The Reason for Nightmares

During the next few weeks Mattie had been waken up every os often by a confused Draco. She was happy to see him every night when she was awakened from her horrible nightmares. Mattie was starting to feel guilty that Draco would wake her not knowing why she was screaming. She knew she had to tell him soon. So one Thursday night after classes she came out of her room from studying and saw Draco sitting on the couch by the fire. She figured tonight would be the best time to tell him, since he seemed relaxed enough.

"Um, Draco, can I ask you something?" She didn't know what his reaction would be but since she had already set her mind to telling him she might as well go through with it.

"Yea, sure, what's up?"

"Well, You know how since I've gotten here I've been waking up screaming. You've been so nice to me by keeping me comfortable after I've waken up and not asking what's the reason why im so cared of what's going on In my dreams. I figured I should tell you why their so horrible."

"You don't have to, just as long as your ok then everything is good."

"Draco you don't understand. I have been having those dreams ever since..."

"Ever since when. It must have been a horrible event to make you that scared."

She decided to sit next to Draco and tell him the whole story. She knew it would be hard but she had to do it. "Draco, Do you know why I'm here at Hogwarts?"

"No, but I was wondering that since I've never heard of anyone transferring from another school like that. Especially in their last year of school."

"Well, Beauxbaton is a year round school so before I came here I had been in my seventh year for about two months already. There were these girls that had a problem with me, they didn't like the fact that I was friends with muggles and mudbloods. They had been teasing me about it since I had come back from break. See during break I had met this guy and he and I started dating . He was a mudblood that went Durmstrang. Those girls had over heard me talking to my friends and I was telling them all about my new boyfriend. They didn't like that I was dating a mudblood, so one night trapped me in the restroom as I was coming out. They told me that since I wanted to associate myself, a pureblood, with dirty creatures like muggles and mudbloods, that I would be treated like one. One of the girls had an older brother that was out of school already and he was in the bathroom with us. I had met him two years ago when he had jut graduated from Durmstrang. The other girls and his sister left me and him in there with each other. He walked towards me and pinned me to the wall behind me. He told me that I had been bad and that I need to be punished. Then he covered my mouth with his so I wouldn't scream then he undid my pajamas. He started to rape me and it hurt so bad. I knew if I screamed no one would be able to hear me so I just cried. When he was done he told me to put my clothes back on and he left me there. I sunk to the floor and cried for what seemed like hours. By the time I got back to my dormitory most of my friends were up. The asked me what happened and I couldn't bring myself to tell them . That day I skipped all meals and all my classes. I just stayed in bed the whole day. After a few days of not eating and not going to classes my friends persuaded me to go to breakfast. When I got down to breakfast I could hear the girls at the other end of the table laughing at what had happened. I just sat at the table and tried to tune them out. They all got up and walked past my friends and I at the table and the girls who's brother had raped me said out loud so every one eating could hear, "my brother had a great time the other night," I got up and I cursed her. She got boils all over her face. She ran out crying and her groupies followed her. The headmistress asked me to her office to find out what happened, I told her everything. She told me that if I wanted to I could ask Professor Dumbledore if I could attend Hogwarts. I did and he said that I could. Since I had been one of the Head Girls at my school he said that I could have the position here. Since I had been through so much he didn't want me to feel any worse since I had worked so hard to become Head Girl. Im sorry to have told you this but I knew you were confused about what would make me scream so loud over a dream. That night is what I have been dreaming about since I've been here,"

"Wow, Im sorry. Are you ok now?" He asked now understanding why her screams had been so painful.

"Yes, since you've been comforting me at night when I wake I think they're getting better."

"That's good, Im glad that I could help. Well we'd better be getting to sleep. Tomorrow the first class we have is Trelawny's class.

"Goodnight, Draco."

A/N- I know that there have been people reading my story and getting the wrong ideas. I ask that you please read the rest of my story and tell me now what you think. Sorry it took me so long to get this last entry up. School tends to get in the way but the next chapter should be up by the end of the holidays. thx and have a good labor day weekend.