I'm Better Off. You're Better Off.

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Rewritten: 10/21/2020

[Draco]

"Um, Draco?" inquired Blasie, dropping to the seat beside me. "What the bloody hell was that all about?"

"What was what, now?" I replied, not taking my eyes off the board that was being set up at the front of the classroom.

"Don't fucking play dumb mate, I saw you, we all saw you," He pushed, causing Grabb and Goyle to beam around him, starting to make me feel embarrassed as I pulled my gaze away from the board. 

"I still don't know what you're talking about." I shrugged, pulling out my notebook as Blasie rolled his eyes.

"The way you looked at Marie, Draco." Blasie confronted, pulling out his note book and slamming it down on the desk to get my attention.

"What about it?" I barked bacj, glaring at him, then looking behind us to see Star, Haven and Baie smile and nodd with Pansy. When they turned back around, Star, Haven and Pansy kept looking over at our table and kept glaring at me.

Baie, on the other hand, looked deep in thought.

"Don't tell me, you think shes cute?" Pushed Blasie, pointing over at their table and starring at me, amused.

I shrugged the question off with a smirk, turned my back to them and huffed out of annoyance. "Of course not. I wouldn't bang her if my life depended on it."

"Are you sure?" Teased Crabb, biting the edge of his quill, then lick his lips in confusion when ink slipped onto and into his mouth.

"Uh, yeah." I stated, starring at him in disgust. I glared back over to Blasie, who just smiled and shook his head as if he didn't believe me."Why would I say it, if I didn't mean it?"

"Well, you are known to be a hypocritical Manwhore," Blasie said matter-of-factly. " and let's not even get started on the fact that, this year, Baie is looking pretty fucking hot." He licked his lips as he twisted in his seat to face me, but so he could look behind us more easily and so it would appear less obvious.

I've got to admit, he was right.

Something had changed over the summer holiday, and I couldn't quite tell what it was.

Of course, I'd never say this out loud to any living soul - ever!

I glanced behind me and caught a glimpse of her smile.

Have her teeth always been that perfect, that white?

Those eyes...

...that hair...

...that body.

I had never seen her look so beatiful before, let alone in general.

I turned back around to attempt to wrap my head around these new thoughts and as I did so the Professor Slughorn joined us and class started.

"MISTER MALFOY!?" Shouted the Professor Slughorn, seizing me awake.

"Yes?!" I jolted to my feet and shook off the red blush that came over me to the sound of the girls giggling behind me.

"Do we think that's funny, Miss Marie?" Smirked Slughorn, peering sounds my left shoulder. "Okay then, on your feet Miss Marie!"

"Oh my god!" Baie growled as she stood, shhing Star and Haven as adjust her skirt.

"Since Mister Malfoy doesn't want to participate in class," Slughorn pressed his hand on my left shoulder and glanced over at me, then shot a glare in Baie's direction, "and you find the struggle of others to be quite the entertainment, you two will be partners in the Potions project I'm about give out!"