Wrapped Up Tight [Draco Malfoy Fanfiction]

Chapter 5 - School

        Well, I got up the next morning to get ready for school, and my phone rang. Mum and Dad had already left for work. Malfoy texted. "Hey, just wondering if you could meet me at the bus stop? x" HECK YES. "Yeah definitely, i'll be down in a minute (:" I replied. Haaaaa Draco its 7 a.m, please don't do this to me. I don't need to embarrass myself early in the morning. I think I'm getting shy around him now. Oh God. Anyway, I went down and he was waiting for me at the hotel lobby. Usually I'd have breakfast before leaving, but damn, when you're meeting Draco Malfoy, ain't nobody got time for breakfast! Draco didn't see me come down, so I went behind him and pulled a strand of his hair. 

"Ow, what the- Eva! There you are, you definitely took more than a minute," 

"Oh you. You didn't take me literally, did you?"

"You did say one minute," 

"Not in that sense you stupid idiot!"  I said smacking his shoulder.

       He snickered and walked off to the bus stop. I chased after him and just as we sat down to wait for the bus, two bus number 9's came. Bus number 9 was the bus we took to school. We took the double decker, since the single deck was quite packed with people.

"Up or down?" Draco asked.

"Depends, which down?" I replied, winking at him and then giggling.

    He laughed as I ran up the stairs. There were like, so many people from our school. I mean, we have a uniform, so, that's that. I stopped as I reached the top of the stairs, Malfoy behind me. He went in front of me and turned back to look at me, nodding. I guess he knew I was sorta afraid, and he was like, trying to tell me not to be afraid, and just go follow him. He sat at the back of the bus, where no one really was. I sat beside him and breathed in deeply. At the next bus stop, there were at least 20 more students from our school rushing upstairs.  

"Hey is that Malfoy with the new girl?" this guy said as he entered the bus and sat in front of Draco and I. I looked at his nametag, Vincent Crabbe. Crabbe. Hah, sounds like a CRABBEy name to me. Get it? Crappy. The both of us kept silent. 

"Oi Malfoy, she your girlfriend?" Draco continued staring at the floor. " Hey I'm asking you a fucking question!" Vincent shouted as he grabbed Draco's collar. 

I stood up and grabbed Vincent's fat hand. "Get your filthy hands off him, now."

"Ooooh. Ay Draco, stop being useless and stand up for yourself. Stop making your girlfriend do it for you, dumb piece of shit." 

Surprisingly Draco stood up and punched Vincent right in the face. "Happy, now?" 

     Vincent fell off his seat and well, I chuckled. I mean, who wouldn't? He got up and started a fight with Draco, he grabbed him by his collar, again and punched him too many times. I interfered, of course. How can I let Draco get beaten up? I pulled Draco aside and stepped in front of Vincent. 

"Hey hey hey hey! Stop, fighting!" I said, pushing Vincent away. 

"Better not mess with me again, Malfoy. If it wasn't for your girlfriend, you'd be dead already, scumbag." he said. 

"I'm not a scumbag, leave me alone," Draco argued, wiping the blood away from his lip. 

"You fighting back, after I just beat you up? You're asking for it," Vincent kicked Draco in the stomach and he kicked him again, this time causing Draco to fall. 

"CAN YOU BOTH JUST STOP FIGHTING?!" I yelled. Gosh, are boys really like this? 

"E-Eva, leave him alone," Draco said, standing up, walking to our seat and sitting down. Vincent moved to the front of the bus, and rolled his eyes at me. 

"Are you okay Draco? You're bleeding.. and your cheek's all bruised," I said as I sat down beside him. 

"I'm good.. I'm fine, I'm fine. You hurt?" he asked. 

"I'm fine.. You sure you're --"

"Thank you, for just now.. I, i.. just thank you.. I'm fine, don't worry about me, alright?"

      I nodded. Draco was always so reassuring. He leaned against the window, put his head back and put his hand over his stomach. At that moment I just felt so sorry for Draco. I knew he wasn't joking about anything he told me. I wanted to hug him, but, damn. I couldn't. He turned to look at me and smiled, even though I could see him hurting. He turned back to look out the window, if I'm not wrong I saw him tear. I mean, it is embarrassing to fight like that in front of so many people. Vincent turned and stared at Draco and I. I really felt like strangling him! Stupid idiot. I could see Draco at the corner holding in his tears. We arrived at school like really quickly. Draco and I got off last and he was limping, well obviously, who wouldn't after they got kicked in the stomach? He took quite a long time to get down the stairs but he made it of course, with a little assistance from me. 

"You sure you okay? Do you need to go to the nurses office?" I asked him, biting my lips. 

"Oh God no.. no. I'm terrified of hospitals and doctors and nurses and everything.." he replied as he shivered. "I'll see you later after school, during Chemistry and recess okay? See you, take care alright. Don't worry about me," he smiled, limping off to his class. 

       He is such a cute guy I swear, being scared of hospitals, but the thing is he is hurt, and he has to get some rest, but he's so stubborn. I headed off to class and I don't know, the first two periods went by really quickly. And recess was after that. I went down to the canteen, and Draco wasn't there. I ran to his classroom, he wasn't there either. I saw him come out of the gents, and his eyes were red, like bloodshot red. 

"Draco your--" 

"I'm fine." he said, smiling. 

"Draco Malfoy! Stop telling me you're fine when you're not! I know you aren't, stop lying to me! It's alright to cry, I know you did, you can't lie to me. I can see you're hurt, if you are, you just have to admit. Everyone has to be weak, once in their lifetime." I scolded. 

"I don't want to lose you, that's why. You wanna know why my ex-girlfriend broke up with me, why every one of my, guy "friends" don't like me? Because I'm weak. You, are the only one I have in this school." 

"I have no friends too, and guess what? I'm never leaving you, because even if you were weak, or strong, if I love someone, I love them for who they are." 

"I'm sorry, go for recess now, alright? I need to stay back in class, go ahead,"

                Well that was that, I was really happy I said that Draco, he needs to learn to be who he is. He needs to learn that its alright to be weak, even if he's a guy. I mean, "Males aren't supposed to cry." can go to hell. Everyone has feelings, and if you need to cry, you go ahead and cry. I guess Draco's insecure as well, but I guess he has to learn not to give a shit about what people think. Sigh, recess was lonely without him. I didn't see Vincent (Stupid) Crabbe, thank goodness. He kicks hard for a plus sized guy. I mean, Draco was limping quite badly. I think if I was Draco I would've passed out and woken up 10 hours later. I finished eating and went up to class. Sadly Chemistry was last period. Its okay. At least I got to see Draco. He's the best part of my day.