They were pleased but much less surprised to find that Slughorn had paired them again for a Potions project, and it only took them a day to find their usual seats in the library where few people bothered them and where they could sneak glances at each other more so. Draco even found new excuses to sit closer to her - there was a paragraph he needed her to read - so he could caress her leg under the table. She would still jump out of her seat sometimes when he did it, but after that, she just smiled at him, whenever he asked her to read something with him and scooted her chair over to his.