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Chapter 4:
My eyes fluttered open to a stream of light shining across my eyes. I looked beside me to see that Draco was still asleep. I let out a small laugh as I saw his face, he looked so peaceful in his sleep but when he was awake he was as live as a wire. I slipped out from under his arm and made my way to the balcony. It was so peculiar we were underground but he had charmed the balcony so that there was still a magically beautiful view. The sun was just rising and the new light of the day was shining down onto the balcony (somehow) and the way it was hitting the glass doors made rainbow patterns on the glass floor. I traced the patterns with my foot.
"It's so unique."
"Just like you." I jumped in surprise as Draco came up behind me. He walked up to me and gave me a hug and a kiss on the top of the head. "Did you sleep well?" I looked up at him.
"As a matter a fact I did." I hugged him and thought about how weird it was that I was able to go from bruised and beaten to a relationship. It baffled me but I didn't want to over analyze it. For once in my life something good actually came from one of my beatings. Even though I didn't want to push anything I was curious so I had to ask the one question that had been on my mind for so long. "Draco?"He mumbled something that sounded like what but I couldn't be positive. "What happens now?" He pulled his head up off my shoulder and looked at me with a confused expression.
"What do you mean?" He turned me around so that I was facing him. I was a little bashful for asking but I felt that I had the right to know where this would be going.
"Well I don't wanna just be lead on until I'm just some girl in your past." I looked off the balcony and into the distance I just didn't have the heart to look him in the eye.
"Ray." I refused t look at him. "Ray, look at me." I looked up at him through my eye lashes, and saw that he was looking down at me with a soft expression. "When I asked you to go out with me I didn't expect for you to just be another girl. I want you to know that you will never be just another girl you're special to me." I knew that my jaw dropped but I was too stunned to do anything about it.
"Do you honestly mean that?" I was so confused; this was typical Draco Malfoy attitude.
"I wouldn't say anything I didn't mean." He leaned down and kissed my forehead. I smiled at him, and hugged him. Then I realized that he was still shirtless, and even though we were dating I was still really shy about seeing him shirtless. He smiled at my slight discomfort and shyness; he held me at arm's length and said.
"Like what you see?" He had his infamous smirk on his face and he was letting his ego get to him and I would not let him know that he had literally made me speechless because he was so attractive.
"Actually I do." I stepped out of his grip and slipped closer to him and placed my hands on his chest. I traced his abs with my pointer finger and felt him tense under my touch. At that moment I felt completely wicked and full of confidence so I leaned up and kissed his neck and l then I kissed my way down his stomach until the bottom of his six-pack. I heard him let out a broken breath and I giggled and stood back up to my full height. He was looking down at me in surprise and I leaned up and kissed his soft lips. "Well I gotta get back to my dorm I have plans with Rori today and I can't wait to tell her about my new boyfriend." I grabbed his hands and smiled as I pulled him back inside. He sighed, and literally pouted. "What?"
"Well I was kinda hoping to get to show you off around campus before school starts, and I was hoping that I could take you out on the town today and have some fun." He gave me a somewhat puppy dog face and stared at me with his gorgeous eyes. I laughed and pushed him toward the bathroom.
"That's really sweet but I can't cancel on her we've had this trip planned for a month."
"Where are you going?" I put my hands behind my back and swayed up and down on my tip toes.
"Well we are just going shopping for our dresses for the Halloween Ball."
"I had forgotten about that. What are you going to be?" He had a curious look in his eye.
"I'm not sure yet. I might just by the dress and come up with a costume idea later." He chuckled and wrapped his arms around my waist, and pulled me to him.
"I like that idea." He tried to lean in and kiss me but I ducked out from under his arms and ran to the door. He gave me a puzzled look.
"Sorry but, if I'm ever gonna get ready for the day I need to go. You're just too distracting." I smiled as he walked over to me. He put either of his hands on the side of my head and kissed me. I pulled away for breath. "See this is what I mean." I stood on my tip toes and kissed him quickly. "I'll see you later!" I slipped out of the door and ran up the stairs into the common and then back down the second set of stairs to the girls dorms I was able to slip into my room without being noticed but as soon as I sat down on my bed I heard a high pitched accusatory voice.
