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Luin-lote: Hey. No way! I love all your reviews! No matter how many a day I get! Thank you! I liked that line too. I didn't think it would really touch anyone that deeply but I'm glad it made you cry. (from happiness, I hope) Well, I owe the thanks for the love scene to my beta, menecarkawan. She wrote that tid bit for me because I couldn't write a love scene if my life depended on it. I'm really not good with that stuff, I wrote it, I would ruin the romantic moment. But I'm going to work on it so that hopefully one day I'll be able to write my own love scene. She truly is a wonderful writer. You might want to read some of menecarkwans writing! I've read all her stories and am the middle of an ss/hp story of hers right now. It's really good. Well, thanks for the review!
Bakachan17: Sappy.hmm.yes, quite sappy, but I really enjoy writing these things! I'm glad you like it even if it IS sappy! I love reading sappy stories so it's only natural that I love to write it too! However, I like to write comedy too and I like some more serious stories too, like angsty and horror and stuff. I have a few ideas for two other stories to write but I'm not going to write anymore stories until I get my laptop which may take a while. I just got a job and I'm saving up for it. I'm also going to use it for my school work of course, but mostly, I wanted to get it so that my sister will stop taking the computer from me every time I start to write up a chapter. Well, thanks for the review!
Miss Shadow Prowl : I'm glad you liked the dinner scene and like the flowers. I have to admit though, just about every other story always uses roses for romantic scene and I know I promised to be as original as possible for this story but I just couldn't help it! I really wanted to include roses! I was thinking about using like floating angel-like objects but I really wanted the roses so I just did. Well, thanks for the review!
KittenBabyGirl: I'm glad I still have you as I reader! Like I said to Kendralll7, I still have a few chapters to go, like maybe 6 or 7 or even 8 depending on how the story goes. Maybe even less, I don't know, really but I hope you stay with me through out the entire story! Thanks for the review!
Manda Lee04 : Wow! Thanks! I'm glad I made you sigh with contentment! It's what I live to do! ;-)
GoldenGirl12: I understand that you read it. I understand that you loved it. And I definitely understand that you demand more! :-) I'll try to get this updated ASAP!
OnlyHAUNTED: yes, fluff is very, very good!!! I love fluff! I'm glad you like it too! It's ok that you're not in a writing mood and haven't been for a while. However, I AM in a writing mood! I just aced my science test, English test, and math test! I'm so happy! I love English! I get the highest grades in English because I love to write! Okay.well, I get that you're not in a writing mood, but I'm not sure if you're in a reading mood either so I'll just stop writing so much before I push your buttons too far. ;-)
GeminiEmerald: I'm really glad that you enjoy reading my story! It's really weird how we're so alike! We're both girls, both were born on May 26th (like you said last time) you said we both write with the same technique and style, and you said that you only ever failed algebra, well, that's the only subject I have trouble with too! Yes, true, Geminis are creative rather than logical, but we are very intelligent and that's why I'm keep my grades up! I hope you're doing well in all your subjects too! Thanks for reviewing and as you can't wait for my next chapter, I can't wait for your next review!
DeathStryke: I'm really glad you like the way I wrote the date and I understand what you mean about the author's not. When I re-read the chapter I confused myself. I'll try to stop writing author's notes in the middle of the stories. Promise! I wonder if you're an adult in like they're twenties or something. You're really good with the advise of my homework. Yes, I really want to become a write and so I am going to try to work really hard. I'm glad that you can wait for the next chapter and think it's worth it! Thanks for the review!
The Lady of shallot: Thanks for the review! Ummm.about the sequel that I said I was going to do before, I'm not so sure about that anymore. It was easy to think I could do it during the summer but now school's started and I'm bound to finish this story before it ends so I'm not sure if I'll have the time, plus, I don't know if I would enjoy writing it since it will be basically writing almost the same idea as this with the same plot and all. I like to enjoy writing like enjoy writing this story but I don't know if it would be as fun if I wrote a sequel to this so I'll have to think about it. But once I get my laptop, I'm going to write other stories, maybe you'll read those. They're mostly going to be hp/dm since they're my favorite couple. But my second favorite is Voldemort/ H.p. and I've always wanted to read a story like that where Harry truns evil, but nobody writes it so maybe I'll have to write my own where he turns evil. Muahahahaha! Lol. It would be fun! Well, we'll just have to wait and see. Thanks for the review!
Wow! 12 reviews! It's two more than I got for the last chapter so I'm really happy! I hope I get just as many for this chapter! Well, on with the story!
Chapter 10: True Rumors and Misunderstandings
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Harry and I washed up and got dressed, sneaking out of the room and heading back to the central part of Hogsmeade. It was only 5:00 p.m. and the carriages didn't take us back to Hogwarts until 5:30.
We walked to The Three Broomsticks and found a table where we took our seats and ordered to butterbeers from the barmaid.
"So... Harry, do you want to go find Granger and Weasley before we have to leave?" I asked, trying desperately to think of any conversation to make.
