Chapter Two

"Hi."

"Hello."

"I'm Dra-" "Did you-"

"Sorry," she smiled up at him.

"It's okay," The little boy sat down next to her, he didn't like the grass. It was pokey and itchy and smelled too much like how he thought smart people smelled. He was waiting for his father to be done talking to the man inside the weird house. It had too many colors and shapes to look like a real house, even for wizard house, all things considered, etcetera.

"Did you know that there is a tint of orange called atomic tangerine?" the girl looked all far off and jumpy as she stared into and passed the pond. He was worried that any second she would flop into the mess of moss and water and pebbles and get gunk all over his coat.

"Yeah," liar. She turned to him again and smiled.

"What color do you fancy my dress is?"

"Why do you sound weird?" He picked at the grass that grew up along the tree they were shaded by.

"My Dad got this thing in a muggle shop. It's called a "tally" or "telly". I can't really remember, but the people in the pictures talk like that. I think it's really neat. Or Radical, as they would say," her voice was easily excitable and flowed smoothly and was high pitched and staggering in the way a child's voice is.

"Radical?" Draco tested the word on his tongue and made a face.

"Yeah I think so too."

"Well your skirt's atomic tangerine." He looked smug as he smiled at her. There could be no other reason why she asked and the weird triangle-y dress was almost orange. She would think he was radical.

She smiled at him in surprise.

"Nope," he deflated.

"You're close though, it's peach. Weird how so many colors are fruits," she stared at the sun while she said that, it made Draco feel uneasy so he grabbed her head and turned it down towards the pond.

"Don't do stupid things," he didn't mean to sound mean, sometimes he would say things wrong and people wouldn't like him; but the girl just smiled at him. He saw the way her face got excited and lit up and she was golden and white and blue and it struck him. He thought it was quite radical.

"Sometimes the most brilliant things are born from stupid decisions," she was so proud of herself, but she was happier that he got to hear that, "my mom taught me that the other day, I love my mom."

"I love my mom too, she plays records."

"What's a record?"

"I don't really know, but music comes out of it," more smiles.

"Do you wanna know why I like atomic tangerine?"

"Yeah."

"It attracts Porplories, they love it. It reminds them of their home in the red sea, though they're all over the place now. Under rocks in ponds, they live on a type of bacteria."

"They don't exist."

She frowned at him, and he frowned at her.

A loud bang was heard from behind them and so were the shouts of Draco's father. Draco flinched. People don't think kids know anything, but sometimes they see more than anybody else. He didn't want to leave like this, so he turned his head to say something to the girl, but she had sprung to her feet and he noticed that they were bare.

"I see one, it's small!" She announced as she pointed at the pond before running into the pond and he laughed because it was silly but his eyes were wide because who does that sort of thing?

"Draco!" The shout shattered everything.

Before diving head first into the pond she turned her head over her shoulder and said, "Bye Draco."

"Good b-" before he could say bye she dove into the water and he ran to his father.

That was the first time they met. Draco and Luna.