Title:Fools Paradise Part 2
Autir: kiki g
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Not owned by me but by JK
Beta: Ryn,thanks for betaing for me hon and Say Aye for prereading it and telling me it's cool
A/N: Tomorrow's my b-day so I went along and I posted this.Thanks for awesome reviews.
The next morning, Harry woke up with a start, breathing hard and wiping the sweat off of his brow. He dreamed of what had happened yesterday. It was a nightmare.
He hadn't thought much about the kiss after it had happened but now it was twirling around in his head. He was beginning to think that he had indeed liked it.
But it couldn't be so. Could it? He and Malfoy were bitter enemies. There was no attraction between them…was there?
Harry knew there were some questions he needed answered but he couldn't ask anyone but his conscience. Who else was there to answer all his questions?
What was it about the kiss that made him dream about it last night? Harry had been appalled when Malfoy lowered his lips to his, and he had wanted to kill Malfoy for doing that…hadn't he?
He was certain that he felt nothing but hate for that boy because he didn't even like boys. He wasn't gay.
He had kissed many girls and he had liked it, too. Not as much as he thought he should have liked it but he did, didn't he?
'Damn, Malfoy, for making me question my sexual preferences.' He thought.
He was sure that the only feeling that tied him to his enemy was hate but now that kiss was changing something inside of him, something he didn't like.
Draco was a bastard to him, there was nothing about him that was attractive to Harry. He didn't even know why he was thinking about him or about that plain kiss he had received yesterday.
Harry got out of his bed, sighing in the darkness. There was one thing he needed to do this morning and that was to talk to someone who could help him understand something. He needed to know why he kept remembering the kiss because deep down inside of himself, he knew that he couldn't possibly be attracted to guys.
Harry sighed as he came closer to the other bed located on the farthest side of the room and he shook Seamus' shoulder, waking him up from his peaceful dream.
"Seamus, Seamus, wake up. I need to talk to you."
After breakfast, Draco Malfoy had a hard time containing his smirk as one of his housemates made up with his boyfriend right in front of him. He stood in front of them waiting for them to finish their own private meeting so he could ask them about the stuff he came there to ask them. Stuff about romance.
He quickly deducted that if he was going to be able to do this, he was going to need to separate loving couples from devouring each other during his interviews or he would end up in the infirmary with frequent nausea due to their sickening displays.
"Hey, you two, stop this before you make me vomit." He made a bitter face at them and raised an eyebrow. After a few more kisses, Blaise disentangled himself from his boyfriend, Colin Creevey.
"I need to ask you two something." He started.
"Ask us what?" Blaise interrupted.
"I want to ask you about your relationship." Draco blushed while uttering it, feeling like an idiot, but he knew that if he was to learn about romance, he needed to ask some experts.
Draco's dictionary consisted mostly of the words sex and hate Potter and he used them well but love was something very different to him. It was just like a mystery.
"About our relationship…" Blaise repeated.
"Yes, about that. Are you deaf, Blaise?" Draco rolled his eyes and he clung to the notebook he carried to write all the romance facts in.
"Sure, what do you want to know?" Colin asked, hugging his boyfriend and looking at Malfoy with an amused expression.
"Well, I want to know how you two got involved with each other. What drew you to each other and are you in love?" Draco spluttered words all over and he looked at the couple, seeing the secret smile they shared between them. He almost wished that he was sharing it with Potter right now. Well, almost.
"Whoa, Draco, slow down,one question at a time. We should take a seat first, I think that bench over there should suffice." He chuckled and pointed at the abandoned bench in the garden.
"Sure, okay, one question at a time;whatever you say." He moved behind the couple to take a seat.
Blaise took his seat too and he looked at Draco, suspicion resurfacing in his eyes.
"Draco, mate, why do you want to know stuff about love? Last year, I thought I heard you say that love was bullshit."
Colin turned his gaze toward Draco, too, wondering why someone like Malfoy would take the time to explore love.
"Blaise, do me a favor and keep your questions to yourself, I'm the one asking them now, okay." Draco sneered as he replied, wishing that Blaise would stop looking at him that way, because it made him feel exposed.
"Okay, okay, I won't ask anymore. So, what's your first question?" Blaise asked, taking his boyfriend's hand.
"How did you know that you were attracted to, Creevey? And please keep your answers short." Draco opened his notebook and took out his quill, preparing to record what Blaise would say.
