Chapter 3: The pool

Then you saw the head of none other than Draco appear in the corridor.

"What the hell are you doing Flint?!" he asked clearly shocked after his eyes took in the scene in front of him.

"Um, nothing, I just..." For a moment he looked taken aback, like a little boy caught doing something wrong, but then he burst out: Wait! She's not your girl, is she? I can do whatever I want with her! So go away!"

You shot a pleading look at Malfoy not to leave you there.

"Get your filthy hands off her! You won't do anything like that in my house! Am I understood?"

"I don't give a shit about what you say! You're no master of me, Malfoy!"

Draco looked like he was just slapped across the face but then composed himself in a second and replied in an absolutely cool, calmed way.

"Flint, normally I wouldn't intrude in your love life but I won't allow anything like this to happen in the manor."

These words seemed to have had an effect on Flint because he took a step back and let you slide down to the floor.

"All right, but you can't stop me at Hogwarts."

You felt numb. After recovering from your shock a little, you slowly started to cry without making a sound. Practice makes perfect. Your father didn't like the sound of crying.

The tears were slowly flowing down on your face. Flint turned around and stalked away but not without taking a last glance at you, like a predator at its chosen prey.

At last, when he was out of sight, Malfoy came closer and sat next to you. He looked at your tear-stricken face with unreadable eyes, and slowly extended an arm around you. Your normal reaction would have been to pull away, but it felt so safe there. You put your head on his shoulder and he pulled you a little closer.

After you calmed down a bit in his embrace, he picked you up bridal style not paying attention to you protests and brought you to your room. There he put you down on your bed and sat next you. You lay down feeling exhausted. The tears have already stopped, only a terrible exhaustion remained.

You expected Draco to leave right after he made sure you're okay, but to your great astonishment he didn't make any moves suggesting that he would do so. Wondering about these, you realized how much you actually wanted him to stay. He meant some kind of protection.

Not wanting him to go you searched for his hand and slid yours in his. He looked at you with a surprised expression, then took his hand away. Before you could say anything he slowly climbed next to you and took you in his arms.

You haven't seen him act this gentle for a long time. When you were smaller and something bad happened, he did his best to calm you down. You just understood each other so well. But that was years ago.

Now, he attained quite a reputation about being the Casanova of Hogwarts, getting a new girl in his bed every week.

You looked into each other's eyes for a long minute. Still you couldn't read out anything from those smoky grey eyes. They were calm, maybe just a little concerned. You broke the eye contact and closed your eyes, putting your head on his muscular chest. Soon you fell asleep in his arms.

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You woke up next day finding yourself in your pyjamas. Draco was gone. As much as you didn't want it, last night's happenings just came into your mind. You got goose bumps even from just remembering Flint's actions.

Then your thoughts wandered towards how Draco acted the previous night. Like you were still friends. Or maybe more.

Then Blaise burst into the room, chasing all your thoughts away at once.

"Lil! Is everything okay? I heard it all from Malfoy. I'll kill Flint if he gets in my way!"

"It's okay Blaise. It was a shock but I'm fine now." He stared into your eyes disbelieving.

"Lil... If I just come up earlier..."

"Please don't even mention it. I just... don't want to talk about it, kay?"

"Right. I'm sorry. I didn't want to cause you any pain. You know how protective I am about you.

'I know. And I really appreciate it."

You didn't want to hurt his feelings, only wanted to drop the subject.

"I guess I'll leave you to yourself a little then."

"Yeah, thanks, Blaise. And don't worry I'm okay. I'm not as easily breakable as I might seem."

You got dressed after Blaise left and went down to eat breakfast.

You thought eating will divert your mind from yesterday but you still had a knot in your stomach and couldn't eat much.

"Thanks a lot sis for getting Draco away for the night." Jemma popped down next to you.

"Hey that's a real loving sister! Isn't being nervous that her sister almost got raped just missing her own shag!"

"Well, you know Draco is quite a lover in bed."

"Yeah, I heard the rumors of the "Slytherin Sex God"."

"Someone was mentioning me?" Draco came into view, already back with his oh-so-famous attitude.

"Cough*egoist*cough."

"It's not egoism it's just healthy confidence."

"Whatever."

"You know we are just joking around, Lil. I'm relieved that everything is okay. That Flint is an idiot. But don't worry he already left after breakfast. He said he had something important to do before leaving for Hogwarts.

"Oh, and by the way, just out of curiosity, did you shag Lil yesterday, Draco?" Jemma asked smiling.

"What?" You almost spit out the orange juice you were drinking.

"Not yet." Draco left the room smirking with an apple in his hand.

"Not yet?! I'll be curious when he gets into my pants!"

"Wanna bet little sis?"

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You spent the time left of the summer very well. You swam in the pools, sunbathed, hang out with the others, (mostly with Blaise) and practiced Quidditch. You really liked the wizarding sport and played chaser in the Gryffindor team. You usually practiced alone too in the evening.

One afternoon, you were pretty tired after flying for one and a half hour and really wanted to get in the pool to cool yourself down a bit. You didn't want to go up and change into your bikini, not wanting to waste time as dinner was inching close, so you decided to swim in your underwear.

First you checked if nobody was there then you got in the cold, refreshing water. You dived underwater and enjoyed yourself.

After some time you got out and waited for your body to dry a little in the feeble sunshine.

"My, my, if I knew such a view will await me I would have come out earlier." You turned to see a wildly smirking Draco eyeing you up and down. He was wearing his swimming trunks and had a towel around his neck.

"Malfoy, turn around and don't look at me!"

"Sparks, now, why would I do that? It's quite a spectacular view. You should dress like this more often..."

You were looking for your pile of clothes, but they just seemed to have disappeared.

"Are you looking for these?"

"You jerk, give them back!" You shouted at him angrily as he held up your clothes in one hand.

"Oh my, being a little rude, aren't we? Where's the "magic" word? Maybe I should remind you that this is my house not yours...It's me who's giving the orders here." He watched you satisfied as you blushed, feeling completely naked under his glaze.

"Please?"

"Now that's better, isn't it? But if you want your clothes back you have to do a little favor for me."

"Which is?"

"Kiss me!"

"What?!"

"I said kiss me." He repeated smirking wildly.

"No way. We don't like each other, remember? Why would you want ME to kiss you?"

"If you hate me that much, Sparks, then why did you sleep with me?"

"That's absolutely another thing! I was shocked and exhausted..."

"Still you slept with me. You pleaded me with those baby eyes of yours to stay there. You can't deny it. Well, no kiss no clothes." Said Malfoy, taking a few steps closer really enjoying himself. You couldn't believe him.

"I'd rather kiss Flint again than you Malfoy!"

You grabbed his towel, which was hanging loosely around his neck, quickly covered yourself up and left him there with your clothes.

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Well, I'm sorry if at the beginning Draco was OOC, but I really would like to believe that he has such a soft side to him…