💚 Paused Romance [DRALY] 💚

Chapter 3 - High School Days

[Back to the Present, Draco's POV]

"As I got wiser, I thought that I'll eventually move on," I truthfully said to my sister, Gold.
   Yeah, you always see us teasing, mocking, betraying each other in our videos, but siblings are still siblings. When serious times come, we are there for each other.
   "We were kids," I continued. "It's supposed to be just some puppy love. But, I was wrong..."
   "Wow," Gold commented. "You really can't say that "true love" can only occur when two people are in the right age."
   I just sighed.

—————

[ALY'S POV]
YEARS PASSED, it's time for high school. I feel relieved since I have to switch schools. Switching school means Draco and I will no longer be schoolmates; classmate rather. But, I was wrong. Turned out, he's going to the same school as I am.
   If you're wondering, no. Not at Yandere High. Ever since the serial killing case has been solved, the authorities decided that it's better for Yandere High to close forever. Even if they'll continue, I don't think people will even want to go there because of the bad reputation Yandere left.
   Yandere High was still going on for a couple of years though. They decided to just allow their students to finish high school before closing. They no longer accept new enrollees. After the last batch of students graduated, Yandere High closed forever.

DRACO SEEMED so fine every time I see him around the halls. He acts like nothing even happened. Although I also noticed that he became one of those bad boys you see in cliché high school stories.
   Meanwhile here I am, still sad about our past and how we ended up. Sometimes I look at our old messages, missing the Draco I knew. I don't show to everyone that I'm still affected though, except to Alec. Why would I give Draco the satisfaction?
   Plus I have a reputation to protect. I don't really put an effort to look pretty, but I became popular because people thinks I'm gorgeous.
   There are even times where guys would literally fall in line. I accept their gifts for me, not wanting to be rude. It was hard for me to reject all of them one by one, not wanting to hurt somebody's feelings.
   I'm sorry, but I think Draco still has my heart.
   Ugh, what's wrong with me?

DESPITE OF not talking about my past with anybody, people do feel that me and Draco had something. It is because there are times where he randomly goes to me and does some flirts. I hated that ego of his. That's where people started making theories about us.
But neither Draco and I said anything to confirm their theories, which are actually true. We did have a past.
   It hurts me every time I see Draco. Realized how much I miss him. I hate him. But I love him.

[DRACO'S POV]
SHE SEEMS to be moving on. All I see is anger in her eyes whenever I tease her to fill my amusement up. I don't see any sadness in her eyes. That's good to know.
   Meanwhile I still haven't escaped the stages of grief. Everything I do, I think of her. Before going to bed, whenever I drink Rainbow's coffee, whenever I eat. Even when I drove a car for the first time, it's her who I think of. I miss her.
   Does she miss me like I miss her...?

"HEY, ALY," I entered the library when I spotted her inside through the glass doors.
   Whenever I miss her or get jealous that some other guys are trying to date her, I approach her. Talk to her in a teasing way, so she thinks that I'm just here to make her blood boil. She can't know that I still have feelings for her. Not for now.
   Funneh and Alec still has an unfinished business.
   "What do you want now, Draco?" Aly asked me, already boiling. Slammed closed the book she was reading.
   "I see you rejected a new set of boys who are head over heels of you earlier," I said.
   "And?"
   "Still haven't found your type?"
   "It's none of your business."
   "Why? Is it because deep down, it's still me? And if I were you, Aly? I would never let me go."
   She slapped me.
   It hurts, but my abnormal heart is happy. Very happy. Happy to know that despite of our troubled past, she's still talking to me and engaging my teasing. I don't mean no harm. I just miss her around my arms.
   She was saying things who knows what is. I was busy looking at her gorgeous face that I can't hear what she's saying. As for Aly, she's too busy complaining at me that she didn't the notice the love in my eyes when I look at her directly in the eyes.