Promise

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Adealia's POV

"Oh my god, how did we not know?! How could Neville not tell us?" My heart was beating so strenuously that I could feel it in my throat. I felt so guilty. Not to mention that the post-drug-anxiety-hangover was setting in.

"I don't know... but he needs us Adealia. He's been all alone since it happened." Lucy's large eyes filled with tears as she spoke.

Fuck.

I remembered when my mother was killed. I was so young. But I still remember the feeling of that day. Of people being around you.

The thought of him having no one killed me.

"Go take a shower, I'll find you in a bit! I love you, so much!" I said to Draco, turning to go with Lucy up the stairs.

"NO!" He snapped at me, grabbing my wrist tightly.

I looked at him in confusion. "... what do you mean 'NO'?"

"You will not go Adealia. You are to stay away from him. Bellatrix can't know that he has any kind of... relationship- with you." He seethed the words at me, scolding me like I was a child.

"You're joking," I laughed, looking at him in utter disbelief.

"Do I look like I'm joking?" He said coldly.

This couldn't be real. He couldn't be serious.

"Draco Malfoy you are not allowed to tell me who I'm allowed to be friends with! Who I'm allowed to see!" I said incredulously.

"I am n-" he started but was soon cut off by Lucy.

"Draco... How do you know about Bellatrix? I didn't mention her when I told Adealia about Ro's family." She gave him a knowing look, waiting for him to explain himself.

She already knew the answer to the question she asked.

Anger flooded me. It absolutely lit my skin alive with shock and betrayal. I looked into his eyes as he went through a range of emotions trying to gather his thoughts.

"You knew." I whispered hatefully.

"Yes." He said lowly.

"You knew and you didn't tell me." I was so angry tears stung my eyes but I'll be damned if I was about to cry.

"I did it to keep you safe." He practically snarled the words.

"When?" I asked, gritting my teeth together. "When did you know?"

"When did I know what?" He spat, "When did I know that his mother was one of the most relentless murderers of all time?" He paused to scoff. "He told me that the night you came back to my room after seeing Snape and getting your memory back."

"The night you almost fucking killed him? That night?" I yelled the words, forgetting Lucy was in the room.

"You what?" Lucy asked, looking at him in hurt confusion.

Suddenly it dawned on me. Ro's words to me in the hospital. Telling me he knew I would choose Draco.

Ro's voice echoed in my mind, his words as he laid in the bed in the hospital wing 'Because of our little meaningless night together.'

I knew him better. 

He would never say that to me.

"You told him to stay away from me didn't you?" I whispered, stepping back from him in betrayal.