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"Someday if ever you love me you'd say its okay..." Yellowcard; Ocean Avenue: Empty Apartments

August 5th

Open Close When I opened my eyes I see dark blue walls. The sheets are silver and silky. A confronter of navy blue covers me and the pale form of one named Draco lies next to me. I slow realize we're not in my room but in fact in Draco's room. The clock says 9:05a.m. It would be the earliest I got up this whole summer on my own. I barely remember falling asleep in his room. Blurry memories of what he said to me last night come to the front of my mind. Stroke Fingers run themselves aimlessly through my hair. "What are you doing?" I whined; while secretly enjoying the affectionate gesture. My comment was met with a hard tug on my hair. "Stop!" I shouted as tears welled up. For once he listened to me and let go. I laid there staring at the walls; trying to figure out how I got here. "Why are we in your room?" I asked

"I found you in here last night. When I came back from dinner you were asleep in my bed."

"Then how come I'm..." I looked down at the shirt and realized it was in fact Draco's shirt. The shirt was an old Quidditch one and the shorts were a pair I gave to him. Draco's breath was on my ear and he started to laugh softly.

Then he turned me over to face him and said "Lydia, I meant what I said last night." Stroke

"Just because you don't hate me doesn't mean I like you." I said closing my eyes. Now we were face to face. I hated the cool silver look he had. "Plus I think you want something from me right now." I said a little sweetly.

"You're right that I want something from you." He said almost nicely. I almost wondered if this was really Draco. He was being nice and civil, unlike the person I'm normally faced with.

"What's going on?" I asked as I started to think about what could be going on.

"Both of your parents came here last night." I was now looking at and giving him my full attention. "Pansy's parents were here two nights ago. Last night though it was decided that I'll be marrying you. Along with that you'll be staying here the rest of summer."

My heart leapt and sank at the same time. This was good news yet it was saddening at the same time. "When will we get married?"

"I think they said after my twentieth birthday."

"Is that why you're being so nice to me right now?"

"Yes but I really don't want us to be like my parents." He was now turning soft and sounding sincere. "Lydia please just look at me and know I NEVER want to hurt you again." I made the mistake of looking at him and saw something close to tenderness in those eyes. He moved closer and held my gaze, then he kissed me. I could almost feel the promises of now and maybe a bright future in this kiss. As it deepened I realized that this was what I never felt with Kasper.

KnockKnock "Draco, man let me in." came Blaise's voice from the hallway.

"What do you want?" Draco asked clearly annoyed at being interrupted.

"Your mother sent me to get Lydia and you. She needs to talk to you both downstairs in the library."

"Fine. I'll go get Lydia and we'll be down in ten minutes." he said heading towards the bathroom leaving me on the bed. Blaise must've heard him because I could hear footsteps retreat down the hall. I sat up and looked for the pants and shirt I had left on the floor from the previous night. Upon finding them I head into the bathroom, steam rose from the shower. I had the thought to look over at the shower but decided not to. Once I found clean clothes I change into them, by then the water had ceased and I knew he was almost ready to leave. After ten minutes of waiting he came strolling into my room.

"Ready?" he asked

"Yeah."

We walked downstairs to the library in silence. I thought that if I could wake up every morning like I did this one maybe marrying Draco wouldn't be so bad. We had four years before we would marry. Then thoughts of not making it through the next four years crossed my mind. It was rumored that the Dark Lord would be fully returning by the end of the year. We had reached the library and I was taken away from my thoughts.

"Good you're both here." said Narcissa "Lydia, I assume Draco has told you everything already."

"Yes, he told me what's going on." I said

"Let's sit now shall we." said Narcissa

We sat down at a large round table in the middle of the library. Two books were open to specific passages. I looked down at the passages and realized what they were meant to do. "Are we doing these today?" I asked growing a little nervous

"Yes. Your father and mother have already consented to this. Since Draco said you were tried last night we couldn't do it."

One book was open to a spell that would seal the arrangement made by our parents. It stated that no matter what happen and regardless of our feelings on our wedding day we would both have to say "I do." The other book's passage was one that stated we would be loyal always to each other matter what. The second spell usually wasn't done until three weeks before the wedding.

Draco and I sat down with his mother between us. She asked us to both hold out our hands. When we did she pricked each of our fingers and had us let the blood droplets fall into a gold cup, which was engraved with both our family's insignia. She then said a spell I didn't know and didn't hear. After that she threw a piece of paper with the arrangement on it into the cup. Then the paper disappeared along with the blood. A few seconds later a deep red colored paper appeared in the cup. We had finished the first spell that sealed our marriage together.

The second one would only involve Draco and me to hold hands and say a spell together. I looked at him and took his hands. We then both looked at the book and said the long spell together, with each sentence his grip tightened on mine. When it was done Narcissa smiled at and said "Now that this is done. I feel that when we go to get your school supplies we should also pick up a ring for Lydia. Lydia's mother would be present which will make things easier. We won't be going until the end of this month. You may leave now."

"I should go talk to Kasper, since he is here to visit me. I also guess this means you can't go with Pansy this year." I said making my way to the stairs.

"Now I have to loyal to you. It would be obvious that I wouldn't go with Pansy. I have matters to attend to for now." he said turning to go down the stairs.

A thought crossed my mind and I spoke without thinking. "Draco! You knew this was going to happen all along didn't you?"

He quickly came back up the stairs and said "What if I did? You wouldn't have stopped it." A smirk spread across his face.

"No, you knew this was going to happen for days. You knew when you came into my room that night. How you could know and be so mean!" I said no longer thinking or caring about raising my voice.

"Of course I knew. Our parents have been planning to marry us, since we were three. Pansy was never going to marry me. I suspected that we would be marrying after we got out of school. Then after third year ended and I came home my mother told me! Then you met Wolfe the next year and I went to Pansy!" Draco's voice was rising and I knew someone would hear.

"You could've just told me, you stupid prick! This just isn't your life, it's MINE too!"

"Lydia, you've liked me, since we were four years old and you know it!"

"Shut up, you such a jerk and don't even realize that nobody really likes you! Crabbe and Goyle are idiots. Blaise, I think just feels sorry for you."

"QUITE, Lydia this is my house and you're not going to yell in it." He grabbed me roughly by the arm and led me up to the landing. We stopped in the middle of landing because Kasper was coming down the stairs ahead of us.

"What's with all the yelling?" he asked "I could hear you arguing from my room."

"Bug off Wolfe. This is between Lydia and I." Draco said while digging his nails into my forearm.

"Let me go!"

Draco, I feel was being mean and shoved me forward with such force that I fell to my knees. I'm not sure of what happened next but soon I was standing and Draco was on the floor. He got up and ran straight for Kasper. Draco and Kasper both ended up on the floor. Kasper was on top and punching Draco in the face. Draco somehow got out from underneath Kasper the two were staring at each and panting. Blood was dripping from the dragon's nose onto the floor. Then it started again but this time Draco was ready. Kasper was in Draco's guard; somehow Draco got Kasper into an arm lock. I could here Kasper scream as the move slowly turned into the almost breaking of his arm.

Then Blaise and Layton came into view. They were able to break the two apart before Kasper's arm was really broken. Blaise steered Draco down the hall towards his bedroom. Layton took Kasper and me upstairs to Kasper's room.

Author's notes: First off when you're in someone's guard: that means the person on their back has their legs wrapped around the other person. It's a basic grappling move. Secondly a arm lock is when one person has the other person's arm in a position: so the arm doesn't move. If they do decide to move the arm it could be painful and could get broken with the right pressure. Another word or way of doing it is arm breaks and figure fours. I wish I could put in the links with the pics on how to do this.