I Can And I Will

SEVEN|BROKEN BOY

I re-wrote the ending of this chapter the beginning is the same if you have already read it :)

I pace around my room staring at the clock every two seconds, hoping the next time I meet eyes with its ticking hands it will be locked on 11, no doubt he's hearing my footsteps and laughing right now. 

I look out to the dying sun as its embers spark and spread to fill the dark sky with its children. When I was young I asked a lot of questions, it seems that has not changed, when I would ask my Grandmother about my mother she would tell me, 'If you ever want to find her look to the sky cause it is there that she lays protecting me from the darkness of the night.' Of course, my response was always,' What about when it's the day?' She would smile at me, the smile that warmed me inside and say, 'The stars are still there we just can't see them.'  When I was younger I believed it. Before I went to bed I would talk to the stars just like I would talk to my own mother if she were here, but as I grew I learnt that stars were nothing but celestial bodies made mostly of hydrogen and helium that produce light and heat from the churning nuclear forges inside their cores, my mother wasn't there she was gone I was talking to the wind that carried my words to a foreign land and there they die along with the memory of her. 

The clock hits 10.30, and as seconds go by I'm getting closer to seeing him again, don't get me wrong I still want to kill him but I don't think I have the heart to hurt someone so beautiful. 

I walk to the bathroom, it's so clean now that Danica's makeup isn't scattered around any flat surface it could sit on, the marble countertop is cold beneath my fingers. I splash my face with water leaving my long eyelashes dripping and cheeks pale from the cold shock.

 I walk to my dresser and open a drawer, pulling out a pair of baggy grey sweatpants and a Slytherin sweater that is a bit too big for me and I let my curls fall effortlessly down my shoulders. 

I waited till I heard his door creak open and slam behind him, his footsteps disappearing as he gets further down the stairs I find myself with a growing smile. I waited a few moments before the clock struck 11 and swung my door open, before taking a deep breath and then making my way to the Astronomy Tower. 

I walk the hallowed halls trying my hardest to avoid any still woken Professors or worse Mr Filch, I'm almost free I see the door to the tower right ahead of me. 

"Elora." I heard a voice say faintly, I look around and I don't see anyone I must be going mad, "You shouldn't be out at night." Harry appears as he pulls himself from an invisible cloak. 

"Ho-How did you-" I say with a shaky voice.

"Cloak of Invisibility." He started looking around hesitantly, "You need to get back to the common room, it isn't safe out at night." 

"What could be so unsafe." I ask lowering my voice, "I'm sure a few points from Slytherin won't affect me that much." 

"No, there's other things, dangerous things that I can't even begin to explain." 

"Alright, I'll go back now I just needed some air." I lied. 

"Fine, Goodnight El." He says draping the cloak over his shoulders making half his body disappear under it. 

"Goodnight Harry." He walks away his head bobbing as there is nothing that seems to be attached before meeting at a hallway on his left, pulling up the other half over his head. 

I walk to the tower's door cautiously and once close I turn the handle and enter locking the latch causing an echo throughout the stairwell, I walk up the steps my hand cold from the railing. I'm met with another door and behind it is Draco, that obnoxious, self-absorbed, anger issued blue-eyed boy. I swing it open and instantly am hit with his cologne and cold wind trailing through my hair.