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Rose's POV:
I got up to loud banging on my door. I opened my eyes startled, and it took me a moment to realise where I was and then I smiled. This place was so damn perfect. I desperately wanted to go back to sleep but that banging on my door wouldn't stop.
"Who the hell is it?" I yelled.
"Albus Dumbledore.".
"Oh shut up Malfoy." I snapped.
"You should try and stop being so daft Weaslette, who else will come here apart from me? Nobody else knows about this place yet." he said and I could clearly imagine that stupid smirk on his face.
"I am sorry Malfoy, I am not capable of logical reasoning at bloody- shit it's 7.30?" I yelled, looking at the clock on the bedside table.
"Finally she realises. Took you long enough. I came here to wake you up. How deep a sleeper are you? I banged on the door and yelled your name for almost five whole minutes before I got you to wake up." he said.
"Go away Malfoy." I grumbled.
"That's a nice way to say thank you." he said and I could almost feel the dripping sarcasm.
"Get lost Malfoy".
"You have ten minutes to get your shit together and come down to the Great Hall, GET UP ALREADY."
"Okay okay, I am up" I said, getting off my bed. I ran to the bathroom, took a two minute shower, I don't know how that is possible, but I did. I put on my uniform, yanked my bag which I had thankfully packed the day before, from the chair and ran out of my room, down the stairs. Malfoy was sitting on the couch, shoving stuff into his bag. He looked up at me and gave me a quizzical look.
"What?"
"Did you even look into a mirror before you came bolting down here?"
"Uh, no?"
"Your hair is a disaster Weaslette, I mean even more disastrous than it usually looks." he said.
"Accio mirror."
A mirror came zooming into his hands and he gave it to me to take a look. Holy shit. It really was a disaster.
I started whining about how I don't have the time to brush my hair and comb it properly. Believe me it takes a very long time, with hair like mine a girl would spend majority of her day trying to just make it stay in one place. I tried running my hands through it and brushing it into place but it didn't work.
"Hold it. You're making it worse." said Malfoy.
He then muttered something under his breath while pointing his wand at my hair. The next instant my hair was smooth and wavy and in one place, not frizzy and annoying like it always is in the morning. I took the band off my wrist which I always wear and quickly lifted my hair back into a ponytail.
"How the hell did you manage that Malfoy? What spell was that?" I asked.
"My lovely sister made me look up all the spells that would help her do her hair when I lost a bet to her, her hair's a bitch all the time too, at least that's what she says." he said.
"Oh. What spell is that? Usually none of those hair charming spells work on this wild mane that I call my hair." I said.
"That's for me to know and you to try and find out Weasley." he laughed.
I rolled my eyes.
"Let's get going, we need to eat really quick and run to class if we don't want to be late." I said.
"After you." he said, gesturing to the door. We walked out and made our way to the Great Hall.
"Why are you being nice Malfoy? I would have expected you to purposely mess with my alarm so that I get late but instead you woke me up when I was going to get late. What do you want?" I asked suspiciously.
"You see Weasley, I am not very fond of you, actually, I am not fond of you at all. But I'd rather not have to work with some other idiotic girl from maybe Merlin forbid, Hufflepuff, if you get stripped off your position which would have happened if you were late to class on your very first day as Head Girl." he said.
"Gee, here I was thinking that you actually cared about me." I said with a smile.
"How can I possibly care about someone with a personality like yours?" he said with dramatically widened eyes.
"Are you always such a charmer in the mornings Malfoy?" I asked.
"You'll be able to answer that question yourself in a couple of months." he smirked.
"Can't wait." I said, rolling my eyes.
We reached the Great Hall and none of our friends were there. Either they're already in class or they're running very very late.
I hope it isn't the latter.
I grabbed some toast and beacon and started shovelling the food down my throat.
"Easy Weasley, we don't want you choking now, do we?" laughed Malfoy.
"We have five minutes to finish eating and get to the fourth floor, so excuse my eating for this once Malfoy." I said, finishing the last bits of beacon. I washed it down with a huge glass of Pumpkin juice and finally looked up at Malfoy. The jerk was eating with the speed of a snail.
"Yeah, take your own sweet time Malfoy we don't have to get to Transfiguration in three minutes at all" I said with thoroughly evident sarcasm.
He acted as if he hadn't heard me. Idiot.
"MALFOY. I know that your brain processes things very slowly, but will you for the love of Merlin get it into your head that we're going to be late for our first class if you don't eat faster?" I yelled.
"Calm down Weasley, I like to take time with my food." he said.
That's it.
I yanked the plate away from him, pulled him off the bench with his tie and pushed him out of the Great Hall.
"Move it Malfoy. Now." I said.
"This is physical assault, Ill sue you Weasley, and get away from me. Give me my food back." he said.
