Blood to Love | 3rd year

37- Gryffindor Triumphs

Slowly but surely, I fell asleep. However, it was not the kind of sleep that most wish for. It was the type where you constantly wake up in the middle of the night and you can't fall back asleep for another hour. There was also a constant voice echoing in my head telling me to go back to sleep every time my eyes opened. If only it were that easy.

Time felt slower than usual. The clock in the hospital wing continuously ticked and tocked until my ears blocked it out completely out of mass frustration. I didn't know exactly what time is was but I knew that it had to have been at least dawn on this Sunday morning, meaning Madam Pomfrey was sure to be here early for work.

I closed my eyes one last time, hoping to fall asleep like I had been trying for an hour or so. To my pleasure, my eyes slammed shut and I left the world to enter my dreaming state. It was a blessing that I had a normal dream for once; my sister was completely ridden from my thoughts.

However, this particular dream was very interesting. Don't get me wrong, it was much better than killing my sister but it was still something I wouldn't have wanted to share with my close friends or relatives, that is, if I had any.

I stopped fighting the dream away and simply watched it take action within my closed eyes and broad imagination.

Draco was standing there. We were together at a Muggle amusement park. I begged him to ride the tall roller coaster to our right and he surprisingly looked frightened.

I then grabbed his wrist and sprinted to the roller coaster ride, to which we hopped on immediately. I sat next to him, looking at the assortment of trees and people below me as we made our way up the chain link to the peak of the coaster.

We finally reached the top and I looked over to him. He was seemingly calm. His eyes glowed in the summer sunlight and he made direct eye contact with me.

"What are you staring at?" he asked.

"You."

He was still as arrogant as in real life, at least I got one thing accurate. Although I'm not sure that I should be dreaming about Draco, or praising his arrogance.

The roller coaster came to a sudden halt and we continued staring at one another.

"You're all I've ever wanted," he whispered to me.

"And you're all I need," I replied while leaning in simultaneously.

The coaster dropped suddenly and I awoke with a jolt, back into reality and in my assigned hospital wing bed.

To my absolute shock, Draco was sitting in a chair right next to my bed. He looked as if he was going to jump up and help me, though he realized I was awake and sighed a breath of relief.

"Was it your sister?" he questioned.

I shook my head no, which I immediately regretted.

"What was it?"

"Nothing," I nervously replied.

"You can tell me."

"I know."

"Inform me then," he began while forming a small grin on his mouth as he spoke his next lines. "Or was it about me?"

"What?" I asked, looking bewildered at his true assumption.

"It was a joke, L/n. Although you're getting all weird and I assume that it really was about me."

"Go away." I groaned defeatedly.

"What was it about?"

"I never said anything!"

He smirked evilly. "You didn't have to."