Title: Awkward First Date
Author:
digthewriterPairing: Harry/Draco
Word Count: 300
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: EWE
Created for: Birthday gift for
candamira. JMDC entry II for
enchanted_jae, prompt: "our little secret" and
hp_may_madness daily post for day 10
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters. This is written for fun; no offence is intended.
Notes: So I started this last year for your birthday,
candamira, but somehow never finished it. I found it randomly in my abandoned stories pile and thought to finally write it up for your birthday. I hope you like it. As always for my birthday fics, the first letter of each sentence spells the name: CANDAMIRA.
Coffee was supposed to be simple. A coffee date. They would meet at the cafe and have a cup or two with cake, then be on their way. Then maybe Harry would ask Malfoy out again and they'd go out again.
Anticipating things to go horribly, Harry kept on glancing around and he'd asked Malfoy to repeat himself a few times because he missed what Malfoy had said.
"Not really sure why you asked me out if you weren't going to even pay attention, Potter," Malfoy said, stern but not sounding angry or disappointed. Yet.
"Do you want to get out of here?" Harry asked, almost stumbling. When Malfoy raised an eyebrow, he added, "I just don't like sitting around in one place for a first date and I'm just--"
"Afraid that someone will see?" Malfoy sounded cool and standoffish. "Didn't realise you wanted this date to be our little secret."
Maybe it was in the way he said it, or maybe it was just because it was Malfoy...Harry smiled softly. He shook his head, bit his lower lip, and then looked down at his half-filled coffee cup. He wasn't nervous anymore. One line of pure attitude from Malfoy and Harry remembered why he liked him.
"It's good to know I amuse you, Potter," Malfoy said, and he looked as though he were about to get up. Harry hurriedly placed his hand on Malfoy's wrist, trying to stop him. Malfoy looked down at their joined hands and raised his eyebrow again.
"Romance isn't my forte," Harry said quickly. "I'm just nervous is all. Can you please sit down?"
After a long moment, Malfoy finally sat down again. He nodded curtly at Harry and sipped his coffee. "Maybe we should have started with sex and done coffee later," he said.