I was so happy about Harry's answer just a little while ago that I hadn't really talked to Harry on the walk here.
We'd just held hands and walked silently.
I suppose Harry had forgotten that he didn't want anyone to know about us, but luckily, most people weren't outside at the time.
Harry smiled at me and said, "No thank you. I'll see them when we get back to Hogwarts. Right now I just want to stay with you."
I smiled at him and answered back, "That's a wonderful idea."
We were sitting across from each other at a table for two in the back where we were alone since everyone was mostly either at another store or in the front.
He took my hand (which had been casually resting on the table) and held it in his.
"I love you," he whispered.
"I love you too."
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The barmaid had come back and given us our butterbeers, which we quickly drank and paid for before leaving.
We were now meeting with Hermione and Weasley where the carriages would take us back to Hogwarts.
I reluctantly let go of Harry as he left me to go stand next to his friends.
I let out a sad sigh and then jumped a foot in the air as I heard a deep, dumb-like voice say, "Hi Draco."
I turned around and came face to shoulder with Goyle. He was about a head taller than me and about 5 times wider if you know what I mean.
I gave him a glare and half yelled, half whispered, "How dare you sneak up on me like that! What's the matter with you!?"
I suddenly noticed Crabbe and his and Goyle's girlfriends Violet and Eleanor when Crabbe said, "we just wanted to say 'hello' to you since we don't really see that much of each other anymore."
"Yes," agreed Violet.
Eleanor just nodded her head vigorously.
I kept a glare on them as I said, "Well, Hello then," in a sarcastic tone.
"Why are you being such a Mr. Sour puss today?" Eleanor asked with an annoying whiney tone to her voice.
I glared at her and answered, "None of your damn business!"
With that, I stalked off to sit in a carriage with some sixth year Slytherins I hadn't bothered to get to know before.
They didn't speak to me the entire trip and in turn, I didn't speak to them.
I didn't really feel like talking to anyone at the moment.
I was just so upset.
I didn't want to keep Harry and me anymore. I didn't care if my mother disowned me and I sure as hell didn't care what my father thought. He was in Azkaban anyway, so his thoughts were of no importance to me.
If it had been up to me, the entire school would know by now so that I could spend every waking moment with Harry.
But I kept my two thin, pink lips shut for Harry.
If he didn't want anyone to know about us yet, then I supposed I would have to respect his feelings.
I really didn't see why he cared so much though.
Yes, it might get into the Dailey Prophet and people would talk about it with shock, but what did it matter?
If he really loved me, then why did he care so much about what everyone else thought?
I shook my head to myself.
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I sighed as I walked to my Head Boy room.
I stared over at the picture of Harry and me on the bench. Harry had fallen asleep on my picture-self's lap. My picture-self was stroking Harry's picture-self's hair unconsciously while he dreamed away.
Why couldn't it be like that right now, I thought to myself.
If only Harry and I could show our love for each other out in the open, but I wasn't about to push Harry into anything after what he'd allowed me to do to him just this afternoon.
He had let me steal away his innocence, his beautiful, loving innocence.
He'd let me make love to him.
I suddenly remembered what he looked like as we'd made love.
He'd been even more beautiful than I'd ever thought possible.
I sighed with happiness as I relived every second of our wonderful love making in my head.
It had been simply wonderful.
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I woke up refreshed on Sunday morning and prepared myself to go down to the Great Hall. For some reason, I was unusually hungry this morning.
I walked to the Great Hall with a huge smile on my face.
I opened the doors to the Great Hall and heard many whispers. The moment the house students saw me they all silenced for a moment and stared at me with intense glares, stares, and some astonished looks.
I gave them all a quizzical look in return as I headed to the Slytherin table.
The Slytherins all glared at me and suddenly, all the whispers came back, even louder than before and as I took a seat (with all the Slytherins backing away from me) I heard some of the words in the whispers.
"Can you believe it? Malfoy and."
"I know! I never suspected. very unlike Malfoy."
"Harry was such a nice boy. him and."
"Yesterday in Hogsmeade."
". walking together"
". hand in hand."
". looked very... flushed.."
I began to panic just the tiniest bit.
What were they all talking about?
Did they know about Harry and me? Oh no. This was not good. Harry isn't going to like this. I looked over at the Gryffindor table and saw that Harry wasn't there yet.
Harry isn't going to like this at all. But as I thought this, I honestly couldn't help but feel just a little bit happy. I wanted people to know about Harry and me being a couple.
I wanted to be able to kiss Harry and not have to worry about if anyone would find out or not. What did it matter if it ended up in the news or my mother disowned me?
I didn't care. I had my own large fortune from when I was younger and it was more than enough to live a suitable lifetime.
I probably wouldn't be able to live in a huge mansion like the one I had lived in at the time, but I could buy a normal sized house and live well for the rest of my life.
Besides, I didn't need my mother anymore. I was planning on buying my own house when I graduated at the end of the year anyway.
I was going to get a job and live in a nice flat and I would have even more money from my job.
I didn't care about being rich.
