Chapter 5: Marriage Plans

I stood up from my seat and yelled, " Mum stop joking! Draco and I aren't engaged! Stop lying to all these people!"

" Jessica, dear, I'm not lying," she said with the smile. " Now please sit down so I can continue."

" NO MOTHER! STOP LYING!" I yelped.

" Jessica, how many times do I have to tell you? You are getting married! Well, by next week Friday to be exact-," she responded. Draco's voice broke our argument.

" Father, I am not marring her! I haven't even purposed!" he said to his father.

" Mother, I refuse to marry him. One: I am still young and Two: IT'S DRACO!" I bellowed.

" What's wrong with me?" Draco asked. The room was silent as they waited for me to reply.

" You are the most arrogant, self centered despicable person I've ever met!" I say and I am pushed closer to him.

" I wouldn't have to act like that if I wasn't stuck to a hideous looking bag-," he started. SLAP! I slapped Draco right across the face and started to run. " No one slaps Draco Malfoy and gets away with it!" he yelled and ran after me. He was close behind and he grabbed my wrist and twisted it behind me. I back kicked him near his privates, but missed by inches.

Instead I kicked his thigh, leaving him regretful pain. He yelped and let go of my arm and

collapsed to the floor. I briskly ran away only to be stopped by him tripping me. I fell hard to the ground to be tackled by Draco. " I HATE YOU DRACO! GET OFF ME!" I screamed in his face.

" I HATE YOU TOO!" he yelled back and our bodies drew closer.

I started to punch and kick as much as I could and he yelped in pain. Our faces were inches away from each other and as he was ready to punch me, someone grabbed his arm and pulled him off. Another person snatched me and lifted me off the ground. They took us into the back hall near the kitchen and let go of the grasp. A red mark was left on my arm.

" Honestly Jessica, did you have to make a scene like that? In front of everyone?" my mother asked of me while Draco's parents and my father stood beside her looking outraged.

" And Draco, did you have jump on her?" Narsicca spoke.

" Now Nariscca and Ella, you know what the effects of the curse does!" Lucious said trying to calm down the angry mothers.

" Wait..you know about the curse?" I asked and the parents nodded.

" THEN TAKE THIS BLOODY CURSE OFF US!" Draco bellowed.

" It can't be taken off, only for a moment or two," my mother uttered.

" We're stuck like this forever?" I inquired. The parents nod.

" YOU! I HATE ALL OF YOU! THIS IS SO MEAN! YOU CAN'T GO AROUND DOING THIS TO PEOPLE!" I screeched at them.

" HOW COULD YOU?" Draco bellowed.

" C'mon Draco, don't tell me you aren't enjoying this?" his father asked.

" Yes, and Jessica, when you both were dancing, I could tell that you were enjoying it!" my father added.

" Ok, maybe I can tolerate Draco, but I don't want to MARRY HIM! ESPECIALLY NOT NEXT WEEK!" I said and a tear dripped down my face.

" Jessica, you will marry Draco. I don't want you to marry a non-pure blood. I can't even think about it!"

" Mother, what about love?" I asked as more tears poured down my face.

" Jessica, aw, my darling come here," my mother tried to embrace, " You'll learn to love him!" she insisted. She pulled me into a hug and more tears ran down my face. I got away from the embrace and ran up to my room and flumped on my bed while burring my head into a pillow. I felt someone sit on the bed and knew it was Draco.

" Leave me alone," I uttered from the pillow.

" It's not my fault, you know," he said in a caring voice. I sat up from my position and leaned against the headboard.

" I know, but it's so cruel for them to do this to us."

" I-I'm not that bad am I?" he asked. I turned to face him and saw him appear distressed.

" No..no you aren't. I'm just not ready to get married in just a few days."

" I understand, but why don't we make the best of this bad situation. You know our parents are going to let us off, especially your mom."

" Yeah, you're right, but this is just so mean of them to do this-," I was cut off. Draco head came closer to mine and within a blink of an eye he kissed me; on the lips. If it weren't for the curse, I would have punched him. The kiss though, was so intensifying that I couldn't let it go. I kissed him back. I put my arms around his neck and he put his around my waist.

His tongue brushed against my lip and I let him in to explore. We were like this for a long time that neither of us noticed the time fly by. I finally stopped and couldn't search for words to say. " Wow Jess, that was amazing," he said.

I looked into his eyes and said, " Draco, if we don't want to get married, than why are we kissing?" He looked at me bewildered.

" I don't know..," he said.

" Me either. Maybe it's the curse," I said and he nodded.

" Why don't we go to sleep?" he asked. I agreed and turned off the lamp, leaving the only source of light to be the moon. I rummaged my sheets and went under them. I was about to close my eyes when I heard Draco's footsteps come around the my side of the bed and from the light I saw that he laid a pillow on the ground and lay on the floor onto of it.

" Um..Draco, it's all right if you sleep with me in the bed," I mumbled. He sifted to look at me and shrugged.

" Well okay, but you did say that you didn't want to catch me in your bed ever again," he said and got up from the floor and paced back to the other side of the bed. He lay down and mumbled, "Goodnight, Jess."

" Goodnight,Draco," I answered.

'Maybe he isn't so selfish. He didn't sleep in my bed until I told him he could I guess I could learn to love him.' I told myself and drifted off to slumber land.