FORBIDDEN FEELINGS

Chapter 11- I Hate You, Draco Malfoy

It's Saturday 1st October and our punishment is finally over.

I decide to get all of Gryffindor in the Common Room to apologise.

Everyone sits down in front of me whilst I stand by the fireplace. Everyone looks very angry, but I try to ignore them. "I've gathered you lot here today to apologise sincerely about the whole situation. Firstly, I'm sorry to Hermione, Ron, Harry, Seamus and Neville for bringing you guys into this. And I'm sorry to everyone else for being the cause of our house points returning to zero. I promise I'll start getting involved in more house activities and I'll be on my best behaviour so our house points can go up again. I believe that we can all work together on this. You don't have to forgive me but we're such a good house and I feel like we can move on from this and become stronger together. Thank you"

There's an awkward silence but suddenly Ron starts clapping and everyone slowly joins in. I feel a smile form on my face. Thank God they don't hate me. Hermione gives me a hug and we all start joking around together. So glad I've got my friends back.

It's Monday and Miss McGonagall thinks we should have a break from lessons and carve pumpkins to celebrate Halloween. And she tells us that at the end of the month we can all dress up in fancy dress, so we have a month to get our outfits.

Brilliant. We're in a class with Slytherin to carve our pumpkins.

I get paired up with Harry, and Ron gets paired up with Hermione. Of course. And just to make everything worse we're right opposite Malfoy and Parkinson.

All the third year Gryffindors and Slytherins are on a long desk facing each other. Professor McGonagall walks down the middle giving us pumpkins and knives between two. She also waffles about how much she loves Halloween. Eventually, she just lets us get on with what we're doing whilst she marks books at her desk.

I hear a loud whisper from opposite me saying "Carter!". I look up from the pumpkin to see Draco holding a knife. Wtf. He says "Imagine the pumpkins you" as he starts stabbing the pumpkin continuously. Pansy laughs hysterically. I roll my eyes and hold my middle finger up and he smirks, as he's clearly proud of his little joke.

"Just ignore him, he won't do anything"               Harry reassures me. We start having a nice conversation and he makes me laugh so much. I can imagine it looks like we're flirting but I promise you we're not. I can feel someone's eyes on me, so I look up at Draco who quickly turns his head to Pansy. He nudges her flirtatiously and she does it back. "Look how small my hand is compared to yours" Pansy giggles as she places her hand against his.

"Ah, my hands are very big, you know what they say about big hands" Malfoy says loudly causing everyone to glance at him and look away, clearly fed up of him.

I look back at our pumpkin and we're almost done. I'm actually very proud of me and Harry, we've worked together so well, and it looks really good. "Should we cut this last bit together?" Harry suggests. I nod as I place my hand on the knife and he places his sweaty hand on mine. We begin to cut down together, but the pumpkin starts floating causing us to accidentally cut all the way through, ruining our design.

Everyone but me and Harry back away. We stare up at the pumpkin in the air and I realise that Malfoy is doing this. I look at him as he's laughing with his wand controlling the pumpkin. "Malfoy, stop!" I scream.

"If you say so" He says with a grin on his face. He lets go and the pumpkins splats on the table leaving me and Harry covered in it. I scream furiously and shout "You!", jumping over the table and storming up to him. I grab his tie and he starts whimpering as I push him back so he hits the wall.

I pick up his pumpkin and throw it on the floor in anger. I jump on it, making the floor slippery. Everyone gasps and Malfoy jumps over the table and starts pushing me in the middle of the aisle. I push him back which causes us to both slip on the juice. He crawls over and pulls my hair, so I kick him in the chest. All while everyone's chanting "Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!" over and over again. Miss McGonagall tries to split us up, but Malfoy starts dragging me across the floor by my leg on his hands and knees. I feel a draft come up my skirt as I realise, I'm probably flashing everyone. He stops pulling me as he takes a second to look up my skirt and licks his lips. As he's distracted, I move my leg which causes him to fall on his side, so I sit up and slap him in the face which causes everyone to say "ooooh".

"Enough!" Professor McGonagall shouts. She puts a spell on us which causes both of us to go flying to opposite sides of the room. We both grunt as I fly into the Professors desk and he hits the wall. "Dumbledore's office! Both of you!".

We both accept that we've done something wrong and walk out of the classroom whilst the class is silence.

We start walking to Dumbledore's office and Malfoy pushes me. "Whenever you're around there's always trouble" he mumbles.

"Are you joking? This is your fault. You were the one who lifted the pumpkin" I snap back. I'm not taking his bullshit.

"Sorry I ruined you and Potter's little date" Malfoy says mockingly.

"Well it clearly ruined you and Parkinson's date too"

"Me and Parkinson are just friends"

"Me and Harry are as well"

"Sure"

We finally get to Dumbledore's office and I knock on the door. We walk in and Dumbledore is tutting at us.

"What have you two done this time?" He asks, shaking his head.

We explain everything but we can't help but argue with each other.

"Well you have good news. Both houses managed to get 100 house points in the last two weeks. However, after today's incident, 50 house points have been deducted from each. You two just can't stay out of trouble. Tutoring is cancelled again until mid-October because you guys need to learn to get along"

"That will never happen" I yell.

"Well if it never happens then you'll never learn to control your powers, Jessa"

"Why can't I just have someone else teach me? Like Hermione?"

"Because I have faith that the Gryffindor and Slytherin house will get along one day"

Malfoy scoffs and says "You must be joking"

"We'll see" Dumbledore says.

We exit the room and it's lunch time.

I walk to the toilet and clean myself up before heading outside to join my friends. They don't seem as annoyed this time and actually ask if I'm okay in case I'm hurt. Thank God. But the Slytherins seem pretty pissed off with Malfoy as he's alone with Parkinson. Sucks to be him, I guess. I hate you, Draco Malfoy.