Chapter 15:

Draco woke up, in the middle of the night, extremely happy for the first time since he came into this world. He slowly turned over to look at the sleeping form in the bed next to him, his boyfriend. It was the first time he ever used that word for anyone, even Harry.

Thinking of Harry he slowly closed his eyes and fell back to sleep. Images came flashing into his mind as he slept and slowly became clearer as the dream continued. He was laying on a carpeted floor, holding his stomach, his Uncle standing above him with a belt. He had just gotten done beating him after he came home from school. His mind knew it was a dream but his body was frantically moving around in his bed.

He remembered this day, he had gotten into another fight at school and his Uncle heard about it from his teacher. The whole time home he tried to go as slow as he could, to prolong the inevitable. The moment he walked into the door his Uncles belt made contact with him, his book bag falling to the ground. His Uncle didn't spare any part of his body when he was whipping him.

Once his Uncle was done he was thrown into his room with the door being locked. He wasn't allowed to attend school or leave the room for the next two days. When the door was finally opened he was Starving and thanked the gods he could go to school. That's how his life was, one wrong thing he did in his Uncles eyes he was beaten, starved and locked in his room for days at a time.

He woke up sweating and panting from the memories, his body hurt until he realized it was only a dream. He looked over at Blaise's body again and was afraid of what the boy may think of him if he ever found out about his past. He was also grateful his dream was of when he was younger and the punishments weren't that bad.

Once Blaise woke up they went to the Great Hall for breakfast but didn't enter at first, confusing Draco when Blaise pulled his hand away from his.

"What's wr..wrong?" Draco asked

"Are you sure about this, us being together.? Blaise asked looking scared. Draco stepped up to him and kissed him lightly on the lips and grabbed his hand back.

"Yes, why wo..wouldn't I be?"

"You know what everyone thinks of me. They will think bad things about you to when they see you actually dating me."

"I do…don't care what th…they think. On..only what you th…think." Draco was happy when he saw Blaise smile and continued to walk into the Great Hall and to their table. It felt like the first day again when he saw every one staring and whispering about them. Once he sat at their table he looked up at Severus, who had a big smile on his face and nodded at him when he smiled back. Then his gaze stopped at Harry, who's mouth was hanging open in disbelief. Harry saw him looking at him and quickly closed his mouth before mouthing "WHY" to Draco. Draco cocked his head to the side with a confused expression on his face before turning away.

"So you two together now?" Draco heard Theo whisper to Blaise while he was talking to Pansy. He tried keeping his attention on Pansy while listening in on the two boys.

"Yes." He heard Blaise reply.

"Are you sure about this Blaise, I don't want to see you hurt again." Draco was starting to get mad at Theo butting in.

"I'm sure. We talked and I don't think he'll hurt me. I'm happy Theo for the first time since first year, can't you just be happy for me?" Draco felt a smile going to his face when he heard Blaise's answer.

"Alright mate, but I swear if he hurts you I'll kill him." Blaise laughed at his friend before he started eating and Draco turned his attention back to Pansy.

As they were walking to Potions they ran into a crowd of students walking by and Draco felt Blaise's hand leave his. The moment that happened he felt himself being pulled into one of the side class rooms and pushed into the wall.

"What.." He started to say when he saw Harry standing in front of him. "What do yo…you want?" He asked angrily.

"Why are you with Blaise, I thought you had better taste than that?" Draco stared at Harry like he was crazy and tried to just walk past him and out the door, but Harry pushed him back against the wall.

"Le..let me go."

"NO. I don't understand why you are with him Draco." Draco felt Harry's hand go up to his face and rub his cheek gently. He swatted it away after a couple of seconds remembering everything Harry put him threw.

"Why do ca…care for? You ha…have Sea…Seamus." Right now, at this moment, Draco was so glad he had this stutter. That way Harry couldn't tell that he was nervous as hell being this close to him alone. Looking into those green eyes was effecting him in ways he wished they didn't.

"Why do I care, did you not get any of my letters I wrote to you all these years?"

"I go..got them. Up un…until four mo….months befo….before I came here." Harry stepped closer as Draco pushed himself farther back into the wall.

"Then you must have read how I love you Draco." Draco swallowed hard then, trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with Harry.

"Yet the who…whole time you were tel….telling me this you we….were with Se…Seamus. Did you th…think bec…because I was…..wasn't apart of you…your world I woul…wouldn't ever find out?" Draco practically spat at him.

"I was hoping you wouldn't then when I left this school I could come find you and be with you. Leave all this behind when I became of age and didn't have to return." Draco stood there dumbfounded. Harry expected him to stay at his Uncles waiting for him and never be with any one else.

"Le…let me go." Draco finally came out with, the only thing he wanted was to get to class and be away from Harry right now, he was effecting him in ways he shouldn't right now.

"Not until you tell me you love me to, that you haven't stopped. I need to know I have a chance with you." Draco shoved Harry back with hurt and anger in his eyes.

"How cou…could you. Ho..how cou..could you ask th..that of me. You jel..jealous bas..bastard. You ha..have Se…Seamus, go back to hi…him." Harry started laughing at him and stepped forward again, causing Draco to stubble backwards.

"I do not want to be with him, but dear old Dumbledore thought it would be good for protection, make the Death Eaters think I was away with him and his family every summer god knows where and not at my relatives house." Draco's face dropped at that information, all these years, every summer he was near him and never told him.

"Wh..what? You have be…been near me ev…every su…summer and never to…told me, Ne..never came to me?" Draco was trying not to cry, rubbing the palm of his hands against his eyes.

"I couldn't leave the house. They had Aurors guarding the area and they wouldn't let me out. I never told you because I thought it would be worse for you to know and not be able to see me. I'm so sorry." A couple tears came out of Draco's eyes and he felt Harry wipe them away. He couldn't take it any longer he needed to get out of there and back to Blaise, to the one person he knew actually cared for him.

"Get aw….away from me." Draco shoved Harry as hard as he could and finally remembered he had a wand and pulled it out. Shoving it in Harry's face he quickly back to the door and ran out. He made it to the Potions class and slipped inside and into his seat next to Blaise, when the boy asked where he had been he just said the bathroom. His mind wandered to everything Harry had told him and he couldn't concentrate on class at all.