The Mudblood and The Slytherin Prince

Chapter 22: Blaise and Malfoy

'Dude, why haven't you gone to her?' Blaise asks Draco.

'Because.. I don't know.'

'She admitted she likes you and you haven't talked to her since.'

Draco runs his hands through his hair, feeling frustrated.

'It better not be because of your 'reputation.' If you like her, why does it matter what other people think?' Blaise asks, starting to get annoyed. 'You talk about her all the time! You even say her name in your sleep!'

'I do not! And my dad is the problem. I can't get past what I think he will do. He would be disappointed if I dated someone from a different house, but being with a muggle-born and a different house? That's a whole different situation. He'd probably kill her and I'm not even joking.' He lets out a frustrated sigh.

'Well, when you finally make up your mind, come find me. I'll be in the great hall.'

***

You wonder around the castle but can't find Blaise anywhere. You decide to take a break and sit in the great hall. Just before you sit down you see Blaise walk in. You walk up to him as he sits at the Slytherin table.

'Can I talk to you?' You ask him quietly.

There aren't many students in here at the moment, but the people in there are giving you weird looks.

'Sure, take a seat.' He says while patting the seat next to him.

'Have you seen-' but he cuts you off.

'Common room,' he says.

'How did you know what I was gonna ask?' Your face starts to turn red a little.

'Why else would you come over here?'

'Point made. And I wouldn't have known to come to you specifically if he didn't write your name down on the note.'

'So he did give it to you?' Blaise lets out a light chuckle.

'No, um, he actually dropped it.'

Blaise just laughs. 'He did that on purpose. He tells me everything you know, and after what you said to him, he couldn't bare to give it to you himself so he dropped it.'

You just nod your head. You feel bad for being distant with him, but after everything he has done to you, he kind of deserves it.

'Why hasn't he talked to me?' You ask quietly.

'Maybe you should ask him yourself.' He says, pointing towards the entrance.

There standing, is Draco. He looks at you and Blaise and he walks over anyway. He sits across from you two and doesn't say anything.

'Well, I'll leave you two to it then.' Blaise smiles. He stands up and pats you on the back and leaves the great hall.

'Do you want to go somewhere else?' You ask Draco. 'People are looking.' You look around the room and see every single student looking at the both of you.

'Yeah.'

You decide to go to the Astronomy Tower. Both silent all the way there. When you reach the top you lean over the railing and look into the sunset.

'Pretty, isn't it?' You say, but Malfoy doesn't answer.

He walks beside you and leans over the railing as well.

'Why haven't you talked to me?' You ask him, but he still doesn't answer. 'Okay, well, I guess I'll go then.' You start to leave but he grabs ahold of your hand.

'I told you I would leave you alone, so I did.'

You turn and look at him.

'But that was before I told you that I liked you too.'

'Are you not with Potter?'

You let out a sigh and smile. 'No. Things kind of ended before I went into the book store that day. I thought I liked him, but I realized a big difference between the two of you and with him.. nothing compared to you.'

Malfoy smiles a bit.

'You're not just using me, are you?'

You slap his shoulder. 'Of course not. You know I've liked you for a while, but because of the stuff you did to me.. I put up a wall around myself so I would stop liking you and that obviously didn't work.'

'What happened between you two?'

You sit on the ground and Draco sits down beside you.

'Well, Hermonie said he was going to ask me to be his girlfriend, but he was too busy looking at other girls. Also, I figured out shortly before that I was not the first person to ask to the dance. He got rejected and I was next... Who did you take to the dance by the way? I didn't see you there.'

'Pansy,' he says annoyingly, 'I wanted to ask you, but found out you were going with Potter. She wouldn't shut up about going so I gave in.'

'That's right. I saw you two kissing that night.'

'She was kissing me.'

'You kissed her back though.'

Draco just rolls his eyes. 'I guess Potter was just using you to get over someone while you were using him to get over me.'

'I didn't think of it that way. Maybe... so what is it with you and Pansy?' You ask pushing Draco.

'I am not talking about that.'

'Hey, I talked about Harry, now it's your turn.' You say laughing.

'Hmm, I would rather talk about you.' He says looking into your eyes.

'Okay, what do you want to know?' You say smiling.