A/N: thanks to everyone who reviewed, especially Polaris and thea. Thanks. You guys rock! And to Kelsey...I know you didn't really review, but you've helped me so much between this chapter and the last one. Thanks girl.
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The One I'll Always Love
Chapter Eight: Fragments of Me
A week later, Draco was starting to get worried. The party was only two days away. Although he already had his costume, he wasn't looking forward to seeing Derek again. The other boys were fine, but Derek was a different story all together. Hermione had spent the past couple of days at Jena's house, helping to plan and decorate for the party. Draco walked around the empty house, wondering what would happen at the party.
FLASHBACK...
"Draco, I promise you'll have fun. We do this every year and we have fun every time. Every year, we go to Jena's house and we have a party. Me, Derek, Jena, Logan, Mari, Marlie, John, Tony and Breena. Our parents used to worry, because its always guys and girls, but since none of us has gotten knocked up yet, they stopped worrying too much." Draco looked at Hermione with his eyebrows raised. "So, your parents just let you guys stay at Jena's house all weekend?" "Her parents have the spare key, just in case." Draco sighed. Then looked at Hermione quizzically. "Wait a second. You told me earlier that it was always couples. But you only named four guys instead of five. What happened to the last dude?" Hermione turned her face from Draco's. She quietly muttered under her breath, "We don't talk about him. Not anymore. It's too painful." Hermione started to walk away so that Draco wouldn't see her tears, but Draco reached out and grabbed her arm. "Mione, o, Mione. I didn't mean to make you cry. Mione?" Hermione hid her face in Draco's chest. "You didn't. He did. And now he's gone. He left us forever. It was his own damn fault. He shouldn't have. But, he did. Why?" Hermione's words dissolved into a fresh wave of tears. She gripped Draco's shirt and buried her face deeper in it. Draco wrapped his arms around his girlfriend. 'What the hell did this guy do? And what the hell happened to him?'
End of FLASHBACK...
Draco walked into the living room. He turned on the television, but, finding nothing he wanted to watch, turned it off in disgust. He walked up to his room and picked up his guitar. 'Hermione said there would be singing at the party. But I don't sing anything unless I write it. So I'll write my own song and sing it then. But, I only have two days. Guess that means I need to start right now.' Draco strummed a few chords on his guitar before an actual idea hit him.
A few hours later...
Hermione unlocked the front door, calling goodbye to Jena. "Hello? Draco? Where are you?" Hermione heard a faint sound coming from upstairs. "Singing? But, who?" Hermione crept up the stairs, careful to make very little noise. When she got to the top of the stairway, she listened again. It was coming from Draco's room whatever it was. Hermione walked towards her boyfriend's bedroom door. She pushed the door open, careful not to make it squeak on its hinges. There, a site greeted her eyes she had not expected to see. Draco was facing the window, playing his guitar and singing. Hermione stood there, mesmerized by the voice coming from her boyfriend. Knowing that he wouldn't want to be disturbed, Hermione turned around to leave. "You don't have to leave you know. You can listen, if you want." Hermione jumped. She hadn't realized Draco knew she was there. "Draco, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to intrude. I, heard singing. I didn't recognize it, so I came up to find out who it was. You've really got some voice." Draco blushed as Hermione complimented his singing voice. "It's nothing to brag about. I was, erm, writing a song to sing at the party." Hermione smiled widely. "Then I'll leave you to that. You can sing it for me when you're finished." Draco nodded and went back to his soft singing as Hermione left the room.
A few minutes later...
Draco came down to the main floor and found Hermione watching a muggle movie. He sat down on the couch next to her and whispered, "What's this?" Hermione turned to him in surprise; she hadn't heard him come downstairs. "O, this? Beauty and the Beast. It's my favorite movie. Well, Disney movie anyways." Draco looked at her quizzically. "Beauty and the Beast like the book? And what's this Disney thing?" Hermione laughed. She had forgotten how unused to muggle things Draco would be. "Yes, like the book. And Disney was the cartoon artist who lived in the States. They have a whole franchise named after him. And theme parks. Lots of them." Draco nodded but still had a bemused expression on his face. Then Hermione remembered Draco's earlier promise. "Weren't you going to play your song for me?" Draco cocked his head at her with a what-do-you-mean look on his face. "The song you were writing earlier?" "O, right. That song. OK, just let me run up an get my guitar. Draco returned a minute later with his instrument under his arm and a few pieces of paper grasped in his hands. "OK, it's not that good. But, here goes.
I used to think
That I had the perfect life
I used to think
That I had everything
But now, now that I look back
On everything I thought I had
I realized all I had
Was fragments of me
Take a good look at me
Tell me what you see
Cause all I'll ever be
Is a fragment of me
I wish that I could show
What it's like to know
That you can never be
What you want to be
And all I'll ever be in your eyes
Is a fragment of the me inside
I couldn't show
What I felt inside
I couldn't show
How much it hurt
I couldn't show
Anything at all
All I could show
Was fragments of me
Take a good look at me
Tell me what you see
Cause all I'll ever be
Is a fragment of me
I wish that I could show
What it's like to know
That you can never be
What you want to be
And all I'll ever be in your eyes
Is a fragment of the me inside
I'm sitting here
Broken inside
I'm laying here
In pieces
I'm standing here all alone
Cause I could never show
Anything more than fragments
Take a good look at me
Tell me what you see
Cause all I'll ever be
Is a fragment of me
I wish that I could show
What it's like to know
That you can never be
What you want to be
And all I'll ever be in your eyes
Is a fragment of the me inside
Fragments
Of who I really am
Pieces of who I truly am
Only a glimpse
Of what I'm really like
All I'll ever be in your eyes
Is a piece
Is a glimpse
Just a fragment
Of who I am inside"
Hermione sat there with tears filling her eyes. "Draco, that was...amazing." The brunette stood from her place on the couch and walked to where Draco was sitting. She wrapped her arms around his neck in a gentle hug and whispered "I love you, Draco Malfoy." in his ear.
A/N: PLEASE review. I'll take the good bad and the ugly...o, and Draco's song "Fragments of Me" was written by me. Tell me waht you think of it when you review. Love yaz!
Jackie