When we arrived at Hogwarts it was like old times again, everybody was excitedly chatting and squealing as we climbed into the carriages. I had looked around for Cedric but there was no sign of him yet. We arrived in front of the school and immediately the atmosphere changed. Snape was stood in front of the doors, surrounded by teachers I had never seen before. Behind them stood all of our old beloved teachers, they all looked heartbroken and I had never seen Professor McGonagall with such a mournful expression. Snape put us into our houses and led us into the great hall where there were no longer any long tables and warm candle lights. Instead there was an empty, gloomy room with a new wall built at the back.
I gripped Draco's hand as I was taken back to that night, the fire, the explosions – everything destroyed. I looked around the hall and noticed lots of students missing, their parents probably too scared to send them back to a school that Snape was ruling over. I panicked for a second in case this is what Cedric's parents had done but relaxed when I recognised the back of his head in the Hufflepuff group, he was looking around too and when his eyes met mine, I felt slightly comforted. He was looking at me with a longing expression and I knew immediately what he was feeling – I wanted nothing more than to just run into his arms and never let go. Snape cleared his throat and I immediately drew my attention to him, Draco was right; I had to be careful this year. Snape explained in his usual mono tone voice what would be happening this year, there were new teachers, new punishments and no longer a house point system. Slytherin was the ruling house. Nobody dared groan or complain when he announced this, but I could tell by their faces that they wanted to, even though this new rule was in favour of me I still wanted to claim that it was unfair. I looked around again and noticed that The Golden Trio were not here, Ginny and her two older brothers were but Ron wasn't. I knew Harry and Hermione would be with him, they went everywhere together, but where could they be? I hoped they hadn't just run away in hope of a better life but I knew that was impossible, Ron wouldn't leave his siblings and as I knew from Draco and Harry's constant battle, Harry did not just walk away from a fight... especially when it was against someone who had caused him so much pain. No, they must have been preparing.
When Snape had finished, we were told to go back to our common rooms straight away but as we were leaving the hall Draco nudged me, "I think someone is waiting for you." I followed his gaze until I was met with Cedric leaning against the wall outside of the stairway to the kitchens. I smiled at him before turning back to Draco, "I'll let you go because I know you'll just find another way if I don't, but I mean it Parisa, be careful." I quickly hugged him and joined the rest of the Hufflepuffs that were walking towards their common room. When I got to Cedric, he grabbed my hand and some students started to stare at us, I could imagine what they were thinking so instead of glaring; I smiled at them. They looked pretty startled but hesitantly smiled back. I did wonder whether them seeing us together meant I was already going against Draco's word but then I remembered how everybody else viewed me. They'd be too scared to say anything... especially after the last day of term. Cedric quickly opened the door to the common room and pulled me into his dorm, immediately locking the door behind him.
"You have no idea how worried I've been about you." He said before quickly pushing his lips into mine and backing me up onto his bed. He led me down and then slowly climbed on top of me without breaking the kiss, I couldn't pull him close enough; even though pretty much every part of me was touching some part of him I still needed more. "I've missed you so much." I said in-between kisses and Cedric groaned, "Me too, are you okay? What happened that night?" He asked and I tried my hardest to form a sentence, however, the way he was leading his kisses down my chest as he opened the buttons on my shirt was making it very difficult to think coherently. "If we're going to talk, we're going to have to stop." I managed to pant out and I felt him smirk against my stomach. "Which would you rather right now?" He asked as he peppered kisses under my belly button, I didn't say anything I just sat up and removed my shirt for him before laying back down and smiling. He chuckled as he got the message and pulled down my skirt.
A few hours later Cedric and I were cuddled back up in his bed, I was back in nothing, but his Oxford-White shirt and he was wearing nothing but his boxer-shorts. "Angel, if you're okay with talking about it, what happened that night?" I gulped, Draco and I had lightly touched on it but not properly. We hadn't really needed too; I knew it still felt like yesterday to both of us. "Well, I found Draco up in The Astronomy Tower and then all of a sudden Harry and Dumbledore appeared. I accidentally made a noise and Dumbledore told Harry to go and Draco and I decided it was our last chance." Cedric tucked a piece of loose hair behind my ear and looked at me intently, "So... you did it? Together?" I shook my head, "Well, we were about to, and I mean half saying the words when Snape told us to stop." Cedric gasped quietly, "Snape killed him?" He asked and I nodded, "You were going to use an Unforgivable curse?" I nodded again, looking down away from his gaze, "I'm so sorry Parisa." He said bringing my head into his chest and I immediately relaxed into him. "It's okay, it's over now, we're together again." He said and I felt a tear slip out and drip from my cheek onto Cedric's chest. He lifted my head up and wiped my eyes with his covers, "I mean it Parisa, this is it now, you and me." He kissed the top of my head and I sighed, "I hope so."
