Chapter 2

Crazy's A First

"Open up, Maddy!" Narcissa bellowed, banging at their bathroom door.

"We're in no hurry! I just need to do my hair!" came the reply.

Narcissa rolled her eyes in an irritated fashion. "Open the door this instant Madison!"

"Wait! Just give me one more minute, will you?"

Narcissa let out a frustrated shriek and slammed the palm of her hand against the door. "You've been in there for the past fifty minutes! I need to get ready too! I've got a date with Malfoy, in case you'd forgotten! Now get out!"

"No! Wait!"

"Madison, I'm warning you. If you're not out of that bathroom by the time I finish counting, I'll…I'll burn all of your copies of Witch Weekly!" a furious Narcissa threatened.

"What! You wouldn't dare!"

"Five…Four…"

"Ahhh! Wait, wait, wait!" a lot a shuffling and clinking could be heard from the other side of the door.

"Three…" Narcissa counted. "Two…Madison, can you already hear your copies just screaming for help?"

"Oh, no, no, no, no!" something fell over in the bathroom.

"One."

The bathroom door flung open. "NO!"

"Finally! I have a date with Malfoy in half an hour, and look at me, Maddy. I look a mess!" Narcissa ranted, sauntering around a shocked looking Madison. "And close your mouth, it's not pretty."

Madison blinked, turning around. "You were never going to burn my mags, were you Cissy?"

"Possibly, probably not though." Narcissa replied, combing through her golden curls.

Madison glared at her friend. "That was so not fair."

"Forgotten what House we're in, Maddy?" she smirked "You know, you seem to be forgetting a lot of things lately. For instance my date. With Malfoy. In thirty minutes."

Madison huffed. "Well…you really do look a mess!"

"Well thank you for that Captain Obvious." Narcissa started brushing her teeth.

There was a short pause, then: "I'm hungry, Cissy! Hurry up! We're going to be late for breakfast!" Madison whined.

Narcissa rinsed out her mouth before answering. "And, remind me again, whose fault that is?"

Madison grumbled. "Did you at least already choose what to wear. You know, you can't just go to Hogsmeade in your PJ's."

"I can't decide between two outfits." Narcissa said, carefully applying her makeup. "I'll need your help. Alright," she put the cap on her lipstick "Finished." she turned around to her friend who was leaning against the doorframe. "See, now I didn't take half as much time as you did."

Madison snorted. "Yeah, but I had a shower and you didn't."

Narcissa raised a pale eyebrow. "Actually, I did have one…at two this morning. And then I went back to bed."

"What were you doing up at two in the morning Cissy? Apart from showering, obviously." Madison followed her friend over to her bed where two outfits lay."

"Well," Narcissa said, picking up a hoody that had 'Slytherin Princess' written on the back and holding it up to herself. "to tell you the truth, I couldn't sleep. Simple as that. Now, which jumper do you think I should wear?" she indicated between the white Slytherin hoody and a dark green woolly jumper.

"The white one's too casual, Cis. You'll be better off with the green one." Madison picked up said jumper and handed it to Narcissa. "Right, now I still need a pair of trousers. Skinny or casual, which is it going to be?"

"Those dark skinny ones. Otherwise if you wore baggy jeans with a big woolly jumper, it'd totally overwhelm you."

"None of my jeans are baggy!" Narcissa snapped. "They're casual."

Madison rolled her brown eyes. "Yeah, whatever. Just get dressed will you?" she guided Narcissa back to the bathroom and closed the door behind her. "And don't forget to hurry!" she called. "My hunger isn't getting any less!"

Five minutes later Narcissa emerged wearing the dark green turtle neck jumper and skin tight jeans. Her hair was pulled back in a high ponytail with a few golden strands framing her face. She had added green shimmery eye-shadow to match the jumper. "And, how do I look?" she did a little turn.

Madison grinned. "Let's just say that Malfoy's not going to regret it. Now can we please go to breakfast, I'm starving here!" she dragged Narcissa to their front door.

"Wait, Maddy! I still need shoes!" Narcissa dropped down next to her bed and peered under it.

"Oh for the love of the great Salazar, Cissy!" Madison whined. "Can't you just go to breakfast in socks and worry about shoes later? After I've been fed!"

Narcissa pulled out a pair of black, furry boots. "There is no later, Maddy! How about these? D'you think they'll do?"

"Well you can hardly go in sandals - it's snowing outside. Now come on!" Madison held open the door.

Narcissa rolled her eyes, pulling on the boots and stomped out after her friend. "You know, it's your fault we're so late anyways, no need to blame it on me."

"Whatever…" Madison grumbled.

The two girls had their breakfast in the Great Hall. It was empty save for a small group of first year Hufflepuffs, three Ravenclaws, the odd Gryffindor and two second year Slytherins. This was good news, as Narcissa could avoid the predicted awkwardness between herself and Malfoy that always occurred on a first date, for another little while. Phew.

"I need to run, Maddy. I might see you later, okay?" Narcissa said, hurriedly getting up from the table.

"You have fun, Cissy." Madison winked. "And," she added, "I want all the details tonight. No getting out of it!"

"'Course." the blonde called over her shoulder. Once out of the Hall she made a dash for the dungeons. Only five minutes left, she had to hurry. Narcissa ran into her room, stuffed her hands into her nicest pair of green mittens, slung the Slytherin House scarf around her neck, put on matching earmuffs and grabbed her black winter jacket from the back of the door on her way out.

