The words I never expected to hear. The words I'd longed for, for a year and now I was stood there not knowing how to absorb it.

"Ivy? Did you hear what I said" Draco snapped

"I heard you" my voice was weak

"So?" He began to edge his way towards me, I soaked in each footstep. With every soft bang of his shoes hitting the floor the adrenaline in my body magnified. He reached me in no time, his eyes flittering all around my face, I watched as he took a deep breath when his eyes finally settled on my lips, the feel of his thumb traced my wrist bone. I looked down to his hand, his touch was so soft but it filled my body with an unbelievable wave of heat. My breathing was beginning to spiral. Suddenly his finger was on the bottom of my chin and in one swift movement he pulled my head up to so I was looking straight into his eyes, my neck was stretched up and I felt myself begin to lose my strength under his control.

I watched as his mouth opened slightly, his lips leaving each other. He never took his eyes off me. Not once.

"Are you going to answer me Ivy or am I going to have to force it out of you?" His words sent a fire into my core. Knowing that he could do anything he wanted, I was weak to his touch. The control he had over me, the control I allowed him to have. The burning feeling at the back of my head became more present, trying to tell me everything I had told myself before walking into his room. This wasn't how my year was going to be. Playing along to his games, allowing him to have a power over me that obstructed me from my life. No. Whatever his words were now, they were part time. He never had an attention of being mine. Instead I was just his. Like his toy.

"I'm sorry you can't get me out of your mind Draco, you didn't enter mine" with that he let go of my face and took a step back. I quickly turned around and got myself out the door, with a fast pace I shot myself to the end of the corridor before I found a wall out of anyone's eyes to fall back on. I felt I could collapse.

My words were lies of course. He had never left my mind. He owned it but this wasn't how it was going to be. I could of been nice but I knew he would of just manipulated them to make me look an idiot and him the victor and I wasn't allowing him to win again. No, this time he had to have a taste of the feel of pure rejection, to tear something away as quick as you gave it. He needed to know that feeling because I knew fine well from his attitude in life it wasn't a regular occurrence. He had everyone at his beck and call and I wasn't about to be one of them. No matter the power he had over me, I wasn't allowing myself to be someone's property I had more pride than that and besides I made a promise to myself and I was going to do everything I could to keep which I don't think should be a problem after tonight's events.

After my body went back to normal I started my short walk to my room when a sudden thought flew into my mind. Pansy! Why would she of said to me that Draco wanted to talk to me when he never even saw her! This gave me the motivation I needed to pick up my pace and soon enough I was outside my door. I swung it open, eyebrows furrowed and arms crossed.

"So...I found Draco!" Pansy looked up at me with a sheepish smile. "You never saw Draco did you?" She let out a sigh and placed the remainder of items in her arms on the bed before returning to look back at me.

She crossed her arms as if to replicate me "It was never Harry was it? It was Draco."

I rolled my eyes in resentment "...Yes...how did you-."

"It didn't take a genius, I was EXTREMELY bored over summer and I got to thinking about how upset you'd been and then things just didn't add up. When you had been with 'Harry' when you were...well flushed, I had seen him moments before I walked to my room which can only of been a minute or two before you and he was with Hermione and Ron. Then in the Great Hall when you kept staring at the door I figured you were waiting for something or maybe just nervous but then I remembered over hearing Crabbe say that Draco was in a right queer mood all worked up and flustered and didn't want to come down. Then loads of other pieces began fixing together and I realised it would be impossible for it to be Harry and then it hit me....Draco."

I slumped my way over to my bed and threw myself back onto it whilst releasing a very loud sigh.

"Well...you aren't wrong." I covered my eyes with my palms.

"Ok well if that's the case then I want to know every. Single. Detail."

-

"So what you're just going to 'forget him'" Pansy rolled her eyes at me.

"Yes! He can't mess me around the way he does! I'm not wasting another year wondering "maybe he does really like me he's just shy" or "maybe he's so mad for me that he doesn't know how to act" it's just a waste of my time!" I huffed

"Yes that's fair but god...if a boy had that sort of affect on me...I don't know if there's anything I could do" I watched her daydream for a moment before coming back down to Earth. "But Draco really is a cock and that won't change."

"I learned that" I giggled

"So...what are you going to then?"

I hadn't figured that out yet.