I stood in front of the portrait of a skinny man and a not-so-skinny woman.

„Password?", the woman said with an annoyingly cheerful voice.

"Uhmm..." They hadn't told me the password. I didn't know the password! I wouldn't get in. I started to panic.

The two looked at me expectantly, then the man burst out laughing.

"Oh Cecilia, you are shameless. The poor girl almost had a heart attack." he said mockingly. The woman named Cecilia smiled flirtily at him and shrugged. The portrait in front of my new common room already kind of pissed me of, and it was only my first day. They were so... happy. And... in love. I wanted to puke.

"Honey, the password is Blood Suckers. You couldn't know that yet because we were supposed to tell you." The man explained to me. I nodded thankfully and repeated the password. For some reason that led to another fit of laughter of the love birds. Cecilia laughed hysterically and managed to cry out "Oh Victor, you are naughty!" in between laughters. I watched them, becoming more and more frustrated with the portrait. Did they think I had all the time in the world? I was tired and I just wanted to go to bed.

"Blood Suckers!" Victor yelled chuckling.

I sighed out loud. "Could you just tell me the right password and let me in? Please?", I snarled annoyed.

The two immediately stopped laughing and glared at me.

"No need to become so rude, young lady." Cecilia scolded me. "We won't tell you anything if you don't learn to behave."

I let out a frustrated scream and teared my hear. Suddenly I heard steps behind me and turned around. Malfoy was coming up the stairs and looked at me with a mixture of confusion and disgust. He was probably wondering why I was standing in front of the portrait and not behind it. And why I looked like I was so close to throwing a fit.

"What are you doing out here?" was all he asked debasingly.

"Oh I'm just hanging out here. Haven't you heard, this is the new Hot Spot in Hogwarts. Must be because of all of this laughter!", I replied sarcastically and very pissed. He looked at me like I was a gum that had stuck to the heel of his shoe. I stepped a little away from the portrait. Should he try his luck.

"Password?" Cecilia asked again.

"Why don't you tell me?", Malfoy said coldly.

"Blood Suck..." began Cecilia, but Victor interrupted her. "Cecilia, love. This is the Malfoy kid."

Malfoy scowled at them. "I believe I have outgrown the term "kid" a long time ago." His voice was as cold as ice and menacing. I suddenly felt bad for Cecilia and Victor. They had to be scared out of their minds.

"The password is Finite Incantatem." Cecilia replied quickly.

Malfoy smirked a cool smirk that didn't reach his eyes. "Thank you. Now it would be great if you could open the fuckin' door."

They nodded quickly and the portrait swung open. Even though I didn't like the way Malfoy had gotten the information I still had to admit that he at least did get it. He stepped through the hole in the wall without looking back at me and I followed him, murmuring "Was that really that hard?" to the two lovers in the portrait.

The common room was a comfortable little room with a bookshelf on the wall and two couches and a table in front of a fireplace.

"Oooh how cute is that?" I cried out without thinking.

Malfoy turned around and sneered. "I bet no one ever said that to you, Mudblood!"

I glared at him and didn't reward his remark with an answer. Well really I just couldn't come up with anything to say. I went over to the bookshelf and looked through the books in it. Overall it was a pretty nice variety of books. This bookshelf would really reduce my time spent in the library.

There were two doors on the other side of the room and Malfoy opened one of them before he went over to the other one and checked that one out. Before he left the room and closed the door behind him, he turned around once more and spat out "Surprised that you even came inside, Granger. I personally wouldn't have had anything against you camping out there on your new "Hot Spot". But since I was the first one in here... I call this room."
I sighed loudly when he had left the room and let me fall on one of the couches. Maybe this year wouldn't be that amazing after all...

I must've fallen asleep on the couch because the next thing I knew was that my eyes flew open when I heard a door open. I blinked repeatedly for a couple of seconds and then slowly sat up. Malfoy stood close to the door to his room and looked at me. I smiled a little to myself, thinking that he was staring at me. That was a good sign. That was really good.

