Seeing the smile immediately fall away from Harry’s face made Draco’s stomach drop as well, knowing that was he was about to do wasn’t going to make it easier, but Merlin how he wished that he wouldn’t have to. He wanted to tell Harry that he had been kidding or even just come up with some nonsense he could possibly want to talk about.<br/>However, they both knew that this couldn’t keep going, Draco could see it on Harry’s face that he knew as well, so there really was no way around it.<br/>“We can’t keep doing this,” he found himself saying, woefully unprepared on what to actually say to Harry.<br/>It wasn’t a breakup, they didn’t have enough of an established relationship for that, but Draco still felt like he was being torn apart by what he knew he had to do.<br/>“Look,” he started, feeling like he had to explain himself somehow, because he enjoyed spending time together with Harry so much that he wasn’t sure how to go without him. Looking at him made all those thoughts muddle together in his head, unsure where one starter and the other ended.<br/>It was hell.<br/>“I like you, I like this,” he explained, unsure what to actually say that would make this easier to explain.<br/>“And I appreciate what you have done for me,” he continued, “but people at the ministry are looking for any reason to throw me right back out and I can’t afford to give them such an obvious one.”