"You'll be the death of me."

12 (Looking Colorful) - edited

Harry's POV

My head throbs violently as I gain consciousness, I don't dare open my eyes to let in any light reaching my hand out of the covers of my bed to rub my forehead trying to relieve the pain. The icy air instantly cools my bare skin and like a snake I quickly retract my hand under the covers snuggling down into the heat beneath me. I'm shocked however at the feeling of skin against my cheek when I rest my head back down and carefully open my eyes, squinting to keep most of the light out. Fuck not again, I groan in defeat and lift the covers trying to move slowly so I don't wake up Malfoy and slip away from the warmth of the bed. Only to be chilled to the bone finding myself stark naked in the middle of my dorm with a stabbing pain in my arse, shit. It's too early for this so I run myself a boiling hot shower, after practically scorching my skin off I get out of the shower having come to a single conclusion. I fucked Draco Malfoy. I hobble out of the bathroom with a towel around my waist the heat of the shower creating steam that rises off my body at the drastic change of temperature. Malfoy is sitting up in my bed rubbing his temples with his hand and when we make eye contact he quickly looks away. "Morning Malfoy," I say as I walk to my dresser trying to act as casual as possible hoping he'd have no memory of what happened last night. "I remember Potter, don't try to act all oblivious," "oh right well-" "We were both drunk so it means nothing Potter." He sounds pissed so I drop it immediately, retrieving clothes from my dresser and trying not to think about it. I end up wearing a plain black tee shirt with a black and white flannel over top and black wide leg cargo pants. I put on plain white socks and my black low top converse and quickly leave the room.

As I'm stumbling down the stairs to the common room, memories of last night flood my brain and I barely realize Pansy is sitting at one of the couches watching me with a cheeky grin. "Looking colorful today Potter," she says grinning wickedly. "Haha," I say sarcastically looking down at my black and white outfit. "I wasn't talking about your outfit Potter," she smirks her eyes locked onto my neck, I quickly reach my hand up to the side of my neck that she's looking at. Under the pressure of my fingertips my neck aches slightly and my eyes go wide when I realise what she was talking about, shit fucking shit. I turn and leave the room trying to move quickly up the stairs to my dorm despite the hot pain in every step I take. When I reach the door I swing it open and race into the bathroom to get a good look at my neck. "Fuck! Malfoy, you dickhead!" I yell trailing my fingers over the purple marks scattered across my neck, "What Potter." Malfoy still sounds pissed, "Come here right now!" I yell absolutely fuming, I can hear Malfoy's footsteps coming towards the door to the bathroom. "Look at the state of my fucking neck," I say pulling the collar of my shirt down to reveal even more marks trailing over my shoulder. "What do you want me to do about it," I glare at Malfoy through the mirror realizing he's wearing a turtleneck shirt so his neck and shoulders are completely covered. "Fuck I dont know," I say cupping my hands over my face in distress, what am I going to do. "Did anyone see?" I don't respond, only glaring harder at the purple stains on my skin. "Tell me who saw you Potter." Malfoy demands spitting the words out like they're poison, "Pansy." I say turning around to glare at Malfoy, "This is your fault you know, you told me to come up here." "And I made it perfectly clear you didn't have to do anything before it even started." Malfoy responds walking closer to me and reaching for his wand from his back pocket, "Here." he says waving his wand over my neck, "It's a minor illusion so it won't last all day." he says turning and leaving the room, I turn back to face the mirror and the bruises have completely disappeared and I sigh relieved at least that's one less thing to worry about.

