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drao restrained himself fr his eyes. he had a feeling she would keep pestering him u a g his forward to take the straw between his lips. huh. it wasn’t so bad. not bad at all, atually. his expression must have given him away, si him.
“see,” she said. drao almost smiled before the door opened aed over to the person who had just stepped in. nritted his teeth, berating himself f so foolish. this was not good. he was a grown man. a suessful, aomplished grown man. so how ome harry bloody potter made him feel like a little boy whose andy had just been taken away from him? this was so not good.
“i’ll get the round,” he ann from his seat.
“i’ll join you,” luna said.
&, drao thought. appareering was about to ohey made their way tether with drao only gning at the door one.
“are you afraid someone you don’t like will show up?” luna asked. drao blinked, feeling aught but also uo a. “it’s okay,” she ontinued. “you doo like everyone, you know.”
drao surentioender. while the bloke reparing their drinks, drao peered over at luna, who was smiling at him. this girl was very hard to figure out. he dido like everyone? nobody here liked him. exept for bise and pansy. and on some days, he washey really did.
&hing iing about you the other day,” luna said. drao froze. uh-oh. this ouldn’t be good. “a frie a non-profit anisation here in london.” uh-oh! “i think you know her. her aey. she said—”
& have oh somebody else,” drao said hastily.
luna oked her head. “i…didn’t even say she saw you.”
“oh.” damn it!
luo him and dropped her voie. “do you not wao know?” she asked. drao stayed silent, pressing his lips together. “that’s okay,” she said. “but i really like what y. i think that’s a very good way to redeem yourself.”
drao made a hoking sound. was this girl for real? she dido mean it in a sarasti way.
“is something wrong?” she asked.
before he ould stop himself, drao ughed. “no, nothing’s wrong.” he drummed his fihe bar as he wathed luna py with a strand of her hair. “why are you here?” he asked after a while.
“going out with friends is nie,” she shrugged. “i never—”
“errupted her. “i mean, why did you ome with me?”
“oh, i thought you might like some ompany,” she said and smiled agaihing about her smile made drao was too geoo sweet, too uanding. “you looked kind of sad.”
“sad?” dra an eyebroould she think that? “i’m not—”
his eyes involuntarily flikered over to the door, whih had just been opened agai in his throat as everything around him suddeo be happening in slow motion. potter was smiliing up as he aught sight of his friends. he raked his fihrough his hair, rih snow. drao’s eyes widened. his heeks were red from the old, and he was ed in a thik bk wool oat that made him look far more sophistiated than drao knew he was.
drao’s eyes followed his every move as he squeezed weasley’s shoulder ao greet the rest of the group. thank merlin drao was uro luna, who had a urious look on her fae.
&o go to the loo,” drao announed and hurried away. he aught sight of himself in the mirror, his refleti bak at him, flushed and a little startled. he should go home now. nothing good would ome out of going bak to that table. he’d o himself. no, his mier would be t him. all of this otter’s fault. that bastard! how dare he!
drao’s eyes narrowed as he willed his heeks to pale agai give potter that muh power. he would go out there and prove he ould stand up to him. maybe he’d even fi that great at all. beause, really, he was an annoying prat, with his annoying hair, his annoying eyes, his annoying voie, his annoying dimples, his annoying—ugh!
drao squared his shoulders as he walked bak to the table. graelling a story, it appeared.
“potter,” drao said, f his voie to sound low. a few heads turned, inluding potter’s. he was looking at drao as if he had been waiting to see him. momentarily taken abak, drao leared his throat before he spoke again. “you’re i,” he said ftly.
“oh,” potter replied, eloquently, maki up. he looked around, took out his wand a asped as he was suddenly knoked off his feet, only to fiing in a hair, wedged betotter. “there you go,” the prat said, griurention bak ter.
what the fuk! hoosed to at dighis was ut up with?
&ially reahed for his wiopped whehere were two drinks in front of him.
“i ordered you one as well,” luna said, pointing at the purple drink. “but i didn’t wahe wied to sowl a little more. you seem to like doing that.”
baffled, drao looked at the dri lu tell if she was making fun of him. she tss a.
“cheers,” she said, smiling at him. slowly, drao mimiked her pose, finally linking their gsses together. he peeked sideways as he drank, wrinkling his ed the beer in front of potter. the prat really had no taste. figures.
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