Charlie pushed herself right back against the wall. She wanted to run but couldn't find any strength in herself to do it. "Why weren't you expelled?" Charlie asked. She took deep breaths in a pathetic attempt to calm herself down. "That crackpot old fool gave me another chance" Connor smirked. "Yeah well, I'm not giving you another chance, you better stay away from me Connor, I mean it" Charlie warned. He came within a few inches of her face; she panicked and struggled to breath. "We'll just see about that won't we" He whispered, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek before walking off laughing to himself. The colour drained from her face and she slid to the floor. She didn't have the strength to move for an hour and sat there and cried. She staggered up, using the wall to help her. 'Draco will be back by now' Charlie thought and with that thought in her head as something to go to she rushed back to the common room.

She scrambled through the door of the common room and went up to the boy's dormitory. Only a couple of Draco's friends were in there. "Crabbe, has Draco been back yet?" Charlie asked. Crabbe shook his head. Charlie went back down to the common room and sat down. She was to scared to leave. She curled up into a ball and waited for three hours after everyone else had gone to bed for Draco. She was freezing cold by the time he came in. Charlie got up and hugged him. "Hey, hey, what's wrong?" He asked, wiping the tears off her cheek. "He wasn't expelled," She whispered. He nodded in understanding and kissed her, softly. She wiped her tears away. "Where were you anyway? I've been waiting for hours," She asked. "I had to talk to Potter," He said. "Why?" Charlie asked, puzzled, she thought they hated each other.
"Nothing really, just making sure his girlfriend was okay" He said. He sat down and pulled her down on top of him. "Draco, I'm not in the mood so just don't. Okay?" She asked. He nodded and slipped his arms around her waist. She buried her head in his shoulder. He kissed her forehead and after a while she fell asleep.

Draco woke up the next morning; he was really tired and looked at his watch. First lesson was going to start in 25 minutes. "Ah crap," He mumbled to himself. "Charlie, love you're gunna have to get up now" He said, pushing her gently. She woke up and hopped up the stairs to get dressed. "By the way, Dumbledore said you could have today off if you want" Draco told her, when she came down the dormitory stairs.
"Not a chance with him still on the loose, I don't want him to catch me alone" She said. "You sure?" He asked. "Very. What have we got first?" Charlie asked. "Defence against the dark arts" He said, following her out. She saw everyone outside, they were all staring at her and she realized the news must have carried round the entire school by now. "Come on, just ignore them" Draco whispered in her ear. She nodded and carried on to the third floor.

They walked into the empty classroom and sat down together. The room slowly filled with people. Professor Lupin came in and asked Draco to hand out textbooks. Charlie glanced around the room and her eyes caught Connors for a second. She looked away, quickly. Draco sat back down next to her and offered his hand to her under the table, she gladly took it. "Open your books to page 394 read it while I collect your homework" Professor Lupin said. Draco flicked through the book lazily until Charlie took the book off him and turned it to the correct page. The scruffy haired Professor collected in the homework that Charlie had forgotten to check over. They didn't do much that lesson, just copied stuff out the book and answered a few questions. Halfway through the class, Charlie felt a piece of paper hit her; she bent down to pick it up and unfold it. It read:

Charlie Talk to me after class, alone Connor xx

She turned around in her seat to look at Connor; she raised one eyebrow at him. He caught her gaze and smiled, gently.