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Chapter 3 – I Should Tell!
Shit! They can't have found out already! I didn't make it obvious enough. Draco suddenly lost his appetite, his thoughts overwhelming him. He wondered what would happen to his reputation if the Golden Trio released the news that the Slytherin Prince writes love letters. He would be tortured. Even more so because the letter in question was written to someone of the same sex. He could hear the chants now "Everyone look, it's the Slytherin Queen" "Don't let him walk behind you!" These thoughts were the exact reason that he had kept the truth of his sexuality to himself. He had seen his friends previously beat a Hufflepuff seventh year senseless soon after he had come out. Draco could still feel his blood boil every time he thought about what he had seen. How could they do that? How could they have felt nothing? Watching him whimpering on the floor whilst they…
"Drake. DRACO!" Blaise suddenly interjected into Draco's little dream sequence.
"Huh? What?" He muttered in reply, still a little weary of how long he'd been staring into space for, his fork still jammed into a piece of bacon, the handle still in his hands. "Did you just say something?"
"Yeah. I was just saying how stupid the Trio look today. Still seeking attention during everyone else's breakfast. Honestly, they need to get over themselves. Then again, so do their admirers" Blaise began to chuckle smugly at his comment.
"Oh, yeah. They do, don't they." Draco replied, sounding a little less enthusiastic than usual during their rants against the Gryffindors. This didn't go unnoticed by Blaise.
"Don't sound too excited, babe. Honestly, there must be something wrong. Firstly, you're up early on a Saturday and now you sound like you're bored with bitching about the trio. It's almost as if you've… changed" Blaise let out a stifled giggle while Draco rolled his eyes at the 'lecture'. "Ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod! There's something going on, isn't there." Draco's eyes suddenly widened. He turned his head back to his breakfast and didn't break the un-needed eye contact until Blaise snapped his fingers in realization, "you're screwing the mudblood, aren't you! You dirty…"
"Blaise. That's just plain disgusting!! 1. Don't call me babe. 2. I may shag any girl that offers, but I have standards" Draco interjected whilst trying to suppress Blaise's girly excitement.
His eyes slowly drifted back to Potter, but he was already leaving for his first lesson. Potions. With the Slytherins. Draco wanted, more than anything, to be able to get up and follow him to the dungeons, but he couldn't. It was too early. It would be obvious there was something up. Potter was always early to lessons (or Granger was) and Draco only just made it in time.
He followed Harry with his eyes, between the aisles and out of the doors. Just outside the hall, Harry suddenly stopped in his tracks, causing a trio pile-up.
"Oi, mate! What are you doing?"
Harry didn't answer. He was just staring straight ahead with a confused look on his face.
"Harry?" Hermione said, placing her hand on his shoulder, causing a slight jump.
"What. Oh sorry," he stuttered as he began a brisk walk towards the dungeons.
"Harry, what's up?" Hermione panted as she tried to keep up. Hermione being much shorter than him sometimes had its advantages, this being one of them.
"It's just… I felt… It was like..." He saw the intrigue in his friends' faces. He really wanted to tell Hermione but without Ron near. "It's nothing". He had felt something strange all through breakfast. It made his spine tingle. Not in a bad way. He liked it, whatever it was, and he didn't know why. He'd stopped outside the Great Hall the way he did because the feeling had intensified.
They walked in silence the whole way to the dungeons. As they stopped outside the doors, due to their being early, Hermione asked "Are you sure you're okay? After what you told me earlier, this doesn't seem okay."
"I'm fine" Harry responded. "Look, I'll tell you when we get started inside. I don't really want Ron to know this either. I don't think he'll understand." He thought he sounded convincing enough, but upon seeing the look of uncertainty on Hermione's face, he added, "honestly."
After daydreaming for a few seconds, Draco realized it had become quieter. Draco turned his head back towards his friend, who seemed to be staring, wide eyed and drooling.
Blaise suddenly inhaled a very deep breath, "you want Potter, don't you!?" Blaise suddenly began clapping in an, almost, London Tipton impression (A/N ii don't Own her either!! Disney Channel's Awesome Work!) "I thought you said you have standards. Okay, so he is quite hot and he really can pull off that 'I've-Just-Had-The-Best-Shag-Of-My-Life' look with that hair but…"
"Blaise! Stop babbling. Just because you're gay, doesn't mean I will ever be," Draco cut in, "and even if I was, I would choose someone a bit nicer."
"Then why were you just watching him leaving?"
Shit! I didn't think about that. "Oh, erm, I was, erm, planning something new to get at him with." Yeah that makes sense.
"Ooooh Okay… That seems a bit more normal," Blaise Laughed, still holding some doubt, "I don't know what I was thinking."
"Exactly what I was trying to say," Draco said in relief.
Blaise really did believe everything he said.
"Shit! We're gonna be late…again. Snape may be my godfather, but I think he's getting a little pissed off." Blaise then gave Draco his puppy dog stare, "and those eyes don't work on me. Come on."
Draco got up and left Blaise sulking at the table. He reached the doors and gestured back to his friend, who immediately but reluctantly got up and followed.
