Groggily, you try to sit up but feel Nausea sweep over you and you stop and take a deep breath and the feeling subsides. You open your eyes and only see a blur of color, slowly the images become clear and you see eyes, ice blue vortex-like eyes. A face, no two faces! And one of them belongs to… "Draco?"

"Darcie!"

"Miss Riddle, are you okay Snape asked.

"Y-yes."

"DARCIE!" Harry, Ron and Hermione were behind Snape and Draco.

"Hear, eat this." Snape handed you a chocolate frog and you ate it and Snape and Draco helped you up. Your leg buckled and you fell and Draco and Snape caught you again. "Hmm, your leg is broken, Mr. Malfoy, will you take Miss Riddle to the Hospital wing?"

"Yes sir."

"No, I'll take her." Harry said stepping up.

"I did not ask you to escort her, Mr. Potter."

Draco slipped his arm around you and let you lean on him as he escorted you into the castle.

After your leg was fixed, you stepped out of the hospital wing, and saw Draco sitting out on the floor. "What are you doing down there?" you giggle.

"Waiting for you. Are you okay?"

"Yes." You say slowly.

"What happened, up there?"

"Nothing, I was just hit by a bludger. I was talking to Harry and Ron and didn't see it."

"Potter? Wesley? Why…"

"I know you don't get along with them, so you don't have to say it."

"I like your necklace." He lifted your mother's pendent.

"It was my Mum's."

"Was?"

"She's dead, so is my father."

"I'm sorry. When…"

"I don't remember. I remember a bit of my mother but nothing of my father."

"What do you remember?"

"It's fuzzy, like a dream but, I remember her holding me and kissing my forehead, then she screams and I see darkness."

You start to sob and Draco puts his arm around you, and draws you to him, letting you sob into his chest. "I'm sorry, Darcie, I didn't mean to upset you." He whispered.

"No, it wasn't you." You say wiping away the tears.

A few weeks later. At dinner Dumbledore stud and waited for silence. "I have an announcement. This year we will be holding a ball." There was an excited murmur. "This will not, however, be a Christmas ball like we have had in the past, nor is it a Yule Ball. It shall take place on Halloween, next week. Everyone who wishes to attend shall be aloud to go to Hogsmade this weekend for new dress robes. Yes, even first and second year students."

That week end. "Hermione!! That gown makes you look hot!!"

"Really?"

"Yes, it's perfect for you! Do you have a date?" you were shopping for dresses for the ball and Hermione came out of the dressing room in a red and gold, floor length dress. All the dresses in this store were original.

"Actually, Ron and I are going."

"Oh? Is there something…"

"No, well, I have liked him for a wile, but we are friends. Don't tell him I like him!"

"Okay."

"What about you?"

"Nope."

"Well, there is still time. Now that I have my dress, we have to find yours."

You and Hermione search every rack but don't find the dress perfect for you. "Oh well, I guess I'll just…"

"Darcie!! I think I see what you're looking for!!" she pointed behind you at a dress in the back room that was just opened when the shopkeeper went back to grab something.

"Excuse me! Is that dress for sale?" you ask pointing.

"Yes, but no one even touched it in years, so we had decided to use the cloth for something else but if you want it…"

"YES!!"

The day of the Ball. no one had asked you to the ball, but you found that Sarah and Aileen, two of your Ravenclaw friends, also had no date, so you were going to hang out with them. You pined up your dark curls and slipped into your emerald green ball gown. The bright green made your green eyes sparkle and shine more. The dress felt as if it was made for you. You applied a light pink lipstick and blush, and a combo of green and pink eye shadow. You took off your mother's pendent and locked it in the chest and replaced it with a silver choker with emeralds in it. You put on matching earrings and a bracelet.

"Darcie, you look Hot!!"

"You too Hermione!! Let's go, Ron's waiting."

You, Aileen, and Sarah are standing around the punch bowl, talking about random, and I mean random, things. The subject changes in odd ways, for example, one minuet your talking about school, and the next your talking about monkeys, then music, then guys, then a cow… ect.

"You look hot in green, the color suits you." Said a soft whisper in your ear. You jump and turn around.

"Ug, Malfoy, why don't you go bother people from your own house!" Sarah snapped at him. Draco ignored her.

"So, Darcie, no date?"

"I don't need a date, I'm having fun with my friends. Didn't you come with Pansy?"

"No, she's finally leaving me alone. She's with Blaise."

"Oh, well, gota go."

"Darcie, wait. Are you mad at me for something?"

"I'm TRYING to have a fun evening with my girls hear,"

"Oh, come on, Dance with me!!"

"She's with US tonight. Buzz off Malfoy!!" Aileen said and pulled you away.

"The nerve of him!"

"Has he given up on the Slytherins so he's trying to see if Gryffindor's are easier? Really!!"

You weren't listening to them; you were staring at him across the great hall. He was starring back at you and your eyes locked for a moment but he pulled away and walked into the crowd.

Why did he say that?

"Darcie, are you with us?"

"Are you still living?"

"W-what?"

"Welcome back to reality! We asked you if you wanted to hang out with us next Hogsmade weekend."

"Oh, yes I'd like that."

"Cool!"

"Well, Miss Riddle, staying out of trouble, are we?" Snape was behind Aileen.

"Yes sir." Suddenly, you felt an feelings sweep over you.

"Good, we wouldn't want you in the hospital wing, again." Snape walked past you.

"What is he talking about?"

"Oh, nothing. Excuse me for a minuet." You walk off into the crowd and find Professor Dumbledor. "Sir, could I have a word?"

He looked shocked but nodded. "Follow me." He led you to a small room. "Well, what is it, Miss Riddle?"

"Sir, have you any idea that you have a death eater working as a teacher?"

"You must be referring to Snape."

"Yes."

"And how do you know this?"

"I felt it."

"You can feel the mark of a death eater?"

"Yes, I don't know how or why but, I do."

"Yes, Snape use to be a death eater, but he is no longer."

"How do you know that, sir?"

"Why don't you go back out to your friends?"

You are with your friends again, talking. "…And then she said… Hi Harry."

"Hi Harry? That…oh, Hi!"

"Hi," Harry was standing before you, red faced, as if he was nerves.

"I-I was wondering, if… if you'd like to dance, Dar-Sarah?"

"Sure! Why not!" she took his arm and pulled him out to the dance floor.

Aileen laughed, "You know, I don't think he wanted to ask her to dance, he had someone else in mind but freaked out."

"I think your right."

"Great, now I want to dance!"

you got up, and bowed, "Would you like to dance, my lady?" you ask lowering your voice and using an accent.

Aileen laughed; "You're a freak, you know that don't you?"

"So you don't want to dance?" you ask still in your mock-guy voice.

"I'd love to dance, sir." She said lady-like and laughed. You joined her laughter as you hooked your pinkies to her's and danced.

"May I cut in?" a Ravenclaw named Ted asked tapping your shoulder and smiling at Aileen.

"Okay." He took your position and you sat down again, watching your friends. Harry and Sarah, Aileen and Ted, Hermione and Ron.

"So, your friends all up and left you, hu?" Draco sat next to you.

"They felt like dancing, yes."

"So, how about you?"

"I danced a bit with Aileen."

"I saw, How about the dance I offered you?"

You shrug. "Why not?" you take his hand and he leads you onto the dance floor. He slipped his arm around your waist. His touch was gentle and your stomach did summersaults. You forgot everything as you looked up into his eyes as you danced. Your lips were almost touching when the song ended.

"I'll give you back to your friends now." He lingered as if to say more but shook his head and walked away.