𝑷𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙉𝙂𝙀 (ON HOLD?)

Chapter 4

Draco woke up the next day and to his delight, he had a free period. He quickly got up, and the first thing he wanted to do was to go meet Myrtle.

Myrtle was a great friend of his. They had bonded with each other during Draco's 6th year, when he had to do the impossible task. In one of those meetings however, Potter had showed up and thought it was funny to end up making a huge permanent scar across his chest with some stupid curse of his.

He got ready and got out of the common room, ignoring looked from the others. Potter seemed to be outside as well.

He was walking down the hallway, halfway to the boys' bathroom, when he bumped into someone.

As they crashed into each other Draco instinctively held onto them to prevent the person from falling. He found out that he was staring at a very flustered face.

"S-sorry I didn't mean to!" Harry said. His eyes were closed so he couldn't see who was holding him. Draco's eyes widened and blush was creeping on his face.

Harry opened his eyes and squinted them, only to be even more flustered and making Draco lose balance along with him, causing them to fall on top of each other.

( Short disclaimer that I don't know how to explain the scene I am imagining RN so I am so sorry.)

Draco looked to see that he was inches away from Potter's beautiful face. Wait, beautiful?
No, Potter's face was NOT beautiful. What is he thinking?

Draco yelped and immediately got up. "M-Malfoy? What are you doing here?" Potter asked.

"What are YOU doing here, Pottah?" Draco asked back.

"Forget it, let's just pretend nothing like this ever happened." Potter said. Draco nodded in agreement and proceeded to watch Potter get up. But he couldn't help himself so he huffed and offered Potter his hand, looking in another direction.

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"W-what are you doing?" Harry asked in confusion.

"Just take my hand already" Malfoy snapped. Harry reluctantly took his hand and Draco pulled him up. They looked away from each other before Harry literally realized that he forgot to get his glasses from the floor.

"Oh darn, I forgot to get my glasses" Harry said to himself, starting to bend down. He heard Draco's blurry figure sigh and say.

"Stop what you're doing, I am getting that for you."

Harry was hella confused. Why was Malfoy even helping him and not even insulting him or making rude remarks? But nevertheless, he stopped and stood up straight again. He saw the blurry Malfoy then stoop down to get the glasses. Jeez Draco had some fingers.

(☝︎ WHY DID I TYPE THAT LAST SENTENCE?)

"Here," Malfoy said, handing Harry his glasses.

"Uh, thanks I guess, Malfoy." Harry said, while wearing his glasses. Everything felt much better now. He saw Malfoy's pointy face a little shocked but Malfoy quickly got an emotionless expression, shrugged and then left.

Well, they were really putting their differences aside then. Malfoy really seemed to change after all.

Harry had gone to meet Ginny. She was not in a good mood today and had accidentally yelled at Harry. She then apologized and Harry of course forgave her, telling her that it was nothing and that he loved her. But.. something felt wrong.

Why did he blush, when caught by Malfoy? Why did he feel something he didn't feel for Ginny anymore? Could it be...?

No, definetly not. Harry Potter was so not gay or bi or anything. Neither did he have a crush on his enemy.

He decided to go to his DADA class. The free period was about to end after all. He was going to the bathroom.

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Stupid Potter, he just wasted Draco's time and now the free period already ended. He still deciding to meet Myrtle first and then go to class after 5 minutes or something.

There DADA teacher was Professor Villarreal. And Draco had DADA first. Same class as Potter. Great.

While his meeting with Myrtle a gang of boys arrived. They were Seven years, and were Gryffindors.

(I am not criticising Gryffindors. It's just that, I am sure Ravenclaws are not exactly suited for bullying to me and same with Hufflepuffs. Gryffindors just seem to take their revenge or Draco or something. I AM JUST SAYING THEY WERE AN ONLY OPTION FOR THEM TO BE RIVALS BECAUSE AS I SAID, SLYTHERINS DON'T BULLY HIM. Please don't get offended my lovely Gryffindor readers!)

"Looks like you have a ghost girlfriend, eh?" One of them said. Draco turned around.

"What are you gonna do?" The other asked "Tell your crappy excuse of a father about this?" They all laughed.

Draco was infuriated. They can insult him all they want, bully him relentlessly, even kill him, but not insult his parents.

"Don't you dare call my father that." Draco growled.

They all laughed again. The third one said "Oh, we are not afraid! What are you gonna do? Kill us? Come on boys."

Draco backed away as they all started to round up on him, Myrtle was screaming at them loud enough for everyone to hear probably. Someone grabbed Draco, positioned his face in front of the toilet, and forcefully pushed his face in. He couldn't breathe at all. This was it, he was going to die like this.

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When Harry was on his way to the boys' bathroom, he heard noises. Noises of Myrtle screaming, noises of someone drowning...

Someone was in trouble. Harry immediately rushed to the bathroom and saw some boys in an open bathroom stall. The boys heard his footsteps and looked at him, then froze.

"What are you doing?" Harry asked them.

"Just teaching someone a lesson," the boy who was drowning someone said.

"Leave them alone." Harry said.

They all looked at him. To them, he was a hero and they were keen to obey him.

"But it's Malfoy-" the boy started to say.

"What!?" Harry felt outraged for some reason. "Leave him be!" They all nodded frantically and let the poor soul go.

Wait, the poor soul? What was wrong with him?

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Draco immediately got his head up and took a deep breath. He then immediately gave Harry a quick thanks but ran to the eight year common room to immediately clean himself by taking a bath. They had bathrooms in their own rooms which also had showers.

Draco got out and cursed those boys. He also secretly thanked Potter too, although he would never admit it.

Darn it, he realised, stupid Potter saved my life once again. Why do I always have to owe him everything.

And thanks to those boys, he was also late for class.