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I stumbled a little going down the stairs to get to the Great Hall. As I stepped down the last step, and turned the corner, I saw Dra- I mean Malfoy. He looked up from the floor he had been staring at and saw me, and smiled.
"Odd," I thought, because it wasn't a smirk type of smile, but something someone would give to a friend. Maybe he thought we were friends now. "I should set him straight." I thought again.
Harry and Ron interrupted my thoughts of having a conversation with Malfoy. It was probably best I didn't have a conversation with him out in the open. They cheerfully walked up to me and we all walked up to our table and I sat next to Ginny. I only took a few pieces of fruit and a piece of toast; I begged it to stay down.
Half way through breakfast, I excused myself to run to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.
A few moments later, a heard someone enter the bathroom. This person looked in each of the stalls just like the other night; I was thinking it was Ron or Harry.
I sat by the toilet waiting for my body to throw up more of what was left in my stomach.
The person found me in the last stall, closest to the wall, and he came down to my level and sat beside me. When I saw platinum blonde hair, I couldn't help but smile. Draco put him arm around me; I didn't protest. He rubbed my back; I curled into him for comfort. Realising I couldn't do this; I couldn't let him do this for me. I tried to get to my feet but my knees gave out before I got to stand. I was now in his lap. I quickly moved to the other side of the stall and leaned against the wall.
Draco was about to get up to move beside me, but I told him not to bother. So he did as he was told, and sat on the opposite side of me.
"Draco, you can't keep doing this." I told him out loud.
"And why not..?" He responded in a questioning, yet playful tone.
"Because... You don't want to get caught up in my mess."
"Yes I do. I want to help; I... I know what you're going through, or at least how you must feel."
"Do you, now?" I asked him with a sarcastic attitude.
"My sister died when she was only five and I couldn't do anything to help." He declared.
"That's not what I'm going through, but it's close." I responded in a more sympathetic nature; I was regretting what I had said, or at least how I had said it.
"Then please tell me. I'm not going to hurt you. I promise." He told me in the most calming voice anyone has ever talked to me in.
I bit my lip; I was hoping I wouldn't regret telling the one person I truly hated my secret.
"I have cancer." I advised him. To me, it sounded like I was trying to sell a product, the product was cancer. "It's not something you can catch, like a silly cold," hot tears started welling up in the corner of my eyes.
He just looked at me, as if he didn't know what I was saying.
"I'm dying!" I nearly yelled at him. Tears now started pouring down onto my cheeks and dripping off my face. Draco came over to cradle my head into his chest and he put his arm around my back. I liked it; he was someone to comfort me when I was crying.
"It's okay; I won't tell anyone if you don't want me to. I want to help you no matter what it takes." He told me in a soothing voice.
I stopped crying, and I let my arms find their way around his back and stomach into a hug. His arms did the same. He rubbed my back in comfort, just like my mother did. It was a nice moment. I wanted to keep it; stay in that moment forever with him. After a few minutes, we heard the bell for classes to start, but he didn't jump up to get out of this 'perfect' moment.
He spoke first, breaking the silence, "What class do you have first?"
In a tired voice, I responded, "I'm not going to classes today, I need some rest."
I saw out of the corner of my eye that he smiled at me and as I looked up at him to smile back, he kissed my forehead. He asked if I wanted him to stay. I told him to go, and that I'll be fine. He removed his arm from around my back, and I lifted my head from his chest and removed my arms from around his body.
He stood up and looked down at me and held out his hand. I took it, and he pulled me up, as soon as I stood on my feet, my knees became too weak to stand with. I almost fell back but Draco caught me in time. I smiled weakly, a little embarrassed about it.
"Are you going to be alright without me?" He asked hoping I would want him to stay and curl back up on the floor.
Instead I told him I would be fine. He didn't seem to believe me, but he still walked away to his first class.
Throughout the day all I did was lie in my bed thinking of what to do, what to tell Draco. He was being really sweet, but I knew nothing of him, except that he lost a sister he barely knew.
After a while, I drifted off to sleep. My dreams seemed like "Alice in Wonderland". I grew smaller, because of my disease, and entered a new world, a world of my own. I met things on my journey, a white lie to my friends that was too late to tell them and just out of my reach; a "tea party" in the bathroom with unfamiliar and strange characters, in my case, Draco Malfoy. After the tea party, I woke up and looked at the time, it was time for supper.
I rolled out of bed still feeling sleepy; I walked to the bathroom and fixed my hair.
After playing around with my hair, I walked down to the Great Hall to meet my friends. I secretly wanted to run into Draco, just not literally.
I saw Harry and told him that I would meet him and the others in the Great Hall in a few minutes. I needed to take a walk outside and that I was feeling queasy. "The fresh air," I told him, "might help to calm whatever what bugging my stomach."
Harry nodded his head and turned to the Great Hall and walked off.
I quickly made my way outside and I walked down to the lake. I laid down on the dock that was reaching out toward the deeper part of the unknown waters.
It seemed like half an hour had passed, so I decided to go to the Great Hall before Ginny or Harry started to come looking for me.
Just before I walked through the school doors, I saw Draco coming out of them and I smiled at him.
He took a deep breath and sighed. He smiled back and after a moment, he couldn't contain himself. He threw his arms around me, and whispered in my ear, "I was so worried about you. I'm just glad you're alright." He pulled back and gave me another smile.
I looked back at him with a smile still plastered on my face; I got rid of it, shook it off, and told him I have to meet up with my friends.
"At 10:30 tonight, meet me outside the school doors." He told me.
I was hesitant to respond, but I told him I would. After we both stepped into the school, he disappeared up a flight of stairs and I turned around the corner and saw my friends, so I walked up to the place they were sitting at and sat next to them. Ron sat beside me, stuffing his face. Harry was across from me picking at his food.
"Where were you?" Ginny exclaimed from behind me. I looked all over the place. Library, bathroom, common room ... Her list went on, but I didn't pay much attention.
Turning to Harry, his face brightened and told me, "She was really worried about you." Ginny stopped naming places she looked at me, and smiled.
I faked a smile; I must have pulled it off, because Harry and Ginny said nothing.
I knew I was in for a rough night, so I ate half of whatever Ginny threw on my plate.
I turned to go back outside, but Harry grabbed my arm and told me I just needed some sleep. I told him I wasn't tired yet, but he insisted. So I followed my friends back to the common room and went to my room.
I quickly wrote a note to Malfoy saying:
Dear Draco,
I am stuck in my room; I am being watched by friends. Maybe tomorrow I can meet you? I'm sorry, I wish I could escape.
Signed,
Hermione
I bit my lip and wanted to re-write it, but I had to let him know not to bother waiting for me any longer, or to wait for me at all. I folded the paper up carefully and slipped it into an envelope and put the fold of the envelope inside with caution. I gave my owl the letter and whispered a name into the owl's ear.
I fell asleep on the bed, with my iPod playing in my ear.
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