Four

The Invite

"How is it, you know exactly what to say to make me laugh" questioned Dullcy lovingly

"Well it wouldn't be a secret then would it?" Draco replied

"Whoever said it was" And they kissed passionately

"Are you going to Slughorn's Party asked Draco in a would be casual voice

"Hmm" She said fiddling with his hair, she had goose bumps on her arms and he kissed them

"You only made that worse" she said "In a good way"

"We need somewhere to meet" said Draco, pulling his cloak high around his neck their midnight meetings in the owlery were getting quite chilly now that winter was coming on fast and heavy.

"Was that 'hmm' a 'yes' or a 'no'?" asked Draco

"Neither" Replied Dullcy "it was an hmm! Are you invited" but she knew perfectly well he wasn't

"Well not exactly" mumbled Malfoy "Are you"

"Yes and someone invited me, but I don't see the point if I'm going anyway – they're best to ask someone not invited" started Dullcy

"What! Who invited you?" Said Malfoy firing up

"Slughorn" Replied Dullcy, "it's his party remember" a cheeky smirk crept across her face

"You know what I mean" Said Malfoy trying to sound unjealous

"Ah, no one, you probably don't know them anyway" said Dullcy, even though she knew perfectly well he did.

"Try me, I know everyone worth knowing in this school and even some not"

"Harry" said Dullcy in a near whisper

"HARRY POTTER… WHAT THE HELL, YOU KNOW ABOUT US, WHAT…-"

"-Calm down, I'm not going with him anyway so it's not like you have anything to worry about" said Dullcy

"It's not that it's just, it's Harry Fucking Potter; I detest him" Said Malfoy frankly

"For one – he's actually quite nice if you put your differences aside" started Dullcy, seeing the colour growing in Malfoy's face "and two, you do know your incredibly sexy when your jealous."

"I'm not jealous" started Malfoy, as he saw the smile on Dullcy's face

"Ahhh" She screamed as he jumped on top of her "Stop it, stop it" she yelled in protest as Malfoy attached himself to her neck "I just got rid of the last one" yelled Dullcy

"C'mon" he said getting up and holding out his hand "We're going somewhere warmer"

Harry sat in the Gryffindor common room, on his favourite squishy chair right by the fire, the common room was yet again empty, and he sat alone, no longer did he have to pretend to be doing his homework, he could sit there and ponder.

'Why didn't she say "yes" his brain thought, 'she might be involved with someone else- no, no, no, Ginny said she was single, then why? He asked himself, when the likes of Rhomida Vale were plotting everything but death to get him to notice her. What made this girl so different, even Hermione had said he was more attractive then ever. 'I don't think it's the fact you like her, I think it's the fact she rejected you, isn't this one of those games girls play? Reject you once, get you to chase? Well if that's how she wants to play it he thought that's how I'll do it! Within the next two weeks I'm going to have date to the Christmas Party even if I have to take Loony Luna Lovegood, if that what it takes to get her to notice me.'

"Huckleberry" said Dullcy and the fat lady's portrait swung open "Well you're a little bit late" it replied, but Dullcy was floating on a cloud and didn't even take any notice, she almost walked straight past him, if he didn't call her name-

"Dullcy" Said Harry

"Oh" she said as if snapping out of a little trance "Harry, I didn't see you there. Still up I see, I find it hard to sleep too" she said taking a seat opposite him "what is the time"

"Quarter past two" he said smiling but not yawning "Have a nice walk"

"Lovely, thanks for asking" she replied chirpily "It's kind of a tradition I have, I can't sleep you see never have been able to. Mum used to brew up all these potions to make me sleep, but in the end all I needed was a good walk" Dullcy finished

"Yeah" replied Harry "I know these grounds pretty well"

They sat in silence, they were both thinking about the same thing

"Look Dullcy-"

"See Harry-" they both started talking at the same time "You go first" said Dullcy

"Err- well I wanted to talk to you about what happened the other night"

"Yeah, me too, and listen Harry I don't want anything to be weird around us, like I said before I just think your invitation would be better off going to someone who isn't already going" said Dullcy

"Yeah, I understand that, it's just-" started Harry

"I'll see you there anyway Harry, we can meet up, it'll still be fun" said Dullcy and for the first time in her life, well of what Harry had watched – she looked nervous. Her usually perfect supple skin was now sweating and he hands that usually lay still where jittery and nervous – she was hiding something

"Yeah okay that's cool" he said "so long as you save a dance for me" he added in a friendly tone, to see her reaction

"Always Harry" she replied perfectly "I'm really glad we sorted this out, I wouldn't want it to intrude on our friendship" she finished, Harry Smiled.

"Anyway, I best be off" she said getting to her feet "Night Harry, and thank-you, for your invitation it was very lovely"

Harry touched his cheek where she had kissed him; it had sent tingles all over his face. When he and Cho had kissed – it was nice, but not to the extent of this, Harry felt warm and fuzzy and light and everything associated with Happiness. He practically skipped to bed and fell straight to sleep, fully clothed and his dreams – why his dreams where riddled with her.

Authors notes:

Hehehe, I love this chapter, Dullcy is tossed up between Harry and Draco – every girls dream! I find if you read this and replace Dullcy with your name it makes it so much better!

Jeucy