I stormed out of my room, through the living room and into Min's bedroom without knocking.

I slammed the door behind me and she looked up from her small desk.

I slammed the note I had crumpled in my hand on the table.

"What's this?!", I yelled, knowing full well how loud I was.

"A note for Mr Malfoy but I think you already knew that", she explained calmly and just that she was so calm made me even angrier.

"What were you doing in my room?!"

"I wanted to see if you were awake."

"And because you didn't get an answer, you just decided to go in?!

There's something called privacy!"

Something about that sentence had hit her, because now she stood up and stood in front of me.

She raised her index finger sternly and her calm was over.

"Your privacy stops when I find Mr Malfoy in your bed!

This is my apartement, in case you've forgotten. My rules apply here, even if you are an adult!"

"Your rules", I laughed, "Your rules exist precisely because it's Draco!

If I'd run up here with anyone else you'd have been happy, probably even volunteered to bring him more breakfast than a lousy banana!

But it's Draco and you don't like it!

Everything about him doesn't suit you and there's nothing he can do to please you!

He saved my fucking life and you still think he's an abysmally bad person..."

"I don't", she interrupted me in a calm voice.

"Then what's your fucking problem?!"

"I've known him since he was eleven and it's only a matter of time before he hurts you.

I'm just trying to protect you."

"Protect!", I shouted. "PROTECT!", I screamed and the cat ears I had been able to hold back until now were now literally shooting through my curly hair.

"I DON'T WANT TO BE FUCKING PROTECTED!"

I was furious.

"I want to live my life and make my own mistakes and if you think Draco is one of them then I will show you that you are wrong!

See you in class Professor!"

I turned on my heel without waiting for a reaction from her and slammed the door behind me.

Draco stood in front of my bookshelf as I trudged back into my room.

My mood could have been seen from miles away, if he hadn't heard every single word of the argument.

I wasn't ready to say anything yet without screaming, so I grabbed a bag and threw everything in it I might need for the next few days.

I would stay with Hannah, only I had to teach her about that first.

I would have preferred to stay with Draco but we would never be able to convince Professor Slughorn of that.

There was still room in Hannah's dormitory and if I was going to sleep on the floor, it certainly wasn't going to be here.

I threw my clothes and books into the bag while Draco looked at me from the bed, but didn't dare say anything.

This could have been such a beautiful morning.

I would have woken up next to Draco and we could have just cuddled some more, maybe even kissed again until I would have smuggled him back into the dungeons undetected.

But no, I wasn't that lucky.

I had probably used it all up yesterday.

But all I wanted was to spend time with my boyfriend.

Wait, was he actually my boyfriend now?

We had both said we had feelings for each other and we had kissed.

Did that make us a couple or did it have to be officially addressed?

That was a question I wanted to answer as soon as possible, but I wanted to get out of here even faster.

I took Draco's jacket from the chair, threw it over me and shouldered the bag.

"You can take the book. Now come on, I want to get out of here."

I couldn't quite keep my anger out of my voice but it sounded considerably better than I expected.

To my surprise, Draco was no longer wearing his sleeping clothes.

He must have changed.

Without so much as a rebuttal, he followed me out of the flat.

I didn't hear any protests from Min either.

There were never any students on this floor, so we could walk together without being seen.

I used the time to calm down a bit and to get rid of my ears.

"I'm really sorry", I mumbled when I had my voice under control again.

"Do I want to know what she said?", he asked calmly.

I just shook my head.

"So what's your plan now?", he asked cautiously and I stopped.

"I'm going to bunk with Hannah for the next few nights."

He nodded.

"Are you okay?", was his next gentle question as he brushed a few wild strands behind my ear.

"Except for the fact that I'm seething with anger and really imagined this morning to be different, yes I'm doing reasonably well."

"I imagined it a little differently too", he agreed with a wry grin.

"And I thought it was your favourite occupation on Saturdays to be thrown out by the headmistress and godmother of your girlfriend", I laughed without realising my mistake.

"My girlfriend?", he asked, raising his eyebrows in surprise.

Damn!

"I...um...", I stammered without really knowing what I was even going to say.

He stopped me by gently stroking my cheek with his fingers.

Even that small touch made my legs turn to pudding and my heart beat faster.

"I like the sound of that. I could get used that", he grinned seductively and took my bag from me, only to drop it on the floor.

Then he brought my face to his with his hand and kissed me.

That kiss had lost nothing, and I mean really nothing, of the magic that was there yesterday. It was almost better.

Slowly and carefully he pulled me completely towards him and put his other hand on my hip.

Again my hands met at the back of his neck, leaving not an inch between us.

This was insane, I had never felt so alive as I did in those moments when I kissed Draco.

I should have done this a lot sooner.

It made me strong and brave and I felt like I could do anything.

I imitated Draco's action from yesterday and carefully licked his lower lip.

And again the same reaction as yesterday, he disconnected us and just looked at me.

I had to be really bad at kissing that he always stopped.

"Not here okay?", he stated breathlessly to himself. I nodded though his reaction had already hit me pretty hard.

I just didn't have any experience, he had been aware of that.

But I wanted to learn, only he wouldn't let me.

He gave me another quick little kiss on the forehead and then pushed me off him for good.

"By the way, we don't have to keep this a secret if you don't want to. So you're welcome to tell Abbot right now for my sake."

"Honestly?", I was actually honestly taken aback. I had thought it would be uncomfortable for him to be seen with me and publicly appearing as his girlfriend would have been sheer impossible.

"You can tell the whole world for all I care." He shrugged his shoulders before continuing.

"But your godmother won't be the only one who won't approve.

Probably just about no one will. Everyone will form an opinion about us and it certainly won't be a good one."

He reached for my hand and stroked it with his thumb.

"You're not embarrassing me Flo. You never will be so, don't think that, okay?"

I nodded.

He was right, if everyone knew about us, reactions like Min's would be the order of the day. This would remain our secret for now.

After all, there were only eight weeks until the school year ended, we would manage.

I had been happy at school once in my life and I really didn't want to jeopardise that.

"Today after dinner in the courtyard?", he asked, raising one of his eyebrows.

"I can't ignore you anymore, do I?", I retorted with a cheeky grin on my face.

"You can try." He smiles at me conspiratorially, causing my stomach to clench.

By all four of Hogwarts' founders, how was he doing that?

With that, he walked past me down the corridor, thus giving me the choice of coming straight after him and thus making it public, or staying behind.

I wasn't ready to go after him yet, so I stayed.