As long as I had Harry by my side, I would be happy no matter what, and it had hurt me a little to think that Harry couldn't get passed everyone else to see that he would be happy with me no matter what.
Suddenly, I noticed everything go quiet.
All the whispers stopped.
All the eating stopped.
All the gossip stopped.
Hell! Even all breathing in the Great Hall stopped!
I looked up in curiosity and saw exactly why.
Harry had just walked in.
Every pair of eyes were staring in his direction. I could have heard a pin drop at how quiet it had been. The silence was beginning to hurt my ears.
Granger and Weasley were standing behind him and stared at everyone with confusion while Harry stared down at his feet with embarrassment at being stared at.
He slowly made his way to the Gryffindor table and sat down next to an empty plate.
He was about to put some food on his plate as Granger and Weasley followed him to a seat on either side of him when suddenly Zabini shot up from his seat.
Harry dropped his fork as Zabini yelled out to the entire Great Hall, "POTTER AND MALFOY ARE DATING!"
Harry's face turned a sick pale and then turned into a deathly white color as some other Slytherins stood up and yelled, "WHAT A TRIATOR MALFOY IS!"
"THE GOLDEN BOY IS A TRAITOR TO ALL THE WORLD!"
"I THOUGHT HE WAS ON THE LIGHT SIDE!"
"I HEARD HIM AND MALFOY HAVE ALL READY BEEN AT IT IN BED!"
I was going to let that last comment slip when Zabini yelled one other comment.
"POTTER'S SUCH A LITTLE WHORE! I CAN'T BELIVE MALFOY WOULD EVEN DATE SOMEONE SO DISGUSTING AND-"
I cut him off with a rough punch in the mouth.
The entire Great Hall erupted with gasps.
He yelped out and covered his mouth, which was now shedding blood all over his hand.
I hoped I'd knocked out a tooth.
It served him right! I didn't even care if I got expelled from Hogwarts for that punch. How dare he say such a thing about Harry!?
I was angry, very angry and launched my self onto Zabini, knocking him to the floor.
I raised my fist to punch him square on the nose when I was bodily lifted off of Zabini. Two giant arms were wrapped around my waist and lifting me up, high.
I struggled and kicked and sent my fist flying every which way. I wanted to kill Zabini and some nut wouldn't let me!
I wanted to break every bone in Zabini's body, but at the moment, I also wanted to break every bone in the body of the person who was stopping me from winning Harry's pride!
"Aaaarg!" I yelled as I flailed all four of my limbs everywhere.
Suddenly I was thrown against a wall and I saw Zabini escape out of the Hall.
"GET BACK HERE, ZABINI! I'M NOT THROUGH WITH YOU!"
I knew he wasn't going to come, so I turned my head to look at the idiot who had been holding me back.
My eyes went wide with shock.
"Goyle! What the bloody hell is the matter with you!?" I hissed through gritted teeth, trying to hold myself from beating the living day lights out of Goyle.
"No, Draco. The question isn't what is the matter with me, but what is the matter with you?" he asked quite intelligently.
I'd never heard Goyle sound so smart.
It must have been his girlfriend wearing off on him, all though that was highly impossible since she was also just as stupid as Goyle and Crabbe ever were.
I glared daggers at him.
He whispered quietly so that no one would hear (everyone in the entire Great Hall was staring at us with open ears just hoping to get in on our conversation.).
"If you love Potter, that's fine. But don't waist your time with Zabini when you should be running after Harry before it's to late."
I quickly backed away.
"What are you talking about? Harry's not going away! He's-"
I gasped.
Harry was no longer in the Great Hall! He'd left! Where had he gone?
Oh no. Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My mind was going insane with Crazy ideas!
What if he'd gone and killed himself!?
What if by the time I found him he decided to break up with me for taking too long to find him!?
What if he decided he didn't want to be with me anymore because everyone found out!?
What if he blamed me for everyone finding out!?
What if!? What if!? What if!?
What if I was just being a little over imaginative?
I slowed my thoughts down, took a deep breath and exhaled.
I tried to clear my mind.
Goyle gave me a nudge to go off and find him. And go find him I did.
I dashed out of the Great Hall and continued my thoughts.
First off, Harry wasn't me.
He wouldn't go off and do something as stupid as committing suicide over such a small matter like I had.
So the thought of Harry killing himself was definitely out of the question.
Second, Harry wasn't mean and heartless. He wasn't cold. Harry wouldn't dump me simply because I didn't find him immediately. (All though I'd done that to quite a few people in the past, but like I said, Harry wasn't me.)
Also, I'm sure Harry wouldn't blame me for everyone finding out because he is considerate and would know that it wasn't my fault.
However, if he decided to break up with me because everyone found out. I wasn't sure.
Harry was really quite self-conscious about and he was bound to do anything!
I had to find him. I just had too!
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The first place I thought of was the North Tower.
It was a place that I always went to when I want to be alone. But when I'd reached the North Tower, it had been to no avail. Harry hadn't been there. I continued to search everywhere for about an hour.
