As the World Caves In

stand by me

Skye

     When we get off the train Harry comes up to me "Hey can we talk for a second?" he asks. I turn to Draco "Go ahead I'll be in there in a second." and give him a quick kiss. He walks away but keeps looking back at me to make sure I'm okay. "So you're back together with him?" he asks confused. "Yeah, what did you want to talk about?" I ask him straightforward. "I heard what happened at the Burrow I just wanted to check in and make sure you're fine." he says warmly. "I also know that you left your coin there and without it you can't come to D.A meetings.." he continues with a sad tone. "Yeah, so?" I ask pretending not to care. "Skye I understand what you're trying to do but believe me being close to your friends is better than pushing them away in order to keep them safe." he explains. "You might think we're similar in that way but you don't really know me. It is easier this way..." I say to him trying to make my point but I'm not sure I completely believe it myself. "I may not know  you that well but Ginny and George does and they miss you" he tries convincing me. "Harry I appreciate the effort but I've already made up my mind so if that is all..." I end the conversation and turn away from him. "Skye" he yells after me so I look at him briefly. "At least talk to them!" I nod to him then catch up to Draco. "What did he want?" my boyfriend asks curiously. "To hang out with them more but I shut him down" I say and he looks at me proudly then takes my hand to hold it. "We should start studying together again for our O.W.Ls" I say to him when we get to the dungeons. "But it's hard to concentrate with you being around" he responds as he fondles my face. "Ew I'm gonna throw up" Blaise says imitating to hurl as he hops on a sofa. "Aww jealous Blaise?" I ask him funnily. "Shut up" he whispers under his breath. From the corner of my eye I can see Pansy sulking because Draco and I are back together. Her being mad and annoyed makes me kind of happy so to piss her off even more I grab Draco's face and kiss him deeply. "Woohoo that's our captain" Pucey walks in. Draco gets bothered so he ends the kiss "Get lost Adrian" he says angrily. "I though you and your little girlfriend were putting on a show" Pucey comes closer to Draco. "Okay guys shut it!" I step in between them and push Adrian away to stop them from fighting. "Still feisty, couldn't tame her huh Malfoy?" Pucey keeps going which makes me outraged so I pull my wand out and point it at him ready to hex his ass off I can even see fear in Adrian's eyes but Draco puts his hand on mine calming me down and holding me back from doing something stupid so I lower my wand . "Ooh I see how it is he can control you" Adrian continues to mess with me. "Okay that's it" I roll my sleeves up then jump on him and start hitting him. Everyone cheeres for me but I hear Draco's voice faintly "Skye it's enough, Skye!" When I feel like Adrian has learned his lesson which indicates he's covered in blood I get up and say to him "You're off the quidditch team and if you say something like that to me again I'll use more than just my hands." I threathen him with a calm voice. I'm pretty sure I heard him say "Bitch" softly under his breath so I ask "What was that?" but he doesn't answer, he can't even look at me. I turn to Draco and there's both respect and fear in his eyes. "Come on, I'll clean you up" he says to me lovingly. We go to the boys bathroom I wash the blood off my hands while Draco's looking at me with piercing eyes "What?" I ask him as I wipe my hands with a towel. "You shouldn't have done that. It was cool though" he smiles at me. "He deserved it, he insulted me" I say to him as I'm looking into the mirror to fix my hair. "It's scary how much I like you" he says to me contented. I step closer to him, put my hands on his chest "I like you a lot too" I say and kiss him.

      Our first quidditch practice of the second semester was messy because I kicked Adrian off the team so we needed a new chaser and it's going to be hard to replace him because he was one of the best. So we practice without him and I'll hold a selection to choose a new chaser for our team, although with Umbridge being here she might just cancel quidditch altogether but in the meantime I try my best to get the team to work together and get in synch. In my free time Draco and I study together although it usually just ends up with us hanging out or if I try to study he'll just annoy me like "Skye! Love! Pay attention to mee" and makes it impossible for me to actually revise, I swear when it's just the two of us he acts like a child, I love him though. I even told him about Snape using Legilimency on me and making me forget things he told me he'd help me figure out what things our professor erased from my memory. We even tried to steal veritaserum but it was hard without the Weasley twins. When Snape caught us and asked "Ms. Thorn and Mr. Malfoy what are you doing in my inventory?" with a calm but intimidating tone. "Oh professor Umbridge tolds us that we should get some veritaserum for her for the uhh interrigations" Malfoy bluffs. "You can tell her that if she needs something she can come get it herself don't send students here" he demands slowly. "Of course professor, we'll get going now" Dray says to him and we go out to the corridors. "That was close" I giggle softly. "Now we just have to hope they won't talk to each other" Draco notes.

     And as the months pass Draco and I are having the most fun ever and we're so happy even though the whole school's afraid of us we're living our best life. Even if I have to stay away from Ginny, Hermione and well actually all of my friends who aren't in slytherin because I could put them in harm's way. Ginny still tries to talk to me a lot and sometimes we do exchange words in public, I mean I couldn't cut my bestfriend out of my life entirely. When we're in school and people can see us we try talking less to each other but I took Harry's advice so Ginny and I keep in touch in secret, we usually meet on Thursday in the room of requirement which turns into a tea house when we go there. Every time she tries to convince me to rejoin Dumbledore's Army but fails to persuade me (she should leave that to the slytherins.) We normally sit on a couch and pretend we're fancy ladies drinking tea. "So how are things with Malfoy?" she asks me. "Thriving, what about your crush on Harry?" I ask and take a sip of tea. "I don't know.. I fancied him for years you know that but I'm not sure if he just sees me as his sister or something more" she explains. "The only way to find out is if you make a move" I offer an idea. "Yeah, I probably should" she responds with hope. We talk for about an hour then go back to our quarters. "Next week same time" she says as we hug. "Same time" I repeat smiling at her.