You are a hard-working Hufflepuff in your 4th year. You are nice to everyone and absolutely LOVE Herbology and Potions. You love to experiment with them and find new plants and potions to make. Draco Malfoy has hated you since you were little, you n...
"You can come out now." You were done getting dressed.
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Draco exited the bathroom; you started making some tea and pulled out some waffles for breakfast.
"Here." You hand him one. as you sit in your armchair. You had put on the necklace while Draco was in the bathroom, and you were admiring it. Draco took a bite out of his waffle and sat in the other chair. "Wow! These are really good." You tell him about the muggle sugar your mother used. which turned into a whole conversation.
"So, your dad just travels in the muggle world picks up random ingredients and your mum just makes stuff with them?" You had both finished your waffles and were almost done with your honey tea. "Sometimes she'll experiment but she will use recipes." Draco seemed impressed. "Well, I see where you get your cooking skills from." You giggle, "I've only made you tea."
"Yes, and they have been the best two cups of tea I've ever had." He smiled again. You were happy he was being nice, but you were wondering why he was here. "You said you came to check up on me. Why?" Draco looked at you, you felt his anxiety begin to bubble in his stomach. "What do you mean why?" He looked at you with a sarcastic smile "Is there anything wrong with caring?" He playfully mocked you from the day in the library.
"You want to know why I fainted, and you think that the fainting had something to do with my panic attacks." He was quiet. "Yes, they are connected actually. What do you want to know?" Draco closed his eyes and looked down, you felt regret in his chest. "I'm sorry." He suddenly said looking at you. He was really anxious now. "I didn't know that was going to happen, and I didn't mean to push I was trying to...forget it."
"I'm not angry." You say a little loud. Draco looks at you, confused. "You didn't do anything wrong. After that day you had every right to ask in my opinion. You were trying to have someone you could relate to; you didn't push either. And the panic attack..." You stopped and breathed. "Maddox Box."
Draco is confused, he was wondering why you were bringing him up. "Yeah? He was in Slytherin and was expelled for sneaking into Snape's office to get Polyjuice potion last year. What about him?" This was the first time you heard what his lie was. You scoffed and laughed a little. Draco became more confused. You sat up. "Sorry," you said clearing your throat. "That's not why he was expelled." You start making your Hoot Tea, you offer Draco some and he accepts.
"Last year when we started school, Maddox was in my Charms class, he sat right next to me. I'm not a huge fan of Charms, but he made it better. He would always compliment me when I sat down, it made no sense we wear the same thing every day, and I don't do much with my hair. But it made me blush every time. This went on for a while, then I started getting random notes from him. They would be poems he wrote about my beauty; how funny I was.
We kept it a secret, it felt romantic. Like Romeo and Juliet. One of the notes he asked to date me, I said yes. But that was also in secret. He said there was a girl in Slytherin that liked him and if she found out, she'd kill me. Well, this went on for a few months.
He sent me an owl one day to meet him in the Potions classroom after dinner. I did. No one was there except him. He turned the lights off and I felt him grab my hands and wrists then he..." You paused 'You can get through this.' You looked up a tear fell out of each eye. You felt Draco's sadness and the anger he felt towards Maddox.
"Anyways, Snape came in and saw what was actually happening and saved me. He took me back to my common room and got Lavander and Cedric to help. Lavander helped me write to my parents. They showed up and I had my parents, Lavander, Cedric, Luna, Hermoine, and Snape with me as I told Dumbledore, and he was expelled. Snape and I never spoke about it again, but I noticed this year he has a new classroom and that one turned into a faculty bathroom." You smile a little with tears still in your eyes.
"Maddox was at the game, he was there for his brother, but he saw me and smiled at me. It was just creepy. That's why I fainted." You felt yourself become angry. "He was looking at me with his stupid smug face," your volume raised. "As soon as I saw him, I immediately felt his joy proudness and there were no regrets in his chest. He wasn't even nervous; he was so confident." You didn't realize what you just said.
"What do you mean you could feel his proudness? And regrets in the chest?"
'Oh fuck.'
"Nothing never mind, forget it."
You felt Draco's curiousness, but he didn't ask. Instead, he said, "My father wants me to become a Death Eater. That's what has been wrong." "And you don't want to." He nods.
"I act all tough and mean and cold, but I don't like to be. It can be useful sometimes when I need it, but I don't want to kill people. I was raised to be a Death Eater by my father, but I got my mother's heart. I realized at 13 what my words were doing, but I couldn't stop. I was pressured by everyone to be the bully, the mean kid. I hate it honestly. I told my father no and now my life is being threatened." You felt his sadness and you worried for him.
"I'm really sorry about what I said about Maddox in the great hall when you tried to tutor me, and how I acted." You smiled and forgave him. You both had finished your Hoot Tea. "I wonder what would happen if you smoked this." Draco said smiling, eyebrows up.
