A month went by, but it felt as if it was a whole year. Hermione and I almost didn't talked at all, and Draco and I become closer then ever. But at top of that one more attack happened. This time it was the Hufflepuff boy I saved from the snake, but to be worse, it was Christmas and I couldn't enjoy it to the fullest...all this was starting to drive me crazy so I decided to go outside and blow of some steam. It was one of those rare calm days with no wind so I could go outside and draw even if I was surrounded with mountains of snow. I was walking for good thirty minutes when I decided to sit under one tree. I melted a circle on the ground ,big enough for me to sit. In my line of sight stood Whomping willow slightly moving...it looked like she was dancing.

"I didn't know you could draw. " Said voice behind my back. I almost jumped out of my skin when I realized that someone was behind me. That someone turned out to be Draco. I didn't expect anyone to go and look for me, I mean I have been outside for few hours but that wasn't anything unusual.

"Oh...hi Draco. " I said trying to sound as if I he didn't scared me at all.

" Since when you are able to draw? " he asked the same question again.

" Since ever." I said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

" Oh...so that is the thing you were doing whenever you disappear after classes." He lined so he could have better access to my sketchbook.

" Well this is new!" I turned towards him ready to make fun of him, but his face was closer then I expected, and it caught me of guard.

" What's new?" He clearly didn't know what I was talking about, and wasn't fazed by us being close.

" It seem to me that you are spending a lot of time looking where I am, and what am I doing." I said with smile mocking him." And that is really sweet of you, I didn't know you liked me that much!"

His face was priceless, he was sifting to all kinds of red color, and he quickly backed away.

" Who like who... Me... Not in a million years." He tried to calm down his redness. I think I broke the guy. It is just too funny to tease him, of course he doesn't like me that would be to creepy to even imagine.

"Don't get your hopes up I just wanted to see if you are not doing something stupid, with that friend of yours!" And there it goes his sassy ass is back.

" Why are you giving me that look?" He shouted when I glared at him.

" Draco you never change, do you? You really need to work on that, it was just a joke, not everyone is trying to offend you.

"Oh...sorry." he whispered and I could see that he calmed down a little.

" Here let me show you something." I said and made place for him to sit. He was oddly obedient, maybe his curiosity was as big as mine, and that tells something since I never saw him taking particular liking to something.

I took my wand and pressed it on the paper where I just finished drawing of Whomping willow. and it started moving the same way the real tree was.

" How did you do that?!" His eyes were shining. "It's like moving picture, no even better." He smiled, like that one ear to ear smile. "Can you teach me?" I think that last part slipped him and that he didn't meant to say it, because he quickly changed his behavior.

"Sure, why not." I came up with great remark but I think that he will close up again if I start teasing him again.

When he took his wand into his hands I started explaining. "It is really simple, all you need to do is to touch the picture with your wand and imagine how do you want it to move" I stated looking through my sketchbook searching for something he could practise on.

"Wait, was that my picture?'' He pointed to one of the pictures.

"Oh... this one" He just nodded. " Yes, I think I have drawn it few days ago, I am not sure."

"Why did you draw me, and why is my hair like that" He looked at me with serious eyes.

"I have drawings everyone's who is interesting enough. And this is the way I see you, and I think I told you once that you would look better with your hair down."

"Really?" he took one strand of his hair and started playing with it, it was cute in a weird way.

"Yes, and here try the spell with this picture." I give him him his own picture and since he probably spent hours looking himself in the mirror it shouldn't be a problem.

"So the drawing is the beginning stadium you just need to imagine how you want it to move after that."

He took a deep breath and placed the wand on the paper. After I saw that nothing happened I decided to help him a little.

"Try visualizing yourself in front of an mirror it should be easier to do it that way."
After few seconds picture started moving and he started smiling. I didn't expect that at all, I thought that he would think of his smirking face since he use that one most of the time.

"Well I didn't know you practise smiling when you look into the mirror." I said and he immediately opened his eyes.

"It worked?" He asked in exciment.

"Yes."

"Amazing" He was smiling the same way as the picture before him.

"Here, you can have it." I ripped the paper with his picture and give it to him.

"Why are you giving it to me?"

"Think of it as a late Christmas present, and a remindment that you should smile more." I smiled at him, I really thought this way, he is definitely going to make some girls cry in the future.

