We Belong Together || Draco Malfoy X Reader

83| Suspicions

Draco POV

Things happened in Diagon Alley that day I went there without Y/N. He threatened to kill her and my family if I failed the missions. Keeping things away from Y/N was way harder than I thought, but I had to try my best to do it to protect her. Once she knew about this, she would definitely freak out and possibly did something stupid to keep me away from all this chaos.

I would never let her meddle in, the risk of losing her was horribly high and I didn't know if I would ever be able to continue my life if it did happen. It was best if she never found out and she would still have her normal life.

I failed to get the Felix Felicis that would have been able to help me finish my tasks easily. But that didn't stop me, I managed to steal some brewed Polyjuice Potion, and some of its ingredients in case I needed more, from Slughorn class. It was easier to steal from that old man than grumpy Snape since Y/N was always talking with him. Crabbe and Goyle would be the ones to drink it to lessen the suspicions while I was working in the room of requirement and also to keep an eye on anyone.

Today's work was done pretty well. I left the room of requirement with Crabbe and Goyle who disguised themselves as some random Ravenclaw girls. I had missed dinner for probably a week now and Y/N was complaining about it every night whenever I came back from fixing the cabinet. I missed having dinner with her too but the circumstances wouldn't let me do anything to change it.

I was welcomed by my mad wife-like girlfriend. Her jewel eyes were glaring at me narrowly as though she wanted to kill me with the glare. Hands crossed on her chest and foot-tapping on the ground, waiting for me to say another nonsense excuse for everything I had done. She was starting to get suspicious of me. How I wished I could just cuddle with her all day to make up for everything.

"Why are you always late to bed now? And also, what about having dinner with me sometimes?" She protested.

"Just doing some workout," I lied.

"But you're not sweating."

"I showered at the prefects' bathroom before going back, can we talk about something else? What about telling me about your day?" I suggested.

Luckily, a kiss would always work to shift the subject. She hopped on me, smiling warmly as she began talking about another wonderful day of hers without me. Perhaps her smiles were the only thing that kept me sane until now, even in this dreadful situation that I had to face. I realised that I wanted to keep that smile on her no matter what happened, I had to save that smile. Her hands massaged my head while I was carrying her to bed, listening quietly to her blabbering which somehow turned into music to my ears.

I loved her so much and I would do everything to protect her. Please just wait for me a bit, Y/N.

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Weeks passed and I got even lesser time to spend with Y/N because I was busy fixing the old cabinet in the secret room. She hadn't seemed to notice about the lesser time we got as she was busy being a prefect again. Although she still complained whenever I skipped dinner without telling her first, she was just worried about my health.

Lesser time to spend together also meant we didn't get to make love for the past few weeks. It was killing me slowly to not be able to touch her fondly but I didn't have much of an option here. I had to finish my tasks as soon as possible and maybe, we could have some private time for perhaps forever after this.

"Let's go on a date today," I blurted out of the blue.

"Aren't you gonna get busy working out again?" She sneered.

"Don't you miss me Y/N? I miss spending my time with you and I'll spend the whole day with you today. Have you drunk your monthly potion?"

"Why would I miss you? There's no need of that stinky potion anymore, we're not going to do it anyway," she scoffed. This girl was definitely mad at me.