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Stop Being So Selfish

Draco, he's always been discourteous and despicable, never treated people well unless they were Pureblood Slytherins and sometimes he'd still treat them badly even if they were what he had preferred. But for you it was different; you were the only person who understood him, the only person who trusted you. You were always close to him surprisingly as you were a Muggleborn. You were always treated poorly because you were a Slytherin and a... "Mudblood" as everyone says. You never believed you had belonged into Slytherin, you hated it really. No one ever treated you the way Draco did so you were really thankful for him. But you never knew why he was so good to you and why he didn't treat you like shit, it was weird. But it felt like he had a soft spot for you... only you.

Every day would be the same, Slytherins taunting you and calling you names it was like you weren't even good enough for them. You wanted to please them, make them somehow like you but it was too difficult. Difficult how? All Slytherins you knew had the same kind of mindset. By that I mean; "mudbloods are horrible don't trust them" "all the other houses are bloody trash" "I don't even understand why this hell hole is being held by the worst wizard ever". Although it seems stereotypical it's what happens and for you to always hear that you know you have no chance whatsoever. But then you had a catch, you knew the only friend you had in your house was Draco. Not really meaning, yeah let's use him to get everyone to like me but more of maybe you could get closer to others by him.

But then you knew that he would never agree to it, well not agree but just unhandily ridicule you for it. He'd probably say you're being selfish and all that which you were but if being selfish gets you to not having to cry yourself asleep every night because no one likes you, then yeah you'd do it. Maybe it would ruin your relationship with Draco so at this point you were being too indecisive and complicated. You'd tell yourself you'd do it but then you'd think how it would damage Draco but you didn't know why you cared and you also didn't know why he would care about you getting people to like you. But a part of you just knew that he would get mad...

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You were sitting at the Slytherin table with Draco across from you in the Great Hall eating your breakfast while hopefully being able to bring up your "plan". You tried to speak out with every chance you could but you just choked on your own voice every time.

Every once in a while you had looked up at him trying to spit out words but looked back down and sometimes he had noticed. But soon your time would be up and you would have to go to class so for one last time you lifted your head and tried to speak out. Your lips quivering trying to spit out just a little word but his head raised up looking directly at you, now you couldn't back out. "Why do you keep staring at me? And why aren't you speaking, I mean bloody hell" he placed his fork down waiting for an answer at you.

Your stomach clenched as you bit the inside of your cheek and shaking your leg up and down. "Sorry— I wasn't staring at you—" he interrupted you before you could say anything else "yeah, you were multiple times, what the hell is going on? "You nervously tapped your fingers onto the table and leaning your head on your hand that was being balanced. You took in a huge breath in and out before announcing what you were to say the whole time "I was wondering if you could do me a favour?"

"a favour? What kind of favour?" His attention was all on you and now there was no point in lying or just saying nevermind or I forgot. "Well, maybe you could slap some sense into your friends and everyone else so they wouldn't have to treat me like shit" He looked away scoffing, grabbing his bookbag and getting up from his seat. "wait where are you going?" Your eyes shot up to him as he was about to leave the room.

"God, I'm not dull y/l/n. I'm not doing that, for many reasons as well and—" you had cut him off by a second. "Reasons? What reasons?" You sounded serious, standing from your spot and facing him. "Never mind alright? But I'm not doing it. End of story".