Chapter 2
Disclaimer_ I dont own anything but the plot and Hayley, everything else belongs to the talented JK Rowling.
The song I use in here is from an Episode of One Tree Hill, but I dont know the exact name and artist.
HPOV
When I woke up the next morning I felt really good. I put on my robes and went down to the kitchen. I opened the cupboard and found it fully stocked with food, so I grabbed a bagel and headed down to Potions. I was running slightly late and when I got there, the only available seat was next to none other than Draco Malfoy.
"Ah, Miss James, so glad you could join us. Now if you would take a seat with Mr. Malfoy you all can get started." Professor Slughorn said with a smile as he sat at his desk.
I put my bag down on the floor and got my book out as I took a seat across from Draco. He looked very intent with his work. I looked at the book and began to gather the things to make the potion. I was looking around and realized I didn't have a knife. I looked over at Draco and saw that he had one.
"Excuse me?" I said. He didn't look up. Maybe he didn't hear me.
"Um..I'm sorry…excuse me?" I said again. Nothing.
'Oh come on' I thought. I decided to tap him on the arm. He jumped and looked up at me, slightly annoyed.
"Do you need something?" He said to me, sounding rather mean.
"Im sorry, I-I didn't mean to scare you its just, I didn't have a knife and I was wondering if I could borrow yours." I said softly. I hadn't meant to make him mad.
DPOV
I slowly gave the knife to her and I quickly looked down. I hadn't meant to scare her, I just had so much on my plate right now everything was making me on edge. I didn't want to think about what would happen if I didn't go through with this stupid mission.
"Hey, look, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you." I said softly. She looked up at me with the most innocent look I had ever seen.
"Hey, you're in Slytherin. How come I've never seen you before?" I asked her.
"Nobody pays attention to me. I'm Hayley James. Nobody really knows me." She said as she was putting things in her cauldron.
"Why is that? You're pretty and you seem nice." I said. 'Dammit Malfoy, hold it together. Don't go flirting with a girl that will get in your way.'
She half smiled. "Well, thank you but I guess I'm just not cool enough to be known. Half of the time people just walk into me in the hallway." She said
I looked over at her and studied her as she worked. She truly was beautiful. Her long brown hair was pushed over to one side and she had the most beautiful blue eyes I had ever seen. She looked up and caught me staring at her.
"What?" She said smiling.
"Oh? Nothing." I said and looked down smiling. That was the first time in a really long that I had smiled and truly meant it.
HPOV
After Harry had won the Felix Felicis, Professor Slughorn dismissed the class and I got up to go to my next class, which just happened to be Defense Against the Dark Arts. I left the Potions classroom and began to walk down the hallway when I felt someone beside my. I looked over and saw that it was Draco.
"Can I help you?" I asked.
"What's your next class?" He asked me.
I stopped and raised an eyebrow at him. "Defense Against the Dark Arts…why?" I said.
"Well…can I walk you there?" He asked.
"The infamous Draco Malfoy wants to walk me to class. Well aren't I the luckiest girl alive?" I said sarcastically.
He gave me the trademark Malfoy smirk, which almost made me weak at the knees. "As you should be." He said.
I rolled my eyes and followed him to class.
DPOV
I kept on spending time with her despite what the voice in the back of my mind kept telling me. I knew what I had been chosen to do, and I knew what the consequences were if I did not succeed, but there was something about Hayley that I could not put my finger on. She intrigued me more that I liked and I couldn't figure her out and that bothered me.
Anytime time that I wasn't spending on the cabinet or in class, I was spending with Hayley, well when she wasn't running off on the weekends, that I could not figure out why. We spent most of our time together in the Slytherin common room laughing and talking about random stuff or what we would do after school, even though I pretty much knew what my destiny was after I graduated. My father had made that very clear.
HPOV
One night, Idecided to share something special with him.
"Hey Draco, I want to show you something." I said to him while we were sitting by the fireplace.
Iled him up to the room of requirement and I closed my eyes and when I opened them again there was a brown door in front of me. I opened it and it was just a plain room with a giant black grand piano in the middle of it with an armchair beside it.
"Come here." I said and took his hand. I led him over to the armchair and slightly pushed him into it. I sat down at the piano.
"What is all of this Hayley?" He said.
"You'll see."
I took a breath and started to play.
'I love the time and in between, The calm inside me
In the space where I can breathe, I believe there is a distance I have wondered to touch upon The years.
Reaching out, and reaching in , Holding out, holding in
I believe this is heaven to no one else but me And ill defend it long as I can be left here to linger In silence
If I choose to, would you try to understand?'
DPOV
I moved to sit by her on the piano bench and watched her play. She was truly beautiful.
