I Have To Tell You Something (d.m x reader)

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"Well, let's hope they don't pull a prank on me." She joked.

I hope they didn't.

We finished our dinner and I offered to walk her back, of course we were walking back to the same place to rest.

We walked down the cold corridor and I held our potions book in my hand, we walked slowly beside each other.

"What do you usually do?" I blurted out.

She turned her head to me as we walked, my hands went into my pockets.

"Do?" She gave me a confused look.

"I mean, such as hobbies? Or what do you like doing?" I tried to pace myself, and not talk too quickly otherwise I would end up stumbling over my own words.

"Oh," She laughed, her lovely laugh. "Why the sudden interest?"

I hated when she put me on the spot like this.

"I just," I paused. "I'm just trying to get to know you." Was that the right thing to say?

I didn't think I'd be taking the time to get to know a girl. I didn't think I would be acting like this, to someone who seemed to have little interest in me.

"I usually like looking outside.. that's probably not a hobby," she laughed nervously. "but it's something I really enjoy doing. It's calming after I've had a long day of school work or a long day in general."

"Well, what's your favourite setting to look at?"

"Most would say a busy street wouldn't they? As they like to look around at all the people going about their day. But I really love nature, I really do, I love looking out my window because for kilometres away, it's just green grassy hills and white clouds, or clear skies."

She was passionate.

I was about to reply, but she cut me off.

"Sorry by the way." She said. Her cheeks had a slight rosy colour to them I noticed.

"Wait, why?" I asked. We were still walking.

"I have a tendency to ask people what their intentions are when they ask me a question," she paused, looking away.

"Enlighten me?"

"You know, why would anyone want to actually ask about me without trying to get information to turn against me later on? I overthink that stuff."

She was protective, and was not trusting of others so easily I had learned, and, I was the same.

"Why wouldn't they? Everyone just secretly wants a new friend." I admitted. "But some of us are too shy to admit anything these days."

"Friends are not for me, is what I said for years before I met Daphne and Pansy, because no one ever wanted to be my friend before."

"Are friends for you now?" I asked, as we slowly stopped in front of our common room entrance. We turned, facing each other.

"And if they are?" She asked. "What will you do?" She asked, her shield strengthening, her curiosity spiking.

"Consider me your friend," I paused. "is what I would say." Hypothetically speaking. I never invited myself to be friends with someone. Ever since I could remember, my friends were chosen for me.

"We'll see Malfoy." She smiled, genuinely pretty, and entered the common room, up to her dorm room.