I sit at the table with Blaise Zabini, it's the next day and breakfast. I'm just in the middle of eating my bacon sandwich as Nor flies down onto the table with letter in his beak. No way. I grab it from him and pet him gently before he flies away.

"Who's that from?" Blaise asks, I ignore him completely and open the letter instead.

My beautiful sister, Jasmine.

Hi there hunny. I'm glad you've started writing again, yes; it has been a while hasn't it. And to be honest I should probably apologise for not writing to you as well. So, I got your letter, obviously. I'm fine, doing really well actually. Geoff and I are still together and he says Hi, and he is also fine. Things are busy at the moment, that's all I can say. We do live in the same house, on the same beach and it's still just as wonderful as it was when we first moved in.

I would love for you to visit, as I miss and you too. I know you said that mum and dad wouldn't be happy, but I think you're old enough to start making some of your own decisions. Remember at your age I ran away from home. So, yes. Come to my house please, for Christmas, I think it would be nice to see each other again. The address is on the back of this letter.

Hope to see you soon, Anastasia. X

P.S- I told you my study sessions worked.

"Oh my god." I say skimming through the letter a second time just to make sure it is real.

"What?" Blaise asks.

"Ana, it's Ana. She's asked me to come for Christmas."

"You're sister, you two got back in contact again?" He says.

"Yes, I sent her a letter yesterday saying that I wanted to see her again, and she does too, she just said in this letter." I gesture towards the letter that's now down on the table.

"That's great, Jas. It really is." Blaise smiles at me, genuinely happy for me.

I sit at the table still, alone this time; Blaise has left do other things. The great hall is mainly empty, breakfast has cleared away and there's 3 people studying on the opposite side of the hall. I hold my letter from Ana in my hand, re reading it and flipping it to read the address again. I've never been so happy in my life; honestly I couldn't feel more elated. The only thing that brings me down slightly is the fact that our parents are going to freak out when they know what's going on, I feel like going home after this year of school is going to much worse than any other time. But I try my hardest to push that aside and think of the positive.

My sister, I haven't even seen a picture of her for the last 4 years, nor has she of me. I wonder if she looks different, if she has her piercings in, if her hair is still tightly curled. I've changed; I know I have, so I wonder if my look will shock her. She hasn't seen me since I was 12, god this is crazy.

All of my deep thinking has distracted me from normal life; I'm pulled back into reality when a familiar voice is talking to me from the opposite side of the table.

"Jasmine?" He repeats.

"Oh, hey, Draco."

"Okay, so this is probably going to sound really weird but I'm taking you on a walk."

"What?" I ask, confused by what's going on.

"A walk, I haven't got anything to do today so I've decided I'm going to hang out with you, so we're going on a walk." He nods and stands up.

"Where to exactly?" I ask standing up as well.

"Just around the school grounds, thought we could chat on the way too."

I don't reply to him, instead I just follow him out of the hall. I haven't talked to Draco since he said about becoming the King and Queen of the school, which felt awkward at the time, but he seems to have gotten over that. We head out of the castle into the cold but not too harsh wind outside.

"I saw Blaise before I came to see you." Draco says as we walk. "He said you got a letter from your sister, you didn't say you hadn't spoken to her in a year and a half."

I shrug, "I didn't think it was important information to tell you."

"You're spending Christmas with her?" He asks.

"Yes."

"Are you excited?"

"Of course."

He nods, I look at him to see that he's smiling, I smile too.

"What are you doing for Christmas then?" I ask, and his smile fades.

"Err, nothing really, some of the family are coming round but it's nothing special." He looks uncomfortable talking about this, so I drop it.

"Where are you actually taking me? This can't just be a general walk." I ask him, completely changing the subject from before.

"It's where I use to come and chill, I could be alone, it sounds weird, but it's the place where I use to not worry about things. I mean I didn't have that many worries when I was younger, but the few I did have I'd come here to escape them." Wow.

"When you were younger? Do you not come back here anymore?"

"Not really, I find that even though it's the best place, it's still not enough to escape my worries now days." He says casually, but what does that even mean?

Why is he suddenly being like this? I mean I'm glad he's confiding this information in me, but I honestly didn't think he felt that comfortable to do so, not yet at least.

We walk for a little while longer, before coming to a stop. We're next to black lake, and the castle is far in the distance, there's a large oak tree next to the lake, which has thick branches sticking out everywhere.

"It's weird isn't it?" Draco says, "The tree."

I nod.

Draco then starts taking more steps forward until he is standing next to the lowest branch, it's still fairly high up but reachable.

