I sat there silently for a moment trying to process the information that had just been given to me by Draco. Why Harry thought he couldn't tell me this blew my mind, I shared with him my Deepest darkest secret yet he couldn't tell me this. All I wanted to do was stand up and run to the Gryffindor commonroom to confront Harry but the energy had been sucked from within me.

Whilst all the thoughts were running through my mind I forgot where I was, I forgot who was next to me. Not only had I managed to ruin me trying to stay away from Draco but I also had felt betrayal like I hadn't felt for a long time. I looked down to my hands before rising to my feet, I looked over to Draco his eyes still on me, I took a deep breath. It was time to go back to my room, I shouldn't stay here for any longer it would only make it worse.

"I'm going to go" I looked down to the ground to avoid eye contact with him.

"You could help us find them" Draco spoke softly. "If your mad? You could help us?"

And betray my closest friend here? No. Then I would just be as bad as him. I needed to talk to Harry face to face to see what he had to say for himself. Draco pulled himself up from the sofa, I watched as he began to slowly walk away but before he reached the door he turned around to look at me.

"Just something to think about." His face never changed, he turned back around and headed out the door to return to his room.

"Urghhh!" I threw my head into my hands. Why couldn't things with him just be simple? Why did it have to be this complicated?

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"You're ready early Ivy!" Pansy's face in a jokingly shocked state.

"Yeah well I need to talk to Harry." I threw the rest of my books back into my bag with very little care.

"And why would you want to do that?" She rolled her eyes.

"I just need to go through some stuff with him." I flashed her a quick smile and then headed out the door. I knew my best bet was to wait outside the Gryffindor common room before he came out.

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I waited a while, a couple Gryffindors trickled past then I heard his voice. He stepped outside the door and began his descend down the steps.

"Harry!" I accidentally shouted louder than was necessary. His face flew round in shock, usually when he saw me his face would light up slightly but today it just grew more concern.

"Ivy? Are you ok?"

"I just needed to ask something" I smiled

"Oh I'm just in a bit of a rush I-."

"It will only take a second." I watched his mind scatter around until I guess he admitted he couldn't find a reason to get away from me. He quickly took the few steps towards me.

"So what's up?" It was strange to see Harry like this, not smiling but instead deadly serious.

"I was just wondering if you were ok? I mean you haven't really spoken to me properly in ages. I was just wanting to know if there was anything going on that I could help with or for you just to talk to me about" I figured there was no point in just accusing the guy, I mean Draco could be wrong and anyway I know Harry, he won't keep this from me.

"Ermm..no, I'm fine. Now I really have to go" without even a goodbye he caught up to Hermoine and Ron and began darting out of sight leaving me on the stairs furious and betrayed. What an absolute cock Harry Potter is. Why wouldn't he trust me to tell me what he's doing? What because I'm a Slytherin? I thought we were passed this, I literally poured my heart out to him just before summer and what now he thinks it ok to just ignore me? To just leave me to one side?

I realised there and then that Harry clearly was no friend of mine if that's how I was going to be treated. Apart from Pansy he was the only person I was close to and yet here I am the only person to be honest with me was Draco Malfoy for Christ sake and the only person that cared about my feelings was Pansy Parkinson. Both who happen to Slytherin. Clearly the house you were in really didn't matter, being in goody two shoes Gryffindor didn't make you a saint but a back stabbing jerk.

The anger was furiously burning through my veins. I began storming up the stairs, I knew where I needed to go. As I turned the corner someone knocked into me, it was Seamus.

"Urgh, MOVE!" I snapped in Seamus' face. I looked as his eyes widened before jolting out the way. I stopped for a second, I shook off my little explosion at Seamus and carried on walking. That was the first time I had ever done anything that reminded me of my mother. The fire that she had when someone even slightly bothered her would make me cringe sometimes especially when they weren't doing anything wrong but here I was doing the exact same.

I reached The Great Hall and stormed through a group of students leaving.

"Woah"

"Hey watch it"

The commotion caused the face I was heading for to look up from his plate, his eyebrows furrowed once he realised I was heading straight for him.

I got to the table and slapped my hands down onto the cold wood table.

"I'm in" something I may grow to regret but at least for now it felt like my only option. I saw the confusion run across his minions faces as they had no idea what I was on about but I didn't care because Draco did. His face filled with a smirk before he gave me a subtle nod of approvance. I turned around and began to walk away, just knowing that Draco was happy with me elated my body, urgh how pathetic of me but I couldn't stop smiling as I stormed back out the Hall. The power I held just then I felt like a superhero. His smirk, his nod everything was ringing round my head. The adrenaline was oozing round my body. I felt invincible.

Maybe the next time Harry Potter thinks about screwing me over, he'll have second thoughts.