Arranged marriage

Harry was sitting at his usual place in the cafe, waiting for Pansy like every day. He ordered his favorite Chocolate coffee and some cookies.

Pansy and he meet in this cafe almost every day now. He has begun to create a good bond with the girl. At first Harry was afraid he won't go with Pansy's class. But with hanging out with her every day Harry learnt she is not a bad person to be friends with. She of course was not a replacement for his best friend, Ron. But still, she was cool.

Harry smiled thinking about his best friend. They were friends since childhood. Ron and his family was the only thing that happened good to him after his parents died. Ron was like an elder brother to him, and he was protective towards Harry.

They met for first when Ron saved him from getting bullied. Since then he had adopted Harry as his younger brother. 

But five years ago, the Weasley family moved out to another country, for some reason. They wanted Harry to go with them, but the Dursleys were there and like always ruined Harry's source of happiness.

Now Harry talks with Ron by phone call or sometimes they do face time. But, he misses his best friend. A lot. He missed hanging out with him and Mrs Weasley's home made foods. He missed how safe he filled with the Weasleys. He missed his only taste of family. 

His eyes were roaming through the crowded cafe since he tried to leave his mind away from the events of last night.

Suddenly he noticed a red-haired girl who was sitting alone, her hands scrolling through her smartphone. Harry concentrated on the red hair girl's face. The redhead seemed familiar to him. He debated on going and talking to her.

Harry wanted to talk to her but he was feeling too shy and also was doubting how will the girl take it. 

With too much overthinking he took a sip of this coffee, when he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around and found the red-haired girl was actually standing behind him.

"Hello! How can I help you? " He asked, looking at the girl, and mentally cursed himself for saying that. His heart was beating fast, the girl might have thought he was a creep.

"Oh my god, Harry!! That is really you" The girl said in an excited voice. "I never had imagined I'll see you here! "

Harry looked at him confused. " Do I know you? "

"Of course you do. I'm Ginny! " She said in the same excited voice. "Have you forgotten me? Already? In span of five years?"

"Gin! This is you...? " Now Harry remembered the girl. She was Ron's little sister, the same age as Harry's. They used to be in same class, and like Ron she was also Harry's close friend. 

"Yes, it's me, darling. I saw you looking at me. So thought to have some chat. And now I'm finding out it's you. " The girl said taking a seat. 

"You have changed so much! Your hairstyle, your height and... Couldn't recognise you"

"Well, being gay does things to you" the girl laughed "But you're still the same Haz. Shy and short. Like before "

Harry blushed."Shut up. I'm not that short, Anyway, where's Ron. He hasn't told me anything about you guys returning back? "

"It was sudden. My return was not planned. I got a job here and had to return. Tomorrow is going to my joining day. And about Ron, he'll return in few weeks or so. Fred, George, and him, decided to take their business here and start a new one," she informed. 

"Ron is coming back...! " Harry sounded really happy. "I'm so so happy Gin! I miss him everyday."

"He misses you too. We all missed you there actually. To be honest He wanted to surprise you about returning. But... Well, here we are. " Ginny smiled a little guiltily in the last part.

"I can't wait to see him. Please tell him to come back soon!"

At that, the red hair laughed. "By the way, you really did get married? And that too without inviting us? "

At that Harry's smiling face turned into something else. "Gin, that was sudden. My uncles arrenged all these. Everything happened in one month. And so fast, we couldn't invited anyone"

"Why did this happen, this sudden marriage...? "

"Er, Vernon wanted to remove me as their family member as soon as possible. So he just kind of forced me into this" 

"Yes, Ron told me something like that. But, your husband how is he?" Gin asked leaning towards him, with a serious face. "How does he treat you ?"

"He's the best. He treats me good, we are happy together." Harry gave her the brightest smile.

"He better be. I'll meet him someday. And well, Ron has prepared a big elder brother speech for him too. The day they meet Draco is gonna have a bad day."

Harry laughed.

"I think Vernon did his first good job getting you married to that rich man, who takes care of you. No matter what his intention was"

Harry again laughed at that. 

"Harry!! " Pansy's sing song voice was heard from behind, but before saying much more she froze. 

Harry turned around and saw his friend. "Oh Hi, Pansy! " He greeted. 

The girl took a sit in an empty chair by the table, and looked at both Ginny and Harry. 

He introduced both the girl to each other. Then Ginny looked at her watch. "Merlin fuck. It's already late. I have to leave! Bye guys. Would meet you soon. Bye Haz! "

She rushed out of the cafe after giving Harry a short hug and kiss in the cheek and nod at Pansy. Pansy took her place on the table.

"I'm so Gay!" That's the first word she said, after the red hair woman exited the cafe. 

"Oh, she's too" Harry supplied, with a straight face.

"Really! Oh dear God you listened to my prayers," Pansy said dramatically. 

"You already are crushing on her." Harry teased. 