"Granger, you look hideous. Even for a Mudblood like you."

I frowned and tried to comb my hair with my fingers. I gave up after a couple seconds and took my wand out to use an easy spell that straightens and beautifies my hair a lot.

"That helps a little bit, but I think that battle is long lost." he stated matter of factly and my frown got bigger.

He sat down on the other couch and opened the book he was holding in his hand. For a couple of seconds I didn't know what I should do. On the one hand I really needed to take a shower and freshen up and on the other hand this was a great opportunity to talk and to get to know each other better. When would it happen again that we both sat in the common room together?

"What ever happened to the civility I was talking about?" I finally asked.

"What are you talking about, this is the civil me." he murmured without looking up from his book. It seemed like he was focusing hard on his book, since a little crease had formed between his eyes. It stayed silent for a while.

"I just think you can do better than that." I shot back.

"I think you are wrong about that." Again without even looking up. And again silence.

"What are you reading?" I finally asked when I couldn't bear the silence anymore.

He threw his book loudly down on the table and jumped up, obviously outraged. "Goddammit, Granger! What the fuck do you think you're doing? You do not address me! You do not talk to me! You do not even look at me! Understood?" he roared loudly.

I stared at him, shocked that his temper was that short. I nodded. He stormed out of the portrait hole, probably going to get breakfast. I sighed again and got up as well. At least there was nothing standing in between me and my shower anymore.

After having taken a long, hot shower and having used the spell on my hair again I dressed myself and went downstairs in the Great Hall. I was surprised that Malfoy was nowhere to be seen. To my satisfaction Ginny was sitting at the Gryffindor table, talking to Dean Thomas. I sat next to her and greeted them.

"I heard you and Malfoy have to live together. I'm really sorry." Dean immediately said. I smiled at him and thanked him. Ginny just smirked at me, with a weird expression on her face. A knowing expression. I swore in my head, thinking she might've caught something of my Malfoy-obsession.

"Well I have to go, I'll see you girls later!" Dean threw a huge smile at Ginny and got up. As soon as he was out of hearing distance Ginny smiled at me smugly.

"You're living together with Malfoy now, huh?"

I eyed her suspiciously and shrugged.

"You're having breakfast with Dean now, huh?" I countered.

She smiled and shrugged. "Yeah. But I don't see how that has anything to do with it."

"With what?" I asked confused.

"With Malfoy. Duh." she replied. She hesitated a moment and looked around as if she feared to be eavesdropped on. Then she whispered. "Have you seen any yet?"

I raised my eyebrows. "Any what?" I said in a normal volume.

"Shhhhh..." she made and looked around again. "Any girls."

"Uhmmm... no." I said disgusted.

She seemed to think very hard. "Well I guess it's only been one night..."

I took a bite of my toast and nodded indefinitely, which she didn't even notice.

"Could you do me a favor?" she then asked pleadingly.

"Depends..."

She bit on her lip. "Could you keep me up to date? Who comes and goes?"

I stared at her disbelievingly. "Are you one of those Malfoy-obsessed girls? Because I thought that at least you would stand over that."

Yes, I was a hypocrite.

She just shrugged and ate a fork of her scrambled eggs. "Dad always lets me watch Muggle TV. You know, the soap operas and stuff. So I just spent the whole summer finding out who Janet's baby daddy is and if Tasha and Jeff are going to get back together. I miss my soaps. Please don't put me on Hogwart's soap opera deprivation. That would end really ugly."
I laughed a little and took another bite of my toast.

"Pleeeeeeeease?" She begged me.

"I'm not promising anything, but I'm keeping my eyes open." I finally caved in.

"Thank you!" She squealed. "You're my best friend in the whole world."
I laughed. "So good that you're going to tell me what's going on between you and Dean?"

She smiled secretively. "I like him."

I couldn't help but smile too. "I know. And he likes you too."

Her face brightened even more. "You think?"

"He'd be stupid if he didn't."

A/N: Hey guys,
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