Fake It Till You Make It · Y/n story by @gaunt

The library was quiet. The kind of quiet that felt heavy, like it was holding its breath. Dust floated in the slants of late afternoon sun coming through the high windows. The smell of old paper and polished wood filled the air. You were sitting alone at a long table near the back, a Transfiguration textbook open in front of you. You hadn’t turned a page in ten minutes.

Girl 1

whispering, but not quietly enough I’m serious. Tracey told me she heard it from Millicent, who heard it from Pansy herself.

Girl 2

No way. Malfoy? With Y/n? Since when?

Girl 1

Apparently it’s been going on for weeks. Secret meetings and everything. Late at night. Daphne Greengrass is the one who saw them.

Girl 2

But they hate each other.

Girl 1

That’s what makes it so believable. No one would ever suspect it.

Their voices faded as they turned the corner toward the Restricted Section. The silence they left behind felt different. Sharper. You stared at the paragraph you’d been trying to read. The words swam together.

Draco Malfoy

sitting down smoothly, folding his hands on the table We need to talk.