Ocean of lies | Draco Malfoy

He hated her.
Not with a simple, passing dislike-
No, he hated her with every thread of his soul.
Her very presence ignited a fire inside him,
A flame that crackled with contempt.
He hated the way her smile always knew too much,
How she tucked her hair behind her ear when she was upset,
The restless dance of her fingers when nerves took hold,
The biting words she threw like daggers
Every time he entered a room.
He hated her with every breath,
Every heartbeat.

She hated him,
With a depth as huge as his own.
His sarcasm, his cocky grin,
The way he never spoke to her with anything resembling respect-
Or spoke to her at all, for that matter.
He was a storm of annoyance,
A whirlwind of rudeness.
She hated the way his very existence made her pulse race,
How his presence seemed to twist the air itself.
She hated it all.

And yet,
Somewhere between the hate and the love,
There's a line so thin,
You could mistake one for the other.