Ice and Flame

Chapter 4

The next day

When the lessons were over, Catherine was finishing putting potions ingredients into the shelves at Potions class. She sang a song and quickly put small boxes and bottles into their places. Snape has already gone to his chamber to check fourth course students' works.

Somebody knocked at the door of the class.

"Come in" she said.

The girl was carrying the last box with herbs to put it on the shelf.

'Probably one of the students has forgotten something in the class' she thought.

She made his way towards shelves and didn't pay attention to the door.

  Lucius entered the classroom with a huge bunch of red roses. Catherine turned around. Her eyes opened widely. She dropped the box she was carrying. All the herbs fell fell on the floor.

"Fuck it!" she swore. "Sorry, Lucius. Good evening" she added smiling awkwardly.

  Lucius raised his eyebrows for a second, bu the quickly got himself together and smiled. He didn't get use to this extraordinary girl yet.

"I'm sorry, my rose. I didn't mention to scare you" he said.

  He sounded a little bit worried but self-satisfying grin which Cath didn't like appeared his face.

  'I'll erase this grin from your face one day, Mr Malfoy' she thought.

  "Ah, yes, this is for you" Lucius said giving her flowers.

  "Thank you, Lucius. They are gorgeous. And now I need to clean this chaos. Good thing, Severus isn't here. He would kill me for that" Cath said laughing.

  Her alive peals of laughter awoke warm feelings inside of the cold soul of a noble man.

  "I'll help you" he said looking at her.

  Malfoy was trying to help? That was really something new.

  Catherine felt heat from the sharp gaze of his grey eyes. She wanted to come clother and kiss Malfoy. She looked down, throwing away unnecessary thoughts. She put flowers on the table and bended beginning to gather herbs from the floor. She exposed her deep but not very opened cleavage. He gulped nervously and corrected the collar of his white shirt.

"Will you keep staring at me or will you help? Stop looking at me like this!" she said noticing his lustfull gaze.

"I'm afraid it's impossible" he replied playfully.

  Catherine felt goosebumps because of his tone. Her hand's didn't want to obey gathering damn herbs from the floor. But she pretended she didn't notice anything.

Lucius helped her to gather the herbs and kept watching her subtle movies. Lucius reached out for the bottle on the floor, Cath did the same. Their hands accidentally got in touch. Lucius looked up, metting her esmerald green eyes. They looked at each other for a few seconds. Cath pulled away and looked down.

"Thank you for your help, Lucius. So why did you come to Hogwarts?" she asked.

"Honestly saying, my feet brought me to you by themselves. I missed you" he said looking at her in awe.

Cath smiled at him and changed the subject.

"Lucius I wasn't outside all day. I need some fresh air. I want to go for a walk in the garden. Will you join me?" she said.

"It will be honour for me, my Rose" he said.

"Stop calling me like this. It's inappropriate" she said.