No sooner did I utter his name I felt my throat go dry. I couldn't speak; no words could form on my lips. I could only look at him in horror, waiting for him to talk. Malfoy, on the other hand, found his words effortlessly.

With a smug grin he looks towards George, "Hello there Weasley, pleasant day we're having isn't it?" he says as he stands up and begins to dust the snow off of himself, acting as if nothing was wrong with the situation.

George just looked at him, infuriation clear on his face. "Very pleasant Malfoy, and I intend to make it better ," George replies balling his fists at his side. He starts walking closer which only made my nerves heighten.

He's going to kill him, I say to myself watching as George comes towards us. Half realizing I was still in the snow and also that Malfoy is about to be murdered, I quickly try to get up, but since I am so uncoordinated I slipped. With quick reflexes Draco reaches out to steady me, but I shrug him off. "Easy Sweary, don't want us to fall again," he murmurs in my ear.

"Shut it Malfoy," I reply bitterly. Thinking it was my best option, I start making my way closer to George. I heard Draco mutter something, but couldn't really make out what he had said. To be honest, I didn't really care. I continue looking ahead. George was uneasy a little as I approached him, still clearly angry.

"It's honestly not what it looked like," I say in a low voice as I walked directly in front of him, bringing my gaze to meet his.

"Oh, and what exactly was it Leianna?" George asks crossing his arms while he stared me down.
I..I... well, he hit me with a snowball. I wanted to get even so..." I I couldn't explain it to him in a way that wouldn't look bad.

"What's a matter Georgie, afraid Leianna might be tired of you?" Draco mocked which kind of made me feel a little relieved because the intense stare I was receiving from George was now directed towards him. "You are pressing you luck Malfoy," George states through gritted teeth, " I think it's best you run along before I blast you all the way home to your mommy."

"Ohh... I'm so scared," Draco replies sarcastically. "I'm leaving anyways," he adds as he shoves his hands in his pockets. Both George and I watch him as he walks away, thankfully. He was making a mess of everything. I reach out and take George's hand hoping he had forgiven me. He tensed up looking down and our enlaced hands but I felt him relax and he gave him a small grin.

"Oh I almost forgot," we hear Malfoy exclaim causing us to look in his direction. He was smirking which had me already dreading what he was about to say. "I just wanted to say thank you Leianna for the fun time, we should do it again soon," he adds before continuing out of sight.

I could've smacked him if I was close enough. That stupid, narcissistic jerk.

"I cannot believe him," I whisper more to myself. However George heard it.

 "I can't believe what I saw," George states looking down at me confused.

"I swear it was nothing. Malfoy was just being... well, himself," I respond coming closer to him. "I'm sorry for it though."

 I waited nervously for him to respond, I still didn't know how mad he was. Finally, after a couple of minutes, I hear him sigh deeply and he wraps his arms around me. I look up and his expression had softened. I could tell he was no longer angry which only caused me to smile. "I can't stay angry with you," he says bringing his head down to rest against mine. I let out a soft laugh, "Good, because I don't like you mad at me."

He laughs lightly and pulls away.

"Lets go look around, before we have to head back," he tells me as he laces his hand tighter in mine. We spend several minutes looking at the shrieking shack in the distance. After a few conversations, mostly about how he needed to say something to Malfoy and me arguing that it wouldn't help.  Finally,  George glances back towards the path that led back to town. "Come on, we will be leaving soon and we don't want to miss the train," he states tugging on my hand. We start making our way back down the path. I was glad all the anger he had earlier had now disappeared. 

"Leianna," I hear George say cutting me out of my thoughts.

"Hmmm?"

 "Just promise me that you will stay away from Malfoy, if it can be prevented. I think he's up to something and I don't like that it deals with you," he says completely serious.

"I've always tried to avoid him. He just seems to always find me," I state.

George stops walking and his grip on my hand tightens a little, but not so much that it hurt. "Just promise, please."

"I promise George," I reply. 

He then smiles down at me and starts walking again. As we walk he pulls me close to him so that he can wrap his arm around my shoulder. We hear the train whistle as we reach the bottom. "Looks like we are in time," George states as he picks up speed. I match my speed with his as we ran towards the train.

We make our way on and find a empty seat. He takes his seat and I slide in beside him laying my head on his shoulder. "I don't want to go back," I whisper loud enough for him to hear but not loud enough for anyone else to. 

He laughs and kisses my forehead, "Why not?" 

"Because, it's just going to be another week of classes, homework, teachers yelling, did I mention homework?" 

