Letters |Draco Malfoy|

Knowledge

The filled air made my cheeks turn pink, I walked a bit behind Sophie and her friend Amy as they talked.

"Lindsey, there's the Three Broomsticks! C'mon." Sophie grabbed my hands and pulled me there. Amy and I sat down as Sophie went to order.

"So your Sophie's new friend?" Amy held her hand out to shake. "Nice to meet you" I shook her hand and nodded. We sat there a bit awkward till Sophie came back.

"So, girls, I trust you have introduced yourselves?" We both shook our heads. "Well good, Amy I got you extra cream, and Lindsey try this" she handed me a cup of Butterbeer. It was fizzy, and it bubbled into my nose, and then I sneezed all over Amy.

My eyes widened "Oh my gosh I'm so sorry!!" My eyes started watering from the sting in my nose, but Amy just started laughing.

"It's fine. Really, I had a similar reaction my first time drinking it too" I blew my nose and we settled back down. Sophie got me a hot coco and she drank my butter beer.

"Sooo who do you guys think is gonna win the goblet?" Sophie asked.

"I'm voting Harry!" answered Amy.

"I'm voting Fleur." Sophie replied "I doubt Harry will win, he's our age every one else is 17!" Amy gave a look that said 'fair point' before they turned to me.

"Uh Cedric I guess" I answered.

"He has a fair chance- plus he's majorly cute" Amy answered. Sophie laughed,

"He's out of your league" Amy looked offended and slapped her arms.

"At least he isn't a Slytherin!" now this was interesting.

"You have a thing for a Slytherin?!" I asked. That meant that Ferret had a fair chance of being Slytherin.

"She has had a thing for a Slytherin since second year-" Amy blurted before Sophie used the silencing spell on her.

"C'mon lets go to Honeydukes!" she changed the subject.

Honeydukes was amazing. There was so many candies to choose from! I grabbed a Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans and a sugar quill. "Here I'll pay for you, Sophie always takes forever here" Amy said as the silencing spell finally came off.

"Soo- uh- who is that Slytherin you where talking about?!" I asked nonchalantly.

She looked at me before remembering, "Oh yeah, I shouldn't tell you but I'm going to- she's been madly in love with Blaise Zabini" How ironic. But that means that Ferret is...-

My stomach felt woozy. That meant that Ferret had to be one of Zabinis mates, and the name Ferret suddenly made much more sense.

"You ok hun? Your pale." Amy asked, I shook my head no, i was about to puke. "Sophie, I'm going to take Lindsey back to the castle" she shouted before walking me toward the carriages. "Was it the Butterbeer?" she asked.

"No, it's something I'd rather not get into right now." I replied honestly. She gave me a nod and a reassuring smile. But To my luck, he was right there.

"Look what we have here," Draco taunted. "The Mudblood looks sick." I knew I had to say something.

"Ferret-"

"What did you call me?!" There was a nastly look on his face but I continued.

"Must you torment me to no end." His eyes widened with recognition as I recalled the lines I had written on my first letter.

"Artemis?" I knew it, it was him, the person I had been messaging this whole time was my tormentor.

We stood there staring dumbfounded. Blaise gave Draco a confused look and Amy did the same for me. I suddenly dropped all the candy I had and ran for the castle. I was so confused. Before I had realized, I was at the Hufflepuff common room. I searched my drawer till I found the quick messaging parchment. There stood the words,

Your a mudblood?

Anger overwhelmed me, I grabbed my quill and quickly wrote down the words;

And your fowl.

I hated this, I thought he was my friend, I was so wrong, my grip on my quill tightened as I wrote.

I hate this, I hate you, I hate what you have done to me!

It's not like I knew either!

He wrote back, I was so angry. The short months I had been messaging him I had really grown to care for him, but all came crashing down at this moment.

JUST STOP... just stop

I ripped the parchment up and threw it into the fire place. Pacing around the room as Sophie walked in panicked as she ushered Amy to go. I looked at her, while pulling my hair as I started weeping angrily, tears stained my face as she hugged me.

"What happened to you hun" she asked as she pat my head.

"That absolute git" I sobbed, letting out all the emotions I had held in from every time Malfoy messed with me. "I hate him, Soph, I hate him so much, I just wanna-" Another wave of tears came.

"Shh calm down, can you tell me what happened?" She soothed me.

"You were right, Ferret was Draco." I sniffed feeling bad for putting her in an awkward situation. "I told him about all the bullying, he listened, and it was him, he was the bully. Oh Soph I'm so embarrassed, mortified utterly mortified." She looked me in the eyes, and took my hands.

"Here's what we're gonna do, your gonna go take a shower, and I'm gonna go get some food from the kitchen, and we are gonna have a girls night, ok?" I smiled at her.

"I've never had a girl night" I sniffed

"Better now then never." She gave me another hug and sent me off.

As the water washed the shampoo out of my hair I couldn't help but think of all the times I had cried my self to sleep quietly because of him, and soon the sobs came back. I clenched my chest over my heart and fell to my knees. I came to a decision, I wasn't gonna write those stupid letters any more, I was gonna burn them, and once that was done I was gonna start being more confident, I promised my self.

When I stepped out of the shower and slipped my towel on. I stared at myself in the mirror. There was a pair of scissors on the counter, with out thinking I took them and cut my hair. This would be the start of my change.