The Insider: the second book to Captivated

Saving Each Other

(4 days later)
Vik's pov.................

It was my first day going back to classes since the...incident. Draco and Addie had been tending to my wounds both physical and emotional. But recently, Draco had seemed a bit absent minded. It had begun to worry me as he was always very interested in what I had to say yet suddenly it seems as though he'd rather be anywhere but in my company.

I fumbled down the corridor on my way to Transfiguration, I was already late, had been skipping classes and Professor McGonnaGrump was not going to be pleased. "Shit, shit, shit, shit..." I muttered practically tripping down the hall.

Then I saw it.

His arm resting on the wall above her head, she was a bit taller than me, but I could still take her. Her platinum blonde hair being twirled flirtatiously in her electric blue painted fingers. His body was so irritatingly close to hers it made me want to combust instantaneously. His ever so slightly paler hair falling down on his forehead as he leaned down to say something to her, I found myself marching up to his back, he smirked into her ear and as he began to speak, I leaned into his own ear and whispered
"Don't worry, it all meant nothing to me either."

With that I walked away from Draco Malfoy, exploding inwardly with all the words I had wanted to yell at him, the contretemps I ached to verbalize. How the hell did I actually think Draco Malfoy of all Slytherins would actually utter the words "I love you" let alone intend their definitions to be true? I felt my burning cheeks become wet with my own tears. I needed to get back to my room...I had planned for things to go horribly wrong. I had planned for this emotion, I had been eaten by my whole life when my father hit me or when my mother told me I was worthless, to return. This emotion I thought had fled at the mere brush of Draco's skin against my own. Suddenly; it was back. This deep ebbing depression was catching fire within me, and I felt myself giving in.

Addie's POV................

After days of being alone and suppressing the pain that came with all the recent events, I was entirely stressed and worn, emotionally from the end Harry and I had met with such severity, and physically from the draining spells I had to continuously retry after every past failure. my concoction seemed to have no more potential.
I felt like doing nothing but crying but honestly I don't think my body even had enough energy to do that. I felt so helpless, I was filled with this terrifying thought of how it seemed like nothing would ever be okay again, I felt useless, the tangled feelings within me were seemingly pulling me in the direction of the Covered Bridge. It was still slightly bright out but the sun was clearly saying its last farewells. I stuck my hands deep into the pockets of my jacket, feeling the brisk bitterness in the air. It was slowly getting harder to shut out the pain again, it got like that sometimes...of Cedric, and my father and Harry...oh god Harry...I missed him with all my being but he didn't want me and damn was it hard to accept that. I stopped suddenly.
I saw someone on the other side of the bridge, they were near the railing- now on the railing- oh shit! They were going to jump! My heart practically just wilted and died when my eyes recognized her face.
Vik.
"VIK!" I screamed so loud my throat felt raw, hoping to at least distract her so I could reach her and pull her off the edge. She whipped her head in my direction and I sprinted like the fate of the Galaxy depended on it. I reached her in a matter of seconds in time to grab her am with an iron grip. "Vik, what the actual FUCK, are you doing?!" Her eyes were so bloodshot red they were almost purple, her lip was still healing from the incident she'd had and she bit at the scab nervously. "Draco was about to kiss another girl and this feeling came over me and it brought me here and I don't know what I'm doing but I can't really stop it." She said, her voice uneven with tears. I was taken aback at her explanation as it was nearly identical to mine. She looked down into the drop she had below her and I clutched her harder, "get off now." I said with severity. Her dark eyes met mine, there was a sadness in her eyes I had only ever seen one other time; it was the kind of inevitable sadness, the sadness that would reduce you into nothing if you couldn't control it, this kind of sadness was so familiar to me. Probably because the only other times I'd ever seen it were when I looked in the mirror.
Without waiting for her response I pulled her with all my force and we both fell into the safety of the walkway within the railings. She sat up and hugged her knees to her chest, and began to cry. I crawled over to her and hugged her into me. She wrapped her arms around my neck and her muffled sobs continued into the crook of my neck. "How was I so damn stupid Addie?!"
"You weren't stupid. Everyone thought he loved you, not just you, he looked at you in a way no one has ever seen him look at any other living object"

She released me and wiped her tears. Collecting herself to her best ability. "What's wrong." She asked but it sounded more like a statement
"Harry-"
"I'll kill him, that little maggot..."
"No, he just...doesn't love me. That's all."
"Apparently noticing boys' love for us isn't either of our strong characteristics because you've clearly never seen Harry talk about you."
I gave her a confused glance, "his eyes light up like a thousand candles flickering with a sincerity I've never seen so profound, he could go on as long as you wanted- about how your hair smells of jasmine or how your eyes grow a deep Amber in firelight, he isn't his happiest without you." I pondered her words momentarily.
I stood up, and she followed. I stared out into the vastness of the horizon, "maybe you had the right idea before." I muttered before peering downwards. She sighed. "You saved me you know..." She stated quietly. "You saved me too, I was heading here for probably the same reason."
She glanced at me, "I was walking after classes and suddenly I was drawn here feeling hopeless, I felt like giving up and I came here."
"We saved each other." She concluded