Disclaimer: Harry potter characters are not mine. They all belong to J.K Rowling. Some of the plot is mine

Now for the third chapter

"Hey buddy. What are you thinking about that is taking you away from your beloved food?" a loud voice brought Daren from his deep thoughts. Daren looked with a big scowl on his face at his cousin Michel Weasley who was smiling like an idiot. He wasn't in the mood to stand his cousin. Michel who was in his seventh year this year was the school heartthrob with his blond hair and blue eyes which he inherited from his mother Fleur Declure and tall strong frame like his father William Weasley. Despite the fact that they weren't in the same year, they were best friends. Usually, Daren loved his cousin antics but tonight he was too livid to enjoy anyone's company.

"Leave me alone Michel, I'm not in a the mood". Then he returned to look at his plate which was still full with food. Michel watched him worriedly while he played with his plate. Daren Weasley favorite hobby was eating, and for him not eating meant that something was seriously wrong.

Intending to find what is wrong; he touched Daren shoulders and leaned on him. "Tell me what is the matter Daren? Usually, you are very hungry at dinner you can't stop eating to take a breath between bites"

Daren scowled at him and growled. "Don't mock me Michel, leave me or I'll pump your bloody face". Michel left his hands in a pacifying motion. "I'm not mocking you. I'm only concerned. So tell me what's wrong?" He said heatedly.

A heavy sigh get out from Daren mouth. "Everything is wrong. Nothing is moving the way I want. It is as if the whole universe is standing against me".

"Now, now. Tell Uncle Michel what got you in this state". He said joking. Daren gave him a dirty look but began to talk nevertheless. "Today we had a quidditch practice at noon, so I went with the quidditch team to the peach. You know I developed some great strategies in the holidays, so I was excited to try them with the team. But we found the bastard Malfoy and his group of idiots that call themselves the Slytherin team using the peach like it is their personal yard. I tried to reason with them that professor wood gave us permission to practice, but the git refused to leave the peach. So I solved the matters with my own hands" he smirked remembering Malfoy bloody nose. Then he continued. "It is sufficient to say that this lost us ten points and prevented us and the slytherin from using the peach for two days" A sour look appeared at his face as he said that.

Michel began laughing at that then he stopped to say: "I would have loved to see the look on Malfoy face when you punched him. But I know that this is not the thing that is bothering you. So out with it".

"I don't know what you are talking about Michel. What would be bothering me other than that? Isn't it enough that we don't get to practice for two days? The quidditch matches are approaching or did you forget." He said trying to look convincing.

"Don't try to convince me. Is it a girl problem?" he moved his eyebrows up and down in a teasing way. Daren face began to heat and he found his gaze moving without his will to the brown hair girl leaning on her book at the far side of the table.

Daren himself didn't know what is it that bothered him this much, but he knew that it has something to do with her. Halle Malfoy always managed to rattle him like that.

He remembered what Emily said to him that day. She was right. He did obsess about her. From the first time he saw her at platform 9 and 3/4 looking excited to go to Hogwarts for the first time she fascinated him. She looked cute wearing her school robes even before riding the train and nearly jumping from her excitement. She was hugging a beautiful woman that he couldn't recognize from behind. But when two blonde figures got near them, he was able to recognize the family. It was the Malfoys. Draco and Hermione Malfoy and their bastard son Leon. He didn't know Leon has a little sister. He removed his eyes from her immediately upon this discovery. His father hated the Malfoys with a passion. He didn't know why but apparently there was a history between them from their years in school.

He tried to ask Uncle Harry about it one day, but the man became elusive and didn't give anything except that it had to do with Hermione Malfoy.

For that reason any sort of a friendship between him and Leon was doomed from the start. Not that they would have hit it on in other circumstances. They were apposite to each other in every way, and the competition between them began immediately.

Daren tried to ignore the little girl, but when she entered his house for the surprise of every one it became difficult to ignore her. She was very small and fragile that he found himself wanting to protect her. This made him angry; because there was no way in hell he could feel these emotions toward a Malfoy. Thus, the torment began. At first it was little comments about her hair. The first time he made fun of her bushy hair she looked at him with her big brown eyes full with tears. He felt something tighten in his heart that day but he squashed it. As the years progressed he could feel that she has a crush on him, so he did everything to kill this crush from the start. Eventually, tormenting her became something that he enjoyed. He made all the Gryffindors shun her, after all he was the son of Ron Weasley, hero of the second war and he has a great influence on his housemates.

