Choices ~ Draco Malfoy

Chapter 14

Third Person
All Sally, Draco, Evelynn, Willow and Blaise couldn't sleep or took a while to fall asleep that night. Sally and Draco, because they were all of the sudden terribly nervous, their chests were extremely tight and the tossed and turned on their individual beds, not being able to stop thinking about one another. Evelynn and Willow, because they were so excited about their "OTP" coming true, which they had been dreaming of since Third Year. They stayed up together, sitting on the armchairs all night, talking quietly, yet excitedly. Blaise, because he was annoyed.

Sally's POV
Thanks to Lynn, thanks to Dumbledore, I was terribly tired the following morning because I just could not sleep last night.

Was it that obvious to tell that I liked him that even a teacher, our Headmaster realised?

Oh what would Harry and Ron and Hermione say? Especially Harry, who I know is suspecting that Draco and I are already up to something suspicious this year... Ugh.

I tried reading, doing homework, taking a shower again, pacing around the room for the entire night. None of them worked and it was the longest night I've ever experienced.

As soon as the curfew was over at six o'clock, I walked out of my room fully dressed with my favourite over cloak and headed straight to the grounds. I slowly opened the great oak door of the Entrance Hall and stepped out into the grounds to the chilly autumn morning. Wrapping my cloak tighter around myself, I walked towards another lake within the school grounds, one of the two places I could usually feel calm. The other place was, surprise, the Black Lake.

Fog was starting to clear as the sun slowly rose up in the horizon as I climbed up the hill towards my "secret" place. When I reached the glistening lake, I just stood there with my eyes closed, letting the beautiful feeling of nature sink into me. Then, I slowly slid off my over cloak and my Slytherin robes and neatly placed them under a nearby tree. I knew the water was cold, but it wasn't frozen so it shouldn't be too bad. Taking a short, sharp breath, I jumped into the Lake.

The water wasn't too bad for me, being the step-daughter of Poseidon and being claimed by him, but I knew if other people jumped in they would have a heart-attack. I slowly opened my eyes and found myself only about ten feet from the surface of the water and breathing normally. I looked around my surroundings: it seemed that nothing has changed since the last time I came here, which was late last year.

I decided to swim around for a while, so I went deeper and deeper, towards the bottom of the huge lake.

I swam past fishes and other water creatures including the merpeople. They were, unlike the majority of water creatures in the Black Lake, were kind and gentle. All of the creatures either smiled, waved or bowed (yes, fish bowed) as they swam past me.

I was under water for about, I don't know, a while. During that time I let myself forget about the world above me and clear my mind, relaxing and enjoying my second world under the water. I talked to my old friends (yes, I have water creature friends and yes I can talk to them) and was told about the under-water-gossip from all around the world.

When I decided to get out of the lake, it was nine o'clock. I had an option of go get food, or catch up on sleep which I got none of last night. This morning? I don't know.

But in the end, sleep won.

So, conjuring a warm blanket and fluffy pillows with a flick of my wand, I made myself comfortable under a nicely shaded tree and as soon as my head hit the pillow, I was fast asleep.