persuasive [t.r]

6

Y/N'S POV:

The day went by rather quickly, since classes were all done everyone was free for the rest of the day until dinner. Me and Neville decided to go to the courtyard to just talk about everything that happened over the summer.

As I was about to say something I felt someone sit next to me, I looked to my right to see Draco. "Oh hey Draco," I smiled, Neville looked rather scared now. "Hey y/n," Draco smiled back, he then looked at Neville. "Hey Neville." I was taken aback, did he just say hey to Neville? "Hi," Neville said, he seemed confused as well.

"Draco are you okay? You're being nice, you're never nice," I said with wide eyes. "Yep, I'm just dandy, I can't be nice to my friends?" Draco asked. "You never call me your friend, and you've never liked Neville, what do you want?" I asked. "Fine, I was wondering if you could help me study for herbology because I absolutely suck at it," Draco said, he hated to admit that he was bad at things.

"Yeah sure, you wanna study with us Nev?" I asked Neville. "I can't, I told Ginny I would hang out with her later, sorry y/n/n," Neville gave me a sad look. "Don't worry about it, we can study at like five?" I asked Draco. "Yeah sure, bye y/l/n," He said as he got up. "Bye Malfoy," I said as he walked away.

"You reckon he fancies you?" Neville asked. "Pardon?" I looked at Neville. "Malfoy, you reckon he fancies you?" Neville asked again. "No, what's up with you and thinking everyone fancies me?" I asked. "I don't know, they just give off that feeling I guess," Neville said honestly. "You are unbelievable," I laughed at him.

Soon enough five o'clock rolled around and I said bye to Neville after he dropped me off at the library.

I walked into the library and saw the platinum blonde boy sitting at a table reading a book on herbology.

"Hey Malfoy," I said quietly, but loud enough for him to hear me and turn his head. "Y/l/n," Draco said as I sat down next to him. "You need help on herbology this early in the year? It's only the first day Draco," I said confused. "Yeah I know, but I don't want to be studying later in the year like all the other filthy people," Draco scoffed as he turned a page. "Makes sense," I nodded.

"But what is it exactly that you need help with?" I asked, looking at him. "I don't know really, I just don't understand any of this," Draco said, clearly getting irritated. "Okay, well let's start with some simple things and questions and go from there alright? It's okay," I said, putting my hand on Draco's. "Okay," He smiled.

After a while of studying Draco started to finally get what was going on, so I decided to leave him to it and told him if he needed me don't be afraid to ask for help.

It was now around 6:30, dinner would be in thirty minutes, so I decided to go to my dorm to change into more comfortable clothing as I didn't have any more classes today.

I walked down the corridors to my common room, it was awfully quiet, unsettling almost. I reached the painting, saying pureblood and got let it. I saw Tom sitting on the same couch reading the book I was reading earlier this morning, he took out my bookmark and I didn't remember what page I was on.

I decided not to cause any drama and walked to my dorm, completely ignoring him. I then changed into some comfy shorts and a baggy t-shirt, I put on some slippers and grabbed my wand, putting it in the side of my shorts under my shirt.

I walked back down into the common room and Tom was still sitting on the couch but his attention went to me when I entered the room. "What are you wearing?" He asked, looking me up and down with a disgusted look on his face. "Clothes, what else?" I asked, about to leave the common room when he somehow got up fast enough to reach me and grabbed my arm. "Don't talk to me like that," He said. "Now, what are you wearing?" "Shorts and a t-shirt," I said. "I wanted to be in comfortable clothing because the uniform isn't." "You look like you don't have any pants on, go change," Tom looked me up and down again.

"But-," "I said, go change," He demanded, cutting me off. "If you would let go of my arm then maybe I could go," I scoffed. His green eyes seemed to darken, I've made him really mad now. "What did I say about talking to me like that? Now go," He let go of my arm, pushing me towards my dorm.

I went into my dorm, changing into some leggings, my wrist hurt from how hard he grabbed me, there was definitely going to be a bruise there.

I went back down into the common room to see him reading again like nothing just happened. "Happy now?" I asked, causing him to look up at me. He looked me up and down. "Sure," He said, going back to his book. "Why do you care so much about what I wear anyways?" I asked, sitting next to him. "So guys won't try to shag you, people here are perverts," He said, looking at me once more.

"Sure, and are you one of these perverts?" I asked in a jokingly way, which probably wasn't the best idea. "Of course not, I wouldn't want to shag any girl in the school no matter what, especially you," He scoffed, going back to his book.

For some reason Tom's words hurt me, it's not like I wanted to shag him either, did I? No, no that's absurd. I mean, he was quite attractive, but definitely didn't have an attractive personality, he was rubbish covered over with handsomeness, that's why so many girls liked him, but they never knew who he really was since he never talked, I didn't even know he was such a rude person myself, until we started talking more that is.

"Well I don't want to shag you either Riddle, so no need to worry about it," I scoffed. "Dinner is in five minutes, are you coming?" I asked as I stood up. "Not with you," He rolled his eyes. "I'll wait a while after you leave, I don't want to be seen with you." I scoffed once more, he was such a prick.

I then walked out of the common room, well more stormed out from how angry I was with Tom. Why was he so rude? Why was he so careless? But most importantly, why did I somewhat like it in a way?

a/n: sorry for posting late AGAIN. I hope y'all enjoyed the chapter. -ace 🖤