AN: I'm sorry I haven't updated in ages, but my obsession with this pairing has cooled down quite a bit since I first started writing this and I've just haven't hade the time, energy or will to write that much. This chapter also demanded some more work then the previous ones so... it's taken some time. I'm not saying I will be better at updating in the future, 'cause I probably won't. This actually might be the last chapter... I don't know, I haven't decided. But thank you so much to everyone who's been following, reviewing or favorite-ing this story - you're all extremely awesome :)
"Gee, you can't just sneak up on people like that!" Draco exclaimed as he gave Luna an accusing look.
"And you shouldn't eavesdrop on people so I guess that makes us even." Luna answered with a rather unfitting smile, considering the situation.
"No, we're not 'even'" Draco replied, still mad about the incident in the great hall.
"'Cause you… you just…" He continued while gesturing with his left hand in the approximate location of the hall.
"I know and I was actually looking for you to apologize." Luna interrupted, knowing what Draco was referring to without him having to specify any further. "Draco, I'm sorry! I shouldn't have said it like that."
Draco looked into her blue eyes in disbelief, ready to decline her plea for forgiveness as he would have with anyone else. But then Luna wasn't like anyone else, her eyes showed nothing other than pure, honest regret. Not that honesty really had an effect on Draco, not purity either for that matter, it was rather the stubbornness of her regret that made him, with lips clenched tight together, give her a quick nod, accepting her apology. Because when looking at Luna, Draco just knew she didn't apologize for her own sake. She didn't need him to accept her apology, if he denied her she wouldn't feel sad or angry. There was no way Draco could use her guilt to play with her emotions, to make her crawl, so what was the point? He had to forgive her, because if he didn't Luna wouldn't be the one incapable of letting go of the incident, it would be Draco himself. He would be the one that was still upset about what happened, he would be the one stuck up on a feeling of being hurt, a situation Draco obviously refused to put himself in. So he nodded and in response Luna gave him a relived smile. They were both silent for awhile. Draco sat down on the floor of the corridor with his back against the wall.
"I'm not scared of Granger!" Draco said in an almost calm and relaxed tone, if it weren't for the fact that he wasn't calm and relaxed at all. There was a certain tension in his jaw that gave it away. Luna didn't answer and Draco glanced in her direction. She was looking at him with her head slightly tilted to the side and her eyebrows raised in a look that said that she didn't believe him at all.
"I'm not!" he protested, louder and a bit more desperate this time. Luna sat down beside him on the floor. Her back against the wall, imitating Draco's own pose with her eyes resting on the wall opposite them.
"You don't have to lie to me" she said, unaffected by Draco's loud protests, without looking at him.
"I'm not!" he said, once again, in frustration.
"Well you do feel something!" This time her voice had just a hint of frustration in it and she pushed herself away from the wall to look at him. He glanced at her direction; he wasn't sure what she was trying to say.
"I think you should tell me" Her voice was soft again and she looked at him in a way that he assumed were supposed to make him feel comfortable, it didn't. So he didn't answer, just raised his eyebrows in a smug look. 'Really? I should tell you how I feel?'
"Well, as I understand it, that's how it works. You're doing it all wrong." Draco listened, still a bit frustrated but now slightly amused. What strange thoughts would she tell him about this time? Luna continued: "If I'm wrong about Hermione you can't just tell me I'm wrong, you have to say why and how I'm wrong"
"Why?" he said, more interested in making her explain her weird thought than actually listening to them.
"Well, so I can understand you" she answered in complete seriousness.
"That's not what I meant" he growled.
"See, this is where you're suppose to add what you meant to your answer" she continued in a calm voice. Draco gathered himself again, he couldn't continue to lose his temper around her like this.
"What I meant was" Draco said emphasizing the last word ridiculously slow. "Why would I want you to understand me?"
"This was a bad idea!" Luna suddenly exclaimed and got up from the floor. Draco frowned in confusion and looked at the blond. Luna caught his confused look and for a moment it looked like she was about to start screaming at him again but then she just sighed.
"You don't get it" Luna said like she just realized this.
"I should never had agreed to be you friend." It was hard to tell if she was speaking to herself or to Draco. Her slow and calm words were spoken more as ideas and thoughts then an explanation of something she had been thinking about for a long time.
"If you actually wanted to be my friend you would do these kinds of things to make the friendship stronger." Luna gestured with her hands while talking. She switched between looking out in the air at nothing and directly at him, switched between explaining to herself and explaining to him.
"There can't just be one person talking, sharing and giving 'cause that's not really a friendship, is it? It's something else…" She went quite for awhile, seeming to be deeply inside her own mind.
"So I guess if we call this a friendship…" she continued slowly. "I'm not actually helping you make friends; I'm just playing along with your delusional idea of a friendship. I guess Ginny was right!" Luna smiled, as if she was relieved to come to a conclusion. She looked up at Draco and now she was finally looking right at him.
"I shouldn't try to be friends with you when you're not trying to be friends with me!" Luna smiled again and turned around as if to walk away. It seemed as Draco had been in some sort of confused and stunned state of mind because when she suddenly turned away something clicked and Draco suddenly felt mad. He was standing up and pointing after the girl in barely a second.
"Wait a minute! Are you saying I don't… that I'm not?" Luna stopped and turned towards him again, tilting her head and looking at him in that calm, thoughtful way of hers.
"Who is always chasing down who in-between classes, huh?" Draco growled. He couldn't believe she was suggesting that he was the one who had messed this up. "Who has taken the time to actually learn the other ones schedule for each day to know when we share lunches and breaks? I'm running after you all over the freaking castle every freaking day while you walk around following Spurtwracks…"
"Wrackspurts?" Luna intervened calmly.
"Whatever! And that's another thing. I always let you talk about your stupid imaginary creatures but we never talk about something that interests me?" Draco didn't really care about that particular point but he was sure it could have an effect on someone like Luna. "And you said I never tell you stuff, that I never talk to you. Well, you've never opened up to me, so why should I open up to you?"
Draco couldn't see what effect his speech had on Luna since she was looking down at the floor. He stepped closer.
"So don't try to blame this on me, it just makes you sound even crazier than usual!"
"Really?" Luna looked up from the floor and surprised Draco with a mischievous smile on her face. "I think it sounds like you put time and effort into this friendship and you're mad right now 'cause you actually care"
Luna smiled knowingly, looking very pleased with herself. Draco clenched his teeth feeling the frustration and anger building up inside of him. Had she tricked him? Did she say all those things on purpose to make him…? No! The anger disappeared to make room for a new emotion: doubt. Draco raised an eyebrow in suspicion and looked at Luna. He was overestimating the weird blond, she couldn't possibly been faking this whole thing. Luna just continued to smile at him in tease. He had to ask.
"Did you just…?"
"Maybe" Luna answered and looked as if she was about to crack up any minute. So she had been tricking him? Or was she tricking him now by looking as if she knew something to make him think that she was tricking him before? Draco couldn't help but feel both impressed and amused by the game she was playing and he broke out in a smile.
"You little…" he grinned affectionately without finishing the sentence. "You are messing with my mind like a professional!"
"Draco Malfoy, is that a compliment I hear?"
AN: I did not plan to put such an abrupt ending to this chapter(story?) but I just felt like it had to end there.