Unconditionally

Chapter 11

The next morning Harry woke up at 6 am, it was a Saturday and so he didn’t have to get up just yet, but after he tried to fall back to sleep, and failing, he decided to just go to the common room. He stepped out of bed and put on his robes, careful not to wake up his dorm mates.

When he sat down on a couch in the common room, near the fireplace, he leaned back and closed his eyes. He had to find Draco, he or she or whatever, needed to know he still loved them. After about twenty minutes of sitting alone in the common room, one of his friends, Seamus Finnegan,  came walking downstairs.

“Hi Harry! What are you doing down here so early? Usually you’re asleep till 10 am or so.”

“Couldn’t sleep, lot on my mind.” Seamus looked at him “Care to tell uncle Seamus?” Harry chuckled “Sorry, but it’s not mine to tell I think, it’s rather personal. What are you doing here at this time? Usually I have to wake you up.” Seamus looked nervous, and Harry wondered what was going on. “I heard you going downstairs and, I wanted to talk to you, when no one could overhear us.”

Harry looked at him, “What did you want to say then Seamus?” “Well, er, we decided to tell you first, because you kind of have the reputation of not judging people easily and shit.” We? What was going on? “Who is we?” Seamus closed his eyes and said “Me and Dean, we’ve er, been dating for the past sixth months. ”

Harry smiled “That’s amazing! Thank you for telling me Seamus.” Seamus looked at him in surprise “He was right! Of course you wouldn’t judge...” “Well, that would be a bit hypocrite wouldn’t it?”

“Hypocrite? Harry! That was what bothered you? You have a boyfriend!” Harry sighed “I had, now I don’t even know it anymore.” Seamus looked confused now “What do you mean? You broke up?” “Well, not really, I’m not sure if they are my boyfriend, or my girlfriend. They told me they were transgender last night, and then ran away in fear I would hate them. ”

“So, you had a boyfriend, who is actually your girlfriend? That must be pretty weird for you?” Harry sighed “Yeah, that’s why I yelled like that at Hermione yesterday, they just told me, and ran away, I was just confused and stressed out.” “Well, you’re not to blame for that, of course you didn’t want her talking to you like that at the moment. Can you tell me who you’re boyfriend/girlfriend, was?” Harry shook his head “I’d love to tell you, but it’s not mine to tell he’s transgender, I’m sorry.”

“Doesn’t matter, of course you can’t tell. Now, I’m gonna wake Dean up, breakfast starts and I want to be early. Joining us?” Harry nodded and stood up, walking after Seamus back to the dorms.

Ethelyn’s point of view

I woke up in a strange bed, completely yellow. When I looked around, I saw Kiana, Celeste, Dabria and Dawn all sitting around Dabria’s bed, softly talking. I felt weird, and when I stroke my hand through my hair my eyes widened. The charms had worn off. Dawn looked at me and her eyes widened in shock “Ethelyn!”

This couldn’t be happening, I didn’t memorize the charms, I couldn’t change back now. I looked in fear at the four girls “They’ve worn off, I don’t know them without a book.” I bit my lip, trying not to cry. Here I was, Draco Malfoy in the Hufflepuff girls dormitory’s, where the whole common room had seen a crying girl walking to last night. Dawn ran over to me and put her arms around me “Do you know where the book is? One of us could get it for you while you stay here. Sshh, it’ll be fine.”

“I It’s in the Room of Requirements...” Celeste looked worried, “I don’t know where it is, I’m sorry...” “Doesn’t matter, not your fault.” Kiana spoke up for the first time that morning “I’m a prefect, I’ll go to the common room and tell everyone who’s there to go back to their dorms for like 20 minutes, then you can take Ethelyn outside.” Celeste nodded and helped me standing up. “Thank you! Thank you so much!”

Kiana smiled at me and walked to the common room in her pyjamas. She came back after 5 minutes “Everyone is gone, we have 15 minutes. ” I smiled thankfully at her and stood up shakily. Dawn helped me stand and together with the other girls, I walked out of the Hufflepuff common room.  “You’re going to the Room of Requirement?” I nodded “But just to fix myself up for now, then I’ll have to go back to the Slytherin dorms.”

Kiana gave me a hug “It’ll be alright okay? That’s a promise” I smiled at her, said goodbye and turned around to walk to the Room of Requirements. When I entered the room, I looked at myself in the mirror, it was obvious I had cried, it was written all over my face.

While cleaning myself up, I thought about Harry. I wasn’t sure if I was ready to talk to him, if he wanted to, that’s to say. I had lost him, he was disgusted with me. I sighed, my friends were getting suspicious, I was almost never with them anymore, so I couldn’t be Ethelyn today, I had to be Draco. The room conjured some Slytherin robes that fitted me, and I pulled them on. I looked in the mirror and sighed, just as always, Draco Malfoy, the Ice prince of Slytherin.

When I walked to the Slytherin common room, of course it was my luck to see Harry, Finnegan and Thomas walking there. Finnegan looked at me “What’s wrong with Malfoy? He looks even worse than usual!” At which Thomas laughed

Harry opened his mouth to say something, but I didn’t gave him the chance “Don’t say anything Potter, you lower the IQ of all of us.” I felt guilty for saying it, but couldn’t show it, of course. Without saying another word I walked past them, as fast as I could to the dormitories.

I didn’t see the hurt look on Harry’s face as I said those words, and maybe it was better I didn’t.

They will be together again, promise! It won’t take too long anymore. Please review! I like reading them J