AN: Okay, here is a new story for all of my Draco/Ron followers. I really didn't like the way I ended the last one, but I knew I wouldn't be able to work on it for at least a month and I didn't want to just leave it hanging for that long, so I decided to do a new one, although this one took me forever to even think of a new concept. So I do hope everyone likes it, so yeah on with the story.

Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to Harry Potter, but it would be awesome if I did, so this is as close as I'm ever going to get.

Hermione threw up her hands in frustration as she stared at her two best friends. They had a major Potions final the next day and although she knew everything, she knew they didn't. So she was trying her best to cram it all in to their heads the day before. She also knew there was no way she was going to be able to help them cheat the next day, so they need to know everything themselves, but the study session wasn't going the way she had hoped it to.

Harry stared out the window longingly. He could still see the outlines of the Quidditch posts in the distance. Quidditch season had started, which meant Harry's mind was always going back to the next time he could be out there, or the last time he was, unfortunately that was the only time Harry could think of when it came to Quidditch, because he'd been permanently been kicked off.

Ron had actually fallen asleep on his book. He had been listening to Hermione for over 4 hours, and now he couldn't even keep his eyes open. He hadn't listened to Snape for the past two weeks, so he really did need to learn this, but he couldn't.

Hermione closed the big book in front of her and pushed back her chair. The screeching noise woke Ron up immediately and Harry quickly turned back to Hermione. The girl looked at both boys disappointedly. Without another word to either boy she stormed out of the library.

"Ron, you have some drool hanging off your chin." Harry said staring at his redheaded friend. Ron quickly wiped his chin and closed his book to pack up.

A few moments later the boys walked by a very disgruntled Madam Pince. The librarian had been waiting for hours for the trio to leave. She had been getting tired of listening to Hermione say everything and the two boys making tapping noise as they distantly listened.

Ron and Harry entered the dormitory and found it empty. Hermione had already gone to bed, not wanting to see the boys. Ron and Harry took the emptiness for what it was, and went up to the bedrooms and got into their beds and fell asleep, only hoping they could pass the test tomorrow.

-----------------------

The next morning the boys woke up miserable and angry that they hadn't listened to Hermione last night. They knew they were going to fail, and there was nothing they could do about it.

After breakfast the 5th year Gryffindors and Slytherins walked down to the dungeons, and to Snape's test. Everyone knew it wasn't going to be something easy, they knew it was probably going to be something so hard that it would make most of them cry.

Everyone walked into the dungeon and took their seats. After the bell rang Snape emerged from his office. He stared at the class coldly behind his curtain of greasy hair. He then turned to the blackboard and hit it with his wand, then turned back to the class.

"Now, all of you will start with a written portion of the test, then you will turn your attention up here and follow these directions to create the potion portion of the test, however, the board is bewitched to tell each of you a different potion so there will be no cheating." He stepped down off the platform. "Begin." Everyone looked down at their tests and Snape began to walk around the room to look for any cheaters, even though the papers were bewitched to stop cheating, he knew it made his students uncomfortable for him to walk around.

When the bell rang everyone was happy and they all rushed out of the dungeon. The Trio were some of the last people to leave, along with Draco and his goons. Draco gave them a snooty look and pushed his way out the door before them, leaving them to be the last people.

"You know he's really confident now, but during the test I saw him sweating."

"Hermione, he shouldn't have sweated at all." Ron said absently.

"What? Of course he should've. I did."

"Hermione, one, he's a Slytherin, two, his father is one of Snape's most trusted 'friends'." He said in a matter of fact way.

"That shouldn't mean anything."

"But it does, and there is nothing we can do about it."

"That's right, Weasel." Ron looked over quickly to see the blonde boy leaning against a column smugly. "Being well connected to the right people can get you anything, but you wouldn't know anything about that, now wouldn't you?" The blonde said standing erect. Ron took in a deep breath, and unclenched his hands.