"WE'RE LATE MALFOY, EAT YOUR FOOD SOME OTHER TIME." I yelled.
"But I am hungry." he whined with the cutest pout ever. I'd never thought that Malfoy would be capable of pouting.
Sigh. I am going to kill this boy and end up in Azkaban before this year is over.
"Fine. Stay here." I ordered him and ran back into the Great Hall. I grabbed a couple of pieces of toast and a few sausages and ran back out.
I gave the food to him and he grinned like a five year old.
"Thanks Weasley, now let's get moving, we don't want to be late for our first class do we?" he said with that smirk of his.
I nodded and we started running. I've never ran so fast in my life before, not even during Quidditch practise. I looked down at my watch. Fuck. We were five minutes late already. McGonagall is going to have our arses.
We finally reached the fourth floor and nobody was in sight. Oh shit. Class had already started. We ran to the classroom and shoved the door open. We stood there, panting and trying to catch our breath.
"Oh, how lovely. Thanks for joining us this fine day Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Weasley." said McGonagall in her overtly calm voice. Merlin, we were in trouble.
"Sorry Professor, we just got held up in the Great Hall." said Malfoy with a charming smile.
No mister, your Malfoy charm isn't going to get us out of this one. We're done for.
"I don't care. Detention both of you, tomorrow. See me in my office at 5. Now if you both will do me the honour of taking your seats, I'll proceed with the class." she said.
WHAT?
Detention?
I've never had a detention in my life. Stupid Malfoy. It's entirely his fault.
"Professor! I've never been late before and I've never had a detention for anything before. Can't you just let it go this one time?" I pleaded with her.
"No, Ms. Weasley, I can't just let it go. And there's a first for everything right? Now take your seat." she said.
I glared at Malfoy and he held up his hands in mock surrender. Arse.
Wait. It isn't really his fault. I am to blame too. It was me who woke up late, remember? If anything, I owe Malfoy one. Gah.
The rest of the class passed pretty peacefully with only Al falling asleep in between and McGonagall shouting her head off at him. But that's quite common.
Class got over pretty quickly, I loved Transfiguration, partly because it was extremely fascinating and also because Malfoy wasn't that good at it. He hated the subject. And naturally, I loved it.
I packed up my stuff and was about to head out of the room when Jenny appeared by my side.
"Where in the name of Merlin, were you last night?" she exclaimed.
"Sorry Jenny. The professors decided that the Heads deserved their own quarters so I was there last night. It's gorgeous. I'll show you around during the break. The only downside is that I have to share it with Malfoy. Can you believe that?" I asked, outraged.
"How is that the downside? You get to share a dorm with the fittest guy in Hogwarts. Be happy. And anyway you two seemed to get along pretty well this morning." she smirked.
"First of all, he isn't the hottest. Don't make me sick. Second of all, it was a onetime thing" I said.
"Whatever you say Rosie." she said and pranced away.
She isn't one of my favourite people in the world right now.
I was half way down the corridor, going to my next class, Charms, when someone called out to me. It was Alex. I waited for him to catch up and gave him a quick hug. It was our thing, whenever we saw each other; we would hug, only in school though.
"Where were you this morning and last night? I was so worried, I considered asking Al for the map." he said.
"I have my own dorm now, that's where I was last night and I was running late this morning, that's all" I said.
"Oh, that's amazing. Show me around sometime?" he asked.
"Sure Alie" I smiled.
Only Jenny and I were allowed to call him Alie. He would punch people if they ever tried calling him Alie. He punched Al, right in the nose once, he was mocking him about being called Alie. Al never ever brought up that name again. Jenny and I didn't use that name much though, he didn't mind us calling him that but he definitely didn't like it, considered it too girly. Whatever.
"Anyway, Rose, if Malfoy gives you any shit you come to me okay, now that James isn't here? And I'll beat him up for you." he said.
Such an adorable boy, he'd do anything for Jenny and me.
"Okay Alex, I'll come straight to you if Malfoy pulls anything on me." I laughed.
"Good girl, Rosie." he laughed, patting me on my head.
When James was here, he was my 'Malfoy Guard'. If our fights ever got out of line James would threaten to castrate Malfoy. Now that James is gone, Alex has taken up the position of 'Malfoy Guard', I guess.
What would I do without these boys?
Smiling, I went into the Charms classroom and wished Professor Flitwick a good morning. I loved Flitwick and Charms was just behind Transfiguration and Defence in my favourite subject list.
Charms passed quickly too.
It was a good day, not much homework, very few encounters with Malfoy and as always, incredible food. Bless those house elves, who are now paid and given time off thanks to the one and only, Hermione Granger.
I hope the entire year is like this. But that's too much to ask for I guess.
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