An Old Friend

A Trying Time

Morgan, Draco, Carley, Harry, Hermione, and Ron all went to Diagon alley the Saturday before the Yule Ball to get their suits and dresses along with the rest of the people going to the ball and they enter the formal ware shop down the street from where the other kids were going, since Draco and Harry were loaded they offered to buy everyone’s clothes for them as long as the price was within reason; unfortunately Ron’s mother was insisting that he wear the suit she sent him and Hermione’s mother had sent her the dress she wore to her muggle prom, but Hermione was happy with the dress they just came to support their friends and give their opinions on the designs and clothes, and Morgan and Carley run to the counter to make sure the dress and suits they had ordered earlier in the week were in. “Hello sir. We ordered a dress, two suits, and a bowtie to be custom made. We were just wondering if they had been finished yet. The order was under the name Potter-Malfoy.” The clerk smiles and checks the log book “Ah that order! Beautiful suits and dress if I may say so. They’re in the back just let me go get them.” The clerk goes to the back of the store to get the dress and suits while Carley and Morgan bounce happily while they wait and thank the clerk and pay him before taking them back to their friends smiling happily and Carley, Morgan, and Hermione go to the women’s changing rooms, because there wasn’t enough room in the men’s for everyone and they didn’t have to worry about him trying anything, and Draco, Harry, and Ron went to the men’s changing rooms.

*The girls, and Morgan*

            Hermione looks at Morgan “Are you sure you don’t mind being sent over here?” Morgan chuckles “Mione I could care less which changing room I’m in as long as I get to try on my suit.” Hermione smiles “Alright but Carley first. I’m eager to see this dress.” Carley blushes and goes into the changing room putting the dress on and coming back out “Can one of you zip me up?” Hermione nods and zips the zipper and Morgan and Hermione’s jaws drop a little looking at the dress that looks like someone took silver moonlight and turned it into fabric. Carley twirls in a circle the different shades of the fabric making it look like the colors move and shift like moonlight would and Morgan looks at Hermione and whispers “Remind me to give the clerk a tip. He makes all this stuff himself.” Hermione nods still staring at the dress and Carley, who still hadn’t looked in a mirror yet, looks worried “What’s wrong? Does it not look good?” Morgan shakes his head “No. it doesn’t look good. It looks AMAZING!” Carley glares and punches his shoulder “Don’t do that! You made me worried!” Morgan chuckles and motions to the mirror “Sorry. But seriously you look great. Look for yourself.” Carley bites her lip nervously before turning to look in the mirror and her own jaw drops “Wow… I actually look beautiful…” Morgan smiles patting her shoulder “You always look beautiful buddy. Now you go take it off so nothing gets on it and then I’ll try my suit on.” Carley smiles and nods taking off the dress and putting it in its protective covering before putting it in Hermione’s magical bag and waiting for Morgan to get his suit on. After a few minutes Morgan walks out of the changing room looking nervous “How do I look?” Carley and Hermione stare wide eyed at the suit; which has a deep green shirt, black trousers suit jacket and shoes, a mercury colored tie, and silver detailing on the suit jacket that looks like snakes twining around Morgan’s arms and waist. Hermione looks at Morgan and says with a serious expression “Are you sure you’re not bisexual?” Morgan blinks “I’m going to take that as a ‘you look amazing’ and otherwise not dignify it with a response.” Hermione and Carley start giggling and Morgan joins in Carley saying through her giggling fits “You look great Morgan. Everyone, even the straight people, will be jealous they didn’t ask you.” Morgan laughs before going to take off the suit and put it in Hermione’s bag.

*Meanwhile With the Boys*

            Harry looks at Draco “Mind if I go first?” Draco shrugs “Go ahead. I just want to get this over with. I hate trying on suits.” Harry and Ron nod agreement and Harry enters the changing room to put on his suit coming out a few minutes later wearing his suit that has a white shirt, black trousers suit jacket and shoes, and a green bowtie to match his eyes and Draco frowns impressed “You clean up good Potter.” Ron snorts “I have to agree with Draco mate. You look pretty good.” Harry blushes “You guys are making this weird.” Draco rolls his eyes “Don’t flatter yourself Harry. You’re not my type.”  Ron holds his hands up “I’m not trying to be weird about it Harry. Just givin my honest opinion.” Harry nods twirling around a little to look in the mirror “I do look pretty good though. And this is actually a pretty comfortable suit.” Draco nods “The man that runs this shop knows what he’s doing. Now go change out of it so that I can try mine on.” Harry nods and goes into the changing room again taking his suit off and coming back out with his regular robes on and lets Draco into the changing room to put on his suit. The blond comes out a few minutes later wearing his characteristic smirk and a deep black shirt that looks like midnight got turned into fabric, deep green almost black trousers and suit jacket, black shoes, and a black bowtie and looks at the other two teens “Well? How do I look?” Draco twirls a little showing off the silver detailing on the back that has the Slytherin crest and waits for the other teens answer. Harry finally answers “Whoa.” Draco smirks a little more “See something you like Potter?” Harry blushes shaking his head no and Draco laughs before looking at Ron “My eyes are up here Ronald.” Ron blushes looking up from where he’d been staring and Draco snorts “Ron you’re redder than your hair.” Draco struts to the changing room and takes off the suit changing back into his robes before walking back out with Harry and Ron to the front of the shop and meet up with his boyfriend and the girls.

