Black And Green

Thirty One

E m i l y

I was outside of my dorm room, when I heard a voice calling me.

"Hey, Emily!", I turned around and saw Draco breathless.

"Jeez, you walk fast" he said out of breath bending to rest.

"It's been a while since we last talked" he said normally now.

"Yes it has. How are you?"

We haven't spoke with each other about more than a week. Not for a specific reason, I had to study for a hard test and Draco, well I don't know exactly.

"Good and you?" he asked simple.

"Good" I nodded slowly and my dorm room opened.

Harry, Hermione and Ron were coming out and froze when they saw me with Draco. Harry's expression was blank staring at Draco and if Hermione didn't push him to move I believe he would stay there the whole time.

"What's the matter with you, Potter?" Draco asked and I felt my heart beating fast.

"Draco, don't" I said tensed  grabbing his elbow to not move.

"Let's go" I whispered and dragged him going to the other side.

We were at the yard, outside now.

"You can't just ignore the way they treat you" he said and I rolled my eyes.

"I don't ignore, I just don't care anymore" I explained and he nodded not believing me.

"Yeah, whatever you say. Tonight, will we meet?" he asked and my heart stopped for a second, I couldn't wait for more of our nights together.

"Yes, what time?" I asked.

"At 10, but I want you to meet me at the bathroom of the 5th floor" he said and I raised my eyebrow.

"What do you have in mind?" I asked smiling and he smirked.

"It's a surprise" he whispered before turning around to leave.

[..]

It was lunch time and at the Gryffindor table I have changed my seat, sitting next to the twins and next to me there were younger students I didn't know.

I was eating alone the last few days but it didn't bother me that much.

"Emily" I felt Draco tapping my shoulder and I turned around surprised.

"Can you come to tell you something? I don't want to sit on this table" he said pointing at the empty seat next to me disgusted.

"Yeah, sure", I stood up snd went a little further, "what is it?".

"I noticed that you are alone and uhm do you want to come sit with us? At our table I mean" he said and I looked at the Slytherins behind him.

"I know it's stupid" he said but I shook my head.

"No, actually that was - Uhm yeah I will come" I answered quickly.

"Let me grabbed my bag" I said and tended to take it and my plate with food too.

"No, let me" he said and took my plate in his hands. I looked at him smiling a little and we started walking to his table.

I glanced back at the Gryffindor table, all of them were staring at me making me feel embarrassed. But when I saw Draco all these bad feelings left and I was okay.

Draco sat down and I did the same next to him. I felt Slytherins eyes on me.

"This is Emily, Emily Black. She will eat with us for now on" Draco said and I smiled a little looking at them.

"Hi" I said shy and everyone smiled at me except for Pansy.

"Emily, I am Mary. I really like your hair" a girl across me to the left said and I smiled.

"Thank you, nice to meet you" I said and I felt relaxed and comfortable around them.

I started chatting with the girls and time passed very quickly, it was time to leave from the Great Hall.

"I will see you tonight" I said to Draco and he nodded.

He waved at me keep talking with Zabini and I left for my dorm room.

When I entered in, everyone was gathered at the common room but when they saw me they stopped their conversation. I locked eyes with Harry and I walked away to go to my room when I heard his voice.

"Wait" he said and I stopped my steps, looking at him.

"I know what you are going to ask. Why I sat with them" I said and went down again.

"The truth is that they made me feel like I was okay and that it was okay to change table because of the way you make me feel" I continued and I saw Oliver looking the other way.

"How do we treat you exactly?" Ron asked ironically and I felt the anger growing inside of me.

"Like everything is my fault! I took all the blame about everything even when I was hurt but none of you understood anything. Because the only thing that you care about is yourself" I pointed at them.

"And how do you know that he doesn't use you?!" Harry asked coming towards me.

"Because he is not. He never spoke to me like you, or treat me. I don't even have to excuse him. And if you excuse me, I am going up stairs" I hissed and turned around running the steps.

I slammed the door behind me and fell on my bed, covering my head in my pillow. I was so tired of all these, it became a routine. Me arguing with them about everything and then we start talking less and less. But this time, it will be no communication between us.

[...]

After sneaking out of my dorm room I ran on my toes to get at the bathroom of the 5th floor.

"Jeez Emily, you want me to buy you a watch?" he said when I entered in being sarcastic.

"Wow, great way of you flexing your money Draco" I rolled my eyes and he raised his eyebrow.

"Trust me, I've got plenty of ways to do that" he said and we started walking at the aisles.

"Where are we going?" I asked and he shook his shoulders.

"I don't know exactly. I just wanted to do something, different than what we usually do" he said and I nodded. I was okay with that, it doesn't bother me at all. Maybe we will learn things about each other that we wouldn't at the astronomy tower.

After fifteen minutes of walking around and making fun of Flinch, I stopped walking for a moment.

"Do you have anything on mind of what we should do?" I asked and he shook his head.

"Not yet, we will just walk around until we find something" he said and before I could say anything, I heard a loud noise next to me on the big empty wall.

I got behind Draco scared, pinning my nails into his skin which didn't bother him I think.

Suddenly, a door came out smoothly of the wall and Draco let his breath out.

"Is that...?" I asked confused and let him go, standing next to him.

"Yes. This is the Room of Requirement" he answered and I wide opened my eyes amazed. We really found it.