A/N: Sorry about the hiatus. Anatomy was much more difficult than I thought it would be. Thankfully I'm done with school for the next few weeks and my creative juices are flowing again.
The bell over the door in Madam Malkin's chimed as Lavender and Draco walked in. They had decided that their first official outing as a couple would be school shopping on Diagon Alley. It was, after all, the quickest way to be seen by their peers before school.
The tinkle of the bell brought Madam Malkin from the back of her shop. "Mister Malfoy, how nice to see you again. Miss Brown I'm afraid you didn't make an appointment this year-"
"She's with me," Draco lifted his hand and placed it on Lavender's lower back. Lavender stiffened slightly before relaxing in his hold.
Madam Malkin's eyebrows rose in shock. Time to go in for the kill, Lavender thought to herself.
"I know I don't have an appointment but I just can't stand to leave Dray-Dray, even for a little while," Lavender said. Her voice was breathy and she looked up at Draco lovingly before turning back to Madam Malkin. "Is there anyway we can do a double appointment? Please?" Lavender wheedled.
The seamstress's face softened. "Of course you can. Let me just pull some things out of the back for you Miss Brown. Please make yourselves comfortable," She said gesturing to the couches before she went into the back of the shop.
The pair waited for her to disappear before jumping apart.
"Seriously Brown?" Draco hissed at her while keeping one eye on the store room entrance, "Dray-Dray?"
"You wanted me to be believable right?" Lavender said as she sat next to him on the couch. "Cutesy pet names are part of the glorious package that is Lavender Brown, deal with it Malfoy," she deadpanned.
"No wonder the weasel left you," He replied as he pulled her into his body, trying not to notice the way she fit in his arms. "At least the know-it-all doesn't call him idiotic nicknames." Draco's voice was cold as he whispered in her ear, but to any onlooker it would seem like he was telling her sweet nothings.
Lavender giggled as Madam Malkin walked back in the room. She leaned into him and nuzzled her face into his neck. "At least I know what it's like to have been in love. What's your excuse for being so jaded?"
"The skull and snake on my arm." He murmured as he pressed a kiss to her temple before standing. "I'll go first Madam Malkin."
Tagging along with Malfoy on their school errands did have it's perks Lavender thought to herself. The shop keepers respected the Malfoy name. Although she wondered if the royal treatment was due to his galleons or the alleged company he kept. It was as if a whole new world of opportunity had swallowed her up. Lavender tucked her body into his as they walked past the ice cream shop a shock of red hair was visible in the window.
"Hey Dray-Dray, can we stop at Florean's for ice cream?" Lavender asked. Her voice was tight and she had stopped to stare in the window.
He glanced down at her before looking in the window of the shop. His mouth spread into a slow smirk as he saw the tell-tale Weasley hair in the window. He looked back at her, "Oh this is going to be fun."