 "Well, look at the bright side, you can watch me practice quidditch tomorrow since you don't have a last class," he whispers.

I shoot my head up fast, "Really, they would let me do that?" 

"I don't see why not," he replies smiling at my enthusiasm. 

"Cool, that will give me something to look forward to. I haven't ever seen people play it in person. Well, except for when I play it with my mother and John, but..." I went on ranting and George was nice enough to let me.

Finally we arrive back at the school and George stands and reaches his hand out for me to take. As I did my eyes fall to a familiar pair of gray ones. The lips of the person whose gaze I held was turned up into a wicked smile as if he knew something I didn't. Not wanting to draw attention to George I look away from those gray eyes and walk off of the train. 

"I will figure out what you're up to Draco Malfoy," I whisper under my breath as I glance back to see him exiting the train.

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"Today we are going to make a potentially dangerous potion," Snape begins while walking around the classroom, wand in hand. "The ingredients of this potion include peppermint and moonstone which I will provide to you," he adds as he walks back towards the front of the class.

"What in bloody hell can you make with those ingredients?" Draco whispers to me. I ignore him and continued looking towards the professor in hopes he would leave me alone.

"Anyone willing to guess what it could be?" Snape questions the class. He drums his fingers on his desk waiting for someone to speak up, but the class was still silent.

 "Do you know?" Draco asked me yet again pressing the question.

 "No Malfoy I don't." I shake my head at him in annoyance before turning back towards Snape.

"Oh," I jump in surprise to see Snape standing directly in front of me. "Ms. Sweary, why don't you tell me what potion I could make with those ingredients since you love talking so much," he states looking down at me.

"With Peppermint and moonstone?" I question. 

He looks at the other students, "Isn't that what I said?" 

Peppermint and moonstone, peppermint and moonstone, I read about these ingredients the other night, I thought. Then it hit me, I looked up at Snape with a confused look, "A love potion?" I question wondering why he said it was dangerous.

"Yes Ms. Sweary a love potion," he says clearly not happy that I knew the answer.

"How is that dangerous?" Draco questions Snape. The professor turned to Malfoy smiling lightly. 

"Do you know what a person could do to you if they brewed a strong love potion and gave it to you Mr. Malfoy?" 

Malfoy shrugs his shoulders clearly not knowing the answer. 

"It can cause you to be highly infatuated with the person who gave it to you, regardless if you liked them before or not."

"I see, so it can be dangerous because the after effects like embarrassment for the drinker obviously, and it can lead to harm from the giver, if the drinker was angry enough," I state understanding what he was saying now. 

Snape scowls at me for interrupting him causing me to sink in my seat. 

"Yes Ms. Sweary, but next time if I want you opinion I would suggest you to give it."

"Now, I will split you into groups of two and we will make our way outside to gather the rest of the ingredients," he says to the class. I let out the breath I didn't even know I was holding. Everyone, including myself stands up. We form a line at the door and wait for Snape.

"Before we go, since Ms. Sweary knows so much about love potions, can you tell the class the other ingredients they will be collecting?" 

 I knew this so I smile brightly, "Ashwinder eggs and rose thorns."

"Yes, and as for the groups," he says looking at us, "Count off in ones and twos," he adds. "Parkinson you are one and Martin you are two, there is one group," Snape explains.

The rest of the class begins counting and it got to me, "One," I state. I felt someone dash behind me, "Two," I hear none other than Draco Malfoy say from behind me. I whip around to see him smirking. I then turn back to Snape who only looked slightly amused by my anger.

"Let's go class, " Snape says opening the door. I bite my tongue and follow the other students. This is so going to suck.

Once outside we break into our groups. 

"Isn't this nice, us... in a group.. together," Draco says walking fast to catch up to me as I head towards the forest. 

"Splendid, I'm so happy," I reply with as much sarcasm I could muster into in a sentence. 

"Don't be mean," he says coming up beside me. I roll my eyes and began looking around for roses.

 "Should we be in here?" he asks glancing around finally aware of where I had led us to.

 "Yes, if you was listening you would have heard Snape suggest we look around the edge of the forest for the ingredients." 

 "Oh, right," he agrees.

"Okay, we need to find roses," I states as I start walking again. 

"Well why don't you just go to Hagrid's hut, he has some roses around it," Draco suggests surprising me. 

"That's right," I agree staring at him. 

"What?"

"Nothing, let's go," I say snapping back into reality. I began walking towards the hut and spot the roses he was talking about.

