A/N: Hello Lovelies. This chapter is a bit different than Adelines and I would recommend reading both, as always ;) Have an amazing read y'all (No TW)

"Ronald, scoot over. The bench isn't big enough for you to take up all the room!" Hermione was yelling at Ron for sitting in the middle of the long seat. It wouldn't have mattered if all 6 of us hadn't needed to scrunch together. There were way more students in this class, compared to all the others... that was probably why we had to take three sessions a week.

"Why's she always so bossy?" Ron groaned while scooting closer to Harry. Harry and I chuckled.

"Well maybe if you didn't take up the whole bloody bench, she wouldn't have to tell you to move," Adeline added and Ron stared at her, Hermione seemed to appreciate it though. Easton was joining the five of us for some reason. Don't get me wrong, he was more than welcome, but he seemed a bit uncomfortable with the scenario.

The door slammed behind us and all heads turned to watch a man in long black robes walk down the row between the desks. I recognized him from last night, he was the one Cedric had us James Bond our way past. Once he reached the end of the aisleway, he focused specifically on Adeline and me. He seemed to be particularly interested in Addy, his eyes looking over her as if she was some unsolved puzzle.

Why were we right at the front? He was literally staring down at us just a foot away and I was extremely uncomfortable.

"Miss Finley. Miss Bloom. Welcome to Hogwarts," He said, his voice devoid of any sort of emotion. He seemed rather disgusted at our presence, but he sounded disgusted the night before as well so maybe that's just what he sounded like normally. He began to scan the room instead of us, and Addy turned to me with her eyebrows raised. I shrugged my shoulders in response, something I seemed to be doing a lot lately.

"For those of you who don't know, I'm Professor Snape. In my classroom, there will be no talking when I'm talking. This is a potions classroom. Not social hour. You are expected to do the work I give you. No exceptions," He drawled and I widened my eyes. Way to suck the fun out of the room, Jiminy Christmas... this man was certainly an interesting character.

"I'll assign you with your lab partners in a few moments. You will be paired up with someone from another house. You all need to get potions textbooks from the library tonight and have them by tomorrow," I didn't mind the different house thing, I had tons of friends from different houses in the class! Chances were pretty high that I'd be paired up with one of them.

He scanned the silent classroom before pulling a sheet of paper off of his desk. "I'll put you into pairs now and once I do, go sit with your partner. These will be your partners for the rest of the year, no exceptions."

"Potter, you're with Chang, Weasley with Crabbe." He went through the list with a bunch of names I didn't recognize, eventually, most of the class was sorted. At our desk, only Easton, Addy, and I sat. Maybe he was going to place me with Adeline since we were new?

"Malfoy and Bloom."

My stomach dropped and my mouth went dry, there was no way. I looked at Snape and then Draco quickly, Draco seemed just as surprised. I turned to Adeline and she looked like she was about to argue, which of course she did.

"What! No!" Addy slammed her hands on the table in a panic. The room looked towards her and Snape directed a glare her way.

"Excuse me, Miss Finley."

"Sorry, nothing," Snape looked away from Addy and continued on with his list. I turned to Adeline and she seemed desperate to get the thought out of her head that Draco and I were even going to be next to each other.

"I'll talk to him." She furrowed her eyebrows. What did she think was gonna happen, it's not like he was gonna murder me... probably.

"Adeline no. It's fine," I gave her a reassuring smile and furrowed my eyebrows in determination.

Before she could object, I turned around and made my way to the Slytherin. He watched me intently as I walked over to him and my face turned slightly red at his intense stare. As if challenging Adeline he smirked at me. I could practically hear Adeline's blood boiling.

"Finley with Parr," Snape finally finished and Adeline turned her attention back to Easton. I sat on the seat with Draco, as far down the bench as possible mind you. He didn't say a word and I was okay with the silence we had at the moment.

"There is a review sheet on your desk. Complete it and then set it on my desk when you're finished. Work with your partner on it," Professor Snape said with extra pronunciation, for some odd reason. I pulled the review sheet towards the middle of us, half expecting Malfoy to straight-up ignore me the whole time. How come we had a review sheet when we had learned nothing to review yet?

I noticed Adeline send a worried glance towards us and I mouthed, 'I'm fine' to her. He hadn't even said or done anything and I doubted he would. I focused my gaze onto the paper slightly shifting it closer to me when he didn't look like he was going to participate, instead he sat back and seemed annoyed at the fact that we were existing.

