Chapter 26

Draco was walking to his dorm when someone bumped into him. He turned around to glare at whoever it was that had the nerve to bump into Draco Malfoy without so much as an apology, when his heart stopped.

“Harry Potter...” he breathed, not meaning for anyone to hear.

Harry heard however and turned to face him, “yes Malfoy?”

Suddenly, Draco felt butterflies in his stomach... something he’d only felt when with Luna. He tried to make the strange sensation stop but it refused and he was stuck gaping at Harry wordlessly. Harry cocked an eyebrow and looked at him expectantly, waiting for Draco to talk. When he didn’t, Harry gave him a weird look and left, leaving Draco staring at his retreating figure in wonder. Half of him was wondering why these instantaneous feelings appeared as soon as he had seen Harry and the other half of him was wondering why he couldn’t take his eyes off of him.

Draco shook these thoughts away and headed to his dorm, trying not to think of how cute it was when Harry’s hair flopped over his eyes. By the time he got to the Slytherin common room, he was worried about his thoughts. Since the brief meeting, he couldn’t get his mind off of Potter. He was just considering going to find Luna to straighten out his head when Blaise walked up to him.

“Blaise... can I talk to you about something.... private?” Draco asked quietly.

Blaise nodded curiously and headed to the dorm. Draco sat on his bed and, avoiding Blaise’s eyes asked, “How did you find out that you were gay?”

Blaise looked taken aback but answered nonetheless, “well... I don’t know... I guess I’ve always liked guys but I just didn’t accept it until up to a little while ago.”

“But how did you know that you liked guys...? Was there ever a girl that you might have liked?”

“No... Not that I can think of, if there was then she was nothing more than a friend. I’ve just never been attracted to girls.”

Draco nodded thoughtfully, not saying anything.

“Why?” Blaise questioned.

“N-no reason,” Draco stuttered, feeling the blood creep up his cheeks.

Blaise cocked his head to the side thoughtfully and said, “Do you have feelings for a guy...?”

“Um... I-I.... no,” Draco decided, shutting out all the thoughts in his head about Harry, “just curious.”

Blaise didn’t buy it. “Just come find me when you’re ready to talk about it,” Blaise said, getting up. Draco stood quickly and rushed out of the dorm, looking for Luna. He was straight, he knew he was.

Pansy had watched fretfully as Draco had talked to Harry a few hours before. After waiting around an hour for the potion to take effect, Pansy had gone looking for him in hopes that she may still have a chance. As she was approaching Draco, she saw him bump into Harry Potter and had watched as the love potion took effect. Pansy felt bad for poor Draco... he was going to be in love with Harry Potter for the next week or so... After watching it all unfold, Pansy had rushed back to her dorm to think of a new plan to gain Draco’s love.

“Hey Draco, what’s up-“ Luna was cut off as Draco lips met hers rather forcefully. When he finally pulled away from the kiss she looked at him concerned, “what happened?”

She knew him so well. “I-I don’t want to talk about it...” Draco said slowly.

Luna nodded understandingly and gave him another quick peck on the lips, “you know I’m here if you decide that you want to talk. I won’t judge you.”

Draco smiled gratefully at her. Luna could tell just by the quaver in his voice that he was battling against himself... and losing. She wanted to help but she wasn’t going to question him about it because he looked like he really didn’t want to talk about it.

Draco wrapped his arms loosely around her waist. When he was with Luna, he felt like himself again, all thoughts of Harry set aside. He knew that eventually, he would have to face this inner turmoil but for now, he was happy to lose his thoughts in Luna’s sweet kisses.