He hadn't been out in the grounds, or the Quidditch pitch, or by the lake. I didn't know where else to look!
I hadn't run into anyone because they were all in classes by now and so were the teachers. However, I did nearly run into Filch and his cat, Mrs. Noriss more than once.
Then, suddenly, it hit me!
His private head Boy room! Of course! How could I be so stupid!? I ran to the fourth floor and whispered the password. The hole appeared and began to get bigger and bigger before it started to get smaller and smaller.
I quickly stepped in, quietly enough for Harry not to hear me though.
He wasn't in his bedroom so I looked in the living room of his quarters and found him sitting on a big couch in front of a crackling fire. He was staring into it and apparently hadn't noticed me.
I silently walked up to him and wrapped my arms around his shoulders from behind the couch.
I received a shocked gasp from Harry's pink, thin lips.
He turned to me and gave me a sorrowful look.
"I'm sorry," he whispered so quietly I had to strain my ears to understand.
"Sorry for what?" I asked with surprise and confusion.
Shouldn't I be the one apologizing, I thought to myself.
I didn't understand. I thought Harry would be angry with me or crying or just breaking out because he didn't want this all over the news and having people staring at him. I messed everything up for not being careful enough about our relationship. I was extremely confused.
"I'm sorry for letting people find out. You must be really angry with me," he said, looking down at the ground. Mad? I thought. Why would I be mad!? I wanted people to know! This was all getting just a little too confusing.
"What are you talking about?" I asked getting irked at how confused I was.
He looked up at me with bewilderment and hesitantly answered, "Well, you didn't want anyone to know about us because if your mother found out she would probably disown you from embarrassment and-"
"No Harry!" I interrupted. "I want people to know! I don't care if my mother disowns me! I'm 17 already! I don't need her to support me anymore. I want to date you out in the open! I had assumed that you were the one that didn't want to let anyone know because of what people would think and how it would end up in the Dailey Prophet!"
Suddenly, Harry did something extremely odd. He let out a chuckle. I gave him a quizzical and astonished look and he quickly answered, "Well, I assumed too. We both assumed, and I guess we both just made asses out of ourselves."
"What?" I asked. I didn't get it. What did he mean by that.
"It's a Muggle saying. You see, you spell the word assume 'a-s-s-u-m-e ' and so whenever someone assumes, Muggles say "you make an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me.' You see what I mean?" he asked with a smile on his face.
I thought about it and then got it. I didn't really find it funny at all, but a gave a weak smile for Harry's sake. He just laughed and said, "I guess it's true. We really shouldn't assume."
I raised an eyebrow, clearly not seeing where this conversation was going.
"Draco," Harry began. "I really don't care if anyone knows about us. I love you more than anything. I left the Great Hall because I thought you were mad at me and I didn't want to see you mad at me."
I shook my head with a smile. "I could never be mad at you. Get up," I ordered gently.
Harry stood up and I took his seat. He began to pout at the fact that I'd made him get up just to steal his seat when suddenly he smiled happily as I pulled him down onto my lap. He made himself comfortable and laid his head on my shoulder.
"Hey Draco?" Harry asked quietly.
"Yes, Harry?"
"What happened after I left? Why did Blaise suddenly stop yelling?"
I chuckled and said, "Because I punched in the mouth."
Harry lifted his head off my shoulder quite abruptly. "You did WHAT?"
"I punched-"
"I heard what you said" Harry interrupted.
"Well, I had to! You heard what he was saying about you."
"Awwwww," Harry said with a smiling pout, (A/N: Is a smiling pout even possible?) and said, "How sweet. My knight in shining armor," he said jokingly fluttering his eyes.
We both began to laugh. just enjoying life.
Then, Harry stopped laughing, "You know, as my savior, I think you deserve a reward."
"Oh really," I asked. " What kind of reward?"
"A juicy one."
I grinned as Harry leaned down and kissed me full on the lips, deeply and passionately.
And that's how we spent the rest of the day.
A/N: Awwww.what an adorable chapter! At first it's action and then BAM! WHAM! BOOM! Full on romance right in the end. Don't you just love it!? I love it! Don't mind me, I just had A LOT of chocolate!
By the way, I would have had this updated on Saturday but my Beta was really busy and just didn't have the time to do it and then on Sunday she was at work so she came back at night and so I didn't get this until just this morning.
Now back to my good day:
Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah! I'm so happy! I aced all of my tests! Yay! And because I'm so happy, you get you update today! I hope you enjoyed it! And please, I'm happy about getting such good grades so please don't bring me down by forgetting to review. I know it's a drag to have to log in EVERY time you want to review and sometimes you just fell lazy but PLEASE review! You don't have to log in if you don't want to. Just leave a review! PLEASE! Okay, well, I'm going to go eat some more chocolate and hope I don't get too many pimples from it. LOL! Okay, anyways.as All ways R&R. That means Read AND Review. It's like applauding. If you're going to watch a broad way show, you have to clap too! So if you're going to read my story then please, you have to review too! Pretty please with sugar on top and maybe a really good next chapter! Okay..well.speaking of sugar.I want some sugar now.so see you. *-*
Xoxo Spideria oxoX
Thanks to: Menecarkawan. Thank you for being my Beta!
