Forbidden touch

~Saturday at 2~

Knightly,

I'm very glad you and Draco talked and he understands. I would love to meet you this weekend! How does Saturday at 2 sound? We could go into London and have coffee. Meet me in Hogsmeade and we can apparate from there together.

                                                                                  Love,

                                                                                                                  Narcissa

I read the letter while Draco, Pansy, Luna and Blaise all talk around me. My stomach fills with nervous butterflies on the thought of seeing Narcissa in two days.

Suddenly I feel as though I can't eat anymore so I push my plate away and read the letter over for the third time.

"Okay, seriously Knightly what is so important on the piece of parchment?" Blaise asks, reaching over to grab the letter but I move away before he can grab it.

Blaise still doesn't know about Narcissa and I. He just thinks Draco caught me cheating on him with some random girl.

"Back off Blaise." I roll my eyes and he takes his hand back.

"Bloody hell K, what is your problem?" He asks with a strong attitude.

"Nothing. Just don't touch my things." I look at him in the eyes.

"Damn okay." Blaise looks back down to his plate and I roll my eyes once more.

Once breakfast is over I rush out of the great hall, feeling more nervous than I was before.

"Hey." I feel a hand grab my arm and pull me aside. "What's going on. Are you okay?" I look to see Pansy with worry in her eyes.

"The letter was from Narcissa. We're going to see each other on saturday and I just got really nervous. I've been avoiding her letters and I haven't seen her in a couple months. I'm just so nervous." My palms start to sweat and I can feel my heartbeat quicken and my breath shorten and all of a sudden my eyesight gets fuzzy and then everything turns black.

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I slowly open my eyes to see that I'm in the hospital wing with Pansy, Draco, and Lune beside me.

"What the hell happened?" I rub my heavy eyes. I sit up but my head starts to pound so I lie back down.

"I think you had a panic attack and then fainted because you didn't eat anything." Luna spoke quietly.

"Here's this by the way. You dropped it when you fainted." Draco hands me the letter with a small smile.

I lay my head back, scared of what he will say when we're alone together. All of a sudden the bell rings and Pansy and Luna get up quickly.

"We have to go so we aren't late for McGonagall's class. Snape let Draco and I skip his class."
"Alright well, thank you for staying with me." I smile at them as they leave the hospital wing and the door shuts behind them.

I'm left with Draco alone, and a big cloud of silence in between us.

"You know I'm not mad at you right? For seeing my mom. I promise it's okay. I wouldn't be next to you right now if it wasn't." He avoids my eyes as he speaks.

"I know." I look at him while his eyes are not on mine.

"Can I ask why you had a panic attack?" He now looks at me, his stone cold eyes locking with my deep blue ones.

"I think it was because of the letter. I haven't seen her in months; I've been avoiding her letters. It's all just really scary and I don't know what to expect." My breathing starts to become very fast, almost like it's running away and out of my body and I can't catch it because it's too fast.

"Okay relax." Draco grabs my hand and squeezes it. "Take some deep breaths okay? Focus on breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth okay? Follow me." He breathes in and then out and I follow him for a minute.

Suddenly I caught my breath and my pulse relaxed. "Thank you." I smiled.

"You shouldn't be stressed about this. I know my mother; she's not somebody you should be scared of. She's incredible. She's so sweet and caring and as much as it pains me to say it, she really loves you. And I can tell that you love her. Don't be stressed or anxious about seeing her Saturday. It will be okay." He looks at me and gives me a reassuring smile which calms me down even more.

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Saturday

"I don't know what to wear. Pansy, Luna I need help." I groan as I look through my wardrobe throwing out random things.

"We're trying to find something. It would be easier if you would stop throwing shit around."

"Oo! I think I found something." Luna pulls out a plaid button up dress and some dr. Martins

"Merlin, that is so cute! Luna, thank you so much." I give her a big hug and take the clothes and put them on in the bathroom.

After about 20 minutes, I come out of the bathroom with makeup on, my hair curled and I'm all dressed up in what Luna picked out.

"How do I look?" I ask, feeling slightly anxious as the clock ticks closer to 2

"You look beautiful!" Luna cheered

"Absolutely stunning." Pansy smiled.

"Merlin, I'm so bloody nervous. I'm sweating so much and my heart is racing." I groaned.

"Knightley, just breathe okay? It will go great and we will be here waiting for you to tell us what happened." Pansy smiled and held my hands. "Now it's almost two so I suggest heading to Hogsmeade now. I love you so much and you look beautiful." Pansy pulls me in for a hug and I squeeze her tightly.

"Yes, you look absolutely ethereal. Please be safe, love." Luna smiles and gives me a small and gentle hug.

I head out of the castle and walk towards the gates to apparate to Hogsmeade.

Once I apparate in the alleyway behind all the stores, I hear a voice come from behind me,

"You're here early. And absolutely breathtaking."