~The Slytherin Princess~ Draco Malfoy

T H I R T E E N

"You're an idiot." Pansy shook her head at the Charm who laid her head on the Slytherin dining table, groaning loudly, "I still can't believe you had sex with him."

"He took advantage of me." Adeline banged her head on the table, "I was drunk and he took advantage of me. God, I can't even look at him, I can't even look at myself."

"Hey, it's not your fault." Daphne comforted the girl, "you were drunk. Blaise is a little slimy git who knew what he was doing."

"I can't believe this." Adeline sighed, lifting her head, letting her two closest friends see the prominent bags under her eyes, "everyone keeps looking at me and I hate it."

"Of course he had to tell the whole school." Pansy shook her head, "couldn't keep it a secret could he?"

"You know what Blaise is like Pansy." Daphne Let Adeline rest her head on her shoulder, Adeline's brunette hair mixing with her own mousy brown locks, "he likes to show off his prizes."

"Yeah but it's okay, don't worry Adeline, there's juicer gossip than who you've slept with." Pansy reassured her, Adeline only staring back at her blankly, "Umbridge is observing lessons." Pansy wiggled her brows, "she's been appointed as High Inquisitor and she has permission to sack teachers."

"Do you know what lessons she'll be in today?" Pansy shook her head, "you have divination now don't you? Umbridge is bound to be checking on that old hag Trelawney."

"Don't remind me of divination." Adeline groaned again, "me and Draco are the only Slytherins in that class and he won't even look at me at the moment."

"He's just annoyed that you slept with his best mate that's all." Pansy spoke softly, causing Adeline to grow frustrated.

"What's he got to be annoyed for? Who I sleep with is none of his business!" She shook her head, clutching the spoon in her grip tightly, not caring if it broke, she wasn't eating her now soggy cereal anyways.

"Because he likes you." Daphne told her like it was the most obvious thing, "even Crabbe and Goyle can tell."

"That's ridiculous." Adeline scoffed, standing up from her seat, "I'm going to divination now, goodbye."
The girl left her two friends behind, feeling a certain blonde boy's gaze drilling into her, but she couldn't look at him. She wasn't ready to see the pain and disappointment in his grey eyes just yet, and he wasn't quite ready to man up and speak to the Charm, so she walked to divination alone.

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"Today." Professor Trelawney spoke to the class softy, "we will be reading tea leaves."

Adeline huffed to herself, hating the strong fragrance the tea leaves cast around the room, she wasn't an avid lover of tea, much preferring a coffee.

"Guess you're working with me." Adeline's head snapped up immediately, being met with Draco Malfoy himself, a smile slowly made it's way onto her face, "you're literally the only other Slytherin in this room." Malfoy sniggered, "I have no choice but to work with you."

"What's wrong with you?" Adeline asked in confusion, "you were fine on my birthday, now you've turned into a right foul git."

"I can't believe you slept with him." Draco gulped, willing himself to not show emotions, trying to push the image, "like are you really that dense?!" The room fell silent as Draco raised his voice at the girl.

"Draco stop it." Adeline hissed out her teeth, growing increasingly self-conscious as her peers eavesdropped, "you're drawing attention."

"Oh,so now you care about attention?" Draco stood up and stared down at the brunette, "because you sure didn't seem to care when you and Zabini were eye fucking each other at your party."

"Draco I-" she was cut off by the boy's furious tone.

"Save it Adeline." The teen shook his head, walking to the back of the room, snarling at a Ravenclaw in order for them to move, letting the boy sit alone at the back of the room. The Ravenclaw student looked hesitantly at the free chair beside Adeline, however after one stony glare he scampered off to sit with a group of Hufflepuffs.

"Hem, hem." A voice sliced through the thick silence that hung in the room. Adeline bit her lip and squeezed her eyes closed, just when she thought her day couldn't possibly get any worse.

"I'm sure, Professor Dumbledore made you aware I would be observing your lesson today?" Umbridge smiled at Trelawney, who awkwardly nodded her head, "just one question before you start dear, you've been in this post how long exactly?"

"Thirteen years." Trelawney answered hesitantly.

"Good, lovely." Umbridge smiled as she scribbled down onto a clipboard she was holding, "carry on."

"So class, I want you to open your text books to page 420 and pick up the teacup on your desk." The class complied silently, sounds of clinking porcelain filling Adeline's ears, making the girl cringe silently, "Good, now carefully observe the shapes, broaden your mind, look for patterns, animals, objects."

Adeline frowned down at her tea leaves, seeing nothing but blobs of muck, this lady was really full of it...

"We'll have a volunteer." Trelawney's eyes scanned through the unwilling pupils, most visibly shrinking away from the professors eyes, Adeline prayed in her mind, don't pick her, don't pick her don't pick-
"Miss Charm! How about you?"

Shit.

"Err, well..." Adeline fumbled, looking from the book to the tea cup " I see a rose, which means I'll be blessed by love, but there's also a skull which symbolises death? So maybe I'll fall in love and then die?" She looked up questioningly, half expecting the divination professor to laugh at her, however to her surprise Trelawney's face lit up.

"Yes my dear!" She gasped excitedly, snatching the cup and peering at the tea leaves, "a true seer! You posses the talent many others fail to understand."

"Er, thanks?" Adeline looked around the classroom for help only to find half of the room smirking at her in amusement, the other half looking bored.

"Could you please predict something for me?" Umbridge interrupted Adeline's praises, making Trelawney shoot around to face the woman.

The divination professor stayed silent, looking at the DADA professor like a deer in headlines, her glasses emphasising the extreme widening of her eyes.

"I'm sorry?" She squeaked, before falling silent again. A silence that seemed to last hours for Adeline, all she wanted was to be out of the classroom so she could confront Draco.

"One teeny tiny little prophesy?" Umbridge raised her pitch patronisingly, to which Trelawney looked at her students, almost as if she were asking for help, "pity." Umbridge tutted, again scribbling away on her clipboard.

"Class dismissed." Trelawney announced suddenly, causing Adeline and Draco to both jump out of their seats, making a bee line for the door, one desperate to avoid the other, one wanting nothing more than to talk to them.

"Draco." Adeline called as they left the classroom the Malfoy boy barging past her roughly, dashing away, "Draco Malfoy, you get back here!"

"Shove off Adeline!" He hollered back, sprinting away.

This time she let him leave her, a heavy feeling sinking in her heart.