An Angel's smile//Drarry

XV

Tonight was the Halloween party. I was going as a vampire. Ron was going as the muggle superhero Superman and Hermione as the journalist, Lois Lane, Superman's girlfriend. Dean and Seamus wanted to go as werewolves, Neville was going as a plant, Ginny as a stereotypical witch and Luna as a Nargle. I think Blaise was going as a unicorn. Draco wanted to go as a ghost much to my dismay. He would've looked so good if he was dressed as an angel, so I bought him an angel costume. He surely wouldn't put it on, but I could at least try.

My costume had been designed AND sown by Luna. It consisted of a long black cape with red on the inside that Snape would have been proud of, a white blouse, and leather trousers with a big belt between the two, I also had arm belts beneath and above my elbows and one around my neck that served as a collar, some fancy leather shoes and fangs of course that Hermione had given me with a spell. No need for makeup, I looked particularly pale that day, due to my continuous lack of sleep, and of course, my eye bags were always visible. I looked great.

"Blimey, you look amazing!", a voice exclaimed from behind me. I turned around to see Draco gaping at me beneath his bed sheet. I chuckled, looking down at my feet, "You're flattering me. You'd be able to look amazing too if you wore this!", I said, pulling the angel costume out of my trunk. He just looked at it sadly, then sat down. "I'm not an angel Harry. It's disrespectful. I would prefer to be a ghost, invisible, so no one could see me. I'm disgusting.", he mumbled quietly, but loud enough for me to hear him. I sat down next to him, a hand on his back. "You're not disgusting Draco. You didn't do anything wrong, you were forced to. Look at me.", I gently said, taking his face in my hand and making him look at me, "You're going to put on that costume and be proud of yourself, yeah? You're used to being a proud, but cheeky bastard so you should be alright. The Draco I know was a brat, yes, but also great with a dramatic entry. So you make a dramatic entry.", I smiled at him, removing my hand from his face. It might be awkward.

He seemed to be hesitant, understandably so. He looked back at me and sighed, "Fine, but you owe me Potter.", he scowled, grabbing the costume and retreating to the bathroom. Merlin, I loved it when he called me Potter when he was annoyed with me.

I waited for him on my bed, looking up at the ceiling. I really did like him a lot. I wondered if I should tell him, was it too soon? It might be. We had only just started to be friends, and I felt like I might be rushing our relationship and I was going to ruin it. I was scared of that, especially because Draco tended to retreat into his shell, far far away from everything else. When he did that, I felt bad, to say the least. It made me want to run into the black lake, swim to the bottom, and stay there. No sound, no people, no nothing. Just silence. If I drowned, I wouldn't mind that. I just wanted to be loved although I doubt it'd be by him.

The bathroom door creaked open and an angel stepped out. I felt like I was in Heavenly Bliss and an angel was coming to get me. I doubt I'd go to Heaven if it existed, but he made me feel like that anyway. Seeing him like that made me feel like he was the only one in the whole world, he was so angelic, so beautiful...

He was wearing a long white toga, underneath a long-one-sleeved white shirt. He wanted to cover up his dark mark. He was wearing white trousers with white leather shoes that looked like they cost a million of his smiles. They were, in my opinion, worth more than any amount of money. A halo floated above his head, it was white and made from feathers, and it shone a golden glow.

He awkwardly smiled at me as I stared at him in awe. 'Woah', was as far as I was able to express how I felt at that moment. He was beautiful and there wasn't any other word that described him as perfectly as that. If I would've had a choice in the matter, I would've made him wear that outfit every day. He...looking like that...it made me feel things. Things I had felt before when me and Ginny used to get it on every now and then, but I'd never imagined, even in my deepest and darkest fantasies, that Draco in this Angel costume which fitted him so well, would have the same effect on me.