Disclaimer:I hate to admit it but I don't own Harry Potter or anything related to it. However I do happen to own everything in an alternative dimension where I date Tom Felton and am best friends with the cast. I want to go back!!!!! [Excuse me while I go cry for my loss]

Authors Note: Well kids here's the next instalment. Not as big as I would have hoped but it does it's job. I've been so busy lately I haven't gotten anywhere near the amount of work I wanted to have done, and on top of that I found out I've failed two of my exams [I only had three, and I don't know about the other one yet. L ] So now I have at least four repeats in august so I'm going to have to start revising soon cause I can't afford to fail these stupid things. This is just so you guys know what's going on should my writing fall victim to this disaster.

Until the next update, love you all.

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Chapter 9:

Draco had just sat down at the Slytherin table for dinner when he noticed Alicia, Hermione and Ginny glancing over at him and having a heated discussion.

Weird, wonder what their talking about. They're probably trying to talk her out of being my friend. Well, I'm not gonna give her up that easily, she one of the first real friends I've ever had and I'm not going to throw that away just because she's in a different house.

Just then Alicia looked over and gave him a mega watt grin and a small wave. Nodding his head in greeting he gave a small smile of his own before resuming eating his meal.

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"You are so crazy Alicia; this is Draco Malfoy we're talking about here. Now we know that the two of you are friends and everything but there is no way in hell that he will pretend to be Hermione' s boyfriend. He wouldn't even give us the time of day if we asked him. How on earth are you going to get him to agree to this hair-brained scheme of yours?"

"Simple; first I'm going to ask him to do it. Then if he say's he's not sure I'm going to point out that while he's pretending to be Hermione's boyfriend he will get to annoy the heck out of Ron as well as make him incredibly jealous of him. And it's totally believable that you would go out with him because, well, this is Draco Malfoy we're talking about here. If any Slytherin was worth your time it would be him."

"But it's Draco Malfoy…" Hermione put in as she stared confusingly over at the boy in question. She was still trying to get over the fact that this was the plan Alicia had come up with.

"Yes I know. Can you think of a more perfect person to make Ron jealous with?"

"But it's Draco Malfoy."

"He's one of the cutest guys in our year Hermione."

"But it's Draco Mal..."

"YES!! OK, I GET IT. It's Draco Malfoy; can we move passed that point?"

"He's a Slytherin..."

"Ok, as I can see we're getting no where fast let me put it to you a different way; you are the top student in our year right?"

"Well I wouldn't exactly say..."

"Yup, she is." Ginny interrupted.

"And who else is at the top of our year other than yourself?"

"Um, Draco?"

"Yes, Draco. And you're both prefects correct?"

"Yes."

"You both enjoy Quidditch, ok so he plays it and you watch it but still. You both like to read. You both have the great sense to make friends with me…" she trailed of grinning. Hermione and Ginny grinned back and laughed.

"Ok, so you get where I'm coming from. As crazy as it sound you actually would make a believable couple. And you won't have to worry about Draco actually wanting to date you because you aren't each others type, but other people don't know that."

"Ok, I'm not saying it will work; but I guess we can at least see what he says when we ask him."

"Great! We'll get him before he heads back to his common room. But he leaves right after he finishes so we need to make sure that we leave at the same time otherwise we'll miss him."

"Well it's not exactly like we're on a time frame right?" Ginny asked from where she set glaring at the blond. Why was he the one they had come up with, ok so he was cute but there were other cute guys in the school.

"What do you mean Gin?"

"Well I mean you've been trying to get Ron for years. So what difference does it make if we have to wait another day to get Malfoy in on it?"

"You know once he's in on the plan you're probably gonna have to start calling him Draco."

"Draco… uuch I still can't get around the idea of me dating Draco Malfoy. It's creepy and weird and gross on so many levels."

"Gross? Ok so it's Malfoy and everything but I wouldn't go as far as to say he's gross." Ginny said as she looked over at the person in question.

Defiantly not gross.

"But he's Draco Malfoy."

"Oh no, she back to that." Alicia moaned hitting her head off the table.

"Back to what?" Harry and Ron asked as they sat down and helped themselves to food.

"You know repeatedly hitting your head off the table could cause serious head trauma, not to mention that it probably won't help fix what ever it is." Harry said as he glanced at Alicia was now resting her forehead against the table and not moving. "Did she knock herself unconscious?"

"Nooo." Alicia groaned as she sat up and rubbed her forehead.

I am so gonna have a bruise there tomorrow.

"Glad to hear it. That wouldn't have been the best thing to happen saying as how it's only your second day here."

"Wow, it's hard to believe you've only been here two days Alicia, I mean it feels like we've known you forever." Ginny said as she slung her arm around the girl's shoulders.

"I know what you mean, I thought I was never going to settle in here and here I am with a great pack of friends already. Sappy as it is I wanted to say thanks to you guys for making me feel at home."

