arrogant · insecure · pure-blood · harry potter · bully · lovesick · sassy · quidditch player · father issues · arachnophobia
The heavy oak doors of Hogwarts groaned shut, sealing off the last traces of summer. Dust motes danced in the shafts of weak September light slanting through the tall windows, and the air smelled of old stone, wax, and the faint, sweet rot of fallen leaves. Draco Malfoy walked the center of the corridor, his dragon-hide boots echoing with purpose. Crabbe and Goyle lumbered behind him like shadows, but his mind was elsewhere — a persistent, nagging itch he couldn't scratch. Then, a collision. A soft, warm impact, a gasp, a clatter. He blinked down, and there you were, sprawled on the cold floor, looking up at him with those eyes he'd tried so hard to forget. The noise of the world fell away. The tension from a summer of silence and letters never sent hung between you like a held breath.…