FORBIDDEN FEELINGS part 2

Chapter 10- Cedric Saves the Day

On the weekend Cedric and his mates come over and we play card games and have a laugh. Me and Cedric are getting so close.

It's Tuesday the 11th October and Dean is teaching me spells in tutoring. He's not as good as Malfoy but he's nicer and I feel a lot more comfortable with him. Suddenly the door swings open. We both turn around to see who's in the doorway. Ughh! It's Malfoy. What does he want?

"Get out Malfoy, you're not my tutor anymore!" I shout.

"Well I should be" He replies.

"No. Dean's a better teacher than you were."

He laughs "Thomas doesn't know half the things I know."

"Please can you leave" Dean begs.

Malfoy starts charging up to me but before he can get to me, Dean stands in front of me, attempting to protect me. However, Malfoy just pushes Dean out the way and grabs me by my collar. We make eye contact and I get butterflies. He glances at my lips and back at my eyes. Dean interrupts by pushing Malfoy away. Malfoy then pulls his wand out and shouts "Stupefy!" which causes Dean to get knocked out.

"Why did you do that?" I shout.

He looks at me with a stern look and grabs my head, forcing a kiss on me. But I don't back away. Instead, I enjoy this moment as much as I can. I haven't kissed him since the last night of third year. This feels so right... but so wrong. This kiss makes me feel warm and safe, even though I'm far from it. Suddenly, I start think about Cedric, so I let go of Malfoy. Wait, I'm making a big mistake. Malfoy's not the one for me. Cedric is. He's actually nice to me. Malfoy just makes me feel like shit.

Malfoy goes in for another kiss, but I get my wand out and point it at him. He looks at the wand with anger in his eyes. "Get away from me" I mutter. He surrenders and walks back slowly, looking me up and down.

"I see how it is" he says. Suddenly he points his wand at my wand and shouts "Expelliarmus" causing my wand to fly out of my hand. He then pushes me against the wall, placing his right hand around my neck. It's kind of hot but he's going to try and hurt me, I know he is.

To my surprise, Cedric enters the room. He clocks Dean on the floor and then sees me being held against the wall. "Let go of her" Cedric demands, and Malfoy does so. I start to catch my breath back and Cedric gets his wand out.

"You don't want to do this" Malfoy says, trying to intimidate Cedric.

"Oh believe me, I do" Cedric answers.

Something in the back of my mind doesn't want to watch Malfoy and Cedric get hurt so I shout "Cedric, check on Dean!"

Cedric sighs and crouches beside Dean, checking for a pulse. Malfoy looks back at me with confusion on his face. I whisper "Go."

He looks even more confused, so I gesture him to leave. He then runs out the door causing Cedric to look up from Dean. "Where's he going?" he asks.

"Just leave it. We need to take Dean to the Hospital Wing."

I grab my wand. Cedric nods and picks Dean up and rests him on his shoulder. It's quite attractive. As we're walking, Cedric says "You do realise that if I didn't come in there, you could've been killed."

"Nah, Malfoy would never kill me."

He laughs "You're joking, right?"

"No, there's no way he would actually kill me."

"Not on purpose. You can never trust spells."

I shrug and Cedric continues "I just hate the way he treats you."

"Same."

"He needs to be put in his place. Right, you go back to your dorm, I'll take Dean to the Hospital Wing. Stay safe."

I nod and we depart.

-Cedric's POV-

I drop Dean off at the Hospital Wing safely. As I am walking to a Quidditch practice, I see the white-haired bastard with his friends. They're seeing who can spit the furthest. How disgusting! I walk up to him with my hands in my pocket, so I look manly. "Do you think you can spit better than you can duel?" I ask him, intimidatingly.

Draco looks up at me in surprise "Pardon?"

"You vs me. Saturday. Duelling match at the Entrance Courtyard. 5pm. You better turn up otherwise everyone will know that you're a coward."

"I'm not a coward."

"See you Saturday, pussy" I say, walking away.

"I'm not a pussy."

-Jessa's POV-

The next morning, I sit down for breakfast in the Great Hall. Neville sits down and asks "Did you hear what's happening on Saturday?"

"No" I reply, and everyone leans in. Neville grabs a slice of toast and starts spreading butter on it.

"Neville?" Hermione questions. He looks up with dopey eyes.

"What?" Neville asks.

"What's happening Saturday?" Ron queries.

"Oh yeah. Basically, Cedric and Draco are having a duel"

"WHAT?!" I scream and all my friends look at me "Why is this happening?"

I stand up in anger and walk straight to Cedric.

"We need to talk about something" I mutter at him. He looks up at me, confused.

"NOW" I shout, causing him to get up and follow me out the Great Hall. I glance over at Malfoy and he looks at me and then looks down at his food.

When we get into the corridor, Cedric asks "What's wrong?"

"Why are you fighting Malfoy?"

"Well I'd say it's more of a duel."

"I don't care what it is! It's NOT happening."

"What? I'm not backing out. If he wants to then he can."

"Just cancel it or something."

"Why are you on his side?"

"I'm not on his side."

"Well you clearly are, telling me to back out. Tell him to back out."

"I'm not talking to him."

"Then why are you on his side?"

"I'm not on his side, for God's sake."

"You should be on my side really. I'm protecting you. I'm putting him in his place. I know the way he treats you."

"I know the way he treats me too, but I just don't want this to happen!"

As I begin to walk off, he shouts "Jessa, wait! We can talk about this."

I ignore him and walk to my first lesson which is History of Magic. I just hope one of them doesn't turn up.