I woke up the next morning with Rose pushing on my shoulders. I let out a groan of annoyance as she pulled the covers of my bed off. I shot up with a pout on my face. The whole Gryffindor girls were standing around my bed. I shook my head a little, and looked at the time, ten minutes before breakfast. I smiled carefully and moved to get my pants out of my dresser as everyone watched. "What!" I demanded as everyone took a step back as I held my pants in front of me.
"Is it true?" Rose asked annoyed. I grabbed a bra and my shirt, pulling out my tie.
"Is what true?" I asked attempting to get out of my sleep coma. Rose made an exaggerated sigh, as I pulled my curtain over my bed to change.
"You and Malfoy got caught in the Room of Requirement by McGonagall?" Rose said again. I stopped pulling my pants up as she said it and shook my head. That was a dream. I could have sworn it was just a dream and I am still dreaming. "Everyone knows about it."
"How?" I asked pulling on my shirt as quickly as possible before finding my sweater.
"It's the Slytherin house," Amy laughed as I pulled the curtain back. "News travels fast, even you know that one Lils." I fumbled around my bed looking for my shoes. This was not happening. I moved to the other side, some of the girls starting to head out of the room, leaving just a few of us. I tossed my found shoe on my bed, before falling back on it.
"I have to spend five hours with Malfoy every day for the next month." I told them putting my shoe on with more force than necessary. "Then write an essay about the prat. How do you deal with him every night?" I asked Rose who had picked up my hair brush and was slowly brushing it out.
"Well, we don't really talk much, but we don't insult one another either. Or talk about our family, or you fighting with him all the time, or when you and Al set his things on fire in our fourth year."
"Accident," I told her as she pulled my head backward with her hands, slowly braiding my untamed hair.
"The point is, use the time to ease whatever tension and make it past the next year. I need his dad to give me a recommendation for the hospital." I rolled my eyes; of course it all came back to Rose's motives. I loved my cousin to death, she is like the big sister I never wanted, but always needed. I finished putting on my shoes and the three of us walked down to the hall.
Let me tell you, I have never witnessed the Great Hall so quiet in all of my short time at school. I took three steps in and everyone was staring at me. I looked around, not finding Malfoy's big blond head before I sat down. Albus came over in his not so jokester self. He slammed down into the table next to me as people started to mind their own business. "Why were you out with Malfoy last night? You hate him and now your snogging in the—"
I cut him off there. Me snogging Malfoy? Was he off his rocker! "I was not snogging Malfoy!" I said it loud enough for the whole hall to hear I bet. "What are you mental?! We were dueling! I was about ready to take him out when we got caught."
Albus' face went from bright red to a pale white as I blinked at him. He slowly nodded his head a few times before he leaned back in his chair, "So, what is the time for the crime?"
"A month with Malfoy, I would rather spend the time with the giant squid." I told him as piled eggs onto my plate poking them with the fork. Everyone finally left me alone when Malfoy walked in, acting like nothing had happened. No one bothered him, maybe it was the whole Slytherins don't talk about things in public thing our house needed to take up on. Great, now want to have a Slytherin trait, and I haven't spent five minutes with him!
The day went on with people bugging me for answers, finally when my time to spend with Hagrid came; I thought I would enjoy myself. My dad always told me about his trips to see his old friend, how he set Buckbeak free with my aunt, or how he almost got attacked my spiders while trying to clear Hagrid's name. I finished walking down the walk way, my robes flying in the cold winter air as he stood outside with his massive dog Nergerta. I waved quickly at him and stopped seeing Malfoy with a bucket in his hand. I walked slower, giving Hagrid my normal hug hello. He told me that we were working inside the forest to help the centaurs with wolf control. I think in my own terms, I was playing bait. As fun as it didn't sound, I had a blast, the best part of it was Malfoy was annoyed the whole time. I set up traps with one of the centaurs using charms as he told me stories about living out in the forest, the things he got to see, the stars he watched every night. He even promised me that he would show me the constellations to help me study for my Astronomy O.W.L. He said he even knew my father and got to teach him while he was at school.
Once it was time to head back, Malfoy and I walked together to spend our alone time. I had to almost run to keep up with his pace as he marched up the stairs. "Slow down!" I begged, well, not beg, I don't beg I…. I asked. He in all his Malfoy manners ignored me until we reached the castle. I started walking to the Great hall.
