Chapter Twelve.
Listen to you hide.
Everyone was gathered in the great hall for the special school event a talent quest where every year was allowed to compete. All the lights went out except for a few candles and a large spotlight on the stage. In the middle of this large light squinting until sunglasses were applied which made the look more mafia and doubted it really helped.
"Welcome everyone to the Hogwarts Talent Quest spectacular! Tonight he have Amazing muggle magic, drag queens and drama kings, dancers and even our Head boy and Head girl have decided to participate separately of course, Harry potter, Dumbledore and even our very own comedic professors group which is great to see them all working together instead of competing against each other eh? Now if you look in you r magic show guide you will see that our beautiful Head girl Miss Hermoine Granger is up first singing and dancing to a smash dance hit that made DHT a smash in nightclubs and homesteads around the world so here she is our very own English beauty Hermoine Granger with listen to your heart!"
I felt nervous as my name was called; my long black dress clung to my body pumping up my cleavage making them look like two massive mountains and my waist look like an hourglass. The spotlight went out as if on cue as the music started and came back much fainter to reveal me on stage my eyes closed where i moved myself to the beat of the music letting it take control and forgetting my world as it weaved its very own special magic.
I know there's something in the wake of your smile
I get a notion from the look in your eyes, yeah
you've built a love but that love falls apart
your little piece of heaven turns too dark
listen to your heart when he's calling for you
listen to your heart there's nothing else you can do
I don't know where you're going and I don't know why
but listen to your heart before you tell him goodbye
Immature men in the crowd who were behaving like they had never seen a shapely woman before wolf whistled at me and cheered me on as the rest of the crowd stood in silence as i danced, like no one was watching I dancing blocking them all out. For the first time in a long time i was free and no one would take this away from me.
sometimes you wonder if this fight is worthwhile
the precious moments are all lost in the tide, yeah
they're swept away and nothing is what is seems
the feeling of belonging to your dreams
listen to your heart when he's calling for you
listen to your heart there's nothing else you can do
I don't know where you're going and I don't know why
but listen to your heart before you tell him goodbye
the dance music continued working its way into my veins before the next lines began my voice sounding like honey and hitting the high notes with ease i think now people were starting to hear my voice. To hear my words. They all knew about the Malfoy fiasco because Harry was terrible at keeping secrets and they wondered if this song was to a special someone sitting in the crowd waiting his turn mesmerised by the beauty standing dancing and singing before him. Finally i opened my eyes and there he was in the very front his face not giving away a hint of emotion like stone the last time we had spoken to each other when he had wished he had left me to die. exactly the same.
and there are voices
that want to be heard
so much to mention
but you can't find the words
the scent of magic
the beauty that's been
when love was wilder than the wind
listen to your heart when he's calling for you
listen to your heart there's nothing else you can do
I don't know where you're going and I don't know why
but listen to your heart before you tell him goodbye
Listen to your heart...mm..mmm
I don't know where you're going and I don't know why
but listen to your heart before you tell him goodbye
The dance music concluded and the crowd roared and cheered my name whistling and screaming like i had never heard it before but he wasn't shouting cheering or whistling, he wasn't even clapping. I felt heart broken.
"Thank you," i muttered into the microphone before handing it to the presenter and running off stage the crowd still cheering and chanting my name. It took him a good five minutes to shut them up and i was glad that i didn't have to sit amongst them and hear their praises. I sat through two bad muggle magic acts that were still pretty funny, a play and Ron and Neville mouthing I will survive in full Pricilla queen of the desert style which was better than anything i had seen in the night so far, another two songs, Harry's comedy sketch, Dumbledore's animal imitations and the professors stand up comedy which was absolutely hilarious as they were mainly just paying each other out.
"Seeing as our first act was our beautiful Head girl our final act will be our head Boy Mr Draco Malfoy singing Something for Kate's you only hide. My heart raced. we had not spoken since our argument. He looked amazing in a white singlet and black pants his guitar slung over his back. He started to play the opening chords to a song that was so familiar i couldn't put my finger on it but i knew that i had heard it before he stopped suddenly.
"My partner couldn't say the same in her performance but this is to a beautiful woman who stole my heart away, she knows who she is," and he started again.
so i keep watch and you keep breaking
breaking formation to become someone else
and your eyes become corridors where i wander
with a candle calling out to you
His voice was rough and edgy and raw but still smooth as silk or honey but he could not hide the emotion inside the words in his voice. I could feel the tears coming to my eyes as he sang this song from his heart to min. I couldn't take it, i turned on my heel and left his voice drifting after me as if it was calling after me to come back.
And you only hide
because you know i'll find you
A shadowy figure crept behind me silently as my footsteps echoed in the halls like the music that haunted me, the voice that was controlling my heart making it feel tight and constricted but still so ready to burst.
you say you just want to feel
the way you used to feel
the way you should feel
and i wander through
the lost city of you
He had seen me leave and he knew i would not be alone, he saw who had stolen away after me.
and you only hide
because you know i'll find you
and you only hide
because you know i'll find you
He finished playing the final chords and the crowd sat there in silence stunned at this side of Malfoy eventually the applause was so loud that i could hear it as i approached our dorm. As soon as he finished he slung his guitar back on his back and hurried after me eager to be at my side to ease the pain i was feeling. Little did he know the pain i was truly about to feel.