Year 2

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I was sitting out underneath a fig tree near the courtyard, doing a book report for Herbology, when I saw Draco slinking by, hair tousled, and tie esque.

"Err, Draco?" I called out to him. He caught sight of me, and quickly jogged over to me. He crouched down next to me, panting. "What's up with you?" I asked eyeing his situation.

"Pansy, she won't leave me alone," he said quickly. I knitted my eyebrows questioningly. "She's acting like we're married!" I suppressed a laugh. I pulled out my wand and did a quick tidying up spell on him that I remembered from Charms class. Draco put a hand on his neat, slicked back hair and frowned.

"It's not funny! She tried to snog me 3 bloody times today!" he sat down cross legged next to me and put his head in his hands.

"Well, she's your girlfriend isn't she?"

"Yeah but-"

"And this was your bet,"

"Not fair! I don't see you snogging Dean."

"That's besides the point! I don't even really like him remember?"

"So, you still have to." He said defensively.

"Just snog her, you don't have anything to lose." I picked up my quill again and began scribbling away at my homework, trying to hide the jealousy in my face. It was perfectly fine if he snogged her. What did I care…

"I don't er, I don't really-"

"Merlin, have you ever snogged anyone before?" I looked up at him, a smile creeping onto my face.

"Errr…well…."

"You haven't! Brilliant!" I laughed.

"Shut up! So what…it doesn't matter," he tried to scowl, but his reddening face gave away his embarrassment.

"It's ok, I haven't either."

"Really?" he looked at me, with a glimmer of relief. I nodded reassuringly. "Well that makes me feel loads better," he said sarcastically. I gave him a friendly punch to the shoulder. "So…what am I going to do? I can't have her telling all of Slytherin that I'm a horrid kisser."

I bit my lip, and debated between telling him that he shouldn't kiss her at all, or to give him very bad advice. But wait, I had a better idea.

"Well it's really not that hard Draco, I see older kids do it all the time." He looked up hopefully." You just lean in, close your eyes, pucker your lips and-" at that I leaned in towards him on all fours and put my lips to his. His lips were quite soft, even if they weren't expecting mine to greet them. His eyes widened in shock, and I pulled back quickly. Draco's face was beginning to turn pink, and I could feel the heat creeping into my own face.

"S-sorry…I-" I tried to apologize, but MERLIN'S BEARD, I had just kissed Draco Malfoy! My heart was beating a million miles a minute. Draco's hands absently touched his lips. He cleared his throat and regained his composure.

"So that-that's all it is then?" he said getting up. I nodded slowly. "Ok, well I'll-I'll see you in class tomorrow." And with that he dashed back inside the castle. I slumped against the tree. Great, had I just ruined our friendship?

The next morning I walked to Potions with Dean, my emotions running amuck. Tomorrow was the day I was supposed to break up with him, to ruin another friendship. Not only that, but I had to face Draco after our little kiss.

"Artemis, did you hear me?" The tall boy looked down at me with a worried expression.

"No, er sorry, what was that?"

"I said are you feeling ok? You've been kind of quiet this morning.

"Yeah, I'm fine…I'm just tired." I smiled meekly at him as we walked in the class and went to our separate seats. Draco was already at our table, and my stomach flip-flopped. I inhaled, and took my seat next to him.

"Hello," I said quietly. He turned his head and nodded hello. So we were still on awkward terms, were we? " Draco about yesterday-"

"I broke up with her."

"You what?" I blinked a couple of times, trying to make sense of his words.

"I broke up with her. I realized I don't really like her, and I couldn't take it anymore."

"So…that means I won then?" I smiled happily. He pursed his lips and looked away.

"I guess. So you can break up with Thomas anytime now." His eyes darted towards Dean and Seamus on the other side of the class.

"Well I never thought of how I was going to break up with him…"

"Here, I'll help." Draco took out a sheet of parchment and a quill. I looked at him with confusion. "Write him a note saying you're too young to have a boyfriend, and that you think there's someone else out there who likes him or something. Oh! And that you only want to be his friend." I looked at him in awe. Before I could say anything, Professor Snape walked in and the class instantly hushed. Draco slid the parchment and quill over to me.