"No way," Malfoy said shaking his head climbing the first step.
"What?" I asked, see asked, not begged.
"I am not working in there so people can stare."
"What did you have in mind then? The library? Not like people can't talk in there either." I rolled my eyes and moved my bag on my shoulder.
"Rather the library where I don't have to listen to you wine." Malfoy said walking up the stairs more. I ignored him and started walking to the Great Hall. I saw Lorcan and waved like a little girl. He waved back and started toward me as Headmaster McGonagall blocked my path.
"Miss. Potter, Mr. Malfoy, to spend time with one another suggest that you must be in the same room."
"Lily was just getting a sandwich and then we were headed to the library," Malfoy said behind me in a fake charming voice that made me want to turn around and hex him.
She looked over to me and I smiled, I was not losing my spot on the team for him, I marched in the Great Hall, picked up a sandwich from the Hufflepuff table and met him on the steps, pounding my foot uo each one as we walked. "Stop acting like a baby and let's just get this over with." Malfoy said as we took a table in the very back of the library. I opened my charms book and sulked watching the clock pause then go every second.
Malfoy had been scribbling away on his parchment as I attempted to read for my next lesson. Thirty minutes, that is how long I had been sitting there as we both ignored one another. I looked up from my book and saw Lorcan out of the book shelves; I sat up quickly almost falling out of my seat as I stood up landing into the book cases. He took a step back before he saw me, "Hey," he smiled walking to the book case with his flawless features coming into view better. I took a step back and tripped over a book. Great. Lily Potter. Looking like a fool since September 17th 2007. I looked up at Lorcan's shoes. He put out his hand and helped me up. I bit my lip and looked away from his face, "never thought I would see Lily Potter in the library."
I am not going to blush; I am not going to blush, "Yeah, well, I'm not here by choice."
"I heard about your crazy night last night, your dad was here and everything. You told him hello for my right?" Lorcan smiled again, scratching the back of his wonderful hair.
"Yes, and he put me in Azkaban," I told him. He started to laugh and looked to Malfoy sitting in his chair; I don't even think he has moved this whole time but his hand.
"Well I will see you tomorrow in DA, are we still on for this weekend in Hogsmeade or do you not have visiting rights?"
"No, I can still go, I'll see you tomorrow" I told him as we gave one another a hug goodbye. I love his hugs. Now I'm going to stop, I'm sixteen, not six. I watching him walk away before I sat back down in my chair. Malfoy was laughing as I sat down. He dipped his quill in his ink shaking his head. "What Malfoy?" I sneered at him.
"Nothing, I just knew you pathetic, I just didn't know how much." I couldn't help myself, I hit his hand his inked quill smudging the ink across his homework. He grabbed my hand as I pushed it back from his.
"Let go," I threatened, but he didn't let go, he just smirked at me for a minute before he let go. He pulled his hand away from mine and pulled out his wand fixing the mess I had caused. If I didn't hate him so much, I would have knocked over his ink all over his paper. Well, I really do hate him. I knocked over his ink bottle, watching the black ink erase his essay, I smiled and stood up. "Time's up, good luck with that mess, you really should clean it up." I smiled grabbing my books and danced out of the library.
The rest of the night went well; I went back up to the common room and talked with my brother for an hour about my night when he told me Uncle George asked him to join him in the shop after school. He was even going to let him leave in his old loft. Uncle George could never return after my Uncle Fred's death. I never met him since he died in the war, but if he is anything like the stories I hear, I'm sure he would have been my favorite uncle.
My troubles didn't start until the next morning when I walked into the Great Hall. I sat down at my normal spot at my house table. Rose sat down next to me with Al by her side. She looked like she hadn't slept a wink since I saw her before bed last night. I was stuffing a muffin in my mouth when someone tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around to see Malfoy with a note in his hand. I reached up to snatch it, but he pulled it away. "Thanks for the help on my essay last night, I figured I would give you a little help in the right direction as well."
My mouth went dry, the muffin in my mouth became like muggle foam. He let his fingers loose of the note and walked away. I watched it slowly drift in the air and stopping in someone's face. Now that was just plain dirty.