Chapter 3: The curse

The house elf came back with our desserts and I ate it with pleasure, but never took my glare off Draco. We sat in peace after some time went by and he decided to leave. He left me alone for a while, until I left to my room. I sat on my bed and just stared out the window, wondering on what I was going to do next. I observed the scenery and watched two birds fly towards my window. They perched on the tree, next to the window, and chirped happily.

I gazed at them, assuming them to be lovebirds. The male bird left the female on her perch and came back with sticks and he built a nest for her. I watched in amazement, considering them to be married. The night sky began to appear through the window and left me with a moon surrounded with stars. I took my gaze off the birds and onto the awe-inspiring moon, dancing around the sky. Slowly my eyelids fell and I was entranced into deep sleep.

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The veil lifted only showing me a silver eye. " I love you, Jessica." The voice of the man the eye belonged to said.

" I love you too, Draco," I heard myself say.

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I felt warmth over me and I suspected it to be the blanket. Shocked, I awoke from my dream and heard a snore coming from the other side of the bed. I jumped out of the bed and fell to the floor with a thump. An arm lay on the spot where I had been sleeping. The snoring increased. I cautiously tiptoed to the other side of the bed, to get a better look at the stranger in my bed.

The blankets were over its body and as I partially removed a part of it my eyes saw blonde hair resting on a pillow. I acknowledged the hair to belong to Draco Malfoy.

" DRACO MALFOY! GET OUT OF MY BED THIS INSTANT!" I screamed at him, but he snored even louder. I found a free pillow beside the bed and I snatched it. I started to hit Draco with the pillow while screaming, " GET-OUT-OF-MY-BED!" He opened his eyes and appeared startled. He briskly got out of the bed and stared blankly around him. " WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN MY BED?" I asked him. He gazed back at me and looked as if he couldn't speak. " WELL?" I asked and he still didn't speak. I pushed him out the door with the same pillow I had hit him with and closed the door.

" I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING IN YOUR BED!" he yelled at the door and pounded on it.

" YEAH RIGHT DRACO! YOU ARE DISGUSTING AND I BETTER NOT CATCH YOU IN MY BED EVER AGAIN!" I screamed back and briskly moved away from the door to my closet. I was outraged. I couldn't believe Draco slept in my bed with me in it! I was sickened when I thought about it. Trying to ignore the pounding on my closed door, I looked for something to quickly change in. My head started to hurt and my stomach began to churn. The room began to become a blur and the pain in my head was so bad that I screamed and collapsed to the floor. I closed my eyes.

Suddenly I heard the door to my room open with a bang and I felt someone's arms pull me up off the floor. The person carried me to my bed and sat me down. The pain subsided and I opened my eyes to see none other than Draco staring concernly at me. " Are you okay?" he asked.

" I think so," I plainly said and slowly pushed myself up so I could sit on the bed.

" Good. Now explain to me, WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?" he asked looking angry.

" What are you talking about?" I replied.

" YOU CURSED ME!" he yelled.

" I still don't know what you are talking about," I said.

" ACTING DUMB, ARE YOU? I tried to leave your door and my feet wouldn't let me move! YOU DID CURSE ME! TAKE IT OFF!"

" What do you mean you couldn't move?" I questioned.

" AGH! HERE LET ME SHOW YOU!" He moved a few inches, than feet, and soon after at least five feet, I began to feel the pain in my head again. I felt hot tears swell down my face; the pain was so agonizing.

" DRACO! COME BACK!" I yelped from the pain. He moved back towards me and the pain once again subsided. I stopped the tears and held my head in my hands. He sat next to me on the bed.

" You didn't conjure the curse, did you," he asked.

" Of course not!" I said and looked at him. Briskly he moved off the bed and began to walk towards my door. I followed whereas I didn't want the pain to come back. He started stepping down the stairs, with me behind him, and yelled for his parents. We searched for them and discovered someone was in the living room. My mother was as well as Narcissa were both talking happily. My mother was standing in front the fireplace and had her wand out.

" Mother? What are you doing here?" I asked as we walked upon the threshold. She looked up from where she was standing and smiled.

"Good morning darling! Hope you had a good nights rest! I'm here to help Narcissa decorate for the party tonight!"

" What party?"

" Oh, you know a party, with the family," she said and mumbled a spell. The words,

" The family" entranced my brain. The family is every single person that's a pure blood. There was going to be a party tonight at the Malfoy Mansion, with more than half the wizard population in the house. " Now run along and get ready for it! Oh and darling, do take a shower. I can smell you from all the way over here," my mother insisted and pushed Draco and I out of the living room. She closed the doors, leaving Draco and I alone.

" Draco, when she said go take a shower, um…how are we going to do that, considering we can't be five feet away from each other?" I asked.

" That's it, we're going to find out about this curse from my father," Draco said after a couple of seconds. I pursued him to the library, where both my father and his father were sitting and conversing.

" Well, good morning! I'm sure you've heard from your mothers that there's going to be a party tonight!" Mr. Malfoy said. " Well go on and get ready!"

" But, dad-," Draco was cut off.

" No buts, Draco. Go run along and get ready," my father interrupted. They also pushed us out of the room and closed the door once again leaving Draco and I alone.

" How are we going to do this?" I asked.

" I don't know. They seem to not want to hear about our problem. Maybe we should let it go for now and we'll tell them tonight, after the party," Draco concluded.

" But, that means-," I started.

" We'll have to take a shower," we said in unison.