"You can't know for certain if you're attracted to someone, Draco, It's not that easy. You're asking questions only the human heart can answer."
Blaise smiled at the confused Draco and he winked at Colin.
"So, would you ask that heart of yours so I can have my answer? Now please." Draco replied, with annoyed tone in his voice.
"Regarding that question, my friend, consider it already answered. Is there another question or is that it?" Blaise replied, knowing well enough that Draco didn't like uncompleted answers.
"WHAT? That's not a real answer." Draco huffed.
"Riddles, Blaise, Riddles. You know I hate them," Draco growled and he shook his head. "Okay, on to the second question. Do you love each other, and please this time try to answer."
"Yes, we do and if you want to know what love is, well I can't help you with that. I'm a Slytherin too and I have a hard time expressing myself but I managed to confess my feelings because Colin helped me do it. Gryffindor's are persistent blokes if you hadn't notice by now. Perhaps you should ask Colin some of these questions, eh?"
Blaise smirked and he chuckled, knowing that this small interview had left Draco even more confused than he was before. Draco rolled his eyes and he looked at his empty notebook, wondering if he would gain anything from doing this.
"Alright, so this question is for Colin then." Draco cleared his throat as he turned his attention to the Gryffindor. "When did you realize you loved Blaise?"
Colin blinked a couple of times and thought about how to answer the question Draco was asking him.
"I'm not sure how I knew it, Malfoy. As Blaise said earlier, the heart is not a simple thing, you just know. For me, I didn't realize it,I knew it."
"Oh, for goodness sake. Can't you people answer a simple question without going around it? What is love?" Draco snapped, closing his notebook angrily.
Blaise laughed out loud and after a few seconds he replied.
"I think you may already know that, Draco. You wouldn't ask us if you were indeed so completely clueless."
Draco stood up and he blushed, a strange redness covering his usually pale cheeks.
"What are you implying, Blaise?" Draco said with a cold voice.
"I'm saying that you should stop asking us what love is because you already know. Don't spend time exploring it, feel it." Blaise said and he looked at the seething Draco. Draco was not himself lately and Blaise knew that he had uncovered the secret source of the blonde's change. That source was called love.
"You're full of something, Blaise, how dare you say that to me! I was just wondering for amusements sake. That's all." Draco's voice was not very smooth as he spoke because at the end of the sentence he had stuttered.
"I'm full of something?" Blaise repeated. "I beg to differ." He crossed his arms as he looked up at his housemate.
Draco was breathing hard from some unknown fury that was fueled by denial and he picked up his schoolbag from the ground. He had no words to scorn Blaise with so he left the garden silently, storming off to the nearest bathroom he had found on his way. He placed his school bag on the ground again and uttered a spell, making the water flow from the faucet as he washed his face.
He was lost so deep in his thoughts that he didn't notice the shadow behind him, a shadow that belonged to Ronald Weasley.
"Well, well, look who it is. Draco Malfoy. Forget to wash your face this morning, eh?" Ron said hatefully, making fists and coming closer and closer to his enemy.
"Piss off, Weasley." Draco replied, not in the mood to face the git now.
"Likewise, Malfoy, but that's not what I want to do now. Not until I tell you this." Ron came behind the other boy, wanting so bad to crush him into little pieces.
"Tell me what, Weasley?" Draco raised his eyebrow.
"I'm here to tell you to stay away from Harry. I saw you kissing him last night and I warn you, if you ever do that again, I'll cut your tongue off." Ron said and without waiting for a reply, he went to rejoin his friends, hoping that his threat would stop Draco from bugging Harry.
Draco was shocked because the other boy had just informed him that he knew about the kiss. He knew that Ron's threats did not affect him that much but the fact that Ron knew was making him somewhat uncomfortable. 'Can Weasley stop me from getting to Harry? Was the red-haired freak powerful enough to influence Harry's feelings?' Draco thought while shutting the water off.
He knew that now he had even less of a chance to get Harry because one of Harry's friends knew what Draco was about.
To say he was not worried would be wrong, but somewhere in the background, the words his father had told him, kept him going on. Draco didn't love his father and he usually avoided his advice but some had stayed with him to make him stronger and stable.
"Take what you can but what you can't have, you have to be patient to get." That was the advice his father had given him. Not the wisest advice to have in your life because Draco was not a patient boy, but still, that particular piece of advice was ringing in Draco's ears, making him think of many ways he could woo Potter.
TBC
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