 Chapter 11
Chapter 11
I woke up several hours to the taste of blood in my mouth and a pounding headache. I tightly closed my eyes, squinting them in pain. I looked over to the chair next to my bed I knew who was sitting there before I even met his eyes. He handed me a glass of water and I quickly drank it, more than eager to get the blood taste from my mouth.
“Well don’t you look lovely,” Draco smirked.
“I know I always look horrible…,” I muttered.
“No, usually you look breathtakingly beautiful. But right now, you look like a train wreck,” Draco laughed.
“Thanks for the compliment,” I rolled my eyes. “God I want this all to end…it’s so rough…no one knows how I feel…it’s the farthest thing from easy…”
“Oh yeah. And being there, risking my life to save yours is always so easy,” Draco muttered.
I rolled my eyes. “No one told you to.”
Draco’s face lit up with fire of fury. “What do you mean ‘no one told you to’? I do it because I love you, and no one else seems to care about you!”
“My parents care about me!,” I argued, sounding like a child.
“Oh yeah…and they still attend Hogwarts, and are here to help you not be some damn clumsy and prone to destruction,” Draco spat.
“Who cares what you have to say, Draco! No one cares about you! You said so yourself!,” I yelled.
Draco’s face fell. He looked at me for a moment, hurt etched all over his face. It made me want to cry, to rip my mouth open and eat all the words that had just accidentally come out.
“Wait…I didn’t mean to-“
“I think you did mean to, Déjà. Just like always, you ‘mean’. You…I mean…I can’t…you just…,” Draco said. “I’m leaving.”
“No please! Come back! I need you!,” I cried, tears beginning to fall quickly down my cheeks.
“If you really needed me, you wouldn’t have just said all of that,” Draco said.
And with a swish of his Slytherin cloak, he was gone.
I looked over to the other side of the empty Hospital Wing, curled up into a ball, and cried. I cried so hard, that I fell back asleep. It was amazing how quickly we went from getting along to me wanting to eat my own words. It was amazing how badly I felt for hurting Draco. It was amazing just how quickly I realized that I couldn’t live without him. I was all alone now, an easy target for Durvell.
It was amazing how full of fear I had become in such a short amount of time. |