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Chapter Seventeen

"H-hi, Ron." I said nervously. "Did-did you have a nice time with Hermione?"

"Yes I did as a matter of fact. Did you have a nice time with Harry?" Ron asked, smirking at us.

"Oh yeah." I said nodding. "I mean...It was alright." Ron laughed. Harry's face had turned bright red. "So...umm...Have you gotten all your homework done yet? I haven't—" Ron interrupted me. " I can see that. You've been a bit busy haven't you?"

"You know what? Homework is stupid. I hate homework How about you? Oh my gosh what's that?" We all looked over to a small circular window on the other side of the room where we had heard a loud noise.

"It's just Hedwig." Harry said. Hermione had already crossed the room and was letting Hedwig climb onto her shoulder.

"It's for you Skylar." Hermione said walking over to us.

"I thought it would be." I replied, my face still burning red yet grateful to Hedwig for arriving when she did. I grabbed the letter out of Hermione's hands and began to read.

"Aaah!" I squealed. "Hermione!"

"What?" Hermione said.

"Hermione!" I said again.

"What?" I leaned over to her.

"Hermione! Sara lost her VL's!"

"She lost her what's?" Hermione asked.

"Her VL's! You know…'Virgin Lips'! She kissed someone!"

"She's not the only one." Ron muttered. I chose to ignore him, though mine and Harry's cheeks, which were beginning cool down, were a bright crimson again.

"Oh my gosh I have to go write her back! I can't even pronounce his name. Bulgaria. What a random country!" I said excitedly.

The next morning as we sat down to breakfast Harry reached for my hand and laced his fingers with mine under the table. I smiled at my plate. This was heaven! Even though Hermione could barley keep from giggling and Ron was still discreetly making fun of us. I didn't care. Harry liked me! Harry Potter actually liked me! I had never felt this way about anyone. Sure there was Tommy and Josh…but this was more. I wasn't quite sure what it was. But it was definitely more.

"Skylar! Hey Skylar come here!" I looked around. Henry Porter was looking at me, a smug look on his face as usual. I ignored him and turned back to my eggs and bacon.

"Skylar!" Henry yelled again.

"Leave me alone!" I moaned. He got up and walked over to me. I rolled my eyes and sighed, but smiled up at him when he tapped my shoulder so he could talk to me.

"You stood me up." He said.

"For…what?" I asked.

"Our date in the astronomy tower." Harry raised his eyebrows at me.

"I don't know what you're talking about!" I said, more to Harry than to Henry.

"You know…our date. The one we made the day we kissed." Harry let go of my hand, cleared his throat, and took a drink from his mug of orange juice. Ron was watching with much interest.

"What the….oh! Henry…you're so weird! That was like…a month ago! And A, I never said I would go out with you. In fact I remember saying that that I wouldn't go! And two, you made me kiss you!" I looked sideways at Harry then back at Henry. "I didn't want to, that's disgusting!" Harry put his cup down and gave me a look that said 'okay,' yet he didn't take my hand again.

"Sure." Henry muttered. "So to make it up to me I'll see you in the trophy room during lunch today."

"No!" I said, irritably. "Henry, I don't like you! When are you going to get it through your tiny little brain?"

"Playin' hard to get with me, eh?"

"Henry…no. Just leave me alone, okay?" He walked back to the Slytherinn table, still smirking widely.

"I don't know how I'm ever gonna get through to that guy that I'm not interested! Sheesh!"

"Yeah, I know the feeling. They're interested and you're not…" Harry said. "You are not, right?" He added casually.

"Definitely not." I assured him.

It was the beginning of December, and the grounds were covered in a thick layer of snow. And because of this, Care of Magical Creatures and Herbology, our two afternoon classes had been canceled. We sat bored in the common room until,

"Let's go outside!" I said.

"What?" Ron said. "It's freezing cold out there. I'll pass thanks."

"Ron you're so boring. You have a cloak, right?"

"Well yeah but-"

"So what's the problem?"

"It's cold! We'll get soaked! Besides, I'm perfectly content here."

"Fine. Your loss. Any takers?"

"Not me thanks." Hermione said. "I'm with Ron. It's just too cold."

"I'll go." Harry said. "Can't be much worse than in here."

"Have fun you two! And behave yourselves!" Ron said, jokingly. I smiled innocently at him and went to get my cloak.

I met Harry in the entrance hall a half an hour later.

"Hey!" I said as I walked over to him. He kissed my cheek.

"What took you so long?" I shrugged.

"I'm a girl." I said plainly. He took my hand and we laced our fingers loosely as we walked out of the castle. I smiled.

"I love snow." I said.

"Why is that?" Harry asked.

"We don't get much snow in San Diego." I replied, looking around at the beautiful white powder.

"Well," Harry said, deviously, "Then I guess you don't mind if I do this!"

"Don't you dare." I said as he bent down and made a snowball in his hands. "Don't you dare!" I repeated as he threw the snowball. It hit me squarely in the face.

"You do know what I have to do now, don't you?" I scooped up a much bigger snowball than what he threw at me. The next thing I knew, we were engaged in a heated snowball fight. I slipped on the ice and Harry took this opportunity to clobber me with many snowballs.

"Hey!" I squealed. I grabbed Harry's foot and pulled him to the ground. He grunted as his body hit the ice.

"Serves you right!" I said. We broke down into a fit of laughter. As we calmed down, I blushed slightly as I felt myself move closer until our lips met. I put one hand on his shoulder and he put his arm around my waste, pulling me closer to him. We broke apart slowly. I couldn't help but smile sheepishly at him.

"Come on." Harry said. "Let's go inside." We stood up and walked back to the castle, his arm still around me.

We walked into the common room to find Ron and Hermione locked in an epic game of wizards chess.

"Hey, it looks Hermione might win!"

"Checkmate!" We heard Ron say triumphantly.

"Never mind."

"What happened to you two?" Ron asked, surveying mine and Harry's wet clothes.

"We er, we had a little snowball fight." Harry said.

"Yeah so I think I'll go change." I said "Goodnight Harry. Oh! And goodnight Ron and Hermione. See you in the morning." I smiled once more at Harry before heading upstairs to bed.

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