Blaise was able to make it to the weekend without making a complete fool of himself—though that break down he had in Arthinmancy. Though was it really a break down? It sure felt like one but for someone to get through his walls so quickly is unnevering so it was a break down, at the very least unnevering—in front of Ron. In fact he talked to Theo about what he was like when they were first becoming friends for refence.

"What do mean "what I was I like when we were becoming friends?"?" Theo asks looking at him strangely. Blaise sighed and wondered why again were they friends. But then remembered that he was his only opotion and procceeded to explain to his dim wit of a friend.

"What I mean is what is my behavior like-"
"Yeah, yeah I got that it was more of a retoical quetion. Why are you asking? It is not like you are becoming friends with someone else and you don't know what your feelings are." Theo says off handly and was slient for a moment. Cleary waiting for a sharp tongue reply but it made Blaise pause. Because that was exactly what was happening. Why am I having all of these feelings? Blaise couldn't help but think in that moment. I mean, it has been a while since he had become more close with anyone so this had to be normal.

Apparnetly his slience must of clued Theo into what was going on because he started shouting, "Oh Merlin's tit, you are in that situation aren't you? That explains everything. Why you have been so weird and why you seemingly are sneaking around. Though does not explain as to why you didn't tell me. Who are they?" Theo rambles off for the most part but the last bit of it was accuessing. Blaise was thanking and praising his past self for already coming up with a lie that is going to be told to everyone so it he wouldn't feel as bad about it. Though there was still a stab in the chest when he looked into the eyes of his best friend.

"Yeah, yeah your right. The reason I didn't tell was because I was nevrous based on our past with each other." That had Theo's eyebrow rasing along with his words.

"What do mean–oh." Theo was about to ask but then everything came back to him. It was like this sometimes, where Blaise and Theo can get so abusrbed in the present that they forget everything that happened even if it is just a second. Blaise started rubbing his left forman where the mark stains his skin. A blamish that is forever stuck on him that cause inscureity and shame beyond belief. Sometimes Blaise wondered how he could forget everything that happened and that he shouldn't get that privilage to forget it. But the ability to forget is how he has stayed sane. The balance of it all was the only thing that was to keep. The sadness and gulit and anger on one side of the scale and oblious and gulit about the obliviousness and joy of those moments needs to stay. But the conflicting feelings get to him sometimes. As Ron put he is alive and as Blaise thinks of it he lives.

"Kinda killed the mood didn't I?" Blaise asks and the nod from Theo made him feel guitly. Unlike Ron he was not really open to this side—even to his best friends like Theo—of himself and neither were his friends. The shock that caused Blaise when Ron was so open with it and blunt about it. Maybe he should be more like that to aviod things like this happening. Where he just sits there with his friend which should be a place of joy and fun but gets killed because of something that they have both been through but won't talk about.

"Well who are they?" Theo asks trying to get the mood back though we both know that it is in vain. There is no way to get it back for a couple of days even. But we can both pretend that it was nothing, if they faced the truth they would break.

"It's…"

/

Ron was having simlar if not more dramatic of a response from his own friends.

"Really Zabini? Why?" Hermoine said looking bewhirled and Ron couldn't blame her at all since his history with Slytherins in the past. Why on Earth would I be friends with one? Well Ron surely did know how he got into this particalur friendship but they didn't know that. Or need to know for that matter. They would freak even more if they knew the whole story. But they didn't and that is what matters.

"How?" Is all that Harry gets out looking as shock as Hermoine but had this werid look of relavation? What was that about?

"Well, we have Arthinmancy together and were seated together. And after a while we started actually enjoying our time together." Ron explained the practically meroized scrpit hoping that it sounded true—at least more then when he practised with Colin, or maybe he was just pissed with the whole situation—so that it could also comfort his friends about the whole situation.

Apparnetly that wasn't enough for his friends because they were just staring at him like they were expecting more from him as an explation as to why in the world would he become friends with him. When Ron just stared back at them as if telling what else do you want that is it.

"Well we have a Hogesmeed trip coming up so lets meet up with him tomrrow and get to know him." Hermoine says wipping her hands on her skirt looking a bit too determinded to "meet up" with his new friend. Harry nodded along having the "I AM THE CHOSEN ONE!" face and Ron almost groaned at them. Not even mentioning the fact that when she said "meet up" one could have easily replaced the words with "sniff out" so easily. Ron actually let out a groan at this. Once proticve friends always protictive friends.

/

As it would have it Blaise was not fairing much at this convercation.

"What do you mean we only get an hour with him?!" Theo all but shouted now dragging Blaise's other friends like Draco and Pansy who looking at him with the same look as Theo. Honestly, when did they become the over dramatic ones.

"Well I am assuming that his friends want an hour with us," Blaise was saying but Pansy cut him off. "That leaves 2 hours. We both can have 2 hours with you guys, easily."

"No you can't-"
"Why Blaise can't we?" Draco was now getting into it too. This was getting insulting at this point. Could they just let him finish his sentance?

"Because we have plans with other people." Blaise said which was true. Ron had mentioned something at the end of Athinmancy about needing to meet up with someone and Blaise should come but then Ron's friends came and stole him away. Before he could say more. So Blaise has already mentally added it to his schedule for the day.