'Oh the quiet child awaits the day she can break free The mold that clings like desperation
Oh mother don't you see I've got to Live my life the way I feel is right for me
Say it's not right for you but its right for me I believe this is heaven to no one else but me
And ill defend it long as I can be left to linger in silence
If I choose to Would you try to understand?'
She stopped playing and looked over at me.
"Why are you staring at me like that?" She asked.
I looked at her and put my hand on hers. I put my other hand on her face and leaned in close to her. I closed his eyes and kissed her softly.
HPOV
I had ever felt anything like this with anyone before. His lips were so soft, like silk. I deepened the kiss and put my arms around his neck. His hand fell to the small of my back and his other hand rested on my leg. After a couple minutes of breathless kissing he pulled away from me, and I gave him a confused look.
"What's wrong?" I asked him.
"It's nothing, look I-I'm sorry. I- I can't do this." He said and he got up and left.
I watched him leave and closed my eyes and wished for my room. I opened them and I was in the bedroom. I looked in the mirror to find that I was crying. 'What had she done wrong? I had thought Draco liked me.' I got in the shower and just let the water run over me, it seemed to calm me down. I got out and pulled on my pajamas and crawled into bed. Maybe everything I was told about him is true. Maybe he is just a player.
DPOV
I was furious with myself. I was mad that I allowed myself to kiss her, and I was also mad for leaving her like that. 'what the hell is wrong with me I do like her, I just don't want her to get hurt.' The cabinet was almost fully repaired, I just didn't know if I could fully go through with this mission. I didn't want to kill anyone, but I also didn't want to be killed either. He stormed up to my bed cursing and scaring a few first years half to death that were in the common room. I flung myself onto the bed and within minutes I was asleep.
HPOV
I woke the next morning feeling horrible. I didn't even want to go to class because I didn't want to look at him, hell I didnt even think I could. I showered and changed into my robes and made,my way down to the potions classroom. I found a seat with another girl from Slytherin to avoid sitting with Draco. He walked in and looked over at me, he looked a little startled to see me sitting with someone else.
A wave of guilt washed over me. Maybe I was being a little too harsh. I watched him sit down with Blaise and turn his back so he wasnt facing her.
After classes were over for the day, I quickly walked down the hall and turned a corner to an empty hallway and I suddenlt felt a hand grab my arm. Pulling out my wand, I turned around to find Draco looking at me.
"Why are you avoiding me?" He asked.
"Why did you leave me that night. Did I do something to upset you? Maybe I shouldn't bother –"I started to say when I felt those soft lips on mine yet again. It was the best feeling in the world and for a moment I got lost in it then I came back to reality and pushed him off.
"You cant keep doing this to me." I said. "You can't just kiss me whenever you feel like it, how will I know you're not just gonna up and leave again?"
"I wont, you have my word Hayley, look I'm sorry for the other night, I was confused, it all happened so fast. I'm drawn to you so much I can't stand being away from you." He said. He touched his forehead to mine and kissed me softly.
"I don't know what you've done to me." He said. "But I do know I don't want it to stop."
"Me either." I said as I entwined my fingers with him and kissed him again.
DPOV
We went back to the common room and found a couch near the back. I sat against the back of the couch and Hayley leaned up against me. We soon drifted off to sleep. That's how we slept for a while, and every Friday, she would leave and not come back until Sunday, and when she got home, I would ask questions and she would just tell me that she had been huddeld up in the library or her room working on homework because I was distracting her from her studies. She always game me that cute smile of hers and I bought it every time.
One night we had fallen asleep while talking and I stirred awake after a while and tried to move and Hayley's notebook fell to the floor and opened up to a page with a bunh of lines on it that kind of looked like a song. I picked it up. It said 'Naturally' and it had 'For Draco' written next to it. She had written a song for him? I began to read a few lines of it..
'How you choose to express yourself , its all your own and I can tell, it comes Naturally.
You are the thunder and I am the lightening and I love the way you know who you are and to me it's exciting, and I know its meant to be, everything comes naturally , it comes naturally when you're with me baby.'
I smiled to and set the book down on the table and fell asleep.
When we woke up the next morning, there was a bulletin posted on the wall, it said that there would be an important announcement at dinner, and everyone was to attend.
"I wonder what this is about?" I said.
"I have no idea, but I guess we will find out." She said
That's all anyone could talk about all day. When we arrived to the Great Hall that night, Dumbledore hushed everyone up and began to speak.
"This year we have a very special surprise for everyone. Were having a very famous singer come to the school to host a contest in 2 weeks. Who do you ask is coming here? Why none other that superstar Tristyn Vayne!" He announced. The Hall went wild all the girls were screaming. Hayley was as white as a ghost.
