Complicated

"Draco Malfoy, are you even listening to me?" Blaise Zabini spat, narrowing her blue eyes and flipping her auburn hair over her shoulder. Draco gave her an appraising look.

"Not really, why?" He replied calmly, not at all afraid of the reaction he'd get. He was used to Blaise's fits.

"Because you're my boyfriend, and boyfriends listen!" She glared, placing her hands on her hips. For lack of a better example, Draco smirked and said,

"Weasley doesn't listen when Granger starts bitching." The comment had the desired effect. Blaise's anger flared up, more intense than before. Draco could tell she was close to slapping him.

"How dare you compare me to a Mudblood! I am doing you a favor by going out with you, Draco! There isn't anyone else who looks as good as me!" Blaise shrieked. Crabbe and Goyle nervously backed up. They'd stand next to Draco through almost everything, but not the fury of his girlfriend. The bell to the shop rang and Draco glanced at it to see who it was.

Potter. Just his luck. But then, at the end of the group of Gryffindors, there was a small red head. Draco's eyes widened slightly, and another smirk crossed his features.

"I wouldn't say that." he said to Blaise. Blaise turned her head to look at the front of the store, where her eyes narrowed at the sight of the other red-head.

"That's it, we're through." She hissed at him. Draco shrugged.

"All right," he answered. They'd been "through" several times before; it didn't really hurt Draco either way. His eyes narrowed slightly as Blaise stomped off...towards the group of Gryffindors.

"Damn it, Blaise!" Draco exclaimed under his breath and moved up to the front of the shop to see just exactly what Blaise was going to do to the poor Gryffindor girl.

Ginny was looking through the stands of new candy; Honeydukes would always keep their newest creations and orders near the front.

"Sugar cards?" she asked incrediously, looking at Seamus, who shrugged. He leaned over and picked up a set, and read off the back,

"Sugar Cards...strips of pure sugar, differently flavored! Keep them in your bag and eat them during class, they look just like muggle index cards!" Seamus snorted.

"I suppose they're a sort of companion to sugar quills?" Ginny commented a minute later.

"I dunno; I'd think someone gone mad if I saw them eating them. It makes you look like you're eating paper, which is disguisting." He tossed the packet back into it's proper place. Ginny shook her head and turned around, only to nearly walk straight into an older Slytherin girl, Blaise Zabini.

Ginny took a step backwards.

"Well, well, what do we have here? A Weasley trying to look pretty? That's amusing," Blaise said smoothly. Ginny gave the girl a weird look.

"What do you want?" She demanded. Blaise took a step forward.

"A favor. Quit trying to be something you're not. You're the filth of the Wizarding World, associating with mudbloods. So take your want-to-be pure-blood self and prance back up to the castle." Blaise told her nastily, surveying Ginny with jealousy.

Ginny suddenly knew what was going on. She'd attracted the attention of someone who Blaise didn't want her too. Ginny gave Blaise a sarcastic smile and turned back to Seamus.

"Are you walking away from me? I'm not finished!" Blaise shouted, and the whole of Honeydukes went quiet at the venom in her voice. Ginny slowly turned back around, her brown eyes simmering slightly with annoyance. She glared at Blaise, and shoved right past her, continuing to look at the new sweets.

Blaise's eyes widened. She wasn't used to someone not cowering in fear before her. She stomped over to Ginny, grabbing her robe and spinning her around.

Ginny kept ignoring her, and turned to talk to Seamus.

"Do you smell that?" she said suddenly. Seamus now looked increadibly confused.

"What?" he asked, giving the girl a confused look. Ginny turned to face Blaise.

"That smell..it smells like a tart," Ginny spat the last word at Blaise, who recoiled in surprise and anger. Ginny grinned truimphantly and turned to walk away.

"Look out!" Hermione suddenly shouted. Ginny spun around to see that Blaise had her wand out and was muttering a spell.

Ginny's hand shot for her wand, but she knew it wouldn't be fast enough.

"Impedimedia!" A voice shattered the tensed silence. Blaise froze. Ginny looked around to see who had shouted the spell, and saw Draco Malfoy pushing his way through the crowd.

"Sorry about that." he muttered in Ginny's ear, then proceeded to go over to Blaise.

"Blaise, I hope you know that you're a real bitch," Draco proclaimed to his ex. "I'm going to take you outside so you can cool off." With that, Draco picked the girl up, taking the spell off her.

Blaise began to curse and kick and slap Draco, but he was not deterred. He opened the door to Honeydukes and dropped her in a bank of snow. Then he walked back inside, straightening his cloak.

His plans were to lurk in the back of Honeydukes for a while; he hadn't really been looking for that much attention. He pulled a paperback book out of the pocket of his pants. It was old, torn up and folded, but he settled down in a corner and began to read.