Author's Notes: Hey readers. Are you surprised? A New chapter only 2 days after the last one. I hope you like it and I how Blaise isn't too OOC.
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Draco apparated just outside the gates of Malfoy manor. He quickly walked across the gardens and through the front door before making his way up stairs to his room so he could change out of his dirty shirt and cloak. He opened his bedroom door to find his best friend, Blaise Zabini, lying on his bed. Blaise looked at Draco from over the top of the muggle newspaper he was reading.
"Draco my man, where have you been, I've been waiting for hours?" Blaise asked with a bored sigh.
"Diagon Alley," Draco answered as he took his cloak off and flung it on his bed. "And I've only been gone an hour so don't over exaggerate. Why didn't you ask my mother or Mitty where I was?" He asked Blaise whilst unbuttoning his dirty shirt and walking over to his walk in wardrobe to find a clean shirt.
"I haven't seen them my man." Blaise replied as he folded the newspaper up.
"You mean you flooed directly to my bedroom, noticed I wasn't there so decided to lie on my bed, with your shoes on, and wait for me." Draco said slightly annoyed.
"Yeah, something like that."
Draco sighed as he walked out of his walk in wardrobe with a clean shirt and threw the dirty shirt on top of his cloak.
"What's got your wand in a knot and what happened to your cloak and shirt?" Blaise asked curiously whilst kicking his shoes off.
"Granger crashed into me with her ice-cream." He answered as he buttoned his new shirt up.
"Granger! What you doing with Granger in Diagon Alley?" Blaise asked excitedly.
"I wasn't doing anything with Granger. She kept crashing into me!" Draco explained as he too laid down on his bed.
Blaise sat up and turned to face Draco. "You mean she crashed into you more than once!" He asked with his eyes wide.
"Yeah. Once outside Flourish and Blotts and then again when I was walking into Florean Fortescue's." Draco replied.
"Draco my man, I think somebody likes you." Blaise laughed.
"Ha, Granger, as if. And stop calling me 'your man'. It's weird and where are you even getting it from?" Draco frowned.
"A muggle film." Blaise replied before lying down again.
"Those disc things?" Draco asked. Blaise nodded.
"So what did Granger do when she crashed into you?" Blaise asked innocently.
"She started dabbing at the ice-cream on my cloak-" Draco state before Blaise interrupted him.
"Oh she definitely likes you Draco." Blaise laughed.
"Shut up Blaise, when she realised it was me, she stopped and accused me of following her." Draco said frowning at the memory.
"Were you following her?" Blaise raised his eyebrow.
"No, of course not. I just wanted an ice-cream." Draco said annoyed.
"In the middle of winter?" Blaise asked not believing his story.
"I had a craving for ice-cream." Draco said defending himself.
"Sure you did." Blaise replied rolling his eyes.
"I did." Draco huffed annoyed. They laid in silence for a few minutes before Draco wondered why Blaise was even in his room.
"What are you doing here?" Draco asked.
"Oh yeah, I forgot. I wanted to ask you what you thought about the new marriage law." Blaise said nonchalantly.
Draco sighed having forgotten about it for a few minutes. "MITTY." Draco shouted. A house elf then appeared next to him. "There's a role of parchment in my cloak pocket, can you Owl it to the ministry for me please." Draco asked.
"Yes, Master Draco." Mitty replied as she made her way over to the cloak. "Would master like Mitty to clean master's cloak and shirt for him?" Mitty asked.
"Yes please, Mitty." Draco asked before the house elf disappeared along with the cloak and shirt.
"Soooooo?" Blaise asked.
"So, what?" Draco asked confused.
"What do you think of the marriage law?" Blaise sighed.
"Oh, well at least I know I'm not going to die alone." Draco answered.
"Really, you like it?" Blaise asked shocked.
"No, of course I don't like it but since the war, who in their right mind would want to marry me and mother wants grandchildren." Draco explained.
"Well I'm sure a Slytherin would have married you." Blaise suggested.
"Really after my family turned our back on the D ark Lord and ran away from battle, I doubt it." Draco argued.
"Hmmm, I suppose you're right. I'm hoping for a Ravenclaw. What about you?" Blaise asked.
"I don't know but we're not going to be married to a pureblood since pureblood marriages have a higher rate of having squib children than any other marriage and the ministry are trying to boost the wizarding population." Draco told him.
"Yeah you're right." Blaise admitted.
"We'll have to wait and see." Draco said.
Blaise decided to stay the night so Draco told Mitty to make enough dinner for three. After dinner they read Blaise's muggle newspaper and tried to guess which stories were wizarding related. They found a suspicious story about a child who had supposedly set fire to his curtains, thereby burning the whole house down. The suspicion came from the lack of an accelerator and a lack of something to start the fire with.
The next day Draco packed his trunk with all his school clothes and equipment ready to go back to Hogwarts since the train was leaving early on Monday morning. Blaise left around midday to pack his own trunk and then he came back with his trunk in time for dinner. Blaise was staying the night again since they were travelling to Kings Cross together and it would save time.
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