Chosen

Chapter 25

The next day I was walking with Neville in the corridors to nowhere in particular. Crabbe and Goyle bumped into him on purpose.

"Watch where you're going Longbottom." Goyle commented while Crabbe laughed. I rolled my eyes at them.

"Just ignore them Neville." I whispered. We passed an empty hall and all of the sudden; we heard what sounded like dirt falling. We turned around to see a door that wasn't there before. We pushed open the doors and I finally realized what it was. We were in the Room of Requirement. We decided to practice there with Dumbledore's Army.

Death eater dummies were set up around the room ready for one of us to have a go at it. We learned the disarming spell, which was quite easy. I helped Neville, who thought he was hopeless. I told him to keep practicing. I was getting the hang of everything, because I had been taught it all before (not to sound cocky).

In our next meeting, we learned a blasting spell (stupefy) and we would be using it against each other. It was Hermione and Ron's turn finally. We were all betting on who would get blasted. I bet that Hermione would show Ron off. Fred bet that Hermione would too, but George he bet that Ron would.

"Come on Ron!" a boy shouted. This moment was very intense. Just as Ron was about to say it, Hermione yelled "Stupefy!" and Ron blast backwards. George handed each of us two galleons.

"Thank you." Fred and I muttered.

"Shut up." He replied. I had completely dominated Seamus, my spell being a bit powerful.

Our next meeting we were doing a levitating spell. Harry helped Cho and she couldn't keep staring at him, she dropped Nigel too. After that meeting, the twins and I left some Fever Fudge disguised as heart shaped chocolates for Mr. Filch to eat. It was quite hilarious.

"You're seriously not considering joining that stupid squad are you?" I asked Draco on our way to the Common Room.

"What if I am? You just don't want to be caught with that group of yours do you?" I stopped dead in my tracks. He turned once he saw that I'd stopped walked. "What?" he asked.

"I really hope you were joking about that Draco."

"Look at it this way, I'll join so you won't get caught, by me, if it's someone else, then I'm sorry, but I've got to do what I've got to do." He replied. I let out a huff and started walking again.

"Well at least you're not doing it on purpose." I muttered.

"Oh, so you are in that little group of Potter's, eh?" he teased. I pushed his shoulders making him stumble a little bit. Draco and I had gotten to know each other better than we had when I was actually living with him. I think he is somewhat better here than he is at home because he has to live up to his father's expectations. When he's around me, he's actually pretty decent.

It was finally time for Christmas break; we were having our last meeting before then. We had even set up a Christmas tree in the Room of Requirement. Neville had finally passed the disarming spell.

"So, that's it for this lesson, now we won't be meeting again after the holidays so just keep practicing on your own as best as you can and, well done." Harry stood in front of us. Everybody left and wished everyone a Happy Christmas. I stood in front of the inspiration mirror, looking at a picture of Cedric. I didn't have nightmares anymore, but I still missed him more than ever. I smiled and left the room.

Later that night I woke up, not being able to go back to sleep. I slipped some shoes on and went down to the Common Room. I made my way for the door.

"Sneaking out, are we?" a voice said. I jumped and turned around, and there was Draco, lying on the couch.

"God damn it, Draco!" I yell whispered.

"So where were you off to?" He asked getting up from the couch. I debated weather taking him or not, but I did anyway.

"Nyx, where are we going?" Draco asked as I pulled him along with me, checking to see if anyone was out patrolling.

"Just keep up." I whispered. I stood in front of an empty wall thinking of what I wanted. The wall began changing into a door. Once it had, I pushed it open.

"Come on." I ushered Draco inside. We walked in and the door closed behind us.

"So this is where you're little group has been meeting." He said looking around. I walked up to the mirror with Cedric's picture and stood there staring at it. Draco came up behind me.

"You really miss him don't you?" He whispered.

"Well, of course, it's only natural to." I stared at his picture.

"I hate to admit it, but he was a good guy." I turned around to Draco when he said this. I looked into those icy blue eyes I get lost in, wait, what was I thinking? It was quiet all of the sudden. Draco broke our gaze and looked up; I looked up as well wondering what he was staring at. It was mistletoe.

"Did you do that?" I asked quietly.

"No, did you?" he whispered. I looked back at him. We both leaned forward and before you know it, his lips were on mine. Our lips moved in sync, this is something that I never thought would happen. I opened my mouth slightly and felt his tongue hit mine. Draco's kisses were nothing like Cedric's. Cedric's were always warm and right, but Draco's his were slow and made my lips tingle. After a while I slowly broke away from him.

"You won't tell anyone about where we practice, right?" I whispered to him.

"No, I won't." he softly said. We made our way back to our dorms and for the first time in a while, I had gotten a peaceful sleep.