Chapter 10

"Rude Awakenings"

Jay-Lee had caught Draco's eye as she ran away. He pulled back from Pansy. Something inside him felt horrible. Pansy's kisses felt all wrong. "You know Pansy, now that I am standing her with you," she waited for him to confess some kind of love to her. " I do recall making BEAUTIFUL love to Jay-Lee." Pansy took a step back in shock. This was not the love she had expected him to confess. "It was actually amazing. I have never felt something that great. I remembered how perfect it was because I just realized that I am not worried about what anyone thinks anymore. ESPECIALLY not you."

"Draco, have you gone crazy? She is from America. She is trash, remember?"

"No Pansy, she's not trash. If anyone is trash it's you." Draco turned and walked away. Pansy stood in shock unable to say anything.

~*~

"I told her the truth. I told her what happened. I told her I wasn't worried about what anyone thinks. I don't care, I will let the whole school know about my feelings tomorrow." Draco had found Jay-Lee sobbing into her knees at the lake's edge. He was several feet away as he spoke. It cut him deeply to see how much he had hurt someone he loved so much.

Without turning around Jay-Lee hissed, "I guess you saw me standing there. I hate you! I fuckin' HATE you! What the hell did I do to you? I told you that you hide behind you social status and pride. Well I'm just as well off as you and it's ok for you to care for me. I FUCKIN' HATE YOU DRACO!" She jumped up and charged straight for him. Colliding with his solid strong chest she began to punch it while he stood there taking every bit of what he knew he deserved.

"Jay, um you never told me I hid behind my social status and pride except in this dream-"

"Yes I did, I told you...in my dream. You had it too?" Draco nodded slowly, looking very shocked.

She leaned her forehead against him and began crying uncontrollably once again. She knew in her heart that he hadn't lied when he said he would tell the whole school how he felt. It seemed like bull shit but somehow she just knew.

"I hate you, I fuckin', I just hate you so much right now." This was all she could say. The rain began to fall harshly as Draco took her into his arms.

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Dumbledore stood gazing out his office window. He had been watching the couple for the past months. He knew when they had first met, he had noticed Jay-Lee entering the boy's showers, and every time they had been together he was aware of it. Even when they had lost their virginity to each other he had known. The expression "If walls could talk", was all too true in the school .He had asked them about the two teens many of times. "Forgive him Jay-Lee." Dumbledore mumbled. "He needs you to. We all need you to."