I Knew You Weren't
Chapter Seven
Kylie looked over at Draco and grinned as he opened his eyes. "You sleep well, princess?" She giggled as he blushed.
"Sorry. I, uh, couldn't sleep out there and well, you looked pretty peaceful..."
"I was." Kylie sighed, pulling the blankets around her shoulders. "You ever have those days where you just want to lay in bed all day?"
"Only if we lay in bed and talk about last night." Draco rolled from his stomach to his side and propped himself up on his elbow.
"What's there to talk about?" Kylie did the same, going from her back to her side, facing Draco. "We didn't do anything wrong. We're single. We're adults. We kissed."
"That's all you have to say about it? You're the one who said we'd have a conversation."
"We're two consenting adults. Legally, we can join the military, buy alcohol, and get married without permission. What more is there to talk about? We kissed. I mean, it was like ten minutes of amazing snogging. But it's not like we're going to get grounded. If we like each other, we're allowed to act on our feelings." Kylie bit her bottom lip. "Is that enough talking about it or would you like to share your feelings with the class?"
"I'm not really one to to talk about feelings."
"I've noticed. Unless you're yelling about something. Do I need to spell it out for you?"
"Not really." Draco smirked. "But you can if you want."
"Well, obviously I didn't kick you out of bed when I noticed you here in the middle of the night. When I kissed you back at school, I hoped it wouldn't be the only time. I like you. I liked kissing you. I would like to kiss you again and again." Kylie flopped onto her back and stared up at the ceiling. "I try to live my life doing what I feel makes me happy. And after what we've been through in the past few years, and maybe our whole lives even, why deny ourselves the simple pleasures we come across?"
Draco rolled onto his back as well, crossing his arms under his head. "It's not that simple sometimes."
"You're worried." Kylie turned her head towards Draco. "About your mum? Your friends?"
Draco gave a noncommittal shrug, still staring at the ceiling.
"Your mother doesn't control you. And neither does your father anymore. You can have a whole new life of your choosing now. And your friends... well, if they're really your friends, they'll be happy for you." Kylie laid her arm between her and Draco, conveniently laying her palm facing upwards.
"To be honest, I'm a bit more worried about your friends." Draco glanced down and saw her hand. He almost moved to grab it, but paused.
"My friends are coming around. They trust my judgement. Ginny was skeptical at first, but she's grown to tolerate you." She inched her hand a bit closer to Draco.
He finally got the hint and took his arm out from under his head. He reached down and took Kylie's hand, intertwining their fingers.
"Honestly, I'm glad part of your probation was that you had to come back to school. I don't think I would want to be Head with anyone else."
"You knew about that?" Draco asked, glancing over.
"I caught the tailend of your trial, where they gave you your probation agreement. Harry was there, though, for the whole thing. Which is why I think Ginny came around. He understands you a bit better now."
"Did he tell you? What all was said, I mean."
Kylie shook her head. "Nope. Well, he asked if I wanted to know, since we'd be living together. But I told him that if you wanted me to know, you'd tell me. It's none of my business."
"I'll tell you one day." Draco squeezed Kylie's hand a little. "When I'm ready."
"I can wait." Kylie smiled a little. "This is getting kind of depressing."
Draco chuckled. "A bit, yeah."
"Let's go back to the part where I was talking about kissing you. You never said how you felt about that."
"Kissing is good. I like the kissing. More than kissing would be good down the line." Draco smirked, as Kylie swatted his torso. "That can wait, though." He laughed.
"Yes. Yes, it can." Kylie giggled as Draco propped himself up and rolled on top of her, propping himself up on his elbows. "Just kissing."
"Just kissing." Draco repeated as he lowered his head to capture Kylie's lips.
As their lips moved in unison, one of Kylie's hands drifted up and she tangled her fingers in Draco's hair. The other hand gripped at the bottom of his t-shirt. Her fingertips grazed his stomach right above the waistband of his sweatpants.
"Don't be a tease." Draco groaned.
Kylie giggled. "Sorry." She whispered, kissing Draco once more and grazing her teeth along his bottom lip.
Draco growled and poured his frustrations into a deeper kiss, running his tongue across Kylie's bottom lip, begging entrance.