Dear Dean, I wrote. There's something I have been meaning to tell you. As much as I find you cute and funny, Draco pretended to gag as he read this over my shoulder. I shrugged him off. I think we should be friends only. We've had some great times together as friends, and I don't really want to ruin this by going out with you. Plus, I'm only 12, my mom would never approve of a boyfriend. Draco chuckled. Ok, well I hope you understand, and that we can still be good friends.

-Artemis

I passed the letter over to Draco so he could read it over.

"Merlin, your handwriting is terrible." I frowned at him. We folded the letter up and sealed it with Spellotape. "Can I give it to him at our Quidditch scrimmage today? I want to see the look on his face!" I snatched the letter back.

"No way! I'll have Hermione give it to him after class or something." Draco crossed his arms and sat back in his chair as Snape walked down our row of desks.

"I gave it to him," Hermione said as she got into her bed.

"What did he say?" I asked hesitantly.

"He's ok, but…"

"But…"

"He thinks it's because you like Malfoy." Hermione gave me a wary glance. I slumped down in my bed and pulled the covers over my head.

"Well…do you?" Ginny, the little ginger girl who shared a room with us, asked from her bed.

I peeked over the covers so that they could only see my eyes and blushing cheeks.

"You do! You do!" They both said.

"I knew you always did!" Hermione said, smiling matter of factly at me. "Oh, why did it have to be the bad boy Artemis?"

"Yeah, Ron told me you guys hated each other last year." Ginny said.

"We did, but… well I don't really know what happened."

"Malfoy stole my best friend, that's what happened." Hermione said.

"Hermione, you know you'll always be my best friend." She smiled appreciatively. "You want to know something else?" I sat up and glanced at the open door. "Muffliato." I said, which made it so nobody could eavesdrop. Hermione perked up, and Ginny put down her black diary she had been writing in. "Yesterday, Draco and I…well, we kissed."

"WHAT!" they both exclaimed. I nodded and told them the story, buffing up a few details here and there. We stayed up gossiping and laughing way past lights out. Finally at about 1:30 am Hermione reminded us about the big Quidditch match that was tomorrow morning so we finally put out the light coming from our wands, and went to sleep.

It was the morning of the Quidditch game, the game that decided who would be playing each other for the House cup. I was sitting in the Great Hall taking a sip of my hot chocolate. It was snowing outside, which only added to the agitation of the two teams.

I sat between Harry and Hermione, and across from Fred and George; Ron and Ginny's older brothers. Hermione, Ginny, and especially Ron, were all eating heartily, while the 3 other Gryffindor players picked at their food. I looked down the table to see Oliver Wood, the captain of the team, with nothing but a cup of coffee in hand. The wave of anxiety the team was giving off got to me, and eventually I put down my hot chocolate and blueberry muffin.

" Oh, really boys, you have to eat something." Hermione said putting down her copy of the Daily Prophet to look at them.

"Granger, do you know how important this game is?" said one of the twins.

"If we lose to Slytherin-"

"Then we'll be out of the House Cup." My head swiveled back and forth between the identical twins as they finished each other's sentences.

"At least the whole game doesn't depend on you." Harry mumbled.

"It wouldn't be so bad, you know, if Malfoy hadn't bribed the whole team with new brooms." My ears perked up at his name.

"That's just foul play. That little prat shouldn't even be on the team." One of the twins glanced over his shoulder to glare at Draco. All eyes flickered towards me then back to their food. Fred and George exchanged a glance.

"You're the Malfoy girl, aren't you?"

"What?" I asked looking up at them.

"The one that's been spending all the time with the enemy."

"The enemy? He's not an enemy!" The group around me exchanged skeptical looks. I remembered hearing rumors about him being the "Heir of Slytherin", but I always ignored the silly rumors and snide remarks about him. "I'll have you know he's a great Quidditch player, I've seen him myself. He doesn't need to buy his way onto the team." I wrapped my red and gold scarf around me, and walked away before I could blow my fuse.

"Temper, temper," one of the twins said laughing behind me as I walked away.

I weaved around the Great Hall so that I could pass the Slytherin table on my way out. I found Draco's platinum blonde hair at the end of the table and leaned down next to him to whisper in his ear.

"Good luck," I kissed him on the cheek and flounced out of the Great Hall.

How will Draco react?

Who will win the game?

How will the end of the year go for them?

Stay tuned!