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HogwartsSaiyajin: Were you the one that emailed your review personally to me last time? Okay, well, it's cool I made you speechless! I'm guessing that my chapter was really good then, right? Thanks for the review!
Kendralll7: Thank you. I'm glad I haven't lost ALL of my readers. I still have quite a few left. :-) I'm really happy you're still reading my story! I still have a few chapters to go! So hope you stick with me through all of them. Thanks for the review!
Luin-lote: Hey. No way! I love all your reviews! No matter how many a day I get! Thank you! I liked that line too. I didn't think it would really touch anyone that deeply but I'm glad it made you cry. (from happiness, I hope) Well, I owe the thanks for the love scene to my beta, menecarkawan. She wrote that tid bit for me because I couldn't write a love scene if my life depended on it. I'm really not good with that stuff, I wrote it, I would ruin the romantic moment. But I'm going to work on it so that hopefully one day I'll be able to write my own love scene. She truly is a wonderful writer. You might want to read some of menecarkwans writing! I've read all her stories and am the middle of an ss/hp story of hers right now. It's really good. Well, thanks for the review!
Bakachan17: Sappy.hmm.yes, quite sappy, but I really enjoy writing these things! I'm glad you like it even if it IS sappy! I love reading sappy stories so it's only natural that I love to write it too! However, I like to write comedy too and I like some more serious stories too, like angsty and horror and stuff. I have a few ideas for two other stories to write but I'm not going to write anymore stories until I get my laptop which may take a while. I just got a job and I'm saving up for it. I'm also going to use it for my school work of course, but mostly, I wanted to get it so that my sister will stop taking the computer from me every time I start to write up a chapter. Well, thanks for the review!
Miss Shadow Prowl : I'm glad you liked the dinner scene and like the flowers. I have to admit though, just about every other story always uses roses for romantic scene and I know I promised to be as original as possible for this story but I just couldn't help it! I really wanted to include roses! I was thinking about using like floating angel-like objects but I really wanted the roses so I just did. Well, thanks for the review!
KittenBabyGirl: I'm glad I still have you as I reader! Like I said to Kendralll7, I still have a few chapters to go, like maybe 6 or 7 or even 8 depending on how the story goes. Maybe even less, I don't know, really but I hope you stay with me through out the entire story! Thanks for the review!
Manda Lee04 : Wow! Thanks! I'm glad I made you sigh with contentment! It's what I live to do! ;-)
GoldenGirl12: I understand that you read it. I understand that you loved it. And I definitely understand that you demand more! :-) I'll try to get this updated ASAP!
OnlyHAUNTED: yes, fluff is very, very good!!! I love fluff! I'm glad you like it too! It's ok that you're not in a writing mood and haven't been for a while. However, I AM in a writing mood! I just aced my science test, English test, and math test! I'm so happy! I love English! I get the highest grades in English because I love to write! Okay.well, I get that you're not in a writing mood, but I'm not sure if you're in a reading mood either so I'll just stop writing so much before I push your buttons too far. ;-)
GeminiEmerald: I'm really glad that you enjoy reading my story! It's really weird how we're so alike! We're both girls, both were born on May 26th (like you said last time) you said we both write with the same technique and style, and you said that you only ever failed algebra, well, that's the only subject I have trouble with too! Yes, true, Geminis are creative rather than logical, but we are very intelligent and that's why I'm keep my grades up! I hope you're doing well in all your subjects too! Thanks for reviewing and as you can't wait for my next chapter, I can't wait for your next review!
DeathStryke: I'm really glad you like the way I wrote the date and I understand what you mean about the author's not. When I re-read the chapter I confused myself. I'll try to stop writing author's notes in the middle of the stories. Promise! I wonder if you're an adult in like they're twenties or something. You're really good with the advise of my homework. Yes, I really want to become a write and so I am going to try to work really hard. I'm glad that you can wait for the next chapter and think it's worth it! Thanks for the review!
The Lady of shallot: Thanks for the review! Ummm.about the sequel that I said I was going to do before, I'm not so sure about that anymore. It was easy to think I could do it during the summer but now school's started and I'm bound to finish this story before it ends so I'm not sure if I'll have the time, plus, I don't know if I would enjoy writing it since it will be basically writing almost the same idea as this with the same plot and all. I like to enjoy writing like enjoy writing this story but I don't know if it would be as fun if I wrote a sequel to this so I'll have to think about it. But once I get my laptop, I'm going to write other stories, maybe you'll read those. They're mostly going to be hp/dm since they're my favorite couple. But my second favorite is Voldemort/ H.p. and I've always wanted to read a story like that where Harry truns evil, but nobody writes it so maybe I'll have to write my own where he turns evil. Muahahahaha! Lol. It would be fun! Well, we'll just have to wait and see. Thanks for the review!
