𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚜 & 𝙻𝚒𝚎𝚜 ||𝙳.𝙼 𝙵𝚊𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚌||

Chapter 55 - The Gryffindor v/s Slytherin Match

It was midnight, when I was sleeping and I heard the door open. It was Draco.

"What are you doing here?" I said angrily, yet careful not to wake Madam Pomfrey.

"How are you?" he asked sadly as he stood at the foot of my bed.

"You don't get to ask me that, Malfoy" I said tearing my eyes off of him and looking out the window.

"I wanted to apologize-" he said and I cut him off.

"No, your apologies mean nothing to me" I said looking at him.

"How could you write all that? How can you be so mean? Just because you have all the money in the world, doesn't mean that everyone has that privilege. You knew well that how much the Weasley family means to me, how Fred, George and Ron are my brothers, how Mr. and Mrs. Weasley took care of me as if I was their own" I said tears flowing down my cheeks.

"I thought you changed, after last night. And you knew that this was gonna happen, that's why you were stuttering last night when I talked about the game." I said and he was silent.

"I'm not crying because of you. You're not worth it. I'm crying because of my delusion of who you were, I thought that you were good, that you would never hurt me, never. But I was wrong" I said as Fred and George walked into the wing.

"So, I guess it is, 'Like father, like son'" I said wiping my tears.

I knew those words would hurt him. Comparing him to his father was the greatest insult he would ever get.

"I'm trying to be a better person. You make me a better person" he said coming closer to me.

"A better person?" I asked and scoffed, "Then maybe I didn't do my job correctly"

"Please trust me" he said sadly.

"Trust you? You really think that I should trust you? After all you did? Tell me, where will that get me?"

"I-" he said and I shook my head and quickly said, "Leave"

"But, I-" he said and now Fred and George cut him off.

"She said leave, Malfoy"

He looked at me, while I stared into oblivion. He left and I started crying, Fred hugged me and said, "Love, please, he's not worth it"

A few days went by and I was free to go. But I would only leave my dorm for classes and nothing else. I avoided Draco as much as I could by avoiding meals altogether.

I wasn't speaking to anyone, not a single word. I would wake up in the morning, go to classes and come back. That's it.

Hermione and Ginny tried their best, but I didn't say a word. Draco tried to talk to me, he would leave notes for me, he even tried it with Hermione and Harry. But I didn't budge.

My dear darling,

My very heart is bowing in shame for what I did.

Please forgive me.

~ DM

My dear darling,

I know I haven't been the partner that you deserve.

But you should know that I am trying.

Please forgive me.

~ DM

My dear darling,

I cannot undo what I did.

Believe me when I say that I try.