you are my secret -a forbidden love story ✔︎

𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧.

At the Astronomy tower/Hermione's POV:

"I was the pen and you were my highlighter, I drew the world and you made it brighter"

The Astronomy Tower is such a beautiful place, although terrible things had happened here. This tower contains so many memories of my childhood, I can remember exactly how exciting it was to bring Hagrid's dragon here. Unfortunately, we were betrayed by Draco.

"You like it here?", Draco said while he was inspecting the room to see if we were alone.

"Absolutely. You can have an amazing view of the whole environment of Hogwarts here. Besides, can you remember that we had our O.W.L.s here?", I answered fascinated by the beauty of the tower. Even though I've been here several times, I never realized it's beauty.

"Uhm yes. With Professor Umbridge. She liked me a lot. Anyway, at this place, horrible things happened. In our 6th year, I had to sneak a number of Death Eaters to Hogwarts, we came to the Astronomy tower together and they wanted me to kill Dumbledore and all the stuff. Coming here remembers me that all these cruel things are over. Voldemort is defeated."

Probably overwhelmed by his memories, Draco came closer to me. Incredibly close to me. His face was already so near to mine that almost seemed like he was about to kiss me, but no, he took a strand that fell onto my face and tucked it back to the rest of my hair.

Then, without any context, he looked at me apologetically and uttered: "I'm so sorry for all the things that happened because of me. If I hadn't sneaked the Death Eaters to Hogwarts, Dumbledore would still be here and the battle might not have taken place and-"

"Draco, it was definitely not your fault. Voldemort would have come anyway. Don't look at the past", I comforted him.

"I'm really trying-" Before he could justify himself any further, I hugged him tightly. I was just feeling so bad for him, I never thought that his past has damaged him so extremely. When our hug came to an end, he smiled at me as a silent thanks.

"Haven't you mentioned you brought pumpkin tarts with you?", I asked him in order to kick the negative atmosphere off.

"Yes, almost forgot that. Do you want one?", he asked while he brushed his hair with his hand.
We both fell in laughter. He's a very funny person.

Soon, we sat down on the floor and started to play truth or dare.

"Tell me about your biggest secret, Hermione." Ugh, his puppy-like facial expression was more or less forcing me to tell him.

"To be honest, I've got two big secrets: one that I'm actually allowed to tell you and one that's a secret between a different person and me", I answered.

"Tell me about yours", he said curiously, "I won't tell anyone."

"Well, you know that I'm with Ron, right", I was ready to shoot my shot, "But we are drifting apart from each other. Which means, we aren't together anymore, basically. Besides, there's someone else. Someone, I had a crush on in the first years, and maybe I'm crushing him again. Anyway, what's yours?"

"Uhm. So you know Astoria, don't you? We will marry after this school year. I mean she's a pretty girl and communicative, but I wouldn't consider her as the love of my life. She's just acting as she loves me to make other girls jealous," Draco was slightly nervous, I saw that. "Anyway, she loves me for the money. To be honest, I had a thing for her. Soon after I realized I might like her, it came out that father planned our marriage to keep our blood pure. Let's not talk about her now: When I was younger, I had a terrible crush on a girl whom my father disliked a lot. Just because she was muggle-born. Anyway, my feelings for her were never replied. The bad thing about it is I still love her. Although I'm supposed to marry someone else" He ended his confession with a piercing look deep into my eyes.

"Who is that girl?", I asked.

"Who is that boy?", he snapped back, "I'll only tell you if you do."

"Okay, 3, 2, 1-"

"You", we both said at once. Wow.

It didn't even take us a second to realize what was happening. He was a bit shocked, then lent towards my face and kissed me lightly. Of course, I kissed him back, and as soon our kiss has started, it turned into a long, intense kiss, loaded with something magical in it. This kind of kiss was unique. I never experienced such a kiss with Ron.

After our kiss ended, Draco looked me in the eyes and asked: "Were you person at the Astronomy tower a few days ago?"

"I think so." I really had no clue how to answer his question without acting awkward.

"Almost thought that", he smirked.

"Uhm- what if Astoria finds out about us?" I was really concerned about Astoria's reaction. She would definitely kill me.

"Ugh, the best thing would be to keep this thing a secret", he answered casually as if our kiss wouldn't value him anything. Then he stood up and whispered something in my ear: "We'll manage it, trust me"

I got goosebumps while he whispered. When his sentence came to an end, he smiled at me as a form of saying goodbye. Lastly, he walked away, taking time with each step. Although everything seems so easy, I've got so many questions: Why wouldn't he break up with Greengrass? And why does our relationship seem like a dream? How should we keep our secret?

Chapter seventeen guys! First of all, thank you for all the support, we hit 500 reads! How amazing! I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter, feel free to leave a comment! See you in the next chapter!