"Where the hell have you been Knole?" Pansy sneered at me. I had just had one of the happiest times of my life and I did Not want to deal with her and have her bring my mood down.
"Why do you care you ugly pug?" She glared at me and started a long winded explanation that I really didn't care about.
"As the president of the Slytherin girls dorm I have the right to know where every member of the female gender of Slytherin is at all times and for your information I really don't care about you but you are a fellow Slytherin so I must show some interest in where you've be-." She stopped mid sentence and stared at the cloths I was wearing. "Where did you get those cloths, and who were you with last night?" She jaw clenched and seemed to quiver. I wasn't in the mood to hear her flip on me so I thought on my feet.
"They're mine." I shrugged and lay down and picked up my wand and started making my belongings levitate around me. Her nostrils flared when she screamed in anger, and knocked my wand out of my hand causing all of my stuff to fall on me.
"What the hell Parkinson?"
"You lying bitch! I know those are MY Drakie's cloths they have his initials at the bottom the boxers! What the hell were you doing with him?" I quickly looked down to see that there were indeed the initials "DM" stitched perfectly in the bottom corner. How did I not notice that before? She pointed her wand and me and looked as if she wanted to hex my head right off. I looked at her unamused, and sat up.
"So they are his why does it matter he hates you anyway." I said it so calmly that apparently it pushed her over the edge and she dropped her wand and tried to punch me. I may have been brutally beaten by Blaise the night before but there was no way that she could last in a math against me. Before she even was fully wound up to hit me I punched her in the face and sent her down to the floor with a bloody nose. She screeched as she watched the blood run between her fingers. "I would get that checked out if I were you. And by the way stay the hell away from me you nasty ass bitch." Those were the last words I said to her as I walked into the bathroom and slammed the door. I took a shower and did a drying spell on my hair then threw it up in a pony tail before I left the bathroom. When I came out Pansy was gone and I was finally alone I knew Rori and I would be trying on dresses all day and that I shouldn't wear anything to constricting, so I chose a pair of black skinny jeans and a blood red tank top with my plain black hoodie on top. I grabbed my red Converse, my bag, and my cell before I ran out the door. I texted Rori and told her to meet me in the Great Hall. When I got there she was already sitting on the steps decked out in blue skinny jeans her favorite Optimus Prime t-shirt, and the same bag she had carried since we were about 10. She jumped up when she saw me and gave me a running hug.
"Hi! I feel like I haven't seen you in forever!" I pulled out from the hug and looked at her like she was crazy.
"What? I saw you less than 24 hours ago!" I laughed and nodded my head in the direction of the doors, signaling a walk and talk. "How are you settling in?"
"Eh not too bad. Oh, guess who helped little old me carry my trunk up to my room!" I pretended to think on it.
"Hmmmmmm, could it be a really cute guy that you've been fawning over named Mark." She actually looked disappointed when I said it but she recovered.
"Yea! Oh my goodness we were talking for like hours, it was perfect!" She smiled to herself recalling the memory. "Ok so I like Mark and you've got to like someone so here's the deal we both get boyfriends before the Halloween Dance. Deal?" She held out her hand in a mock fashion. I shook it and decided since she brought it up now would be a good time to explain everything.
"Um Rori?" I chewed my bottom lip/
"Yes maim?" She turned to look at me.
"Well remember how I found your family and I explained my situation and you guys kinda took me into your lives and raised me as pretty much your sister?" She nodded "Well I sort of had a repeat of that last night."
"What? Who the hell touched you I'm gonna kill them!" Her eyes were red with anger and she already held her wand out.
"Ok first of all calm down I'm ok now, thanks to Draco." She lowered her wand and put it back in her bag.
"Excuse me did you just say Draco as in Draco Malfoy?" I nodded. "Ok tell me everything." By the time I had told her the entire story we were in Diagon Alley. I was out of breath and she was stunned. "Wait so what was the last part you told me?" I smiled.
"Weeeeeeeell I now have a boyfriend!" We both smiled uncontroably.