"Draco, what are you going to do when your father dies? His connections will die as well and then you'll be left with no connections and then where will you be?" Hermione said pushing the redhead away from the blonde, who just stared after them. Harry gave Draco one last look and he followed his friends.

Hermione pushed Ron all the way to the greenhouse before she quit. "You shouldn't let him get to you as much. You know he only does it because he gets a reaction from you." Harry said coming up behind them.

"It's hard to not react to him. He's always been great at insulting me, my money, my connections, and my family; I can't stop reacting because I feel the need to defend myself."

"That may be true, but if you stopped reacting he might actually stop insulting."

Ron was about to say something when Professor Sprout walked in. Class went by slowly, but it did finally end. The trio walked out of the greenhouse and back up to the castle. Hermione still had another class to go to, but Harry and Ron were just going to head back up to the dorm.

"Hey Harry, I'll meet you up there."

"Okay." The dark-haired said.

Ron walked down the hallway with his hands in his pockets and stared at the ground. He stopped as he saw someone walking towards him. He looked up to find Draco alone. The blonde looked awkward in the hall because he wasn't shrouded by his bulky thugs. Draco stared coldly at the redhead.

"What are you looking at Weasel?"

"How small you actually are."

"Why you…" Draco began to shake.

"Forget about it Draco, I don't really want any trouble right now, not to mention I don't really think you can take on anyone without your bullies." Draco's cheeks flushed a bright pink.

'Whatever. You just better stay out of my way tomorrow." Draco stormed by Ron without another word.

Draco walked down to the Slytherin Common Room. He had been trying to get away from everyone in order to think, but he found it unsuccessful. He had gone to the library and Pansy had followed him. He tried to go to a classroom, but couldn't find any, where a teacher or some students weren't in them. The Prefect Bathroom had at least 4 prefects in it. There were some Ravenclaws up in the Owlery, and now on his way back to his common room he ran into Ron.

Draco walked into the common room to find it insufferably crowded. Before anyone saw him Draco walked right back out of the room and up the stairs to the hallways again. There was no place he could be alone. He stopped in the hall and looked out the opening. It wasn't quite time for dinner so he was still allowed outside, but where would he go?

He didn't care where he went he just wanted to be alone, so he walked outside and starting walking down the hill towards the lake. He got as close as he wanted to and sat down. He'd been trying to think of what he was going to do this year for Valentine's Day. Of course he was still single, and he enjoyed it that way, but every Valentine's Day it made him hate that he was single. So he did his best to look upon the day as any other, but with Pansy constantly following him around fawning over him more on Valentine's it was the hardest thing he could think of.

This year though, he didn't just want to look at Valentine's like a normal day, he wanted to get rid of Pansy by that time, so he could look at it normally. He had thought of paying someone to go out with her, but thought it would be too expensive. So then he thought of finding another Slytherin girl to go out with for a while, but then as he thought about it, figured it would take too much effort. He then thought of just giving in and dating Pansy, but quickly thought otherwise, he was after all trying to get rid of her, not help her get closer.

As he was lying on the ground next to the lake, it had grown darker and he was awaken by the bell for dinner. He hadn't solved any of his problems, even in the two hours of silence. Draco walked into the Great Hall sullen, but when he saw a few of his fellow Slytherins were looking at him worried, he straightened up to his normal smugness.

Ron, Harry, and Hermione had actually been sitting in the Great Hall for almost an hour. They didn't have much to do today, and the common room was so crowded that they had no other choice, but to go some other place. They had thought of going to Hagrid's, but thought otherwise with Umbridge still lurking around, so they ended up in the hall.

The meal was regular as usual. After a while everyone started to exit but the trio stayed because they weren't ready to go to the common room, but they couldn't just roam around since they were on Umbridge's bad list already. Food would always come out as long as they wanted it, so they ate slowly and ate more. Soon there were only about fifteen people left in the hall and the trio decided it was a good time to finally leave.

Draco watched the Trio leave; then decided he was going to leave as well. He saw Crabbe and Goyle were still stuffing their faces, so he wouldn't have to worry about them, but on his way out Pansy cornered him.

