Professor Malfoy

25 | get out

Chapter 25
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I rush toward the common room to speak with Zion. My breath is very heavy, either from the running and from the fear that's been growing in me the moment my lips connected into one with Draco's.

Zion knows about us and now it's a matter of hours, minutes or even seconds until he decides to share this information. No. No, I refuse to let that happen. Not so soon.

There's no one in the whole common room area, so I head to the boys section and loudly bang on their door. A few people passing by give me a creeped look, but I don't have time to bother with them.

This is messed up. This wasn't supposed to happen.

After a moment of standing outside the door, Zion opens up.

"We need to talk," I say.

I make sure their room is empty and shut the door after I walk in. I notice my fingers treble from nervousness.

"Yeah, was all that about?" He asks and lights himself a cigarette while sitting down on his bed.

He inhales the smoke into him and lets the white cloud out of his mouth with the cigarette still in. His bed is covered in clothes and his other stuff, yet he throws himself in it and puts one of his arm under his head.

"Don't ask questions you already know the answer to," I tell him, knowing damn well that denying my relationship with Draco wouldn't work on Zion. He's not dumb, he saw what he saw.

"Right...I know," he mumbles, examining my face.

I could erase his memory, I could do many different things with him to forget about what we did in the bathroom. Part of me even screams at me to do it immediately.

But there's that other part, much stronger, that wonders if it wouldn't be better if one, just one person knew about us. It would be such a relief to talk about my feelings with him, because lately, I've felt like exploding. A lot

"So what now?" I ask and cross my arms by my breasts.

"What do you mean?"

"Do you want money? How much?"

He stares at me for a while, the little smile on his face telling me 'I know your secret!' fades, he shakes his head.

"For what, Lou?"

"Keeping your mouth shut,"

He flinches out of the laying position in a matter of seconds and sits on the bed with his legs on the floor, cig remaining in his hand.

"Do you seriously think so low of me?"

"I can't risk anyone knowing,"

"I could tell you my secret in exchange?"

I think about it for a while. It sounds good.

Fuck Veritaserum - this is so much better. I never knew the feeling of trusting people with your deepest, darkest secrets and darkest desires.

It's kind of exciting, to be honest. I sit next to Zion and hear what he has to say.

"It feels weird to say it out loud..." he says and rubs his eyelids.

I look at his face from side profile and examine it a bit. His eyelids look heavy and tired, like he hasn't gotten any sleep lately. The eye bags under his eyes prove me right. His hair, though, looks freshly washed. He must've done it in the morning.

"I like Theo..." the words slip out of his mouth and cause a hurricane in my thoughts.

For a good while, there's just silence.
I let the words be said go through my mind and think about it for a second. It makes perfect sense, actually, I can't explain why I've been so blind. Of course he likes Theo, I see the way he looks at him sometimes, like he's the only one in the room.