"Ofcourse I'm. Have you seen her! That figure! That face! That charm! I'm so so gay! So very gay! And she's is so beautiful! I can already imagine our future children" Pansy said dreamily.

"Ok ok calm down Pansy."

"But, how will I talk to her again ?" 

"She's my friend, so we're gonna hang out sometimes, you can talk to her then. I'll arrange that for you."

"I can't wait, so text her as soon as you return home asking her to meet you here, and I'd join you too!" She said ""laccidentally" 

Harry laughed but agreed with his friend.

After some time, when Pansy has finished her cold coffee finally, they left the cafe and went to the nearby mall. Pansy had planned it days ahead. They were going to do shopping, Blaise would also join them too. They (Pansy and Blaise only) asked Draco to join in this but the man refused since he has a lot of work and has no time for these stupid things.

As they walked in the mall, they met with Blaise, standing near a store. Pansy and Harry walked towards him. 

"Harry, how are you? Draco didn't give much trouble to you last night? Did he? " Blaise asked. 

"Wait? Trouble? What happened, what Am I missing? " Pansy asked confused.

Blaise looked at her and said. " Draco got very drunk last night. He won't say what happened, why did he drink so much. He could not even walk properly, I had to bring him home. "

"Wait drunk? He stopped going to club since he turned 23!"

"I know! Tomorrow he was so odd! Good thing the club is owned by Malfoy company and the manager called me soon, or else I don't know what would have happened!" Blaise said shaking his head.

"Yes, he was really drunk and out of control but don't worry, I took care of him. " Harry assured them.

They don't need to know that Harry had to hear Draco talking about his boyfriend and his love life all night. And then early in the morning, He was kicked out of the room.

Harry woke up by Draco shaking him violently. He found himself in Draco's bed as soon as his eyes opened.

Adjusting with the unfamiliar environment he looked around to find, his husband, Draco Malfoy, was glaring at him while rubbing his head. He was on his hangover.

"Can't leave the chance to sleep with me? Leave! Now!" Draco said in a venomous voice. 

Harry sighed and walked out to the room to prepare Draco's headache medicine. He knew very well something like this going to happen, when he slept in Draco's bed yesterday. 

After preparing the medicine he returned to the room, Draco took the medicine and told in a voice full of hatred. "Get out of my room. I started my day looking at your face, I don't want it to get more worse."

Harry sighed and turned around to leave again. 

"Stop sighing like a asthma patient you Gold digger, you breathing even annoys me" 

Draco was in the room all day and Harry took care of him, made sure  he was okay.

" Harry! " Pansy patted his shoulder lightly. "You zoned out. "

"Oh... Sorry. " He rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "Just thinking" 

"So, as I was saying, when I Called him, this morning, he seemed he was in bad mood. " Blaise said as the trio walked into the mall. "Whenever he is drunk as hell, he becomes like this,"

"He had locked himself in the room all day. " Harry laughed. "But, Don't worry he'll be fine. "

"Do you know why he was like that?" Pansy asked as the trio walked towards the cloths section.

Harry smiled at her and said. "Draco will tell you, if he wants to share. I should not say that! And he won't like that."

Pansy laughed in response. Then he smirked at Blaise. "I think our Harry is already falling in love with our Draky-Poo, with the way he is caring for him. " 

"Oh yes. You should have seen his concerned face tomorrow!"

Harry blushed at that. "What-I! No!No! I don't ...." 

"Relax Harry we are teasing!" Blaise laughed. 

"Beside he's your husband. It's normal for you to fall in love, with him!" Pansy said. "And I know our Draco is a charmer! And someday he'd love you too. I know that. You are too good... You deserve all the love in this universe "

Oh how I wish. How I want him to love me. But I know, very well Draco would never ever love me. He was a very wrong knowledge about me. About me being a gold digger. I don't know how can I get him out of this misconception. 

Harry shook his head, to clear his mind. He decided to not to think about his sad life and enjoy his day with his friends. 

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Something unexpected happened when he returned home that evening.

Draco had already left for his office after Harry went to the college, and he told the house helpers that he would return late. When Harry entered his room to fresh up that evening he found a piece of paper on his bedside table.

With curiosity he picked that up, and for his utter surprise Draco with his neat handwriting has wrote a note for him. 

"Thank you for looking after me Yesterday. You didn't have to do that. Yet you did. I'm grateful for that. Though I have not shown you that with my attitude this morning. But I really am sorry. I am always like this when I have a bad hangover.

- Draco "

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Draco groaned as woke up with a pounding headache. The curtains were open, strong rays of sunlight was falling on his face. The too much light was too annoying. 

With that he felt his left hand was heavy Some one was sleeping in his arms. Theo? But the boy doesn't like to cuddle cause that's too girly! And more importantly we broke up! 

He looked down opening his eyes with great effort, Draco saw a head with messy black hair, his back was facing him. 