"Draco, I want to talk to you."

Draco rolled his eyes. "About what?"

"You've been ignoring me for weeks now, and you know that I don't like to be ignored. Not to mention Valentine's Day will be coming up in a few weeks and I don't want us to be separate when it comes around. So I wanted to know what was wrong."

"First off Pansy, you and I aren't together anyway, so being separate on Valentine's isn't a big deal, and secondly, there's nothing wrong, and even if there was I would be telling you. It's my business so stay out of it." Draco walked out of the Great Hall doors to be met by another person he wasn't too happy to see.

"That was pretty harsh."

"Shut up Weasel Bee, you wouldn't know anything about it."

"Probably not, but you could have at least said it more decently."

"She doesn't deserve decency, and neither do you, so get out of my way."

"Whatever."

Draco walked past the redhead, but quickly turned around to face him. "And what the hell are you doing back here anyways, didn't you leave?"

"It's not really your business, but I forgot my bag in the Great Hall, so I came back to get it. Why do you care?"

"I don't." The blonde responded defensively. Ron shrugged and went into the hall to get his bag. Draco looked at the doors for a moment then continued walking back to the common room.

Ron walked in and saw Pansy sitting at the Slytherin table sulking. He was almost tempted to talk to her, but then nearly kicked himself for even thinking it. He grabbed the bag and walked back out of the hall and up the stairs for his room.

The next morning was a Saturday, so there weren't classes that day, so everyone was content with hanging out. Ron had told Harry about Draco and Pansy, he even told him about how he almost felt sorry for Pansy.

"Draco has always been an ass, so I'm not sure how you found it so surprising." Harry said as he flipped through the pages of an old Quidditch book.

"I don't know; it just did."

"Well, I wouldn't worry too much about it, what I would worry about if I were you, would be the Quidditch match today and seeing Draco then."

"You had to remind me that we were playing Slytherin." Ron started pacing in front of the fireplace.

"I'm sorry, but you might as well start getting prepared. Did you eat breakfast this morning?"

"I ate some."

"Ron, are you ever going to be comfortable playing Quidditch?"

"One day." He turned to his best friend. "I'm getting better at it. Sort of."

Harry laughed. Ron turned paler than he already was. "Would you quit worrying?" Ron sat down in a chair and starting breathing irregularly. Harry eyed his friend suspiciously; then turned back to his book as Ron calmed down.

A few hours later everyone was down at the Quidditch pitch ready for the match. Ron had nearly fallen from panic attacks on the way down; unfortunately it was in front of Draco who had taken the opportunity to ridicule the redhead.

It seemed like a lifetime before the match started for Ron. But finally it did start, and although it was going horribly for Gryffindor, Ron had managed to save a few goals, but he was still having nerves. Draco had been flying near the goal posts to mock Ron, but at the moment he was looking around for the Snitch and saw Ginny flying fast towards the Slytherin goal posts, so he decided she had probably found the Snitch and he would just outrace her.

But on his way around the Gryffindor goal posts he was met by Ron's broom. Ron had been flying higher than Draco though, so his broom knocked Draco right across the face, and in turn Draco's broom went upward causing Ron to lose control when their brooms collided and Ron flew right into the goal posts knocking him out. Both boys landed at the base of the poles in a heap.

Everyone silenced and stared at the end of the field. Ginny stared down in horror when she saw the mess. She knew she had to find the Snitch quick now, because they couldn't stop the game long enough to remove both boys. Luckily the Snitch flew in front of her face and she reached out and grabbed it. She flew to Madam Hooch who signaled the game's end and she flew down to her brother along with the rest of the Gryffindor team and the Slytherin team.

Teachers were immediately on the field shoving students to the side to get to the two at the base of the poles. A few minutes later the teachers were on their way up to the castle and the hospital wing.

AN: Okay so this is the first chapter, and there really isn't a lot of interaction between them yet, but there will be next chapter, so stay tuned and the relationship will develop, hopefully into a good story. So tell me what you think so far.