Authors Note
Oh, well here I am again!! Yaaaahhhhh!! Hope you enjoy!!
Disclaimer – Jargon busters arrived and stole the one from this chapter, they're in other chapters though :)
14 – I Know You Want Me
For the rest of the day, Draco had been avoiding Harry. He had made it completely obvious to the ex-Gryffindor, who didn't seem to get the point for a while. It took about 2 hours for Harry to realise that Draco genuinely didn't want to see him, and after this realisation, he left well enough alone and stopped following Draco around. Meanwhile, Draco ventured to the dungeons, in the hopes of getting some space from both boys, having not seen Blaise since the incident. He muttered the password and stepped through the entrance only to see someone he really didn't want to encounter for a while. He had hoped that Blaise wouldn't notice him come in and leave him to brood alone, but as soon as his footsteps made their noise, Draco's eyes met with Blaise's, and it wasn't pleasant.
"Um.. Drake, how much of the conversation did you hear this afternoon?" Blaise asked, playing innocent. Draco couldn't know about his little scheme yet, could he.
"Enough." Draco snarled, trying to get past. "Now, if you wouldn't mind, I'd like to go to our room to be alone."
At that moment, Blaise saw Harry's head appear through the entrance, even better, Blaise thought, this plan could be done and dusted quicker than I thought.
"Look, Draco. I know you like Harry. I know! But after everything we did today and… Merlin, I thought you wouldn't mind. Honestly, I didn't do it to hurt you or anything."
"You know I like him and yet you still went for it."
Draco likes me!? Harry thought, suddenly realising what he'd done.
"But you weren't doing anything about it, were you. I wasn't gonna wait around, Draco."
"You're making this sound like a contest where Harry's the prize. Harry seemed like the kind of guy who likes being a friend first, someone who deserves to be treated well and asked out at the right time. I haven't found the right time yet. It seems like he doesn't care about that anymore. A toilet, Blaise. How romantic."
"Draco, I am genuinely sorry about what I did. I didn't know he meant so much to you. I didn't realise I'd hurt you so much. From the way you said, he deserves so much better than me. He deserves you." Blaise said, taking Draco's hand into his own, shocked that the blonde didn't let go.
"Yeah, well it seems like he wants you. After what I saw, he likes you, not me." Draco said, shoulders slumping in defeat.
At that moment, Blaise saw Harry run back from where he came, obviously going to find Hermione. Phase 2, complete, I guess, Blaise thought, hoping Hermione would keep up with her new part of the plan.
"Are you mad, Drake? The only reason he was so hesitant about it was because of you."
"Me and Hermione, you mean."
"No, just you." Blaise then used the hand that he was holding to take Draco over to the sofas, shooing some third years out of the way so that they could sit in their favourite spot.
"I heard what he said. He basically denied any feelings for me."
"Drake, seriously, when did you become so dense. He likes you and he just didn't want me to know." Draco raised his eyebrow sceptically, "Believe me, I know boys. He likes you and doesn't know you like him back. Just try and talk to him, maybe you can coax out a confession and you two can get together."
"I don't know. He seemed pretty happy to get with you."
"Suuuuure that's just because I'm so damn awesome. I could tell he wasn't all there during the kiss."
Suddenly a little parchment snake slithered along, up Draco's leg and into his lap. Draco gave a little smile as he opened it.
Draco, please meet me in the room of requirement, I think we need to talk. Harry x
Before Blaise could even ask what it was about, Draco was out the door and making the long journey to the seventh floor. Blaise picked up the piece of parchment and smiled to himself, "Well done, Hermione, well done." He said, and relaxed back in his chair, confident in yet another one of his schemes.