Blind ; D.M. 18+

Twenty-eight

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Draco's POV

"No! No! No, you can't!" she screams at me as she drops to her knees beside Mattheo and lifts his hand out from under the covers.
"No, no. I must be able to see him after all. Don't you treat him like that, do you hear me? I'm going to sit here until they rip him out of my arms. Out of my arms!" she starts to scream and gets quieter and quieter as she wipes his brown curls from his forehead. I immediately take a few steps back and watch her.

Seeing her like this breaks my heart.

I know that none of this is easy. After all, he was my best friend too, no matter what a jerk he was. Not only has she lost a friend no a family member, but I have too. But when I see Lexi sitting there, shaking, with his hand in hers, stroking his forehead and talking softly to him as if he were still with us, as if he understood and absorbed every single word she said, I just want to scream and kill every single person who looks at me stupidly for it.

How I would love to take this day away from her, how I would love to tell her that everything is going to be okay because I am there for her now. How I would love to take all her pain on myself just so she wouldn't have to struggle with it.

But I can't. She has to go through it, we all have to. The only thing I can do for her is to strengthen her when she feels like her whole world is about to collapse.

I look at my mother, who is watching Lexi's every move, teary-eyed and holding her hand over her mouth, afraid that a single noise could distract Lexi. Carefully and very slowly, I walk over to Lexi to offer her support.

Right next to her, I sit cross-legged and slowly feel my hand against her back to stroke it a little. Just to make her feel that someone is here for her.

"You know, Draco... When I was 11 and Mattheo was 10, we swore to each other that we would be together for eternity, even the smallest eternity. We'll stay together," Lexi sobs without taking her eyes off him.

"But what happens after that, we never thought about it, let alone talked about it." she adds tearfully. I can hear her desperation in her voice and it gives me goosebumps all over my body.

Without hesitation, I take her tighter in my left arm but I meet resistance. I decide to just let her be - to let her have her last moment with Mattheo before he is taken away from here. My gaze wanders over my shoulder directly into my mother's worried eyes.

I slowly let go of Lexi, stroke her head tenderly once more and stand up to join my mother. She rests her hands on my thighs and I put my hands in hers and immediately she starts massaging them tenderly.

"It's better this way, Dray. Let her have this moment. This is very important for her, you must understand." she whispers to me caringly as I gaze into the darkness of the forest.

The urge to just cry in my mother's arms grows stronger as I realise my guilt.

"Mother, if only I had taken better care of her, none of this would have happened in the first place. I'm to blame for all of this." I stammer out, oblivious to a silent tear escaping my eye, my gaze still fixed on the darkness.

"I want to take Lexi with us after all this, I want her safe, with me. I'll do anything to make that happen. I couldn't bear to see her suffer like that again." I add confidently but still with a trembling voice.