Chapter 15 Sacrifice

Luna shrugged her shoulders absentmindedly, she has a feeling that there is something going on and she thinks that she might not like it. It was unusual of her to feel so nervous about something, and she kind of feels like she wanted to burry her head on her pillow to avoid this day. But Luna knows that she doesn't have to hide because of something, she is stronger than that, and much more positive.

She raised her eyes to look at the Slytherin table, searching for the man that she was currently thinking about. Strangely, she can feel him but she can't see him. He was there, somewhere inside the Hall but she can somehow feel him not wanting her to see him, but why?.

She stood up feeling a little bit light headed with all her thoughts, there was a rush of disappointment when Neville grabbed her hand and asked her if there was something wrong, making her whip her head to look at her worried friend. "Are you sure? Or do you want me to walk with you?" Neville's cheeks turned red, making his feelings obvious to the world. Luna pouted inwardly, feeling so sad to not return her friend's feelings. Ever since they met, she already knew that the man would have this possibility of liking her, but sadly, she can feel that she was not the 'one' for him, not the one that can make him feel like how she feels when she's with Draco.

"Yes, thankyou Neville" she touched his arm with a gentle squeeze, her eyes leaving the man's face without noticing the disappointment etched right across his face. She didn't have time to explain that he doesn't have to be sad, but she was afraid that she needs to talk to Draco.

And so she brisked walk-almost run- out from the Great Hall, she took a moment to catch her breath and without a second to waste, she run down the directions that would lead her to the Room Of Requirements, somehow, she can feel him there.

For about two minutes of running the maze-liked castle, she found herself face to face to the wall that containes the room. She didn't know what to say but she feels a little bit unease and the possibility of backing out is getting larger and larger whenever she would think about it.

She entered the room and released the breath that she didn't thought that she was currently holding. Her head turned to her right, upon where the faint spell of something old lingering to her nostrils. Guessing about the possibility of Draco in there, she followed the smell and found the same vanishing cabinet that Draco is currently fixing.

Just like what she felt and thought, next to the cabinet was Draco, with his back turned to face her. She tilted her head and admire the way he somehow looks so pretty even when the only thing you can see was his back. Everything about him seems to be so beautiful, or atleast, to her eyes. He frowned with his light eyebrow scrunched down nd his lips turning to their usual sneer, she found herself smiling. Upon every emotions Draco absentmindedly does, this one is pretty much, close to her heart.

She tiptoed her way inches apart from his back. Draco, with his fast responses towards living breathing creatures around him, but apparently, he appeared to be busier than how she thought he would.

"Draco?" she whispered breathlessly.

The moment Draco heard her voice, he felt a small shiver travel up and down through his spine. He didn't know what to do. Sure, he knows that this day would come, that he has to do something to make her go away and he was actually prepared and had memorized his lines, but right now, he was stuck and a little part of him wanted to just melt. Wanting to get away from the girl with so much light in her eyes.

"Draco?" she said, something inside her voice sounds low and somewhat nervous, like she already knew what is going to happen. He exhaled, taking some time to prepare the both of them.

"Are you mad at me?" He turned around to look ar her, his eyes covered with the thickest of gray walls that he completely mastered. He hates how colorful she looks, her existence is a glowing light that shines almost to everything, he was not. He was dark and full of secrets. Inside in this forbidden room, it was clear to him that even the people inside it was also forbidden.

"...Yes" he said.

Luna's lips lifted slightly, almost pouting. But then, instead of being mad at him, she tilted her head and shrugged her shoulders, challeging him to tell her the reason.

"Just go away" He crossed his arms to his chest and turned his back to her. He didn't trust himself not to fall apart infront of Luna. She knows him enough to see the truth behind his every word.

"But Draco-"

"I don't need you"

He can feel her presence inching away from him, as if she was actually drifting away and he was letting her.

For a moment, there was only silence, his posture wouldn't let her see him but in the inside, he was trying not to pull her inside his arms and tell her that he was just messing up with her. He was trying to stop himself of doing it.

But just when he was about to regret what he had said, Luna turned her back and made her way to the door, her voice sad and haunting.

"Okay, if you say so" and with that, he tried to convince himself that he doesn't care.

He waited for her presence to disappear. Just when he was sure that she is out of hearing point, he let himself collapse down the ground, replaying the scene inside his head as if he wasn't sure that he was stuck inside a nightmare or not. He stayed inside the room the rest of the night, he wasn't sure if he can face her and if he can face the life that was destined for him either. But one thing for sure, he was designed to hurt everyone and mostly, himself.

Lol, I don't know. This chapter sort of write itself.