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cellar.

"Mr. White, it's getting late, you should go back." Snape's voice came from behind the stacked parchments.On the small sofa, Xiu's face was as pale as paper, his round fingertips gripped his palms tightly, and a slight pain spread from his palms to his left chest cavity.

He got up, went to the desk to say goodbye to Snape, and walked out of the cellar.

Even though it is noon now, the basement at the bottom of the lake is a bit gloomy and cold, and the threat of the Snake King makes no one dare to set foot here.

Less than a few dozen steps out of the cellar, Xiu felt extremely uncomfortable. The pain in his chest made it difficult for him to breathe.

No one else will appear here, Xiu slowly squatted down and took deep breaths to relieve the pain of suffocation.

There was heat in his eye sockets, as if he was going to burn him.Xiu propped up his knees and slowly stood up straight, raised his head, and blinked desperately, not daring to let his tear ducts collapse.

He didn't know what he'd done wrong, maybe Snape had finally found his presence an obsession.

He had felt Snape's alienation from him since mid-February.After Snape's birthday, the distance between the two of them, which had managed to get closer, became unreachable again.

He cooks three meals for him, and he no longer gets his hidden raised eyebrows, let alone the occasional compliments that can make him happy for several days, and even a few days ago he proposed that he no longer needs to cook the food himself.He no longer allowed him to stay in the cellar for long after the meal, and even the daily tutoring time has been reduced a lot.

He didn't know what he should do to stay by his side all the time without always worrying about being bored and expelled from this man's life.

It took Xiu half an hour to make himself look not so embarrassed before he dared to leave this place.

Back at Ravenclaw Tower, Hugh locked himself in the bathroom.

What a bad feeling!

Xiu turned on the faucet and splashed water on his face desperately, the splashed water wetted his bangs and the front of his clothes.

It's not like myself anymore.

Xiu turned off the water, vigorously wiped the water droplets off his face, and stared at himself in the mirror with wide eyes.

His face was full of disappointment and depression.

Those calm appearances were mercilessly torn apart, revealing the inferiority and cowardly truth inside.

Live like a lovelorn.

Ah, it hasn't even started yet, where did the talk about broken love come from.

Hugh White, you gotta be strong.

Xiu said to himself.

Didn't you say that as long as you stay by his side, it's fine?At least now you can still look at him, isn't that enough?

Don't be greedy.People who demand too much are more likely to lose. Do you want to lose the qualification to stand behind and watch him?

No.As long as I think that I will never see that black-robed man again, I feel uncomfortable. The place on the left chest seems to be slashed by a blunt knife, and there is no bleeding. The wound is all inside, and it hurts.

very good.Hugh White, that's it, you should be content.

Xiu in the mirror opened the corners of his lips, wanting to laugh, but he was so bitter that he couldn't bear to look at it.

At this time, in the cold cellar, Snape was neither grading the messy homework of those little monsters, nor was he immersed in his beloved potion, but was walking back and forth in the office like a sleepy beast, with a darker expression than usual Much more gloomy.

Merlin's socks!That little guy really has the ability to make him completely lose his mind!

Now that you have a boyfriend like Olande, why do you have to change your way to prepare three meals for yourself every day?Why care about him and take care of him?Why did he show such a hurt expression when he was kicked out of the cellar?

ha!Did he really like being a house-elf?

ridiculous!Snape didn't know when he became so selfless.He had already realized that he had different thoughts about that boy, and he actually drove him out of the cellar time and time again, just to make him and his little boyfriend love each other.

Merlin's damn feet!

Snape patted his hair irritably, and found that his hair, which hadn't been greasy for a long time under the child's supervision, had returned to its previous bad state.

"Professor, you should wash your hair often, it's better for your health."

It seemed that the handwriting of the young man appeared again before his eyes, Snape decided to wash his hair first, take a shower by the way, and clear his head.

Snape was sitting on Xiu's private sofa, holding the obsidian cufflinks he gave him on his birthday.

The half-length hair that hadn't been dried was still dripping wet, but remembering that the boy solemnly forbade him to use the quick-drying spell, he gave up the silent and wandless spell that he was going to cast.

Is that child's tenderness special to him, or is it something else?

Snape thought he might never know the answer.There is already an excellent person with a bright future by Xiu's side, whether Xiu treats him differently or not, that is already the past.

People like him shouldn't have extravagant hopes for so-called happiness.

Harry hurriedly ran back to the Slytherin lounge, almost bumping into a few young wizards who had no time to dodge, shouting "Sorry, let me go, sorry, let me go", but his footsteps became faster and faster.

Harry rushed into his and Draco's room. Draco was flipping through a book on magic theory at the desk, and he was really frightened by Harry who barged in with a flustered expression.

"Harry, what's the matter with you?" Draco asked worriedly, catching Harry who rushed over in time.

Harry grabbed his arm tightly, "Draco, it's Voldemort, it must be him!"

Draco's face changed, and his body trembled slightly.He was not Harry, unable to hear the name without being indifferent.

"What's going on?" he asked, his voice low and filled with suppressed fear.

Harry took a deep breath and said, "Didn't Professor Quirrell ask me to go to the office after school to find him during Defense Against the Dark Arts class today? I went there just now, and when I was at the door, I heard he was talking to someone. Speaking, I felt full of malice. I hid outside the door and saw him not wearing a headscarf, talking to others, but he was the only one in the office. But I heard him say the Philosopher’s Stone, restricted area, three Headdog, and my name. Draco, I heard him call the invisible man, Lord."

Draco's face blushed instantly.

With this title, besides the Dark Lord, who else is there in the entire wizarding world?

"Ha, Harry, are you sure?" Draco's voice was a little shaky.

Harry nodded heavily, "Yes, Draco." Harry was also worried.Not to mention that the Dark Lord is his fateful enemy, the Malfoy family has always been Death Eaters, and now Draco and him are good friends, the Dark Lord will definitely not let the Malfoy family go when he returns.

Draco let go of the hand that had been holding Harry's shoulder, and opened his mouth to say something, but no sound came out.

"Draco..." Harry called Draco worriedly when he saw Draco like this for the first time.

"It's okay." Draco shook his head and forced a smile at Harry, "Harry, don't worry about you. I think my father already thought of this when he promised me to be friends with you. I'll write a Send a letter to ask your father what to do."

Harry nodded, blue eyes still looking at Draco behind his eyes, full of worry and anxiety.

After a long time, the dead silence in the room was broken by Harry, "Draco, will we always be friends?"

Draco turned his head slightly, stretched out his hand to hold him, his eyes became firm.He didn't answer Harry's question directly, but said word by word: "Harry, I will always stand by your side."

They won't be friends forever because he's not content with that relationship.

Draco knew very well that he liked Harry, not simply the love between friends, but the love that longed for him to be his partner.But Harry was naive about it, and he didn't want to freak him out.

As an excellent Slytherin, the heir of the Malfoy family, Draco has enough patience.

They were still young, and he had plenty of time to rule out all the unfavorable factors.Invading Harry's life step by step, and finally completely occupying everything about him, making Harry unable to go anywhere except by his side.