The Bet

Complicated

Pulling away I ran my tongue over my lip to find that it was indeed busted. I watched him swallow his blue eyes locked on my face, daring me to say something.

"I have to go to class." I say, ducking under his arm and quickly going back to the window seat. I picked up Hollow and scurried out of the library, his eyes following me.

I tried to not think about what happened for the rest of the day. It was not until potions class that I became very aware that I shared this one with Draco.

Like always he showed up late. But instead of trying to fit around the table with Crabbe and Goyle he moved to the empty seat beside me at the front of the class.

I tried to make myself look very interested in what the teacher was saying but I didn't hear a word.

I jumped when I felt fingers on my forearm.

"Relax." Draco whispered. "I don't bite." He says smirking at me.

I sighed realizing that he thought that he had won.

"We need to work on our potions." I say looking down at the book in front of me.

It was a simple potion, luckily I already knew how to make it. Seeing Draco go to grab wolfsbane I grabbed his wrist.

"Are you trying to kill us or are you just plain stupid?" I ask, looking up at him like he was an idiot.

"Unhand me." He says, jerking his wrist from mine.

"I know what I'm doing." He said grabbing the wormswort instead, making me feel bad for calling him stupid.

Shaking my head slightly I took a breath.

'Just because he kissed you doesn't mean you can get all doe eyed for him.' I told myself, returning to the task at hand.

The rest of the class went smoothly for me. That I was happy for. But I didn't feel like I could breathe until it was over and I quickly gathered my things rushing into the hallway. I found myself taking a deep breath as if I was holding it the whole time.

The thought of having him that close made my heart race. Even though he never touched me I felt as if I could feel the heat from his body.

I jumped when someone touched my arm looking up. I saw Luna standing in front of me.

"Are you alright? I didn't mean to startle you." She said softly her large blue eyes looking up at me since I was a few inches taller than her.

"I'm fine. Thank you. I just- I don't remember anything the teacher said so I might fail." I say, saying the first thing that popped into my head.

"Oh well I can help you study if you like?" She says smiling.

"That would be lovely, thank you. But I really need to go or else I will be late." I say seeing Draco over her shoulder walking toward me with his friends in tow.

"Oh alright, goodbye." She says smiling and walking off.

Turning to duck into the crowd I was stopped when long fingers wrapped around my wrist.

Closing my eyes I felt my heart jump already knowing who it was. Turning I looked to see Draco smirking down at me.

"Careful your face might get stuck like that." I say quickly hoping that would make him let me go. It only made his grip tighten.

"Now, now Y/N no need to be a sore loser." He says, the smirk never leaving his face.

When I didn't say something the smirk grew, making me understand he was talking about this morning.

"Oh Malfoy we both know I won and you are the sore loser." I say glaring at him.

"What is she talking about?" Asked Crabbe

"Oh just a little bet we have going on between us." He says, his eyes never leaving mine.

"Why don't you share with your friends? Mad that you were the one that gave up?" I ask, watching as his eyes tightened into a glare but quickly changed.

A soft gasp leaves my mouth when he pulls me close to him, trapping my arm between his chest and mine. My books are the only thing keeping our bodies from touching.

"Why don't you just show them?" He asks, smirking once again.

"You really want me to show them what our bet is?" I ask, squinting my eyes at him. Letting him know I was serious.

Out of the corner of my eye I could see that half of the people in the hall had stopped to see what was going on. That was no surprise since the whole school knew how much me and Draco butted heads. We had a huge fight at dinner once in the first year. We have hated each other ever since.

I found myself chewing on my bottom lip not knowing what to say. I quickly cleared my head and looked up to meet his cocky gaze.

"Let me go." I say, as strongly as I could.

"No." He says, his smirk growing. His cold eyes reminded me of a cat playing with its food before killing it.

"Give me what I asked first."

"If I don't?" I ask, making myself stand straighter.

"Remember what I said this morning?" He asks, after leaning closer to me, his breath brushing my ear.

Knowing exactly what he was talking about. I wondered why he would even threaten that. Why was he even toying with me like this? I knew he didn't want people to think he was in a relationship with me. Was he just testing me? Thinking I would break down in front of everyone? He was trying to embarrass me or make me lose a bet I didn't care to play. Well I had news for him. I wasn't about to be publicly humiliated despite how hard he tried. No, it would be him that got talked about this time.
I stood on my tippy toes pressing my lips to his. I smirked when I could hear gasping all around. Draco pushing me away quickly looking like he just tasted something bad. Like my touch burned him.

Ignoring the shot of pain to my heart I was not expecting I made myself stand straight and hold my head up.

"Oh I'm sorry or did The Draco Malfoy just kiss a mud-blood?" I say loudly smirking when the whispering starts.

"Now if you'll excuse me I have a class to get to." I say, winking at him and quickly turning around only to catch the shocked look of Harry and Ron.

Sighing I quickly move through the hall and duck outside knowing they will follow.

"What the bloody hell was that?" Ron asked as soon as we were away from everyone.

"Nothing, Ron...." I say sighing, keeping my back to the two lads.

"Nothing? You just kissed Draco Malfoy, you know the worst person in this school." He says louder as if that will get the point across.

Sighing I quickly turned around fed up with this day.

"I kissed Draco Malfoy because maybe I wanted to." I say not hiding my anger but hiding the real reason why I did it.

"Y/N why would you do that?" Harry asked, looking like I just killed his best friend.

"Because I'm tired of being known as a mud-blood or worse a muggle."

"But Draco calls-."

"You don't understand it's complicated and I don't want to explain it..." I say leading off not knowing what to say.

Sighing I look back at the path toward school.

"I have to go, I'm going to be late." I say walking away from them knowing that I should have told them.

But how could I explain away the butterflies in my stomach? Or the hurt of having Draco look at me like that. All I knew was that I told them the truth when I said it was complicated.