Secrets || Draco Malfoy

Eight

Slugghorn is the new defense against the dark arts teacher.

Harry, Ron, and I are made to take potions by McGonagall. We walk into class and slugghorn gets excited. I look around and notice Draco's in there. We make eye contact.

"Get some books from the shelf in the back." We walk over and there's two.
"Uh sir there's only two." I say.
"Oh my." He says.

I turn around and Harry and Ron are fighting over them. Harry gets an old used one while Ron gets the new one.

Ron runs and sits down.

"I suppose you can both use that one until I get more." He says. Harry and I nod. It's kinda normal for us to be told to share things since we're twins.

We walk over to our seats. Harry looks at the book.
"Property of the half blood prince"
"Who's that?"
"No idea."

"Can any of you tell me what amortenia is?" He asks. Hermione raises her hand.
"Yes?"
"It makes you smell what you love."
"Correct."

"Now there's none in here right now but I want you all to think of what you think you would smell." I don't even know what or who I love most. I look around to see what peoples reactions are. Everyone looks like they're thinking.

"But today you're going to try to follow along to the potion on page 67" we turn to the page and ours has a lot of scribbles.
"This is annoying." I say.
"Whoever does it best will receive a bottle of Felix felicixis. It's like a bottle of liquid luck."

Harry and I look at each other. We need something like this.

We start to do it and we notice that some of the steps are crossed out and changed.
"What do we do?"
"Just follow the steps he wrote."
"Okay."

Both of our potions are going great while everyone else's looks terrible. Hermione looks at us confused.
"How are you doing that?"
"We're just doing what it says."

We end up finishing right before the time ends. Slugghorn walks around checking everyone's. He keeps checking between Harry's and mine to see who won.
"Both of yours are exactly correct. Looks like the gift runs in your blood." He says smiling.

"You both get a bottle." He hands us both a bottle and everyone looks at us trying to figure out how we did it.

We walk out. As we walk I see Draco and walk over to him casually.
"Hey." I say not really sure what I'm supposed to say to him.
"Hello Y/n." He says. He called me Y/n. This is something. I look at him carefully. I look at his arm. I move down to his hands. He has lots of rings.
"I like your rings, Draco." I say. He smiles.
"Thanks." He says. "Here look at them." He says taking them off and letting me see them.

They look expensive, but I expected nothing less from him. He then hands me a silver one. It's thick and heavy. It has a small snake that wraps around while there's little engravings on the sides of it.

"Wow it's beautiful." I say. I truly mean it. He smiles.
"So, you seem to really like this one."
"Out of all your rings its definitely my favorite." I say. He smiles again.

We stand there while I look at some more.
"I'm sorry." He says.
"For?" I ask.
"Being a dick all these years." I can't help but smile, its sweet that he's apologizing.
"I'm sorry too." I say.
"You didn't do anything" he says.
"I called your hands filthy last year." I say. He chuckles quietly.
"Can't blame you, I was being an ass."
"Goyle was worse, his grasp hurt."
"That's cause he's an ass too." He says softly.

"We have to go eat." Draco says. He's right.
"Oh yeah." I say thinking back to how miserable it used to be last year with Umbridge.

"Here are your rings" I say. He slips them on carefully. Its weirdly attractive. But I'm not going to fall for him or anything.

"Come on." He says starting to walk. We continue talking as we walk.

Once we walk inside a few people notice us talking. They seem confused but don't care for the most part.

He goes to the slytherin table while I go to the Gryffindor one.

"Looks like that's going well." Hermione says.
"Surprisingly yes." I say.

————Dracos pov

Class ends. I walk out. There's so much I need to do.
"Hey." Y/n says coming up next to me.
"Hello Y/n." I say. Shit I called her Y/n. She didn't seem to care.
"I like your rings, Draco." She says. I smile without meaning to.
"Thanks." I say. "Here look at them." I take them off and hand them to her. Why am I doing this? I'd never show anyone my rings.

"Wow it's beautiful." She says talking about the one father bought me in a muggle shop in London. I smile. I liked that one a lot.
"So, you seem to really like this one."
"Out of all your rings its definitely my favorite." She looks so excited.

"I'm sorry."
"For?"
"Being a dick all these years." I would be unnecessarily rude. She smiles.
"I'm sorry too."
"You didn't do anything"
"I called your hands filthy last year." She says. I chuckle remembering how insulted I was.

"Can't blame you, I was being an ass."
"Goyle was worse, his grasp hurt."
"That's cause he's an ass too."

"We have to go eat." I say.
"Oh yeah." She says looking sad.

"Here are your rings" She says handing them to me. I slip them on in their correct spot.

"Come on." I say walking. We continue to talk. The conversation running smoothly.

Once we walk inside a few people notice us talking. They seem confused but don't care for the most part.

I go to my table and she goes to hers.

"Why did you just walk in with the lying bitch?" Pansy asks.
"Don't call her that."
"You believe her?" She says.
"He who shall not be named is back Pansy." Blaise says. She looks confused then goes quiet. She remembered my father was sent away because of him.