sincerity and repentance | dramione *VERY SLOW UPDATES*

27 | »What a surprise.«

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»Fine, Draco. Just let's go to the mall, because standing here on the streets of London is a bit weird, don't you think?« At the end of her sentence she slightly starts laughing, what makes him smile less. The Granger should laugh more often, her laugh is very beautiful. Wait...what? In mind he shakes his head very fast. What did he just think?

Damn, the time with the war hero isn't good for him. At first he smiles when he realizes she is honestly worried about him, then he begins to worry about her and now he is thinking about how beautiful her laugh is? Fuck, he needs to stop. She's just nice to him and he should do the same and not being strange. He definitely needs to stop.

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As both are entering the mall Draco's eyes widen and his gaze wanders from shop to shop. Okay, wow. This here is very big. If he is honest, he didn't have a imagination of what this "mall" should be, but he definitely didn't expect so many shops...

Hermione notices his facial expression right away and she can't hide an amused smile. His mouth open and he looks very interested, which makes her kind of happy. The brunette is thankful that fact, because she was already afraid that he wouldn't like it at all.

When she realizes that she is almost staring at him with a smile, she turns her head back around to search the shop where she wants to buy the clothes while she hopes that he didn't see her smiling like a little child. That would be really embarrassing.

As soon as she finds the one shop, in which she mostly was with her parents to buy new clothes, she turns around again. He still looks around and if she sees it right, he smiles slightly. It seems like the Malfoy was never in a mall or in something similiar. Honestly, she did not even expect that.

Probably he has absolutely no clue about muggle things and she thinks that this will be quite funny to her. Again Hermione begins smiling and she stops walking to wait for him, because he's walking slowly, probably because he wants to see as much as possible.

The Slytherin almost crashes into her as he finally reaches her, but he can stop himself in he last second before he is really about to do it. Right away he blushes - what is really surprising for her, because she never saw him blushing - and mumbles a »sorry«. She only smiles. »It's fine. You're a bit overwhelmed because of the size of the mall, aren't you?« she asks and tries to slightly changes the topic so it is not that embarrassing for him.

»Uhm...somehow yes. I never saw something like this before and...it is kinda awesome.« he mumbles while his cheeks are still a bit red. He should blush more often, that looks good at him, she just notices. Wait...what? Merlin, no. Can someone hit her or do something similiar please? What's wrong with her? Since when she thinks like that? In mind she shakes her head.

In reality she still smiles. »Welcome to the muggle world, Draco.« she says and shows around with her arms while he follows her arms with his gaze. His one mouth corner only raises a bit as reaction of her statement. »We can buy your new clothes now, I found the shop.« It was actually not necessary of her to tell him that, but she thought it would be better than this upcoming akward silence again.

He only nods and comment a »great«. Before they come to the idea to stare at each other randomly, she turns around and starts walking towards the shop, in hope that he follows her. And he does. When she reaches the shop, he stands next to him. With a smile she enters it and he just walks after her. Because what should he do instead? He feels like a little child, who is just following his mum, but actually it is kinda like that.

She carries for him and he is the one, who needs to stay at her side or he gets lost and probably doesn't find back to her flat.

His gaze wanders around and everywhere he looks at, are hoodies, pants, t-shirts, underwear, socks and all this in every single colors and all in all the kind of room is huge. At one point there are a few extra little rooms and right away he asks himself what these extra rooms are.

But he doesn't want to ask her, because she will laugh to a probability of 99%. Of course she knows what this is and it is actually shameful that he doesn't know it. In this moment he regrets more than ever that he didn't take muggle studies in Hogwarts in his last school years. He has to admit that all in all muggles and their inventions are more than just interesting.

And he is only for a few minutes in this mall...

»So, Draco...what do you want at first? Hoodies, pants...? What do you want?« the Granger asks and stops walking in the middle of a kind of corridor. The blonde blinks overwhelmed and looks around. »With what would you start?« he asks her a counter-question and shrugs. She seems to be thinking.

»Uh...I would start with hoodies? I have no clue, honestly. I always start with something different every time.« she slightly laughes. He nods. »Alright, then I want to start with hoodies.« he mumbles and walks towards the department, where a lot of hoodies are hanging.

If he is honest, he is damn overwhelmed as the sees how many colors there are, but the first one he grabs is - oh what a wonder - dark green. »What a surprise.« she laughs. He smiles a bit as soon as he hears her laugh. The Malfoy has no idea why, but the sound of her laugh is quite pretty...She should definitely laugh more often. Definitely more.

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