Wow! 12 reviews! It's two more than I got for the last chapter so I'm really happy! I hope I get just as many for this chapter! Well, on with the story!
Chapter 10: True Rumors and Misunderstandings
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Harry and I washed up and got dressed, sneaking out of the room and heading back to the central part of Hogsmeade. It was only 5:00 p.m. and the carriages didn't take us back to Hogwarts until 5:30.
We walked to The Three Broomsticks and found a table where we took our seats and ordered to butterbeers from the barmaid.
"So... Harry, do you want to go find Granger and Weasley before we have to leave?" I asked, trying desperately to think of any conversation to make.
I was so happy about Harry's answer just a little while ago that I hadn't really talked to Harry on the walk here.
We'd just held hands and walked silently.
I suppose Harry had forgotten that he didn't want anyone to know about us, but luckily, most people weren't outside at the time.
Harry smiled at me and said, "No thank you. I'll see them when we get back to Hogwarts. Right now I just want to stay with you."
I smiled at him and answered back, "That's a wonderful idea."
We were sitting across from each other at a table for two in the back where we were alone since everyone was mostly either at another store or in the front.
He took my hand (which had been casually resting on the table) and held it in his.
"I love you," he whispered.
"I love you too."
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The barmaid had come back and given us our butterbeers, which we quickly drank and paid for before leaving.
We were now meeting with Hermione and Weasley where the carriages would take us back to Hogwarts.
I reluctantly let go of Harry as he left me to go stand next to his friends.
I let out a sad sigh and then jumped a foot in the air as I heard a deep, dumb-like voice say, "Hi Draco."
I turned around and came face to shoulder with Goyle. He was about a head taller than me and about 5 times wider if you know what I mean.
I gave him a glare and half yelled, half whispered, "How dare you sneak up on me like that! What's the matter with you!?"
I suddenly noticed Crabbe and his and Goyle's girlfriends Violet and Eleanor when Crabbe said, "we just wanted to say 'hello' to you since we don't really see that much of each other anymore."
"Yes," agreed Violet.
Eleanor just nodded her head vigorously.
I kept a glare on them as I said, "Well, Hello then," in a sarcastic tone.
"Why are you being such a Mr. Sour puss today?" Eleanor asked with an annoying whiney tone to her voice.
I glared at her and answered, "None of your damn business!"
With that, I stalked off to sit in a carriage with some sixth year Slytherins I hadn't bothered to get to know before.
They didn't speak to me the entire trip and in turn, I didn't speak to them.
I didn't really feel like talking to anyone at the moment.
I was just so upset.
I didn't want to keep Harry and me anymore. I didn't care if my mother disowned me and I sure as hell didn't care what my father thought. He was in Azkaban anyway, so his thoughts were of no importance to me.
If it had been up to me, the entire school would know by now so that I could spend every waking moment with Harry.
But I kept my two thin, pink lips shut for Harry.
If he didn't want anyone to know about us yet, then I supposed I would have to respect his feelings.
I really didn't see why he cared so much though.
Yes, it might get into the Dailey Prophet and people would talk about it with shock, but what did it matter?
If he really loved me, then why did he care so much about what everyone else thought?
I shook my head to myself.
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I sighed as I walked to my Head Boy room.
I stared over at the picture of Harry and me on the bench. Harry had fallen asleep on my picture-self's lap. My picture-self was stroking Harry's picture-self's hair unconsciously while he dreamed away.
Why couldn't it be like that right now, I thought to myself.
If only Harry and I could show our love for each other out in the open, but I wasn't about to push Harry into anything after what he'd allowed me to do to him just this afternoon.
He had let me steal away his innocence, his beautiful, loving innocence.
He'd let me make love to him.
I suddenly remembered what he looked like as we'd made love.
He'd been even more beautiful than I'd ever thought possible.
I sighed with happiness as I relived every second of our wonderful love making in my head.
It had been simply wonderful.
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I woke up refreshed on Sunday morning and prepared myself to go down to the Great Hall. For some reason, I was unusually hungry this morning.
I walked to the Great Hall with a huge smile on my face.
I opened the doors to the Great Hall and heard many whispers. The moment the house students saw me they all silenced for a moment and stared at me with intense glares, stares, and some astonished looks.
I gave them all a quizzical look in return as I headed to the Slytherin table.
The Slytherins all glared at me and suddenly, all the whispers came back, even louder than before and as I took a seat (with all the Slytherins backing away from me) I heard some of the words in the whispers.
"Can you believe it? Malfoy and."
"I know! I never suspected. very unlike Malfoy."
"Harry was such a nice boy. him and."
"Yesterday in Hogsmeade."
". walking together"
". hand in hand."
". looked very... flushed.."
I began to panic just the tiniest bit.
What were they all talking about?
Did they know about Harry and me? Oh no. This was not good. Harry isn't going to like this. I looked over at the Gryffindor table and saw that Harry wasn't there yet.
Harry isn't going to like this at all. But as I thought this, I honestly couldn't help but feel just a little bit happy. I wanted people to know about Harry and me being a couple.
