I was reading a book that I found on Draco's night stand when I heard that he woke up.
He looked at me and hurried to get up.
"You need to leave." He said.
I was shocked.
"Please." he continued, almost emotionless "as fast as you can"
"What?!" I asked it surely was unbelievable.
"Listen, you are risking yourself."
"Oh please Draco, enough with this!" I replied, absolutely annoyed.
It seemed like he didn't understand why I reacted this way.
He gave me my shoes and my sweater and finished getting dressed.
Draco led the way downstairs.
"Good morning, mother." he said while she stared at me.
We kept walking fast towards the exit.
He opened the door for me.
"Draco, I..." I said when we were finally out of the manor.
"I'm sorry." he said and hurried back inside.
I pretend I didn't care. Like it didn't hurt me to make her leave this way.
But I did.
I hell did.
"Draco," I heard my mother's voice "breakfast."
"Yes, mother" I obeyed and followed her to the dining room.
The next few weeks were hell.
Draco avoided me, but in such a weird way. He wouldn't talk to me or even look in my direction at all.
I felt like a total mess and had the next few weeks in the hospital wing.
The end was here. The school was attacked by death eaters. We were in the middle of a war.
I can't die, I have such good things to live for.
My mother wanted me and my sister out of Hogwarts as soon as possible, but I couldn't leave. I just couldn't risk not seeing Draco again.
He's in danger, he and his whole family.
He is the man I love the most and I needed to be there.
Death Eaters were everywhere. Curses were flying over my head and so many people have already died.
"Listen to me now! You are coming home" said my mother.
"I'm sorry, mother, but I'm staying here." I said, and with this words, I left.
"Draco," I called when I saw him on the shattered corridors of the castle "Draco, I must tell you something..."
"Well, can't it wait? We are in the middle of war if you haven't noticed"
I caught his hand tightly, preventing him from leaving.
He stared at his hand like two years ago, trying to find something wrong and different in it.
"That's absolutely not the time for that," he told me, emotionless "nor the place" and left quickly.
I felt betrayed. It all went wrong. I've lost all hope.
Shattered I sat down on the cold floor, unfortunately forgetting that we are in the middle of a war when I heard a scream and lost conscience.
Draco and I were standing in a far point, absorbing the lake.
"What?" Draco asked when he noticed I was staring at him.
"Nothing." I said with a smile on my face.
He looked at his hands and for a long time, there was a complete silence.
"Why won't say it?" I asked what I wanted to ask for ages.
Or precisely since Valentine's day.
"Say what?" He replied without looking at me.
"Are you playing stupid Draco?" I laughed.
"I honestly don't know what do you want from me..." he whispered.
"Well... do why don't you say it?" I repeated.
"It?" He asked.
"Yes, 'it'." I said.
After another long minute of silence, I opened my mouth again "Do you love me Draco?"
It seemed like he was stunned and very confused from the question.
I didn't wait for an answer.
"Why won't you say that you love me?"
We were standing there in a complete silence. It was actually a very nice silence. There was no need for words.
"Draco," I whispered after he kissed me gently again. "Tell me you love me..."
He didn't answer but leaned again to kiss me.
"Is everything alright?" Draco asked when he arrived at the edge of the forest, where we said we will meet.
"Of course, what could possibly be wrong?" I replied.
He sighed "is it about that?"
"Well Draco, maybe the problem is that you call it "that"."
"What the matter does that has? I don't think that this is important"
"Well, it is to me!"
"Why are making such a big deal out of it!?" He said angrily.
"Because it is! Why won't you just say it? Why won't you just say that you love me!?"
He started walking around and after a minute stopped.
"I can't."
"And why is that?"
" I don't know how..."
I looked deeply into his gray eyes.
"I guess I don't remember when is the last time someone ever told me something like that."
"She was badly injured" I heard Madam Pomfrey say "I know you want to be next to her but you shall let her rest properly."
I opened my eyes. I was in the hospital wing, but it seems to have much more beds than usual.
"Oh dear," she said when she noticed that I was awake. "I'll come in a minute to check on you again"
She started walking towards the bed to my right but came back to me after a second. "A letter came this morning." she said and nodded towards the night stand on my right that was full of flowers and some candies.
When Madam Pomfrey turned around I took the letter and opened it.
'I shall say that I am sorry I left without a proper goodbye after everything we went through together, but I had no choice.
I could not tell you where I am at the moment.
I won't write too much because I shouldn't be writing to you, or to anyone at all.
I must ask you not to send any letters.
I hope you are feeling better.
I will never forget all the affection and love that you gave me...'
There was a long weird space until the next few words.
'...I love you.'
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