Narcissa was just buttoning up the last button on her jacket as she stepped into the Slytherin common room. And not a moment too soon. There was Malfoy, looking dashing as ever, leaning against one of the dark leather sofas.

"Ready?" he asked as she approached him. Narcissa nodded her head, forcing herself to look up at him.

-S-

Narcissa smiled up at Malfoy as he handed her a plume of Cloudwhisp.

"So," she started, taking a small nibble from her favourite candy as the two blondes exited Honeydukes "do you like the snow?"

Lucius looked at her from the corner of his eye. "I think the more appropriate question would be, do you like the snow?"

Narcissa narrowed her blue eyes at the wicked glint in his grey ones as he leaned down towards the snow covered ground. What was he doing? Had he dropped something? Narcissa's eyes widened in alarm. No. No he had to be kidding!

Narcissa squealed as she skidded as far away as possible. Someone whistled behind her and she spun around. Wrong decision. A snowball hit her square in the chest, shattering upon impact and spraying snow into her face. The shock of the cold against her skin caused her to lose her grip on her Cloudwhisp, which floated away into the sky.

"Malfoy!" she shrieked, scooping up a fistful of powdery snow and chucking it straight at his grinning face.

"Black!" he imitated her, ducking out of the way of another white chunk of snow.

"You made me lose my Cloudwhisp!" she hurled another snowball at him.

"Who cares? I paid for it, and anyways this is way more fun!" He charged at her, hurling them both into a large pile of snow.

They lay there laughing and gasping for breath. "You are totally crazy, you know that right?" Narcissa giggled, pulling a strand of hair from her mouth.

"I've been told I'm handsome, clever and once even cheeky…but crazy's a first." He grinned, propping himself up on his elbow.

"Right, Mister handsome, clever, cheeky and crazy. Could you get me up out of this heap? I'm getting a tad cold."

Lucius stood up, raised his pale eyebrow and smirked at her. "What's the magic word, Missy?"

Narcissa smiled sweetly up at him. "Please, oh, please! Would you, my noble knight, be so kind as to save this damsel in distress from certain death?"

"Melodramatic much, Blondie?" he asked, reaching for her gloved hand. Narcissa sniffed indignantly, but allowed herself to be pulled up. "Let's go get the damsel in distress warmed up," Malfoy said, keeping his grip on Narcissa's hand and pulling her towards the Three Broomsticks.

-S-

The Three Broomsticks was warm, a welcome feeling after the chill of the snow outside. Lucius held the door open for her as they came in. He stood there, in the entrance, shaking his hair to free it from the snow that had stuck to the pale blonde strands. Next to him Narcissa was waving madly at someone. He followed her line of enthusiastic hand waving to a table by the window. At said table sat his best mate, Finn Darcy with his arm around his girlfriend of two years Madison Parkinson. Madison, like Narcissa, was making wild waving and thumbs-up gestures. Girls. Smiling he shook his head and lead Narcissa over to the others.

"So?" Finn asked, raising his eyebrow as Lucius slid onto the bench opposite him.

"So, what?" Lucius countered. He glanced at the girls babbling away next to him. Good, they were occupied which meant the boys could talk in peace.

"So…how's it going? Your date. Having fun?"

"Yeah." Lucius grinned "Want the juicy details?"

Finn smiled fondly at Madison, "No need, I'm sure I'll get a full account from Maddy after she's done with Narcissa."

-S-

"Details! Give me details! I want details! I crave details!" Madison's brown eyes shone with excitement as her best friend sat down opposite her. "How was it? Fun? Awkward?" she paused "Romantic? What's he like? Did you kiss? Oh my God, was it under mistletoe? Details!"

Narcissa laughed lightly. "It was amazing. First, we just strolled around a bit, you know? And we talked, actually had an intelligent conversation. Do you know how hard it is to get a guy who'll say more than three words at a time? I feel lucky. Anyways, he seemed really interested in what I had to say and asked me a whole load of questions." she grinned "And then, we were walking past Honeydukes and he'd remembered that my favourite candy was Cloudwhisp so he got me some!" At this Maddy sighed, "How sweet!"

"Well, then, we were walking out of Honeydukes and I felt like I should ask him something too so I asked him if he liked the snow."

"And? What did he say?"

"Well, he twisted the question back at me and then somehow we started having a snowball fight. In the middle of Main Street. Anyways, he sort of tackled me into a pile of snow, just that he then threw himself onto it after me. So we just lay there for a while laughing like Peeves on April Fools Day. And then we came here 'cause I was getting cold. That's about it. But he was ever so charming and funny I tell you." Narcissa swooned.

"But was there any kissing?" Maddy urged.

"Well…no. Not yet."

So I'm sorry that the update took so long, but I was in Hong Kong with my best friend Ellie for just over week. It was awesome. I want to stay there. Also, the next update might be a bit late too as I'm in England for a while and won't be back home for a while. Just wanted to let you know.

I'm very happy with all the attention this fic is getting. I never realised how sought after Lucissa was. :) Need to remember that for the future. So thank you all who reviwed and please don't stop!

I would also like to congratulate my friend's family on the birth of their third daughter, Frida.

Mesteria: thanks for the kind offer but my friend is already beta-ing it for me :) I'm glad you like the story and took the time to write such an extensive review. I also love AVPM :)