I strolled into the girl's dorm ignoring the idiotic comments as I made my way to my trunk. I opened it and rummaged through it silently trying to find some clean socks and my scarf.

"So, rough night out there, Lore?" my friend Michelle smiled at me from my bed. "I was waiting for you all night Lorey, but you never came. Are you cheating on me again?" Her grey eyes sparkled with mock sadness. I stared at her with a rather stupid look on my face and we both started laughing.

"I'm sowwy Michelle, I must have lost track of time, and you were never supposed to know!" We started laughing harder at this.

She threw a pair of socks at me as I stood up to go to the bathroom and shower, "Here you can borrow these!"

I looked at them; they were her favorite pair of socks. Thigh-high, green and black striped, and way to tight to not cut off all circulation to the rest of your legs. Oh so fitting to go with what I normally wear.

Draco fidgeted as we walked to our first class. "Ugh, I hate Divination, Trelawny is such a crack pot. I mean, I swear she must be a Mudblood or a squib or something!"

I stopped and stared at him, my eyes glistening, my hair now a burning red, "Draco, how dare you say something like that!" I threw my books at him and stormed off to the classroom.

"Lore! Wait, I didn't mean it! It slipped!" He stared off after me in disbelief.

I reached the stairs to the classroom and fell crying. Michelle looked down from the classroom and saw me curled at the base of the stairs my hair a velvety black.

"Baby girl, what's wrong?! Did that ass break up with you?" Michelle's voice was laced with anger, fear, and apprehension.

"Worse, he was talking about Trelawny and said the m word and the s word in the same sentence. In the same context." I sniffled as Draco finally got here.

"Lore, I'm sorry," he gently pushed Michelle away from me and cupped my chin in his hand. "Lore, you know how I get, how I used to be. Sometimes all of that comes back and I can't help it. I would never try and hurt you. And I know you know that."

I looked away, tears still coming down my face, "Draco, you promised."

"I know I did Lore, I know I did," he grabbed my shoulders and helped my up while Michelle grabbed the books he so unceremoniously threw to the ground.