Chapter 3: Reactions and Acceptance
The next day was a Saturday, and Jamie woke to the sun shining into her face brightly. She grumbled and rolled over, annoyed, but she decided that she couldn't stay in bed all day, and besides, she wanted to see her boyfriend.
'Boyfriend…..I have a boyfriend!' Jamie couldn't help thinking this as she clambered out of bed. It was strange that she had a boyfriend (not counting Viktor…..he had only wanted one thing. Pervert.), but it was even stranger that her boyfriend was none other than the person who had made her past 6 years at Hogwarts a living hell, the Slytherin Prince himself………Draco Malfoy.
They had stayed up for almost the whole night talking about just different things in general, like their favorite colors, and their favorite books, and their hobbies. Jamie found that Draco was a very sweet, kind-hearted person, and that he wasn't an evil, greasy git. Unfortunately for her, he had discovered that she was ticklish when he poked her in the side and she jumped about a foot off the couch. He then had proceeded to wrestle her down and tickle the living daylights out of her, and she in turn had found out that he was also ticklish, which she used to her advantage.
All those years of them hiding their feelings were wasted, when they could've been together all that time. They had done about 3 years of catching up last night, and plenty of snogging (he was also an amazing kisser!) He was so gentle with her, like she would break if he held her too tightly, and she loved it.
She walked into the bathroom, still half-asleep, so she didn't notice that the shower was going as she bent over the sink to brush her teeth.
The shower turned off, and Draco stepped out with a Slytherin green towel wrapped around his waist. His eye caught Jamie briefly, and then he did a double take. He looked at her back and whistled under his breath.
He thought, 'Holy shit! I never noticed that she had a body like that!' and he continued to stare. She had on an oversized light blue t-shirt with the words "SPICE WORLD" on the back in black. As she bent over the sink to spit, the shirt rose up a little, giving him a heavenly view of her round ass, which was clad in a pair of light blue, boy-cut underwear.
He thanked whatever god was smiling down on him at the moment, and he said, "Wow, babe. Where've you been hiding that killer body?"
Jamie started and spun around, the toothbrush in her mouth, and her eyes grew wide as she noticed that he was wet, and very much shirtless. Her eyes roamed down his body, where a trail of blond hair worked its way down his torso before disappearing under his towel.
Draco grinned as she checked him out, and he said quietly, "Like what you see, love?"
She snapped out of her trance, and she grinned and gave a smirk that rivaled Draco's, saying," Maybe."
He laughed and stepped closer to her as she bent over the sink again to spit and rinse her mouth. She stood and was surprised to see him directly behind her, and he grabbed her and spun her around to face him.
He stroked her hair and stared down at her lovingly, saying, "You're so beautiful" and making her blush and smile. He then leaned down and kissed her. Jamie kissed him back, and he pulled away soon and licked his lips, saying, "Mmmm…..minty." She laughed and said, "Well, just be glad I don't have morning breath."
He then left the bathroom so she could take her shower, and once she came out, she went into her room and stood in front of her full-length mirror, thinking of an outfit.
She grinned, and she dried her hair with her wand, and it fell in a mass of elegant waves and curls to the middle of her back. She then gave herself sideways bangs, and she streaked coffee colored highlights through her hair.
She then flicked her wand over herself, and before she could blink, she was standing in a pair of low ride, faded blue jeans, a tight navy blue t-shirt with the words "FABULOUS AND A TOTAL WITCH" on the front in white, and a pair of white flip flops.
She splashed on some pear-scented body spray, and she looked at the overall effect in her mirror. She decided that she liked it, and that Draco might, too.
She opened the door to her room and walked smack into Draco, who was standing there with his fist raised, about to knock.
She smiled and said, "Hey, you." He smiled back and said, "Hey! You ready to go?" and he then noticed what she was wearing. He stepped back and raked his eyes over her body, grinning and saying, "You look utterly gorgeous, love, and I love what you did with your hair." She pecked him on the cheek, said, "Thanks, Draco" and she grabbed his hand and pulled him down the stairs and out of the common room.
The two walked in a comfortable silence, Draco's arm wrapped around her shoulders and her hand in the back pocket of his jeans. When he noticed that, he whispered, "You just wanted an excuse to grab my ass, didn't you?" and Jamie winked at him and laughed, making him laugh also.
The two stopped just on the side of the Great Hall doors, which were open. Jamie glanced up at Draco, and he kissed her forehead and said, "Here goes nothing."
The two of them walked into the view of the whole school, and everyone went silent immediately. Jamie fidgeted nervously, and Draco squeezed her shoulders reassuringly.
The two of them then walked up the aisle towards the Gryffindor table, and stopped at Harry, Ginny and Ron.
Harry was looking at Jamie as if to say, "What the hell is going on?", Ginny was looking suspiciously at Draco and Ron was glaring at him with so much hatred that Jamie could almost feel it radiating off of him.
Jamie then said, as the chatter started up again, "Guys, can you make room for Draco?" Harry narrowed his eyes at first, then he squeezed over with Ginny, and Jamie and Draco sat on the seat next to them.
Ron's mouth was working furiously, almost as if he was chewing on his tongue to keep from saying anything, and his face was starting to turn red. Apparently, though, it didn't work, because he suddenly yelled out, "What the fuck are you doing over here, Malfoy? Go back and sit with your own kind!"
