"No! Are you out of your mind?" Draco said to Pansy in a loud whisper. How had Pansy found out about him and Harry? Had little miss Perfect AKA Granger tipped her off? It had to have been her. Draco felt like fainting in that moment. His heart was beating so fast that he could feel it in his neck.

"Ah ha! There really is something, then! And I will make sure to find out!" Pansy sneered.

Draco felt as if an enormous weight had been lifted off his shoulders. So Pansy didn't know what was really going on. But the problem persisted: she still knew something was up and, knowing her, she'd be well determined to know what Draco had been hiding all along. He couldn't let that happen, that would have ruined his life.

"You just mind your business." He said in a menacing tone. This wasn't the first time he told Pansy that. He wondered if ordering her to stay out of his business was a way to make her even more interested in that matter.

The Slytherin girl looked like she had been slapped across the face. "No, Draco, I am done! I will get to the source of your strange behavior and everyone else will know, too." Having said that, the girl went back to her cauldron. "You just try." Draco said, more to himself than to her.

So, it was obvious that something was off with him, at least to those around him. Surely Blaise had informed Pansy of Draco's continuous absence in their dorm, the bastard. There was no chance, though, that they could ever know the truth, unless Granger woke up one day and decided to sing like a bird. No, she wouldn't do this to her best friend, Draco reassured himself.

That afternoon, at lunch time, the new couple decided to use their meeting place for something different: a date.

The Room of Requirement didn't fail to deliver expectations. There was a table, dressed in a very elegant table cloth, an emerald green one that sported a Slytherin patch.

On top of the table lay two scarlet and gold plates, suggesting Gryffindor. At the center of the piece of furniture stood a large bottle of butterbeer , whose label said 'for the happy couple, Draco and Harry'. Both glasses had the Hogwarts crest printed on them. Next to the bottle were two lit candles, both vanilla scented, which were white with golden finishings.

Draco noticed that the whole room was decorated with Gryffindor and Slytherin flags, so much so that it looked like a Quidditch match was in order. There were also paper hearts and petals scattered all over the floor and table. The chairs were two large maroon poufs with the Hogwarts crest sewed on. He mentally applauded the room and its creator for the artsy view.

"It looks cool, doesn't it?" Harry observed with a smile. Draco nodded. The younger boy put his arm around his shoulder and massaged it a little. Draco wasn't used to affection, but he relaxed immediately. He had been stressed all morning because of Pansy and this surely felt nice, so he proceeded to hold the hand on his shoulder. They stood like that for a while, the time it took for the food to appear. When it did the pair went to sit on their poufs. Harry sank too deep into his, so Draco had to help him up. It all ended with a laugh and a 'thank you' kiss.

The food they ate was a little different than what the elves usually offered, it was burgers. In all his 18 years of life Draco had never had a burger before, it sounded too muggle-like for him.

Harry must have noticed the boy's puzzled expression at the sight of it, given he chuckled softly. "Oh, don't look at it like that- I can assure you, it's really good. I asked the elves to make us this special muggle delicacy- and a cheap one, too- so that our first date could have a bit of my old traditions, hoping to deliver a new one for you... and to introduce you to Muggle food, really." he added, smiling. Draco gave him half a smile, he wasn't too convinced, but changed his mind the moment he bit into his burger. Harry enjoyed looking at his boyfriend digging into his food, emitting some moans of pleasure. "This is afmafing!" Draco said in a muffled tone and it reminded Harry of Ron whenever food was put in front of him. The messy haired boy grinned. "Told you you'd like it."

"Harry..." Draco said after he had done eating, "I'm so glad that I got to share this experience with you."

Harry blushed and felt all warm and fuzzy inside. He didn't know if it was the effect of all the butterbeer he had consumed, but he sure felt good.

"You see, sharing is better than bullying." he said, taking Draco's hand in his own.

"Ah well, I only did it so I'd get your attention... Always been a sucker for that." Draco said with a grin.

"I know." said Harry.

"Took you long enough to realize, eh? Only 7 years." Draco said, shaking his head.

"But it was worth it, I'd say."

Draco nodded in response, then went in for a kiss. It was the sweetest of their kisses, so far.

