A/n: Hi guys! I'm really sorry for the long wait but I went overseas for 4 weeks and I didn't have internet access most of the time and when I did I wasn't allowed on fanfiction. And then I had all these assignments for school- and I still do.
A couple of things. Edward will be coming in really soon, sometime in the next couple of chapters. The Malfoys are not Deatheaters. I know its kinda hard to imagine but go along with it anyway. The story is not going to go along the same lines as the books. Some parts are included some aren't, some are different, so don't go saying that I've gotten this wrong or I've left something out. This is set Decemberish in Bella's fifth year, so she's 15. Question: when does school end and finish in London?
Anyway, enjoy the chapter…
"Everyone else! Get over it! It's my life! I don't want you people nosing into it! I'm TIRED of being whispered about everywhere I go! SO CUT IT OUT!" At that, I collapsed. From the pressure, from the screaming. I sobbed, aware that I had everyone's eyes on me.
Draco sat down beside me and I sobbed into his chest for a while. Until I blacked out, falling into his arms and escaping from the world, from the staring eyes and from my own thoughts…
Beep, beep.
The beeping was the first thing I heard when I awoke.
Beep beep.
What's with the beeping?
Beep, beep.
Alright whose alarm is going off?!
Beep beep.
"Will someone please shut off that fucking beeping?!" I yelled.
"Bella?" someone asked hopefully.
I opened my eyes and I looked around the room, confused. This wasn't my dorm. Everything was white: the ceiling, the bed, the floor, the walls, my clothes. "Where am I?"
"Bella are you alright?" Draco asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Of course I am. Why wouldn't I be? Now where am I?"
"Bella, you're in the hospital wing. You fainted," he said pointedly.
"Yeah, but I'm still fine," I replied, smiling. "Now can I get out of here? I hate this place."
Madame Pomfrey, the school nurse, came in. "Ms Swan, I think you can leave now. Just rest up and don't stress." I snorted. Yeah right. How could I not stress at a school like Hogwarts. Especially when I'm doing my OWLs soon.
I jumped down from the bed. Draco supported me, holding me tight.
"Draco I'm not going to collapse again. You can relax and let go," I told him, slightly annoyed.
"I'm not taking chances," he replied. I sighed. For an evil ferret, he was really cautious.
We walked to Gryffindor Tower so I could change.
"Bella, I have an idea," said Draco, breaking the silence.
"Oh no!" I exclaimed in mock horror.
"Shut up! Grab all your stuff and bring it down here."
I didn't know what he was planning, but I did as he said all the same. As I entered the common room I was met with stares. I ignored them and walked to my dorm, packing my trunk with everything I owned and dragged it down to the common room.
"Where are you going?" Seamus asked, nosily.
"None of your business," I replied curtly. He opened his mouth to respond, but after a fierce glare from me, shut it but continued to stare at me.
Draco took the trunk from me when I exited the tower and took my hand in his.
"Where in the world are we going Draco?" I asked as we walked up a flight of stairs.
"Well, I've been thinking and… well, we need a place of our own- so we're not rushing off to Gryffindor or Slytherin every five seconds. I heard bout this place from my father. It's called the Room of Requirement. And here it is."
I looked to where he was staring and found a wall. "Uh, Draco? You do know this is a wall, right?"
He smirked and then began pacing. A door appeared after a few moments. "Open it," he said, nudging me forward.
I gasped. It was perfect. There was a king-sized bed in the centre of the room, which was furnished with a wardrobe, a desk and a dressing table, with a door on the right next to the dressing table. That door led to another cream room with a full kitchen and a mahogany dining table built for eight. A bathroom, complete with shower and bath adjoined this room.
"Wow Draco! This is wonderful! It's absolutely perfect!" I said hugging him.
"I'm glad you like it, love."
"Like it? I love it!"
We spent the rest of the day organising the apartment, unpacking and making it our home. Crabbe and Goyle had brought up Draco's trunk.
Once we were finished, Draco agreed to let my friends over for dinner and we walked down to the Gryffindor Tower together, hand-in-hand.
"Do you want me to wait here?" Draco asked when we approached the Gryffindor Tower.
"No come. If they can't handle it then that's their problem not ours," I said. But it was our problem. It was only our problem.
Draco and I walked in and I'm pretty sure some people growled. I walked in like nothing was wrong though I was wondering inside how my friends could treat me like this and I could feel my knees buckling from the intensity of their gazes.
Harry, Hermione and Ron were sitting in the common room, with books in their hands. "Hey guys, do you want to have dinner with us?" I asked as I approached them.
"We always have dinner with you," said Ron.
"Well, Draco and I… we have our own apartment," I said quietly, only meant forb them to hear.
"You're sharing a room with Maloy?!" asked Fred incredulously.
Oh God.
"Yeah we do. Got a problem with that?!" asked Draco fiercely.
"Yeah I do actually. And I'm sure everyone in this room does too."
"I don't," I said loudly. "So why should you have a problem?! This is my life! Why won't you let me live it?!"
"But-"
"No buts!" I said firmly, but then I softened and said gently, "I want you guys to be a part of my life. But you can't be if you're constantly arguing with me and questioning my decisions. You guys are my family and sure, families have fights, but they forgive and forget. Now are you willing to forget and get over this or our you going to let a Slytherin ruin our relationship?"
"Bella, I'm sorry. But I can't… accept Malfoy. It's just not possible. It's against the rules," said Gerorge. A few Gryffindors nodded and murmered in agreement.
"What rules?!" I asked, annoyed.
"The unwritten rules of Godric Gryffindor."
I snorted. "Riight. If they're unwritten how do you know they even exist? Are you guys coming or not?" I asked turning to my friends.
"Yeah of course we are," said Hermione, jumping up from her chair. Ron and Harry followed and we all walked out the door with our heads held high. We led them to the Room of Requirement.
"This is it," I said.
"But… it's a wall," said Harry.
I laughed. "Draco, will you do the honours?"
He nodded and paced back and forth. The door appeared and they gasped.
"Bella, you've found the Room of Requirement!" exclaimed Hermione.
"Well, actually, Draco found it," I admitted.
"What's the Room of Requirement?" asked Ron and Harry together.
"Well, it's a room that appears when a person needs it. The room is furnished according to the person's needs," explained Hermione.
"So if you really neede the toilet…?" Ron trailed off.
"Gross. But, yes, Ronald, that is the idea," replied Hermione.
I opened the door and revealed to them the apartment.
"Bella, it's beautiful!" squealed Hermione.
"Thanks. Now as for food, guys, we've got none."
"Great Bella. Lure us here with the promise of food. Now that we're here where you want us, the food has disappeared. Devious. Bella, I never knew you had it in you," said Harry, jokily.
"Shut it Harry," I sadi, nudging him playfully.
"Bella, what are we going to do about food? I'm starving," said Ron.
"Ronald, when are you not hungry?" asked Hermione. Ron opened his mouth to answer but Hermione sent him a look and he shut it.
"Bella?" called Draco.
"Yeah?"
"Come food problem is solved."
"What? How?" I asked rushing to Draco.
He was in the kitchen and when I got there I gasped. There was food every where, so much so that you couldn't see the floor.
"Alright guys, come in and dig in," I said.
We laughed and talked into the night and with the leftover food, we had a food fight, which I had always wanted to do since I was young. Life felt as it did before everything got so incredibly complicated.
A/n: Okay, I hope you enjoyed the chapter. It was kinda boring, I know and short. But, I have the next chapter written up and half of chapter 9 as well so when I can I will update.
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