With Draco in public, you are enemies and rivals. You hate each other with a passion, you make fun of each other, you talk behind each other's backs, and you do anything to make each other's lives more difficult.

In fact, you are having something of an affair. You communicate with each other coldly, formally, but if one of you wants love, then you just tell each other about it and you can hug, kiss, etc., while other people are not looking. You were often huddled in empty classrooms after classes, in sections of the library where almost no one goes, in the outlying grounds of Hogwarts, where no one will see you.

Was it a romance at all? There was no love as such. After bursts of tenderness, everything became just as cold again, you again became the same enemies as before.

During one of your potions classes, you felt someone's gaze on you. You turned your gaze to Draco who was looking at you intently. It was immediately clear from his gaze that he silently asked:"Will you stay with me a little today?"You have already learned this question which hovered in Draco’s eyes with a mixture of feigned hatred.