Constellations We Don't Name

Eliana Nott has always lived in the space between. Between Ravenclaw and Slytherin, between who her family expects her to be and who she's quietly becoming, between loyalty and truth. At Hogwarts, she belongs everywhere but at the same time, nowhere at all.

By day, she moves easily between worlds. Laughing with her friends, sitting beside her brother, pretending the lines aren't as sharp as they feel.

By night, she escapes. To the Astronomy Tower, to the silence, to the stars that don't ask her to choose. It was never supposed to be shared, until him.

Draco Malfoy was always just a constant in the background, familiar, untouchable, and entirely out of reach. Someone she had known her whole life, but never really seen. Not like this, not until the quiet moments, not until the space between words, not until it became something neither of them could ignore, but some things were never meant to blur.
Not bloodlines, not loyalty, not the kind of feelings that change everything.

And the closer Eli gets to the truth about her family, her choices, and herself, the more impossible it becomes to stay in the middle.