Draco and Harry lived on a street with identical houses (neighborhood rule or some shit… but the school system was the best so people for some reason put up with it)
Like so identical that when they started kindergarten and walked back home, they sometimes couldn’t remember which house was who’s
So, not having met yet, Harry walks back one day and instead of going to his house, accedentally walks straight into the Malfoy kitchen and only once he sits down and looks up from his newest comic and sees narcissa’s stunned face does he realize he is in the wrong house
Narcissa asks if he’s dracos friend and he’s all like who? That one kid with the blonde hair? He seems nice
She chuckles but tells him his family might be worried and she needs to check to see where Draco might have gone
First, because Harry had been eyeing the freashly made batch of cookies (and his own mom had promised to make him some anyways that morning), she gives him a glass of milk and a cookie
She likes this kid, he is polite and animated and she can’t help but think what if he became best friends with her son
She takes his hand and walks him over next door, only to be interrupted mid-knock by Lilly opening the door with Draco right behind her
They both stare at their boys and then at each other and begin to laugh
As for Draco and Harry, it’s a little rocky. Neither boy likes that their mom likes the other so much; they should be the favorites
They are forced to hangout so much as the families get to know each other that they will play together if around each other
Then one day on the bus to school
Harry Sees Draco sitting alone with no friends.
He decides to sit beside him, and then decides that he would do everything all over again just to see the look of tentative happiness on the other boys face again
They become best friends pretty quickly after that, finally hanging out after school
After school, sometimes they get lost on the way to their houses again
They still mix it up, but it’s ok because whichever house they choose to wonder into, they are welcomed with hugs and cookies for the both of them
Expect for that one time they accidentally walked into a house that looked only sort of identical owned by a man named Filch Norris. It didn’t help that they happened to be discussing at the time the rumors of his wife getting turned into a cat he now kept as a pet
Once Lilly got a glass wind chime she hung on the portch so the boys could tell which house was which, but after a wild game of catch the orange, it was broken on purpose and quickly hidden away
To this day neither boy will admit to knowing who was at fault, and honestly they both wanted it gone so much they don’t remember who had delt it its final blow (Lilly does, as she had been watching from the window. it had been her own son, probably wanting no excuse for Draco to not follow him wherever he went)
Later, in middle school, they have their first real fight
Harry had been out with friends and Draco had been tagging along, with Harry as always
One of his friends dared Harry to kiss someone in the circle
Draco was scared out of his wits because he didn’t want Harry to kiss anyone else but he knew Harry would never back down from a challenge and there was no way that this could end well
So he lied and told the whole group that Harry had cooties and the last girl who had kissed Harry gagged so hard she never kissed anyone ever again, and was subsequently so embarrassed and horrified to have done that, shut down and ran away
Harry was pissed. He mainly was angry on how Draco had lied to the group and hurt Harry through this, ruining his reputation and acting callous and mean towards him. But he was also pretty bummed because the person he had been considering kissing had been Draco
The fight continued for months. They didn’t talk. They didn’t sit together. They didn’t walk home together. They didn’t go to each others houses anymore.
Lilly and narcissa were devastated. They hated seeing their boys so sad, and hated seeing them without the other
At the end of the year, Harry was having a bad day. He hadn’t slept that night, finishing his essay on changing ocean tides, and he was really missing Draco. His other friends were being little shits at the moment, and he was feeling incredibly lonely. His headphones were on, and his hood was up, and he shuffled his feet into his house without paying attention straight into the kitchen and into a chair, head falling down into his arms.
Until he realized that this chair was much too stiff to be his chair. He jerked up, startled, and looked around frantically only to come to face with narcissas beaming smile and dracos shocked face, mouth open, eyes wide, and a cup of tea spilling from his hand onto the floor
Harry jumped up with a “sorry, sorry, I’m so sorry” as he scrambled backwards, tripping over his feet and flying out the door to run back to his real house, up the stairs and into his room.
The next day, Draco follows him to his house after school, saying nothing
Lilly stares frozen in shock as the two of them slump past her with quiet hellos as they go up to Harry’s room
Harry doesn’t say anything either. He still hates what Draco did, but he would forgive Draco at the slightest hint of apology if it meant he got his friend back again.
They sit next to eachother on Harry’s bed, trainers toed off at the doorway and backpacks thrown by the desk
Draco can barely get out an I’m sorry before Harry is hugging him tightly
They would never admit it out loud but both shared more than a few tears in that embrace
Once again the two of them are inseparable
And Lilly and narcissa plan wedding invitations for when the time comes (because mothers apparently always know)
Their first kiss is in high school, after Harry snapped at a girl asking Draco out, under the tree they had tried to burry the broken wind chime
Their first I love yours were screamed at eachother in pure joy and fear as they ran away from mr norris’ house, having been caught snogging behind his ash tree in the front yard, almost falling moaning on top of his cat
Their vows were exchanged in the backyard of Harry, while the reception was held in draco’s backyard (or had it been the other way around?)
They bought a house a little bit aways from their old neighborhood, and with college/university and jobs they didn’t get a chance to come back much
One day, after a particularly long time away, they both head back to their parents. They look at their two houses side by side, heads tilted and noses scrunched in puzzlement
“Draco, have our houses always been different colors?”
“You know what, Harry, I think they might have been.”
And they lived happily ever after