Chapter Three:

Real friends

Something was wrong with her she has never got this messed up about a guy before. Actually every time they got this complicated she would get out. Only the problems with this one started at the beginning.

"Grr" she moaned as she threw a pillow across the room. 'Why him of all people why?' She asked herself. 'Why does he have to be in my life this way? Why can't it go back to normal? Why do I react to him the way I do?' she asked.

'Because it feels right,' Said the little voice in the back of her head.

"Oh shut up." She said out loud.

"I haven't said anything." Blaise answered as he walked into the room.

"Oh I was just talking to myself." She answered rubbing her forehead.

"You know talking to yourself is the first sign to mental illness right?" He joked; she smiled at him and sat on her bed. "You okay Hal's?" he asked.

"I don't know Blaise." She huffed lying back on her bed.

"You want to talk about it?" He asked sitting next to her.

"I don't know."

She and Blaise had bonded in the last two weeks. It had been decided that first night that the boys would stay at the manor until school started. She got up and went to her window. As she stood there Blaise looked at her sizing her up. He didn't know what kind of mood she was in today so he didn't know which approach to take. He watched her stand there switching from foot to foot and couldn't help but remember what it was like when they were little. How she would always stick up for him, whenever Hermione and Draco would pick on him. He had always been the shy quite one, and Haley the exact opposite. She'd let you know what she thought whether or not you wanted to hear it.

When they were little you always thought it would end up being Blaise and Haley and Draco with Hermione, but that wasn't the case. Sure Haley would hold Blaise's hand and Draco always had an arm slung around Hermione's shoulders. But Haley since day one has always had an eye for Draco. And the same went for Blaise he wanted Hermione and only Hermione. Blaise and Haley were best friends; that's always how it was, and the same went for Hermione and Draco.

Blaise stood up and went to the window, Hermione and Draco were outside and he was pushing her on the tree swing.

"At some point in time did we switch buddies or is this how it's always been?" She asked pointing between the couples.

"No it's always been this way. Me and you pretty much picked them and they had no say." He said shrugging. "But Hermione and Draco would gang up on me, and you were always there right by my side to put them back into their place." She looked over at him and smiled, he smiled back. "People always thought it would be me and you and then them. But we knew different." She walked away from the window and he turned to watch her.

"This is just going to get harder isn't it?" She asked with tears in her eyes.

"Yeah Hal's it is." He answered hanging his head.

"School is going to be hell this year. Damn it and it's our last one." She huffed wiping the tears from her eyes.

"Haley are you sure you're ready to be a Davenport?" He asked grabbing her arms to hold her in front of him.

"Yeah I'm ready to be the Haley I was meant to be. I just don't know if I can handle the baggage that comes with it." She answered tilting her head toward the window. Blaise almost laughed

"Haley, Draco is the easy part."

"So you think." she scoffed.

"You're not afraid of what your friends are going to think or say or do when they find out that you're a Davenport?" He asked stunned.

"No, they're my friends, my best friends; they'll look past the name because they know me. I'm more afraid of them finding about me and Malfoy." She said looking out the window.

"Haley don't you think it's a little lame to still be using last names?" He asked with a smirk.

"If I use his first name I'm afraid that I'll get attached." She answered, he smiled.

"You mean you'll start to like him again."

"Blaise quit making this hard for me. I can't just forget the last six years of my life." She walked away from him and fiddled with things lying on her desk. "Every time I think I can get pass it, I think about this time last year… I can't shake the feeling that he gave that day."

"Well what happened?" He said still down on the bed.

Flash Back

"Wow Malfoy what a man you've become." Haley Granger spat. As Malfoy turned away from the first year he was cornering.

"Stay out of this Granger." He said matching her glare.

"As a prefect Malfoy I'm going to have to tell you to shove it and step away from the boy." Malfoy laughed.

"You think that just because you're a prefect you can order me around?" He asked walking up to her. "Did you forget that I have one of those shinny little badges too?" he said pointing to his chest.

"Malfoy don't push me today I'm in no mood to sit here and listen to your jeering."

"Then by all means Miss Granger be on your way." He moved to the side and held out his hand for her to pass.

"Come here." She said to the little Ravenclaw. He looked over at Draco then back at Haley. "It's okay come here." She said again, he started to walk toward her. Draco gave him a death glare and the boy took off at a run toward Haley. He clutched on to her robes and she put a protective arm around him.

"I'm going to get you Granger. Mark my words you're going to pay for everything you have done to me." He spat.

"What I've done to you Malfoy are you off your rocker? I have never done anything to you that you haven't already done to me. Hell you've done more to me then I have to you." She yelled.

"You have no idea what you've done to me." He whispered in her face. She was shocked, she looked up in his sliver blue eyes and they looked hurt. Tears weld up in her eyes and he stocked away. Haley looked down at the little boy protected under her arm and tried to smile. She bent down to fix his tie and dust him off when her tears started to roll down her face.

"Thank you very much." The little boy whispered. She wiped away her tears and looked up at him through blurry eyes.

"You're welcome," She smiled. "You let me know if he does anything like that to you again oaky."

"Okay I will."

"Go." She whispered and he ran off in the other direction

End Flash Back

Haley looked over at Blaise and he looked totally shocked.

"Your serious he said that?" He asked.

"Yeah I'm serious… No Blaise I made it all up it's a part of my evil plan to make you hate you best mate." She scoffed lying down. "I mean I just don't get it. Could it be that he loves me and I was mean to him that's why he said that?"

"No he was mean to you first why not defend yourself." Blaise thought still in shock.

