Everyone, this is the chapter that will bring in the tension!
Macy walked into the prefect's bathroom and started to fill the giant tub. She undressed and slipped into the warm water. Her body had bruises all over. She had a large one on her lower back from a week ago. The tub filled with lavender smelling bubbles.
The tub was so large and just deep enough that Macy could swim in it. She dived under and swam across to the other side where her clothes and towel were. Her bruises were gone now, the bubbles must have had healing potion in them. Then she heard someone clear their throat. She looked over and saw Draco.
"Oh," she blushed and saw that he was looking the other way and was blushing too. Quickly she jumped out of the swimming pool of a tub and wrapped the towel around herself. She grabbed her clothes and started over to a changing stall that had been added over the summer. She looked at Draco again and her stomach tied in knots. She was trying to say something but no words came out. She walked into the stall and sat on the bench thinking. How does this always happen to her?
She changed and ran out of the bathroom and up to her dorm. Her gut was tying itself into knots, when she ran out she had run by Draco who had started to undress and was in his boxers. She was so embarrassed.
That night she stayed in her room and felt like Draco would never look at her the same since he saw her in only a towel! She thought that he would have been staring at her but he was such a gentlemen and looked the other way. She got into her favorite nightie and got ready for bed. She bit her lip and felt stupid. What if Draco was telling the truth? What if he wasn't trying to use her? She made up her mind. She started to walk down when she thought, what if he didn't want her anymore? And she wasn't ready to give herself up, she was so confused. She was about to go back into her room when she heard someone.
"Macy,"
"Draco,"
"What are you doing in that?" he wasn't looking at her but she knew he meant her nightie.
"I-I was, um, I, I," she got up the courage to take a step towards him. Then another, and another, and another. Soon she was in front of him and his eyes were still looking at the floor. "Draco, you don't need to look away." He looked her in the eyes. He leaned in and kissed her.
Macy's eyes fluttered open. She had been dreaming, it was all a dream and he was still the jerk he had always been. She got out of the pool sized tub and walked into the stall to get dressed.
"Look at this, student under temporary Auror custody over summer for S.P.E.W. protest turned violent." Hermione showed them the Daily Prophet. On the front cover was a picture of Macy holding a sign that said "Equal Rights for All Creatures!" with a picture of a mistreated house elf.
"You were in Auror custody?" Ron said in amaze.
"It was temporary." She whispered. She grabbed her bag and started to classes.
Once she got to potions she tried to get a seat as far as possible from the teacher. She didn't like the Death Eaters at all; they were the lowest, most grotesque, vile creatures in the history of magic. But she did as told, stayed out of trouble with them, and did all possible to keep from a beating.
After potions she had a free period. She walked down the empty halls and tried to get to her dorm as fast as possible. Her shoes clicked on the cobblestone. The dark halls seemed so sad and empty without the few couples that would skip to stay in the halls and snog, or the first years doing their homework on one of the benches. It was emptier then when Umbridge took over.
She sighed and started to walk faster, her breath echoing through the halls like a bats wings. That's when she heard the footsteps from behind her. Her breath caught in her throat.
"It's just me." A voice breathed. She turned to see Draco feet behind her.
"I want to be alone right now." She felt her stomach tying into knots.
"But do you need to be alone?" he walked up to her from behind. She felt his warm breath against her skin. His hands slid onto her hips.
"I-I need to be alone right now." She shuddered. Her mind was blown away by him. The way he touched her, the way he talked to her, the way that he acted around her.
"But I told you, I need you."
"People need a lot of things, but I don't need you." She pulled out of his grasp. But Draco wasn't ready to give up that easily.
"You don't need to be alone." Macy turned and looked at him.
"I am not alone, I have friends, I have family, but what do you have? Nothing, no friends, no family that isn't using you, you are the one that's alone." Draco felt the anger boiling in him. He pushed her against the wall.
"You take that back." He said with his teeth clenched.
"Like I told the Aurors, when I'm dead." Macy saw the anger oozing out of him; he looked like he was ready to hit her. She started to regret saying that. He was inches away from her, his warm breath washing over her, his arms trapping her, and his eyes burrowing into hers.
As he looked into her eyes his anger slipped away. Her gentle eyes wouldn't let him hurt her; they were her weapon against him. They both felt the anger slipping out of the area. Draco slipped his arm around her waist. Macy's breathe sped up as his other hand traced her collar bone, his touch was so soft, so gentle it almost felt like air. His lips hovered over hers, barely touching, but trying to decide if he should kiss her.