There was a new, earlier curfew so by the time Cedric and I had caught up and everything it was too risky for me to sneak back to my dorm, "What a shame." I said sarcastically as I got back into bed with Cedric and he chuckled, "Fuck being careful Parisa honestly I never want to part from you again." He said pulling me on top of him and I giggled, "I agree but we're not in the same lessons, Anddd, it's for your protection not mine, I'm already in trouble." I said and Cedric frowned, "What do you mean you're already in trouble? Parisa is everything okay?" he asked, and I realised I hadn't told him about what had happened with my father at the manor. "I can't believe I forgot to tell you, basically Snape knows about us Cedric... or knew about us." I said frowning myself, did he still suspect us, or did he think I would be too scared to carry on? "Anyway, he told my father and then he came to The Malfoy Manor and gave me the usual 'he's a blood-traitor that's wrong' lecture." I said rolling my eyes, but Cedric looked worried, "Are you safe?" He asked and I smiled, "I'm sure there's something in store for me but I'm not worried, whatever it is I can only imagine it's only going to involve me and that's all I care about." Cedric shook his head, "Well I'm worried, do you seriously think he'd hurt you?" I didn't really know to be honest; he didn't care about my mother's death, but could that just be an act? How far would he actually go to punish me? "Whatever it is I'm sure I can handle him." I said and Cedric looked unconvinced, "We can handle him, Parisa." He said and I leant down to kiss him. "I love you so much." I said and he kissed me back, "I love you too."
Cedric and I spent the next few weeks sneaking around in his dorm, but I hadn't been able to bring myself to go into The Astronomy Tower yet. The memories were still branded into my mind and I was having vivid nightmares mostly involving Cedric somehow getting hurt and me not being able to help him. Of course, Cedric and I were as happy as ever and even Draco seemed to be getting better now, he was away from home. The only thing that wasn't helping was the fact that Hogwarts was no longer the happiest place to be, everything seemed gloomy, everybody else seemed frightened to even talk outside of their common rooms, and no one had even thrown a start of term party. The new teachers; who I'm pretty sure I recognized as Death Eaters from the manor, were horrible to everybody except the students in Slytherin and Draco and I seemed to have some sort of weird respect from them. The whole situation was very suspicious and what made me even more suspicious was the fact that I had not heard from my father in almost a month.
I mean I wasn't expecting a letter asking me how my return to Hogwarts had been, but I was sure whatever he had planned would have happened by now. However, there was nothing and in fact the day everything did go wrong started off like any other normal day. I woke up in Cedric's arms and he helped me sneak out to get to my first class before he went to his own – something we did most mornings. We hadn't seen each other all day as usual as all of our classes were at different times and I couldn't find him at lunch, I guessed a teacher had held him back after class which would have been a reasonable explanation due to the work load the new teachers were giving us. But now it was 8pm and I had been waiting in the broom closet that we always met in for fifteen minutes and he still hadn't showed – I began to get worried. I double checked the time in the note that he had given me before we parted this morning in case, I had got the time wrong but no it said 7:45pm. I waited for another half an hour before I gave up. There were a million explanations for why he wasn't here, but something just felt... wrong.
I swallowed the lump in my throat and slipped out of the broom closet as I made my way back to the Slytherin common room. "You're back early." Pansy said as I walked into our dorm, "Get stood up?" she asked and I frowned sitting down on my bed, "Yes actually." I said and she came to sit next to me, "You know maybe if you just tell me who you've been sneaking off with, I could sort him out for you, no one stands Parisa Rosier up and doesn't have to face me." She laughed and I smiled, "Nooo, I'm sure he's just busy catching up with work or something, they've been giving us so much recently." I said glancing over at the pile of unfinished papers on my bed-side table. "Not you and Draco, believe it or not you two have it easy for some reason, there is some serious favouritism going on." I looked over at her bed and it dawned on me that she wasn't with Draco... she actually had her books open on her bed. "Look at you studying instead of shagging Draco." I said laughing and she rolled her eyes playfully, "Like I said, some serious favouritism going on – I had to kick him out; I can't deal with another detention." I nodded my head laughing as I went to get ready for bed.
My whole mood had kind of been ruined after tonight, I had seen Cedric just this morning, but I was seriously missing him right now – I just wanted to know where he was and what he was doing... if he was okay... this was so unlike him. He had been so sad when we parted this morning, he said that he couldn't wait for after dinner... so why hadn't he been there? I hadn't made a mistake, I had 100% in the right place at the right time. I got into bed deciding to just sleep on it and find him in the morning, he'd probably be sat in The Great Hall at breakfast, and then take me back to his dorm and tell me why he hadn't made it. He'd probably apologise a million times and then we would just spend the weekend together, why was I worrying so much?
authors note: miss gurl over here finished this story last night its so bloody cute I'm going to post the last eight chapters throughout today and maybe tomorrow (47 chapters in total.) I don't really know what to do with myself now hehe. Thank you all so much for reading! Please VOTE!!!