Dare - Draco Malfoy

Chapter 8: The night

Meave:

He's not looking at me anymore as I finish unbuttoning my shirt. His head is turned to the side, his eyes lost and empty. I search his gaze as I reach my hand to his cheek, but he moves his head away with an abrupt move.

"I need to go" he says.

"Draco why do you avoid me after every time we.." I mumble keeping my eyes on him.

"Listen I don't have time for this, I need to go" he interrupts.

"Draco what the hell!" I scoff shaking my head. I'm angry.

"Listen, there's nothing  between me and you. I thought that was clear when I said it the first time" he spits.

"Oh yeah sure. Is that what you do? Just play with girls to be pleased?" I can feel tears filling my eyes.

"I obviously played with the wrong girl then" He laughs.

My heart jolts at his words. I fight back the tears. I am such a fool.

"You know what? Fuck you Malfoy" I say, taking a final look at him before jumping down the table, picking my things up from the floor and leaving.

I run out of the old classroom with tears down my cheeks. I am fuming. I am so flustered that I bump into someone as I walk fast looking down.

"Oh sor-sorry." I choke as I look up to see Nott.

"Hey what— are you okay?". He puts a hand on my shoulder and I look up.

"Yeah, I need to go".

I leave, turn a corner quickly and enter the common room. It's pretty packed as afternoon classes just ended. I rush to the dorm, put my things down and run for a shower.

-

I am not crying anymore. I am just furious and the shower helps calming me down. I change and go back down in the comms. It's only six. The common room is fuller now. I can see stupid prat Draco sitting at the table with a group of guys. He catches me looking at him and turns away quickly. Coward.

I am relieved to see Aria and Blaise sitting on a sofa. I join them

"Hey guys" I say, determined to get him out of my thoughts.

They greet me back as I sit between them.

I hear the common room door open and turn to see Nott walking in. He looks around, a look of concern on his face. He walks towards us.

"Heey Nottie, you joining tomorrow night?" Blaise asks cheerfully.

"Listen, can I speak to you?" He says shifting his eyes on me. Completely ignoring Blaise.

"Um.. ye- yeah." I mumble taken aback by his request.

I stand and follow him to a corner of the room, away from listeners. He looks around us and then back at me.

"Is it Draco?"

"What?" I whisper. 

How does he know?

"Meave, listen. I know how he is. He's one of my best mate" He explains calmly now.

"Nott I honestly don't know what you are talking about" I say, as convincingly as I can.

"Listen, you are my friend too, so I am gonna be plain. You know his family, and you know what he is. He will hurt you more than this." He says awkwardly.

"Nott, thanks for the pep talk but there's nothing going on between Draco and I." I stop him, quite annoyed now.

"Okay. Fine" he says finally defeated.

As I move from him to go back to my seat, I realise how close I got to him while talking. I didn't want people to hear so I got close, whispering. I turn and look up. Draco is staring at me. I look away as I sit back down.

-

The night is dark and freezing. I am clothed with fabrics and I feel a hand pushing me over a cliff, into the sea. I can't move. I open my eyes and see a man in cloaks. He looks like a dementor from afar, but as he gets close he pulls out a hand and points his wand at my neck. He disappears. He reappears. I try to scream, my mouth is still as stone. I am drowning.

I wake with a jolt. I feel like I am gonna die. My lungs can't take in air. I am awake and still frozen. I scream but this time my voice comes out.

I hear voices of the girls who woke suddenly at my scream.

"What the.." I hear Pansy croaky voice speak.

"Meave!" Aria jolts out of her bed and runs towards me.

"Are you okay?" she asks worriedly.

I look to the side table. It's 4 am. I look at Aria and an invisible fist punches my stomach as I stand up and run to the bathroom, just in time before I reached the toilet seat and vomit.

-

I wake up in an unfamiliar room. I look around and I can feel the slightly rough cotton covers of the bed. I am alone in a large room of beds. I remember the nightmare. I don't remember how I got here.

"Miss Harvey" I look up and see Madam Pomfrey's head over me.

I clear my throat

"Wh- why am I here?" I try to speak.

"You have fainted. I have given you two drops of Dreamless Sleep Potion. Rest is what you need now. I will dismiss you in the morning." She is quiet and slow as she speaks.

She leaves my bed side. My head is pounding, I close my eyes happy to be able to have some peaceful dream-free rest.