Her Eyes || Draco Malfoy

8

"Its a boggart! Thats what it is" I blurted after our new DADA professor Remus Lupin asked us if we knew what was in the wardrobe infront of us.

"Very good, Miss Fay!" He praised making me smile proudly for a few seconds then wiping away the smile and continued listening as he further explained what a boggart was.

"Now! Can anybody tell me what a boggart looks like?" He followed up and before I could respond Hermonie spoke up "no one knows" she simply replied and I looked over curiously.

"She wasn't here when we walked in was she?" I asked Theo and Ruby who stood next to me and they both shrugged as I looked forward once more.

"Boggarts are shapeshifter they take the shape of whatever particular person fears the most, thats what makes them so te-" "so Terrifying, yes.. yes.." Lupin finished as he cut off Hermonie suddenly and I flinched again when suddenly the wardrobe shook.

"Luckily, a very simple charm exists to repel a boggart" he explained it shook even louder making me jump behind Draco who was now trying not to laugh at me.

"Let's practice it now without wands please" he said and I moved out from behind the blonde placing myself inbetween him and Pansy who gave me a irritated smile.

"Riddikulus" he said as the class repeated after him "very good; little louder very clear listen.. Riddikulus!" He emphasized his words making sure everyone could hear him as his words were louder than last time.

The class repeated it once more and of course Draco had to make his own stupid comment "this class is ridiculous" he criticized as I rolled my eyes smacking him in the head and listened.

He continued to praise us explaining the boggart futher on, tellimg us that what really finishes off a boggart is laughter, that you have to make it assume you truly find it amusing.

Then he called up Neville Longbottom and after asking what his worst fear was told him to imagine Professor Snape, in his grandmother's clothing and when he did it was truly amusing as everyone then lined up to face their own boggart.

After a couple people it was my turn, I was after Ron as I walked forward taking a deep breath when the spider turned into a dark figure in a hood who revealed himself and I felt my heart stop.

It was my father.

He looked back at me with a devilish smile as he spoke "oh my child how I've missed you" I tightened my grip on my wand as my hearteate picked up and I felt my anxiety kick in.

It took everything in me not to fall onto the group and start crying.

I hesitated as the boggart got closer, I glanced at Professor Lupin who mouthed the words Riddikulus and without a second thought I repeated him pointing my wand forward "Riddikulus!" I shouted but it didn't work as my anxiety slowly got worse and worse.

I tried again pointing my wand forward once more and shouting once more with a little but mote confidence but it still didn't work for some reason.

I couldn't move as I stared forward into the eyes of my father for the first time since I was a baby, his eyes cold as ice and blue like the sky on a beautiful summer day just like mine.

My breathing picked up and I felt someone grab my arm and pull me away from the front of the class, this someone was Ivy.

I was having an anxiety attack and I have no idea how to tame it so when Lupid dismissed class after Harry's turn I felt myself being pulled down the corridors and into an empty classroom by Draco.

"Hey, breathe" he began keeping his voice soft bringing his hand to the underneath of my chin to keep me looking at him "breathe in through your nose and out your mouth" he told me softly "I'll do it with you"

I breathed In through my nose at the same time he did so before breathing out my mouth, we did that a couple times before I eventually calmed down and I took my glasses off setting them down next to me.

I rubbed my eyes as the door opened behind Draco and my glasses fell to the ground making me temporarily blind "Iris! Are you okay?" Ruby asked, I could barely makeout her apple red hair as I felt around for my classed when they suddenly were pushed on my face by Draco.

Quietly I thanked him before looking over to Ruby "yeah, I'm—" I paused quickly glancing over to the blonde before continuing "I'm fine now, just a good ol' anxiety attack thats all" I assured as she calmed down a little bit and looked over at Draco.

I felt a small smile grow on my face that was probably so stuble you would never notice it. She looked over and flickered her eyes between Draco and I trying to figure out what had gone on.

She locked her eyes onto Draco narrowing them as if trying to read him or something which she does alot. She tilted her eyes and I perked up an eyebrow at her actions.

Then her eyes widened and she looked shocked as if she discovered something out that I couldn't see when she looked over at me "oh my god" she blurted before running out the room saying something I couldn't understand.

Only thing I could hear was Ivy, Pansy, Theo and Blaises names before she left the room completely.

We both looked over at eachother confused and shrugged our shoulders before walking out of the empty classroom to head to the Slytherin common room.