"T.. thank you!" He folded the picture and putted it in his robes. "Hey we could go ice skating I haven't done that in ages." He took me by the hand and started walking towards the lake. "You know how to skate, right?"

"Yes, I know but I haven't done it since I was six. So you're not allowed to laugh!" I shouted while still being dragged towards the lake.

"Whatever you say Moore!" He was clearly mocking me, and no way in hell am I going to allow that, so I created a massive snow ball with spell and throw it at him. The mass of the ball caused Draco to fall face towards the ground, and I managed to escape.

"Catch me if you can!" I shouted while running down the hill and towards the lake. I could hear a lot of nasty words coming from Draco followed by 'My father will hear about this!' The famous Draco's sentence.

I was by the lake in no time and Draco somehow wasn't far away.

His arrival was followed by snow ball twice the size than mine. I accepted my fate of being hit with a snow ball but I didn't expect that it would hurt this much.

"This is a payback from earlier!" He said trough panting.

"Fair enough, but help me stand up!" My legs were trapped in all this snow, and I could stand up if I wanted but I just wanted to use the opportunity. When he extended his hand to me I pulled him in the snow with me, and once again his face was deep in snow.

" Seriously?!" He was a mess. He was red from impact with snow and his hair was all over the place.

" Hey.. you called me by my last name. I'm not accepting that!" I stood up and dried my cloths.

" Yea.. yea...just defend your self." He stood up and dried his cloths, and few seconds later I finished drying mine "And you seriously need to tell me your real last name. I feel weird calling you with something that you are not."

"I already told. You need to figure that on your one." I smiled. "And besides even when you figure out who my father is you still need to call me by my fake name. It is a secret remember?"

After that we created something similar to blade and attached it to our bots. And this way we were able to skate. When I stepped on the now frozen lake I almost fall, but somehow managed to stay on my feet. Draco was different, he started skating the second he stepped onto the ice.

" It seems that I didn't forgot how to skate, after all." I said, and confidently took a large step forward which caused me to slip and fall right in front of Draco's legs.

Draco was laughing like crazy, while holding his stomach, and to be worse I could feel slight shaking coming from the ground, which meant that Giant squid was laughing too. And I know that it was laughing because it used to do that every time I would fall. She would always be close to the surface and sometimes I was able to see her swimming beneath my feet.

" Stop laughing!" I shouted when I caught my breath. " I asked you not to do that!"

"Well I never said I will do you what you want." He said in a mocking way, while putting his hands on his hips.

" Well you seem to be having lots of funny laughing at my clumsiness!" I said standing up.

" Always!" He smirked. " And look, even the Giant squid is laughing at you!" He pointed to the creature that was happily swimming beneath us.

" How would you now if its laughing at me?!" There is no way in hell that I'm going to tell him that he is in fact right.

" I'm just guessing!" He shrugged and put the most evilest grin he could master. He then suddenly took my hands, to forcefully for my liking and started pulling me towards the middle of the lake.

" Wait, wait, wait I am going to fall again!" Even if he was skating backwards he was to damn fast. " Draco I am telling you I'm going to fall! Listen when someone talks to you!"

"You are not going to fall, just stiffen your legs and you will see!" He said through laughing like a maniac. I was now more scared of him then the fact that I am going to fall.

'And how am I supposed to trust Malfoy with my humiliation and life?' Is he crazy.

"And now I am supposed to trust a Malfoy?!" I asked trying to get this burden of my chest. What if I died and I didn't managed to say how annoying he can sometimes be. " And I just need some more practice so let me go!"

Draco just rolled his eyes and speed up. "Yea, yea you said that when we were sitting under the tree, and before we started skating! So now come on, I am not waiting anymore for you to get used to it!" I didn't had a choice so I just closed my eyes decided to do what he told me.

I felt a small breeze and somehow it felt like I was floating. I heard small chuckle and when I opened my eyes I could see a smiling Draco." See I didn't lie!"

" I can't believe that I am doing it. It has been so long! " There was one of those ear to ear smile on my face.

" Yes, you are." He whispered.

" Thank you."

Somewhat after half an hour I managed to skate on my one and it was so much fun. We staid outside till nightfall, and if someone told me that I will have so much fun with Malfoy I would newer believe and probably would call them crazy. But being with him made me forget about all those things that were happening and I was grateful for that. After that incident with his dad and now after this we started to behave almost like best friends. It is really weird how suddenly we trust each other with all our worries. I now feel more comfortable with him then with Hermione.