Chapter Two: The Question

That night, Draco sat in the Slytherin common room going over his wrinkled paper. After about five minutes he heard the passage leading to the common room open, he lifted his head to see who was coming in and saw Pansy. She was behind a couple of slow-moving first years, as she made her way thru the passage she pushed the kids aside, one of them falling over their own shoe laces. Draco laughed silently to himself as she walked pass him. After he looked back down at his paper, Pansy looked back at him, and although he didn't see it, she smiled at him then proceeded up to the girls dormitory.

Draco waited another five minutes decided that he would ask her tomorrow during their break from classes.

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The next day, Draco spent most of his free time during classes to plan what he was going to do. They had their break from classes after lunch, this was when students would usually go back to their common rooms, but before lunch Draco was able to get the word around to all the Slytherins to stay out of the common room during their break.

Draco left lunch early to get things ready.

Back in the Great Hall everyone was nearly finished eating and some people were starting to exit the Hall for their break. Pansy headed for Slytherin common room about fifteen minutes after Draco had.

When Pansy arrived at the passage that led to the common room she looked around before entering and was surprised to see that no one was around. She didn't think much of it until she came into the room and her eyes looked to the ceiling where there were hundreds of bewitched candles floating above her. She then looked straight ahead of her and she saw Draco standing about ten feet away holding a single red rose. He was dressed very casual, the top of his shirt slightly unbuttoned, and his tie bearing the Slytherin colors was hanging loosely off his neck. But there was something special about him. As his white-blonde hair fell lightly onto his face, he took one hand and pushed back his hair, revealing two deep gray eyes that seemed to have a slight sparkle in them.

Pansy took a few steps toward Draco but stopped to stare at the candles once more. Draco took it upon himself to close the gap between them, leaving only about a foot of space left.

"Um...Pansy?" said Draco.

"Yes?" replied Pansy, now staring directly into his eyes.

"W-Would you," he cleared his throat nervously then continued, "Uh...Would you,"

"Yes?" Pansy said with a smile.

"Would you be my date for the Christmas Eve Ball?" he said finally.

Pansy gasped and said, "Yes Draco, of course I will." She took the rose, reached up and kissed him on the cheek and went up to the girls dormitory. As she left, Draco let out a sigh of relief and collapsed onto a chair as if that was the hardest thing he had ever done.

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