Asinine, adj
This was possibly our fifth – or sixth – date; numerous enough that by this point we had stopped counting the number of times that we had gone out together. We were at your house, curled up on the sofa together with red wine sitting on the table amongst scattered Chinese takeaway cartons, open and empty; playing on your television was a film that you had chosen tonight, after pointedly wondering whether I could feel emotion and surprising you with the fact that I had never seen a Muggle film.
I wasn't exactly crying like you wanted, like you were, but I clutched you that bit harder.
"That was a very moving documentary, sweetheart," I said, rubbing my hands along your back. I used to call you sweetheart a lot at the beginning. "I really enjoyed it."
You wiped under your eyes with the sleeves of your jumper. They were damp and slightly red; but you were pretty even when you were sad. "What?" You said meekly.
"Titanic," I said. "Your documentary. It was quite wonderful."
You blinked slowly, tears still dripping down your face. I reached out to wipe one away, but you caught my wrist in your hand and looked at me very seriously. "You're joking," you said.
"No." I frowned. "What? Am I not allowed to like this?"
She released his hand. "Of course you are. I just – never imagined that you would like such a romantic…thing, Draco darling." The darling at the end of my name also slowly disappeared over time, but at this moment you said it with an innocent upwards pull of your lips, as if it was all a joke – even though I said that I wasn't. As if being a darling wasn't a burden.
You wiped your eyes again.
"Do you have any others?" I asked.
You smiled then, and leaned up to kiss me on my mouth; I was surprised, but I kissed you anyway. After a few moments I let you go, and you put in The Sound of Music. We watched films until we fell asleep like that, TV playing as we leaned on and held each other, curled under a chequered blanket. This was also the first time that we had fallen asleep together.
And not once did you tell me that any of it wasn't real.
