His Dark Princess

Chapter 37

The next day I woke up really excited to start school. Draco wanted to walk to class together, we were going to potion class with Slughorn. "What did they say to you?" I turned around confused looking at Draco, "Ron and Ginny." I turned back around, "they just asked if we're together and I said that we're just friends and how they have to accept that." I said as we entered class, I noticed he's smiling like an idiot. I was talking to Astoria when Ron and Harry entered class, I smiled at them but none of them smiled back, I looked at the floor when I noticed someone standing next to me, I looked up and I saw that it was Hermonie. "They aren't really happy about the whole Malfoy thing." She said, giving me a side hug, "thanks! And how about you? How do you feel?" I asked looking straight into her eyes to make sure she was saying the truth. "Well at first I was with them but then I realized you have always been there for me with the whole Ron thing. You're like a sister to me and I will always be here for you even if I don't agree with some things." As I said that I noticed some hands around my waist and I turned around to see Elio. I pushed him away but he kept coming closer to me and he tried touching me, I couldn't get him away from me, he was really strong and was holding me really tight. "Bloody hell Elio! Let me go, you're hurting me." I said but he wouldn't listen. "Leave her alone!" I heard Ron say but Elio wouldn't listen, I saw that Draco noticed Elio was touching me and he approached us. "Didn't you hear, you filthy mudblood. Leave her alone before I break your nose!" he said, pushing Elio away, I thought they were about to fight him but Snape came in and stopped before anything happened. "Are you okay?" Draco said, pulling me into a hug and I nodded, I didn't even know why he came at me if he and Elvira were still together. We haven't talked at all but I knew they were still together and I don't know If this was a prank or not but yet I was happy Ron and Draco were there. As we pulled back, I noticed everyone was looking at me, "What are y'all looking at!" I said rolling my eyes at them. "Athena!" Ron called for me, I walked up to him and he gave me a hug. "Ron, I'm fine." I said and pulled away, "why did Elio do that?" "Ron! It's fine, he probably was just trying to say hi or something" I said, giving him a warm smile. "Everyone, gather up." Snape said gathering the class proceeded, the whole time I was with Hermonie and I was staying away from Elio, he was looking at me the whole class period but I decided to ignore him and continue with class.

Class had ended and as I was leaving I heard people whispering about what happened in potion class, I was just getting out of class and people already knew what had happened, I was already the talk of school! "What the heck Athena! I trusted you, how could you! I thought we were friends!" I was stopped by Elvira, "Are you really blaming this on me?" she reached out for my arm and held it tight, "you will stay away from my boyfriend!" I pulled away from her and I decided to put her in her place."You will never touch me like that and tell your little pathetic boyfriend to never touch me and maybe you should talk with him because i think he has a little staring problem!" I was about to walk away but she said something that just made my blood boil! "Of course Athena, there you go playing the victim like ALWAYS! You're just the typical school slut!" I turned around and slapped her right across her face, "I will ruin you Elvira. You don't even know the HALF of the power I have!" I pushed her and she fell on the ground, I was about to jump on her but got pulled away by Harry and Ron. "Bloody hell!" said Ron trying to stop me, "What are you doing!?" I pushed them both away, "She came at me! She said I was playing the victim and that I was the typical school slut and basically that I was the one who wanted Elio to touch me!" I said trying to hold my tears but I failed, I started to cry and Ron hugged me. I started to panic because I couldn't breathe, "Athena! Breath!" I tried to but I couldn't, I couldn't feel anything. "Go get Malfoy." Ron told Harry, as Harry left I heard people saying things and they were surrounding me. "I swear she's crazy." "She needs help." "Get away!" I heard Ron tell the people who were standing and looking at me, I looked up and saw Harry was with Draco walking our way, Ron pulled away and Draco ran up to me and started to whisper things in my ear, rub my back and hug me tightly. I finally controlled my breathing and I was feeling so much better, this usually never happened to me, unless something really stresses me out or I can't take something anymore. I guess losing my first and only true, or I thought, friend was stressful. "Thanks." I heard Ron tell Draco as he helped me get up and Draco took me back to my room, as we sat down in my bed, I wanted to talk to him about it. "It wasn't that Elvira called me a slut but saying that I touched Elio and she had the audacity to come and say I'm playing the victim!" Draco got up and started to throw things and talk about killing Elio. "Draco please no." I started to panic again and he had noticed because he rushed to my side and started to rub my back, "look at me." He took my chin and made me look at him, straight into his eyes. He stayed with me all day and didn't leave my side all night.

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