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•Part eight

"If you break up with me, I'll kill myself."

"That's not fair, Dominic, you know that's not fair."

"Why is it not fair? I can't live without you so if you leave me, I'm going to kill myself."

"You can't do that! You cheated on me so I want to break up, I don't want to stay with you if it's just scaring me if I even think about breaking up with you."

"Do you want me to kill myself?"

"No."

There was a pause.

"Good, now come here, girlfriend."

You walked over to your bed, where Dominic was, and sat down. He pulled you closer to his chest and gave you a cuddle.

You didn't want to be with him, you knew he was lying about the entire situation with Savannah but you love him. He can't kill himself too, it would break you even more.

The two of you laid down together, he was laying behind you with his arms around your waist whilst you were thinking about the entire thing. What had happened, why he would do it in the first place and what he said about suicide.

He ended up falling asleep but you couldn't because of what Dominic had said, and because you have two more lessons of the day. You carefully got out of your bed with five minutes until your next lesson, Charms.

You went into your bathroom to wash of the tears that you silently cried in Dominic's arms.

Once you had gotten ready again and cleaned yourself up, you grabbed your things and made your way to Charms with Professor Flitwick.

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You finished all of your classes of the day and decided to go to the North tower. Whenever you weren't feeling the best, you would go there and stare into the quidditch pitch, sometimes you were lucky enough to see some of the players practicing.

You turned up and were surprised to see someone who had been ignoring you all day, you thought you would be alone but you weren't.

The smell of weed entered your nose when you at next to him in silence. The two of you sat there in silence, not looking at each other either. Your feet were dangling off the edge and your arms were resting on the rail in front of you and you were staring at the sunset in the sky as it was already quite late.

"Why'd you lie?" Fred asked you, taking another drag from his joint.

"About what?" You question and saw his head turn to face him you in his shadow, you stayed facing away from him though.

"Savannah and Steele. They aren't having sex, why'd you lie about that?" He asked you again. "Look at me."

You shook your head because you didn't want Fred to see you, you looked like shit. He brushed his hand over your thigh and his fingers trailed up your arm, his left hand resting on your cheek. With his right hand, he put his joint in his mouth and moved his hand to rest on your other cheek, moving your head carefully to look at him and for him to look at you.

He admired your flaws for a minute, you stared into his eyes and saw them moving around on your face. Looking at the scar near your ear and the chicken pox scar on your forehead. Then his eyes dropped to your own.

"Have you been crying?" Was all he could say.

"No. I haven't." You told him but he saw right through your eyes and could tell you were lying to his face.

"Don't lie to me. Why have you been crying?" He asked you.

"Because of your girlfriend and my boyfriend." You admitted and sighed as his hands dropped from your face.

"Why? They didn't do anything. I don't know about Dominic and if he done something bad, but I know they didn't do anything bad together." He said.

"That's the thing, they did. Why don't you believe me, Fred?" You questioned.

"Because I went and saw them, they had been doing homework the whole time!" He exclaimed, taking a long hit out of his joint.

"No they weren't! When I walked in there, he was in his underwear and so was she." You told him again. "She was fucking hiding in the bathroom and Dominic's excuse was that they spilt her beer all over the both of them!"

Fred didn't say anything after that, then he realised what you had said.

"Did you say beer?" He asked and you nodded.
"Savannah hates beer, I've been trying to get her to like beer for ages now."

"Exactly. Now do you believe me?" You turned to look at him, making eye contact.

"I think so." He said.

Instead of getting up and questioning his girlfriend, Fred just collapsed. He didn't faint or pass out, he dramatically laid down on the wooden floor of the tower, chucking his joint over the railing and pulling you down with him.

The two of you laid there in silence until he grabbed your arms and pulled you next to him, gently pushing your head down to rest on his chest. You could feel his heartbeat, it was beating pretty fast and you weren't sure if it was because of you or because he had been smoking not long ago.

His arms wrapped around your waist as one of your arms moved to lay against his chest, feeling his muscles from underneath the jumper he was wearing. You noticed one of his hands had started to twirl your hair around his fingers, he done that for a while.

Eventually, you noticed he had fallen asleep with you in his arms. You looked up at him, careful not to move too much, and gently kissed his collarbone as it was the only place he might have felt it.

Then you decided to get some sleep as well, your breaths syncing as you slept in each other's arms.

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