arrogant · insecure · pure-blood · bully · lovesick · sassy · quidditch player · father issues · arachnophobia
The massive oak doors of Hogwarts ground shut with a final shudder, severing the last threads of summer. Dust spiraled in the thin September light that cut through the high windows, and the air carried the scent of ancient stone, polishing wax, and the faint, damp decay of autumn leaves. Draco Malfoy stalked down the corridor's center, his dragon-hide boots striking the flagstones with sharp, deliberate echoes. Crabbe and Goyle trudged in his wake like dim, hulking echoes, but his focus was elsewhere — a persistent, raw-edged thought he couldn't dislodge. Then, an impact. A soft, warm collision, a sharp inhale, the clatter of falling things. He looked down, and there you were, splayed on the cold floor, gazing up at him with the very eyes he'd spent all summer trying to erase. The world…