Forever and Always: Book 1 Of Always

The Date

Rebecca PoV
      We walked out of the back entrance and into Diagon Alley.
      "Where are we going?" I asked.
       "You'll see," he replied.
       We walked along and I asked, "How did you get your father to let you go on a date with me?"
      Draco nervously laughed, "My dad doesn't know. My mum and Blaise are covering for me. Dad thinks I'm staying at Blaise's and my mum is keeping him from figuring out different."
      "Merlin. I must meet your mother," I laughed.
      He smiled and we continued walking.
      He took my hand and said, "Our first stop is here. Are you hungry?"
      I replied, "Well, I could go for a snack."
      "That's perfect since this is an ice cream parlour."
       I grinned, "Yay, I love ice cream."
       "What would you like?" he asked.
      "Um, could you get a vanilla, I guess."
       Draco raised his eyebrows and smirked, "You could have any flavour, Potter, and you choose vanilla?"
      I glared, "Well, Malfoy, I never got to get what ice cream I wanted so I've only had vanilla."
      He replied, "Well, I'm going to get you something special."
      I laughed, "Alright, you do that."
      He left and went to order the ice cream when I heard a voice say, "Rebecca?"
      I looked around and saw Cedric Diggory standing before me.
"Wow, Rebecca, you look amazing."
"Thanks, Cedric," I replied, "Um, how are you?"
"I'm really great," he responded, "Um, actually, I've been thinking, would you um like to go on a date sometime?"
"Um, Cedric, I'm actually," I started but was interrupted by Draco who said, "Rebecca, here you— Diggory," he questioned.
Cedric looked at Draco and said, "What are you doing here?"
Draco replied, "I think I should be asking you the same thing and for your information we're on a date," he said as civilly as he could.
Cedric glared at him, "Oh, well Rebecca, I'll see you around."
"Yeah," I responded and looked back at Draco.
"Man, I can't stand that guy," said Draco.
"What?" I asked, "Did you think something was gonna happen?"
Draco's eyes widened, "No, I for one really like you so I'm kinda jealousy but also he's like 16, why is he hitting on a 13 year old, bloody creep."
I smirked, "Kinda jealous, huh."
Draco rolled his eyes while quickly eating his ice cream."
We finished the ice cream and I asked, "So, what next?"
Draco looked confused and replied, "What do you mean next, that was it."
I stared disappointed, "Oh, well, than I guess I'll be headin—"
Draco stepped in laughing, "No, I was joking. My mum had one of the House elves be on call for us so we can go to the places I had set up."
I breathed, "Oh, thank goodness. I was worried that you didn't really care much about the date."
"Are you kidding me?" He laughed, "I purposely waited till my father would be gone all week on Merlin knows what so I could see that this date goes well."
I smiled, "Thanks."
"Your welcome." Draco called, "Olive, could you come please?"
A house elf popped out of nowhere and replied, "Master Draco, where would you like to go?"
"Could you take Rebecca and I to spot number two please Olive?"
"Of course Master Draco."
We grabbed hands with the little elf and she whisked us away.
We landed in a grassy garden that was full of life and plants of all sorts.
"Draco, where are we?" I asked.
He smiled, "I told you I waited for my father to be gone for a reason. This is my mum's gardens. We're at Malfoy manor."
"It's huge and the garden's beautiful."
He lightly smiled, "The garden is the only place at the manor that isn't really dark and really dusty. Mum needed somewhere to stay that was lit up and nice."
      "I could stay here forever. I used to sneak out at night when I couldn't sleep and went to my aunt's garden. I never got to see it of a day so being in a garden with sun shining is amazing."
Draco looked at me and smiled, "I love seeing you when you get excited about something like this."
"Thanks Dr—" I responded when I got interrupted.
"Draconis, are you and the sweet Potter girl here yet?" called a voice I didn't recognize.
I looked to Draco and smirked, "Draconis?"
"It's a nickname my mum came up with don't question it. Yeah mum were here."
"Wait your mum?" I suddenly realized what he said.