The Purest Kind of Magic

- thirty six -

"To make sure that you don't randomly get kidnapped for some stupid tournament again," Draco said as he got me dry clothes from my closet, "I'm not leaving your side anymore."

I sighed, "So you're going back to being my personal bodyguard again?"

He nodded as he handed me some clothes and a towel.

I rolled my eyes. Sure, I don't want to be kidnapped again, but I didn't mean this. And plus, I was technically just knocked unconcious and put into deep sleep by a professor. Even if Draco "stands guard" every second of my life, he can't beat any of the professors.

"Well?" He said as he nodded towards the clothes.

I frowned, "Well, aren't you going to give me some privacy?"

"Oh! Right, sorry," he hurriedly turned around, "I'll turn around."

"Turn ar- No! I meant like get out of my room until I finish changing!"

"It's not impossible for... someone to come through the ceiling and take you!"

I sighed and rolled my eyes, "Fine, just stay turned around."

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I lived a pretty restraining, not exactly free life after that. Apparently according to Draco, I can die from anything due to me being "weak" and "flimsy." Luckily, he hasn't gotten to the extent where he would poison check the food in the Great Hall.

Other than that, it was pretty nice having company wherever I went. I, afterall, hated being alone anyway. Well, I guess except when Draco gets extremely overprotective when I spoke to anyone outside of our friend group.

Just earlier, I accidentally bumped into Sylas's twin brother, Rohan Lunaris. I probably need glasses because he's almost the same height as Draco, whose already tall for our age.

Rohan's eyes just blankly looked into mine for a second or two before he bent down to pick up the two textbooks I dropped.

"Thanks," I gave Rohan a small smile as I took the books, "Rohan, right?"

"Yeah, Rohan Lunaris. You must be Y/n Potter, Koa told me a bit about you," Rohan responded in a pretty monotone voice.

"Oh? What'd he say?" I raised an eyebrow.

He gave me a shrug, "Forgot, it's been a while. But it wasn't anything bad."

"Alright, enough chit-chat, let's go," Draco huffed impatiently as he put his hands on both of my shoulders and started pushing me away. I quickly gave Rohan a small wave before turning to Draco with a smile.

He raised an eyebrow, "What's the smile for? You want food?"

"I can't smile at you for no reason?" I rolled my eyes. The corner of his lips curled up into a small smile.

"Sure, of course you can," He said, "But that's the smile you give me when you want something. Don't think I don't know you by now, spit it out."

"Ugh, fine. Since you so desperately wanted to know," I frowned, "Can I have like, let's say, 20 minutes to myself? You probably want to like, I don't know, do whatever you want without me for 20 minutes?"

"No." Draco immediately responded with a cold gaze, "Why would you need 20 whole minutes? I can't protect you that way. Just do whatever you have to do, I'll just stand aside and be quiet, you won't even know I'm there."

"That sounds awfully controlling of you, you know," I groaned.

He rolled his eyes, "Well, maybe not get kidnapped? I'm just worried for your safety, it's not like I'm not letting you do whatever you want to."