That why Halle Malfoy became an outsider in her house. The only friend that she has was Susan wood the daughter of Oliver wood the quidditch professor. She was in Ravenclaw and both were very compatible as they loved to study. Halle should have been in Ravenclaw or Slytherin at least. Gryffindors wasn't the rightful place for her to be in.

But recently it became difficult to harass her when every thing in his being wanted to kiss these pouty lips. He didn't know when she became lovely and desirable. One day she was a small girl with a halo of hair that covered her eyes, then the other a lovely curvy woman that would fit just right between his arms.

That didn't bother him at first. He was a healthy man with desires and needs and any girl with the right equipments would get that reaction from him. But when he became aware that other males began to take notice he felt rage. She was his. He was her first crush and she has always held a torch for him. Even when he hurt her, he could see love in her eyes. He wasn't the king of obvious but even he could see the way that she looked at him.

So he began another mission. Mission: chasing males that dared to approach her. That wasn't very difficult. But lately there were some boys who dared to face his wrath enable to get near her. That took more time to deal with but it could be done. With all this emotions burning inside of him, his torment to her increased to the degree of physical harm. That didn't mean that he put her in any danger, but he did some harmless pranks that would send her to the school nurse for a patch, nothing serious mind you.

And that returned him back to the reason he was having a bad day. After the incident at the quidditch peach, he went to his room to change, then went to the hall for lunch when he saw her. She was as usual holding a bag double her size and talking with a boy. He identified him as Antoine Flint a seven year student in Slytherin. What got him so angry was that flint was leaning on her with a flirting smile on his ugly face. And she didn't look in any discomfort even when the bastard was nearly pushing her to the wall.

He approached them quietly and spoke with a soft voice. "Flirting in the hallways flint, why don't you find an empty class and spare us the ugly sight" Halle eyes became like saucers when she spotted him and she began to splutter. Serves her right. What right does she have flirting with another male when she was his?

Flint moved around slowly and smirked. "Weasley. I was telling Halle how lovely she was yesterday when she stood up to you. It wouldn't do to have a lowly being like you demean our lovely Miss Malfoy".

Daren felt smoke erupting from his ears; he was ready to lunge at him when the bastard continued. "Oh and I asked her if she would go with me to the next hogsmade visit and I was just about to receive her replay before you interrupted us. So I would be happy if you remove yourself from our presence so I could receive my replay".

"She certainly will not accept an invitation from the likes of you" Daren was nearly shouting the last ward.

A look of indignation appeared on Halle face and she looked at Daren with anger in her eyes. "Who I go out with is none of your business Daren Weasley", then she faced flint and said: "And yes I will go with you Antoine, good day to you both". Then she stormed in her way to Gryffindor tower. To say that Daren was surprise was an understatement. Yesterday she stood up to him at dinner and now she told him she will go with another male without his consistence. How dare she? Didn't she belongs to him?

"Good day to you too Weasley", Flint said to him with a smirk then moved in his way. Daren was about to grip him and give him a piece of his mind when a hand on his shoulder stopped him. It was Emily.

"Are you mad? You will get the quidditch team in another trouble and we will lose another day of practice if you get in a fight", she was screaming in his face.

She was right but the rage inside of him was so great that he couldn't stop to think about the consequences.

So now here he was playing with his food and glaring at Halle across the table. He felt betrayed even when it was ridicules to feel this way. She didn't have any obligation toward him as she was not his girlfriend, nor he ever gave any indication that he wanted her to be.

He faced Michel and said in a miserable tone, "I don't know what to do anymore; I tried, I really tried to crush those feeling inside me. But I can't any more. Even the slightest idea that she would let another man touch her makes me crazy. But I know that I have no rights to her. I was always mean and violent toward her. She will never look at me like she used to when she was little. As if I was the world to her. Tell me Michel what should I do?"

Michel was looking at him wearily. He always thought that Daren felt something for the Malfoy girl, but to hear him saying that in that miserable voice surprised him.

Daren was always cool and composed. No girl managed to unnerve him like that. He understood that there were many things that separated Daren from his lady love. Things that couldn't be overcome. This was real even if it seemed like a Victorian story. Ron Weasley would do anything in this world to keep his children away from the Malfoys. And if he realized that his eldest son has feelings to one of them, hell will break lose.

All that Michel could do to his cousin was to pat on his shoulders in sympathy. It was only a little crush after all. He will live and forget and another girl will replace Halle Malfoy in his heart in no time. Michel tried to reason with himself, even when there was this little doubt in his mind that told him that this would not happen.

This chapter was about Daren feeling and point of view. In later chapters we will find what do the others feel and will learn about the hate between the Weasleys and Malfoys.

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