He shooked the boy violently. The black hair man slowly opened his emarald eyes to look at Draco. 

"Can't leave the chance to sleep with me, huh? Leave! Now!" Draco snapped, fueled by anger and confusion.

Harry sighed and left the room promptly. Draco's head was beating furiously. He began to search for hangover medicine in his bedside table but couldn't find it. Frustration over took him again. So, when Harry returned back with the medicine again, instead of being grateful and showing gratitude he lashed out again. 

After two more hours of sleep, Draco woke up with a clearer mind. His brain began to fill with many thoughts. Draco again felt stupid and betrayed for trusting Theodore this much. He scolded himself again. With that he also began to regrate his discussion of drinking this much. 

Then his thoughts shifted to his husband Harry, and remorse filled him. He regretted mistreating Harry this morning, who had only been caring for him.

Feeling guilty he decided to apologise to him. And wrote a short note for him before leaving the house. 

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Draco and Harry's relationship did not change much after that though. From next morning everything was same as before. Both staying in the same house without acknowledging each other's presence. 

Days went by. Harry had not much work in his college as all the have exams just ended. So he was doing lots of thinking about his life. He even decided to go talk with Lucius about all these. To let him go But decided against it.

His Husband Draco was also not ready to listen to Harry. 

So Harry needed to do something. He can't be in a relationship where everything was based on money hatred. Beside Lucius wanted Draco to get married so he won't be in Theodore anymore. Now, since they had already broke up Harry is not needed. 

Now with lots of thinking and self duel, he made himself promise, he would start doing part time job, he would pay back the money to The Malfoys. He would come out of this contract or whatever this was. 

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Lucius and Narcissa were staying in their family country house. After their son got married they have noticed how stained their relationship was. So, to give them privacy and get to know each other the older Malfoy couple left the Manor. Beside they loved the peace there in that house, away from all the busy life. 

Like every other day the older couple was sitting in the garden having there evening tea, when a women, who had been working for Malfoy family for years now, entered. 

"I'm here to give you report about the company progress sir. " The women said, giving Lucius a file. "Mr Malfoy Jr. has started giving importance to the company now. And we are doing lots of progress. Our company's state is improving sir. "

Lucius went through the pages. He has appointed this women to give him all the report for the company. Cause he knew Draco was still distanced from his job. He closed the file looking quite impressed. 

"And I have to inform you something too." The women said hesitantly. "Er, Mr. Potter I mean Mr. Harry Malfoy-Potter had started doing some part time job. The bank informed us, from his account hardly any cash is used. So I did some research and learnt it. I just thought you should know. " 

Narcissa started talking for the first time. "Part time job? Why would he do that? Do you know much more? Please let us know. " 

"I- I don't know if I'm doing any mistakes by informing you this, but you should know. " The women said suddenly looking determined. "Mr. Malfoy Jr. Had been having his affairs with Nott after marriage. They recently broke up. And he still hates Harry. "

Lucius and Narcissa both looked stunned.

They dismissed the women and both sat like a blank face for few minutes. 

"I can't imagine! I can't imagine, Draco! DRACO HAD BEEN CHEATING?" Narcissa said voice rasing. "I DID NOT BROUGHT HIM UP TO BE THIS!" 

She was aware Draco still liked Theo when he got married. She knew it would be hard for Draco to start liking Harry. Heart is a very stupid thing. But cheating? After they vowed in name of God to be faithful to eachother? That is  not acceptable! 

Lucius put a calming hand on her back. "Please come down love." 

"Calm down? Calm down?" If look can kill people Lucius would have been dead by now. "You do know, it's your all fault? You ruined a young man's life, who had nothing to do with us? And Draco? How can he... I should talk to him. And leaving for Manor tomorrow. I have never imagined he would turn out to be this!!" 

The anger in Narcissa's eyes burned like a phoenix plume, but Lucius saw through it, glimpsed the hurt beyond the fury. He squeezed her hands, a silent plea for trust. "Let me handle Draco, love. You focus on Harry. There's something in that part-time job, something he's not telling us. Find out why, he is doing it." He took Her hands in his. " Beside it's me. My decisions brought them here. So this is my job to talk to Draco" 

Narcissa met his gaze, the storm in her eyes flickering. Finally, she nodded, a sliver of understanding breaking through. "Promise me you'll be firm with Draco, Lucius. No coddling, no excuses. He needs to learn he can't just...waltz back to his old life like nothing happened."

Lucius leaned forward, his voice low but resolute. "I should have talked to him when I learnt about his relationship with Nott instead of getting him married. " 

"I told you THAT from the beginning. But you don't bother to listen to it. " Narcissa said coldly. 

Lucius hung her head low. He knew Theodore is not good for Draco. But Draco is y

oung. Stupid in love. As a parent he should have been much mature and talk to Draco, instead of getting him married. 

Lucius did not blame Draco. He was loyal to his love. After all he didn't wanted to get married in the first place.