She parted her lips to let his tongue in and moaned a bit as he ran his hand through her hair.
Draco broke away and started planting kisses down Kylie's jawline to her neck. He kissed down to her collarbone and found a spot right above it that made her squirm underneath him. He glanced up to see her reaction as he gently bit her clavicle, but noticed her staring at his mutilated forearm. He immediately pushed up and onto his knees, sitting on his heels. He wrapped his hand around his Dark Mark and his face flushed. "Uh- sorry. It was distracting you, wasn't it?"
"Not at all. Quite the opposite, really." Kylie scrambled up into the same position as Draco, on her knees and sitting on her heels. She reached forward and grasped his arm, pulling it towards her. She ran her fingers over the scars and smiled a little. "Look. It's fading. I told you it would." She said, touching the visible parts of the tattoo. She pulled his arm a little closer and leaned over it, placing a small kiss on each individual scar.
When Kylie looked back up at Draco, he leaned over and reached around her, grabbing his wand out from under her pillow. He made the charm covering her arm vanish and exposed the scars it was hiding. Draco ran his hand over each line, pausing at the thickest one closest to her wrist. He kissed the scar from Kylie's suicide attempt and pulled her close to him, kissing her lips again.
"Look at us. So unbelievably broken."
"You have no idea." Draco replied, giving a small, dry chuckle.
"I'd like to, though. I want to know everything about you."
"You really don't. It's not a happy story."
"Neither is mine. But I like to think that one day I'll get my happy ending. And you will, too." Kylie smiled
"Yeah. Maybe."
Draco walked into the kitchen wearing nothing but a pair of basketball shorts. He snuck up behind Kylie, who was making dinner at the stove, and wrapped his arms around her waist. "Smells good." He said, as she jumped a little.
"You're dripping on me." She laughed, as she continued to stir her meatballs and sauce.
Draco took his head off of Kylie's shoulder, but kept his arms around her. "Should have let me cook. My mother taught me. I'm a fantastic cook, if I do say so myself."
Kylie put a lid on the pot and turned around, wrapping her arms around Draco's neck. "You can cook tomorrow." She kissed him quickly. "You have a good shower? You were in there a while."
"You kind of left me hanging in there with a, uh, little- well, slightly big problem that I needed to take care of."
Kylie chuckled. "Well, two days of voracious snogging will do that to a man, won't it? I apologize for your average-sized problem. But I'm not one to sleep around the first week of being with someone. And I applaud your patience."
"You're making fun of me."
"Only when I say average-sized. I meant the rest." Kylie leaned in to kiss Draco again. She paused, with her mouth on his, when she heard a key enter the lock on the front door. Her eyes popped open and she pushed Draco away. "Go to my room. Hurry. Um, pack a bag. Everything in the second and third drawers in my dresser. It's my mum. Don't come out. No matter what."
Draco nodded, not daring to say anything else because if the terrified look on Kylie's face. He kissed her quickly and made it down the hallway as the door opened. He closed the bedroom door as quietly as he could and grabbed Kylie's duffle bag.
He couldn't hear much, but he stained hard to listen anyways. He heard some unintelligible yelling and the harsh sound of skin contacting skin.
"Mum, no! I'm alone!"
"Two plates, wasting enough food to feed an army! You're lying, you little slut."
Another slap resounded down the hallway and Draco cringed.
More indecipherable yelling. A crash. A plate hitting the floor and breaking. Someone being knocked into the cabinets.
He finished filling the bag and looked around for anything else he thought Kylie would need. He pulled on a t-shirt as he heard what sounded like a body hitting the floor. Kylie's door flew open and Draco drew his wand.
He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Kylie standing there.
"We have to go."
"Are you-?" Draco paused, noticing Kylie had a split lip and a bright red circle forming under her eye. He reached forward to touch her but she dodged him.
"She won't be down for long. I stunned her. Hold on." Kylie ducked out of the room and returned with her toothbrush, toothpaste, and shower products. She threw them into the bag and zipped it. Tossing the bag over her shoulder with one hand, she reached for Draco with the other. "Just trust me."
"I do." He took Kylie's hand and noticed they were both shaking. He didn't have time to complete the thought before the familiar tug of apparition pulled at him.
