Cynical Relations

Draco had successfully hunted her down in person later on that Saturday and he had tried to get close to her once again. She couldn’t deny that the attention was nice but why was he suddenly so obsessed with her? She finally managed to escape him though and hid out in her dormitory until the following day when she had of course had to leave for breakfast in the great hall.

Afterwards Lacie headed back up to the Slytherin common room. She had planned to go into her dormitory and read but on seeing that the common room itself was completely empty, she decided to sit herself down on one of the sofas. The fire sparked up as soon as she had sat down and Lacie immediately felt her body warming through.

A few students came and went but none of them caught her eye… well that was until Justin Chanmot appeared. As soon as he had entered the common room, their eyes connected and that was when Lacie noticed the black eye that he was sporting. He glared at her silently before turning and making his way out again. Lacie’s brown eyes were still wide in surprise before she quickly remembered what Draco had written to her in his letter. Surely it was just a coincidence that Justin had a black eye after the blonde had said he’d had had words with him… right?

Lacie had finally picked her book back up but was interrupted as Draco came bursting into the common room out of breath. Their eyes connected for a second and he broke out into a grin before doubling over, clutching his stomach as he tried to get breath back into his lungs. Lacie merely rolled her eyes and looked back to her book until Draco dropped onto the sofa beside her, throwing his arm around her shoulder.

“Draco,” Lacie simply uttered with a sigh before reaching behind her and removing his arm from her shoulder, not once taking her eyes away from the book in front of her.

“Oh come on Lacie, it took me ages to find you,” Draco said as he put his arm back around her shoulders, making sure he was sitting as close as he could to her.

“You were looking for me?” She finally put her book down beside her and couldn’t help but turn to look at him with surprised eyes.

“Yeah, I wanted to return this,” Draco pulled out Lacie’s leather bound notebook and handed it back to her. “You dropped it yesterday.”

“You didn’t look in it did you?” She quickly flipped through it’s pages, making sure that nothing was missing. Her fingers fell limp against the parchment though as she felt Draco lightly tugging at strands of her hair.

“Just the first few pages. Impressive picture of Snape by the way, it looks just like him,” Lacie couldn’t help but blush and she quickly put the notebook on top of her book beside her. She’d drawn many portraits within the old notebook, with them mostly being of students, professors or animals. It was just a hobby of hers, something that she enjoyed and that she was good at.

“You’re cute when you blush,” He said causing her to close her eyes briefly at the shiver it sent through her body as his warm breath blew against her skin.

“Not this again, Draco,” She said softly although she wasn’t fighting him yet. Lacie couldn’t deny that she liked the attention that he was giving her as she was only human but deep down she knew it was wrong - this was Draco Malfoy after all.

“Well you obviously like all of this otherwise you would’ve pushed me away by now,” He teased and Lacie didn’t dare open her mouth as she knew she’d just be a stuttering mess.

“Come on, at least smile,” He said softly and that’s when Lacie realised she’d been staring off into space whilst trying to make sure didn’t crack. She turned her head to look at him and was taken by surprise as he crashed his lips against hers. She could feel herself falling and realised that she didn’t want to pull away. It was merely him pressing his lips to hers and it only lasted a couple of seconds but Lacie seemed to sink further into his side, irrevocably starting to like being this close to her fellow Slytherin. Once his lips had left hers she saw the intensity in his eyes and couldn’t help but press her lips back to his, opening her mouth in surprise as Draco then moved from her lips to her jaw and then down her neck.

“You’re still an asshole, you know,” Lacie mumbled causing the blonde haired boy to smile slightly against the sensitive skin.

“Well at least you gave me the benefit of the doubt.”

***

Lacie was lying back on her bed, smiling as she looked up at the ceiling. She was glad she had caved to Draco but she didn’t know what this meant for either of them. They had spent the last couple of hours sharing small kisses on the sofa and had generally talked with Lacie opening up to him a bit more but not once had either of them spoken of a potential relationship. Of course she knew of Draco’s history with girls but at that moment she was far too busy walking on air to really care.