all strings attached. draco malfoy.

three.

aurora's point of view.

I breathed heavily, an annoyed look upon my face. how was I supposed to sneak out of my dorm, though the common room, the halls, and into the hallways, then into the tower.

the thought of spending the night at the tower, with malfoy made me feel butterflies again, I couldn't even explain it. no one had ever made me feel this way, in my life. especially not ron. 'this isn't right, you shouldn't be feeling this way about him. someone who made your friends lives hell.' my thoughts were running wild as I snuck around the school.

I successfully got out of the school. heading towards the astronomy tower. taking in a few deep breathes. its just helping him study, nothing more.

potions was malfoy's favorite class, I couldn't help but wonder why he was struggling so much.

as I made it to the top of the tower, I immediately spotted malfoy on the floor, surrounded by books, intently scanning a newspaper.

I breathed in heavily, walking over to him, draco quickly acknowledging my presence, looking up at me, and nodding for me to sit down across him. I nodded slightly and sat down across form him, setting my books on the floor.

no wander he wanted to meet in the tower, no one ever came up here. there would be no eyes on us, no rumors about him and i.

I opened one of my books, looking at the stressed blonde across me. "so where do you want to start?" I asked tilting my head a little bit. the butterflies that had left appeared once again by just looking at the male.

malfoy scooted a bit closer to me casually, invading my personal space as he leaned over my potions book, flipping through the pages until he found a rather large chapter in the middle of the book. "I was thinking about here." he spoke, pointing to the beginning of a paragraph, looking over at me.

I nodded while we both scanned over the book, occasionally our eyes wondering to each other and then back to the book.

"so the polyjuice potion. what does it do?" I asked looking him in his stone cold blue eyes. he took a breathe before responding "that's the potion that lets you assume the form of someone else." I nodded at him a small smile forming on my face. "and how long does it take to make?" I asked again

"a month because the lacewing files have to be stewed for 21 days." he spoke confidently.

"good job malfoy, all that was correct." I smiled going to flip the page, but his hand stopping mine with his hand laying on top. he shook his head "lets just talk, we studied a little and it seems to work because I remembered."

I pulled my hand away closing the books, before leaning back waiting for him to speak. it was quite for a moment before he spoke again, running his hand through his hair. "so you and weasely are back together, I see." another ping of jealously crossed his face, but once again it left as fast as it came.

I shook my head sitting up, "no, we aren't. I mean we aren't official anymore, its been a rocky summer." malfoy didn't speak he just nodded closing all of his book, pushing them aside "good." he spoke inna deep voice.

good? he wasn't even speaking to me for the past two weeks. despite my better judgement , and not really wanting to know the answer. I spoke out looking anywhere but at the boy across from me "so you and pansy?" as soon as I finished the sentence, draco was making gagging noises. "bloody hell. why would you think such a thing?" he groaned.

I let out a laugh, not one of those laughs I have been forcing for the last couple of months. it was a guiene laugh, I noticed malfoy staring at me for a second before he looked away.

the next couple of hours we had just talked about our families, school, and how far we want away from our families when we are finally out of school.

the hours I spent with him I had felt more like myself, than the last two weeks with my friends. I was staring to see that he wasn't as bad as everyone made him out to be. hearing about his father I understand why he is the way he is, and why he is so standoffish and rude.

all he has ever wanted was his fathers approval.

I rolled over to where I was laying on my stomach "so why are you struggling so much? potions is your favorite class." I study his face, it was as if he was looking for an appropriate answer. malfoy let out a sigh. "my head hasn't been in it recently. its like everything is just clouding my head. I don't really want to talk about it."

when he spoke his voice wasn't harsh and rough like it normally was. this time it was soft. I nodded I completely understood.

"I figured it would be somewhat nice, and efficient to have some study company." he said back in his original tone, looking down at his watch he let out a soft sigh. "well we should probably get back, wouldn't want to get caught." he stood up reaching a hand out grabbing mine.

I took his hand and stood up with a small smile on my face, before I could grab my books malfoy already had them in his hands handing them to me.

by the time I had gotten back to my dorm, I was to tired to shower so I put a sweater on before diving in my bed.

"aurora, aurora, AURORA." I rolled over opening my eyes, seeing hermione standing over me already dressed. "breakfast is starting soon, you slept through the alarm." I nodded sitting up running my hands through my hair.

a smile appeared on my face, all the memories from last night flooding into my head. the study session went way better than I could have even imagined.

I put on my uniform, pulling my skirt up a little more than usual, and throwing my hair into a messy bun.

hermione and I where walking into the common room, the same time harry and ron appeared. ron had motioned for me to walk over to where he was. I made my way over there us being separate from the other two.

I let out a small smile, sitting down on the couch with him. he cleared his voice before speaking. "so like, I was thinking what if we got back together? officially?" I didn't even answer, I just leaned in and kissed him.

hand in hand we walked to the dinning hall,  some people looking and whispering about us being back together, and some just stuffing their faces.

as we sat down, I just grabbed some yogurt with fruits, ron on the other hand had every type of breakfast food.

I felt like daggers where being shot at my back, I didn't want to turn around because I knew who I could be facing. my better judgement had went completely out the window as I turned around to see malfoy sitting at his table.

his hand was in a fist, you could see the white of his knuckles. his eyes wandered down to mine and rons hands. if look could kill we would most definitely be dead.

I mean last night I told him that we weren't together and then today we are now holding hands.

I let out a soft sigh before turning back around, eating my food trying to ignore the glare that was being sent my way. loosing my appetite, i pushed the plate towards ron. that boy could and would eat anything.

we are supposed to study again tonight and at this point I don't even know how it will go. maybe he will forget by the time studying comes around.