"So?" I snap, clearly starting the conversation we're about to have to a great start.
"Lose the attitude, darling, if you want a nice, civil, conversation," he narrows his eyebrows and eyes at me before walking in the direction of where Adrian and I were lying just a few minutes before.
"Darling?" I scoff, taken back by his word choice, but I follow him anyways.
He sits down on the ground and turns to me, ushering me to do the same. "Wait, what the fuck are you doing?" I can not explain to you how confused I was at this point.
A scowl takes over his face, "why must you ruin everything with questions, for the love of Merlin, just sit." Not wanting to start anything, not yet anyways, I oblige.
I slowly sit down next to him, leaving a solid 2 feet between us, which he apparently too offence to. Looking down at the space I left between us and up at me, he cocks his head to the side and smirks, "that scared of me, are we?"
"Not scared, just don't want to be any closer to you then I have to be," I shoot defensively.
He raises his hands as if in surrender, "I just wanted to call a truce is all."
That's weird. Suspiciously, I ask, "why though."
He shrugs and looks up at the sky, "I figured you'd be more useful to me as an asset versus a liability."
"Huh? What and how would I be of use to you?" I don't know how to explain it but I was beginning to get confused and angry at the same time. Use me? For what?
He scoffs, "you're fiery and bold attitude is what I need to get some order around here, what else do you think?"
Realizing what he really means, I huff angrily, "you son of a bitch, I'm not a tool for you to use and I would never use my 'boldness' or 'fiery attitude' to help you bully people." Emphasis on the bully.
He snaps his head in my direction in his eyebrows shoot up in surprise but slowly return to the look of disgust he gives oh so often. "Listen, y/n, this is the first and last time I will ever offer any sort of alliance. Believe me, I can and will ruin you if I'd like, I don't think you understand what it means to have me as an enemy."
I slowly drag the words, "Try. Me," before getting up to go back to the Slytherin common room. As quickly as I got up and started to leave, he just as quickly if not more, was right on my heel. He shouts angrily, "y/l/n! Walk away now, and believe me I will make your life a living hell, or you could just join me and help me put the Golden Trio in their place. They're pathetic really, I don't understand why you even spend any time with them. Any of them. The Weasley's are poor and pathetic, Scar Head's a dumb prick with dead parents, Hermione's a filthy mudblood, and don't get me started on the twins or that loser Longbottom."
I stop in my tracks, one thing I absolutely don't tolerate is any slander towards my friends. But he didn't stop he kept going, "Oh and Pucey, that blue-eyed freak entitled man whore. You know he's messing with you, right? It's what he does."
I turn and look at him. Seeing that he's gotten a reaction out of me, a smirk slowly takes over his face, "so?"
I don't know whether to say something, hit him, or just walk away. I could do all three to be honest with you, but will it make me feel better? This isn't at all how I wanted to end my fun Saturday, I really was having a great day and night and of course, this dumb blonde had to ruin it, as usual.
"I don't know how many times I would have to say it for it to get through your thick head, Malfoy, but never, and I mean never, in a million years, would I 'join' you and your stupid group of friends, if that's even what you call them, to torment others. Especially not my friends. Who, by the way, are 10000 times the people you will ever be. I don't know why you think you have so much power, I don't know who let you think that, but, Malfoy, news flash? Your daddy issues are showing and they're radiating all sorts of other issues. Take care of yourself before you get yourself into a situation where you're going to get hurt, because from where I'm standing, it's probably going to be soon and I don't see you surviving it. Find a personality and yourself, Draco, not minions."
He clearly didn't expect any of that whatsoever because with every word, every sentence, the smirk on his face slowly faded away. Honestly, at that point I didn't really care how he took it or how he felt, I really didn't. He needed someone to tell him and I'm fine with being that person.
I decided not to wait for a comeback or anything like that, so I left to go back to the dorms for the rest of the night. As soon as I get back into the halls of the school, I let out a breathe I hadn't even realized I'd been holding in. Wow, I really just did that. I kind of feel bad. Or do I? I don't know.
Once I get back to the common room, I'm not surprised to not see Adrian there waiting for me, in fact, it's empty. I'm like 10 minutes late after curfew, which I'd be more worried about if I didn't just have whatever that was with Draco. I'm honestly quite lucky that I wasn't caught in the halls, but not that shocked I mean Hogwarts doesn't have many teachers and it's an enormous school.
I head back to my dorm to find Daphne already fast asleep on her bed, but Tracey walks into the room just a few moments after I do, too.
"Hey, how was-" she starts before seeing my somewhat upset facial expression, "hey you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah, just tired," I quickly say, not wanting to talk about what happened with Draco, not right now anyways.
She hesitates but also seems to understand what I mean and feel, she simply says, "okay yeah, me too."
"Well, how was stargazing with Adrian?" she notices my left eyebrow shooting up in a questioning sort of manner, as if I were asking how she knew, she quickly adds, "he told me before dinner that he wanted to take you outside to spend some one on one time with you, so I shouldn't be worried or surprised if you don't walk back to the dorms with us after dinner."
"Ohh, yeah no, it was nice, actually. He is too, you know. Nice I mean," I blush.
She giggles quietly so that we don't wake Daphne, "yeah he is, he's not to bad on the eyes too huh?" she wiggles her eyebrows.
I let out a cackle sort of laugh before quickly, and harshly, slap my hand on my mouth to silence myself before I wake anyone, which quite honestly doesn't work as well as I had hoped because it just got both of us to cover our mouths to silently laugh. I kid you not, if I knew what sound a dragon made, it probably resembles the sound I just let out.
With that, my night ends on a neutral note, thanks to Tracey. I quickly wash up and head to bed and while doing so, all my mind is trying to think about is Adrian and his flirting (?) tonight, I don't know. But, I find myself really just thinking about what happened with Draco. I mean, if I formed some sort of 'truce' with him, I could have had more control over him, right? Like I wouldn't let him step all over me and control me so like I could have gotten him to change.
That's my problem, though, I want to think that I can change this poor, clearly broken boy, but honestly it's none of my business, responsibility, or concern. I should just let him be, someone else can help him.
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a/n: lowkey rushed this, i had so many ideas going through my mind so lmk if i made a mistake, typo, or something doesn't make sense and i'll fix it so it makes better sense to future readers!!
