The next day Ophelia did as she always did, pretended as nothing happened. She took on the beautiful I'm-too-busy-to-care-about-you smile and walked to the Great Hall. She sometimes ate with Draco, but mostly alone. She always got up earlier than the pthers from her house, she enjoyed not talking to them much. They were mostly a bunch of fools. She felt like she couldn't have a decent conversation with them. Plus she had too much to think about already. Good thing she was used to hide her feelings, and how scared she was after the nightmare.
This morning was just as everyone else, she ate her breakfast with a school book. She had to be the best, but that Granger girl always beat her. Her father was furious that a mudblood was better in school than her. As she didn't have enough pressure on her already.
When she had finished her breakfast she closed the book, put it away, and started walking out of the Great Hall. But just as she was about to step out of the hall she bumped into someone, and both of them fell.
"Ouch..." Ophelia heared the other girl whisper, and she froze. The voice was so familiar. She looked up and saw Cho on the floor in front of her.
"I'm sorry Cho, are you okay?" She asked and stood up.
"Yeah, I'm fine. How about you?" Cho asked and stood up too. Ophelia shrugged.
"Fine I suppose."
"Cool." Cho said, obviously a little uneasy. She nodded once and then started walking into the Great Hall. Ophelia felt like it was her last chance, her only chance, to win her friend back.
"Hey Cho, do you have someone to eat with?" Cho stopped and turned around.
"Yeah, I have. But would you like to join?" she asked and pointed at a table. Ophelia just nodded and walked with her. They sat down with some Ravenclaws, among them Marietta Edgecombe. Marietta just stared at Ophelia.
"What?" Ophelia asked when she took an apple, she hadn't eaten much, and was still, obviously hungry.
"Nothing. Cho, why the hell did you bring a Slytherin to our table?" Marietta sounded upset.
"Because she's my friend." Cho simply said and msiled at Ophelia. Ophelia smiled back, happy that Cho still considered her a friend. Even though they both knew they had to work on it. but it felt good that Cho didn't hate her at least.
"But she's Slytherin!"
"What are you so upset about Marietta?" a male said behind her. She turned around and saw Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasly.
"Cho brought a Slytherin to the table!"
"Marietta, you seem more judgemental than the Slytherin girl." Harry sighed and dumped down on the seat next to Ophelia.
"Have I seen you before?" Harry turned to Ophelia and smiled. Everyone could see that Harry didn't really like Marietta, and that he had a thing for Cho.
"Probably. I'm Ophelia R-" she cut off in the middle of her last name. She couldn't tell anyone, and least of all Harry Potter! Harry looked at her, waiting for her to continue.
"I - I forgot my book in the dorm, potions." she stammared and hurried away. "I'll catch you later Cho." She took off. She knew she had her books though. But she knew Harry knew her name, why would she introducde herself? She almost gave away her identity! In these times you shouldn't be open with such a last name, never. Luckily all teachers knew what she was going through, so they would never say her last name. First the other students didn't seem to like the fact that they used her first name, but when they took points from her when she did something and treated her like every other student, they didn't mind it anymore.
She slowed down and walked to potion's class. When she got there Draco was already there. She smiled and sat down beside him.
"Why is your face red? And why are you breathing heavily?" he asked and looked at her with his normal blank face, no emtions.
"Well, I ran here..."
"Why?"
"Because, well... I don't know, it was so strange."
"Just tell me already Ophelia." Draco seemed annoyed, and she felt a little sting of pain in her chest. But she explained the situation, ignoring the fact that Draco seemed cold today, even towards her. When she had told him he just stared at her.
"Do you know how much you could risk by telling Harry Potter that name?"
"Draco, is something wrong?"
"No, why?"
"You seem so anrgy today." He just shrugged and looked away.
"Hey, tell me what the problem is instead of this arrogant attitude."
"Maybe I'm just arrogant."
"I know you're not Draco. Snap out of it now. What's wrong?"
"I said nothing!" He looked up at her with anger in his eyes. She felt anger too, why couldn't he tell her? She told him, he got angry, and she asked why. Why couldn't he just explain it to her? She stared into his eyes, hoping they'd give her an answer.
"Fine. I'll go sit with someone else instead then." She said slowly and grabbed her bag. She tried hard not to cry, she was a bit upset after Draco's reaction. She stood up but as she took a step away from him, a hand grabbed her free wrist. Draco turned her around, he stood up too. People started coming to the classroom, and everyone tried to hide the fact that they stared at the two standing up, so close to each other.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be so rude." Draco said with a low voice, the sadness was back in his eyes.
"What then?"
"Today just feels like a bad day..."
"You should just tell me Draco, it would spare me some nerves." He gave her half a smile.
"Perhaps it would."
"Ophelia, Malfoy, would you mind sitting down? Class is about to begin." Snape said dryly as usual.
"Sorry." They mumbled and sat down.
A/N: Sorry I made a short chapter again! There's not many readers anyway to this story, that's why I didn't bother to update faster. Still hoping people will find it and read, haha. This is pretty much my own fantasy, so yeah. I'd like it if people enjoyed it.
Anyway, I don't know if anyone notice what I'm doing here, but I really try to be sneaky :D