"We will be brewing a special potion today," Professor Snape begun, much to many Gryffindors' dismay, "it will allow the drinker to willingly change the colour of their hair. The effects are not permanent but they will, if brewed correctly, last up to 3 hours. The drinker must choose wisely as, I am sure, some of you would not like to end up looking as unfortunate as others." And with that last comment, he cast an obvious glance at Ron, whose ears, on perfect cue, turned tomato red.
Hermione slowly raised her hand, "but, sir…"
As she was about to release the next few words, the two Slytherins burst through the door, wanting to look flustered (as though they had ran the entire journey) but failed to do even a satisfactory job. "Sorry… we're… phew! Erm… late, Sir," Draco 'panted', crossing his fingers behind his back, hoping that Snape hadn't reached the end of his tether yet.
"Just take your seats Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Zabini, I trust you will be able to find those in good time."
They walked to their seats sporting matching smirks, whilst breathing a sigh of relief. They really couldn't do with detention at this present time, they didn't know why. Maybe they just didn't want any at all, but meh! They really were lucky that they were not just Slytherins, but they were the Slytherins. Snape wouldn't dare give them detention, the bollocking that he'd receive from Lucius would never end. The boys knew this. Apparently everyone knew this.
"I can't believe that they can always get away with being late" Hermione said, "If it were us, we'd be in detention and have house points deducted. It's just unfair."
Hermione believed that she was saying this all to Harry, but to be honest, she was giving her angry rant to either the air or the table because Harry wasn't really paying attention. He hadn't noticed anything said to or around him since he saw the flash of platinum blond. As soon as Malfoy stumbled through the doors, nothing else mattered.
Ever since seeing Malfoy in second year, as the new slytherin seeker (A/N Compliments to CSI.Gabigail for that idea – read her one-shot The New Slytherin Seeker!), Harry had realised that there was something new. Something more than the usual small blond boy with the permanent smirk, granted he still had that plastered on his face, but he had grown up a lot over that summer.
Even though Malfoy was the seeker and his part in the game is to follow and catch the snitch, when Harry had the rogue bludger, he secretly wished that Malfoy hadn't followed him. Sure, he should've been worrying about himself but he could handle it well enough, he had already faced Voldemort once by then. From that day on, Harry had always liked Malfoy, whether it was love, he didn't know, he was - for the record - 12. It took a year or so to progress more but, even though he was in slight denial, subconsciously he knew he was in love with the fair-haired boy. He was too worried what Ron and Hermione would say to even admit it to himself. If they stopped talking to him, he'd have no one. Okay, so he was loved by the majority of the wizarding world, but he'd truly have no one to really talk to, to laugh with, to understand what he's been through.
But today was different. He felt it may be time. Not to completely come out with everything but after getting that note that morning and telling Hermione about it, he felt she would definitely be with him on it. She was, after all, the most rational part of the trio. It seemed like that note had given him more confidence in the matter. But when should he do it? Now? 10 Minutes? Halfway through the lesson? This part is probably the hardest out of everything he had just planned in that, obviously short, space of time.
Now.
Draco had seen the look that he had received from Potter. His eyes were glazed over. Like he was daydreaming or something which he sort of was. He just looked so cute. Draco seemed to like that certain look, especially after that note. Maybe Potter did know and he felt the same. Or maybe he was just daydreaming about quidditch or his stupid friend Weasley. If he did feel the same way, perhaps they could finally be together. Or not. Imagine what every Slytherin would think. The Slytherin Prince with the Golden Boy, you must be having a laugh! These begun circling through Draco's mind, over and over again.
"Shut up!" Draco whispered to the voices, hoping that Blaise didn't hear. Unfortunately,
"I didn't say anything, babe" Blaise replied, a little more confused than usual.
"For Merlin's sake, stop calling me babe!"
"Sorry darling I forgot." Blaise cooed, looking smug until he caught eyes with Draco's death glare, "okay… I'll stop it when you tell me why you appear to be shouting at the millions of little Draco's inside that little noggin of yours."
"Fine. It's that bloody Harry. Did you see how gormless he looked when we walked in. Sheesh, at least make it a little more subtle, I mean.."
"Drake…" Blaise interjected slowly, "since when did you start calling Potter, Harry?"
Merlin's left testicle! I just had to make that little slip didn't I. Well, I guess there's no time like the present. I'm gonna have to tell him.
"Blaise, There's something I need to tell you." Draco suddenly said, looking directly at their shared cauldron.
"Erm… Hermione" Harry stuttered.
"Hmm?" Hermione answered, concentrating on their potion.
"Can I, erm, tell you something?"
"Sure, what is it?" She said, still concentrating on the potion.
"I'd step away from the cauldron if I were you." He uttered, with pure nerves and concern leaking from his words.
"O…Kay, what is it?" she said, stepping back, as she was advised.
"Well, erm… Okay I'm just gonna cone right out and say this."
"Say What?" Hermione said avidly.
"What, bab-Drake? You know you can tell me anything."
"Yeah. Well, you know what you said earlier…" Blaise nodded, to afraid to break Draco's train of thought, "Well, I guess you were right… again."
"Wait, right about what?" Blaise jumped in.
"I fancy Potter"
"I fancy Malfoy"
At that moment, two simultaneous squeals came from either side of the classroom, quickly followed by two bangs that sounded very similar to those of two heads hitting desks coincidently.
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