Once we finally making it there I reach down and pick off some thorns. After picking around a dozen or so I stand straight and turn to Draco who was looking slightly bored. I go to stick them in my pocket but realized me skirt didn't have any. 

"Here I will hold them," Draco says holding his hand out. I hesitate but eventually reach out to give them to him.

Our hands touch slightly sending a shock through me like I had never felt before causing me to quickly jerk my hand back. In the process, I accidently knocked a few out of his hand. "Damn," I curse bending down to pick them back up.

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Draco's P.O.V

Why the hell did she jerk like that for? I question myself. It wasn't like I had something on my hand.

I quickly raise my hand to exam it to make sure. Nothing... so why did she jerk for? After she was finally done retrieving the thorns she had knocked out of my hand she quickly holds them out to me. I look at her confused and reach for them, but before I could touch her hand again she reaches over mine and drops them in my palm.

"We need to find a Ashwinder," she states.

"And where can we find it?" I ask. She thinks about the question, "Probably the forbidden forest, Snape did suggest us to look there for the ingredients," she replies.

I roll my eyes and turn to make my way back down to the forest. I hear her following, but for some reason she wouldn't come up beside me. Curiosity got the best of me so I question her actions, "Why are you acting funny?"

I hear her stop and I turn to face her. "I'm not acting funny," she denies clearly lying because I saw her glance around nervously. 

I sross my arms, "Really, then why did you nearly jump out of your skin when I touched you hand, and why won't you walk beside me?" 

"Well, maybe because last time I had anything to do with you Malfoy, it almost resulted in you getting murdered" she says. With that she begins walking again.

"Oh really, I'm not scared of Wealsey," I ask walking up beside her.

"Well I prefer my boyfriend not getting explelled."

"I could care less," I mutter under my breath. 

"What did you say?" she asks.

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Leianna's P.O.V

"Nothing." 

I contemplate arguing with him further but decide it wasn't the best choice.

"Okay then, we need to get back on track," I state dropping the whole thing. "We need to find Ashwinder eggs."

"Where do we find them?" he asks.

 I stop walking and thought about what I had read about Ashwinders. 

"Well the snake comes from ashes after a fire. So if we find a fire we find a snake, if we find the snake, then we find the eggs" I explain.

"Easy enough," he says taking out his wand.

"What are you doing?"

"Incendio!" he shouts. I back away and watch as his wand sends a blaze of fire on the ground. "There," he says putting his wand back in his cloak.

 "What in bloody hell are you thinking?" 

"You are the one who said we needed a fire," he states pointing his finger at me. "Now we have one, let's wait for it to burn out, which shouldn't take too long," he says as he starts to walk over to a broken down log.

He sits down on it and breaks off a piece of the bark and begins splitting it into smaller pieces. He looks up at me watching him and motions for me to come over and sit beside him. 

"Come on, I won't bite," he says smiling. 

I roll my eyes and cross my arms. 

"Seriously, come on," he says patting the log.

I sigh and make my way over to where he was sitting on the log. I sit down and watch as the fire grew dimmer and dimmer. 

"Why are you so uptight?" 

 I look at him questioningly before I respond, "Why are you always a jerk? Some thing's just has no answer," I reply causing him to genuinely laugh surprising me.

"You're funny, but right," he says glancing sideways to look at me. I felt my face heat. Something with the way he looked made me feel like he was being himself, not the jerk I always thought him to be. This Draco I could tolerate, but for some reason made me nervous. "Wow, you do have a nice side," I state smiling at him.

With that he stopped ripping at the piece of bark and looked at me. Before he could respond we heard the sound of something cracking. I snap my head towards the fire and see the fire had died and in the ashes a snake emerged.

I go to stand up but Draco reaches out and grabs my hand, "Don't move," he whispers. 

I watch in astonishment as the snake slithers towards us. "It's coming this way," I state beginning to get scared. I move sideways against Draco, not really paying attention to his arm that went around waist. "It's okay, it's turning," he laughs.

I watch as the snake goes into a nearby bush. "We have to follow it, and hopefully it will lay a egg ," I say turning towards Draco.

 That's when I notice how close I was to him. My heart sped up its beat and my breath caught in my throat. I watched as his eyes fell from mine to rest on my lips. 

I needed to stop this, before I did something I know I would regret. "Umm. We need to follow it," 

He snaps out of his trance and pulls away, "Let's go," he says standing up quickly.

 I close my eyes for a second to mentally kick myself. I Leianna Sweary almost let Draco Malfoy kiss me.