tell me you love me (cedric and draco)

twenty four

would recommend listening to "all i want" by kodaline while reading this :)

Please.

It all happened so fast. A loud noise. I can barely see, but Harry and Cedric crash to the ground, the trophy falling with them. The band starts immediately playing the Hogwarts match, cheers erupting from every single direction, every single house, even Slytherin.

"They won," I whisper. "They won!" I repeat agin, louder this time. "Draco! We won!" I laugh and throw my arms around his neck, jumping up and down. He laughs in my ear and pulls me to him, his arms tight around me. 

"Those gits did it," he mutters in disbelief, and I pull back momentarily to smack his arm. "I told you everything would be fine," he smiles.

Then we hear it. The scream.

I turn around in Draco's still arms to see Fleur, the girl from Beauxbatons, staring  at Harry and Cedric, pointing and screaming. The music comes to a stop and I stand on my tiptoes, trying to get a better look, while I silently curse myself for being short. Why was she yelling?

Everyone becomes silent and I hear wailing. Awful, heart wrenching cries. Draco stiffens immediately and pulls on my arm, clearly seeing something that I can't over the crowd of people.  "Don't look," he whispers, pulling on my arm. "We need to go, Lauren. Now."

I turn to look at him. He never calls me Lauren unless he's angry, and he's definitely not mad. He seems scared. "What's-"

"No! No! Don't touch him!" Harry?

I push past Draco and all the other students, heading to the field, my heart racing. Something's wrong. Something's definitely wrong.

I reach the grass and frantically try to see what's happening. Professor McGonagall stands in front of me, blocking my view. "Get her out of here," she says quietly to Draco, who followed me.

"That's my son!"

No. It can't be.

"That's my boy!"

That sounds eerily like Cedric's father. I pull myself from Draco's hands and move around McGonagall. No.

"He's dead!" Harry wails. "Cedric's dead! He killed him! Voldemort killed him," Harry sobs, leaning over Cedric. No. "He wanted me to take his body back here. Don't touch him!"

My heart stops. "No," I whisper. "No!" I scream, a sob escaping my throat, already sore from cheering. I reach out to run to him, but Draco grabs me. "No! Please, no!" I scream.  I fall to my knees, Draco following, hugging me, trying to pull me back to reality. I feel the tears start falling down my face. I know I'm screaming, but I can't hear anything.

i

am

    falling

        and

             he

              isnt't

                 here

                       to

                         catch

                                 me.

••••

My love,

Never did I ever think that I would be able to meet someone like you. Someone to make me feel the way you made me feel. Someone who I knew would love me for the rest of our lives, if only we could spend ours together. The universe is cruel. I would have loved to spend the rest of my life with you my love, but the world had other plans for us. Plans I hate the universe for.