"Whatever let's just forget about it for the time being. What did you come up here for anyway?" She asked sitting on top of her school trunk trying to close it.

"That actually, your dad wants to get them in the car now."

"Oh… Al-right…then," She grunted. As she lay across it, and got it closed. "There I got it." She said in triumph. Blaise smiled at her and she smiled back. She got off the trunk and he picked it up and started to walk out the door. She turned around to get her wand from her desk when she remembered that it had fallen-

"Blaise wait." She said as she turned around to see him holding out her wand.

"Looking for this?" he asked handing it to her.

"Ha thanks." She laughed. Blaise turned and walked out of the room and chuckled to himself she was a funny girl.

He went down stairs and put Haley's trunk with everyone else's then walked out back to see Hermione still sitting on the swing. She smiled upon seeing him and he smiled back she scooted over on the swing and he sat down next to her.

"Where's Draco?" He asked.

"Draco Lee Malfoy." Haley screamed then you heard a thud and Haley's laughter through her bedroom window.

"Never mind." He said with a chuckle Hermione looked over at the window then back at Blaise.

"Well at least he's getting something out of it." She stated. Blaise snorted a laugh.

"You're a funny one." He said looking at her.

"Thanks." She whispered, and the mod changed. He leaned toward her, and their lips almost touched –

"Oi you can be doing that." Haley yelled from the window.

"Shut up and leave them alone." Draco yelled from the floor. Then Haley disappeared flowed by another thump.

"Draco." She screech before they both burst into laughter.

Hermione chuckled at her sister expense she was a crazy girl. She was finally giving Draco a chance although Hermione knew once they were back at school her attitude would change. She just hoped that Draco could handle it.

"I don't think that I could live without those two." Blaise said snapping her out of her daze.

"I know what you mean." She laughed with him. She looked over at him and they stopped laughing the mood changed. "But we wouldn't want to live with them." She whispered moving closer to him.

"No… we –we wouldn't want to do that?" He breathed getting even closer.

"I mean I could live with a boy." She stated.

"Yeah you could." And then their lips touched. Hermione's arms went around his neck and his around her waist. The kiss got hotter and Hermione noticed that there sitting arrangement was uncomfortable. So she got up, not breaking the kiss and straddled him. He smiled into her lips… he liked this side of her.

"Oi cant I go anywhere in the house and not see people snogging all over." Pansy Parkinson said from the back door. Blaise and Hermione broke apart and saw Draco and Haley following Pansy. "I mean first I go into the parlor and mum and dad are going at it on the couch then I go upstairs to see of you were up there and these two are practically having sex right there on the floor."

"We would have to if you hadn't come in." Draco mumbled. Haley smiled and elbowed him lightly in the stomach. He looked at her smile and he smiled right back. Then Draco wrapped his arm around her waist.

"Anyways and then I came out here and you two were snogging like crazy." Pansy finished.

"Pansy what are you doing here anyway?" Draco asked.

"Well I heard that my best friends were getting their memories back." She stated.

"Actually we haven't gotten them back yet." Haley said. "They said that they'd come back…" she trailed off and looked at Hermione.

"They'd come back when we fell in love." Hermione finished. "That's the simple way of putting it."

"Are you kidding?" Pansy asked. "You two have the hottest guys in school completely head over heels for you and your not in love with them?"

"Pansy it's a little more complicated than that." Draco said getting annoyed.

"What's complicated? You two are hot." She asked clearly not getting it.

"Pansy…"Haley said walking up to her. "Okay so you remember us at school right?"

"Yeah…" She said still not getting it.

"Okay Pansy me and Hermione are best friends with Harry and Ron. We hated you guys two weeks ago." Haley explained as nice as possible.

"What?" she asked "…Oh"

"There it is." Draco said to Haley. Then Haley playfully slapped him in the stomach. He smiled and grabbed her hand, and she didn't pull away.

"So should I have not come up here then?" she asked.

"No, no that's fine." Hermione said. "So we were really best friends?" She asked walking up to her. They started to walk to the patio. Hermione looked back at Blaise and gave him a sorry look. He just nodded; he could wait a little bit longer.

"Wow is she really that dense?" Haley asked as the three looked back at Pansy.

"Oh yeah, sometimes it's worse." Draco said chuckling; Blaise smiled, but keep his eyes on Hermione.

"I take it that was your guys' first kiss." Haley said staring at Blaise.

"Huh?... Oh yeah," Blaise laughed nervously.

"Go get her…"

"What?" he asked looking over at her.

"Go get her… We'll take care of Pansy." He smiled at her then walked over to Hermione.

"Aw man now they're going to do what we should be doing." Draco Whined. Haley Laughed.

"No there not Hermione's still a virgin." She said walking to Pansy.

"Wait really?" he asked falling into step with her.

"Yeah really." She said to him. "Hey Pansy how long were you planning on staying?"

"Oh not to long sorry I'll leave." She said getting up.

"No that's fine Draco's just complaining." She smiled and Pansy smiled back. They had a silent understanding.

"I just wanted to come by and say hi and everything. I just found out today that you were getting your memories back… because someone didn't tell me." She said giving Draco a pointed look.

"Sorry Pansy… it's just things are a little crazy around here." He explained.

"Yeah well I'll let you guys get back to your earlier activities. Tell mum and dad I said hi…" she said walking to the door. "Oh and Haley?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm glad were friends and that you don't totally hate me." She said.

"Me too Pansy… me too." Haley finished, Pansy smiled then headed into the house to floo home.

Draco watched her go then turned to Haley. He put his arm around her shoulders and she leaned her head against him.

"So about Hermione being a virgin." He said and Haley laughed.