Soooooooo Sorry about the long wait but my internet has been down
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
They woke up groggily around 11 o-clock, all very sore, and very hungry. They went upstairs to change out of their dance outfits into some comfy clothes and they walked down to the great hall.
"Happy waffle day!" Emma-Leigh said to Ginny who was already eating.
"Waffle day?" Ginny asked, while the rest of them just looked at her with raised eyebrows.
"Yup, That's what me and my family back home call Boxing Day. Mum makes a big match and we ate all day… we gained a lot of weight over the Christmas holidays." She grabbed the syrup and poured it on top of her stack.
"Ello, ello." Draco said to everyone and sat down next to Michelle kissing her on the cheek. He had a large hand sized mark on his face. Gryffindors were looking at him like he had lost his mind. Draco threw two galleons at Ron, "from last night." He said grinning. Harry sensed everyone looking at Draco. Draco Malfoy, King of the Slytherins, was sitting at the Gryffindor table, laughing and grinning.
"So, Draco, gonna explain the mark on your face or do we have to guess?" Hermione asked taking a sip of her orange juice. His face darkened.
"Pansy." He said. When he noticed they all obviously wanted more information, he sighed, "Well, she waited in the common room after Michelle, here, punched her in the face. Anyways once I got back she started yelling at me, like, we were married or something. Going on about I as so late and what was I doing with the Gryffindors Blah blah blah… I told her to shut up and get over it because even if I wasn't with Michelle I wouldn't be with her," he spat, "then she hit me in the face. I stood there with a shocked expression on my face. Then she fell to the floor all dramatic like and started wailing and apologizing over and over again. By then I was already gone." He laughed helping himself to one of Michelle's sausages. Michelle's jaw dropped.
"Oh my God! How dare you!" she said and she lightly hit him on the other side of his face, "… there now you match" they sniggered into their breakfasts. Just then Pansy walked into the Hall. Her eyes all red and puffy from long hours of crying. She scanned the hall and at once so the whit blonde hair of Draco, her Draco, sitting with the Gryffindors. Not just Gryffindors, the worst Gryffindors. Harry 'the boy who lived' Potter, Weasel King, The Mudblood, The New Girl, and the New Girls friend, the one who stole Draco's heart. When she saw this she made an "Eeep" noise and ran from the room. When Michelle saw this she went into fits of hysterical laughter. Emma-Leigh found her laugh contagious so she started to laugh too, with in three minutes they were all laughing.
"I need (gasp) air!" Emma-Leigh gasped trying to breath, wiping tears from her eyes. They left the table and dashed up stairs to put on their cloaks.
Hermione and Ron, Harry and Emma-Leigh, and Michelle and Draco walked outside hand in hand. The snow had fallen a lot while they slept and was still falling softly in the form of big fluffy snowflakes. Hermione and Ron had already disappeared behind a large snowdrift, and Michelle and Draco were drifting off. Harry and Emma-Leigh walked in silence, not an awkward silence either, a pleasant, peaceful silence. It was Harry who broke it first.
"Emma-Leigh… I love you." He said very quietly. Emma-Leigh was slightly taken aback by his sudden and abruptness.
"I love you too." She said squeezing his hand and looking up to see his amazing almond shaped emerald eyes looking back at her. Emma-Leigh giggled as she brushed the large pile of snow out of his hair. He smiled and kissed her on the nose and wrapped his arms around her waist as she draped her arms over his shoulders.
"This is nice, snow falling around us, it's almost perfect" Emma-Leigh whispered.
"Almost?" Harry asked sounding almost hurt.
"Nothing's ever perfect. But with you it's pretty damn close." She smiled and kissed him. The kiss didn't last as long as either of them had hoped for because all of a sudden a very large, very wet snow ball collided with the back of Harry's head. Ronald Weasley didn't know what he was starting when he threw the snowball fight. Draco and Michelle joined in and soon it was full-fledged snow war! Emma-Leigh and Harry went on a stealth mission to infiltrate the Michelle and Draco fort and break up the MD&RH coalition. They had been conspiring against Harry and Emma-Leigh when they jumped out and pelted them with many snowballs. They were definitely the Victors. They sang 'We are the Champions' all the way up to the Room of Requirement. When they got there Ron stopped, Draco had never heard of this room so Ron explained while Hermione paced in front of the door "we need a place to dry off, a place to hang out, a place where Gryffindors and Slytherins are both welcome." When the door appeared Draco's mouth dropped. They found some dry clothes and a curtain so people could change, and three couches. Once they all changed out of their wet clothes, they sat down on the couches drinking coke, and snacking on all sorts of munchies. They talked and laughed about everything, just a bunch of friends hanging out and goofing off. Then Ron said what everyone was thinking.
"Wow Draco, I cant believe what a great time I've had just hanging out with you the last two days, but what's going to happen when Michelle leaves?" Everyone looked from Ron to Draco.
"I dunno, I'm not going back to Pansy, and you guys are much more interesting then Crabbe and Goyle, and… as much as I hate to say this… you guys are pretty cool people." He added the last part in a very over dramatic 'I wish I wasn't here' voice but smiling the whole time. "Really Ron, I don't want anything to change, but it's only a matter of time before Pansy writes to my DAD telling him that I'm hanging out with you guys. Who knows what will happen then." He sighed his light grey eyes darkening. "You guys man not believe this but I don't always agree with everything my father says and does. Like 'Mione with the whole Mudblood thing, First of all I've been living in that house with my mother and father and that's all I've ever been told and second I'm a 'Malfoy' I couldn't lose face with my "Friends". Crabbe and Goyle are only my "Friends" because of my "father" and their fathers and their stupid black hoods!" he slammed his fist down on the arm of the couch. None of them had ever seen Draco get so emotional about something, or open up about his father being a death eater and not wanting it like that. Emma-Leigh stood up and hugged Draco.
"It's alright Draco, Nothing's going to change."
Wow so Draco opens up his feelings and lets it all out... how sweet.