Draco Malfoy's Dirty Little Secret

Chapter 15

Draco’s POV

Her eyes, her baby blue eyes, brighten up the world. Well, they brighten up mine.  I couldn’t help but gaze into them when our eyes met. I had been having a pretty bad week, but every time I saw her, I couldn’t help but feel better. Her smile stops my whole world. I couldn’t imagine not being around her. There was something different about Courtney Flint. She’s definitely not like any of the other girls I’ve ever been with. Not only was she real, but she’s the only girl that has ever been on mind for longer than a week.  Actually, she has always been on the back of my mind. I always wondered how things would’ve gone if she had gotten into Slytherin, just like we had always dreamed of.

It was December first, which meant that the Hogsmeade trip was happening. I pulled on my coat and my scarf and put on a hat before walking up to the Entrance Hall. I was feeling a little nervous. I had asked Courtney to meet me at the three broomsticks. I told her it was just to farther our work on our paper, but those weren’t my intentions. I wanted to tell her everything, but I wasn’t sure how to go about it. I also had another matter that I had to attend to, which I held under my arm. It was wrapped in brown paper and was addressed to Dumbledore, but I couldn’t be the one to take it to him, too risky. I had to find someone who was willing to.

“Hey, mate,” I wanted to ask Blaise something before he took off with Kamrynn, but he asked me instead.

“How do you know you’re in love?”

Darn it. How was I supposed to know since I was going to ask him the same bloody question? He can’t already be thinking he was in love with Kamrynn. It would be too soon, entirely too soon. A thought went through my head. Was I being hypocritical? Was it too soon for me to be thinking that I was in love with Courtney?

I shrugged. “I dunno, but,” I didn’t know where I was going with it, but I just went, “I think it’s when you can’t get her off your mind, when you’re whole world stops when she smiles at you. I think it’s when she looks you in the eyes for longer than a second. Most of all, I think you know you’re in love when everything you do revolves around her.”

At that moment, my eyes found her. Courtney had just walked in with Kammrynn right behind her. She looked beautiful with her blonde hair down and her blue eyes shimmering. She waved excitedly over at me and flipped her hair when she turned to look at her friend. Weasel then came up to them. I sighed. What I wouldn’t give to be right next to her.

“You sound like you’re talking from experience,” Blaise smirked as I looked back over at my best mate. “Who are you in love with, mate? I mean, I’ve never seen you fall for just any girl. This girl would have to be damn special.”

I shrugged. “Why are you asking? Are you thinking you’re in love?”

He nodded. “I think I might be in love with Kamrynn.”

“A Gryffindor?” I asked, surprised but not in a way. I was basically just playing the part.

“I know it’s crazy, but there’s something about her,” he looked over in their direction. “I catch my breath every moment that I’m with her.”

I nodded. I knew that feeling. I remember the first time that I saw Courtney. She and her family had just moved in the manor next door. She was wearing a bright pink skirt. I was only eight, but I knew that I wanted to be friends with her even before we officially met. I walked right up to her and asked if she wanted to be friends. After that, we were pretty much inseparable. I found myself liking her more and more. She was amazing. I hadn’t felt that way about a girl before, and I didn’t want the butterflies to stop. When we were ten, she told me that she kind of liked a boy that her mum had introduced her to. She didn’t know how she felt, but it was enough that she wanted to tell me about her feelings. I got angry and scared her. She fell out of the tree house right after that because when I scared her, she backed up too far and tripped into the hole. I felt really bad.