Potter laughed, suddenly and unexpectedly, the sound echoing through the stone corridor, and Draco was taken aback by how much he liked the sound; he rather expected Potter to sound like a toad when he laughed, yes, a toad, to match his ugly toad-y eyes and his horribly messy hair and his gross, clammy complexion and his disgustingly green eyes - eyes that were, contrary to what everyone else seemed to think, not gorgeously bottle-green, but the kind of green one would expect algae to be, or the ooze covering the toilets in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom - yes, Harry Potter did not have any business in having a laugh that nice. Something warm and fuzzy bubbled up in Draco’s stomach and he frowned, willing it to go away, because he and Potter were nice enough to each other, but he had absolutely no need for warm and fuzzy bubbles.
None.
Potter stopped laughing but his eyes were still wide with something bright and happy. Gross, Draco thought, and he immediately tries to come up with something to make that look go away. He could insult Potter’s hair, perhaps, but it looked pretty much the same as it always did (horridly messy, and he did not want to touch it at all), and he wasn’t wearing anything other than a pair of black pajama pants and a sweater.
“Malfoy?” asked Potter, frowning and waving a hand in front of his face. “Why are you looking at me like that?”
Draco realized that his face had been pulled into a sort of grimace, and he straightened up, shrugging. “Just mad that I have to go find a new spot to be alone in,” he said, extra emphasis on the word alone.
Potter stared at him for a moment, and then leaned down to grab his bag. “It’s okay,” he said, “really. I was just about to leave.” He hoisted the bag over one shoulder and made to walk towards the stairs.
“Wait,” Draco blurted. He hesitated.
Potter waited.
“You don’t have to. Really, you were here first.”
Potter smiled, and bugger, there were the warm and fuzzy bubbles again.