Professor Malfoy

27 | purple pills

Chapter 27
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I'm walking hand in hand with Lara between me and Theo through the Great hall, headed outside. Though I'm not sure we're allowed to. Some teachers, even students, give us questioning faces, but before they can ban us from doing so, we're already gone behind the big door.

Lara's hand is warming mine, cold as ice. The strands of her red hair are tingling me while walking and I'm pretty sure my wings do the same to her.

Once we stop and make sure the corridor is empty, we gather into a small circle and wait for Zion to light the joint. Nobody should disturb us here, the whole castle is in the Great hall. At least I hope so.

Only now I realize how much I'm trembling. Seeing his family just ruined my whole night and it hasn't even started yet. Everything was good until now, we were getting to know each other more and more, and not just verbally. We were good, I was good without seeing his wife and his son. I knew he had them, but the fact that I've never seen them until now made me think it's okay what we're doing. What we feel toward each other.

But that was just an illusion, it's sick. Maybe his wife cheats on him, too, maybe she doesn't, I don't know. It's his son I'm worried about. I don't want to take his father away from him. I grew up without one, and I see the impact of that on my life.

Suddenly, I feel sick to my stomach.

"Here-" Zion mumbles when he finally manages to light the joint.

He inhales and leans over as he's about to kiss Lara, but they both stop just millimeters from each other. There, he releases the smoke into her moth, she quickly inhales it and exhales it through her nostrils. Zion smacks a little kiss on her lips and then glances at me.

"Oh, look at you," he pouts his mouths, "so lonely,"

I roll my eyes, "I'm not lonely,"

He looks to the ground and hands the joint to Lara.

"You didn't expect that, did you?" He asks me, peeking at my face through his thick eyebrows.

He knows, he knows what's going on. Of course he does.

"I didn't,"

"And are you okay?"

I lift my eyes to meet his and shrug my shoulders, "No...yes...I will be,"

"What are you two talking about?" Lara asks the both of us when she exhales the smoke.

Zion wraps his arms around her from behind and mumbles a silent "'nothing".

I stare at them two and wonder if I'll never be able to do this with Draco. Just hug in public.

Just seconds after I think of him, he asks me down our minds, "Where are you?" His voice sounds worried.

"Leave me alone." I stare out of the window, trying to shut down the bond between us, but Draco keeps barging in. He's stronger than me, so I leave it and let him hear us. Actually, I'll gladly leave him hear us.

I hear Lara's laugh from behind me and then Zion tells me, "come to us," with his arm stretched toward me. He got a snake tattoo during this summer, but this is the first time I actually see it sa a whole. It looks good on him, along with the little finger and hand tattoos.

I take his hand and let him pull me closer toward him, toward Lara. Once we're all together, I smell alcohol from both of them. They're both drunk and stoned already. I wonder where this will go.

Lara puts the spliff in between her lips and while staring into my eyes with her big, blue ones, she inhales the smoke into herself. I watch her every move, my sight is focused only on her. Her head is getting closer toward mine, her lips slightly parting...