Chapter Nine
Christmas holidays went by too quickly for Alaya. It seemed like she had only just gotten home and now here she was back on the platform headed back to school. Draco was there with her and Shane, he had his arm around her waist as the three bid their parents goodbye. After the goodbyes they got on the train and settled into an empty compartment.
As the train began moving their compartment door opened to reveal Blaise and Amy. "Ah there you two are I've been looking everywhere for you." Blaise smiled as he tugged Amy in the compartment by the hand and sat them beside Shane. It was a few minutes of the boys talking before Blaise saw that Draco had his arm around Alaya's waist and her head was laying on his shoulder.
"Okay when did you two hook up?" Blaise asked eyeing Draco and Alaya. "What are you talking about?" Alaya teased lifting her head up. "I'm talking about how cozy the two of you look right now." He teased back. "It was over break." Draco cut in. "And pray tell how did you snag her Mr. Malfoy. She's so picky." Blaise teased looking at her. "All I had to do was kiss her." Draco smirked looking down at her making her blush. Before anyone could answer Amy said she was going to look for her friends and would be back later and left the compartment. "Well she is a good kisser." Blaise shrugged leaning back into his seat. "Tell me about it." Draco laughed making Alaya blush even more. "Okay this is way too much info for me coming from two of my best friends about my sister. I think I'm going to leave now." Shane said getting up as he went into the corridor. Alaya then excused herself as well saying she wanted to go find a few of her friends and left giving Draco a kiss on the cheek leaving Draco and Blaise by themselves.
"She's an amazing girl Draco." Blaise said looking out the window. "Yeah I know, tell me about it." Draco sighed slouching into his seat. "You ever do anything to hurt her or treat her like you have the girls before her I will hex you into oblivion Malfoy." Blaise said with a serious tone and turned to his friend. "I wouldn't dream of treating her that way. I've grown quite attached to her. I don't want her out of my life." Draco replied just as seriously looking at Blaise. "I love that girl more than you know Draco, just not in that kind of way. I'm going to be very protective of her. I'll be worse than Shane due to the fact she's my best friend and I dated her. Plus other than me you're really the first guy she's dated, I don't count we were too good of friends." Blaise stated. "I know. I won't hurt her. I promise." Draco said softly. "That better be a promise you're going to keep." Blaise said looking at his friend. "Oh it is." Draco said smiling at Blaise and he smiled back.
Down the train Alaya caught up with Natalia, Ginny, and Hermione sitting with Ron and Harry in a compartment. They smiled when they saw her and she took a seat beside Ginny.
"So it's about time you came and saw me." Natalia laughed. "Sorry I was caught up." Alaya giggled. "Oh really, you and Blaise back together?" Natalia teased. "No he's dating Amy." Alaya stated. "Ah ok. So who was taking up you time then?" Natalia asked raising her eye brows. "My new boyfriend." Alaya stated making Natalia's eyes widen as she smiled. "Oh pray tell who is the lucky man?" Natalia asked. "Draco." She said simply looking at her nails. "Malfoy!" Natalia almost screamed. "Who else would I be talking about?" Alaya said looking confused. "He's bad news Alaya." Hermione piped up. "Yeah Alaya, he's pure evil." Harry added looking concerned. "For your information he's not all evil. Besides you don't even know him." Alaya pouted. "And you do?" Ron asked glaring at her. "Actually I do Ron. Even if his parents never came to our house till break he did with Shane when we were little." Alaya stated standing up aggravated. "Well just be careful Alaya, we don't want to see you get yourself hurt." Natalia said looking up at her friends. "Yeah well I'm perfectly fine of taking care of myself!" she yelled before storming off back to the compartment she shared with Draco.
When she walked in tears were silently rolling down her cheeks. When Draco saw her crying he immediately stood up to hug her. He rubbed her back as she began to cry a little harder.
"What's wrong?" he asked worried and sat down pulling her down with him. "Natalia, Hermione, and all them." She cried as Shane entered the compartment and saw Alaya crying. He looked to Draco who only shrugged his shoulders. "What about them?" Blaise asked. "They told me I was crazy for being with Draco, that he was evil, they weren't happy for me even though I am." She choked. "They're a bunch of dunderheads sis." Shane said sitting on the other side of her. "They're my friends!" she yelled standing up glaring at Shane. "I know, I'm sorry it's just…" Shane tried apologizing but Alaya cut him off. "Do you have any idea how hard it is? I have friends in all four houses. It just so happens my closest friends are Slytherins, Gryffindors, and a Ravenclaw. Luckily for me though Natalia doesn't care about me having Slytherin friends seeing as her brother was one as well, but dating a Slytherin other than Blaise is another story." She yelled getting more upset. Draco grabbed her hand and pulled her back down hugging her as she cried into his chest.
Draco hated seeing her cry. It upset him badly, he just wanted to make the pain go away so he could see her smile again. He loved her smile. He was just unsure how to handle the situation that just happened. He wanted to give her friends a good telling off but that would only make her mad at him and he didn't want that.
A few hours later they were back at school and eating dinner in the Great Hall. Alaya sat with Draco, Blaise, Shane and Amy avoiding her other friends. She didn't want to be near them at the moment, she needed her space.
"So Alaya want to go to Hogsmeade this weekend?" Draco asked breaking her out of her trance of staring at her plate. "What?" she said shaking her head to look at him. "Hogsmeade with me?" he said again. "Oh uh of course." She replied giving him a weak smile. He put his arm around her and kissed her temple as she sighed. He shot a glare at the Gryffindor table where her friends were watching her.
Once dinner finished Draco escorted Alaya back to her common room holding her hand the whole way. He kept looking down at her as she stared at the floor still upset about earlier. She sighed before stopping halfway to her common room.
"What's wrong Alaya?" Draco asked when they stopped. "I really don't want to face Natalia tonight." She said looking at him. "Oh. Well it won't be that bad. If you need me just come looking I'll be doing rounds." He said making her smile. "You know Draco you're truly amazing." She said kissing his cheek and they walked the rest of the way to the common room.
He had no idea what he did he was just glad he got her to smile. When they reached the portrait he kissed her goodnight and went to check in with Professor Snape before starting his rounds. Alaya was truly amazing and he found it hard not to think of her when they weren't together.
Sorry this one took me sooooo long but I've been getting ready for my mom to come into town in a couple weeks. I've had to clean the house, blech, not to mention a certain son of mine is going through that separation anxiety stage, if he can't see me he freaks. So read and review!