Someone wake me, I can’t seem to break free. “I didn’t think anyone could find me, but she did.” He had found something worth the fall. “Too long you’ve spent longing to enter the place, but frightened of what might become.” In that moment -an enchantment may have lifted, a curse might have fallen. Without the mask, where will you hide? Here it was, a fairy tale never getting old. The rose, the tower, the mask, the dreams, the lies, the truth, the story... Banner: Sodapopbabii

I want to talk to you,” she mouthed to him. He turned his head away… “Why can’t you just let me be happy? Why can’t you just let yourselves be happy?” Ginny raised her voice above theirs… “So what happened?” “Nothing,” Ron replied. If Harry wasn’t telling, neither was he… “Well, Weasel, I guess I should grant the mudblood’s wish,” Malfoy said, raising an eyebrow and giving Ron the once-over with his cold gray eyes.

Tell me Ginny. What did he do?”… “You can’t keep avoiding me like this, Draco!” Pansy called. “You can’t run away from the life you chose!”… For some reason she had to get back before the darkness closed in -before he got to her… She wanted to sleep, to get away.

“Draco…” he heard her whisper. “You can’t get away now. I know who you were with that night at the ball”… It could all still be a dream, an unbearable, twisted, impractical dream… There was only one thing he could do, and he knew what had to be done. He would do it tonight… She wanted to take away his pain, use his to mask her own… If he kept quiet, nothing could happen that would be out of his control. Nothing would happen at all.

“I want to get out of here… I want to go back”… He was out there, and she’d have to go out there too… There was something in her eyes that made him want to stop talking. Maybe it was better that way… I know you’re still there… “Something happened between you two that you don’t want to talk about. You did something, Ron. I know you did”… “You told me you’d never see her again”… “Something must be done.”

He left again, and this time she said that he could go… “Why are you keeping it from us? You’ve never been one to keep these kinds of things to yourself”… She was a mudblood –forbidden fruit in this forest of hearts and desires… “But who’s ever heard of people being alone together?” I guess it’s called a falling out. But everyday I’m learning how to make it through this life I’m in.

“I was angry with myself. Now there are other things to worry about”… You were seen,” he said shortly, his pale eyes full of intensity. “Do not answer the door to anyone but me. You’re in danger here”… The mask was gone forever from her hands. They were now just as empty as those promises… “It was too much, too soon for all of us”… “I dare to say that our guest of honor would die for a taste.”

“There is nothing to fear. Too long you’ve spent longing to enter the place, but frightened of what might become of you if you do”… Something happened in that moment -an enchantment may have lifted, a curse might have fallen. Now I know she never was and never will be… “You are to go to him, if you want to set us free.”

“I know you won’t hurt me. I trust you. But you have trust yourself, too”… “Just you wait. I’ll make you remember and see things for what they truly are”… “Something the matter?” It was as if for one instant she had gone back in time, where everything was only partially real -like remembering a scene from a storybook. “No, everything’s perfect.”

The response was slow, hesitant, but as she sank to the floor, he came after her… “If done correctly, she’ll have paid her debts and you will be freed! I could do it instead of you”… “A trap.” The ghost of a girl –too beautiful and wretched to exist in any place but a story… He slammed her against the blackboard, sending chalk dust flying everywhere. “Dear God, it’s me!” “I know who you are!”… Will I see you when I open my eyes?