Cailee groaned. It was the last week of September, and she was floundering with her schoolwork. It's not that it was too hard; it's that she didn't make time for it. In fact, a lot of this stuff was review for her. So, she found herself Tuesday night sitting in the new common room in the homework corner. Her books were spread on the table, along with Hermione's, and they were comparing notes. Ginny was sitting on the floor, her back propped against the couch and her homework spread about her. Cailee glanced up and saw Ron and Harry throwing something back and forth between them. She sighed.

"What?" Hermione asked, not looking up from her studies.

"I wish I could go play ball with them," she said, still looking at her friends. Hermione glanced up.

"No you don't. You don't want to fall behind even more in your classes. It will get out of control."

"How do Ron and Harry manage it, then?" she asked. She had noticed they seemed to rarely ever do their homework, yet they were still passing.

"They copy me," Hermione said.

"Oh, well, won't you let me copy, too?" Cailee asked hopefully. She hated this; being pinned up inside most of the day, nowhere to go, no place to roam

"Are you kidding?" Ginny put in. "She won't let you copy. She won't let me copy anything from her either, not even some of the notes she took last year. I don't know why she let's Ron and Harry copy. They need to at least take some credit for the work."

"We do," Harry said, plopping onto the couch, Ron following suit.

"Yeah, we turn it in," Ron said.

"Well, lets give you a round of applause," Cailee said, laughing. She was strongly reminded of Dean and Seamus for a moment. Those two boys had a friendship, a bond, just like Harry and Ron's.

Harry took a mock bow and then leaned back, closing his eyes.

"I like it in here. I wonder why Dumbledore didn't put it up sooner," Harry said.

No one answered. Cailee had turned back to her studies and looked at her mounting pile of homework. She couldn't believe it had come to this, her wanting to copy just to catch up. 'Oh, well. I did bring it on myself. I need to pay attention more and study harder, is all,' she thought.

Cailee was absorbed in her work for good twenty or so minutes until she saw a movement out of the corner of her eye. Draco had entered into the room, and he was making his way over towards the game area, probably to play Exploding Snap with some first years that had yet to find out what the game was.

Cailee felt her pulse quicken. 'What was happening?' she asked herself. 'You can't really be falling for him, can you?' 'No, no, I'm not! He's just a friend, and that's all he will ever be.' But that still didn't stop Cailee from getting up to go to the bathroom, which incidentally, was near the games.

As Cailee walked, she didn't notice that many eyes were drawn to her. Nor did she care. She only wanted one person's eyes on her at the moment, and they weren't there. She sashayed over towards the bathroom, looking at Draco the whole time.

'She's coming over here. What'll I do? What'll I say?' Malfoy thought, as he saw Cailee making her way towards him. He wanted to look away and let her surprise him, but he couldn't. His eyes were too drawn to her enchanting figure. He thought it impossible someone could be so gorgeous. But he was wrong. Here was a….a….a real live angel, someone with beauty so intensifying it would stun you. Her brown hair was lovely; he loved how it seemed to naturally curl at the ends. How he would love to run his hands through it. Her figure was stunning. She was so curvy in all the right places from her chest to her butt, how he wanted to touch her everywhere. Kiss those lips that always seemed to be a bit parted, as though she was thinking. Her lips were so full and lush; he wanted to see them after he had kissed her again and again. He wanted to see her face blush like it had in the hall before Peeves had disturbed them.

"Hey, Cailee," he said, as she had drawn up next to him.

"Hello, Draco. What are you up to?" she asked, feeling like an idiot but wanting to get a conversation flowing with him.

"Not much, really. I was going to play Exploding Snap with these first years, but you came along and I seem to have changed my mind. Anything you want to do?" he asked, smiling at her.

"Nothing I want to do, just stuff I have to do, like homework for instance. But I could use a distraction for awhile. Would you care to go outside with me?" she asked him.

"Not at all," he said, linking his arm through hers.

"I love the stars," Cailee said, once they had reached the edge of the lake and stood looking towards heaven. 'Of course, you don't know why I love the stars, but one day I would love to tell you.'

"Yeah, they're all right. Pretty, I guess. I just don't know much about them. I never really looked at them before."

"Well, you're looking now. Anything you want to know?" she asked him, grabbing his hands in hers, but stepping back to look in his eyes.

'Yeah, there is something. Why are you so pretty? Why do you take my breath away whenever I see you? What do I find so enchanting about you?'

"Hmm, how about some constellations? I only know one, the Big Dipper. Kind of sad huh? Oh, and do we have the same constellations as the Muggles do?" he asked.

"Yeah, we do, all though we have taken to name some of them differently. Here, let's lay on the ground, then we can see them better," she said, lying onto her back, looking skyward. Malfoy followed suit.

"All right. You know where the Big Dipper is. From there you use it as a guiding point for all the other constellations, just depending on how you see the Dipper. You know that the same constellations aren't here all year long?" she asked.

"No, I didn't. I thought they always stayed there, actually."

"Well they don't. Right now, we can see Scorpio and the Venomous Tentacula," she said, laughing. "Right, I'm sorry, just some of the names are funny is all."

Malfoy lay back listening to her talk for a good fifteen minutes about the stars. He found it wonderful. Every time she told him a constellation and the history to it, he felt like he was learning more about her, like she was somehow connected to the stars. He didn't know the Big Dipper was also Ursa Major, but he liked to see the bear anyways. Her voice was so soothing, he wanted to close his eyes and let her sing him to sleep. And, if he didn't know any better, he thought he felt her trying to move closer to him, trying to be subtle. So he scooched over next to her, so that their bodies were touching. The connection he felt was so strong, like she had sent an electric shock through him.

"Are you all right?" she asked, leaning up one elbow and placing one hand on his chest.

"I'm fine," he said, and placed his hand over hers.

'Oh, were so close right now, and I like this feeling. I'm sorry father, some things you can't control. I want to be even closer to this young man,' she thought as she laid her head down on his chest, one hand resting on his far arm.

Malfoy lay in shock. That was so unpredictable. He never would have thought she would lay on him like this. He almost could feel her head burning an imprint through his chest, right into his very heart. 'Better make the best of it, then,' he thought. And just like he had wanted to do for so very long now, he began to run his hands through her hair.

Author's Notes: Wow, it's been a long time updating! Sorry about the lack of posts, I've been super busy with school. But here you go. What do you all think of the romance growing between Cailee and Malfoy? Let me know!