Misunderstood | Draco Malfoy ✓

27 | Trust Me

"Ready?" I ask as Draco walks into the common room while I sit on the couch. "Let's go." He walks past me and I jump up following him out. "You look more nervous than me." Draco looks down at me. "Well for one, I'm sneaking out past curfew. Two, I'm sneaking out past curfew with Draco Malfoy." I look up at him. "What's wrong with that?" He asks as we speed walk down the hall. "Are you playing dumb or are you dumb? Draco, did you not see how others see you? Plus I've already been asked why is the nice Slytherin girl friends with the worst Slytherin boy of our class all of a sudden." I tell him making him roll his eyes, "Who said we were friends?" He says making me glare at him. "Neither of us that's for sure." I speed up more leaving him behind. "Slow down!" He whisper yells at me jogging to catch up to me and as we turn the corner we run into my dad.

"Where are you two going past curfew?" He eyes the both of us. "Room of Requirements." I give him my signature smile. He just stares at us for a good solid minute before walking past us without a word. Draco looks back at him confused while I tug on his arm to keep moving. "Why aren't you moving? Don't get caught." My dad turns around and Draco stares at me. "You heard the man." I smile grabbing his hand dragging him with me. We carefully sneak up to the seventh floor without getting caught by another Professor. As we come to the brick wall I close my eyes wanting the door to open and it does for us. "Come on." I rush into the room ahead of him. "The room looks a lot bigger than before." He looks around the room at a bunch of stuff. "Maybe because this room is more needed like a junk room for things?" I say walking off into the maze of things. "Where are you going?" I hear him ask. "Looking around like you should." I call out to him.

After a few minutes of looking around, I bump into Draco as our eye landed on someone covered up. "I think we found it." I say looking up at him and he nods his head, "I agree." He walks up to it pulling the cover up off of it. "I guess we start soon now." He looks back at me with a nervous look. "I guess we do." I return the same look on his face. "Draco, we should get going back to our rooms now." I pick up the cover that was on the cabinet. He takes it from me and throws it back on the cabinet before we head back. Once in our common room, Draco squeezes my hand. "Goodnight Mads." I squeeze his hand back, "Goodnight."

The next day I had dinner with Professor Slughorn. "Madeline, are you ready to go to Slughorn's dinner?" Blaise calls out as I make my way to him. "I'm coming! I was helping Ava with something!" I hit him as I approach him then we leave. "Is Draco doing okay? He's been out of it and you're the only person that he takes to more." He asks as we walk. "He's got a lot going on because of what happened over the summer. He's expected to get things done this school year so he's just focusing on that." I explain to him. "Since I'm the only one that doesn't care about how you two suddenly became friends, I'm glad he has you to help him out and talk too." He wraps his arm around my shoulders making me smile.

"So tell me, Cormac, do you see anything of your Uncle Tiberius these days?" Slughorn asks as we eat dessert. "Yes, sir. In fact, I'm meant to go hunting with him and the Minister for Magic over the holidays." He answers him. "Well, be sure to give them both my best. What about your uncle, Belby? For those who don't know, Marcus' uncle invented the Wolfsbane Potion. Is he working on anything new?" Slughorn asks him making Blaise and me turn our head to look at him stuffing his face with his ice cream. "Don't know. Him and Dad don't get on. Probably because me dad says potions are rubbish. Says the only potion worth having is a stiff one at the end of the day." He talks still eating making me shake my head.