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Chapter 17: Frenemies
The school year was coming to a close, of course before the students could enjoy a blissful summer one more nasty obstacle had to be met; exams. For fifth and seventh year students this was a particularly stressful time since they were not just studying for any old exam but for their OWLs and NEWTs, the exams that would easily decide the focus of either their lives or the remainder of their schooling.
Adrian Malfoy was sitting idly by the lake, in his lap was a large text book, "Beginning to Advanced Transfiguration". Sighing, the blonde haired teen flipped through the pages, staring unseeingly at the words. Instead his mind wandered to the last month of school. A firm friendship had been established with the Weasley Twins, so close in fact that they already had solid plans to see the twins over the summer. He was looking forward to that, Draco and Fred and been growing steadily closer, it was almost weird, though he did get along well with George. George seemed to be the tamer of the two twins and was fun to talk to or joke with whereas Fred was much more willing to get into mischief, dragging everyone along with him.
Ron, aka Weasel had been furious to see the budding friendship and had taken his verbal and physical attacks on the youngest Malfoy to a whole new level. Adrian was positive that if school wasn't so close to being over he would have been pulled out for the remainder of the year. He had been sent to the infermary six times in the last month, three times for his illness being triggered and the other three for various injuries inflicted by the youngest male Weasley. Surprisingy Potter hadn't taken Ron's teasing well and apparently the two had had a row in the Gryffindor common room over Ron's behaviour. He had been surprised to find that out, if anything he would have assumed that Potter was Weasel's biggest fan.
Sighing again he forced his attention back to his Transfiguration text, Draco and the Weasley Twins were surving a detention with Flitwick for charming his chair and causing the miniscule man to be carried around the room by the enchanted object. Of course this had happened during Dinner so everyone had seen and watched as Flitwick screamed and cursed well all the other Professors, save for Uncle Sev had frantically tried to get the man down. He had to admit it had been funny to watch, though Draco insisted he didn't take part in the pranks since they could be dangerous. He frowned, he loved his brother, but Dray was so damn protective at times that Adrian felt smothered. He often felt like he would never, ever get to fully experience life, all the ups and downs if his family continued to treat him as they did.
Closing the book, Adrian continued to stare out at the water, watching as the giant squid lazily waved a large tentacle in the air, splashing a passing group of giggling fourth years. A snort of laugher behind him caused him to turn, eyes going wide as he saw none other then the infamous Harry Potter standing directly behind him, smiling.
HP/HP
"Do you think that detention could have gone any longer?" Draco groused as he walked between Fred and George, the trio heading outside to enjoy the remainder of the warm summer day.
"Not legally, I think six hours in a detention is the max" Fred mused, walking a bit closer to Draco then George was.
George laughed, "C'mon Blondie, lets go find your twin and drag him away from his studying" He said, ignoring Draco's indigant whine at his new nickname. The twins nicknamed everyone and it was never a good nickname. Adrian had been lucky to escape, but only because the twins still felt a need to make up for their prank earlier in the school year. Flicking his hair from his eyes the statuesque blonde pushed open the front doors and stepped onto the sprawling green lawn.
"Any idea where he'll be?" Fred asked, raking his fingers through his flaming red hair.
Shrugging, Draco set off down the steps, him and the twins being given a wide birth by other students, most avoided Fred and George for fear of getting pranked, whereas they avoided him just out of fear.
HP/HP
"Its unnatural" Ron whined as he trailed along beside Hermione, carrying a whole stack of books.
"No it's not, I for one am pleased to see that the twins have managed to overcome this ridiculous inter-house rivalry, even if it is by befriending the Malfoy twins" Hermione snapped, stepping outside gracefully and leading Ron to a shaded spot by the lake, conjuring a blanket the girl spread it out, before gesturing for Ron to put her precious books down.
"Urg 'Mione, it's so wrong, Zabini I could see, hell even Parkinson or Nott, but not Malfoy or Malfoy Junior" Ron refused to call the twins by their names and insisted on calling Draco Malfoy and Adrian Malfoy Junior. He figured it was a way to slight the smaller, more delicate of the two twins. The twins were similar in appearance, blonde hair, silver eyes, but due to his health Adrian was much smaller, almost dainty, where as Draco with his quidditch toned body and Father's height was a force to be reckoned with. Even Ron didn't enjoy getting physical with the older Malfoy twin, but Adrian, when alone, was an easy target and Ron took near sadistic pleasure in sending him to the Hospital Wing.
HP/HP
Startling green eyes met cold silver ones as Adrian regarded Harry, his mouth open in an unelegant gape.
"What the hell?" Adrian finally managed to gasp, mentally kicking himself for being caught by surprise by one of the people he truly loathed.
"Hey" Harry grinned, though his tanned cheeks were covered with a light blush. "Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you"
Adrian blinked, finally managing to snap his mouth shut, did Harry Freaking Potter just apologize to him? He sighed, shaking his head, he'd been outside to long, he probably had heat stroke and was hallucination, Dray was gonna kill him.
"Err, Adrian?" Harry's hand waved in front of his nose, causing the teen to jump back a step, still staring untrustingly at Harry.
"What do you want Potter?" The blonde finally managed to state, a sneer that would rival even his father's in place.
"I, well, I wanted to apologize" Harry fianlly murmured, his grin falling into a shamefaced expression.
"Apologize?" Adrian deadpanned, still looking at Harry like he was something unpleasent.
"Yea, for everything" Harry waved his arms in a vauge attempt to encompass everything.
"For teasing you, stealing your diary, not stopping Ron..." He trailed off, watching the expression of surprise return to Adrian's face for a moment.
"You-you're sorry?" Adrian finally managed to stutter.
"I didn't know stealing the diary would hurt you so bad. I just wanted to get to know you better" Harry said, scuffing the ground with his foot.
"Hell Potter, if you wanted to get to know me you could of asked" Adrian snorted, shaking his head. "It would have been better to ask me then to steal something that you had no right reading" He snapped, bristling at the remembered panic of losing his book.
"I know that now, but at the time..." Harry sighed, this was not going as planned that was for sure. Adrian was just supposed to accept the apology and move on, he had with the twins.
Adrian shook his head in a mixture of annoyance and surprise. He was relieved Harry had finally apologized but he wasn't about to just accept the apology and move on. Harry had hurt him, deeply, emotionally and that was hard to get over.
"Look Potter, I'm still angry with you, you hurt me" Adrian stated bluntly, "But I'm willing to work on this. Maybe we could be friends eventually" He said, holding out his hand.
"I'm Adrian Malfoy" He said with a grin.
"Harry Potter" The raven haired boy responded, grasping the slender, pale hand witin his own.
HP/HP
Draco stopped about fifteen feet away from his twin and Harry Potter. His silver eyes were wide, torn between anger and axiety at what he was seeing. Harry and Adrian were shaking hands. Harry was touching his twin. Anger began to build within the blonde, irrational hate bubbling to the surface, however before he even had a chance to act on the matter, a familiar, grating, female voice screeched from the small copse of trees by the lake.
"HARRY JAMES POTTER!" Hermione Granger yelled out, stalking towards the two boys whom were shaking hands, closely follwed by a blustering, swearing Ronald Weasley. As angry as he was at Potter, Draco could see the percarious and dangerous position his twin had just landed himself in.
"Damnit" Draco cursed, rushing forward as Ron did so.
Cliff Hanger! Sorry guys, couldn't resist
Also this Fic is beginning to wind down, don't worry though, book six and book seven are still being worked on so we still have a ways to go!