Chapter 10: How Dare You
"Pansy? What are you doing here? Its almost 1 in the morning." Draco said, rubbing his tired eyes as he let the fellow slytherin inside.
"You never showed up. 5 months and you never did. How dare you! I gave you a chance to make this right and you just tossed it aside! She needs you, bloody hell, Draco!" she yelled, shoving his shoulders back as she paced his living room.
"Draco? What's going on?" a small voice called from the stairs. Pansy turned around to see her old friend Astoria, clad only in a oversized shirt and panties.
"Go back to bed, Astoria. I'll be right up." he said, before turning back to Pansy who was watching the half naked girl walk back up the stairs.
"Pansy, it's not what you think." he said as he watched his friend back away from his touch.
"Don't come near me." she cried, unable to believe the man in front of her was her best friend from her entire life.
"Why are you so upset? I'm not married, Pansy. I'm allowed to have a girl in my bed." he snaped, narrowing his eyes at her judgement.
"So you're allowed to have Astoria in your bed but not Hermione? Is that it?" she shot back, her hand on the doorknob ready to leave.
"Yes. Astoria is a pureblood. Like us. If Astoria got pregnant, merlin forbid, I wouldn't hate my own child. Imagine if Hermione would get pregnant. What would people say?" he shot, the exact words his father had spoken to him years ago coming out.
"Draco, the girl is a halfblood. You could never have a family with her. Your children would be filthy and would be layed out for slaughter." his father had told him his 2nd year of Hogwarts when he mentioned that a Ravenclaw girl was attractive.
"It's funny you would say that." Pansy smiled, digust in her every feature. "If you come near her, after what you just said, I will hex you myself. Because you are not the man I thought you were." And with that she was gone. And Draco was left alone. He went upstairs, kicked Astoria out in nothing but his shirt and locked the door behind her.
What was she talking about? He didn't go see Hermione the past 5 months because she was better off without him. He would ruin her. He thought, leaning against the front door, sliding down it until he was on the ground, his face in his hands.