I wrote quietly on the review sheet by myself, I didn't need him to do anything and I'd rather he sat there pouting than insulting me. Even if that meant I ended up doing all the work... gosh this was going to be a long year.

"I can't believe I got paired with the mudblooded Hufflepuff," He mumbled loud enough for me to hear. My hand stopped writing for a second but I quickly restarted to fill out the question.

I ignored the statement but I think he saw my grip tighten on my quill because he sat up in interest. He couldn't go 5 minutes without insulting someone, could he? And was mudblood the only freaking thing he could say?

"Not so tough without your guard dog around huh?" He sneered and I stopped writing. My solution of ignoring him was looking quite boring at the minute. I wanted to grab him by his pretentious hair and toss him into the hallway. Guard dog? Who does he think he is?

"I don't need anyone to protect me, she was just being a good friend. Now, are you going to help me with this or am I doing it myself?" I asked him and he scoffed. Leaning back into his chair in boredom again, I took that as a no and turned back to the assignment.

The questions were fairly easy, but it was difficult to figure them all out by myself... we had learned different things at Ilvermorny. It had been about 20 minutes and I was still working on the dumb questionnaire thingy when my mind blanked... Was it ginger root or ginger extract?

"Can't you write any faster? Everyone else is practically finished already," Malfoy piped up again. I looked up in disbelief, he was going to complain about my work when he wasn't even doing anything?

"I'm trying," I grumbled. Sure a few people had already turned theirs in, but not everyone was finished just yet.

"Well try harder," He snapped before leaning back again. I held my tongue as it wouldn't have said any nice things. Instead, I leaned back and pushed the paper forward as if I was done. He stared at me like he was expecting me to do something.

"Well, your highness, if you want it done quickly you'll need to finish it yourself," I said with a smile. He seemed to be in shock, his eyes darting between me and the parchment.

"Yeah right. I'm not doing a single thing with or for you," He put extra disgust on the "you." When I didn't start writing again, he just smiled wickedly as if he just came up with something.

"Pick up the quill and write, now," He said in an incredibly intimidating voice as he turned in his chair and made direct eye contact with me. My face went warm and I couldn't get a word out. How did he...

"Ex-excuse me?" I asked in a bit of shock. He seemed to have full confidence in himself, as if just saying it straight up would make me want to write.

"You heard me," He didn't break eye contact and my face lit up to an incredibly bright red. I understood what he was doing now, he was trying to intimidate me into doing his work. He couldn't do anything to me, even if he wanted to. Other people may have fallen for this stupid power trip but I wasn't.

"No," I said, steadying my voice quickly.

"What did you just say?"

"You heard me," I stood my ground, I had made sure to say it exactly as he did just a few seconds ago. I figured I was doing quite well.

He seemed confused that it didn't work, as if people always bowed down to his feet when he used his big boy voice. He then went back to throwing his hissy fit and I sat back against my chair, leaving my quill on the table. If we failed then we failed, I'm not going to do this all year.

"It's ginger root."

I whipped my head towards him, I had to hold the triumphant smile back, "What?"

"The answer to number 18, it's ginger root. We learned that in the first year of potions," He scoffed. I ignored his tone and smiled, I had won! I made sure he saw my smile before I returned to writing on the paper.

"Thank you," I said sincerely and he seemed surprised. Had no one ever thanked him before?

The rest of the class went by quickly as whenever I had a question I would just ask him. He seemed a bit nicer than earlier but still had to make it sound like it was a dumb question, even when he didn't know the answer right away either. He wasn't actually that bad at potions, he obviously knew more than I did.

"Okay, that was the last one," I smiled and stood up. We got done a lot quicker with Draco helping and had even finished before a few other students. He didn't say anything and instead just angrily twirled one of his many rings around his finger. He had extremely attractive hands, whew.

He suddenly looked up at me and I quickly diverted my eyes away from him, continuing my walk up front. Snape stared down at my paper before saying, "Thank you, Miss Bloom."

I smiled and nodded before walking back to the desk. I made eye contact with the blonde again and he smirked, my heart fluttered slightly. His smile was extremely cute and it was hard not to pay any mind to it.

"I almost got to you," He said leaning back into his chair as if he had won some bet. I looked at him confused, "Earlier, when I mentioned Finley."

"I don't know what you're talking about," I sat back down. Yes, he did almost get me... almost got me to slap him.

"I think you do," Draco said with a sneer.

"Don't speak about my friends like that and we won't have an issue, okay? Especially Finley," I said in a serious voice. He straight up laughed, but it was more in a mocking tone than in a sincere one.