"I-I can't, I can't," Macy said right before he kissed her. His warm lips kissed her lovingly, moving along her jaw line and down her neck. Then she remembered who it was that was kissing her. "No, we can't do this." She pushed him off and ran to her dorm.
Once she was in her room she locked the door and fell on her bed. She pulled out her homework when she looked at the clock.
"Shit, I'm going to be late for class."
She started to run to her next class.
That night after dinner she started to walk to her dorm.
"Hey, spew girl!" said a nearby Slytherin boy. "Did you choose that stupid name or were you just sick when you picked it out?"
"Shut up, I'm sick of people making fun of S.P.E.W." she said.
"Right, just like your "sick" of Draco's snogging." She turned. "That's right I saw you two in the halls today."
"I think you might have just been dreaming, I've never kissed a Slytherin." She turned in the direction of her dorm.
"Right, I know if Draco can get some ass I can to." He smacked her butt.
"Touch me one more time and I'm going to be picking grapes." She had him by the collar of his shirt. "Now scram." She let him go and started to walk away.
"Fine, I wouldn't' want a whore like you anyways."
"You never say that again." Then the boy was on the ground and Draco was standing over him. "You apologize."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He got up and ran in the other direction. Everyone was muttering and looking at the head boy and girl suspiciously.
Macy ran back to her room as fast as her legs would let her go. She ran into her room and slammed the door. He just announced that he loved her to the whole school, practically. And now she couldn't say that it wasn't true, he really cared for her.
"Macy, its Draco, open the door." He said through the door. Macy sat on her bed contemplating if she should open the door or not. "Macy, I know you're in there. Please open up."
She bit her lip, if she opened the door who knows what she would do. She couldn't keep it down in her anymore, she loved him, and she'd always loved him. He was the one that made her happy, made her feel, he made her whole. But if she opened the door she might slap him, slap him for snapping so easily and making a scene. It was embarrassing, but sweet, he really cared for her.
"Macy, please, I-I, please open the door." She heard him sit down outside her door. "Please, I didn't want to do this through the door, but, well. Macy, I love you."
Macy opened the door and saw Draco sitting on the step in front of her door with his head in his hands.
"Do you mean it?" she asked, shyly.
"Yes, I've loved since I saw you. I was too stupid to admit that I loved you." Macy bit her lip. "I'm sure that you don't feel the same way, it was stupid, just forget I said anything." He started to walk away.
"Wait," He stopped and looked at her. "Even after I bit you?"
"Yeah, even after you bit me." He laughed.
"I've regretted that every day since, ruining your reputation by getting beat up by a girl." She joked.
"I disserved it." He walked closer to her. A smile pulled at the corner of her mouth. "What I don't disserve is you."
"Now you're just being an idiot." She slid his one arm around her waist and held her face with his free hand. His lips millimeters from hers, she could feel his heart beat they were so close. Then, so lightly, his lips touched hers. It almost felt like nothing, it was so gentle and soft that she loved it more than any other kiss they had shared.
"I wish this was our first kiss."
They laid in her bed together in the moonlight. Macy asleep, they were still in their uniforms. They hadn't done anything, Draco and Macy both knew that they weren't ready to have sex, they had just talked and then Macy had fallen asleep. Draco had stayed to watch her sleeping, her face was so at peace.
"Nothing's going to harm you, not well I'm around.
Nothing's going to harm you, no sir, not well I'm around.
Demons are prowling everywhere, nowadays,
I'll send them howling, I don't care, I have ways." Draco stroked Macy's hair as she slept. Soon he fell asleep next to her. The silent night was so peaceful. Macy didn't have her nightmare that night and she felt like she was truly happy for the first time in her life. She didn't feel like she disappointed anyone, or made anyone mad or sad, she was just happy because she finally had what she was looking for. Love. Draco's love.
And Draco was happy too, he had a beautiful girl next to him, he was in love, and nothing could ruin this for him. It was all perfect, just perfect. Their lives were amazingly perfect, but all good things must come to an end. And thankfully theirs isn't anywhere close. Their destiny has still to run its course. But not all things have a smooth path. Hills can come up, but hills can be climbed.
Okay, I hope that was enough tension for you guys. I'm sorry if there was too little but there is a special bit for mega fans if I get reviews! So review and get the awesome surprise!
Oh, and the reason I ended with them falling asleep isn't because it's super romantic, it's because it's 4:30 in the morning here and I am starving and now as I start the next chapter it might involve food. Just be warned, in a writing assignment I did once I was hungry and wrote about my lunch without realizing it so I write what I'm feeling. Does not count for the next chapter… awkward.