"Well then I guess we really need to get you a smoking dress then to impress his royal hotness."
"Oh my god you cannot call him that!"
"And why not?" She crossed her arms like a stubborn child. I thought a minute and couldn't think of a logical reason.
"Ok well you just can't call him that to his face. Deal or no deal?" She thought a moment.
"Deal." We laughed until our stomachs hurt.
"Race you to the dress shop?" We both took off running and we literally got to the dress shop at the exact same time. We were both out of breath because the seasons were changing quickly and the air was already getting crisp in preparation for fall. We entered the dress shop and fell completely in love with all of the dresses in the store. I swear Rori almost fainted at the sight of all of them. She turned to me with an excited smile on her face.
"I hope you ate a good breakfast because we are not leaving here until dark." I walked up next to her and patted her on the back.
"You don't need to worry about that we will be kicked out before we leave." We looked around the store for a place to begin and decided to start in the front and work all the way to the back. We tried on almost every dress in the store but when we finally found the ones we wanted we walked to the register and paid. Rori got a royal blue and black dress with a royal blue and pattered bodice. And I bought a, well you'll just have to wait till the night of the ball to find out. We were satisfied and made our way back to school. We ate dinner together and parted ways to our dorms. I hung my dress in my closet and waited till the night I would be able to wear it.
3rd Person P.O.V.
Draco was upset that he wouldn't be able to spend the day with Ray, so instead he decided to visit home and tell his parents about her. He knew there was something special about her. When he got home though he walked right into a death eaters meeting. Voldemort was sitting at the head of the table with Lucias sitting at his right hand. Voldemort lifted his head and noticed Draco standing across the room.
"Ah Draco my death eater in the making. Sit, and see what you'll be in for once you're one of us for real." Draco took a seat at the end of the table until the meeting was over. The death eaters slowly dispersed one by one. When they were all gone Narcissa ran up and gave Draco a hug.
"Oh darling how I've missed you. But why are you home? Is something wrong?" He hugged her back.
"No mom nothing's wrong, I just have some news to tell you." Narcissa brightened and looked at Lucias, who turned to the dark lord.
"Sir would you mind if we took a moment to talk to our son alone?" Voldemort looked at Lucias with a mischievous look on his face.
"Take your time." With that Draco and his parents went into the kitchen to talk. Narcissa spoke first.
"So honey what's the news?" Draco took in a breath and told them.
"I have a girlfriend."
"Oh darling that's wonderful!" She gave Draco another hug. Lucias just stood silent. "What's her name, what does she look like tell me everything."
"Her name is Ray, well Raylan, but we call her Ray she's about 5'8" I'd say she has long brown black hair and honestly I just think she's amazing." He didn't realize he was smiling talking about her until his father spoke up with the only question and answer that he cared about.
"What's her blood status?" He was gruff with his answer and not all that friendly. Draco stiffened at the question and answered in a monotone to match his father.
"I believe that she's a pure blood." His father nodded and walked away as if that was all that mattered to him. His mother kept asking questions about her and he kept answering them to the best of his abilities. He hadn't planned to stay long but he ended up saying for lunch so he helped his mother set the table while the house elves cooked the meal. After lunch they went to the living room to talk and ran into Lucias and the dark lord engaged in a deep conversation. They both looked up when Draco and Narcissa entered the room. An evil smile crossed the dark lords' face and he motioned for Draco to sit down.
"My boy I hear that you have a new pet." Draco didn't like his tone from the first word in his mouth and Ray certainly wasn't his pet but he knew better than to talk back to the dark lord.
"Yes sir I do." His smile grew bigger.
"I have a little assignment for you to prove yourself." Draco didn't like where this was going but he had no choice in the matter.
"What is it?"
"Do you think you could fall in love with this girl?" Draco tho9ught for only a short moment then gave his answer.
"Yes." Voldemort rose from his chair and crossed the room to stand in front of Draco and gestured for him to rise and he did.
"Well I'm very sorry to hear that my boy, because I have the feeling that you will now not take a liking to my mission." Draco was on edge and he knew nothing good could come from what he was about to say. "I want you to prove yourself to me by making this girl fall in love with you." Draco stood there confused.
