Professor Malfoy

34 | day five

Chapter 34
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It's 3 in the morning and I'm laying on my bed with my eyes wide opened, staring at the ceiling. Because of the half-darkness in my room, I'm starting to see some shapes, the energy flowing around. Or I'm just going crazy from the loneliness.

"You there?" I call for him in my mind. It takes him two minutes to answer.

"Why are you not sleeping?"

"I'm not tired, I want to talk,"

We haven't talked much yesterday and it's been four days since he touched me. I mean, mind-touched me. I long for more, I need him. I am becoming touch deprived.

"I'm on a meeting right now," he says with a serious voice.

I roll on the other side of my bed and sigh. "It must be a pretty boring meeting if you're answering me,"

I feel him chuckle. "Boring indeed, but I do have to pay attention,"

"Where are you, anyway?"

"Brussels," he answers with cold voice.

"Oh, did you-"

"I'll talk to you in a few minutes, Lou. Once it's over. There are too many powerful wizards in here and I can't risk anyone finding out I'm mind talking to my student. At 3 am."

"Oh, okay..."