Chapter 3

Draco cursed silently in his head, a blush covering his cheeks. Dammit! Why did they have to have a compartment with Neville Longbottom, the Gryffindor Klutz? And why was he blushing? It wasn't like he had this crush on him (or so he keeps telling himself that) and he most certainly didn't think he was a piece of hot man meat! The blush deepened.

"Draco! Don't be so rude" came the voice of his mother, Narcissa Malfoy. Draco ducked his head embarrassed.

"Sorry mother" he said. Narcissa smiled her eyes bright and twinkling. Oh she could just see the chemistry, it was lightening up the compartment.

"Now introduce your mother to this strapping young lad" she said smiling. Draco thought he would die of embarrassment.

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Neville stared at the two Malfoy's not knowing what to think, they certainly weren't acting like Malfoy's cause Draco was blushing and not in all the years he had been at Hogwarts did he see Draco blush. And Mrs Malfoy seemed to be a really exuberant lady and not the mean stoic woman he imagined her to be. Don't even ask why Neville was imagining what Malfoy's parents might be like. Neville blushed when Mrs Malfoy called him strapping, like that wasn't embarrassing, but Neville pegged himself as handsome.

"Mom, Longbottom, Longbottom, Mom" he said looking out the compartment window, his pale cheeks painted with a tint of red.

"Draco what kind of why of introducing was that" she said, she smiled and winked at Neville. "now what a learn boy, this is how you introduce yourself."

"Hi I'm Narcissa Malfoy, and you are?" she said holding her hand out. Neville looked a bit nervous and he was because it was weird.

"N-Neville Longbottom" he gave an uneasy smile as he gripped her hand.

"Nice to meet you" she said. "it's a shame about your parents, they were kind people and Alice was my best friend. I bet you weren't aware she was in Slytherin." Draco turned to look at his mother, then to Neville, who had the same shocked expression. His mother was best friends with a Longbottom, that really wasn't very surprising, the surprising thing was that a Longbottom was in Slytherin. Neville shook his head feebly at the shocking news.

"Really?" he said, no one ever talked about his mother or father for that matter.

TBC……….

A/N: I was running out of things, but hopefully the next chapter is better, see yha, and gomen nasai for it being so short.

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