            Draco wraps his arm around Morgan’s waist and kisses his cheek murmuring “If your suit looks half as good on you as mine looks on me we will beating people off each other with a stick.” Morgan blushes and glares playfully at Draco “I don’t know what you just did. You either complimented me, yourself, or both.” Draco chuckles “Both” Harry walks over and hugs Carley smiling “Did you like your dress?” Carley smiles her eyes shining with happiness “Yes! It looks amazing!” Harry smiles “Good. I’m glad you like it.” Ron hugs Hermione and she looks up at him whispering “They both looked great. How about Draco and Harry?” Ron smiles whispering “Harry looked good and Draco looked, since I can’t think of a better word to use, amazing.” Hermione giggles softly gently punching Ron’s shoulder and Ron chuckles holding her close. Harry looks at everyone “So we keeping with the same plan? We’re going to wander around Diagon alley separately on our own dates until five when we meet back here to floo back to Hogwarts?” Everyone nods and says good bye as they walk out the door and the couples go their own separate ways until five.

*Draco and Morgan*

            Draco holds Morgan’s hand as they walk through Diagon Alley and looks over at him while they weave through the crowd “So what do you want to do first?” Morgan smiles “I want to get ice cream.” Draco smiles and he leads Morgan to the ice cream shop where they each order a cone, Draco getting plain vanilla and Morgan getting chocolate, they sit at a table outside their hand intertwined under the table while they eat a comfortable silence descending on them until a you witch comes up to their table twirling her hair around her finger and smiling at Morgan flirtatiously before sitting on his lap without asking “Well hey there handsome. Do you want to ditch your friend and go somewhere with me?” Morgan stares at her for a minute then looks at Draco pleadingly “Help.” Draco glares at the lady “Get off my boyfriend before I make you get off.” The lady stands up scoffing “Boyfriend? There’s no way such a pretty little thing is gay.” Morgan looks at Draco helplessly while Draco stares the lady down and pulls Morgan’s chair over to his side of the table yanking him close and kissing him full on the lips. Morgan quickly forgets about the pushy witch as he wraps his arms around his dragon’s neck. Said witch had since blushed and stormed off.  Draco breaks the kiss after a minute so they can catch their breath and Morgan smiles at him “Thanks for that. I’m not exactly good at talking to people.” Draco nods “I know. She was very rude.” Morgan nods leaning his head on his boyfriend’s shoulder and they sit there for the rest of the day and talk until it’s time to leave.

*Harry and Carley*

            Harry walks around Diagon Alley hand in hand with Carley and smiles when she drags him into a book store. “Harry look! They’ve even got muggle books!” Harry smiles picking up one “The Lord of the Rings? This one looks interesting.” Carley takes the book reading the back of it and reads the back of it before smiling and grabbing the other two that go with the series and looks at the price. “Oh darn! I don’t have enough to buy them.” Carley looks at the books pouting and Harry takes them from her hands “I’ll buy them for you.” Carley watches astonished as Harry buys all three books and brings them back to her. Harry smiles “There you go.” Carley smiles happily hugging Harry “Thanks Harry. But you didn’t have to do that.” Harry chuckles hugging her “Well id do anything for my girlfriend” it takes a minute for Carley to register what Harry said but when she does she looks up at him wide eyed “Girlfriend? I thought I was just your date to the Yule Ball…” Harry blinks “What made you think that? I’ve been working up the courage to ask you out for over a year now but I always chickened out at the last second.” Carley stares at him “R-really?” Harry nods hugging her tight “Really.” Carley smiles happily burying her face in Harry’s neck and hugging him back. The two spend the rest of the day at The Three Broomsticks drinking Butter beer and talking.