We Belong Together || Draco Malfoy X Reader

59| Moving On?

Y/N POV

For the first time in a month, I decided to go out of my room to meet Hermione. People were surprised to see me wandered into the common room. I ignored them and strolled through the corridors immediately. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to face Draco or Pansy on my way to the library cause that would be too much to bear.

"Y/N! We've missed you!" Hermione exclaimed, hugging me excitedly.

"Listen, Hermione, I'm here to tell you that I want to leave D.A."

"What?" Harry gasped.

"You can't do that Y/N. You're one of the best people we have here, don't let your emotion controls you," Ron spoke.

"Ron's right, Y/N. You have to move on from this whole chaotic situation. Malfoy isn't everything, there are plenty more fish in the sea," Hermione agreed.

Hermione was completely wrong in this matter. Draco was everything to me and I didn't want anyone else. I wanted him. It had to be him. He knew it very well yet he still left me.

"Y/N please don't leave. Everyone must be thrilled to see you back again," Harry pleaded.

"Put it this way, perhaps you will be able to move on if you get yourself busy in D.A." Hermione suggested.

She might be right. I couldn't lock myself in my room forever. I had to start gaining my will to live again and prepare for my O.W.L. test this year. D.A. might be a solution for me. I told them that I wouldn't leave D.A. for now. They let out a sigh of relief and asked me to go with them to the room of requirement where we usually used for D.A. meetings.

Yes, life must go on and Draco was just a passerby in my life. This was what I yelled in my head over and over again to distract me from thinking about how I missed his presence around me.

Harry tried to cheer me up along the way by throwing random jokes that mostly cringed me out but I laughed anyway. That was when I saw Draco coming from the other direction of the hallway with some girls around him including Pansy and Astoria, and also the boys from the gang, Vincent, Greg and Blaise. I got it if Pansy was clinging around him right now, but why Astoria? Was it the pairing up thingy Mrs Greengrass mentioned in her manor? I knew it, she bloody liked him.

I could tell that he was surprised to see me here. Others might not see it but I knew he was trying to hide his surprised look. If I could be selfish for a second, I wanted to see the sparks in his eyes when he saw me right now, like how it used to be each time he saw me coming to him.

We stopped in our tracks and froze. I didn't know what was wrong with me but I swore, tears started gathering up in my eyes just by looking at him. He was staring straight at me but it wasn't the warm and lovely stare we used to share. It was a cold one, a dark blank stare. He wasn't my Draco anymore. A month had passed but my heart still hurt just like when he told me we needed a break in the hospital wing. Or maybe it got worse.

"Come on Y/N," Hermione whispered and we walked past him and his girls. It should've been me, the only girl who could be around him. Vincent, Greg and Blaise sent me an apologetic look as our eyes met.

Why was he acting like this after the break-up? How could he move on this quick? I was starting to doubt that the love he gave me was all real. It felt like someone was trying to pull out my heart by force.

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Dumbledore told me that he had assigned Pansy to be a temporary prefect of Slytherin to replace me until I was willing to take the role again. Maybe this was what it was supposed to be if Draco didn't stop me that night, he and Pansy being the perfect prefect couple. I refused to take the role again because being a prefect would just make me had to see Draco's face every day. I wanted to see his face every day, but now it would just hurt me and make it harder for me to move on.