling you freak. And I started putting 2 and 2 together and. That's you secret isn't it? This weird Appareting thing you do."

"......."

"I'm right aren't I?"

"......."

"Paige, answer me. Please?"

"I....I don't know what to tell you."

"You could tell all about it."

"That's what I can't 'Mione. I would have told you if I could."

"Well what's stopping you?"

'Oh, not much. Just Voldemort, the Source and the fact that I promised Dumbledore I wouldn't.'

"......."

"Paige, please?"

"I promised I wouldn't."

"Ohh. We'll just have to find a way for you to tell us without breaking your promise."

"You really wanna know what this is about?"

"Course I do. We're best friends, silly. You should be able to tell us this stuff."

Paige threw her arms around her. "Oh, 'Mione you're the best ever!"

"T-t-thanks, but you're crushing me."

"Ohh, heh heh, sorry."

"Come on, the others are probably waiting."

"Yeah, we should go."

"So, you and Malfoy, huh?"

"Oh, shut up!"

It felt good to get inside the warm pub. The weather had turned cold and grey after noon. They found the boys sitting in a corner.

"Hello." They said cheerfully as they sat down next to them.

"Had fun without us?"

"Oh yeah, a blast." Harry said before giving Hermione a kiss.

"Guys, please?" Ron whined.

"Oh, honestly Ronald. I don't get you. Why don't you get yourself a girlfriend? I don't understand why you and Paravati broke up in the first-place."

"I have a girlfriend of sorts already." He whispered, hoping no-one heard him.

"You do?!" Hermione squealed. "Do we know her? Does she go to Hogwarts? Is she a witch?"

"Well it's sort of weird. How am I going to explain this..."

"Oh God!" Paige exclaimed.

"What is it? What's wrong?" Everyone looked at her concerned, but she was still looking at Ron.

"You're...."

"Shut it!"

"So, for how long?"

"I don't know! I'm not even sure."

The three others sat there, confused by the un-understandable conversation taking place in-front of them.

"And they" she gestured at Hermione and Harry.

"You could be more discrete you know."

"Sorry."

"No, they don't"

"Oh, and you're going to?"

"Dunno."

"Aww, well it'll go to my grave, if you don't"

"Thanks."

She nodded and smiled. "What are friends for."

"What was that about?" Draco looked at her questioningly.

"Nothin'"

'Oh my God! I can't believe Ron's GAY!'

AN: Very weird chapter I wrote.

So can Paige wriggle herself out from telling them? Either ways the truth will come out sooner or later. (I don't know when; sooner or later. Any ideas?)

I'm still sick. Lol, at-least I get to miss Orientation in the woods. Very weird school tradition for 8th, 9th and 10th years at our school.

Please review.

Hugz,

Natasha