Finally after months I am continuing on with this story. I'm so sorry it has taken so long but hopefully you will enjoy the story as much.

Disclaimer: You know the drill.. I don't own anything related to Harry Potter.

It was a start of the new year and Neville got a letter from Draco asking to meet him at Diagon Alley. Neville wanted to get away from his grandmother and got there about a half hour early. He was walking around and saw people point to him and he knew why. His best friend was the most hated student in Hogwarts. He just sighed and continued walking until he came across the bookstore then made his way in.

"God this place is getting old." He spoke to himself as he walked through the selves of the dusty old books. He saw a book that caught his eye and reach out to grab it only to bump into another hand. He turned and froze in the sight of his victim.

McColm Gregory was a handsome 7th year Ravenclaw that Neville has been crushing on for two years when McColm helped him one night in the library when two slytherins knocked all his books down. McColm was the geninue good guy in school who was nice to everyone. There was no way McColm could like anyone like Neville. Draco was always telling him to go for it but Neville was too stubborn.

Neville felt his cheeks flush and looked away. "I'm Sorry. You can have it."

McColm chuckled. "Come on Neville I'm not that scary looking am I?"

"What? What makes you think that?" Neville managed to stutter out.

"Well what else is a man suppose to think when everytime I bump into you, you won't even look me in the face." McColm admits with a smile that only made Neville blush harder.

"Sorry." He says but still doesn't look at McColm.

McColm took notice and chuckles softly. He scratches the back of his neck and looks around.

"So..Ummm you still hanging out with Malfoy?" He asked.

The mention of his friend brought a smile to his face and he nods. "Yeah I'm actually going to meet him soon. Just had to get out of the house you know?"

"Yeah. He still treating good?" He asked.

Neville raised an eyebrow at the question but answers anyway. "Yup Definitely. Surprisingy I know but yeah he is."

"Thats good." He nods. Neville finds himself nodding too. There is an uncomfortable silence between them and soon McColm finds himself chuckling again.

"I'm just gonna go. I'll see you around Longbottom." He says, and begins walking away. Neville stands there trying to digest what just happen.

"Gregory huh? Ravenclaw? Really?" He heard someone say behind and turned around with a knowing smirk on his face.

"What? You really didn't think I would go for a Slytherin did you Drake?" Neville shots back to his friend with a smile.

"Yeah right like you could handle a Slytherin." Draco says with a winning smile. Neville shakes his head because he knew Draco won the battle.

He nods to Draco and they both made their way out of the store. "So any news?" Neville started.

Draco sighs but shakes his head. "Nah I can't do it Nev. He is gonna freak out and kill me." He answered.

"You don't know that." Neville tries but knows it is a lost cause.

"Seriously Nev just forget about it." Draco says. Always trying to ignore the situation.

"Fine for now." Draco doesn't say anything. Just nods his head and keeps walking. Him and Neville walk into the quidditch shop and looks around.

"Oh Longbottom. What are you doing in here? You aren't a quidditch player." Neville hears Seamus Finnegan yell out. He rolls his eyes but turns around to see Seamus, Dean, and the twins standing there.

"Hey mates." He greets but looks around for Draco. He saw him involved in the new Quidditch robes.

"How was your summer?" He asked trying to get past the awkward and hopefully non teasable conversation.

"We made Ron cry" Fred started.

"Five times" George finished.

Neville couldn't help but laugh. Even though he wasn't that close with the twins he had to admit that they were funny as always.

"Hey where is your awful bloody mate?" Seamus asked. George slaps him in the head but Neville still heard it and rolls his eyes. He's been dealing with it since their friendship started. No one understands but they still never give him a chance.

"Right here." Draco says with irritation literally dripping from his voice. You could feel the elephant in the room.

"Malfoy." Thomas says trying to break the silence. Draco nods but turns to Neville.

"I got to meet Josh at Docking Daisy you gonna come with me or are you gonna stay with your-" He takes a pause to look at the fellow Grffyindors. "Housemates?"

Neville could have sworn he saw Draco's gaze linger on George but just brushes it off.

"Nah lets go." He nods his head towards the other Grffyindors. "I'll see you guys at school." He farewells and follows Draco out of the store. He should be use to it but still felt hurt everytime they took a job at Draco. No one understood them at all but if they knew who Draco really was they would know he never deserve any of it.

"It's about time you got here." He heard Josh say and looked up to see Josh and Isabel sitting there eating. He sat down next to Isabel and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Isabel was a sweetheart and like a sister to Neville. He loved her and Neville thought Josh was...Interesting to say the least. He was very fond of him.

"Put a sock in it Josh." Draco told him while stealing something off his plate.

"Hey no stealing the food. It's bloody hell enough that you don't have fries." Josh complains bringing his plate closer to him.

"Chips Josh. They are called Chips here." Draco corrected.

"What can I say? You can take the boy out of the states but you can't take the states out of the boy." Josh defends with a smile.

"Umm Boy.. That sounds delicious right now." Draco replies with a dreamy look on his face.

"Was that really necessary to say Drake." Josh complain. Draco couldn't help but laugh and bring Josh's head into a headlock.

Neville just shakes his head and laughs. Isabel smiles at him and offers him, her drink which he takes.

"This year will be interesting. I hope." He mutters out but takes a look at his friends and knew it would be.

Hopefully I will continue to write what atleast I already have down. I hope so, especially before school starts back up. Please feel free to reviews...Pretty Please. Thank you so much for reading.

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