Through the Darkness | Draco Malfoy

Thirty three

Seeing Harry, Ron and Hermione hanging out without Aries have lead Draco curious, she's always with them, but not this time.

'What if Umbridge have done something to her?' He thought, this thought gave him goosebumps, this pink toad can do anything crazy, especially to Aries.

While rushing through the hall, Draco spotted the famous Quidditch players.

"Oi there."

Darren and Oliver turned to him.

"Have you seen a girl with medium length dark brown hair, very bright blue eyes and the one who burst into trouble and barks first?" asked Draco, making it obviously who is he describing.

"You could just say Aries, you know?" Darren said, fixing his hair. "Last time I saw her, it was few minutes ago, she was at the Black Lake." he said.

"You better brace yourself, because the next Quidditch match, Aries will kick you Slytherins' asses. As you've seen, she's a terrific Beater and a terrific Chaser." Oliver added.

Draco rolled his eyes. "Yeah, right. You forgot that the Bulgarian beater Dimitar Draganov is playing for Slytherin? Let's see how this ends up, Gryffin-losers."

And he left them, glaring at his back while he goes.

"I hate that guy." said Darren. "Hes a bad influence on Aries."

Oliver scoffed. "The complete opposite. Aries will murder those who give bad influence to her. So technically, she's the bad influence." he chuckled.

Back to Draco.

While he was walking to go to where Aries is, he finally arrived to exit the school grounds to the Black Lake.

Until he stopped himself by hitting the brakes suddenly.

Seeing one of his gang, Blaise Zabini, walking towards Aries, whom's hand is in the air reaching for the almost landing hawk with the letter on its beak. It landed on Aries' bare hands.

Draco watched them curiously, wondering what the hell does Blaise want from her.

Finally, Blaise gave one nod and turned to the other entrance, he was smiling as Draco squinted his eyes to see his expression, then it turned into narrowed eyes.

Back to glancing at Aries, Draco finally made his legs move and start to walk towards her without anything stopping him.

As he can see, she's reading the letter, with the hawk standing on her shoulder.

"Hey." he greeted.

Aries took her eyes off the letter and shifted it to Draco.

"Draco, hi!" she smiled. "What brings you here?"

Her eyes were brighter than usual as he noticed.

Took him ten seconds to stop staring at her eyes and getting lost to the ocean of it's blueness.

"Only thought of seeing you. Why are you happy anyway? Did... Something happen?" he asked, referring to Blaise but not mentioning his name to her so he won't sound like a stalker.

"Yeah!" she exclaimed. "Well, my mother sent me a letter telling me about a trip she's planning for the family. Oh not to mention, I wanted to ask you..." she seemed embarrassed to ask.

It was his first time seeing her like this, it was adorable. "Yeah? what is it?"

"Well... would you mind if I sew a sweater for you for Christmas? my mother wanted to teach me for the first time so I thought maybe I should make you one?"