Monsters

fifty eight

Maya's POV
It's been a week since Harry and his friends broke out of the manor and we haven't heard anything. Not a letter saying they're all okay, not anything in the daily profit about them. It's getting ridiculous. I don't know why I expected any of them to send anything as it's not safe sending letters anymore. Fucking death eaters read your letters anyway but you'd think that three teenagers escaping the Malfoy manor wouldn't go unnoticed.

I just want to know if they're all okay.. that none of them died. It's not that much to fucking ask.

I've been restless and irritable all week. I've snapped at Draco more times than I can count when all he's trying to do is distract me. I know he's worried about things too. It's his family on the line for allowing Harry Potter to slip through their fingers.

Bellatrix and Narcissa decided to keep Draco and I out of it. As Narcissa put it, "no point in getting you two in trouble too."

Pansy has been sleeping in Blaise's room all week and Draco has stayed with me. I'm glad that he is staying with me but it's hard to be happy when I have no clue what's going on. When we aren't in class or patrolling the halls for the fucking Carrow twins, we lay in bed and read together.

A few days ago I was feeling really anxious about the whole situation and Draco was trying to distract me with reading. He carefully suggested that we take some time to lay down and read and I snapped at him. I didn't mean it but I couldn't hold it in.

"Maybe we should just sit down and read for a bit. We can't keep worrying about things we have no control over..." Draco says as he reaches for the book that's laying on the bedside table.

"I don't want to read, Draco." I snap as I sit down in a chair across the room from him.

"It'll help you get your mind off of everything." He says with a soft smile.

"It won't work." I shout. "I can't stop worrying about it."

"I'm sure they're all okay, love. Just come lay down for a bit."

"For fuck sakes. You aren't listening to me." I yell. "I don't want to fucking read. It won't change anything."

He doesn't say anything after that. He sets the book down and stands up.

"Don't." I say. "Please don't make me feel better."

"Why?" He asks.

"I should have done more to help them." I mumble.

"You- Maya. They have never been there for you and now you're feeling guilty for not putting your life on the line for them..." he leans down in front of me and takes my hand.

"I should have fucking done more." I snap. "I just sat there."

"You did what you could, love."

"It wasn't enough." I whisper. "Now one of them could be seriously hurt or dead."

"I love you, Maya... but are you sure you aren't a hufflepuff?" Draco jokes and I couldn't even hold in the laughter. I push him away playfully and the next thing I know, we were in bed reading and I was calmed down a bit.

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"Good morning." Draco says when he meets us at the Slytherin table for breakfast.

"You seem happy today." I say as he leans down and kisses me.

"Okay gross!" Blaise says. "Some of us are trying to eat!"

"Sorry." I mumble as I pull away and Draco sits beside me.

"I have some news for you." Draco says with a smile.

"For me?" I ask. "What is it?"

He smiles and hands me the daily profit. On the front page there's a picture of a dragon escaping from the bank and three people on the back.

"Three Teenagers break in and release dragon."

I turn my head to Draco who's smirking and then I go back to read the rest of the article.

"Three kids broke in using pollyjuice potion and pretending to be Bellatrix Lestrange. They broke out by riding on the back of the dragon. No one is sure what they wanted or what exactly they took as of right now."

It's them? It has to be them. What other teenagers do we know that causes this much trouble?

"Thank you." I say and pull him into a kiss.

"No, thank you." He says with a smirk.

"What the fuck is happening?" Theo asks as he takes the daily profit and reads it. "Oh."

"What?" Pansy asks as she takes the paper from Theo and reads it.

"You guys were worried about Potter?" Blaise asks as he reads the paper over Pansy's shoulder.

"I wasn't." Draco says. "But Maya was."

"He's my brother..." I mumble.

"No, we get it." Theo assures me. "We just didn't know you were worried."

"She's been in a miserable mood for the past week." Draco whines.

"Oh for fuck sakes. I had to put up with your miserable moods for years." I say and the whole group starts laughing.

"She's not wrong there, Malfoy." Theo says while laughing.

"Whatever." Draco mumbles before throwing some food on his plate.

Now that I know that none of those assholes died after escaping from the manor, I can go back to living my life. The rest of that day went smoothly and I was in a good mood. Draco was especially relieved that I wasn't shouting at him every chance I got. In class, I held his hand under the desk. The carrows don't care what we do because we're death eaters but no one else is allowed to show affection. It's one of their ridiculous rules.

During lunch, I made a picnic for Draco and I down by the river and forced him to sneak out and sit with me. He enjoyed the picnic, mostly because afterwards it turned in us making out until our next class.

"Okay okay, we should go to class." I say, pulling away from him.

"No, let's skip." He mumbles as he pulls me back in for another kiss.

"Draco, we can't skip class." I say as I pull away again.

"Come on, I'm sure we won't miss much." He whines. "I've missed you."

"I've missed you too, trust me." I say as I stand up. "But just because we won't get in trouble for not going to class doesn't mean we should skip."

He grunts and stands up slowly as he says "Fine."

"How about we skip dinner and have a date night tonight." I suggest as we make our way back to the castle.

"A date night?" He asks. "What would we do on this date?"

"Anything you want." I smirk.

"Anything I want?" He repeats and I nod my head. "That sounds like something I'd be interested in."

Good. A date night sounds great right now. I've been a pain in the ass for a week and he's been great and very patient so he deserves a date night. We both could really use it too.