The next day, when I was stumbling through the portrait hole, there was someone there to catch my forearm before I fell painfully to the floor. I was kinda shocked.

Do I have a guardian angel now? I thought to myself. Normally I would have just fell to the floor and kill off a few of the remaining brain cells I had left.

"Good morning, sunshine" a deep voice said from somewhere above my head, to the right. I looked up to see who it was and was met by pale grey eyes alight with amusement.

"Malfoy?" I asked, stunned. "What are you doing here?" I demanded, narrowing my eyes at him. I may still like him, but that didn't mean that I forgave him for treating me like the crap on his shoe. Humph.

"After seeing Gryffindors coming this way day after day, for six years, I kinda put two and two together and figured this must be where the "secret" Gryffindor Common Room must be."

"But w-why?" I stuttered.

"I thought we could walk to breakfast together."

"W-why?" I asked in puzzlement, forgetting to be angry with him.

This boy has DEFINATELY got a screw loose! I thought to myself.

"Because we're friends?" He said looking at me like I had grown another head.

"SINCE WHEN HAVE WE BEEN FRIENDS?" I shouted, completely outraged that he joke about something like that whilst I was still angry at him.

"Since yesterday..." If he was looking at me like I had grown another head earlier, he now looked at me as if I had just grown three head and an eye on my forehead.

"What on earth are you on about?" I huffed while storming in the direction of the Great Hall for breakfast.

"Remember we met up yesterday in the Library, then we went to the Tower and discussed what has happened and agreed to be friends."

"Merlin, you s-shouldn't imagine t-t-things like that!" I managed to choke out.

Use your brain, you stupid girl, you had a dream where that happened, put two and two together! Said a voice in my head that sounded terrifyingly like Professor Snape.

"Maya, what on Earth are you talking about?" I could hear that he was starting to loose his temper...

"Hang on, wait, do you have a scar by your eyebrow?"

"Yes." He answered sounding exasperated.

"Oh, so it wasn't a dream?" I asked uncertainly.

He started laughing so hard that I had to grab his arm so that he didn't tumble down the stairs.

"What are you laughing about?" I asked testily, all the while feeling quite foolish that I had mistaken real life as a dream.

Draco sobered quickly and looked down on me solemnly.

"You would dream something like that?" He asked quietly. It was so odd to hear him talking so seriously now when just a few seconds ago, he'd been almost falling over from laughter.

"Yup." I answered. I thought things over.

Right, so that wasn't a dream, it was real, that REALLY HAPPENED! So you're friends with him now. So you act like friends... And he should meet Sav!

"You wanna go to breakfast with me? I don't think we should eat together though... Perhaps just walk together?" I asked.

"Yeah, sure, why not?" He replied and started walking again.

"On one condition..." I added mischievously.

"What?" He asked warily.

"That you give me a piggy-back all the way to the Great Hall..." I said whilst pretending to examine my nails.

"WHAT? That's ages away!" Draco exclaimed playfully.

"Well, being my friend comes at a price..." I sighed all the while trying to hide my smirk.

"Well then..." He leaned over with his back to me.

I ran towards him and leaped, successfully getting on his back. I wrapped my arms around his neck tightly and my legs around his waist, joining my feet together on his stomach.

"Geez, loosen the death grip, please." Draco gasped out. I giggled and did what he asked.

"Lets go then..."

Down at breakfast, I kept sneaking glances towards the Slytherin table. It seemed that Draco was doing the same thing because we caught eye contact several times and I had to suppress laughter as he pulled funny faces at me.

"What you laughing about?"

"Gah!" I yelped.

Sav sat down next to me, chuckling softly, she shrugged lightly when she noticed my playful glare and picked up some buttered toast. We sat in a comfortable silence whilst eating our food with me still stealing glances at Blondie across the way.

Suddenly, I burst out laughing when Draco made a glass of pumpkin juice fall on Goyle's head a few seats down. It was hilarious becuase the idiot didn't even realise and just carried on eating.

"What are you laughing about?" Savvie demanded.

"Draco...Goyle...hahahahahahaha...pumpkin...head...hahahahahahahahaha!" I managed to choke out.

"Draco Goyle Pumpkin Head?" Sav looked puzzled. "What have you drank this morning?"

This just made me laugh harder along with the fact that Goyle was know looking around to see why suddenly he was wet. He was looking left then right then up then down. Draco was struggling to keep a straight face.

"Alright, if you're not going to share the joke, don't keep laughing..." Sav grumbled.

"S-sorry, I'll s-stop now!" I managed.

A couple of minutes later, I had stopped laughing and resisted the urge to glance at Draco on the other side of the Hall.

"So how was your night at the Ball?" I asked Sav after gulping down some pumpkin juice.

"It was good, yeah... Jack and I danced all even spoke to Harry Potter, can you believe it?"

"No way! He's only been in our class, our year and our house all these days!" I said sarcastically.

"You forget that I haven't been here as long as you have..." She huffed as I laughed.

"C'mon, we should get going to Potions..." I picked up my bag and motioned for Draco to follow us.

"Wait, wait, wait!" Sav grabbed my arm.

"What?" I asked, kinda scared at her outburst

"Did you just signal Malfoy?"

"Draco." I corrected automatically.

"Fine, Draco then, but did you?"

"Did I do what?" I asked, feigning confusion.

"Signal him!" Sav whispered loudly.

"Who?" I asked innocently.

"Draco!" She exclaimed quietly.

"What about Draco?"

"Fine! I give up, you're in a really annoying mood today, either that or you're drunk..."An irritable Sav muttered. I simply smirked.

By this time, we were outside the Great Hall where Draco was just exiting.

"Hello ladies." He said charmingly.

"Hey—Oh, Malfoy!" Sav was resembled a goldfish when she had her mouth open like that.

"Draco." I corrected automatically.

"Whatever, so what can we do for you?" My ditzy friend recovered quickly.

"Well, I was just wondering if you two needed an escort to Potions...?" He smiled.

"Why would we need an escort? I mean, you're more than welcome to walk with us, but we don't need an escort, do we? I mean—

"Sav, stop." I said whilst pressing my lips together to stop the laughter from getting through

"Ok. So, Mal—Draco, would you like to escort us to Potions?" Sav smiled and before he had chance to answer, she linked arms with the both of us and said: "Good, let's go."

"Hang on!" We heard from behind us. "Wait up!"

Draco looked behind us in confusion.

"Who's that?" He asked us.

"That would be my man..." Sav sighed dramatically. "Hey, hun, meet Draco!"

Jack skidded to a stop trying to control his panting.

"Nice to meet you, man." Jack said with his permanent grin. "You alright, Maya?"

"Of course, you?" I answered politely.

"Absolutely. Oh, I forgot, my name's Jack." He said to Draco.

"Oh, right nice to meet you Jack."

Soon, the boys were in a serious discussion about Quidditch and Sav was telling me all about her night at the Ball after I filled her in on what had transpired between Draco and I the night before.