its all about blood - angelrider93

Chapter 12 - Christmas Countdown

Sunday night found Draco sitting in the Slytherin common room watching half heartedly as Blaise and Theo played a game of chess. His mind however was on the upcoming Christmas break with his parents and Hermione. The chess game finally ended with Blaise being the victor.

"Hey Draco, what's up?" Blaise asked as he repaired his chess set and packed them away in their case.

"Nothing Blaise, just thinking about Christmas break"

"Worried about it? Now that Hermione's going to be there?" Theo asked.

"No, excited actually, this is the first time that I've actually looked forward to going home for Christmas"

"It should be fun, just enjoy yourself" Theo advised.

"What are you doing for Christmas Theo? Since your parents are in Azkaban are you going to stay here or head home?" Draco asked.

"Neither, I'm spending Christmas with my girlfriend and her family" Theo answered candidly. Blaise and Draco both sat up in surprise.

"You have a girlfriend?" Blaise asked disbelievingly.

"Sure do, we've been together for nearly five months now"

"Who is it? Anyone we know?" Draco queried.

"Lavender Brown from Gryffindor"

"WHAT?!" Blaise and Draco shouted. Then lowered their voices when the other Slytherin's glanced at them strangely.

"How come nobody knows about this?" Blaise demanded. Theo shrugged.

"Lav was worried about how our houses would react, so we decided to keep it a secret until we were ready to come out. But after the acceptance of Draco and Hermione's friendship we decided to not keep it a secret any longer. Its not like we're going to advertise it or anything, we're just going to act how we normally do, just in public as well" Theo replied easily.

"Five months? Did you get together over summer?" Draco asked.

"Yeah, I was feeling pretty lonely and decided to head over to Spain. She was there with her parents holidaying, we met up, started talking, then one thing led to another" Theo replied. Draco looked pensive for a moment then turned to Theo.

"How did you know that you wanted to be more than friends with her?" Theo shared a knowing look with Blaise.

"Just a feeling really. I could talk to her about anything and knew that she wouldn't judge me, I was always happy just to lay eyes on her, and whenever we touched, just something simple like holding hands, I just felt complete" Theo shrugged noncommittally, "Its hard to explain, but to put it bluntly I just knew" Draco nodded then changed the subject.

"What about you Blaise, what are you doing for Christmas?"

"I'm heading over to Italy to visit the rellies there, don't know how long I'm staying with them, depends on what happens, might end up back here before the end of break" Blaise answered with a shrug. Draco nodded then stood.

"Well I'm heading to bed, we've got double potions first thing in the morning"

"Alright mate" Blaise and Theo answered as Draco climbed the stairs to his dorm.

Draco and Blaise were heading to breakfast the following morning when the remaining three Slytherin sixth year girls, Millicent Bulstrode, Daphne Greengrass and Sally-Anne Perks hurried up to them.
"Draco is it true?" Daphne asked excitedly. Draco heaved a long suffering sigh, thinking that Daphne was about to ask him about another rumor concerning himself and Hermione.