and I stand with you

twenty-five

He did talk to me.

He spilled his guts, actually. He told me every detail about everything he felt, and I embraced him as we spoke.

When it finally came time to go back to school, Draco and I were not prepared. We never wanted to go back.
"I got something for you." He nudged my side, whispered to me while dumb and dumber slept across from us in the train. He pulled a small black box out of his jacket pocket, handing it to me. He took a sip of his juice nonchalantly as I opened it. It was a bracelet, identically to the one I had given him months ago.
"I charmed them both. They show messages to each other, so if you need me I'll know." He smiled, taking it and putting it on my wrist.
"It means lover, you know?" He held my hand after.
"What does?" I tilted my head.
"Amasiunculus."
"Oh." I smiled.
"I knew when you gave it to me." He shrugged.
"Guess you can say I can tell the future." I poked his side, and then leaned into his shoulder to try to get some sleep before we arrived.

Draco woke me when we got there, and helped me carry my things.
"You know I'm in this, right?" We walked the quiet corridors together.
"In this?" I questioned, stopping to share out at the moon.
"This- us. I'm in." The fall breeze swept through the window.
"I still don't get what you mean." I told him honestly.
"I think you do." He smirked, leaning his back against the cold stone as he stood next to me.
"Me and you. You're in?" I raised an eyebrow at him.
"One hundred percent. I'm all in if you are." He grabbed me, and we walked back to the common room.
"I'm all in, Draco." He stopped in front of a door I hadn't seen before. When he opened it, it was like his bedroom at the manor.
"I asked for the extra prefect room from Snape. You can stay here with me." He motioned to my trunk, which was sitting at the end of the bed with my bag on top of it.
"Draco-" I was still to fazed with what we were talking about, "-all in? What does that mean for you?" I sat on the bed, and he kneeled in front of me.
"Exactly what all in means. I want all of it, Octavia. Not just sex. I want you to be mine." This was something Fred had never said, he had never asked me to be his.
"Okay." I nodded, and he got up and sat next to me.
"Okay?" He took my hand.
"I'm all in." I repeated, and he smiled big and kissed me.

We all sat together for dinner, like we had since the beginning of school for us.
"You look disgusting." Draco snorted at a kid sitting across from us who was stuffing his face with food. His mouth hung open, in shock that someone would speak to him that way. I smirked, leaning in to join.
"You're going to catch flies." I rolled my eyes and leaned back in my seat again. Pansy kicked me from under the table.
"Stop being so mean." She scoffed at me.
"Why don't you say that again?" I gave her an evil smile, leaning across the table.
"I said-" but before she could finish, I hit her with my elbow. Right in the nose.
"Ouch!" She exclaimed, bringing her hands up to her bleeding nose.
"Say it again, bitch," I spat at her, leaning down to make us eye to eye, "- I dare you." She was silent, and ran from the table with tears in her eyes. I rolled mine and sat back down, scanning the crowd of students for a certain head of red. There he sat, unaffected. He laughed with his friends, like we hadn't just broken up. Not that we did break up, because he had never asked me to be his girlfriend.
"Octavia." Draco grabbed my hand under the table, squeezing it to gain my attention.
"Yes, Draco?" I smiled, still that evil smile that wouldn't go away.
"Let's go to class." He stood, taking me with him.

"Classes are useless. It's not like we will be here next year." I rolled my eyes as we tried to do homework together in his room.
"I can think of plenty of other things we can do." He smirked at me, dropping our books onto the floor and crawling on top of me. His skin, just like my own, was cold. I relaxed with every touch, our bodies melding together in the night.
"I am so-" he was interrupted by knocking on his door, to which he huffed and got up annoyed. He wasn't even worried about putting a shirt on, but I was, so I pulled his jumper on and sat on his bed while he answered the door. It was quickly shut when he realized it was just another Slytherin student who was lost.
"What were you saying?" I asked, pulling the jumper back off as he got on top of me once more.
"Nothing." He mumbled, kissing me. Rain pattered the windows lightly at first, before coming down in a complete storm as we kissed each other.
"Tell me you want me." It was what he had said to me, that night in the common room when we were caught by Flint. This time, there was no one around. It was just us, together. He placed another kiss on my lips, bringing his hands to the hemline of my skirt, yanking it up before sliding my underwear down my legs slowly. Almost painfully slow.
"I want you." I moaned as his head dipped between my legs. This was new to me, a sensation I had never felt before, not even with Fred. He was showing me new things, things I enjoying immensely. I tossed my head back, running my hand through his hair as I tried to be quiet. His hands forced my legs to stay apart, his ringed fingers pressing into my skin with force, a force I loved coming from him, and I trembled as he continued. He knew I was unable to be quiet, and he reached for his wand to sound proof the room before coming back down. I let out a moan I was holding in, grasping at the sheets around me tightly. He kissed my thigh, and then my stomach, and trailed them all the way to my neck and he slid his pants off. I wrapped my legs around him, and he leaned down to kiss me before entering me all at once without warning. He didn't need to, but he covered my mouth with his hand as I cried out in pleasure, and when it slowed to a normal pace, he stuck his thumb in my mouth, and my tongue swirled around it before he took it out. I looked at him as innocently as I could before he went back to being rough. As soon as he looked like he was breaking a sweat, I flipped us so I was on top of him, rocking my hips back and forth. He leaned against the headboard, reaching around and unhooking my bra before tossing that on the floor. I didn't break pattern as I tugged my skirt up over me as well, throwing that away.
"Fuck.." He groaned, grabbing my hips to keep my movements the same as he leaned his head back. I shuttered into his body, my entire being shaking. I sighed, but I was quickly put back on bottom as he continued.

I could barely keep my eyes open as we laid in his bed after.
"You're so pretty when you fuck me." He whispered, pulling the blanket over both of us.
"Aren't you supposed to say I'm pretty all the time?" I teased him, yawning into the sleeve of the jumper I had thrown on.
"You know I think you look beautiful all the time. Just especially when you're on top of me riding m-" I stopped him, swatting his chest.
"What?" He looked at me defensively before we both started laughing.
"Go to sleep, Amasiunculus." I whispered, snuggling into his chest.
"You go to sleep." He fought back, before yawning himself.
"Wake me up if you have a nightmare." He told me before I rolled over, and he wrapped his arm around me tightly. I locked my fingers into his and fell into a peaceful trance.