yellow - D.M

Chapter five: why him?

"I hear your voice on the phone
Now I'm no longer alone"
- song: Can I Call You Tonight by Dayglow
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OPHELIA THREW ON A PAIR of run down denim jeans, with a light pink over sized sweatshirt and her converse of course. She left her hair down like normally, grabbed her bag and headed to the library to meet up with Malfoy.

She couldn't decide if she was excited or not, she knew it was just for a school project but she was still happy for some reason.

The project was to research about their zodiac signs and information about them. Then they had to go up the the Astronomy tower when they are done researching and look at their signs constellations. Once they have done that they write an essay about what they saw and other information. Ophelia thought it would be quite easy.

When she walked into the library she saw Draco sitting down at a table for two reading. She smiled to her self and walked over.

"Hey," she told the blond causing him to look up.

"Hello Woodlock." She laughed lightly and pulled the chair next to him out and sat down. Ophelia saw that the book he was reading was about Geminis. She sat her bag down beside her and got out her books, and her notebook. "I already have started reading about the sign in general," he said glancing over at her. "You can start reading about the constellation part of the assignment." Ophelia nodded and opened her book.

The two of them worked in silence, writing down information and reading. Occasionally they would look up at each other at the same time or glance at each other and there faces would heat up.

"Can we take a break, my head is hurting from all this reading" Malfoy complained to the girl sitting to his right. She chuckled and nodded "So, why couldn't you hang out yesterday?" He questioned her.

"I thought I told you, I already had plans." She says pushing up her glasses that had moved to the tip of her nose.

"What did you do?" Draco was clearly trying to make conversation with the Hufflepuff.

"Nothing interesting," she lied "What's you're favorite color?" She asked trying to change the subject. He laughed at her sudden change of topic.

"Probably dark green or black, what about you?" She tilted her head thinking about the answer.

"Yellow. And not because I'm a Hufflepuff, I just really like that color."

"Of course yellow would be your favorite color," he snickered.

Ophelia scoffed "What's that suppose to mean?" she asked, trying to ignore the urge to smile.

"You just seem like the type of person to have like an unhealthy obsession with that color."

She laughed and rolled her eyes "I do not have an obsession." She scoffed "It's a pretty color, I don't understand why some people don't like it."

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They both completely lost track of time, and continued to talk about random things.

"What's it like having glasses?" Draco asked making the girl laugh probably for the thousandth time.

"Here." she took off her glasses and placed them on Malfoy

"Merlin, how do you see in these things, everything's blurry." He took off the glasses before giving them back he just looked at Ophelia "You look different when you dont wear them." Ophelia felt her face become red.

"That's because I always have them on," she grabbed them from his hands and placed them back on "You're just used to me seeing me wear them."

The pair continued to make conversation with one another. Even though they didn't want to admit it, they enjoyed each other's company.

"You know Ophelia," he says making the girl blush from him calling her by her first name "You're pretty okay." She laughed at his comment and gathered her stuff together like he was.

"You're okay too Malfoy." They both stood up from their chairs.

"We should do this again," he says anxiously gripping on the strap of his bag "Well I mean just hang out instead of also working on a project." She smiled looking up at him, he was at least a few inches taller than her.

"I would like that Draco. I'll see you later." She says turning on the heels of her foot to walk away, while Malfoy felt some type of confidence rush through his body.

"Wait, I'll uh walk you to your common room." He says catching up to her, he felt a light blush come onto his neck.

"Uh okay" Ophelia looked over at him and a smile tugged on her lips.

They walked in comfortable silence yet both of them couldn't wipe away the smile that was on there faces, why it was there in the first place they weren't sure.

"Well thanks" she says turning to Draco as they reached the entrance of the Hufflepuff common room.

"It's no big deal," he says with s shoulder shrug "See you later, four eyes." And with that he turned around leaving Ophelia standing there with a huge grin.
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As Ophelia laid down in her bed that night she couldn't get Draco out of her head. That's when she realized why.

'why him? Out of all people I have a Crush on Draco Malfoy.' She said to her self cringing at the thought.

Ophelia knew that Malfoy would probably never like her back and beside Pansy Parkinson and him have been a thing since year three.

     Yet she couldn't help remembering the smile on his face earlier, an actual real smile. She had never seen him smile like that before and she couldn't help but wonder why.

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ok lmao idk why im saying this but ophelia 100% listens to sweater weather if you know what i mean-