Draco's gawked the moment he caught sight of what Aria had chosen to wear. What the hell had she been thinking? Clearly, she had not been thinking at all! The Muggle coat she had been wearing before she handed it over to an assistant behind a desk - had covered the black dress that hugged her small frame. And now he should see the dress - for he knew she had chosen to wear one - he frowned at the length, which was far too short for his liking, it showed off his fiancee's legs. Aria smiled sweetly at him, her eyelashes fluttering and her green eyes, which were no longer hidden by her dorky glasses - sparkled with mischief. Her black hair fell in smooth curls just past her shoulders. And Draco soon realised as they stepped into what Aria informed him was called a nightclub, that he was not the only male that took in his fiancee's beauty.
Draco scowled at anyone who dared even look, he did not like the idea of other men eyeing up his own fiancee ... people who did not know her when she looked normal - when she was truly beautiful ... without the make-up, the messy black hair, which she always seemed to make messier and her dorky round glasses. It was not that he didn't appreciate when Aria chose to style her hair, lose her glasses and wear make-up - she, however, did not need it.
But as he did not want to spoil her birthday - he said nothing to her rather revealing attire. He was determined to make an impression today, he had visited Gringotts - avoiding the mass crowd, he had chosen to Floo over rather than walk down Diagon Alley - but he had exchanged Galleons for Muggle money, and made sure from what he had learned from watching Aria and her cousin dealing with Muggle currency - was that Muggles preferred to deal with smaller amounted notes than larger ones - his intention, of course, was to make sure Aria did not pay for a single thing all night, he hoped he had changed enough to do that. And he hoped she would let him do that - Aria was quite independent, when he came to spending money on her, she liked to buy things for herself - which made planning courting gifts harder to do, as Draco had no clue what to get or do for her.
He had never known buying gifts for a person to be so ... complicated. Even her birthday gift had been a nightmare to figure out ... it hadn't been until his mother mentioned going out to the spa for a day, had he thought of gifting Aria with a treatment day. He should have thought of it sooner as Aria did get stressed out rather easily ... if her dance lessons had been anything to go by - but at least now she was no longer purposely treading upon his feet. Aria could dance quite wonderfully when she put her mind to it.
And Draco could not wait until he got a chance to show her off to his family.
Even though he hated the noise, and how crowded a Muggle nightclub was ... it did have one advantage, he got to have close contact with Aria all night. And there was the added bonus that she did finally thank him personally for her birthday gift, he felt his face burn as she kissed his cheek afterwards, and he hoped she had not noticed.