Arcadia woke up with that annoying queasy feeling that you get when you think it's going to be a bad day. She got up, did her usual routine and walked to the Great Hall with fifteen minutes to eat. Her Herbology class started first and the first thing she did was thank Draco for his help. He replied with a nod and a smirk and paid attention to Pansy all class period.

He's probably only doing that to annoy you. She thought to herself before she went back to listening to the teacher. It was less than five minutes before the bell rang.

Finally. She thought. I need to get my mind off of Draco, I might as well start talking to someone he hates. She spotted Harry. Bingo.

She slowly walked over to Harry. She didn't know what to say to him so she figured she'd wing it.

"Hey Harry." She smiled and he returned it.

"Hey Arcadia. Long time, no talk. What's new?" He asked.

"The usual," She laughed nervously. "I was hoping we could talk," She looked around to his friends. "Alone."

"Sure. Meet me outside the Great Hall before lunch. We could walk around, it'd be more private." He smiled and turned back to the front of the room. Arcadia slightly nodded and smiled before walking off.

That'll teach a Malfoy to mess with an Allbright's heart. She smirked to herself and listened the rest of class.

The rest of her DADA class and her History class Arcadia was mostly focused on how she was going to piss of Draco and how to get Harry to flirt with her back if she tried flirting with him.

The bell rang and she waited in front of the Great Hall's big double doors while waiting for Harry. A bunch of people passed and didn't even give Arcadia a second thought. Pansy passed with Draco and he stopped. With the sudden change in pace, Pansy stopped and waited.

"What are you standing there for?" Draco asked.

"I'm waiting." She replied with as much confidence as she could.

"For what? Prince Charming to finally come." He laughed at his own joke.

"Something like that." She smirked his famous smirk. She caught him off guard and he let this small detail slip when his mouth hung slightly open.

"What?" He asked.

At that moment, Harry came up to them.

"Hey." He said.

"Hey Harry." Arcadia smiled and looked back at Draco who was giving Harry a death glare.

What the hell is his problem? He can flaunt Pansy around all damn day and not two seconds after Harry walks up he gets mad. Not how this works.

"We're going now." Arcadia said and looped her arm through Harry's and walked off making sure to not look back.

"What was that about?" Harry asked.

"I honestly have no idea." She laughed. "So where do you want to walk to?"

"The library?" He asked.

"My favorite place." She smiled and led the way.

"So what did you want to talk about?"

Here it is, time to put my flirting skills to the test. I hope the test isn't bloody hard.

She slightly chuckled at the joke she said in her head. "Well, I wanted to get to know you more actually." She smiled.

"Well, what would you like to know?"

"Let's start off easy. Let's play 20 Questions. I ask a question and you answer it, then I answer, then you ask a question, I answer then you do. It's simple and we are allowed to ask more than 20 questions." She laughed and he joined.

"Sounds easy enough. You start."

"Favorite color?"

"Red."

"Blue."

"Favorite animal?"

"Pigs but not the fat kind, I love teacup pigs." She laughed.

"I do too but owls are my favorite." He smiled.

He has a nice smile but it isn't as brilliant as Draco's. A fact I must get over if this plan is going to work.

"Middle name?"

"James."

"Angius."

"AAA?" He laughed.

"Yes! And that question doesn't count because you can't answer that. Try again." She laughed.

"Blood type?"

"Pure-blood."

"Half-blood."

"Parent's names?"

"Lily and James."

"Kathryn and Tommie."

"How do you want to die?"

"If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were trying to kill me." She laughed. "But I don't know. It happens how it happens."

"That's how I feel. And if I didn't know any better, I'd think you wanted my personal info to become me."

"Perhaps." She laughed. "We're at the library and we have 10 minutes until our next class. Would you like to walk with me to Charms?" She asked.

"I'd be delighted." He smiled and let her loop her arm back into his and they walked off to Charms just in time for the bell to ring and all of the students looking, some glaring, at Harry and Arcadia walking in arm in arm.

Arcadia winked at Harry and laughed before walking off to her seat.

That was a lot more fun than I thought it would be. She slightly smiled to herself. I'll have to ask him to hangout again sometime.

A raven crashed through the window at that moment and flew around the room in circles for 10 seconds before flying low enough to try and hit someone. It stopped at Arcadia's desk and landed swiftly. Ravens were beautiful creatures but they could be fierce at times just like their bird cousin, the crow.

The bird looked around the room for a brief moment, and then looked at Arcadia for a while. Everyone in the room was still as possible. It stared and stared. It spread its wings and pretty much yelled like a damn bird at her. It was the scariest thing that could have happened with that bird. Not even it trying to rip your eyes out was as scary as that.

It flew out of the room and out the window it crashed through. Arcadia could feel the stares as the color flushed from her face. She slowly looked around the room. Cho was staring at the spot the raven had landed and her face was paler than usual as well. She continued to look through the sections of the room. Hufflepuffs were openly gawking. Gryffindors were sitting and talking amongst themselves. Harry, Hermione, Ron and Violetta all watched with scared eyes. They were frightened for Arcadia and it made her feel some-what better. Slytherins however, were talking as if nothing happened. They acted like it was an everyday thing. All except one.

Draco Malfoy sat right across the room from Arcadia staring at her with eyes that pleaded to her. Wanting to make sure she was okay and everything would be okay when this day was over. That the raven hadn't done anything to damage her in any way, shape or form. Arcadia was thankful that she had him but having him there for her wasn't enough. She needed more. She needed him to need more. That was the only way this friendship could work. She needed him to want to be there, not just happen to be there when it was convenient. She needed him to be there through everything and anything and she needed him to know that that was what she needed. She wanted him to want to stay by her side. She wanted him to know that she wanted more than friendship.

At that moment, everything changed. Nothing could ever be the same. She knew it was true as soon as she looked away and longed to see those silvery pools wanted to make sure she was okay. She knew as soon as she could think again after the raven experience. She knew as soon as he pleaded from across the room.

It was a hard thing to consider, even for being so young. 11 wasn't a big number and definitely wasn't what people called old enough to know. But she knew. She knew it was going to be a long 7 years at Hogwarts if she couldn't have what she wanted, if Pansy got everything Arcadia deserved. She would have to settle and she couldn't think about that now, not after having the most unexpected thought in her entire life.

She boarded the Hogwarts Express feeling happy, and then exiting feeling angry at a dumb platinum haired boy who pushed her buttons to where she thought they wouldn't come back out to ever be pushed again. She thought he had pushed her to her limit. She thought he was the meanest, cruelest person in the world.

She knew she was wrong, she knew what had happened, she knew it wouldn't change, she knew he needed to know. He needed to know.

Arcadia Angius Allbright was in Love with Draco Lucius Malfoy.