The next morning I awoke feeling stiff and sore from sleeping on the chair with Draco all night. I shifted slightly and looked up at him. He looked so peaceful like this. His head nodded slightly and his hair formed a soft halo around his face. I reached up and brushed he hair away from his face. His eyes snapped open and he jerked away from me until he realized who I was.

"Are you alright?" I asked.

"I had a bad dream is all." I frowned.

"But you looked so peaceful." Draco wrapped his arms around me.

"Don't worry about it luv," he said. "It was just a dream. It's gone now." I raised my head and gazed around the common room. I wondered vaguely where the rest of our Housemates had got to.

We can't have woken up that early! I thought looking down at my silver wristwatch.

"Draco!" I cried scrambling to my feet. "We have to go! We're late for breakfast and we have lessons today!" Draco stretched slowly and yawned.

"Well let's be off then." I looked down at my wrinkled uniform.

"Um...don't you think we should change first?" I asked. Draco looked down at his own wrinkled uniform.

"Oh, you're right." We darted off to our dorms and returned a few minutes later wearing fresh uniforms and with our hair and teeth brushed. I had my hair down. Draco had his slicked back in his usual style. I smiled at him and he took my hand in his. We ran down to the Great Hall where the rest of our schoolmates were.

"Morning Blaise," I said sliding into the seat next to him while Draco took the seat on my other side.

"Getting up a bit late aren't you?" he asked giving us a completely fake innocent look. Draco shot a glare at him.

"You could have woken us up, you git," he snapped. Blaise laughed.

"What? And miss you two rushing in here looking like you just had a quick snog in the broom closet?" Blaise replied completely oblivious to Draco's anger.

"We do not!" I cried flicking a bit of egg at him. "You git!" Blaise laughed some more, wiping the egg from his shoulder.

"Look at your hair," he said. I pulled a small mirror from my bag and looked at myself.

"It's frizzy from running, moron!" I smoothed down my hair and put my mirror back into my bag. Suddenly, loud laughter rang out from further down the table. I leaned forward and saw Pansy sitting on Theodore Nott's lap and laughing very loudly as though she was trying to draw attention to the fact that she was on his lap, which she probably was, her laughter also sounded very fake.

"Pansy's trying way too hard," I said.

"Enjoying the little slut, Nott?" Draco called. At once Pansy stopped laughing and I looked from her to Draco. He had never called her that before. Pansy's eyes widened and then they flickered to me.

"At least I'm not dating a mudblood lover!" she cried. Draco put an arm around me protectively.

"Better that than a slut," Draco drawled. "At least I don't have to worry about her cheating on me with Michael Corner." Nott looked at Pansy.

"You're cheating on me!?" Pansy mouthed wordlessly for a minute.

"N...No!" she cried. "I...I'm not!" Draco sat back, smirking, seemingly pleased with the scene he had caused.

"Oh you're evil," I said grinning up at him.

"Come to the dark side," he said smirking back at me. I laughed.

"Why would I want to do that?" I asked. Draco leaned down and kissed me.

"Because they have me," he said as he pulled away. I nodded, my eyes wide.

"O...okay," I whispered.