I woke up in the next morning, to find Charlotte already up, and almost fully dressed, being only in her skirt and shirt.

"Good morning." I said stretching my body, and yawning, but she didn't replied back. "You okay?" I asked softly as I sit up from my bed, and again, she didn't replied, more than likely she didn't even looked at me, as if I was invisible or something, and I realized she was doing it on purpose. "Are you going to ignore me the all day?" I asked firmly.

"Depends. Are you going to follow Malfoy the all day?" She asked sarcastically, but in a firm tone, and I realized what was this about.

"Okay, I understand you're mad, but you need to see my point I-" She cut me off.

"Save it. I will never understand your affection for him, so save your words." She said firmly, cutting off our conversation subject as well, but I did not give up so easily.

"Are you really not going to say nothing?" I asked firmly.

"What do you want me to say?" She asked abruptly, turning to me for the first time today. "You'll follow him no matter what I say, so why waste my words?" She asked firmly.

I dropped my head to the floor knowing she wasn't wrong, remembering of my plan to follow him tonight.

"You're so obsessed by what he might be going through, as you say, that one day you'll end up following him to the bathroom!" Charlotte shouted at me angrily.

"That's not a reason for you to ignore me, is my mistakes, my consequences, I don't know what do you have to loose in that?" I asked, and stood up from my bed, crossing my arms in front of my chest.

"You. I have to loose you. You're going to try and try, and try to, help, him and you're only going to get out of it even more hurted each time, and I can't loose my bestfriend." She said abruptly, and turned away from me, as my rage went to some type of regret and consideration.

But litlle does she know, that I can't be more hurted than I already am, and that her old bestfriend is long gone.

"Well, I'm sorry then, because you're right." I said firmly, as I took my clothes to dress me in the bathroom, and go to classes alone.

I didn't really wanted to push Charlotte away, she supported me when I most needed in the past, but now, her company was not helping me at all, and I decided that I needed some time alone, some time for me and my thoughts.

Draco came to my mind again.

He once told me to get new friends, perhaps he wasn't only referring to Matthew, but then I remember of all the good memories that me and Charlotte made when we were childs.

*Flashback*

"I'm going to get late." I said to myself as I was running through the almost endless corridors of Hogwarts.

Last night had been the sorting, and I was placed into Slytherin house, and I was in my dorm with another girl, but haven't really talked with her yet, and this morning she wasn't even in bed when I woke up, because, once again, I woke up late.

I was about to have Potions, with a teacher called Professor Snape, apparently head of our house, but it seemed like the other students from the other houses didn't really liked him from what I've heard.

Suddenly, when turning into a corner, I bumped into someone, it was not someone taller or bigger than me, it looked like a girl from my age, looking lost as well, and I realized...

...It's the girl I share my dorm with.

I regonized her from her short, curly brown hair.

"I'm sorry." I said fixing the bag that was in my shoulder.

"Oh don't worry about it...are you lost?" She asked softly, and I nodded my head. "Oh Merlin me too, well at least we're not alone, we have each other." She said and I let out a small laugh.

"Do you have any idea from where the Potions classroom might me, because I don't." I said softly.

"No, I've checked everything...wait...of course why haven't I thought about that." The girl said, and grabbed my hand, pulling us in the direction I just came from.

"What? Where are we going?" I asked softly as she pulled us.

"The dungeons." She said firmly.

"But, that's where our common room is, why do you want to go there?" I asked softly.

"Trust me, I saw some students climbing down some stairs, but I didn't really thought that a classroom would be down there, so I just ignored and...well, now I'm here." She said effortly.

We passed throught the door that leads to the Slytherin common room, and found the spiral staircase, that like the girl said, lead to the Potions classroom.

We climbed down the stairs, it was a big amount of stairs, so big that I almost got dizzy from running in circles due to the stairs being in a spiral form.

As we reached the door, we took a deep breath before knocking.

"Hey, wait a minute, you're the one who is in my dorm too aren't you? I don't know your name yet." The girl said exhausted from running all these stairs and so was I.

"Yes I am. I'm Lara, Lara Blackwell." I said softly, but was breathing heavily.

"Well hi Lara, I'm Charlotte. Charlotte Cleveland."

*End of Flashback*

I felt a tear fall from my eye as I thought about how we met, about how the things where so different back then, we were so clueless, just litlle kids in a big world, with a big life in front of our eyes.

{☆~☆}

I sat far away from Charlotte during classes, but also far away from Draco, who was sat alone in his desk, once again, with his palm over his cheek, looking down at his desk, I was getting used to watch him being always like that, a thing I did not wished for.

In lunch, I sat in my usual place, hoping that Charlotte wouldn't decide to come eat at the same hour as me and, luckily, she was nowhere to be found.

My gaze fell itself where Draco usually eats with his friends, to find it empty, which I thought odd.

First in class, he had sat far away from his friends, being alone in a corner of the classroom, looking like he didn't even wanted to be there in first place, and then now at lunch, which he didn't even appeared, he seemed to be pushing away his friends as well-

"Well, hello." My thoughts were stopped by someone sitting in the seat in front of me.

I realized that I knew him, it was one of Draco's friends, and he was now sat in front of me, leaving me thinking if I had sat in the right place as I saw him there, smirking at me.

"Hmmm, hello...can I help you with something?" I asked awkwardly at him, as I set down my fork.