The pair landed in front of a house Draco hadn't seen before, but he could guess who lived there. The house was tall and a bit messy. It looked like a million people could live in it.
Someone must have heard the pop and they landed because right after, Ginny ran outside to see who was there. She had a grin on her face when she saw Kylie, but it soon faded when she saw the state of her face. Ginny turned to Draco with a look of pure disdain.
"Did you do this?" Ginny asked, trying to stay calm.
"Gin. Stop. If he had, would I have brought him?"
Draco held his hand up. "No worries. Wasn't me."
Kylie licked the wound on her lip. "Can I go see your mum?"
"Of course." Ginny reached out and took Kylie's hand. "This was your mum, wasn't it?"
"Stay with Drake. Bring him in in a moment." Kylie made her way inside and found everyone in the living room.
Both Harry and Mrs. Weasley rose to greet her, but paused when they saw the state she was in.
"Oh, you poor dear." Mrs. Weasley said as she rushed over. "Come on, into the kitchen you go."
Kylie followed Mrs. Weasley closely, not realizing Harry was behind her.
"What happened?" Harry asked, as Mrs. Weasley began working on Kylie's face.
"Nothing, really. Don't worry about it." Kylie reached out to touch Harry's arm to reassure him. "Mrs. Weasley, I was just wondering if I could stay for the night. I know is the night before Christmas but-" She cringed as the salve Mrs. Weasley put in her lip began to burn.
"Of course you can. We don't mind. Stay as long as you like." Mrs. Weasley stepped back to look at what she'd done. "There. Almost back to normal."
"I don't want to intrude on your Christmas."
"You aren't intruding. Neville and Luna will be by tomorrow. I'll just need to set a bigger table. Don't you worry. You don't mind, do you, Harry?"
"Oh, no. I don't. The more the merrier." Harry smiled, knowing there was more to the story.
"I have someone with me. A, uh, friend. I know how most everyone here feels about him, but he was staying with me. And, well, now neither of us have anywhere to go right now." Kylie peeked out the window and waved to Ginny.
A moment later, Ginny and Draco entered into the kitchen.
"Oh!" Mrs. Weasley sounded a bit surprised.
But Harry just nodded. "Malfoy."
"Potter." Draco nodded back.
"Well, you're both staying here and that's the end of it." Mrs. Weasley clapped her hands together and began to make plans. "Obviously, Kylie will be rooming with Ginny. And, um, Charlie won't be here until morning, so George can room with Bill. And Draco darling, you can take George's room."
"Who's taking George's room?" Ron asked, walking into the kitchen. He glanced around as the room went silent until his eyes landed on Draco. "What the bloody hell is he doing here?!"
"Ronald!" Mrs. Weasley scolded.
"Ron, shut up. He's with me." Kylie rolled her eyes.
Draco could see the hate in Ron's eyes and decided he didn't want to be apart of the following conversation. He leaned over to Kylie and whispered, "It's just going to go wait outside."
"Probably best. I'll be out in in a minute."
Draco nodded and excused himself, walking out the door and back outside.
"Of course he's with you. You've always had terrible judgment." Ron scoffed.
Kylie lunged at Ron, but Harry and Ginny caught her. "I've not had the kind of day that has equipped me with the patience to deal with you. He's my friend. Your mother has kindly opened her home to us. Deal with it or fuck off."
"Ron, just go." Harry said calmly.
"Thanks." Kylie did, turning to Harry as Ron left the room.
"Well, Ginny's filled me in on everything this year. I know a lot more than Ron does."
Kylie nodded af then walked to Mrs. Weasley to give her a hug. "Thank you. I appreciate it." She said as Mrs. Weasley hugged her back.
"You will always be welcome here, dear. You know that." Mrs. Weasley patted Kylie on the shoulder.
Kylie gave a small smile. "I'm going to go find Draco. I'm sure it's not easy for him to be here as it's not easy for you to invite him in." She turned back to Harry and hugged him, too. "Please be onour side. He needs more people on his side. He doesn't have many."
Harry nodded. "If either of you need me, I'm here."
Kylie gave a small smile to Ginny and walked outside to find Draco.
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