Saving Grace

Chapter 8

As Grace had expected it was a long class. Draco constantly trying to get her attention by attempting to start conversations with her, the blue eyed girl ignored him apart form annoyed huffs and sigh. When Professor Snape dismissed the class Grace gathered her things and quickly left with her jacket slung over her shoulder, her pace was fast and she was half way down and empty hall when she hear a voice yelling her name but she kept on walking. The yelling continued to get louder as well as running footsteps, Grace kept her head down until she saw someone standing in front of her. 

The girl lifted her head up to see a panting blonde boy in front of her. "Are we just going to pretend like this morning didn't happen?" He asked softly with his head slightly tilted to the right." What happened this morning Draco?" The girl replied questioningly staring into his grey eyes." O for Melin's sake Grace you know damn well what happened it's not like either one of us can just forget what happened up there!" He yelled at her angrily with fire in his eyes. Grace looked at him in silence for a minute or two trying to form an answer. 

She wanted to say that she didn't want to forget what happened up in the astronomy tower, but she couldn't show weakness, she couldn't let one moment ruin her future by getting attached. "I thought I told you not to notice me." She spat "that consists of not talking to me, not moving to sit next  to me and definitely not badgering me through out a class. Leave. Me. Alone. Draco. I can't make it any clearer for you." Her voice had turned to a yell and her breathing was heavy as she stared at his face. Grace realised that it didn't have it usually smirk plastered across it, no, he looked hurt as if she had just crucioed him.

The brown haired girl shoved past him feeling a pang of guilt inside her chest. Why was she guilty, she wasn't meant to feel guilty. The Dark Lord didn't feel guilty when he murdered hundreds of people, so why did she feel this way when yelling at the boy? 

Throughout the rest of the day she couldn't shake the feeling that she had really hurt the boy, but that was impossible Draco Malfoy didn't have emotions just like her but on some level she still felt in the wrong.

When Grace got back to her dorm there was a letter sitting on the desk. She opened it up it told her that she needed to go to the Malfoy Manor in a week for a meeting. The girl was exited to be reunited with her makeshift family of death eaters especially Bellatrix who she always sat next to. Bellatrix had taken Grace under her wing when she first started attending meetings when she was young and when she grew up she was like her cool aunt. The other good thing was that she could get away from Draco and retreat to the Manor.