"I still have your snake you know," I informed Seiji, looking up at him from the book I was reading. The four of us, Draco, Kameko, Seiji and I, were sitting in the library, and Seiji and I were quietly whispering and laughing in the corner, whilst Draco studied, and Kameko got her homework out of the way.

"You do?" he asked amazed, "I thought Draco had her?"

"No. He was too scared of her. Had to get me in to look after her."

"Tch. Typical. Where is she?"

"In my room. I'll go get her."

"Nah, don't bother, I'll just come with you," he turned and told the other two where we were going before grabbing my hand, and dragging me up the stairs to my room. I had met his master the day before, the guy who was training him, Shinzaburo, and also Art, one of his other friends. Art was an albino, and with his long white hair, he looked mighty fine. Shinza, on the other hand, scared me slightly, with his serious looks and formalities. And the way he fought, teaching Seiji the art of swordplay. He had long brown hair, and eyes that seemed to rack my very soul. As with Lucius Malfoy, it pained me to be with him for long.

Another thing that confused me was that his wand looked just like mine. I had lost it just before the start of the holidays. Missing, completely, and so I had gone with Narcissa Malfoy, and Draco, to Diagon Alley, to buy a new one.

When we had reached there, Draco and his mother disappeared, arranging a time for us to meet, and leaving me to do my shopping. I had enough money in my meagre bank account to buy a decent enough wand, and so I had made my way to Ollivanders, the wand makers.

The shop had been deserted, and as the bell had tinkled when I entered, Mr. Ollivander appeared.

"And how may I help you today, miss?" he had asked.

"I need a new wand. Mine has gone missing again." I explained.

"I see then, and what sort of wand were you using? Willow? Beech?" He named some of the easier wands, and their contents.

"It was cursed. Silver birch, unicorn hair. Old owner died, so I bought it. Good wand, very powerful."

"Ah, I see. Well, try this one, not so powerful mind, but still good," he handed me a wand, and I managed to shoot out some sparks easily enough, before he had taken it out of my hands, and put it away, "Too easily done. Not the wand for you." And so he spent a long time, passing me wands of various ability, and still we did not find one suitable for me.

"I wonder," he murmured to himself, and disappeared to the back of the shop, carrying back with him a heavy metal box. "You must understand, that this wand I am about to show you is one of a kind. Nobody has been able to use it before. Not even I, and that is hard to admit." He opened the box, and took out a beautiful wand, made of stunning wood. "This is made of Japanese Maple. It was a beautiful tree, purple leaves. Very old as well. I knew that I had to get some of its wood. So I cut a branch off it, and the whole tree disappeared. Just vanished, right into thin air. This piece of wood right here," he indicated, "holds all the life in that tree. It is very, very powerful, and could bring about much damage. Inside it is the tail hair from a unicorn stallion. He was very famous, magnificent beast. The wand also contains some of his blood, a very little bit mind, but still, a rare quality in a wand."

"Its beautiful," I breathed, and it truly was.

"I am glad you said that," he beamed. "Would you like to try it?"

"Are you serious? You are going to let me try it?"

"Why not?"

I blinked, and opened and closed my mouth a couple of times, before taking the wand from his hand. "What should I try?"

"Have you ever produced a patronus?"

"Never."

"Try that, just speak the words, with a happy memory in your mind, 'Expecto Patronum'. Have a go."

I had thought of the first time that I had kissed Seiji, and of dancing with him at the Yule Ball, both special memories. "Expecto Patronum," I spoke the words quietly. And before I knew it, silver streams of light had shot from the end of my wand, and twisted to form a beautiful unicorn. It tossed its head a couple of times, before fading away. I was in a state of shock.

Now it was Mr. Ollivander's turn to do his goldfish impression, standing there, with his mouth opening and closing. "Amazing, amazing." He finally found his voice. "Never, in my lifetime, have I seen such a beautiful patronus. And with such a wand! You are incredible, child. I don't understand how you did it. You must take this wand, you must," he insisted.

"But I can't afford it. It'll cost way too much," I protested. "I only have two galleons, seven sickles, and 5 knuts. And even I am not stupid enough to know that it isn't enough."

"My dear child, for the pleasure of knowing that you have this wand, I will charge you only one galleon, and 5 sickles. It is simply amazing that you could use it."

I left the shop a very happy person.

In my bedroom at the Malfoy's, Seiji and I sat on the bed, Midori laid out across our laps.

"She's so fat!" he exclaimed.

"She ate a cat," I answered.

"One of your cats?" he looked hopeful.

"NO!" I hit him. "YOU ARE SO MEAN!"

"What, I was joking."

"Whatever."

"I was."

"Hmph."

"Honest."

I turned away from him, and he tapped me on the shoulder, "Kara?"

"Hmph."

"Aww, c'mon Kara. I was joking. You have to feel sorry for me, I have no other source of amusement. One must entertain oneself in manners such as this."

"Hmph."

He blew in my ear gently, and I started to squirm, and ended up pushing him away, whilst Midori slithered off, and back to the safety of her cage. In retaliation to my defence, he pushed me back on the bed, and whilst I giggled unhelpfully he tried to kiss me, his arms pinning me down on either side. I squirmed, and teased him, until he gave up, and let me sit up once more. I kissed him playfully on the cheek, and we went back downstairs once again.

The holidays were drawing to an end, and so Draco, Kameko and I were set to return to Hogwarts, and Seiji, Art, and Shinza set to go somewhere. No idea where they were off to.

We dined in style on the last evening, and stayed up later than we should have. When I finally slid in between the sheets of my bed, I almost fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. I had no such chance of sleep though, for no sooner had I climbed into the bed, than Seiji climbed in on the other side, surprising me enough to almost fall out of the bed, which I would've done if he hadn't pulled me back in.

He pulled me in close to him, and my body melded into the form of his, and absorbed his warmth, and till there seemed to be an aura of warmth and love around us. I kissed him lightly, before settling my head on the pillow. I made little content sleepy snuffly noises, and for a while I felt him stroking my hair, and down my back, but I soon fell asleep, and was no longer aware of him.

He was gone when I woke up, and soon the three of us were one the train leading us back to Hogwarts.

I noticed he had taken the snake.