We Belong Together || Draco Malfoy X Reader

54| Life Duty

Y/N POV

My extended New Year holiday in Paris was coming to an end this afternoon. Draco and I had visited lots of places here and he agreed to let me buy some souvenirs for my friends on our last day here. Anyway, about that night, we didn't do anything special and thank Lord, he managed to get himself back. Though I had to admit it was a little funny to see him desperately wanting to touch me yet he couldn't.

I decided that I would buy some local chocolates as the main souvenirs for our friends. I also bought some stamped books for Hermione, and also myself. We stopped by a clothing store and I didn't hesitate from buying colourful clothes for my lovely boyfriend. Trust me, he was complaining all along but I still managed to tame him.

"Try this on," I said, handing a bright blue suit to him.

He was cheesed off but he couldn't do anything to object. I waited for him to change while looking at the dresses.

"How do I look?"

I turned around to face him and Lord, he was perfect. Even the designer's jaw dropped when he saw Draco. A little crowd started surrounding us and most of them were French girls. They just reminded me of the Beauxbatons girls. Speaking of which, Draco admitted that some girl from that academy dared to ask him out to the ball last year and I was pissed all weekend when I found that out.

"Babe, how do I look?" He repeated.

"Uh...lovely I guess."

I asked him to try some other clothes on so it would keep himself busy in the changing room for a while. Now let's make those female wallies stopped checking on what was mine. I glared at them as they still locked their sight to Draco who was walking to the changing room.

"He's got a girlfriend," I stated.

They looked at me for a few seconds and snickered. Nothing was funny. Were they mocking me?

"Y/N, I don't think you'll like this one. Come and see," Draco yelled. Lucky for those wallies, I was about to pick a fight if only Draco didn't call for me.

•••

Well, I ended up buying some clothes for me and Hermione too, and that was when I thought that I might be playing favourites in my friendship. So, to ease my mind, I bought some French sweets for the boys while waiting for Draco to finish trying all the clothes on.

Draco was throwing a tantrum after we argued about who was gonna pay for all the clothes I had picked. I let him paid for the chocolates and books and now he wanted to pay for the clothes too. I could pay it by myself, it wasn't only him who fortunately had some money in here.

"No. You stay here and I pay. End of–"

"I picked the clothes so I'm paying!" I argued.

"You're my girlfriend, I'm paying for you," he debated.

"I'm paying for myself Draco. I'm an independent girl!"

He sighed in disappointment. I didn't know why was he being disappointed, I was just doing what I was supposed to do. What's wrong with being independent?

We bickered for a few more moments until we finally came to a solution. We were splitting the check. He rolled his eyes when I put my share on the cashier counter. This was still unfair to me but there was no other choice. Our argument would never end with the right solution for me.

"Happy now?" He scoffed.

"More than ever," I exclaimed.

"Thank you, love," I smiled and he widened his eyes.

Yes, we were still in the store with tons of people, including the wallies who were checking on him earlier, and I just called him love. I got the confidence cause no one here knew anything about us, they were all strangers and also, to declare what was mine to the wallies.

"Anytime darling."

•••

We arrived back at Hogwarts and the trio with the boys from our gang welcomed us in the train station. Draco's mood drastically changed once I went to talk with the trio. He was whining about him being exhausted and he wanted to go back to our room as soon as possible. What had gotten into him? We were having a good time on the train for sure.

I agreed to go back with him straightly because he wouldn't stop whining and it was bothering everyone. My friends were walking away as I told them I had to check our trunks first before going. Filch the caretaker was in charge of taking our belongings to our room. I kind of felt bad for him, we went out with only 3 trunks and came back with 5 due to the souvenirs and stuff.

"Stop staring at my girlfriend Potter! Do you want me to take those eyes out?" Draco snapped all of a sudden. I didn't even realise that Harry was still here staring at me. Harry didn't say anything and just glared at Draco. I just got back to school and I was definitely not in the mood to see my boyfriend fighting with my friend.

"Why are you glaring at me? Do you wanna fight?" Draco growled and moved closer to Harry with his intimidating look. Boys being boys.

Harry looked at me sadly, which didn't make any sense whatsoever, before leaving me and Draco alone. I didn't get what was going on here but at the same time, I also didn't care much about it. The only thing mattered right now was how grumpy Draco had been. We were only 10 minutes here and things had changed the complete opposite than when we were on our ride back.

Thank Lord, I managed to calm him down a bit and we went straight to our room. Honestly, I didn't want to go back to Hogwarts anymore as long as Umbridge was still here. Going back here just meant that I had to go back to my twice a week routine in Umbridge's office. And not being able to tell anyone about it was the worst part.

Sometimes I simply need to talk about it, just to let out what I was thinking. I had people that I could talk to about this which was the trio, mostly Hermione though. However, they would always persuade me to tell it to Draco like every single time. Wouldn't that just make the situation worse? I had enough of allowing myself to hurt Draco emotionally and that was it. I didn't want to be a burden to anyone.

Those thoughts kept me from falling asleep. Draco was already sleeping soundly beside me. What would his reaction be when he found out about my hand? Would he be mad? Mad at me for not telling him this sooner or mad at Umbridge for doing this to me? Probably at Umbridge cause he wouldn't be able to get mad at me.

I observed his sleeping face and I couldn't help myself but touching his face with my fingers. And that woke him up.

"Nightmare?" He asked in a raspy voice.

"All right, come here baby," he mumbled while pulling me closer so we could cuddle.

Strange. Everything seemed to fade away instantly the moment I snuggled up to him. He pulled the blanket over so it could cover our whole body. He didn't have to do that though, cuddling with him had made everything warm enough for me.

"I'll protect you no matter what," he muttered.

He didn't have to do much to protect me when having his arms around me had been able to make me feel at ease and safe. Sometimes I wondered how was this possible. Perhaps because he was my boyfriend and I trusted him the most. But also, I felt like it was something bigger than just that.

"Remember when I promised your parents to protect you in year 1?"

"It's long gone Draco."

"Nope. I have made it my life duty since then," he chuckled.

"Does it mean you have liked me since year 1?"

"Ooh, are you trying to expose me, love?" He laughed. "But yeah...sort of, you have always caught my eyes Y/N."

Just hearing about this had been able to make me be in seventh heaven.

"Now let's sleep."

Fortunately, I was able to sleep peacefully in his arms that night.