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Truth Lies!
Are you ready? (Monday last class)
"Have you ever wanted something that you can't have? Not just the want….the longing! Have you ever thought that people…us…we…only want what we can't have?" Draco paused for a deep ragged breath and looked back down at the clean, crisp paper in his left hand. It looked like he had just written the paper that day, but he knew that the reason why was because he kept the paper so free from harm…after a week of holding it and keeping it safe he was glad to finally get rid of the paper. Draco took another deep breath at the sound of 'tree-lawn-y' yawning, and continued. "Love, a simple four letter word…but is it really all that simple? It is just the four letters that many people try to make it seem?"
Draco took his chance with a glance at a pair of eyes…the same pair of eyes that made his heart turn flips, the eyes that gave him chills, but—yet—the same eyes he loathed…hated because they made him ache with such a strange feeling that he didn't know existed…and he had no idea what to do with it. "Love as in; strong affection or liking for someone or something, a passionate affection for one person, to woo, embrace, want, long, etc. and to have sexual intercourse."—many girls giggled but Draco took another breath and continued. "Those are all definitions of the word, love…I believe that exceeds the four letter word. Love, may give someone chills…just the thought may give someone heartache. Many may think that, love, is just a word…while others may take it harder and never give into the simple side effects that come along with love."
Draco stopped and took a deep breath…again…he was never to good at this stuff, giving speeches and reading papers in front of everyone. "Love, could kill"-GULP-"or save a life."
Draco heard the soft gasps and he was sure that many looked over to Potty for a second but he didn't stop he just wanted to get this over with. "Whatever love does for you…it is always something that we long for…we want. That people grasp at hoping to hold on tight never wanting it, the feeling of sickness, butterflies, life, want to escape! People long for something that is so hard to grasp…understand, stand up for, kill for, live for….So I ask again have you ever wanted something that you can't have? Have you ever thought that people…us…we…all long…want…need something that we can't have? Love!" when Draco finished he turned around and put his paper in the hands of 'tree-lawn-y' and walked over to where he was sitting by himself, right behind Potty and his friend Weasel.
"Thank you Mister Malfoy…now we have one last person…aw Harry Potter! Please come forward and tell us your part of…oh you were put with the love pair too then? Did you two even talk about this project at all…work together?" Harry snorted as he walked to the front of the room and everyone saw their professor shake her head in disapproval.
"Um…we didn't talk anything over except for the in the hallway when we were walking out of your class and I told him that he could write whatever he wanted and then I would read his and write mine…about a day later he gave me his. I wrote mine and gave his back to him and he read mine and gave it back to me." Harry sneered and winked over towards a girl named Raven who turned pink and started whispering to her friends. Harry rolled his eyes he hadn't meant it to be for her…he wasn't even sure the person he wanted to see it did.
"Very well…just get this over with…and remember that you were to answer him either agreeing or disagreeing although I am sure you disagreed…"
Harry chuckled and looked down at his paper he closed his eyes and then, "Yes I have wanted something that I can't have…and it is more than a longing or wanting. It is more like a pulling in my stomach when the one thing I want is mine but secretly and in my dreams. I have thought that people do only want something they can't have…but the thing is everyone can have what they want but do they need it? Of course everyone thinks they need what they want but is that so? No it isn't…love, my topic, is thing of wants and needs and it is more than the four letter word that people try to play it off for it is like a want you can't have but the longing you need to have! The definitions of love maybe; strong affection or liking for someone or something, a passionate affection for one person, to woo, embrace, want, long, etc. and to have sexual intercourse. But is that really what it means? I agree with Draco that does exceed the four letter word by far and I also think that many people's thoughts and ideas of love exceed what it really is. I would like to point out that in the definition of love there is not a single part that says love could kill…or save a life there is a living example of that! Nor is there any part in a dictionary that says the feeling of sickness, butterflies, life, want, that some people are willing to long for something that is so hard to grasp…understand, stand up for, kill for, live for. Nothing is in the dictionary along those lines. So I say again…yes I have wanted something that I can't have…and it is more than a longing or wanting. I have thought that people do only want something they can't have…but the thing is. Everyone can have what they want but do they need it? I agree with my partner Draco through the whole thing and it, the want, is more a longing but mine is reality the pulling in my stomach for having to hide it all along really hurts more than anything in the world! Love" Harry turned to see his speechless teacher looking dazed and put the paper in her hands before he walked back to his seat to just sit down and hear the bell. Harry took his time gathering his belongings.
