Chapter 11: Movie Dates

Draco desperately wondered how he got roped into doing this. On his side was Harry, holding his arm in a forceful gesture that squeezed so hard Draco felt the blood leaving his system so Draco couldn't apparate away. They were on a triple date with Ron and Hermione and Hannah and Neville and oh Merlin if it wasn't the worst thing ever so far. Draco didn't even like movies, and this movie would probably be so stupid, that he'd fall asleep or be forced to listen to Ron rattle on about some inane thing, so loud that you could hear him over the stupid movie. And worse, Harry didn't even give him a choice in this matter. He had forced him to go.

"When I said I was open to muggle things, I didn't mean in such close capacity with your Gryffindor friends." Draco told Harry, mumbling under his breath so only Harry could hear. Harry rolled his eyes and pulled on Draco as if he was a cow being wrangled. "You've said that about ten times already. Yes Draco, I get it. But Hermione wants us to come to support Neville. He's going to propose to Hannah." Harry mumbled under his breath even lower. "And that's his own damn fault! Proposing in the middle of University? What a stupid idea! And at a muggle establishment, no less!" Draco complained as quiet as possible.

Harry rolled his eyes again and Draco was forcefully dragged again over to the concession stands. "We're going to get popcorn. You do know what popcorn is, right?" Harry asked mockingly. "Oh, fuck off. And I can't believe we're being forced to watch a Merlindamn romance movie. What is this, a teen show?" Draco yelled, causing muggles around him to look at him as if he was a crazy person. Draco glared at them and they all looked away. Harry hissed. "Can you not use Merlin in public? At least curse in a muggle correct way if you're going to be a prick." Harry told him, but Draco didn't get to curse again as Harry was next in line for popcorn.

After Harry ordered and dragged him over to the bar where everyone was waiting, Draco had to pretend like he was happy to see them. And it was even worse when Neville hugged him in order to look good in front of Hannah. Sure, Harry liked the sod, but he didn't like him enough to give him a bear hug in public. Hannah awed and laughed as if this was something they did all the time. Draco suppressed a gag. Harry pinched his armpit when he made a sad face at him. Draco was dreading it when they finally went into the theater. Everyone was so close together that it was worse than at Hogwarts. Draco was squished next to Hannah and Harry.

Harry was probably punishing him by forcing him to sit next to someone instead of on the isle seat like Draco had planned. Draco made a face at Harry as they sat down and Harry stuck his tongue out at him like they were children. Harry threw a popcorn at him. If they were going to act like children, Draco could do it better than Harry could. Then, when Harry got a popcorn stuck in Harry's hair, Hermione shushed them and acted like they had just diverted the attention from the potential fiances. As if she was Neville and Hannah herself. Draco had to angrily get the popcorn out of his hair himself as Harry was now Not Talking to Draco.

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The plan was to take Hannah outside and have Neville propose to her in front of the theater. Apparently, it had sentimental meaning to Hannah and so this whole thing was going to be very nostalgic to her. Harry hoped it work, as he had spent the whole movie being mad at Draco and not even considering Hannah's reaction. Yeah, he was a shite friend, he knew. He already got a hearing of it from Hermione afterwards when she pulled him into the family bathroom in the middle of it. After that, he had tried to be considerate but he couldn't even see Hannah from his aisle seat in the darkness. Plan = failed.

Afterwards, they all dumped the big box of popcorn into the trash and Harry had to show Draco how to dump out the cups before throwing them away. They were the last ones out and Hermione gave him a look as if they had been hooking up with each other instead of Harry having to fight with Draco on who had to throw the cups away. Harry dragged Draco over the spot because Draco had tried to sneak away. "Thank you guys for coming, I mean it. Now, I have something to ask of Hannah before we go." Hannah tilted her head at him quizzically and Neville swallowed as he kneeled down.

Hannah gasped and Neville asked her to marry him, explaining all the beautiful things about Hannah and why they should marry. Harry looked over at Draco to make sure he was acting excited and to Harry's surprise, he actually seemed invested. "This isn't the time to dissociate." Harry said, bumping Draco's shoulder. Draco gaped at him. "I'm not!" He said at the same time Hannah yelled Yes! and jumped into Neville's arms. "I just thought it was cute, that's all. It really makes you think." Harry gave him a weird look. "Oh that's bull crap. That's not what you were thinking at all, you bastard." The rest of them were jumping around Hannah and Neville excitedly, and Harry pulled Draco in to join them.

Draco jumped around with them and clapped Neville on the back, intimating Harry. Draco muttered under his breath, "Is it so hard to believe I'm a romantic some times?" Draco asked. Harry gave him another look as they all got hugged by Neville. "It is when you were complaining about this thing literally a hour ago." They finally got to walk back to the apparation point together with Neville and Hannah kissing each other all the while. "Oh shut up, the proposal was cute." Draco told him. Harry wrapped an arm around Draco's and gave him a squeeze despite Draco's grunt. "I was too busy looking at you." He told him.

"To make sure I didn't embarrass us? Yeah, I know." Harry kicked him and Draco made a face. "Rude." Harry groaned. "No, you're rude, you arse! Complaining the whole time! Had gotten a yelling at by Hermione because of you!" Harry said, grateful that Hermione was not within earshot anymore. Draco rolled his eyes and Harry resisted the urge to kick him again. "Just because I hadn't wanted to spend all the time in that shite theater. And I was right, the movie was terrible." Harry sighed. "At least you didn't tell that to them like I feared you would have." Harry commented. Draco grinned and took Harry's hands into his. "Just admit that I was right, Harry! I always am."