Mini chapter time! I was pretty stuck, but I really wanted to get another chapter going. So, mini chapter! I know, I'm annoying. But anyway, five reviews for the next chapter! And I know you uys are reading, because tons of people have subscribed and favorited. So, would it really hurt to drop a few lines? Or maybe just one? Anyway, here you go: and I own nothing.

I can't do this anymore, Luna admitted to herself, lying alone on her bed in the Hospital bed. I just can't. Time was up; the game was over. This was wrong. And she wasn't going to it anymore. She just couldn't. Not even for Draco.

Oh, God. Draco.

How could she tell him?

She didn't know. How could anyone know how to break someone's heart? Nothing made sense anymore. The very best thing in her life had been Draco. His kindness… their relationship was perfect, except—oh yeah—it was a secret. She shook her head and held her mother's necklace tightly in her right hand. It had always helped her to clear her mind when she needed to make decisions.

But not today, apparently. She felt the same. No sense of absolute calm washed over. No serene voice in her head telling her to calm down, take a deep breath, don't do anything rash. Nothing. Nothing at all. Luna seized the necklace and took it off.

It was her mother's necklace. She rubbed her fingers over the diamonds curiously. No. She shook it. No. She grabbed it and re-fastened it around her neck carefully. Nothing!

Frustrated, Luna took it off and was tempted to put it somewhere else until it had decided to work again. But no—nothing could ever happen to that necklace. After it had been stolen, nothing had been right. So no matter what, she would keep it on her neck.

Draco entered and kissed her cheek. "How are feeling?"

Luna smiled weakly. "Fine."

He leaned down close to her and whispered, "I'm busting you out of this place."

Luna laughed, and Madame Pomfrey came bustling in. "Mr. Malfoy!" she cried. Draco straightened up, his expression guilty, his eyes holding in a laugh. Luna pressed her lips together to keep from laughing.

"Yes?"

"You get away from my patient!"

"Yes, ma'am," he responded, and left with a wink in Luna's direction.

She bit her lip and had trouble swallowing as she turned away from the doors he had left. "Sorry, Madame Pomfrey."

She frowned at the doors, as if blaming them for letting Draco through. "Yes. Well." She shook her head and went back into her office. "Go to sleep!" she added over her shoulder before leaving Luna to her worries and anxiety.

Luna almost wished she had stayed.

* * *

"What happened?" Hermione pressed. "You were fine all meeting."

Luna shrugged. "Bad sushi?"

Hermione pursed her lips and sighed. "Fine. Whatever."

They walked in silence to their classes. Luna was tempted to turn to Hermione and ask her advice—she was always full of it, and it was almost always good. But they continued to the Common Room in silence, where way-too-concerned friends greeted her. Luna brushed them off and went up to her dormitory.

"Leave her alone," she heard Harry command. "She's probably had a rough day."

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