"What are you going to do? Glare at me? Go tattletale to a teacher? Oh no, you wouldn't do either of those things, would you? No, you'd go get your little bodyguard," He was attempting to break me for some reason. I wasn't going to let him get the satisfaction, until he crossed the line.

"You know all it would take is one word from me to my father and your little friend would be expelled," He looked at me as if it was a challenge. He won this one.

My eyes shot up to his face and I glared at him, "You wouldn't dare."

"You want to put that theory to the test? It doesn't make any difference to me whether you're here or not," He threatened and my eyes shot down to the desk. I wasn't willing to take that chance.

"Tell your little guard dog," He emphasized, knowing I hated that. I grabbed the desk so tight my knuckles turned white, "that the next time she threatens me, she'll be the one who'll be regretting it"

"Too afraid to tell her yourself?" I scoffed and his eyes clouded with anger.

"You wouldn't speak to me like that if you knew all the things I could do to you. I can ruin your life faster than you can even imagine. Don't make me your enemy Bloom," He practically growled. I was too angry to think twice about it, even considering the threat from just a few seconds earlier.

"You don't scare me Draco Malfoy. You're just another bully," I said as confidently as I could. It was kinda hard to stare this boy in the eyes, pretending like his connections could make my life a living hell. I had a bit more respect for Adeline's courage in DADA.

"Oh really?" Another smirk arose on his face and I rolled my eyes. I took a few breaths to calm down, Draco didn't deserve any sort of reaction from me.

"Really," I looked at him with a smile and looked over to something random, signaling that I was ready for this conversation to be completely over.

"How about when I made you flustered," He said it off handedly, as if it didn't mean much. I almost choked on my own spit in surprise. His triumphant smile returned once again and I wanted to crawl under the table, "I think you even blushed."

"Don't flatter yourself, I didn't blush," I lied. My cheeks began to heat up again and I cursed myself. I brought up my hand and rested my face on it in an attempt to hide it.

"Yes, you did."

"No... I didn't."

A bell sounded and I put my hand down, spinning away quickly in hopes he didn't see my red face. I put my faith in the wrong place.

"Your face was as red as your ugly hair Bloom... much like this very moment," He laughed. The ugly part hurt a tiny bit but I just turned around and looked at him. He leaned forward, probably expecting me to lash out another insult.

"Goodbye, Malfoy. I hope you have a wonderful day," I said with a soft smile, with as much kindness as I could muster. 

His face faltered and I realized something... kindness was truly the best defense against him. He didn't know how to react, and I was able to leave without another insult. I didn't look back but I knew it would not be the last time he spoke to me.

Draco seemed desperate to get me to hate him, he was pushing for me to get riled up... and he didn't seem like the person to give up so easily.

"Are you okay? Did he say something to you? I'll-" Adeline started firing out questions faster than I could answer.

"Adeline! I'm fine, chill out," I interrupted her. Before she could say anything else I added, "I'm serious. I'm just fine, I can handle myself."

"I know you can, I just don't want him to be a prat to you," She grumbled. I considered the fact that she may have just been looking for any excuse to pummel the blonde. I was going to have to inform her about Draco's threat later, as Easton walked up and placed a hand on Addy's shoulder. He was about three inches taller and she looked up at him slightly.

"Adeline, she said she's fine. If he does anything else, we'll give you permission to land your fist into his face, but he hasn't done anything yet," He said with a bargaining tone.

"Exactly, thank you, Easton," I smiled at the boy and he returned it.

"Okay, fine. Can we go now? I'm hungry," Adeline stated and my stomach agreed with her. 

We began to follow Harry, Hermione, and Ron out of the classroom. I looked back to see that everyone had already left, but Professor Snape was staring right at Adeline. I gulped and furrowed my eyebrows at him, he kept looking at her and it was making me uncomfortable.

I turned back towards the group and thought about why he was so interested in her... maybe he knew our parents? We eventually made it to the great hall and Easton split off to go eat with the Ravenclaw table.

"You know we can eat breakfast and lunch with whoever, right?" I asked Addy as we headed towards the left side of the room.

"We can? I thought it was all assigned by houses.," Adeline looked up at the groups of people.

"Yeah, we only have to sit with our houses for certain feasts."

"Oh, that's nice." We walked over to the same table we sat at this morning, but Addy saw Fred and George sitting close to Cedric and Pierre, so that's where we sat down. I sat next to Adeline, right in front of Cedric. He smiled at me in a greeting and I returned it.