Their peace and quiet was interrupted by a faint sound in the distance, it was footsteps. Someone was approaching the Room of Requirement.

"Mmm, weird, it won't open... I guess someone is inside." said a soft voice at the other side of the wall. The boys thanked the law of the Room, which prevented anyone from stepping foot inside of it if it were full and they didn't know the reason why.

"I think someone's outside." Draco observed as they broke the kiss.

"Who might that be?" asked Harry, alarmed.

It was definitely a girl, as the voice suggested. It was slow and a bit dreamy. There was no more doubt as to who that was when Harry heard the words "crumple horned snorkacks".

"Oh, that's just Luna." Harry said, not that Draco was much relieved.

"I wonder who that might be?" Luna asked herself, then twirled around.

"What the hell is Neville doing in your room now?" an annoyed Hermione asked her boyfriend.

"Oh come on, babe, why do you care? The Room of Requirement is much bet- oh, Luna!" Ron awkwardly greeted the girl, who stopped twirling around to run to the couple.

"Oh, hi guys! Looking for a place to make love?" Luna asked as it were an innocent question.

Oh, Luna and her uncomfortable truths. Both components of the pair blushed furiously, although Ron was the reddest one. "Um... what are you doing here?" Hermione asked, avoiding the question. "Needed it for nargle studies. But can't, it's occupied." Luna said with a shrug.

Hermione smirked, then she turned to her boyfriend. "I think I might know just who is in there..."

"Who?" Ron asked, clueless

"Dunno. Gotta go, have fun, guys!" Luna said, then she hopped out of sight.

"I think Harry is in here with Malformed." said Hermione.

Draco and Harry froze in their tracks.

"They must have used the room for something...uh... romantic...like a date." Hermione said in her usual know-it-all voice. The door finally appeared on the wall and Hermione displayed her most triumphant smile. "Ah ha!" she gracefully pulled the door open and entered the room, followed by an astonished Ron. Harry and Draco stood before them, both with their faces pale, as though they had seen a monster.

"Well, well, well, look who's here!" said Hermione, still smirking.

"What do you want, Hermione?" Asked Harry in an annoyed tone.

Hermione shook her head as she walked closer to him. "Just can't help yourself, now, can you?"

"You told me I was a piece of shit, well, let me be one! And besides, why do you care if I'm here on my first date with Draco?" Harry snapped. Really, why did they have to be so nosy in his things? They had called him an asshole just a day before and now there they were, interfering with his blissful date.

"You were both late for potions and arrived at the same time because you spent the night together, didn't you?" Hermione simply said, not dropping her very, very infuriating smirk.

"I'm sorry, Granger," Draco intervened. "What do you care if we spent the night together?"

"Good, you didn't call me a mudblood, for once." Hermione observed. "Well, it just so happens that Harry is our best friend."

"Don't make me laugh, Hermione." Harry scoffed. How could she proclaim him their 'best friend' after she had spent a whole month giving him the cold shoulder over something so futile.

"You haven't said a word to me in a full month. And Ron's opinion doesn't differ from yours."

Harry let out. All he wanted in that moment was to be left alone. He didn't need another one of those mom-like scoldings Hermione was so fond of.

But the scolding never came. "Look, Harry," Hermione began, "I made a mistake. I was wrong and selfish. I should have accepted it from the beginning. I'm really sorry for what I called you and for how I acted... I shouldn't have made it about me. I mean, it's your life, Harry..."she smiled when she saw that Harry and Draco were holding hands, that meant they were a couple now. "I love you, Harry, and I want you to know that, even if I'm not so thrilled about this... I'm still happy for you. All that matters to me is your happiness." As she said the last line, Harry noticed that his friend's eyes were beginning to water. She had finally seen the light and he couldn't help smiling about it. He pulled her into a tight hug and as he did so he realized how much he'd missed Hermione's hugs. She hugged back just as tightly, burying her face into his neck. "I'm sorry too, Mione... I should have known you would have reacted like this."

"I'm sorry, too, Harry." came Ron's voice, then he joined the hug. Draco felt a bit out of place as he witnessed this touching reconciliation. They looked like they really cared about each other. He wondered how it felt to actually have friends. It must have a been a very beautiful thing.

