Chapter 2/ Year 2

It was the first day of term and Harry was eager to get on the train to finally see the one who been in his thoughts all summer. His parents had noticed his nervousness but they just put it down to Harry's new appearance. "Bye See you at Christmas" Harry said waving at his parents from the carriage window. Checking his watch he had a few hours left till he had promised to meet up with Draco so he turned to face his friends, who had just walked into the carriage "So how was your holidays?" he asked "Great" answered Hermione and Ron at the same time they laughed then Hermione launched into a tale about her family vacation to France. Then when she finished Harry seized his chance excusing himself to go to the bathroom he went in search of Draco. It didn't take him long letting himself into the compartment Harry smiled at him. "Wow you weren't lying when you said you were going emo" Draco greeted him taking in Harry's faded black skinny jeans, T-shirt declaring the name of a band no one had heard of till his gaze settled on Harry's heavily kohl rimmed eyes, where one of the emerald orbs was hidden behind the floppy, black fringe. Harry was silent for a moment whilst he took in Draco's appearance he had not changed much over the holidays his hair a bit longer perhaps. Harry looked up Draco was staring into his eyes so Harry leant forward and did what he had been wanting to do since first laying his eyes on Draco he kissed him. Draco who had not been expecting this tripped over and fell backwards on to the seat pulling Harry with him. Sometime later they noticed that the lamps had turned on meaning that the train would soon be pulling up to Hogwarts. Sighing Harry got up and made his way to the door just before he reached the door Draco found his voice "Harry, do you know where the room of requirement is?"

"No"

"Well it's on the third floor you walk past the wall three times thinking what kind of room you want. Meet me there next Monday at seven I'll be looking forward to what room you think of" instructed Draco.

"'Kay see you then" said Harry and hurried back to his compartment.

Sliding open the door he was greeted by a shrill Hermione "Where have you been?"

"I got stuck in a Slytherin compartment they only just let me out." He explained, well he had been with a Slytherin so it wasn't far from the truth.

Harry walked into the great hall the following morning to find everyone starting at him and whispering. He panicked they hadn't found out about him and Draco had they? Passing the Ravenclaw table he caught snippets of conversation. "He looks like a girl with all that makeup" , "who calls that fashion?" he breathed a sigh of relief at least no one knew about him and Draco – yet. Sitting down beside Hermione and Ron he ate his breakfast. The whispers followed him around all week but Harry ignored them focusing on his upcoming meeting with Draco. Things came to a head on the night he was supposed to meet Draco he walked into the great hall for dinner one of the Slytherin shouted at across the room "Oi Potter, My sister asked if she could have her make up back!" everyone in the great hall burst out laughing cheeks burning Harry made his way to the Gryffindor table but the taunting didn't stop there the Slytherin kept up a loud commentary on Harry's appearance all the way through dinner. Harry played with his food all through dinner till he couldn't take it anymore the week of being ridiculed and now the taunting had got to him, making sure no one saw he slipped his knife in his bag. Excusing himself he left the great hall before the Slytherin had the pleasure of seeing that he'd made Harry cry. Running into the boy's bathroom Harry locked himself in a cubicle he rummaged through his bag till he found the knife he had in his bag taking a deep breath Harry drew it across his arm like he'd seen the muggle teens do. He instantly felt better. Grabbing some tissue he held it to the wound till the bleeding stopped, hearing someone enter the bathroom he quickly cleaned the knife and flushed the bloody tissues down the toilets. Hearing the bathroom door click shut again Harry knew it was safe to leave the cubicle. He made his way up to Gryffindor common room to wait out the hours till his date with Draco.

On his third time past the wall a door appeared for Harry opening it he found Draco waiting for him grabbing Harry's hand he dragged the boy in to the room pressing him against the wall Draco started kissing Harry. A while later Draco was sat on the floor with Harry's head in his lap, "I never mentioned how hot you look as an emo did I?" Draco said kissing his boyfriend's head. "Just ignore what they're saying there just jealous that they don't look as good in make up as you." He smiled. Harry blushed, "We'd better get going" Draco said sadly, neither of them wanted to leave this room but they did have lessons the next day. Making plans to meet up again in a few weeks Draco and Harry parted ways.

It carried on like this for most of the school year Harry and Draco meeting every few weeks and Harry cutting himself to cope with the bullying. When they met up they never went further than a kiss until Draco started wanting to do more. It was the last time they we're going to see each other before the summer holidays started. They met up in the room of requirement like normal and started making out, Draco slid his hands down Harry's body until he reached the edge of Harry's long sleeved t-shirt tugging on he tried taking it off Harry. "No Draco" Harry said stepping back from his boyfriend, Draco had a hurt look on his face he couldn't figure out why his gorgeous boyfriend didn't want to be seen half naked. "Why not?" asked Draco.

" I, I just don't want to go that far yet" truthfully he didn't want Draco to find out about his secret, he'd told Draco that the bullies didn't get to him but the jagged red lines up his arms and down his legs told a different story. "I promise after the holidays I'll be ready" he reassured Draco who was sat on the floor too caught up in the rejection from Harry to really hear what he was saying. Seeing that Draco wanted to be alone Harry made his excuses "Bye Draco, see you after the holidays" and left the room.