HIS |Draco Malfoy|

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"Sometimes the place you are used to isn't the place you belong..."

                   I WAS in the common room with Harry and Hermione when Ron came in with girls behind him and Ginny telling him everything was gonna be okay. It was funny at first because he looked traumatized but in a way that just meant something had happened with a girl. Harry looked up with a horrified look, "What happened to you?" He asked and we got up to get closer to him when Ginny sat him down in one of the chairs. I chuckled but grabbed my brother's hand in support. He squeezed it.  "He just asked Fleur Delacour to the ball." I rubbed his cheek so some color would come out because he looked deathly pale. 

"What? What did she say?" Harry asked

"No of course," Hermione replied back to him but Ron hummed, I gave him a weird look, she couldn't have had said yes right? I mean it's not like I think my brother isn't good looking but Fluer? "She said yes!" I exclaimed and Hermione covered her mouth in disbelief. Ron chuckled and looked off into the distance, 

"Don't be silly, there she was walking by and you know how I like it when they walk. Couldn't help it, it just all slipped out." He looked scared and sad and he just looked down as Ginny started talking. "Actually he sort of screamed at her, it was a bit frightening." I giggled and he looked at me as if I had betrayed him. "What did you do then?" Harry asked Ron immediately looked up at him. 

"What else? I ran for it. I'm not cut out for this Harry." His voice zoomed out as I heard the clash of jewelry behind me I turned to look, a set of twins said Hello Harry as if they had rehearsed it over and over in front of a mirror. Harry kept looking at them as they started to leave and then went after them. I ignored it and turned back to my brother. "It'll be fine Ron I'm sure she'll forget about it and move on, you just have to find someone else to take to the ball." Ron looked at me with sad eyes and I smiled at him, he nodded. 

"Have you found someone to go with yet Ana?" My eyes widened and I blinked excessively, I think I gave it away as I opened my mouth but nothing came out. Ron gave me a confused look and I just sheepishly smiled and nodded. A look crossed his face as the other girls just started asking who it was. "Who is it?" Ron asked with a hardened voice that I didn't know he had at the moment. Ginny came to my rescue as she sat next to me and her arm slung over my shoulder. "Oh leave her alone Ron she can make her own decisions if you didn't want her to choose her own date you should have just taken her as your date." 

They started arguing and I got up quietly when Hermione tugged on my shirt and pointed towards the stairs that led to our room.

...

The ball was tonight so we quickly got ready, helping each other with our hair and makeup. I had gone for a natural look because I wasn't at all used to wearing makeup. We never had the money to buy any as it was too expensive. Hermione came over to me as I put my heels on, they weren't that big so that my feet wouldn't hurt but they were gorgeous, black heels that my father gave me. "Here, pucker up." I did as she said when she came at me with a lipstick, a glossy lipstick. "There, perfect, you look so beautiful Ana." She gave me a huge smile I returned it, "You look even more beautiful Hermione, the pink really compliments you." She turned red and thanked me.

I left Hermione as she said she needed to calm herself first and I nodded knowing how shy she really is. I walked calmly to where Draco had told me to meet him, I stopped a few feet away as I saw his back turned towards me, he was actually waiting. I looked around and saw no one. We were quite a while away from where the ball was taking place. I grabbed my dress and walked over stopping right behind him.

"Draco." I inwardly groaned at how soft my voice had come out. He turned around and looked and me up and down not even caring that I noticed him literally checking me out, he gave me a smirk and held his hand out in front of me.

I placed my hand on his and he pulled me so close to him I could feel his bow tie touching the side of my neck and I could see the veins on the side of his neck. He moved closer to my ear he breathed in deeply making me shiver and causing goosebumps to appear. 

I resisted the urge to back away, he chuckled, "You look nice." I pushed him away and didn't say anything as I stared at the ground hoping to stop my racing heart. 

He took my hand and he led me towards the ballroom where they were ushering us in because the four contestants had to have their dance first. I could see my brother on the other side with his date, one of the twins that said hello to Harry. He didn't see me as he was too busy staring at Hermione who was led in by Viktor Krum. I felt a squeeze in my hand I looked at Draco who was already staring at me with a look in his eyes. "Would you like to dance with me?" I looked at the contestants dancing and more people started to join in. 

"Isn't that what this whole thing was meant for? Let's go." He laughed as I pulled him onto the dance floor. His hand going towards my waist and I wrapped an arm around his neck and hold onto his other hand. We started dancing to the waltz the orchestra was playing and I was too scared to look around so all I could look at was Draco. He was smirking at me. 

His grip tightened and he pulled me closer, he let me go as the spin came. His smirk slowly turned into a smile from the glimpses I got when I faced him. I started smiling widely when the dizziness overcame me and he held me back into his embrace quickly having to get back into the rhythm.

"Your brother and that Potter are looking deadly." I looked away, the smile that was once on my face had fallen. He pulled me closer his face touching the left side of my face and my hands came down to hold onto his biceps. "I like this."  He whispered I could feel his lips by my temple. All I could see was the black of his suit and some strands of his white hair.

My hands tightened as a warm feeling rushed over me but I ignored it, tried to ignore the way it made me feel. 

"I know you feel it too Ana. I know you don't hate me like you try to make yourself believe." I could feel his lips press to my temple as everyone started to slow dance to the music that had changed. I looked over his shoulder and I caught eyes with a wide-eyed Harry and a furious looking Ron.

My brother is gonna kill me

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I'm back. It's been a few months if you waited for me to update I'm sorry I just recently got a job and I've been waiting for them to call me since I got a job at the airport. It's actually been about two months now and I have really bad social anxiety so I've been dreading texting them and asking.

I've also been hanging out a lot with friends and getting ready for college. I will be updating more frequently though.

Thank you for reading!!