He smiled awkwardly. There was really nothing else he could do.

"Well, Malfoy... um... Draco.." Hermione said as she pulled away. "I guess we need to establish a truce." She extended her hand for him to shake.

"I'm sorry I called you a mudblood..." Draco said, looking down. He couldn't believe he had just apologized. Slytherins did not apologize. He still shook her hand, though.

"And I'm sorry I called you an evil loathsome little cockroach..." Hermione said."I hope this means we can be friends now."

"Sure." Draco said, he then turned that handshake into a slightly awkward hug. If his dad had been there, he would have cruciated him. Or killed him right away. Friends with a mudblood, he heard his father's voice in his head say, what a disgrace for the family.

It was Ron's turn to talk to Draco now and he didn't seem too happy about it. "Look, Malfoy, don't you dare play one of your tricks on Harry, ok?" he warned. "Or you will see."

"Oh, come on, Weasley. My friendliness might surprise you."

"And why didn't you find the Room of Requirement?" Ginny asked Luna. They were still working on the project from the night before.

"Must have been occupied. Maybe by a couple." Luna said nonchalantly.

"Typical spot for couples. Though Harry and I never went..." Ginny observed.

"Oh I ran into Hermione and your brother, who were hoping to use the Room for themselves, and she said that she knew who was inside."

Ginny ignored the feeling of disgust at the mention of her brother and his girlfriend's search for a place to do their stuff in and focused on the fact that Hermione knew who the people occupying the room were. Could it be... "Luna, it was Harry! I'm sure of it! He was surely there with someone, the bastard!" She got up. "I might finally know who Harry cheated on me with! I need to go there... thank you Luna!" Ginny grabbed her friend's face and planted a kiss on her cheek, then she hurried out of the library.

Luna inadvertently blushed.

Ginny reached the seventh floor and hid behind a wall as soon as she heard footsteps approaching. She couldn't believe it when she heard Draco Malfoy's voice.

"Ew, Harry... isn't it weird that we just left the room so that Hermione and Ron could... use it at their advantage?" Ginny heard him say.

"Whatever, it's not like we didn't use it for the same reason not one day ago!" Harry chuckled.

No way. Ginny had never been more shocked in her life before. Malfoy? How could Harry, her man, have cheated on her with Draco Malfoy? She felt disgusted, to say the least. She was so shocked that she thought she would faint. This was a lot to take in. She sat so that she would steady herself, thus giving herself time to process the news she had just heard.

She found it so unfair that she had been the fool this whole time, crying over Harry while he was screwing around with Malfoy. To think that in two years Harry had never touched her below the waist... and now there he was, giggling about his sexual encounters with Malfoy.

But what made her sick to her stomach was the fact that Ron, her brother, knew of this, apparently. How could he have done such thing to his own sister?

The couple stopped walking as they saw Pansy and Blaise coming towards them.

"Oh shit!" Draco exclaimed. He turned to Harry, hoping he had his invisibility cloak with him. "Quick, get that damned cloak of yours!" he ordered.

"I don't have it with me now!" Harry said, sincerely. "Oh damn..."

"I highly support this theo-" Pansy was saying, but then she stopped as she saw Draco with Potter. "Draco? Potter? What are you doing here together?"

"I was just showing this filthy loser how to behave. He just couldn't help disturbing me." Draco quickly said. Harry raised an eyebrow at the mention of 'filthy loser' and 'how to behave', it was usually the other way around. He had to suppress a laugh at that.

"Me? You're the one who disturbed me! I was just walking when you cornered me!"

Harry said, pretending to be angry, but he gave Draco a smile as he did so.

Surprisingly, Blaise and Pansy bought it. "Yeah, you tell him Draco! Why don't you get lost, Potter?" said Blaise.

"Don't have to tell me twice!" Harry said as he walked away. He managed to wink at Draco and mouth him a 'see you later' .

Ginny decided it was time to leave her hiding spot.

"Harry, wait!" She called to him, but he didn't seem to care. "Please, don't walk away! We loved each other once!"

Harry turned around. "Ginny, I'm so sorry to tell you this, but you need to move on!" He then went back to walking away.

Like hell I'll move on, Ginny thought. I'll teach you to mess with Ginny Weasley.