All right so we left off with Emma thinking that this was gonna be a long ride right? Ok good I thought so: )

Emma sat down and rolled her eyes when Draco said, "Well Thomas, I know you love me and all but please this is a bit much!"

Emma just glared at him. The rest of the ride was silent as Emma pondered her thoughts and the others did the same. What seemed like an hour later, they pulled up to the staircase that led into Hogwarts. Emma stepped inside and quickly hurried to the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall. She spotted Harry and Ron and sat down by them quickly followed by Hermione.

"Gosh boys, I can't believe you left Mione and me to sit with that in the carriages!" Emma said while pointing to Malfoy. Malfoy saw her pointing to him and couldn't help but make a comment.

"Now now Thomas you shouldn't go around telling all your little friends that you love me," he whispered as he walked by. Emma had a strong urge to smack him by couldn't as the headmaster started speaking.

"Welcome old faces, and new! As you know the Forbidden Forest is well, Forbidden! Need I remind you that means to stay out of it," he said while looking at Emma, " Mr. Filch has kindly reminded me to tell you all that spells are not to be used in between classes. Other then that, tuck in!"

There was a slight chuckle throughout the hall as the plates before them filled with food. Ron immediately stuffed his plate and began to eat like there was no tomorrow. Emma carefully filled her plate and began to eat. Conversation took up the Great Hall and Emma decide to start one herself.

"So you guys, what did you do this summer?" she asked.

"I sat around at the Dursley's like I do every summer," Harry said gloomily.

"I went to France to visit some relatives," said Hermione enthusiastically.

"Well that sounds fun, all I did was play Quidditch in my back yard!" said Ron with his mouth full to the bursting point. Emma smiled to herself; it was good to be back. They talked for a while afterwards then Dumbledore stood up once again.

"Dear students, after all this feasting I believe that it is time for us to venture up to our beds for a well deserved sleep. Good night!" and with that everyone stood up and headed for the entrance to the Great Hall. The four Gryffindors headed up to the portrait of the Fat Lady but then realized they didn't have the password.

"Oh no!" Emma groaned as she sat down in front of the portrait, "This is just brilliant! We finally get up here and we don't have the stupid password!" After sitting there for about half an hour someone came out of the common room and the four of them quickly scrambled inside before the portrait could close again. The familiar sight of everyone sitting around the fire and gossiping or playing exploding snap quickly greeted Emma as she sat down on her favourite couch. Hermione sat down beside her and looked over to Emma.

"Umm, Emma can I tell you something?" she asked nervously.

Emma sat up quickly after hearing her name.

"Sure Hermione, what is it?" she asked.

"Well I don't know if this would be the right place, do you want to go up to the dorms?"

"Um sure, I guess if it's that important," said Emma. Both girls headed up to the dorms to find Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil gossiping as usual. They greeted each other like normal and Emma and Hermione went over to the far side of the room away from the two girls.

"So, what is so important that you can't tell me in the Common Room?" Emma asked.

"Well since you're my best friend and all I thought I should tell you this since I finally decided what I feel," said Hermione, "I like Harry."

Emma was stunned but probably could have guessed that Hermione did if she had taken a closer look.

"That's great Herms! You're finally over that what's his name? Oh yes Blaise" said Emma. She still found it hard to believe that Hermione could ever like a Slytherin, it just wasn't like her. Even though Blaise was a pretty nice Slytherin, he was more than often considered a man-whore which Emma found a little surprising considering he was actually pretty nice.

Emma and Hermione talked for a little while longer before Lavender requested that they 'Shut their big mouths and go to sleep'.

When Emma got up the next morning she looked over to her clock only to find that it was about five in the morning. Thinking that she wouldn't be able to get back to sleep she decided to go for a run around the grounds. Emma had done a lot of running over the summer to stay in shape for Quidditch. She was the star chaser of the Gryffindor team according to Harry, which meant she had to be in pretty good shape if they wanted to win the cup this year. Emma loved playing Quidditch and it made it even more fun having Ron, Harry and Ginny on the team. With Harry as the new captain after Angelina had left there was no way she couldn't enjoy it, there was also no way that they could lose the cup.

Emma arrived at the pitch and started off at a slow walking pace around the field. After about half a lap she broke into a fast jog. A few more laps and she was full out running. Emma had been running for about two hours when someone else came down to the pitch. 'Draco Malfoy, of all the people!' Emma thought as she saw him. She decided to try and not have him notice her to avoid what could be a pretty nasty row. Emma kept running but knew that some time she was going to get around the field and have to face him. After about three fourths of a lap Draco still hadn't mounted his broom or even shown some sign of being ready too. He just stood there. Then he walked over to the cabinent where the brooms were kept when they weren't being used and put his inside of it. 'Why on Earth did he come down here if he wasn't going to be flying?' Emma thought as she slowed down just a tad. Then a horrible sinking sensation reached her stomach as she realized she wasn't the only one who liked to take morning runs. Draco began to take off the sweatshirt he had on leaving him in basketball shorts and a t-shirt. Then he began to run, and really run. He didn't even start off slow he just went right into it unlike Emma who was still stunned that he was there to run. She finally snapped out of her trance and began to run as well. It was a while before Draco caught up to her considering how far away they were from each other but when he finally did Emma wasn't to happy about it.

"Well, well if it isn't little miss prissy Thomas, actually doing something athletic?" he asked condescendingly.

Emma snarled at him and said, "You know very well that I happen to be on the Quidditch team, or are you trying to put those embarrassing defeats behind you?"

Draco snarled back and just pushed ahead of her and took off again. Both of them ran for about and hour longer then Emma started to get a little bit tired and hungry so she decided to go and eat breakfast. As she was walking out of the stadium she turned and saw Draco taking off his shirt and preparing to run some more. Emma couldn't help staring at his amazing build but quickly snapped out of it and headed up toward the castle. She quickly went into the Great Hall and sat down by Hermione.

"Where were you this morning? I got up and didn't see you," she asked.

"Oh I just went out for a little run," Emma said casually while picking up some toast. She failed to mention who she saw and what happened before the lesson plans came round.

Well I think that one was long enough don't you? It was three pages on Microsoft Word! That's pretty good for me lol well that's all for now … hope you liked it!