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Chapter 5

Melody P.O.V

Melody looked at the people before her as she walked to Hogsmeade. There was a small group of laughing girls and two boys talking loudly about something of no importance. She felt slightly lonely and began to wish she had someone to walk with, but at least there was another student walking alone further ahead. Maybe that person was feeling lonely too.

It was a windy, autumn day and you could hear the leaves rustling in the trees. The leaves were orange and crimson red and the trees looked like exploding fireworks against the grey sky. Melody pulled her scarf tighter to her neck before looking at the letter she had just wrote to her parents.

She was on her way to Hogsmeade post office to find an owl to send the letter with. She hadn't gotten one herself, all she had was Mr. Tassel and she couldn't let him take the letter, it would be a way to long trip for him plus he was sort of overweight. He could use to lose some pounds but she didn't want to pressure him.

She looked down at the letters that made up the words Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. She knew she couldn't tell her parents everything that was going on in the wizarding world, they couldn't possibly understand. She barely did so herself but she knew that they were the once to understand her the best, if anyone even did.

But God did understand her, even if it felt like her God didn't belong to this world, he would still understand and help her as best as he could. He did create everything after all.

Suddenly she walked into something black and cold, she backed away a few steps and looked upon the thing she had walked into and saw that it was a person. It was the student who had been walking alone, it was Draco Malfoy.

"Oh… Mr. Malfoy! I'm so sorry", she said terrified, blushing as usual when she met him.

Draco P.O.V

He had just stopped for a second. Did she have to walk into him?! It was like she followed him, this strange, sweet, little being.

"'Mr. Malfoy?'", he thought to himself.

"Watch your step", he said to her and kept on walking.

He had enough problems as it was, sure, she was already sort of a problem but he had much larger issues than her. Issues that could kill him if he didn't succeed. He kept on walking but in the corner of his eye he could see Melody walking up beside him. There was a space between them but still they were walking next to each other. He could see how she glanced at him from time to time and he glanced back when she wasn't looking.

When you look at her she was actually pretty cute. She wasn't trying to be sexy like everyone else, she was just… her. Suddenly she looked back at him and as if lives were depending on it he turned his head back to the road.

"Darn it", he whispered to himself.

Eventually they reached Hogsmeade, after a long and embarrassing walk with nothing but silence, that's when he had enough. He stopped and turned to her, she had stopped and looked at him as if she was a frightened doe.

"Will you please stop following me?", Draco asked tiredly.

"What? I – I'm not f- following you, Mr. Malfoy. I'm going to…", she said but Draco interrupted her.

"Please, call me Draco", he asked.

"Okay, Mr. Malfoy. I mean Draco!", she said.

He laughed a little to himself.

"So, where are you going?", he found himself asking.

"To the post office. I have to send a letter to my parents", she said shyly.

"Don't you have your own owl?", he asked.

"No… I just have Mr. Fatto- I mean Mr. Tassel, he's my fat cat", Melody answered nervously.

"You have a cat? I've got one too. But mine's not fat, he's more like skinny. He probably has anorexia or something. He is albino and is called Octopus", Draco said.

Melody looked thoughtful.

"Why is his name Octopus?", Melody asked.

"Well, he is a pussycat and is born in October so I just put it together. Octo from October and Pus from pussycat", he explained.

"Oh… I thought it was because he had eight legs or something", she said and just as the words slipped out the got red as a cherry, clearly she felt embarrassed by this.

Draco smiled.

"Should we go and send your letter then?", he said and started walking.

When he noticed she wasn't following him he turned around and looked at her.

"Aren't you coming? I don't have a letter, you do", he said.

"Oh… Right", she said and ran up to him and started walking beside him.

He helped her find an owl that fit for her letter. It was clear that she still hadn't been getting the hang of picking the right owl. She almost chose a little one who could barely carry an ant.

"Are you hungry?", he asked when they were walking out from the post office.

"Oh. No, I'm alright", she said and put a hand over her stomach.

Her stomach made a long, loud growl and she blushed.

