A/N Okay, here is Draco's trip to Hogsmeade. Sorry it took so long to put up a really short chapter, but I went to my dad's house and I left my power cord for my laptop at my mom's house and my computer's battery died, so I couldn't finish the chapter for a few days. Anyways, here it is!

Disclaimer: I wish I had that I had written the Harry Potter books. Then I would have enough money to buy endless amounts of bananas!!! YAY!!!!!! Too bad I didn't... :(

Draco was awoken by Blaise Zabini, one of the Slytherin boys in his year. They hadn't really talked to each other very much over the years, despite knowing each other since they were seven; Blaise was quiet and tended to keep to himself, though he could sometimes be found with a certain blonde Ravenclaw, and Draco, the Slytherin Prince, was almost always being followed by Crabbe, Goyle, or both. Sometimes others followed him around, but they weren't as frequent with their following as Crabbe and Goyle were.

But lately, along with the not wanting to torment the first years and liking Ginny Weasley, he had wanted to get rid of the goons that were always around him. So for the past couple of days, Draco had been hanging out with Blaise; they were even going to Hogsmeade together.

"Wake up, Draco," Blaise said. "It's almost time to go." Draco mumbled something about how mornings shouldn't exist, but rolled out of bed nonetheless. As he stood up and rubbed the sleep out of hid eyes, he remembered that it was the day of the first Hogsmeade trip. This wiped away most of the dislike of being woken up, but he was still mildly upset.

Draco glanced at Blaise and saw that he was ready to go, so he grabbed a pair of muggle jeans and a plain dark green T-shirt. When he was finished with tying his shoelaces, he grabbed his cloak and put a small bag of money in it before following Blaise into the Slytherin common room and then out to the Great Hall. It turned out that they has missed breakfast due to Draco's waking up late, so they decided to just eat when they were in Hogsmeade.

After waiting to get their permission slips checked, the two Slytherin boys walked down to the small town. First they went to the Three Broomsticks to get a butterbeers and sandwiches. (A/N I don't remember if the Three Broomsticks has sandwiches, but in this fanfiction they do) When they were finished Draco and Blaise paid and left the over-crowded pub. They then went into a couple of the shops and Draco bought his mother a small birthday gift, and Blaise got a box of chocolates.

As they were wandering around Hogsmeade looking for something to do and just talking about random things, Draco saw the youngest Weasley go into Srivenshaft's Quill Shop (thanks to Sympathetic Me for giving me the name!!) with her friend, Luna Lovegood, the slightly insane Ravenclaw. His stomach gave an odd fluttering feeling when he saw the redhead, and, liking but not liking it, he turned away and walked in the opposite direction. Blaise looked slightly confused but followed his friend toward the Shrieking Shack. They looked at the old building—if you could call it that—for a while. They soon tired of it and it was a mutual agreement to just go back up to the castle.

While passing the entrance to Zonko's, the joke shop, two people came out and ran into the two boys. They all landed on the ground, and the two people, who turned out to be girls, started apologizing. When the four of them finally stood, they got a good look at each other and got a surprise.

Draco saw Ginny Weasley looking at him, a half shocked, half annoyed expression on her face. Why would she be annoyed? It had been her that ran into him. Maybe it was because she had apologized to a Slytherin, let alone a Malfoy.

"You know," Draco said, breaking the brief silence, "just because you have balance issues, Gi-Weasley, doesn't mean you have to take people down with you when you fall." He then dusted off imaginary dust (ha ha dusted off dust, ha…ha… never mind) and looked at the Gryffindor with his eyebrows raised. He seemed calm on the outside, but on the inside he was screaming at himself for almost saying her first name.

"Shut up, you git," she said. "Come on, Luna, let's go." She turned and stalked off toward the castle with her friend. Draco watched her as she walked away a little longer than was necessary and a little longer than he wanted. Too bad his companion noticed it.

"You like her," Blaise said as they started walking back to Hogwarts, a little slower than the girls.

"Wh-what are you talking about?" Draco asked, getting a little nervous. Was it really that noticeable? He was going to have to do something about that…

"You know exactly what I am talking about."

There was no point in arguing with Blaise. He was extremely stubborn and also very perceptive. "Fine," Draco sighed. "I like Weasley. But she does not and will not ever like me back, so there's no point in even liking her. So I don't know why I do! It's probably just a crush that will go away soon." It seemed like he was trying to convince himself, too.

Blaise just shrugged. "Let's hurry. Dinner's soon and I'm starving." Draco nodded and they walked the rest of the way in silence. But Draco knew the subject wasn't dropped forever. He just hoped that it wouldn't be revisited in the very near future.

Well, that's it for now. Draco confessed his crush to someone other than the little voices in his head!!! Wish I could... Okay, moving on.

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