Catch Me When I Fall: Chapter Five
Summary: They've named her the School """". Brutally bashed and raped by a close family friend as a child, Jacinta has lost all respect for her body; and for the male sex. Now they'll do whatever she likes to get what she wants, plots, schemes, manipulates; she's done it all. Until someone sees she needs help, she needs a rescuer. Only problem being, they hate each other; they always have. Why did fate chose them? Why did the prophecy have to claim her for its grueling task? Will he save her, or is his birth-right more important?
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Chapter Five: Eyeing Breakfast.
Just escape,
Leave behind all your problems and faults.
Just escape,
Fall into eternal sleep.
Just escape,
Float away from it all.
Just escape,
One day you're rescuer will find you.
Jae stood at the door of her dorm. Anna and the others had already left for breakfast. She just couldn't bring herself to walk out of that room. She couldn't face him, not again, never again. He'd taken so much from her in her life. She wouldn't allow him to see how much it had affected her; she wouldn't give him that kind of satisfaction.
Taking a deep breath, she lifted her foot and placed it on the next step. At least this was a little improvement. But if she did this the whole way, she was going to look extremely stupid.
Finally, she reached the end of the stairs, her eyes grazed the room, but stopped on an armchair near the door. In it sat none of than, Draco Malfoy. Sighing, she placed her hands on her hips.
"Malfoy? Why aren't you at breakfast?"
"Why aren't you?" a very bored looking Malfoy asked, standing up.
"I have my reasons," she admitted, getting momentarily distracted. 'Was he waiting for me?' her mind ticked.
"Really?" Malfoy asked, stepping closer to her.
"Yes," Jae said, sounding slightly nervous at being alone in a room with just one person.
"Well, are we going to eat or not?"
Jae's eyes widened. Now she had to go in there, or she would have to come up with some excuse for not going. Right now, her mind when blank.
"Well...?" her blonde-haired room-occupant asked.
Jae bit her lip and walked forward. Malfoy opened the common room entrance and walked out, waiting for her on the other side. Jae stared at the entrance, unable to move again.
"Jacinta?" Malfoy asked, before clasping a hand over his mouth.
Jae's eyes widened further as she looked up at Malfoy. Had she just imagined it, or had he seriously just said her first name? She had to be imagining it.
"Er- Let's go," Malfoy said, not waiting any longer, he began his ascent to the Entrance Hall.
Jae waited a moment longer before following.
Just catch me,
Whenever I shall fall.
Just catch me,
Whenever my foot may slip.
Just catch me,
Whenever I go astray.
Just catch me,
Whenever I need you to.
Sitting in the Great Hall, Jae looked nowhere but at her plate, which Anna was loading with food.
"Eat," Anna ordered. The bell for class was going to go any minute, and she hadn't eaten a thing. She also noticed Malfoy hadn't either, though he hadn't done much since entering the Hall; all he did was stare at Eric, or as she should put it; Professor Taylor. She knew something was going on now, if the Dark Lord put in one of his best Death Eaters as a professor at Hogwarts. And teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts, as well.
Jae's eyes wandered up along the teachers table, and her eyes met a soulless black. Those eyes bored into hers, making her shift uncomfortably in her seat. They eyes flicked to the seat next to her for a second, making Jae look to the seat. Malfoy was scowling at Eric, with a vengeance.
"Malfoy?" Jae whispered, placing her hand on his arm.
This expression changed as he turned to look at her, he seemed embarrassed.
"Yes?"
"Please don't look at him," Jae pleaded softly. "I don't want you to."
Malfoy's eyebrow raised as he looked at her, some of their table was looking on at their odd behaviour.
"I'll look all I like until you explain something to me."
"Malfoy, I can't tell you."
"Why not?"
"I don't trust you," Jae told him, but wished she hadn't when an extremely hurt look flicked across his face before his Slytherin mask covered it up quickly.
He turned away from her as she was nudged in the other side. Anna looked at her, mouth agape.
"What is wrong with you?" she hissed.
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