the sky was painted with a dark shade of blue. in every other inch of the sky, little bright stars danced. the world was almost silent- only the sounds of creatures in the forests, wind rustling through trees, and the quiet splashing of the lake hitting the shore were to be heard. the air outside wasn't too cold or too warm is was just right. some may say that the night was perfect; too perfect.
you sat up in the astronomy tower with your back pressed up against the wall. your knees were propped up in front of you so you could rest your book onto your lap. it was normal for you to go up to the tower to read after dark. it was your little escape from the bustling school just outside of the walls holding you up. your eyes traced the pages of the book and after you were finished with one page you delicately flipped to the next one. you were dragged out of the scene that the book was creating in your mind by not exactly light, but not heavy footsteps walking up the stairs.
"nox." you whispered to your wand and suddenly the light that once lit up the corner you were sitting in disappeared. you stood up and backed yourself into the wall expecting to see a professor walk up the stairs and drag you back down to the castle, but not before knocking points off of your house. a tall figure stepped into your view. from what you could make out in the pale moonlight, it looked as if the unknown shadow was scanning the room. a loud thud made the person look into your direction. you had dropped your wand.
"oh for merlin's sake, y/n. could you be anymore of a klutz?" you whispered to yourself as the person sauntered over to you. you bent down to pick up your wand and when you stood up you were met with another wand. the person casted a nonverbal spell which light up the tip of their wand.
"now, now y/l/n. what could you possibly be doing up here out of bed after curfew?" suddenly the owner of the wand's face was came into view.
"i could ask you the same question, malfoy." you scoffed.
"watch it, y/l/n. that's no way to speak to a prefect. now is it?" he snapped back.
"don't make me laugh! you? a prefect?" you said looking at him dead in the eye. draco then points his wand to the right side of his chest where low and behold was a "prefect" pin.
"why am i not surprised? did daddy buy you into that position too?"
draco and you had always had a snarky relationship with each other. although neither of you would admit to it, every time the two of you argued it was definitely flirtatious. for example, the two of you would always shoot deathly glares toward one another followed by either a smirk or a wink. you liked it that way. you would never tell anyone this, but the constant bickering between the two of you caused a little crush for the blonde-haired boy to form. this crush wasn't like the typical school-girl crush. you weren't obsessed with him and you definitely weren't nervous in his presence.
"aw, y/l/n, what did i ever do to you to make you hate me so much?" he says sarcastically.
"hate? no. hate isn't strong enough of a word." you say with a scoff, turning your head to glance out at the scenery.
"hm. what's this? a book? y/l/n, you read? now this is a shock! i didn't think you were capable of such a task!" he says glancing over the cover of your book.
"oh shove off, malfoy." you reply and grab the book harshly from his grasp. you start to walk past him and make your way back to the stairs.
"you know, that book is a classic, one of my favorites." he says with his back facing you.
"now this is a shock! i didn't think you were ca-" you begin to say mocking his own words towards him.
"can't even come up with your own comebacks? pathetic." he says turning back around to face you. before you could see his face, you could practically hear the smirk dripping off his words.
"trust me, i can. but what's the point of coming up with them if they're only going to be used on you? now that just seems like a waste of breath." you make eye contact with draco. while wearing his infamous smirk, draco rolls his tongue in his cheek and scorns at you.
"you drive me absolutely mad, y/l/n." draco says looking right at you. your confidence faded just for half a second but you quickly gained it back. you didn't know that draco had caught your slip up, but the two of you brushed it off for the time being. you knew exactly what he was implying at but you wanted to mess with his head a bit.
"oh trust me, you drive me insane as we-" you say as draco cuts you off for the second time tonight.
"no, i mean, you. drive. me. crazy."
"yeah, i heard you the first time, malfoy."
"you may have heard me, but i don't think you understood me. do i need to say it again?"
"you've said it twice, i think i'm okay." you say playfully.
"you really are just that clueless aren't you?" no. no you weren't, but he was.
"if i'm so clueless, why don't you explain just what you meant to me?" even though it was only for a split second, it was just enough time for you to catch, draco's entire facade shift. he lost his confidence but almost instantly gained it back. just as his confidence resurfaced, you could almost see the light bulb pop up on top of his head. he could see straight through you, he knew you knew.
with your eyes locked, draco began to walk right up towards you, leaving what only felt like an inch between the two of you. the two of you were so close you could see things on draco's face you would have never noticed before, like the tiny scar just above his top lip that was hidden when he smirked.
"i have a better idea. why don't i show you?" draco snakes his arm around your waist and pulls you in, closing the gap between the two of you. before pulling you in towards him draco looked at you for any sign of disagreement. with your next words he knew that you were okay with the situation at hand.
"and how do you plan on doing that, malfoy?" you reply, playing into his game.
"like this."
as much as it didn't seem possible, draco brought you in closer and connected your lips. just from the kiss both of you could tell that you'd both been wanting for what felt like an eternity. yours and his lips felt like they were made for each other. so many different emotions flowed throughout your body, all of your senses were heightened. you felt like you were on cloud nine.
you wrapped your hands around draco's neck and played with the bottom of his hairline. running out of air, draco pulled away and placed another gentle peck onto the corner of your lips and then another onto your forehead.
"do you get what i meant now?" he says resting his forehead on top of yours.
"you know, i knew what you meant before you kissed me."
"oh yeah, that was obvious, y/n. i just wanted a reason to kiss you."
"aw, i really do drive you mad, don't i?"
"you have no idea."
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