I hope you enjoyed the last chapter! I thought a cute little friendship between Draco and Juliet would be, you know, kind of cute! I really think people just think of Draco as low and cruel, but I think he's just highly misunderstood. He fell into the wrong group of friends. Narcissa doesn't seem like a bad person, either. It's Lucius I don't like. I feel like he's the source of the evil in the family. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter! Thanks and Enjoy!

Harry's POV – The Great Hall

I waited for Juliet to walk in. I was so anxious to talk to her after this morning. She'd avoided talking to any of us since.

"Look, here she comes," Ron whispered to me.

I almost fell out of my seat. She and Malfoy were walking together, smiling as they spoke with each other. I looked to see if someone had handcuffed them to force them to be nice to each other, but they weren't. My eyes widened as I looked at Ron and Hermione; even Tom had no clue what to think. All of the Slytherins and Gryffindors began to murmur as they walked in.

"Hi! Sorry about earlier," Juliet said to me with a smile. "Got enough room for two?"

Malfoy smiled at us, looking like he was trying to be friendly. He seemed a bit nervous to be anywhere near Juliet, but I could tell from the way Juliet acted that she truly thought he was being her friend.

"Uh, sure," Tom said moving over slightly for Malfoy and Juliet to sit down.

"Juliet, what happened earlier?" Ron blurted out.

Juliet just shrugged. Malfoy looked down at his feet with a guilty expression when Ron asked, but Juliet didn't seem bothered at all by the question.

"I just let my temper flare a bit much and over reacted. Draco and I talked it over and it's cool," She said.

She called him Draco, I thought. Mostly she called him Snot Rocket or Malfoy, but she actually just called him Draco, and then said that she'd worked out whatever issue they had. I sat there staring at her as they ate, with many stares from all of the houses and even some of the professors. I began to eat, too, slowly dropping the matter until I could talk to her away from him.

Juliet's POV – The Common Room

I sat at my spot after dinner, and the others sat by me, looking completely shocked.

"What was that?! You sat with Malfoy at dinner! And you were nice to him!" Harry exclaimed.

I shrugged. "He's a nice kid. Just thrown into the wrong group of kids and in the wrong place at the wrong time," I explained. "He felt bad for saying that to me, too."

"What are you talking about Juliet? He pushed you out of the boat in our first year!" Ron accused.

"Alright guys, its time you knew the truth of what's happening here. When Draco insulted me in the Great Hall he meant before I lived with John Smith. I lived with a family that was horribly abusive and almost killed me. I told nobody in case they'd get all fussy and worried about me. I went and visited him in the Hospital Wing after Dumbledore let me off the hook and we talked a bit. It's Pansy and them that make him act how he does. He just doesn't have the right friends. He needs just that one good person to lead him in the right direction and he could be an amazing person. He didn't say one thing at dinner, now did he?" I explained to them frustrated.

Some days I felt like they were blind. They only saw people for what they showed and acted like in front of others. You had to get to know somebody before you could say anything about their personality. I knew it wasn't an act to make him look good, because who was there to be praised by. He was being true to me and trying to fix what he did wrong.

Harry and Ron shook their heads and looked away from me for a second, but Hermione and Tom smiled at me. I knew they'd trust me on this one. I knew it wasn't a trick, or else why would he have confessed to following the group.

"I'll give him one chance," grumbled Harry at last, and Ron nodded in agreement.

I grinned at them along with Tom and Hermione. I knew he could be better. I could just feel it.

Draco's POV – Slytherin Common Room

I had fun sitting with Juliet at dinner. She talked a lot with her friends. I wish I'd said more, but I was afraid I'd slip up and say something I didn't mean. Harry, Ron, Tom, and Hermione didn't seem too fond of me sitting with them, but maybe she'd talk to them. I hoped so, because I really wanted to be nicer to them and get a better group of friends. I didn't have anything to lose. I began to realize that I hadn't had any real friends until Juliet. Pansy, Crabbe, and Goyle were just pushing me to get in trouble.

"Hey, Malfoy!" Pansy called over to me. "What was that? Sitting with Potter and his friends! You are ridiculous. They're all freaks and you just willingly sat by them! Especially that Juliet girl. She threw you across the Hall! She has serious issues and you walked in together like you were friends. If you were my friend you'd go and say the worst thing possible to them!"

"Well, I'm not your friend. Juliet has taught me that much. I'm not saying anything you want me to ever again and I'm certainly not continuing this conversation any longer. Tell that to the others, too. I'm not going to just be controlled like that," I spat at her, and walked off to bed,.

Juliet was right. I shouldn't let them control me like that.