"Are you sure?", he said and raised an eyebrow. "Come on, I'll buy you lunch."

She blushed again and let out a quiet "Thanks".

They sat at Hog's head inn and ate. They wanted to be away from the crowd, neither one of them liked it anyway.

Melody carefully ate her food and barely made eye contact.

"So… You found the room of requirement", Draco said in a desperate try to ease the tension.

"No, why did I tell her that?", Draco thought.

"What?", Melody asked.

"You know the room I found you in when you were crying…", he said.

"Keep your mouth shut, Draco!"

"I thought it was always there…", she said confused.

"No, it only appears when you need it the most", he explained.

"Why? Why? Why? Shut. Up!"

"Well, what did you need it for then?", she asked suddenly.

"Crap."

"I…Uh… Wanted to be alone", he said.

"Just like me", she said quietly.

When they were finished eating they left the Inn and slowly began to walk through Hogsmeade towards the castle. Hogsmeade was nearly empty with people, the day was over and the twilight were upon them.

As they walked to the castle they began to glance at each other and they could both feel them getting closer and closer to each other.

"Well... This was fun", Draco said with a slight laugh.

"Yeah", she said and started to laugh. "But the potions class were funnier."

Potions class, one week ago.

They sat in the dungeon looking at the potion. It looked awfully snot green. They highly doubted that it was suppose to look like that. They felt sick by just looking at it.

"I think we've done something wrong", Melody finally said.

"You think?", Draco answered sarcastically.

"You said you knew the potion", Melody said.

"In theory. I've never actually done it before", Draco defended. He picked up some sort of root and leaned over the cauldron and bam.

Draco was covered in the snot green, mud-like liquid. He looked over at Melody, shocked and saw her, just like him, covered in the snot green liquid. She looked like Mountain Snot, if that would exist.

Draco laughed.

"Yeah, that was fun... and sticky", he said.

"Yeah, but I still think it was your fault", she said and smiled brightly.

"Oh really? Why?", he bent down to pretend to tie his shoelace.

"Yes, you led me to believe you knew what you were doing and you got into something you couldn't handle", Melody explained.

Draco looked at her from the ground with a mischievous smile. Within a second he threw a bunch of colourful leaves in her face. She looked shocked at him, not understanding what happened, she realized and bent down, picked up a bunch of leaves and threw it right back at him.

The leaves whirled around in the air as one big explosion. Draco could hear her laugh happily so he made his way over to her so he could throw yet another big pile of leaves at her. Unfortunately she managed to throw leaves at him first and blocked his sight. He fumbled around in what felt like one giant pile of leaves only to stumble and fall into her. They both fell but landed softly in the leaves. They looked shocked at each other. The leaves continued to drop down around them.

Draco looked deep into Melody's green eyes and felt a rush going through his body. He could see Melody's cheeks slowly turning red but neither one of them made an attempt to move from the position they were in.

He pulled himself up on his elbows so he didn't crush her. Slowly he got one hand free and brushed some of her hair away from her face. With the free hand he took her hand that was placed on her chest. Without really thinking he felt himself moving closer to Melody and closed the distance between them.

Melody P.O.V

Melody was sitting in the common room reading one of the books she got for her birthday from her parents two days ago. It was a book series from Scandinavia, The Legend of the Icepeople. It was very short so she had gotten a few others too. She put the book down and touched the necklace she had gotten from Draco.

They had been meeting each other in secret since Hogsmeade. She was actually starting to be happy to be at Hogwarts. Someone cared about her and it was basically the first time she felt that. She smiled to herself.

She heard the door open and saw Draco come in through it. When he saw her he got a smile on his face.

"Hi", he said.

"Hi", she replied, blushing as usual.

He walked up to her and sat down next to her on the sapphire green couch. He took her hand.

"How was your day?", Draco asked.

"Fine", Melody answered. "Yours?"

"Okay", Draco said. "Well, I'm off to bed, Love."

He kissed her cheek and stood up.

"Night, night", Melody said as her blushing got worse and worse.