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30 - Draco's Dispute

"Do you have to study?" Draco asked, pouting.

I laughed. "Yes. I have an important test. I'll come right to your dorm when I'm done though."

"Please just come study in my room," he pleaded.

"Draco, I love you, but you and I both know fully well that I won't get anything done if I study in your room."

"Fine. But you come right to my dorm. No stalling!"

I kissed him. "Okay. I'll see you later."

I walked away from him, making my way to the Hufflepuff common room so he wouldn't be too suspicious. Dylan, Ellie, and Zach were there waiting for me. We then made our way deep into the castle.

When we found the door, we looked around to make sure no one was watching, and then we went inside. Everyone else was already there. Harry gave us a nod as we gathered with the rest of the group.

"Brilliant! Now that everyone is here, we can begin," he said, "today I wanted to start off by teaching Expelliarmus."

He faced a dummy which was equipped with a wand. He raised his wand, and waved it shouting, "Expelliarmus!" making the wand fly out of the dummy's hand. Everyone applauded, and Harry smiled, clearly pleased with the attention he was getting.

"Okay, now you guys try."

We all got in line, and everyone began to face off with the dummies.

When I reached the front of the line, I raised my wand, and flicked it just as Harry did, and I disarmed the dummy.

"Nice job, Lizzie!" Harry exclaimed.

Neville went next. He waved his wand awkwardly, and instead of disarming the dummy...he somehow managed to disarm himself. His shoulders sunk in defeat, and he let out a sigh of disappointment.

"Hey Lizzie, can you help Neville? It seems you already have this spell down anyways," said Harry.

I nodded, and pulled Neville over to another dummy where I helped him practice the wand motion. By the end of the training, he was getting close, but still hadn't disarmed a dummy of its wand yet.

"Good job, Neville. We'll keep working on it, and you'll have it in no time."

By that time, everyone had left except Harry. He came up to me and gave me a thankful smile.

"Thanks for helping Neville," he said, gratefully.

"It was nothing. Thanks for volunteering to teach us all."

He shrugged, and we started to walk back to the main part of the castle. "No biggie. Have you learned Defensive Spells before? You seem like a natural. Maybe even better than me."

I chuckled. "Yeah."

"Really? I thought Beauxbatons was all about poise and being lady-like."

"Oh no, my parents taught Dylan, Vanessa, and I when we were young."

"Sounds like you have some amazing parents."

I smiled and nodded remembering I had to get to Draco. "So when is the next training?"

"Tomorrow night, but I'll let you know if that changes."

I nodded, and waved to him as I left. How was I supposed to go to training tomorrow night without making Draco mad? I didn't expect the D.A. to take up all my nights.

-

Later that night, I snuck into the Slytherin common room and I made my way to Draco's dorm. The door was closed, and I could hear him talking.

"Elizabeth was acting so strange today. Kept on claiming she needed to study, but then Faith came to tell me that she saw Elizabeth sneaking around the castle with other students."

Of course Faith saw us.

"Yeah, Ellie was acting strange too," I heard Blaise say.

Oliver snorted a laugh. "This is where you two went wrong. You see, living the single life is much better because you can get just about whoever you want whenever you want without being tied down."

"Well, if it isn't my sister!" someone exclaimed.

I jumped from the door to see Vanessa smirking. She stood with Pansy and Faith...what a weird trio considering Vanessa has punched both of them.

"What're you doing, Ness?" I asked.

"Oh, we're on our way to hang out with Draco, Blaise, and Oliver," she said, smiling in a weirdly, evil way.

"Yeah, because they would want to hang out with them," I said, nodding at Faith and Pansy.

"Draco invited us himself. He said he wants to rekindle what we had..." Faith said, clearly trying to annoy me.

I rolled my eyes and knocked on the door because Faith was honestly annoying me, and I wanted to watch the boys yell at them. Blaise opened it and his eyes went wide. "Draco..."

Draco came out, and also looked shocked to see Faith, Vanessa, and Pansy. "Why the fuck are you all  here?" he hissed.

Faith smirked. "We were just catching up with Lizzie, and asking her why she was walking around with Potter in the castle."

I felt my stomach drop. She must've seen Harry and I walking together after training.

Draco looked at me, eyebrows raised, anger and jealousy etched in his face. "You were with who? I thought you were studying!"

"I was!"

"That's not what it looked like to me. Her and Potter did look quite close. I mean they were in the part of the castle that's hardly even used!" Faith added.

"Draco, she's lying. I was just talking to Harry about class."

He looked between Faith and me. "Elizabeth, you've been around him a lot lately...not to mention how weird you've been acting."

"But Draco-" I started to speak.

"Just go!" he cut in.

I stepped backwards in shock. Faith smirked, and I could feel my eyes burning. I can't lose him again. Especially to her.

"Draco..." I said, quietly.

"GO!" he yelled.

I backed away slowly, and ran off. I could hear Oliver yelling at me to stop, and I could hear Faith, Pansy, and Vanessa laughing. My own sister just went against me like that.

"Lizzie, stop!"

I ran out of the common room, and sat down on the stairs. Oliver and Blaise ran up to me, pulling me into a hug.

"Hey, he didn't mean it," Oliver whispered.

"I lost him...again!" I cried.

"No you didn't. Draco just had a hard time with love. It's not your fault that he has trust issues. Just give him some time," Blaise added.

"What if he goes back to Faith?"

"He won't. He hates her. He's just been in a bad mood lately because he thinks you're going behind his back, and getting close with Potter," said Oliver.

"I know...but I promised everyone I wouldn't say anything. Especially to Draco."

"What's going on?" Blaise asked.

"I can't tell you guys either. You'll know someday, but I can't tell you yet."

Oliver sighed. "Well I hate to sound like that guy, but you need to decide what's more important. Draco, or whatever you and Harry have going on behind the scenes."

I knew he was right. Either I put myself and Draco first and risk exposing the Army, or I lose Draco, and focus on fighting back.