Light in the Darkness

Chapter 19

Adelaide woke up and upon seeing herself still wrapped around Draco, quickly pulled away, loudly clearing her throat. She thought it would be safe to pretend that the love potion had worn off. "Uhm, sorry I must've fallen asleep on accident." her face blushing profusely. He looked at her worringly, "How do you feel?" 

She looked at the floor, "I, I don't know..what happened?" Draco gulped, his face paling. She loved seeing him squirm, desperate to find an adequate lie to spew this time, "Someone uh..uh..slipped you Love Potion." 

Adelaide faked a gasp, covering her mouth dramatically, "Not again!" she cried covering her face, "Who did it? Perseus is going to kill him, you remember what happened last time." she said threateningly, making Draco even more uncomfortable. He knew it was Perseus's idea in the first place, but still the thought of the boy who was beaten so badly last year was enough to make him still fear for his life. 

"We don't know yet." He looked down nervously, fidgeting with his robe. "What do you mean you don't know? Who did I..you know..act weirdly towards?" she scooted closer to Draco, now beginning to see fear flash in his eyes. Oh how she loved the power she now held over him.

 "It seems like as though they wanted to target the both of us..they made it so you would fall in love with me." he blushed slightly. Adelaide sat back, "oh.." there was a painful silence between the two. "So, what was the damage, might I ask? I hope I didn't make a fool out of myself." Adelaide grimaced. 

Draco looked up at her, "It's nothing to be embarrassed about really, everyone knew someone spiked you with Love Potion. I wouldn't even worry about it." 

He then looked up at her, "There was..one thing Adelaide. Before you drank the tea, which I assume had the Love Potion in it..."

"It smelled like you." 

He looked shocked that she admitted it so openly, "I remember." she gave him a weak smile and patted his hand. She got up and began to make her way to the girl's dorm.

"Addie?" Draco called, making her turn around.

"Would you maybe like to hang out sometime this summer? Father, my Mum and I were planning on going to the Quidditch World Cup." 

She smiled and replied, "I would love to, Draco." she turned around and a wicked grin spread across her face.

She was going to make Draco Malfoy fall in love with her, and then she was going to tear his heart into pieces. No one would mess with her like this again.

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As she was heading to Potions class with her friends, they came across the Golden Trio. Adelaide sneered at Ron, "Tell your brothers I said hi, won't you?" slamming her shoulder into his before passing through, making sure it wasn't hard enough to hurt him. Everyone laughed at the poor redhead who rubbed his shoulder. 

As they sat down, Draco made a very obvious effort to sit next to Adelaide. She silently groaned, her guilt began to creep in of her plan to lead him on, but it was quickly erased when Professor Snape ironically brought out a cauldron saying,

"For the last potion of the year, we will be brewing Amortentia. Normally, I wouldn't give this lesson until sixth year Potions, but you all have exceeded my expectations. Can any one tell me what that is?"

My face turned bright red as my group of friends quickly avoided eye contact with me. Much to my annoyance, Draco rested his hand on mine as an effort of consolation. Viola was the only one who looked at me as she cringed and mouthed, I'm sorry. 

Granger's hand shot up desperately, waving it furiously in the air. Snape gave a disappointed sigh, "Yes, Ms. Granger?"

She then began to explain the Potion almost verbatim from the textbook.