"Hey, Harry I am going to go and get down there before Hermione does so I can save us a seat…is that okay with you?"
"It is fine Ron…I'll be down there in a minute." Harry said with a shrug as he 'dropped' his quill on the floor. Everyone had left the room but one person that Harry didn't seem to know was there. He headed up to the front of the room and gave 'tree-lawn-y' his dream journal.
"That was a wonderfully said Potter! I must admit I am a little shocked are you sure you two didn't get together and talk?" tree-lawn-y asked him.
"Yeah I am quite sure we didn't get together and talk." Harry said with a laugh and then he picked up his bag and started down the ladder. The other person in the room followed him down and jumped when he got to the bottom because Potty's voice said, "Do you always watch me like that?"
"What are you talking about?" Draco said with a hint of challenge in his voice.
Harry looked around before he pushed Draco up against the wall to engage in a heated kiss after he was done with the kiss he just looked at Draco as if challenging him to fight back.
Draco looked at Harry and said, "My god this day was so long…and this just made it longer!" But Draco kissed him back and the two stood there having a dominance war for about five minutes.
Finally Harry pulled away from Draco and looked at him and said," Why do we keep doing this Draco? Every day before dinner and before curfew we sneak around trying not to get caught and then we have another day of hell…Draco I really want everyone to know that I love you and that you love me! That we are together and I really don't want to do any of this anymore why can't we be like Ron and Hermione? Draco?"
"Harry we have talked about this a million times and that is just something that we can't do that, people will talk, and someone we don't want to find out will! Come on Harry lets be logical…"
"Logical…no! I am done you don't want to try then we won't just…I don't know go off with one of you Slytherin friends and make fun of someone and get you fucking hands off me! Two years Dra…Malfoy! Two fucking years! I hide this…you…us and I told no one, I saw you in the hallway and I did nothing I watched you torment me and my friends and I did nothing! Draco Malfoy if you ever lay a hand on me or my friends again I am going to warn you now that it will be the last time you touch anyone with that hand!"
"Harry—"
"Don't call me that and I said get your hands away from me!"
"—please don't do this to us…you…me! Please…I am so sorry I didn't realize it meant so much to you…we can go right now to dinner holding hands and kissing we can do whatever you want just…Harry come back! I love you!"
Draco pleaded with Harry's back and he had a glimpse of hope when he saw Harry turn around but it all faded away when he saw tears in Harry's beautiful green eyes. He ran after Harry when he heard the 'fuck off'. He ran after Harry who was running down the hallway towards the Great Hall and he knew that Harry was still crying because he heard the sobs. He froze when the door to the Great Hall was thrust open and in walked Harry towards the Gryffindor table. He walked in the other door and watched Harry sit down with his friends who looked at his red face and swollen eyes with concern. Draco sat down at the end of the table where Blaise sat and looked at him with tears in his eyes and said, "I did it Blaise…I need help now what can I do to get him back to get him to know that I love him and that if it means so much to him I will come out of the closet and tell everyone that I love him!"
"Aw…what happened?" Blaise said and Draco looked at Blaise and told him everything that had happened between him and Harry not even an hour ago although it felt like fifty days ago.
"Okay Draco lets go back to our common room and I have a lot of fabulous ideas that I think will help you out!" Blaise said and he and Draco walked out only Blaise made sure that they went by the Gryffindor table on purpose and when they walked by Blaise made sure that he caught Harry's eye and he winked Harry looked back at Blaise dumbfounded and weakly smiled.