𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜'𝙨 𝙂𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙃𝙪𝙧𝙩 𝙔𝙤𝙪 • 𝘿𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙤 𝙈𝙖𝙡𝙛𝙤𝙮

𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦

Draco followed me to my fathers office to drop off the books. I did ask him he didn't have to but he wanted to. Strange with that man. I knocked on the door and my father opened it.

"Dear." He smiles at me. He saw Draco, his smiles fades. "Mr. Malfoy." I walked into his office, so did Draco.

"Mr. Williams sent these." I pointed at the books that Draco placed on his desk.

"Thank you dear." He stares at Draco again. "What are you doing here? With my daughter? Late at night?"

"I asked him to help me. Plus he didn't want me to go alone." I lied.

"Yes sir."

"Very well then." He shoos us off. "I gotta do my nightly walk through. Good night." He kisses my head. "No fooling around."

"Yes sir." I waved goodbye as we parted ways. "He's scary."

"Not really." I added. "He really doesn't like showing his emotions that much, doesn't mean he's cold. I know the man."

"Has he ever said he loved you?" I stopped walking. He really hasn't. "Did I say something wrong?"

"No." I began to walk again. The walk back to the rooms were quiet. "Goodnight Draco." She walks into her dorm. Blaise was sitting down, watching. Once he heard the door close, Draco pulls Blaise to him.

"Bloody hell Malfoy!" He pushes him off of him.

"I think Im in love with Daphne." Draco confesses. Blaise eyes widen. "Dont look at me like that!"

"You're in one hell of ride Malfoy."

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I stood in front what was the black lake with Lisa and Blaise. It was covered in ice and snow. Looked nice. We liked these type of stuff. Thats why we're best friends. Blaise didn't really care about Lisa that much but he was nice to her.

"Daphne!" I heard. I turned back to see Draco, Crabbe and Travis running towards to me. What have they done now. Draco held his nose, dripping in blood.

"What did you do!" I held him.

"The filthy mudblood punched him." Crabbe explains.

"She got you good." Blaise laughs.

"Go to hell!" The white snow turned red.

"I can fix this, but its going to hurt." I told him. "Like a lot."

"I dont care!" I pulled out my wand.

"Daphne i think you should tale him to the hospital wing." Lisa told me.

"Its fine." I pointed my wand at his nose. "Episkey!" Draco cried in pain.

"Let me see." I placed my finger on his chin, examining it. "Looks fine. Come on, ill help you get cleaned up." I grabbed his hand. I took him to the astronomy tower, with a towel and water. I wet the towel and I began to wipe off the dried blood. "She really got you good."

"Who cares." He rolls eyes.

"What did you do?" He didn't say anything. I stopped wiping. "Even I have to say, I do say stuff that would get me punched like that."

"Called her a filthy mudblood." I continued to dab his nose.

"You know thats not a good word to use." I laughed off. We sat there quietly. Draco laid on my lap as I cleaned him. He grabbed my hand, stopping me. His cold hands, he did look good in rings.

"Do you know your mother?" He asked me.

"No." I whispered to him. "And i dont want to." He sits up.

"Why not?" I trust him. I really do.

"She wasn't there." He looks at me.

"Has your father talked about her? Lucas? Katherine?" I shook my head.

"Katherine would turn her cheek, change the topic. I feel like she knew her. In a way. Lucas, he shuts down. Stays quiet. My father." I took a big sigh. "I brought her up once because Pansy asked me if i had a mother. I never knew what that was at first." I chuckled. "That day when I asked him, he told me not to bring her up again, and i never did. He was, i think, ashamed, in way."

"Do you know how she looks like?"

"No. Nothing. Not a name, a hair color, not even how she smells. All I knew is that she was a Slytherin, pure blood."

"Do you get curious?"

"Not really. Why would I waste my time with someone that never cared for me in the first place." I looked down at my fingers. "At home, on the right, bottom drawer, my father has this picture in his office, he forbids me to go in there, but he doesn't know because he's here. It's just me, him, Lucas and Katherine, but the photo ripped. Im guessing it was her." I felt safe telling him this. I came to my senses, im in love with him. Draco, im in love with him. No matter how much I denied it. The butterflies in my stomach, the pounding of my heart. It was all with him.

"She doesn't deserve you." He whispers to me. His cold hands touched mine. His Cologne lingered. He smelled like apples, and a hint of mahogany. Smelled rich. "Daphne-"

"Mr Malfoy and Miss. Snape!" We both jumped up. Professor McGonagall caught us. "We've been looking for you both, get into your dorms." She hurried us out.

"What's happening?" I asked her.

"Sirius Black has been found and dementors are all over. Get inside and into your dorms." We ran out and into the school. Once we made it to the dorm we were greeted by Pansy rushing to Dracos side.

"We were so worried." She told him. He looked at me as I did with him. Blaise smirked, these two. Everyone camped out in the common room. Draco and Daphne sat next to each other.

"Merry Christmas." Draco pulls out a gift from his jumper.

"Hold on." She runs to her room and comes back, sitting next to him again.

"Merry Christmas Draco." She hands him her gift to him. They both opened it and were surprised. "Draco it's beautiful." She opens the box that had a bracelet with charms on it. Draco actually picked it out himself this year, he wanted it to match the ring he gave her last year. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." He opened his gift from her. It was a ring. It had snakes wrapping themselves around a green gem, sorta matching hers.

"So we can match." She showed him the ring, that she didn't know that was actually from him. "You like it?"

"I would never take it off." He slides the ring onto his finger. Draco was ready to risk it. He wanted to lean and kiss her. He wanted to kiss her at the tower before McGonagall walked in. He will wait for Daphne, doesn't matter how long it will take. He knows he wants to be with her for the rest of his life. Cliché but true. Daphne took his hand and looked at his ring, comparing his to hers. "Daphne?"

"Yeah?" She looks up to him with her big soft black eyes. 

"Thank you. This means a lot to me."

"Don't worry. You're my best friend, I care about you and I want you to know that I will always be there for you." He smiles at her. She's the first person to show that she actually cares about him. Not his parents, but her. He belongs with her.