Malfoy Neighbors

Christmas Day-year 8 chapter 19

A few days passed. You and Draco had taken over the muggle house. Draco moved into your parents room.

"What's on your mind?" Draco asked one morning. You were laying flat on your bed starring at the blank ceiling above you. You're thoughts were about how you hadn't heard from your parents in sometime. If they weren't here, and they weren't as the Malfoy manner, then where were they?

"Where are my parents?" You asked plainly without looking away from the ceiling.

"Don't know" Draco answered. "Perhaps they're with your aunt in America." He suggested. You rolled over to your side and faced Draco. He was still standing in the door way. "Don't worrie about them. I'm sure they'll be fine. They are probably just doing something for the Dark Lord." You sat up. "It's the day before Christmas eve, we should enjoy it." Draco said, walking to your window. "Look it's even snowing again." You joined him at the window and sat down on the bench under the window.

"I'm not looking forward to going to back to school." You confided in him. Draco sat beside you and looked at you with concern.

"What do you mean?" He asked. "You like school."

"I do, but..." You paused before answering. "When we go back, you'll go back to the your mission and we'll, we won't see much of each other again."

"You know what I have to do now, so it won't be that bad." Draco replied. "And I'm not asking you to join me, but you know where you can find me." You gave him a fake smile that he must have believed because he stood up. "Let's go outside. The freshly fallen snow need to get messed up." Draco said sounding happy. You nodded.

"Yeah, it's too white outside." You agreed with him. "A few snow angels should add some texture to that scape."

"And a few snowmen, and maybe a snow fort?" Draco asked as he exited your room, closing the door behind him. You changed into something warmer and headed outside. Just as you got outside, you got hit with a nice big snowball. You wiped in off your shoulder and charged at Draco, nocking him to the ground. You both laid there in the snow. It was a little deeper than it looked. As you layer there laughing, you thought the snow must be about 2 feet deep. The two of you played in the snow for a while before going back inside to warm up.

Christmas day finally came two days later. You walked into Dracos room to find that he was still sleeping.

"Draco!" You said a little too excited. "It's Christmas day, wake up!"

"Mmmmm" Draco moaned and rolled away from you. You sat down on his bed. "Don't you want your gift?" You asked. He sat up slowly. "Yeah." He answered sleeply. You handed him the box that you brought into his room. Draco took it and opened the box.

"You weren't kidding." Draco said a little disappointed. "You really did. Get me sugar quills" He closed the box while yawning then laid back down.

"Yeah, but...." You stood up. "Come see what's down stairs." You said excitedly. Draco opened his eyes and looked at you with eyes that said 'no'. "Come oooon." You begged. Draco closed his eyes and rolled away again. You laid down next to him. "What wrong?" You asked seriously.

"I'm just tired." Draco said, unconvincing you.

"Ok, I'll let you sleep for a bit." You said, knowing that there was something upsetting him. You kissed his cheek and stood up. You walked to the door and stood there a few a minutes watching him, worried about him. Draco must have thought you left the room because he pulled his sleeve up to reveal the dark mark. It was glowing bright red. He was calling for Draco. He pulled his sleeve back down and sat up.

"You awake yet?" You asked as if you had just reentered the room. Draco nodded.

"Alright, I'm comming." Draco said and stood up. He fallowed you down stares. Standing agents the wall was a package labeled to Draco. He walked over and opened it. His eyes lit up.

"How did you....? When did you.....?" Draco asked without finishing the sentences. In his hands he held a broom signed by every player from his favorite quidditch team. The smile on his face was all worth it.

"It wasn't easy. I sent the team many letters asking them if they would do that. After a while they replied, and well," you waved your hand in a presenting way at the broom.

"When?" Draco was still looking at all the signatures.

"All year. I finally got that, "you pained at the broom, "a few days before we left Hogwarts."

"How did you get it here?" He finally looked up.

"I told Arrow, when he delivered it to me, to bring it here and leave it with your mom. I got it from your mom last night, after you fell asleep. I sent Arrow over and she came came back with Arrow  flying behind her and the broom in her hands, already wrapped for me.

"Sneaky." Draco said, sounding impressed.

"It was easy to hid it from you. While you were busy with the cabinet, I used Arrow to do the flying for me." You sad sitting on the couch.

"I bet it cost a lot." Draco whispered to himself, looking back at the broom. You didn't say anything. You watched as Draco admired the names.

"Oh!" Draco said suddenly, looking at you. "I forgot," He layer the broom back against the wall and ran upstairs. When he came back down a few minutes later, he handed you a small black box.

"What's this?" You asked, opening it. Inside was a silver niffler hanging from a diamond ring, necklace.

You looked at with aww, not sure what to say.

"I thought the other one I got you was getting a bit old so I got you one that looks more grown up." Draco said. You looked at him, smiling.

"I love it." You said, pulling the niffler out of it's box. "Here, put it on me." You handed him the necklace necklace turned around, pulling your hair out of the way.

"Do you want me to remove the old one?" Draco asked after putting on the new necklace.

"No way!" You said excitedly. "This one," you touched it and turned to face Draco, "was the first gift you ever game me, not to mention the protection charm you put on it. I'm not gonna take if off." You gave Draco a short peck on his cheek and looked down at the two nifflers around your neck.