[this chapter relieved some of my nerves🥲.]
"Forget your shoes again, sweetheart?"
Rose was drunk off her ass.
She hasn't gone back to sleep ever since she had that one nightmare.
Is it even a surprise?
She was running late again, and this time she didn't really care. She didn't care because this time- it was bad. She was in a giggly mood- but on the inside she wanted to carve her skin out and let it replace itself. And last night that was the only question that went through her mind.
Would that be enough to get his touch off of me?
She wasn't talking about Draco, because whenever she was with him her skin never burned and it always felt like it being taken care instead of violated. That's why she felt so safe with him.
She would always feel safe with Draco.
She was slipping on her skirt and her blouse, only this time it was a white blouse that Draco wore. And it was huge on her, but she still tucked it in and wore it like it was hers, but the main reason she did it was because of the comfort that the scent brought to her.
She already had makeup on- due to waking up and couldn't fall back asleep. Rose had done her makeup at 5 in the morning, and that included just mascara and eyeliner with a pink lip tint for her plump lips.
When she walked out of her dorm, she was silently walking through the hallways and when she looked down-
Damnit!
She internally cursed herself for forgetting where her shoes were again, and she didn't even care to turn back before continuing on her path to the astronomy classroom.
But the only thing that was stuck on her mind was her wrists.
After she had drank the water that she didn't put on her nightstand, her fresh cuts had gone away. They had been covered with new tissue and now you could barely tell anything was there. It brought relief and confusion to her.
Who put that water on her nightstand?
She didn't know. But what she did know was that she was glad her wrists didn't burn anymore.
The walls were all type of colors in her vision, and when she finally reached astronomy class, surprisingly she was the few people in there.
I thought it was 9:27?
When she glanced and clock it was only 9:10. Which meant that she was 10 minutes early to class and the only people who were in there was Mr. Zabini, Mr. Nott and like 2 students.
But when Blaise and Theo took one glance at the smiling Rose, they instantly knew she was out of it.
"Good morning Ms. Cullens," Blaise beamed and she smiled up at him. "Forget your shoes again, sweetheart?"
For some odd reason the name that Blaise gave her made her feel comforted, and she was nodding her head letting him release a breathless chuckle.
"So, I was thinking that you should seduce Dee." Theo blurted and they were all three busting out laughing. "He's miserable. He mopes 24/7 and it's killing me!" He shoved some more of his jellybeans in his mouth and without thinking he handed some to Rose. "Want some?"
"Yes," she responded quickly, and she was picking the green jellybeans out and plopping them in there mouth.
By the time class was getting start, Mr. Malfoy walked in and his eyes instantly flew to her eating jellybeans. Only this time she was seated on top of her desk, and she was upside down.
He released a deep sigh, and walked to the front of the class. He noticed how she was wearing the blouse he wore once, and it made his heart do a flip at the feeling it gave him. A heart warming feeling, that she stills wears his clothes and last night when he heard sob in pain from a nightmare he was silently walking in there, setting a glass of water down on her nightstand but the only difference was that he put a potion in there too, to heal her.
Because he saw the razors on her nightstand.
And it made his heart twist in pain.
But when they all turned there head to the entrance to where someone else had walked in, Rose felt herself completely crumble.
She was crumbling more than she ever had.
Flynn.
Was walking in here like he owned the place- but Draco was about to kill him. As soon as Draco saw the look on Roses face, was enough for him to whirl around and watch Flynn walk to his desk. And this only pissed him off even more.
"Get. The fuck out of my school." Draco spat, his tone was deadly and when Flynn connected his eyes to Draco something flickered in him.
"Just becaus-."
"I DIDN'T ASK FOR YOU TO SPEAK!" Draco shouted and that made Rose flinch at how harsh his tone was. "If you don't get your sorry ass out of this classroom right now, I'll drag you out of here myself."
"You wouldn't dare touch a studen-."
That was it for Draco.
He was storming towards him, and grabbing him by the front of his collar, ripping him out of his seat. Flynn was letting out a shriek, but Draco didn't care. The thought of him even being in Roses presence was enough for him to bow grip onto his throat, not wanting to let go.
And Flynn was gasping for air, but Draco carried him through the classroom by the neck, not caring about any of the other students. Because he had violated Rose more than once and if there wasn't a whole class in front of them then he would be dead. He couldn't stand the image of his hands on her, not when she didn't give him her consent to do anything to her body.
And yet, he still did.
And it infuriated Draco even more that he was holding onto his neck tighter and when they reached the door, he physically tossed him out, and slammed the door in his face.
And then he looked right at Rose.
"Get up." He demanded, and she didn't want to defy his angered tone, so she obliged, getting out of her seat and handing the remaining of jellybeans that she had back to Theo and he was smiling at her with an apologetic look.
So she followed Mr. Malfoy outside of the classroom, and as soon as they were out there he spotted Flynn, turning a corner and at this point, Draco didn't care that him and Rose weren't on speaking terms, he turned around and was picking her up in his arms, holding her trying to keep her safe.
And she was now stone cold sober.
She certainly didn't object, her body was almost going into a panic attack until Dracos arms wrapped around her. She was melting into his touch, and when he carried her through the hallways all they both could think about was how much they missed eachothers touch.
Draco was trying so hard to not completely press his body against hers, because he didn't want to push her and Rose didn't think he'd ever understand that he would never cross the line when it came to touching her.
With his words- he already crossed that line.
But it was different with touch.
When he finally got to her dorm, he opened it and once he smelt her natural lavender scent he nearly held back on delving into her sheets and cuddling her until his arms gave out. But instead, he just sat her on the bed gently, his chest still heaving out of anger and when he pulled out a bag of jellybeans- green jellybeans- he handed it to her.
And no matter how small he thought the gesture was, it was everything to Rose.
"Stay here. I'm putting a lock on your door, don't try to leave until I get back." And he was walking out the door.
He gave her the jellybeans to get her to eat.