Class ends and they all head out.
"So what's his name?" he asks following her to her History of Magic class.
"Dante Russo."
"Does he know you're magic?"
"Yes, he was there when I got my letter. At the time we were friends. Well more like brother and sister." She said which was true. They did have a brother sister relationship and he was there when she got her letter from Hogwarts and he found out and promised to keep a secret. The Ministry had found out but they swore he could keep it a secret and they agreed to let it slide.
"How long have you been dating?"
"Since the summer before third year started."
"How do you two handle being apart all school year?"
"We owl each other when we can and when we go home for the holidays we see each other."
He continues questioning her until she gets to her class.
"Look Malfoy leave me alone and back off of me or I will tell him about this and he will beat the snot out of you the next time you come over with your father when he meets with my father for business." She smirks then strides into her class and sits next to Hermione when she spots her.
"Hey. How's it going with Malfoy hitting on you?"
"I kinda told him a major lie about me having a boyfriend. But hey if it gets him to leave me alone then so be it."
After class, Christi walks to lunch and spots Caprice in the Entrance Hall. She runs over and Caprice smiled.
"You love being with me, eh?"
"Shut up."
"So how'd you get Malfoy off your back? Rumor has it you told him off."
"Well I kinda told him that Dante and I are dating." She says smiling sheepishly.
"Didn't Dante move to Glasgow?"
"Well it's only about thirty minutes away from our house." Christi pointed out, "We still saw each other all the time over the summer. So how's your Fred issue?"
"Avoidance is the answer... Remember that, Christi. I just taught you a life lesson."
Christi heads in for lunch with her sister and they go and sit with their own friends.
As they were eating Fred walks in and goes right over to Caprice and gently grasps her elbow and lifts her up and snogs her senseless as Ron had told him she found out that he likes her likes her. She pulls back and practically runs out.
Christi sighs and goes after her sister. "Capricia Noelle stop!" Christi shouts.
She stops and looks at her sister. "What!" she snaps.
"What that about! He snogged you! He clearly really likes you if he snogged you!"
"He only likes me because of being half Veela!"
"He likes you for you not because of that! It's the same thing you told me about Draco! So let's make a deal. If you give it a chance with Fred I'll give it a chance with Draco."
"Fine, but I'm giving you till before the winter break to give Draco a chance."
"But the thinks I'm dating Dante!"
"If Malfoy asks about it, say 'Dante who?'." Caprice said then walked away.
XXX
Walking into Defense, Caprice sees the Fred and George and she goes right over to all her roommates and she smiles.
"So how's the problem?" Alicia asks.
"I made a deal with my sister. If she gives the guy she's crushing on a chance I'll give Fred a chance but I only gave her till before Hallowe'en which should be good."
"But rumor has it she's dating someone."
"Lie. She just told Malfoy that to get him off her back." She said.
"She's a true Slytherin if she did that." Alicia said giggling.
Patricia and Angelina burst out laughing hysterically at that until Moody comes in.
"Alright the whole lot of you shut your traps!" he snaps.
Everyone quiets down and starts the class.
"Now lets get started on the first lesson. Inferi. What are they, how do you handle them?"
She sits back and breathes a sigh of relief.
"Fredrick Weasley what are Inferi?" Moody barks.
"They are dead people brought to life by Dark wizards. The living dead person is like the Wizard's obedient slave. If there's enough of them, they can be an army. U-No-Poo tried or succeeded in doing that during the First Wizarding War." Fred said.
"U-No-Poo? You think it's funny?"
"I do, sir. Plus, it's not as if he's coming back."
"You don't know that!" he shouted. They were all taken aback by this. Moody was crazy!
Caprice barely held in a laugh and he looks at her.
"Don't encourage that! Detention for Miss. Venizelos and Mr. Weasley and ten points from Gryffindor from each of you."
She glares at Fred then turns back to her class work that was just assigned.
The class ends and Fred runs up to Caprice in the hallway.
"Hey what's with the glare back in the class and why are you so ticked about the detention? We used to have blast getting detentions together and you wouldn't care about it either."
Caprice laughed and said, "Well it's the first day, and I don't really get detentions on the first day."
"Your parents don't care." he was right. They probably wouldn't even hear about this.
"Probably but still. I don't get detentions on the first day of classes."
"And besides Mad Eye Moody is just that. Mad!"
She rolls her eyes and walks away.
Fred chases after her pushing through the crowded hallway and he grabs her.
"Hey, I was wondering if there was any chance of us getting together? You know like a couple?" he asks going a light shade of pink in his face and neck making her smile.
"Yea, sure." She tells him.
He smiles and pulls her to him and snogs her softly.
"Well now, I am going to walk you to you Herbology as I have free period right now."
She smiles and take his arm as he takes her books from her and carries them for her.
As they walk through the hall Angelina and Alicia see them.
"FINALLY!" Angelina exclaimed to Alicia.
Arriving in the greenhouses Christi was just walking out with Draco not too far behind.
Caprice smirks sees her sister and wraps her arms around Fred's neck and snogs him making Christi stops dead in her tracks.
"Despicable! A pure-blood with a blood-traitor. Sad really." Draco said making Christi snort.
She whips around and growls at Draco, "THAT'S MY SISTER YOU TWIT! SHOVE OFF!"
"Christi," Caprice said, "I know he's a prick and all, but it's part of the deal!"
"Bloody hell. And I have a plan going. I swear if this ends badly you're to blame!" Christi tells her sister.
"You blame me for everything anyway!"
"You do the same so we're even." Christi said as she walked away.
She finds Harry, Ron and Hermione coming from Care for Magical Creatures.
"Harry, Ron, Hermione wait up!" Christi yells chasing after them. She was gonna see if they could give her advice on the Dante situation.
"Yea?" they asks stopping.
"Look I have a huge problem and I need your guys help. I'm also gonna rope my other friends into it but first I need one of you boys to help me in a major way and I will owe you big time."
"What is it?" Ron asks wryly.
Christi goes into the explanation of what's going on with her and Caprice leaving out the Veela part.
"So I need idea! Please help me please! I'm begging you!"
"Alright." They shrug.
"YAY! Thank you!" she said hugging them.
They laugh and hugs her back.
"We need to do it soon. Because Caprice got with Fred and I won't hear the end of it until I hold up my end of the deal." She says.
"Bloody hell." Ron moaned, "Now I'll never hear about anything but Caprice from him!"
"Same here but it will be Fred for me."
"I think it would be better just to tell him that he broke up with you through a letter." Hermione said.
"That could work. Merlin she had to jump into agreement so bloody fast." She groans.
The day eventually ends and Christi heads back to the common room and she spots Draco in there.
"Hey." He said.
"Hey." She sighs.
She was going to say that she and Dante "broke up" and she had to act all depressed.
"What's the matter?"
"Dante ended it through a letter." She says.
"Sounds like a prick." He says.
"yea." She said heading toward the girls dorms.
When she gets there she sees lilies sitting on her beside table.
"Whoa. Nobody but my family knows I like lilies." She says aloud as she was the only one in the room.
She smiles thinking to herself that just maybe Draco does like her.