The guys looked at each other uncomfortable and muttered "S'ok" while the girls looked at each other before cooing "aww…" and gathering Alicia in a group hug.

"YOU BITCH!!!!!!!!"

"What the hell?" Ron asked as the group looked around for the source of the screaming. It didn't take long for the hall to find the disturbance was coming from a very angry looking Blaize Zambini who was sitting on top of Pansy Parkinson whilst slamming her head repeatedly into the stone floor. Beside them was a shocked and embarrassed Seamus Finnegan who looked frighteningly at the display taking place before him.

"Oh my god, I totally forgot about this!" Ginny said as she looked on at the spectacle. "I forgot about gossip… I think I feel ill…"

"It's ok Gin; we had other things on our mind." Alicia said comfortingly.

("You complete[smash] and utter [smash] Bitch!![smash smash smash] You always do this, why can't you leave me alone?!" [smash])

"Speaking of that other thing, he's gone. He must have left when all that started." Hermione said as they watched the teachers drag the girls apart. The hall slowly returned to normal as the group returned to their table to finish their meal.

"Well we'll get him tomorrow like Ginny said, it's no big deal."

"Get who? What are you guy's on about?" Ron asked as he shoved another forkful of food into his mouth.

"Oh, it's nothing. Just talking about how Draco said he'd help me catch up in potions saying as how he's the top in that subject. So what are you guys doing tonight?"

"To tell you the truth, I'm completely wiped so I think I'm gonna head straight to bed after Dinner."

"I'm with Harry on that one; today has just been a long day, plus I think I deserve a early night after doing homework voluntarily." Ron said as he pushed away his plate. "We ready?" the group nodded and after saying good bye to some fellow Gryffindors they head back to the common room.

"I'm going to get a head start on some of my homework but I'll probably head up to bed soon as well." Hermione said as she sat down at one of the study desks situated in the common room.

"Ok, good night guys."

"Night Alicia, Mione, Gin." The boy's coursed as they headed up to their dorms.

"G'Night Gin, G'night Alicia, I'll be up soon."

"Kay; good night Mione."

"Hey Alicia?"

"Yeah Ginny?"

"What's Malfoy actually like?"

Yeah!!! I knew you liked him.

"He's a really nice guy. I think you guys will actually like him. That another Bonus to him being 'Mione's boyfriend'; you guys will have the chance to get to know the guy I met on the train instead of the guy you've all known for the last five years. Or at least I hope so."

"Yeah, I guess."

"Why did ya ask?"

"OH, umm no reason; just wondering what you see that we don't." Ginny mumbled looking around distractedly. "So what are you gonna do now?"

"I guess get caught up on some of the reading material I'm behind on, you?"

"Transfigurations; we're suppose to have gotten the hang of a particularly tricky spell over the holidays and I still haven't got it down. Figured I'd practice for a bit while everyone's still at Dinner. So I guess I'll see ya tomorrow morning."

"Ok, see ya then." Alicia said as Ginny entered the fourth year dorms and she headed on to the fifth.

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Draco sat at his desk reading over his potions text. Getting bored he set the book aside he got up and headed over to his bed. Thinking about the first few days of the year he couldn't help but smile. He'd never met anyone like Alicia before, she was so easy to get on with and she actually got his sense of humour that most people just didn't seem to grasp. Then he thought about he friends from Gryffindor. He didn't really have anything against the group but he couldn't really see them accepting him in any way; but then again he didn't think he'd ever be friends with a Gryffindor and now he considered one of them to be the truest closest friend he'd ever had, and to think he'd only met her a couple of days ago.

I guess life just isn't predictable. So goodness knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

Note:

Please review, I really need to know you guys are out there reading this. I've been so out of it I actually wrote an angst fic!! Angst, I hardly even read angst never mind write it. Now I have nothing against it because it's a very emotional way to write, but I just never saw myself writing it. Hey, if you like that sort of thing go and read it from my authors page,it's called one year, let me know if it's any good lol. Anyway, please review cause it takes like two minutes but I love hearing what you guys think.

Thanks:

Pam: ah my faithful reviewer, I don't know what I would do with out your reviews, they cheer me up so much. I'm glad chapter 9 was to your liking. I loved that line too so it's cool to know you appreciated it lol.

Of course you special, all my reviewers are special to me, but you especially. And actually I'm hoping to fit the declaration in at some point, what can I say, you put the thought in my head and now it won't go away lol. As for the friction you're just gonna have to say tuned, but it's not like the guys are going to be sunshine and light about it.

Meg-goddess: actually you hit the nail on the head cause I was thinking about getting those two together, but I'm gonna have to wait and see where the characters take me, some times I have no control over them what so ever lol. Hope you keep reading to find out what happens.[yes this is a ploy to keep you hooked lol]