My Enemy, Draco

TWENTY FIVE

I got everything ready and was waiting for Draco to come. Just as I started getting nervous I saw Draco in the distance. I ran towards him and covered his eyes with my hands and led him to where everything was set up at. I stood him in front of the soft blanket I had knitted with small pillows and the twinkling fairy lights I had strung through the tree branches with flowers I found in the meadow surrounding the blanket. I took a deep breath hoping he would like it and took my hands off his eyes.

He stood there staring at everything before turning to me. "Did you do all of this?"

I nodded my head smiling waiting for approval that he liked it. "This is amazing." Draco said. "I can't believe you did all of this for me."

I was so relieved that he liked it, I said nothing but hugged him as tight as I could.

We laid down on the blanket and watched the stars as we were talking. "By the way this blanket is for you, I made it."

"Are you serious?"

"No." I paused for a few moments before laughing. "Yes I'm serious."

Draco said nothing. I thought he was disappointed until I looked at him and saw him smiling.

"I know it's months away but would it be okay if I spent the summer with you. I sort of told Ginny off and I don't really plan to speak to her ever again."

"What happened between you two?"

"She's the reason I'm now a death eater." I said, almost laughing in astonishment. "We were at the Department of Mystery's trying to find Sirius but after we got there we realized it was a trap and Bellatrix made Harry and them chose to save Ginny or me. And obviously they picked Ginny. And the best part is they didn't even try to save me after they got Ginny back. They all just left me there."

Draco said nothing but held me tighter and I couldn't help but need to change the subject. "Let's talk about something else."

"Like what?"

"Like what we are going to do after all this mess."

"I'm not really sure. Maybe we run off and live in the forest where no one will ever hurt us again." Draco said, still watching the stars.

"I was thinking the exact same thing."

We laid there watching the stars in silence for what seemed like hours.

"Come on Draco let's swim, it'll be fun, I swear." I said as I removed my shirt revealing the swimsuit I had on underneath despite the cold air.

I made my way towards the water of the Black Lake. It wasn't far from the blanket Draco and I were laying on so I could still talk to Draco from the water. I was all the way in, treading water, urging Draco to come in. "Get in, it feels nice." Just as I finished talking I felt seaweed wrap around my leg. I thought nothing of it and ignored it, still trying to get Draco to come in the water with me.

I took in a breath getting ready to tell Draco to get in before the seaweed around my leg tightened. I looked at Draco with absolute fear in my eyes. "Something just wrapped around my leg." That's when it started to pull me under. "DRA-"

I went under the water moving around trying to get out of the grip of the seaweed. It kept pulling me deeper into the lake and it was starting to get darker. I finally broke it off my ankle and tried to swim to the surface of the water as I was out of air and desperately needed to get to the top. But the harder I swam to get to the top the further down I went. I screamed under the water with the last breath I had and-

"Daniella wake up!" Draco shouted frantically trying to wake me from my nightmare.

My eyes flew open with my face covered in tears. My body was shaking and the only thing I could do was lean against Draco in hopes that his touch would somehow comfort me like how it always did.