I stayed in my room for most of the morning having missed breakfast already. Malfoy hasn't been in here since he left the bathroom this morning and I've been enjoying some quiet time to myself. Around 12 Malfoy comes back into the dorm looking utterly stressed and extremely pissed off, "what crawled up your arse and died?" I ask mirroring his bad mood in my tone of voice, "would you fuck off Potter." "Oh right because I'm sure it doesn't concern me considering the situation this morning," "not everything's about you Potter, the war's over." Ouch, "Fuck you." I spit, the words tasting like venom on my tongue, "You already did." I groan angrily and get up off my bed slightly limping towards the door doing my best to hide it knowing he'd find great pleasure having put me in that state. I find Pansy and Blaise sitting on one of the many couches in the common room. I meet Pansy's eyes as I enter and she has an annoying smirk tugging across her face, "so Potter. Heard you had some fun last night," my mood worsens evermore at her remark. "And what would make you think that?" Not bothering to hide the annoyance in my tone as I flop down into an armchair near the couch they are sharing. "Maybe it was you and Malfoy leaving together last night," "or the hickeys this morning." Blaise chimes in a cheeky glint in his eye, great he knows as well. "Well whatever you think happened is wrong, and I'm starving so we better go to lunch." I get up and walk to the portrait hole trying again not to obviously limp, "since when did you ever want to eat lunch Potter?" Pansy asks, following behind me, "maybe it's cause of all the exercise last night." Blaise answers and they chuckle between themselves, no wonder Malfoy was pissed off. I don't talk the entire way to the great hall. I didn't want to break the friendships I'd only just made, when we arrive at the great hall I slide straight into the seat closest to the door plopping a toasted sandwich onto my plate. Pansy and Blaise sit opposite me and I can feel their eyes watching me, I look up glaring at them both watching as their eyes move to something behind me and Pansy smiles wickedly. I turn my head and see Malfoy walking towards us and he slides into the seat next to me, I immediately look away from him scowling at my sandwich instead. "Look at you two," Pansy says across the table. I can practically hear the smirk in her tone, "don't." Malfoy snaps at them grabbing an apple from one of the many fruit bowls, I cut off the corner of the toastie and put it in my mouth trying to enjoy it as much as I could being in such a foul mood. From the long table at the front of the hall there's a loud clinking of Professor Mcgonagall's knife tapping against her glass as she rises to her feet catching the attention of the entire hall. "Students we have been informed of very torrential weather and ask for your safety to stay inside until it passes, a timetable will be sent out regarding any classes held outdoors confirming which classrooms they will use. I would appreciate your compliance." The hall bursts into life full of murmuring and talking. Pansy and Blaise are whispering and giggling between each other and I try my hardest to ignore it, "would you two cut that out." Malfoy snaps glaring daggers across the table at them, Pansy smiles cheekily happy she was receiving a reaction. "What do you mean we're only talking," she speaks in an unusually high pitched innocent voice that just irks at Malfoys annoyance. Malfoy doesn't even say anything he just gets up and leaves causing Pansy and Blaise to start giggling amongst themselves, I grit my teeth clenching my jaw trying not to say anything just looking down at the table and tuning them out. "We should probably go and find him make sure he's not murdering something," Blaise suggests and we all get up from the table, I don't mind lunch was practically over anyway. I end up walking behind Pansy and Blaise on the way back to the common room trying to block out their conversation. The common room is warm when we arrive, a fire cracking and popping in the fireplace built into one wall, Malfoy however is nowhere to be seen. "He'll be in his dorm," Blaise says and Pansy nods a smile creeping onto her face. "Go on Potter lead the way," I start to climb the stairs ignoring the pain in my arse. "You alright Potter?" Pansy asks I tense my jaw trying to hold back a sarcastic remark, "yea why'd you ask?" She chuckles a little before replying "You're limping." I internally groan and move faster trying to get out of this stairwell as soon as possible. I slam open the door to our dorm and flop face first onto my bed, "Pansy get out." I hear Malfoy snap from across the room, "awh so you and Potter can have some alone time." "Go away, Pans!" "Just cause you fucked him doesn't mean you get to keep him all to yourself," Pansy laughs "I DIDN'T FUCK HIM! I can't believe you'd think I'd ever lay a finger on him,are you serious? Pans I have standards." "Jesus Malfoy I was only joking around," "Malfoy? Seriously Pansy! I'm not gay so you don't have to go and fucking disown me, you're starting to turn into that old batty mother of yours, completely delusional, fucked in the head!" Pansy is breathing unevenly trying not to cry, her eyes wide, "I-" she stutters "Are you gonna disown him too, or just because he's a whore like you who fucks anything that walks and breathes does that mean you'll keep babying him?" Pansy doesn't respond, she just flees the room, tears threatening to fall from her emotional eyes. I sit up in bed staying completely silent. Absolutely baffled, " I can't believe you just said that." I say slightly under my breath, "Speak up potter!" "I can't believe you've just Fucking said that!" I say my voice raised almost to a yell, "What? You think I wanted to fuck you?" I'm absolutely speechless, "Go fuck yourself Malfoy!" I quickly leave giving him no chance at responding before the door slams shut, I storm down the stairs the pain only adding to my anger and I speed walk across the common room. I don't even know where I'm walking. All I know is I need to get away from Malfoy from Pansy and Blaises torment, away from everything. I walk up a spiraling staircase eventually coming out at the top of the astronomy tower and I just collapse. I'm exhausted and hung over so I let my eyes close and find myself drifting into a light sleep. When my eyes open again it's pitch black and the only thing I can hear is heavy raindrops splattering against the roof. I'm soaked. The rain is blowing into the tower sideways but I'm too tired to even try and get up so despite the freezing cold I let myself fall back asleep.