Draco gritted his teeth and said slowly, "I'd like to enjoy breakfast with my girlfriend, so can you please keep the verbal attacks to a minimum, Weasel-Bee?"
If it was possible, Ron got even redder, and he jumped up and said, "What the hell did you just say? Jamie is not your girlfriend; she'd never date a slimy, manipulative, ugly bastard like you!" The whole Hall had started to stare now, and Jamie said quietly, "Stop" as the silverware in the Great Hall started to rattle slightly.
Draco jumped up and faced off with Ron, saying back, "Well, shows how much you know, Weasel-Bee. She is my girlfriend, and I know everything about her." Ron snorted and said, "Oh, yeah? What could you possibly know about her that I don't already?" Meanwhile, Jamie was still sitting down with her head down, and she was muttering, "Stop it" and the silverware was starting to shake even more violently.
Draco grinned, and crossed his arms, saying, "I know that her favorite color is purple…" but Ron cut him off and said, "That doesn't prove anything, ferret. I've known that for years……" and Draco cut him off and continued, "and green, and blue and black." He then said, "Bet you didn't know she had more than one favorite color, did you, Weasel-Bee?"
Ron didn't say anything, so Draco continued, "Did you know that her favorite book is A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeline L'Engle? Or that she's in love with ancient Greek Mythology, and that her favorite god is Hercules, or that her favorite goddess is Artemis? Did you know that she once broke her ankle because she was climbing a tree with Potter in his backyard when they were five? Did you know that she likes to cook, the muggle way, or that her favorite thing to bake is cherry pie? Did you know that she likes to stargaze when she's thinking, or that her favorite constellation is Orion's Belt? And did you know that she's a hopeless romantic, like me, or that she always dreamed that a handsome prince would sweep her off her feet and they'd live happily ever after, like in fairy tales?"
Ron just stared, dumbfounded, until he found his voice again, and he yelled out, "None of that stuff matters! She doesn't want someone who cares about the little, insignificant things like that! She wants some one to treat her like a prize, SOMEONE LIKE ME! I'VE LOVED HER EVER SINCE 4th YEAR! YOU CAN'T SAY THAT, CAN YOU?"
Draco said, "You really are a fucking idiot, Weasel-Bee…" but before he could finish, Jamie screamed out, 'STOP IT, DAMMIT!!" and she got to her feet quicker than anyone had ever seen her move. Her eyes seemed to crackle with electricity, she was literally shaking with rage, and all the silverware and plates zoomed off the tables and hit the floor with a deafening clang.
There were tears of pure fury in Jamie's eyes, and she directed all that anger towards Ron, screaming at him, "Don't you dare sit there and say that the little things don't matter to me, BECAUSE THEY DO!! I want someone to appreciate the little things, and to do the small gestures that may seem cliché, but still make me smile! I want someone to sit with me and talk about all those things, and I want someone to treat me like a woman, a human being, AND NOT A FUCKING PRIZE TO SIT THERE AND BE SEEN, AND NOT HEARD!! IF YOU BELIEVE THAT I DIDN'T WANT THOSE THINGS, THEN YOU WERE NEVER REALLY MY FUCKING FRIEND TO BEGIN WITH!!"
She then walked up to him and slapped him with such force that his head swung to the side and the sound echoed throughout the Hall. She then muttered, "What kind of friend were you if you never knew any of those things about me?" and he answered, "Harry even knows you better than that ferret….." but she cut him off and yelled out, "FOR MERLIN'S SAKE!! THAT'S BECAUSE HARRY'S KNOWN ME FOR MY WHOLE LIFE, YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!"
The whole Hall was dead quiet now, and Harry actually stood and said, for the first time, "Well, Malf…I mean, Draco, if you really care about Jamie as much as you let on, I'm willing to forgive and forget." He stuck out his hand, and Draco looked at it, then at Harry, and he gripped his hand back and said, "Thanks, Pot…Harry" and Harry said warningly, "Oh, but just to let you know, Jamie's like a sister to me. Hurt her, and I won't hesitate to kill you." Draco winked and said, "Don't worry, Harry. I'll never hurt her."
Ron just looked at Jamie, and he said quietly, "So, this is how it's gonna be, huh? You're gonna give up on what we could have had together, just to date him?" Jamie looked at Ron and said, "I'm sorry, Ron. I really care about him. I might even grow to love him." Ron just clenched his jaw and looked down, then he turned on his heel and stormed out.
Draco watched Ron leave, a satisfied smirk on his face, but when he turned to Jamie, the smirk slid off of his face rapidly. She was standing there, biting her lip and trying to not let the tears fall from her eyes. Draco walked up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder, saying softly, "Jamie, love? You okay?" She then turned and threw her arms around his neck, buried her face in his chest and cried, him holding her and stroking her back gently.
Jamie mumbled against his chest, "I can't believe him. How could he honestly think that I wanted to be someone's trophy wife? He's such a jackass!" Draco grinned and said, "Well, I'll have to agree with you on that, love" and he lifted her face and wiped her tears away, saying, "Are you okay?" She sniffed and nodded, and he leaned down and kissed her on her forehead. Then he, Harry, Jamie and Ginny went outside and sat under the shade of the willow tree by the lake, and the four of them just talked. None of them noticed the figure lurking behind a tree a couple of feet away from them, watching Draco and Jamie intently.