I wanted to be able to kiss Harry and not have to worry about if anyone would find out or not. What did it matter if it ended up in the news or my mother disowned me?
I didn't care. I had my own large fortune from when I was younger and it was more than enough to live a suitable lifetime.
I probably wouldn't be able to live in a huge mansion like the one I had lived in at the time, but I could buy a normal sized house and live well for the rest of my life.
Besides, I didn't need my mother anymore. I was planning on buying my own house when I graduated at the end of the year anyway.
I was going to get a job and live in a nice flat and I would have even more money from my job.
I didn't care about being rich.
As long as I had Harry by my side, I would be happy no matter what, and it had hurt me a little to think that Harry couldn't get passed everyone else to see that he would be happy with me no matter what.
Suddenly, I noticed everything go quiet.
All the whispers stopped.
All the eating stopped.
All the gossip stopped.
Hell! Even all breathing in the Great Hall stopped!
I looked up in curiosity and saw exactly why.
Harry had just walked in.
Every pair of eyes were staring in his direction. I could have heard a pin drop at how quiet it had been. The silence was beginning to hurt my ears.
Granger and Weasley were standing behind him and stared at everyone with confusion while Harry stared down at his feet with embarrassment at being stared at.
He slowly made his way to the Gryffindor table and sat down next to an empty plate.
He was about to put some food on his plate as Granger and Weasley followed him to a seat on either side of him when suddenly Zabini shot up from his seat.
Harry dropped his fork as Zabini yelled out to the entire Great Hall, "POTTER AND MALFOY ARE DATING!"
Harry's face turned a sick pale and then turned into a deathly white color as some other Slytherins stood up and yelled, "WHAT A TRIATOR MALFOY IS!"
"THE GOLDEN BOY IS A TRAITOR TO ALL THE WORLD!"
"I THOUGHT HE WAS ON THE LIGHT SIDE!"
"I HEARD HIM AND MALFOY HAVE ALL READY BEEN AT IT IN BED!"
I was going to let that last comment slip when Zabini yelled one other comment.
"POTTER'S SUCH A LITTLE WHORE! I CAN'T BELIVE MALFOY WOULD EVEN DATE SOMEONE SO DISGUSTING AND-"
I cut him off with a rough punch in the mouth.
The entire Great Hall erupted with gasps.
He yelped out and covered his mouth, which was now shedding blood all over his hand.
I hoped I'd knocked out a tooth.
It served him right! I didn't even care if I got expelled from Hogwarts for that punch. How dare he say such a thing about Harry!?
I was angry, very angry and launched my self onto Zabini, knocking him to the floor.
I raised my fist to punch him square on the nose when I was bodily lifted off of Zabini. Two giant arms were wrapped around my waist and lifting me up, high.
I struggled and kicked and sent my fist flying every which way. I wanted to kill Zabini and some nut wouldn't let me!
I wanted to break every bone in Zabini's body, but at the moment, I also wanted to break every bone in the body of the person who was stopping me from winning Harry's pride!
"Aaaarg!" I yelled as I flailed all four of my limbs everywhere.
Suddenly I was thrown against a wall and I saw Zabini escape out of the Hall.
"GET BACK HERE, ZABINI! I'M NOT THROUGH WITH YOU!"
I knew he wasn't going to come, so I turned my head to look at the idiot who had been holding me back.
My eyes went wide with shock.
"Goyle! What the bloody hell is the matter with you!?" I hissed through gritted teeth, trying to hold myself from beating the living day lights out of Goyle.
"No, Draco. The question isn't what is the matter with me, but what is the matter with you?" he asked quite intelligently.
I'd never heard Goyle sound so smart.
It must have been his girlfriend wearing off on him, all though that was highly impossible since she was also just as stupid as Goyle and Crabbe ever were.
I glared daggers at him.
He whispered quietly so that no one would hear (everyone in the entire Great Hall was staring at us with open ears just hoping to get in on our conversation.).
"If you love Potter, that's fine. But don't waist your time with Zabini when you should be running after Harry before it's to late."
I quickly backed away.
"What are you talking about? Harry's not going away! He's-"
I gasped.
Harry was no longer in the Great Hall! He'd left! Where had he gone?
Oh no. Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My mind was going insane with Crazy ideas!
What if he'd gone and killed himself!?
What if by the time I found him he decided to break up with me for taking too long to find him!?
What if he decided he didn't want to be with me anymore because everyone found out!?
What if he blamed me for everyone finding out!?
What if!? What if!? What if!?
What if I was just being a little over imaginative?
I slowed my thoughts down, took a deep breath and exhaled.
I tried to clear my mind.
Goyle gave me a nudge to go off and find him. And go find him I did.
I dashed out of the Great Hall and continued my thoughts.
First off, Harry wasn't me.
He wouldn't go off and do something as stupid as committing suicide over such a small matter like I had.
So the thought of Harry killing himself was definitely out of the question.
