Walking along in the hallway Harry, Christi, Ron and Hermione were all talking to each other. Hermione was scolding Harry for not yet figuring out the egg. Christi and Ron were laughing at him getting an ear lashing. Every now and then she turns and glares at them. Usually, they quickly stop but then burst out laughing again as she turns and goes right back to it.
Caprice walked up behind her sister and her friends. She sighed and tried to get Harry's attention, "Both you shut up and stop laughing!" she exploded, "Harry can I talk to you for a second?" He nods and they both walk off and she looks over at him. "I never really thanked you for giving me the heads up about the dragon in the first task."
"Not a problem. So what did you want to talk about?"
"Well… Erm…" She didn't know how to tell him, "Uhh… I just find the Prefect's bathroom on the fifth floor a good place for a bath. The passowrd is Pine Fresh-found that out from Diggory- Oh, and bring your egg." She said cryptically then walks away leaving Harry confused in her wake.
He frown and goes back over to his three friends. He was very confused on what she meant by all of that. "Your sister just gave me a strange message." He says.
"Well you'll figure it out. I'm sure she did it for a good reason." Christi said. The quartet continue walking along then Christi looks and sees Draco leaning against a wall with one leg perched against it. Pansy was standing by him, laughing and giggling and twirling her hair-all the classic signs of flirting.
Christi snorts and goes over to them. She stood right in between them glaring deadly at Pansy. If looks could kill, Pansy surely would have dropped dead. "What the bloody hell do you think you're doing Parkinson?"
"What does it look like? I'm talking to Draco!"
"More like flirting. Back off right now."
"I don't need to back off because we weren't doing anything in the first place."
"You were flirting with my boyfriend! So, I suggest that you kindly back off before I make you!" she growls. At that moment she was having an incredibly hard time controlling her temper.
"We weren't doing anything." Draco said, supporting Pansy.
She whips around and snorts. "Like hell you weren't! You were flirting right back. I should have known. The nickname fits you well, Slytherin Playboy. It is exactly what you are." She hisses and shoves passed both of them. She heads off down the hallway, fighting tears.
She heads back to the dorms right away. She gets back into the girls dorm and she heads right up to her room. She lies down and quickly closed her curtains shut with enough force to rip them, which she nearly did.
Daphne comes in and calls out for her. "Christi? You in here?"
Christi sighs and takes down all the charms and sticks her head out. "Hey Daph."
"You okay? I heard what happened."
"I guess. I just should've known that he really didn't like me. He only liked me because..." she trails off before she says to much.
"Because what?"
Christi sighs and flicks her wand and shuts the door and puts wards up so that nobody can get in or hear what they're saying.
"That serious?" Daphne raises her eyebrows.
"Yeah. What I am about to say to you is major. I need you to keep it a huge secret from everyone."
"Alright." Daphne agrees.
Christi sighs and chews her lower lip and says, "I'm half Veela. That's the only reason why he liked me so much."
"Whoa… I was not expecting that! But Christi, the way he looks at you, it's not lustful like all the other guys here. The way he looks at you, its loving."
"I guess."
"You guess?" she says raising an eye brow.
"Alright, I know. Jeez, Mum!" she laughs lightly.
Daphne was like the mother of the group of them. If they ever had a problem they could always go to her for the help and every time she helped or even scolded them they would call her mum as a joke between all of them.
"You're such a pain!" Daphne laughs hugging her friend.
"But that is why you love me." She laughs.
Daphne rolls her eyes just laughing. "Come on, lets go grab lunch."
Christi nods and follows Daphne down to Great Hall. Getting into the Great Hall Christi and Daphne go and sit at the far end of the table and start picking out what they want for lunch.
"Draco looks like a sad lost puppy without you." Daphne commented quietly.
"He should've thought about that before he flirted with Pansy. I just need time to cool off. Because right now I'm really angry at him." She said picking at some chicken she put on her plate.
Tracey comes over and joins them and she looks at Christi. "You alright?"
"I guess. Where's Milley?" she asked about Millicent.
"She's uhh siding with Pansy that she didn't do anything." Tracey said.
"Oh. She can do what she wants, but I guess I know who my real friends are." She says smiling.
"Draco's an arse Christi. He was stupid to flirt with her. Don't let him get you down." Tracey says.
"Thanks Tracey."
"Sure thing."
The three girls sit there chatting animatedly about everything from the Durmstrang boys to the assignment Snape gave to rumors of the happenings at the Yule Ball, all the way to what the next task would be.
Every now and then Christi would look over at Draco from the corner of her eye and just see how down trodden he looks like a sad puppy. She sighs and goes back to eating her food. She just picked at it. She was not really hungry after getting a good look at Draco.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Daphne asks.
"I don't know. I'm just upset and just want to know what was going through his head when he was flirting with her."
"He's a stupid guy. Just ignore him for right now and don't worry about him." Daphne said.
Christi smiles and hugs her friend. The three of them all get up and head down to the dungeons for Double Potions with each other. Getting to Potions they all go and take their seats and the rest of the class flies in and Draco comes in and takes a seat next to Christi. She starts flipping through her potions book ignoring him.
Draco sighs and grabs his book then starts reading it to get an understanding of the chapter they were going to be discussing in the class that day. The rest of the day passes uneventful. Draco goes and heads into the common room and sees Christi sitting on the couch with her sketch pad in her lap sketching.
"Christi." He says softly. She just ignores him and continues sketching. "Come on Christi, please listen to me! I really don't want to have to go through Caprice just to get you to talk to me! She terrifies me. Please, talk to me. Please!" She just continues to ignore him.
He sighs and leaves the common room in search for Caprice. Finding her heading back to the Gryffindor common room with Fred (or was it George? He could never tell…), he calls to her. "Caprice!" he calls over to her to her attention.
She turns and looks over him. "What do you want, Malfoy?" she asks.
He sighs and scratches the back of his neck then says, "Your sister is livid at me right now and refuses to speak to me. She thinks I was flirting with Pansy but I wasn't. I was just talking to her but she was the one doing all the flirting. I was just ignoring it. Is there some way you can talk to her and get her to talk to me?"
"I have no control over my sister's actions. Go whoo her or something. I suggest with chocolates and lilies... And a poetic verse from Shakespeare or Robert Frost or something."
"Can't you talk to her or something? I mean she'll listen to you."
"Sorry." She said shrugging.
"Alright, thanks anyway."
Caprice nods as Draco walks away. Draco stuffs his hands in his pockets and walks down the hallway thinking of how he can get Christi to listen to him. He heads to the Owlery to go to his Eagle Owl to send a letter to his mother asking for help in what to do. He just wanted things to be fine between them and not have her mad at him.
And then he got a great idea.
He vaguely remembered something Christi had mentioned to him a while back. It was something about an American Muggle poet named Maya Angelou. He remembered her saying about her favorite poem-Touched by an Angel. And before that, she told him her favorite flowers were sweet peas. And her favorite type of chocolate was Honeydukes's dark caramel chocolates.
Yes, that was it.