The Lost Potter || Draco Malfoy [BOOK 1]

Chapter 27

DRACO'S POINT OF VIEW

I walked into the Hospital Wing to see Maya, asleep like Harry said she would be. I sat down in the chair next to her and grabbed her hand. I gently rubbed circles on the back of her hand with the pad of my thumb.

"I know you probably can't hear me, but please. Never do anything like that again. You scared me to death." I said, giving her hand a light squeeze.

"Is she okay?" A frantic voice asked.

I turned my head to see the one and only Cedric Diggory.

"Out Diggory. She's sleeping." I growled.

"What gives you the right to—" I interrupted him.

"I said out," I growled.

"I am her boyfriend—" I cut him off again.

"Was," I said simply. "Oh, and by the way, you are extremely smart for snogging Chang in the middle of the most crowded place in Hogsmeade."

His eyes widened. "You saw that?" Cedric asked.

"She did too. Actually, it's the reason that she is in here." I said glaring.

"What do you mean?" Cedric asked.

I sharply stood up from the chair and walked over to him.

"She saw you snogging Cho Chang in Three Broomsticks today, and it hurt her. She relapsed, cut one of the major arteries in her wrist, and if she wasn't found, then she would have died." I snapped.

"I--" I cut him off.

"'Oh you're unlike any girl I have ever met'," I mocked. "'You're my one and only'. She hurt herself because you wanted to be a two-timing arse. Stay the hell away from her, and get the hell out."

I saw tears of guilt well up in his eyes, and I could tell that my "don't give a fuck Malfoy" attitude coming back because I realized that I didn't give a flying fuck about his tears. He stood there just staring at me, and I felt myself getting exceedingly angry.

"Get out!" I said louder, and he flinched slightly. He looked at me and looked at Maya one more time before walking straight out of the Hospital wing.

I walked over to the bed Maya was in and sat down next to her with my back facing her. I flinched when I felt a finger jab itself into my side. I turned around quickly and looked down at Maya, who was sitting there with her eyes wide open and slowly filling with tears.

Her eyes sparkled with sadness, and the sight of her made me just want to rush back out of the Hospital Wing and knee Cedric Diggory in the family jewels.

"Why?" I asked. "Why do this over an arse like him?"

I helped her sit up and sat across from her on the hospital bed.

"I don't know." She answered.

"No. You do know." I said.

"Because I'm used to it. No one cared when I was living with the muggles, so I figured no one would care here." Maya said.

"Why did you start in the first place?" I asked.

"Because I hate how I look. I have literally no self-confidence whatsoever, despite how much I fake it. When I lived at the Foys, they pretty much broke me. Delilah ruined all of my chances of ever having friends at school and Lester. Fucking Lester." She said, her voice getting tighter as she forced back her tears. "He fucked me up. He would always get mad, and when he was mad, bad shit happened. Especially for me, since all of the 'paranormal' crap always happened to me, and he's a huge Catholic."