Chapter 12
Hermione returned and told Harry what Draco had told her. Harry then stood up and walked outside to talk to his soul mate.
Draco stood up as soon as he saw Harry enter the garden.
"Harry."
"Draco." Harry was struggling. He was nervous and didn't know what to say. He sat down in one of the chairs and Draco followed suit.
"I'm sorry." Draco said, looking at the ground.
"For what?"
"For being so mean to you in school. For not being appreciative when you saved my life. For everything." Draco felt tears in his eyes but tried to hold them back.
"I'm sorry too. Although, I think saving your life kind of makes up for everything I'm sorry for." They but chuckled quietly. There was silence for a few moments until Draco turned to look at Harry and Harry did the same.
"How long have you known about this soul mates thing?" Draco asked.
"Hermione and Mrs Weasley were trying to explain it to me that day without telling me it was you a few days ago, because it was the reason Ginny broke up with me the day before." He explained.
"Ah, sorry."
"Not your fault. Its this stupid soul mate thing." Harry was cheering up a bit now, and he thought that it was something to do with the soul mate bond. "How long have you known?"
"I tried to find out about it after the incident in the park, but there's hardly any books about it. Had to go to Hogwarts to find one." Draco had been waiting to ask one question though, but didn't know how to word it. Finally, he took a shot at it. "What are we going to do about this? We hated each other for years, we can just switch to being full time soul mates."
"I think we should start as friends. See where that takes us." Harry suggested.
"Good idea."
"And anyway, I'm going to work at Hogwarts this year as the defence against the dark arts teacher. Could be a bit difficult to be full time soul mates then." All this time speaking, and the boys didn't stop looking into each others eyes.
"Not sure it would be that difficult." Draco smirked. "They asked me to teach potions."
"Interesting." Harry laughed. "Do you want to grab a drink tomorrow evening at the Leaky Cauldron?"
"Sure, why not?" Draco stood. "Best be off now though. Send me an owl with the time."
Harry stuck out his hand and Draco shook it. "Friends?"
"Friends." Draco replied. "But also soul mates, don't forget."
"Oh, I definitely won't forget." And with that, Draco disapparated. Harry smiled, thankful that it went well.