"There's a sort of pit thing in the middle," he says, pointing up into the tree, "covered by the leaves, it's cool." I can see him getting genuinely excited about this large tree, which is not something you'd expect Draco Malfoy to do. As I watch him he grabs onto the first branch and pulls himself up with hardly any effort. Then he reaches his hand down to me, "Come on." He says, I stand for a moment, then I take his hand, it's cold but there's still a slight warmth in it. He pulls me up to where he is.

From there the branches seem to form a staircase structure, so you can just walk up it as long as you keep steady and don't fall. Soon, we are at least 12 feet of the ground, there's still the rest of the tree above us but I can clearly see that this is the 'pit' Draco was talking about. It's basically a naturally grown treehouse, and the branches and leaves above are the roof.

"This is so cool." I say, stepping inside.

Draco sits on the floor, which immediately takes up a lot of the floor space. I sit down next to him.

"You seem to like it here." I say to him.

"I do." He says leaning back on a branch behind him.

"Why'd you bring me here, you said this you use to come here alone, so why'd you bring me?"

He sighs and turns to look at me, "I'm not sure," He shrugs, "I just felt that I should."

I nod, but that's not a proper answer.

"Can I ask you something?" He asks. Oh this should be good. "Why did you sleep with Blaise at the Yule Ball?" What?

"Well why did you sleep with Pansy?"

"I'll answer if you answer." He says.

"Only if you go first." I say.

He nods, "Okay, me and Pansy were dating, even though I didn't like her that much. But we had a good time at the Ball, and afterwards she decided it would be a good idea to, you know. I didn't turn it down of course, it's not every day a girl comes up to you and asks to have sex."

I laugh ever so slightly at his stupid story, but to be honest mines not much better.

"Okay, my turn then. When Blaise asked me to the ball, I thought it was just because he couldn't get anyone else, but I said yes anyway. When we were there we had a really good time, I had a lot of fun and it seemed like he actually really liked me. Then, at the end of the night, it was really late and we were in this empty room, Blaise just kissed me without warning and then he skipped to forth base from there." I also laugh at my own story.

"Do you like him, Blaise?" Draco says, completely throwing comments about my story to the side.

"As a friend, I love him yeah, he's great. But that's it, that's where the feelings stop, I don't think I even fancied him when I slept with him which just makes the story worse."

"You know he really likes you? As in he wants to be with you." Draco says looking at me.

I look back at him, "Well I'm not into him, like at all." I say quietly.

We stay looking at each other for a few seconds, I then watch Draco's eyes travel down to my lips and then back up quickly. I look away before anything happens.

"Yeah, not at all." I say.

We stay in the tree most of the day, talking about random things, Draco asked me some weird questions but I've answered them all the best I can. It's only when the sky starts to darken we decide to get out again.

We both get up of the floor, and start heading down, Draco is in front of me. It's now a lot colder than earlier and the wind is a lot stronger too.

We both get to the last branch and Draco goes first, holding onto the branch as he lowers himself down. This is when I realize I can't get down. I never climbed trees as a child because I could never get out of them again. Even though the drop to the floor isn't far my brain is telling me not to do it.

"I can't do it." I say to Draco, who's now looking up at me from the ground.

"Hold on," He smiles in amusement.

"This isn't funny." I say as he walks over to help me.

"It kind of is. Okay, sit on the branch."

I do as he says and sit down on the branch and hold on for dear life as my feet swing.

"Jasmine, you're going to have to trust me now. I need to you tip forward and reach for my shoulders." He says putting his arms out.

"What?" I say in a small voice.

"I've got you, you won't fall, trust me." He says with a look of seriousness on his face.

At this point, most people in the world wouldn't trust Draco Malfoy, but this is how I am different from those people. I let go of the branch slowly and reach down for his shoulders, I feel myself begin to fall, and then suddenly I do, but almost instantly Draco's hands are on my hips and helping me down. I hold onto his shoulders and then I reach the floor.

"See, I said you could trust me." He says his hands now on my waist from where he'd lowered me down.

I nod, and look up at him, he looks down at me. I watch as his eyes travel to my lips again but this time I don't look away. It starts slow and then all at once his lips are on mine and his kissing me, I kiss back. His arms pull me in closer to him, and I stand on my tiptoes to reach his height better. His lips are warm and soft, and his grip that is on my body is firm and strong, it's the best balance there is.

After what seems like ages, he pulls kiss lips from mine, but keeps his grip. I don't look at him, in fear that I would make this moment awkward, instead I bury my face into his neck and hold him as he holds me too.

"What is this then?" he whispers to me, not letting go of me.

I don't reply, because I don't know what it is, I'm trying hard to remember exactly what just happened.

"We should probably get back to the castle." He says quietly to me, still not letting go.

To be honest, I wish we could just stay here, like this for eternity, but instead I say, "Okay."