The year started off slowly after the sorting ceremony, with nothing interesting happening for the first few months. Mia sat next to Ginny in most of her lessons, receiving glares from other class members, it was not seen right that a Gryffindor be friends with a Slytherin. Though neither of them cared. She'd been kept behind in her last potions lesson, getting told by professor Snape that she was being moved up to the next year in that lesson as she was doing so well. Though she wasn't pleased about it herself. It ment she'd have to hang around with her best friends brother.

Catching up with the rest of the crowd, Mia and Ginny followed their classmates up to the great hall to have lunch, both girls frowning as the crowd stopped walking. Before either could ask what was going on, two identical red heads appeared behind Mia making her jump. She turned frowning at both of them, and was about to question everything; if anyone was to know it would be those two, Filch came shoving past everyone to get to the front, shouting out in horror as he saw something the girls could not. Before they could utter another word to each other, professor Mcgonagall had rushed to the front of the crowd, parting everyone easily as she surveyed the situation, a small gasp escaping her lips. She turned back to the crowd gathering, her face unreadable,

"Back to your common rooms"

She commanded, and everyone started to move away from the scene, the girls still clueless on what had actually happened.

Though news spread fast. Filches cat had been murdered, and with no clues how students were sent home to Christmas break a few days earlier. Though Mia wasn't one of them. She had nowhere to go after all. Tonks was busy with aura training, and Mia didn't want to intrude on her.

With Ginny gone Mia was alone for most of the time. She sighed sitting in the room she'd come to know as her bedroom, though it still felt like a strangers. Running a hand through her dark hair she tried to cover the green streak she detested so much, but failing she stood up, walking down the stairs and into the Slytherin common room. It was only two days before Christmas. She looked around the near empty room, sighing happily that everyone was on Christmas break. Taking an empty seat on one of the sofa's, she curled up with a history book she'd borrowed from the library and began to flick through it. A small frown appeared on her features as another person walked into the room, looking up to see who it was, the frown stayed in place. She curled back up, trying to continue reading, though got stopped once more by the boys loud complaining. Mia shut her book, placing it down on the sofa before standing up and walking over to him,

"What's wrong?"

The blonde haired boy looked up at Mia, his infamous smirk on his face,

"Nothing you'd understand" Draco said his voice a sneer. Mia rolled her eyes, glancing over his shoulder and seeing the Spells homework on his lap,

"You got question 3 wrong, it's false" Mia retorted a small smile on her lips, "And question 5" The smirk disappeared off of Draco's face as she spoke, changing to a glare. He thrust the paper up into her hands before crossing his arms and looking at her expectantly. A puzzled look flashed over Mia's face as she took the paper glancing down at it,

"I'm not doing it for you"

She muttered placing it on the chair infront of them before turning and walking back over to her own seat and picking the book back up. It wasn't that she minded doing other people's homework, she did Ginny's quite a lot for her, but it was the way Draco had expected it of her. She was no ones slave, especially not a Malfoys.

Draco stood, a small sigh parting his lips,

"Help then"

Those two words made Mia stop reading her book once more and glance up, a Malfoy asking for help? She shook her head slightly, getting rid of the thoughts passing through her mind. She shouldn't judge people based on what she'd heard.

"Sure"

She smiled moving over on the sofa to allow him room to sit down, before looking back over the work with him. Though Mia was younger than Draco, she was smart enough to be in his year, and was already doing the same work. She'd even been moved up in some of her classes.

With Mia's help the work was finished quickly, and she swore she'd seen Draco smile atleast once when he'd got an answer right. Mia stood up smiling at Draco happily before picking her own book up and walking towards the door. Draco frowned slightly watching her,

"Thanks.. Mia right?"

He questioned still looking at her. Mia gave a small nod before taking a step through the portrait hole and walking up the flights of stairs from the Slytherin common room to the great hall. Draco hadn't been that bad, and she couldn't understand why all of the Weasley's hated him so much. Sure he seemed cocky and had an air that suggested he was better than everyone else, but once you got past that, he was actually an alright person.

Authors notes: ok so I'm putting all these on at once, but it will start to slow down soon as I haven't written them all yet. They're not as long as I'd like, but I have no idea how to make them longer :/ Please leave reviews ily all x