"Oh, for Merlin, where are my manners?" The black skin boy said amusingly. "I'm Zabini. Blaise Zabini."

He extended his hand to give me a handshake, but I didn't take his hand from how shy I was in this awkward moment.

"Well, difficult person I see, yeah you're definitely the girl I'm looking for." He said softly, crossing his arms in front of his chest.

"The girl you're looking for?" I repeated his own words in a question way, not knowing what he had meant with that.

"You're Lara, Lara Blackwell am I right?" Blaise asked softly.

"Yeah, and how do you know my first name, Zabini? " I asked, and he gave me a wide smile.

"Oh, I know way more than that about you Lara, and please, call me Blaise." He said amusingly.

"And what do you mean with that, Blaise?" I asked, as a smile was founded in my lips, he didn't seemed cruel or rude, actually, he seemed quite a amusing guy.

"So, like you see, Draco is my litlle pal, and so, he tells me lots of things, and let's say I've heard your name slip from his lips quite often I dare to say." He said amusingly, placing his elbows on the top of the table, getting his face closer to mine.

"Is that so?" I asked softly, feeling my cheeks getting hotter by his statement.

"Oh yeah. You got him all wrapped around your litlle finger my darling." He said amusingly.

I turned my gaze to my lap for a straight second, trying to process what Blaise had just told me, as I felt my cheeks getting flushed pink.

"And you, why are you here, Blaise." I asked turning my gaze back at him.

"Oh me? I came to ask you if you know where is Draco." He said firmly.

"I don't know either, I thought he would be with you." I said.

"Well I thought too, but he pushed all his friends away." Blaise said calmly. "But apparently it wasn't just his friends he pushed away." He said locking his gaze with mine, as a silence instaled itself between us.

"Wht do you think he did that...push everyone away?" I asked softly.

"I don't know, he always told me everything that's why I'm worried." He said firmly.

"Why are you worried?" I asked.

"I know Draco, he's not properly the most nicest person you've met, but like you must have discovered, he's just scared, scared of people's judgments, scared of what his father might thinks, and I'm worried because I know he will got himself in problems." Blaise said softly.

There was more about Draco that I needed to know, so much he didn't told me.

Blaise was his bestfriend, is normal he knows almost everything about Draco like Charlotte knows about me, he's probably one of the persons that Draco most trusted, and if even him, he pushed away, what it means that whatever is happening in Draco's life was worse than I thought.

He was closing himself in a cage and throwed out the key.

"But he's also a big prat when he wants too." Blaise said amusingly, breaking my thoughts.

I laughed a bit at his sentence, agreeing with him, Draco was dramatic and could make some stupid jokes, but I loved that about him, it's a side I don't get to see many times, so I appreciated everytime I saw it.

"Anyways, Blackwell, I will tell you if I talk with him, I'd appreciate if you did the same." Blaise said softly, standing up from his seat.

"I will, and please call me Lara." I smiled at him.

"Yeah okay. Nice talking with you, Lara." He said smiling and walked away from me.

{☆~☆}

The night came, I thought well about this plan, if I intend to spie on Draco without being noticed, I'd had to hide myself in the common room, waiting for him to pass throught there, instead of being in my dorm - and being besides a still awake angry Charlotte wasn't exactly how I wanted to accomplish my plan.

I just sat in the middle couch, waiting for everyone to leave so I could hide myself, and then follow him, to discover where he goes, if I had the luck it was now some place he will go daily.

Perhaps, he had found a new place, he knew I would come back to the Astronomy Tower, and he didn't wanted to face me, so he just found another place to be in peace to be with his thoughts, somewhere where the stars would be visible of course.

The common room got empty, and I hid myself in the darkest corner of the room, between two shelves of books, being impossible for someone who left the room to see me, and that was my point.

Not longer after that, Draco appeared for my relief, his steps were fast, and I waited until his blonde hair passed through the entrance, is when I quickly, but the most silently I could, went after him, before the wall to close, and I would had to open it again, catching his attention, which was not something I desired for.

Successfully passing without him seeing me, I hid behind a wall, waiting for him to be a reasonable amount of steps ahead me, so I could follow him through the darkness of the castle.

He was dressed in his black suit again, walking fast, looked like he was in a rush to reach somewhere, I didn't know where was he leading to, but the curiosity of it was getting bigger.

He was nervous I could tell, for they way he was walking, and for the way he looked repeatedly into each corner, checking if someone was watching him, which did not helped me.

We climbed a quite amount of stairs, as I found myself in the seventh floor, and my mind wondered what possibilities of places he could be that had a good look at the stars, but my mind found none.

I imediatly hid myself, in a corner, pushing my back against a windown, when I saw him slowly down his steps.

I was breathing heavily, and only peeked when I heard his footsteps getting a bit more far from me, and slowly started walking again, as I could see him taking the next right.

I was finding odd all of this running, but didn't cared, I thought he might be sat in a window, looking at the stars, but my thoughts stopped when I turned in the same corner as him, and found nothing in front of me, but a blank wall.

I thought I was dreaming, or even going insane, or my perhaps my brain had imagined all of this like the other day, in the mirror, but this felt too real to be a prank from my mind.

He had completely vanished, and unless he can pass throught walls, there was nowhere he could go.

If before I was curious, now I'm intrigued.