"Well cancel them." At this point it could have been any of the three of them that said that, Blaise was not paying attention or quite frankly cared who did.

"Can't Ron planned them and we have to go. We can't reschedule them." Blaise said stubbornly. Ron had made it sound as though and he was not letting it dismissed for his friends to scope out Ron like he was a new boyfriend. Maybe that is why he never has good prospercates of romance this year. Because this is how his friends react to just a new friend. Only Merlin knows what they would do to a new sigfingant other.

"Of course Weasley-" That was defintially Draco. "-would something like that. That dimwitted git c-" Before Draco could finish the sentance of insults Blaise cuts him off.

"Don't talk about my friend that way." Blaise says with so much bluntness that he is even surpised that he said it. Well Ron is R. Brings The Drama and I am just being proctive of that. Blaise thinks to himself. He deseverse more credit for being able to fool everyone that he is R. Brings The Drama. Not that I partcularilly care if he insults him but it is also his work which is amazing. Blaise happy with reasoning on the situation looked at his friends who were looking at him suspoiosly.

"We will see about that until I meet him." Draco says difinately and the others nod at him and Blaise groans.

"Why are you guys acting like he is my boyfriend?" Blaise asks to not really his friends but the universe at large why were you doing this to me? What have I done to desverse this? And other things along those lines.

"Is he your boyfriend?"

"Oh Merlin that would make so much sense–"

"Yes he told us he was friend but really he is his–"

"Boyfriend! That is why he has been so werid that explains it so mu–" Before whoever was saying that sentance—honestly it sometimes so scary when they talk like they are sharing one brain. Maybe they are. That would explain a lot. . .anyways not the point—in paritcular when Blaise had to shout over them—which was quite a feat since they are so loud—to stop whatever wave lank they were on.

"We are NOT dating! Do you hear me we are not dating. Never have. Never will. We are just friends okay?" They did not listen to him too much based on their next reaction.

"Oh Morgana! You have a crush on him don't you!" Pansy yells and then they all start talking again. Blaise sighs dramatically—given the situation he would like to say none of this is dramatic look at how the others are acting—and pratically swoons his bed. There was no point in stopping them now they got it deep in their heads that it was happening so nothing will stop them now. Maybe when they get off of the topi he will be able to talk to then like the senesable people they should be acting like.

/

"Apparnetly I am madly in love you because there is no way that I would be friends with you any other way." Blaise says entering the classroom that they were in just a few weeks ago. Looks like Ron had the same idea of meeting up and trying to get the other there because his owl Pig-something was there with him.

"So am I according to Harry and Hermoine." Ron replies looking at him smiling a bit. There were dark ciricles under his eyes that Blaise never noticed before.

"You don't sleep much?" Blaise asks suddenly though he is unsure as to why he did so. Maybe it was because he felt like he knew so nuch about Ron—-the newspaper writing thing—and yet so littele—like his favorite color—and he was tyring to get to know him. Ron seemed the pick up on this and didn't seem weirded out on the quetion.

"Used to but I am getting caught up with all the shcool work I missed." Ron says rubbing his eyes. "Because of the paper I would focus on that instead of school work." Ron looked at Blaise's face looking for and finding the look of shock on his face. "What it is not because I am dumb I have bad grades. It is because I would on the school paper and not do my work. Ever wondered how I passed my classes and got all the O.W.L.s that I needed to be an aurror? Hell, how did I surive war if I was so dumb?" Ron asks walking over Blaise smirking at the boy infront of him. They were about the same height but Ron was taller and he was just smiling at him. "Wow you really though I was dumb didn't you? Maybe you hang out with Malfoy a bit too much and all the bad things he says about me seep into your brain a bit to much."

"I told him to stop," Blaise said suddenly and he was not sure why but he felt like he had to tell Ron that he was trying. This made Ron smile at him and he knew why then. Maybe he did want to be friends with Ron after all of this and he wanted to do everything he could to not mess it up. Though he was not sure Ron would be friends with him.

"Aw, now you are making Malfoy bland for me. How ever will I go on when he calls me the 3 same insults." Ron says fake swooning which made Blaise snort. But then Ron looked panicked. "Wait we are doing this whole checking out thing sperately right?"

"Of course! They would kill each other faster then ever." Blaise says looking at Ron like he was mad. Maybe he was not dumb acdemically but he could be soically at times.

"Good, good. Also Cedric is going to be there since he is there to be with Harry. And you might get stopped by Dean and Seamus but they aren't going to stalking you since they have a double date with Crabb and Goyle. Shoulf write about that. I can see it now "Our to happy couples hanging out together."" Ron says but then came back from Newspaper mode and looked at Blaise.

"Oh Diggory okay I can deal with that. Same with Crabb and Goyle like Dean and Seamus. I wonder how that happened?" Blaise asked but also shook himself out of it. Remembering the thing that he needed to talk to Ron about.

"If we are going to be friends like they think. Then we need to know each other." Blaise says and he was plnning on saying more but Ron was already nodding his head.

"Yeah I was going to say that so I guess, what is your favorite color?"

"Sliver."

"That is not a real color."

"Fine. Black."

"Also not a colo-"

"OH COME ON!"