"What sir?" He couldn't believe it was true.
"You heard me, did you not?"
"No sir I heard you but I was just taken back by your command." He tried to back pedal until he was safe again.
"Well it's good that you understand the first part of your assignment then."
"First part?"
"Yes. After you have made this girl fall in love with you, you will crush her and her soul. You will tell her you never loved her. Draco you'll do it on the night of the Halloween Ball and you will not say a word to her about the entire ordeal. Oh and if you tell her and or don't crush her you will both die." With that he vanished back to god knows where. Draco sat back down on the couch and rested his head in his hands. His mother came over and sat next to him.
"Oh Draco I'm so sorry, I wish there was something I could do. I'm so sorry honey." She held him tightly, but he stood suddenly and went to the fire place.
"There's nothing I can do but follow his orders I have to do it." He threw the flu powder at the ground and vanished from his home. He arrived back in his dorm only seconds later to see that it was late enough that Ray should be back at school by now, he had to see her. He practically ran to her dorm and almost knocked down her door. To his displeasure Pansy opened the door. She tried to throw herself at him, but he just pushed her away from him.
"I'm really not in the mood for your crap tonight." He pushed past her to see Ray laying on her bed in the corner facing the window and staring out into the night. She looked so beautiful the way the light hit her face. He was walking over to her when he called her name.
"Ray." She didn't react in anyway first he was concerned because he thought she may be mad at him, but then he realized that she had her ear buds in. He walked over and sat down on her bed. She flipped over with a start and looked scared for a second but calmed down immediately as soon as she saw it was him.
Ray P.O.V.
After dinner I didn't really feel like dealing with anyone so I just threw my ear buds in and blasted some of my favorite music I laid on my bed and watched the sunset till the moon was high in the sky and the stars were out shinning at their brightest. I thought about how lucky I was to have Draco in my life if he hadn't been there that night I probably wouldn't be here today. I dozed in and out for hours but I couldn't seem to get restful night sleep news around school was that Draco had gone to visit his parents. I knew he would be back but I just didn't feel comfortable knowing that he wasn't in the castle. I was staring out the window when someone sat down on the edge of my bed it scared me so I flipped over and backed up against the wall until I realized it was Draco. I relaxed when I saw it was him and I took out my ear buds.
"Hi." I wrapped my ear buds around my iPod and tossed it on my nightstand. I sat up against the headboard and patted the spot next to me he scooted onto the bed next to me and wrapped his arm around my shoulders and rested his chin on my head. My smile vanished as soon as soon as I saw his troubled expression, I looked up at him "What's wrong?" He sighed and looked down at me his eyes looked conflicted with sadness and troubles. As soon as I asked the question I saw his expression change and he seemed to push whatever troubles he was thinking of away. He smiled and kissed me.
"Nothing's wrong, I just missed you." I was going to ask him what he was hiding, but he seemed so exhausted and I didn't want to make him do something he didn't want to do. I looked up at him and rested my cheek on his chest. All I knew was that something was bothering him deeply and I knew that it had to be something bad. When things went on around school and things were said about him they just rolled off of him, it had to be something serious for it to be bothering him. He leaned his head back and rested it on my headboard. "Ray?"
"What?"
"Would you mind if I crashed here with you I'm so beat?"
"No of course not." He let out what seemed to be a sigh of relief. We slid further down on the bed so we were lying next to each other. I rested my head on him and thought about what could be bothering him. I didn't realize how tired I was until I laid down. He ran his fingers over my long black hair, strangely seemed to calm him just the fact of knowing I was there with him. He brushed my hair until he fell asleep ad even after that his hand stayed on my lower back. I nuzzled into him and tried to fall asleep, but something just didn't feel right. I needed to talk to him, but it would have to wait until morning there was no way that I was going to wake him up, and soon my thoughts dulled and I followed him into the realm of sleep.
A/N: I'm sorry it has taken me so long to update, I had to do a lot of tweaking to get this chapter the way I wanted. I know this chapter was kinda boring but PLEASE keep reading things are gonna get interesting or at least I hope so. :) Keep reviewing?