Absquatulate- To leave without saying goodbye

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As we arrived there, we didn't say a word, we just headed off to a hotel checked ourselves in, with the muggle money I had provided, obviously that was a part of my plan. Not the interaction with my mother tho, I thought we would just quickly grab some clothes from home and then leave but yeah. Draco and I had separate rooms, but when I still wasn't able to sleep at around 2am, I went to his room. He opened it and I just walked in and laid in his bed. When we were younger, we would often sleep in each other's rooms. We were each other's safe space. Once he climbed into bed with me, he wrapped his arms around me and started crying into my chest and so did I. I grabbed his hair and I was absolutely sobbing. While I stroked his platinum hair, I heard him apologize to me at least a million times. I didn't know what he was apologizing for, but I didn't have the strength to ask him in that moment. Once we both finally stopped crying our eyes out, he said it once again with raspy voice ,,I am so sorry." ,,Me too" I stated and then we both felt us drifting into sleep.

The next morning, we had extremely puffy eyes and we both looked like we crawled out of a grave. I went back to my room to shower and also just generally made myself look somewhat presentable, when my thoughts drifted off to Miles. I told him I was no good and now it was proven. I hoped just as much that he would hate me as much as that he would understand and forgive me. I felt terrible, I knew rumors would probably be all over Hogwarts now and people would talk about how one of the Malfoy siblings killed Dumbledore, obviously I did, but I didn't want Miles to hear it from them, yet I knew, this way it was a lot safer, for everyone.

Just as I slipped on a hoodie, I heard a knock on my door. I knew it was Dray, so I put on my shoes and walked out. We were walking through London next to each other, not exchanging one single word. Finally, we started talking and well, we were talking about god knows what. None of us were talking about all the terrible things that had happened, we just talked about the old days and all of our adventures. Like, one day me and Draco would go to our tree house for hours just to read the wizard of oz, or when dobby me and him used to always play fight in the snow. But suddenly, we talked about our first year in Hogwarts and how it has changed both of our lives and that, definitely not for the better. Dray became a slimy, spoiled git and I became someone with a sharp tongue who questioned everyone's Loyalty, because to me no one was ever trustworthy enough, despite Dray. It has always been about self-preservation for me and Draco. While Draco and I both knew, that we wished we had friends, besides each other, we would never admit it because both of us knew, that it wasn't in our nature to let other people in on our life. In first year, I had actually been a really upbeat and loud girl, sooner or later people were irritated by it and they also thought that it didn't fit the Malfoy name, that's when is stopped being genuinely nice and just started to become quieter. Draco takes blood status very seriously, while I only love the idea of it. Obviously, I enjoyed having power and well power was almost guaranteed if you were a pureblood, well at least as long as you weren't a Weasly, but it never was a necessity or even a factor when it came to potential love interests. When it came to muggleborns tho, I would never say the other word for it. I couldn't, even tho I've been tempted to say it a lot when I was around Hermine.

,,Remember when Moody turned you into a ferret?" I asked him. Draco just glared angrily at me and shook his head ,,It never happened, you just made all that up in that little head of yours." I just giggled.

Back in the hotel I suddenly felt immense pain on my arm. I carefully lifted up my sleeve and I could see the snake moving out of the skull, which meant Voldemort was calling for me. I got scared and told Draco what happened, we both quickly packed our things and changed clothes. I was wearing all black and so was he since that kind of was Voldemort's dress code you could say. When I grabbed my brothers arm I didn't know what to say so all that came out was ,,I need you to stay safe for me. I just know, that sooner then we expect terrible things will happen, but I need you. Do you understand that?" Draco just whispered yes, and then we apparated to Malfoy Manor.