"Look who it is! How were your classes?" Pierre asked first. He liked to be inclusive and I thought it was sweet of him.

"Yeah, they were alright," Addy said, her shoulders shrugging a bit. I was going to share about my day until Fred interjected.

"You mean alright because you threatened to push Malfoy down the stairs, or alright because you actually shoved him in front of half the class?" Fred asked while George stared over his shoulder. I was taking a drink of water and I almost spit it all over Cedric in surprise. That got around fast.

"You did what!" Cedric's voice wasn't a yell, but it was definitely laced with concern. I stared at the group of older boys and I wanted to leave the table.

"Thank you, Fred. Thank you so much," Adeline sarcastically turned to the redhead with a frown. Fred just looked at his plate, he didn't seem to be very impressed with the situation. I would have thought he would even encourage a rivalry like this one.

Cedric seemed to be waiting for a reply, Pierre sat with his mouth open, his spoon still in his soup, and I squirmed. Draco seemed to have the whole freaking school wrapped around his fingers... well rather his father's fingers. I awkwardly took another drink of water when Adeline started to explain.

"What? He was making fun of us and I wasn't gonna let him just walk all over us like that. Harry agreed that he deserved it," Adeline muttered the last part but we all heard it. She turned to Fred and leaned over the table to look at him, "And how did you even find out? You weren't even there."

"It went around the school pretty fast." Fred said like it was common. Adeline then glanced towards Cedric who still looked like a disappointed father,

"What!" She asked, or really yelled at him. Pierre sighed and then focused on his soup instead of the awkward table.

"You can't just go around shoving people. Especially Malfoy. His father could get you expelled," Cedric scolded quietly, as to not draw too much attention to Adeline. Cedric literally was spot on, Draco Malfoy was gonna go tattle to his father about a girl pushing him.

"Yeah well, he shouldn't go around calling Juliet a mudblood and telling her to trip down the stairs with her robes," Adeline said angrily and I looked at her slightly, I did not want to be the subject of conversation.

Cedric put his face into his hands in frustration, like a Dad who calculated taxes wrong or something.

"Sorry, but I don't just take insults lightly," Addy sighed.

"She even told him he'd regret it if he ever insulted her again," Fred added and I looked at him. He had to be doing this on purpose now.

"Fred! Shut up!" Adeline looked at him with a why-are-you-like-this? look.

"Hey, guys! What did I miss?" Lottie suddenly interjected with a smile before she sat down at the table with a smile on her face. I was grateful for the opportunity to change the conversation until Pierre spoke up.

"Oh we were just talking about how Adeline here threatened the Slytherin prince," He said.  Okay were Fred and Pierre just out to ruin Adeline's day or something? Addy slammed her head into the table and stayed there.

"Oh...yeah I heard about that," Jiminy Christmas news did travel fast.

"All I'm saying is that you need to be careful with him because he will find a way to make the consequences worse for you," Cedric's voice was softer this time. I really needed to tell her about the scenario in potions before I forgot.

"Okay, okay," Adeline groaned, finally lifting her head from the wooden table. She then scooped some soup out of the large bowl on the table into her own bowl. I did the same as she asked the twins a question.

"George, Easton told me to ask you about quidditch. How do I try out?"

"Angelina Johnson is the captain, so you'll have to talk to her but I can get you a spare practice uniform so you can come to the first one. She should be fine with it, we need a few more players anyway." He kept his eyes on the food in front of him. I looked at Cedric on the topic of quidditch but he was still staring at Adeline in concern.

Okay, I understand that these things "take time" but this was taking forever. They were both obviously crushing, they should've just kissed instead of dancing around each other with glances and smiles. It was physically hard to watch... and it had only been like 3 days! Adeline being completely clueless and Cedric taking his sweet time, I was about to slam my face into my bowl of soup and just drown.

I sighed and then glanced over to the Slytherin table, my eyes washing over the crowd finally landing on a pair of piercing blue eyes. He was looking at me, he didn't pretend like he wasn't. The hall seemed to stop as he raised his eyebrows at me, I set my jaw and turned back to the table. I couldn't tell if it was supposed to serve as a reminder from earlier or if it was something else... Nah, definitely a reminder. Why else would he be looking at me?

A/N:

Whew that was fun, wasn't it!

Hehe, what did you all think about Juliet's interaction with Draco :O

Thanks for reading loves! Vote, and comment if you wish :)

Love, C