Second, Harry wasn't mean and heartless. He wasn't cold. Harry wouldn't dump me simply because I didn't find him immediately. (All though I'd done that to quite a few people in the past, but like I said, Harry wasn't me.)
Also, I'm sure Harry wouldn't blame me for everyone finding out because he is considerate and would know that it wasn't my fault.
However, if he decided to break up with me because everyone found out. I wasn't sure.
Harry was really quite self-conscious about and he was bound to do anything!
I had to find him. I just had too!
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The first place I thought of was the North Tower.
It was a place that I always went to when I want to be alone. But when I'd reached the North Tower, it had been to no avail. Harry hadn't been there. I continued to search everywhere for about an hour.
He hadn't been out in the grounds, or the Quidditch pitch, or by the lake. I didn't know where else to look!
I hadn't run into anyone because they were all in classes by now and so were the teachers. However, I did nearly run into Filch and his cat, Mrs. Noriss more than once.
Then, suddenly, it hit me!
His private head Boy room! Of course! How could I be so stupid!? I ran to the fourth floor and whispered the password. The hole appeared and began to get bigger and bigger before it started to get smaller and smaller.
I quickly stepped in, quietly enough for Harry not to hear me though.
He wasn't in his bedroom so I looked in the living room of his quarters and found him sitting on a big couch in front of a crackling fire. He was staring into it and apparently hadn't noticed me.
I silently walked up to him and wrapped my arms around his shoulders from behind the couch.
I received a shocked gasp from Harry's pink, thin lips.
He turned to me and gave me a sorrowful look.
"I'm sorry," he whispered so quietly I had to strain my ears to understand.
"Sorry for what?" I asked with surprise and confusion.
Shouldn't I be the one apologizing, I thought to myself.
I didn't understand. I thought Harry would be angry with me or crying or just breaking out because he didn't want this all over the news and having people staring at him. I messed everything up for not being careful enough about our relationship. I was extremely confused.
"I'm sorry for letting people find out. You must be really angry with me," he said, looking down at the ground. Mad? I thought. Why would I be mad!? I wanted people to know! This was all getting just a little too confusing.
"What are you talking about?" I asked getting irked at how confused I was.
He looked up at me with bewilderment and hesitantly answered, "Well, you didn't want anyone to know about us because if your mother found out she would probably disown you from embarrassment and-"
"No Harry!" I interrupted. "I want people to know! I don't care if my mother disowns me! I'm 17 already! I don't need her to support me anymore. I want to date you out in the open! I had assumed that you were the one that didn't want to let anyone know because of what people would think and how it would end up in the Dailey Prophet!"
Suddenly, Harry did something extremely odd. He let out a chuckle. I gave him a quizzical and astonished look and he quickly answered, "Well, I assumed too. We both assumed, and I guess we both just made asses out of ourselves."
"What?" I asked. I didn't get it. What did he mean by that.
"It's a Muggle saying. You see, you spell the word assume 'a-s-s-u-m-e ' and so whenever someone assumes, Muggles say "you make an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me.' You see what I mean?" he asked with a smile on his face.
I thought about it and then got it. I didn't really find it funny at all, but a gave a weak smile for Harry's sake. He just laughed and said, "I guess it's true. We really shouldn't assume."
I raised an eyebrow, clearly not seeing where this conversation was going.
"Draco," Harry began. "I really don't care if anyone knows about us. I love you more than anything. I left the Great Hall because I thought you were mad at me and I didn't want to see you mad at me."
I shook my head with a smile. "I could never be mad at you. Get up," I ordered gently.
Harry stood up and I took his seat. He began to pout at the fact that I'd made him get up just to steal his seat when suddenly he smiled happily as I pulled him down onto my lap. He made himself comfortable and laid his head on my shoulder.
"Hey Draco?" Harry asked quietly.
"Yes, Harry?"
"What happened after I left? Why did Blaise suddenly stop yelling?"
I chuckled and said, "Because I punched in the mouth."
Harry lifted his head off my shoulder quite abruptly. "You did WHAT?"
"I punched-"
"I heard what you said" Harry interrupted.
"Well, I had to! You heard what he was saying about you."
"Awwwww," Harry said with a smiling pout, (A/N: Is a smiling pout even possible?) and said, "How sweet. My knight in shining armor," he said jokingly fluttering his eyes.
We both began to laugh. just enjoying life.
Then, Harry stopped laughing, "You know, as my savior, I think you deserve a reward."
"Oh really," I asked. " What kind of reward?"
"A juicy one."
I grinned as Harry leaned down and kissed me full on the lips, deeply and passionately.
And that's how we spent the rest of the day.
A/N: Awwww.what an adorable chapter! At first it's action and then BAM! WHAM! BOOM! Full on romance right in the end. Don't you just love it!? I love it! Don't mind me, I just had A LOT of chocolate!
By the way, I would have had this updated on Saturday but my Beta was really busy and just didn't have the time to do it and then on Sunday she was at work so she came back at night and so I didn't get this until just this morning.
Now back to my good day:
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