Chapter Twenty One

Since the natural ice skating rink of the park melted and turned into a lake again, you train at The Rink. It's a public ice skating rink.

There are other skaters there, but there is enough rink for you to train today.

A beautiful romantic song is playing, so you put on your ice skates and start performing a beautiful new routine as the music goes:

«But you love me, you love me

Why the hell you love me so

When you could have anyone else?

Yeah yeah, he loves me, he loves me

And I bet he never lets me go

And shows me how to love myself...»

Meanwhile, Draco keeps working so hard on his task, repairing the vanishing cabinet in the Room of Requirement. The sooner he repairs it, the sooner his nightmare ends.

Suddenly, Draco and you feel connected, like you were sending a strong energy to each other. It's something that words can't explain but it makes both of you feel unstoppable, like you could spit fire.

«...'Cause, baby, the best part of me is you

Lately everything's making sense too

Baby, I'm so in love with you»

Time goes by and Draco is heading to the Room of Requirement. He is holding a little white bird that he found singing in a cage on his way. He needs to do a last test, and needs a living being to do it.

Draco closes his eyes in front of the wall at the end of the the corridor of the seventh floor, and a big door appears. He enters the room and uncovers the vanishing cabinet to put the bird inside.

A little feather sticks on his sleeve. Draco grabs it carefully with his thumb and index and smiles. It makes him remember his delicate and beautiful princess, and how much she loves white roses.

Draco takes out his wand and, pointing it to the cabinet, he casts:

—Harmonia Nectere Passus.

Draco opens the cabinet door and the bird is missing. It seems like he transported it to Borgin and Burkes, but he needs to bring it back to Hogwarts if he wants the test to be successful, so he closes the door and casts:

—Harmonia Nectere Passus. Harmonia Nectere Passus.

Draco opens the door and finds out that the bird has come back. But something went terribly wrong. It's dead.

He can't believe it. His chin starts to tremble as tears start filling his eyes. He can't take it anymore, so he breaks down into tears and sobs like a child.

Draco hasn't eaten during the whole day, so he goes to the Great Hall to get some food, but he gets petrified when he sees Katie Bell talking to Harry Potter. She probably told him who gave her the opal necklace.

Harry looks at him and Draco starts getting nervous. He runs away walking as fast as he can, but Harry follows him.

Draco starts to loosen his tie nervously as he heads to the sixth floor boys' bathroom. He stands in front of a sink and looks at himself in the mirror. He takes off his vest sharply and washes his face, but he starts to cry desperately with his head bowed and his hands clutching either side of the sink.

—Draco —a female voice whispers.

Draco gasps and looks at the mirror. The voice sounds like yours, but you're not there, and before he can say or do something, Harry enters the bathroom.

—I know what you did, Malfoy! You hexed her, didn't you?!

Draco turns around and takes out his wand. They start a duel, breaking the mirror and causing various sinks to shatter from their spells.

Harry chases Draco as he runs through the bathroom. They cast spell after spell, trying to hex each other, but Draco hides behind a cubicle and casts a last spell:

—Cruc...!

—Sectumsempra!

Draco takes a few steps back and falls down to the waterlogged floor with a huge splash. Harry hexed him, and his spell caused deep wounds across his chest, like he had been slashed with an invisible sword.

Draco's shirt starts turning red. He starts crying while his blood mixes with the water, floating like crimson flowers on the surface. There is nothing he can do. He is dying.

But someone witnessed everything, horrified.

—Murder in the bathroom! Murder in the bathroom! —A female voice yells.

Suddenly, you wake up screaming and sit on bed quickly. You're trembling, covered on sweat and tears.

Your parents enter your bedroom immediately. Your high pitched scream woke them up.

—Are you ok, sweetheart? —Your dad asks worried.

—Your screams scared us, darling —your mum adds as she caresses your face, wiping away your tears.

You can't stop crying and trembling. You're horrified.

—I... I... Draco... Blood... Bathroom... He... He... He... Sectumsempra... Sectumsempra...

—You're babbling incoherently, daughter. You need to calm down. I'm gonna bring you a glass of water —your dad states and goes to the kitchen.

Your mum hugs you, trying to calm your spasms and your dad comes back with a glass of water.

Luckily, drinking the water calms you down.

—You had a nightmare, darling —your mum affirms.

—It was so real. Draco was... —you break down into tears again—. There was blood everywhere, mum. It was horrible!

—Call him, sweetheart —your dad adds as he wipes your tears away gently with his thumbs—. You'll see that he is alright.

—I can't, dad. Students aren't allowed to use cell phones in his school —you lie.

—Don't you have a special date this Saturday? —Your mum asks.

—You haven't stopped talking about that during the whole week —your dad adds.

—Yes —you smile—. We have a very special date.

—Draco will be there and you'll see that this was just a bad dream —your mum kisses your forehead and also your dad.

—Thanks mum and dad...

The day of your special date has come. It's Saturday morning and Draco apparates in the park in a very fancy black tux, holding a beautiful bouquet of white roses.

It's your fifth month anniversary, and Draco and you are gonna have a very special celebration like you do every month.

You're sitting on the special bench where Draco and you met. You're wearing a long sleeve burgundy top, a white mini skirt and a pair of white high heeled sandals. The beautiful outfit you were wearing when he asked you to be his girlfriend.

A beautiful smile blooms across Draco's face as he walks towards you. But it vanishes when he notices that you're crying, covering your face with your hands. He drops the bouquet and a deep shiver courses its way down his spine when he notices that your clothing is ripped and your skirt is stained with blood that comes from between your bruised legs.

—Love? —He kneels down in front of you with tears in his eyes—. Who did this to you, love? Look at me, please —he says with a broken voice.

You uncover your face and look at him. He gasps and tears start rolling down his cheeks by seeing that you have a black eye.

—He raped me...

Author's Notes

Song lyrics from "Best Part Of Me" by Ed Sheeran featuring YEBBA.

I apologize if I offended someone with the last scene. I knew that it would happen since I started writing this story.

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