p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Ellie, I can´t even begin to explain how sorry I am"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""I don´t care" she said, and her voice was cold, but her face was telling a different story. Like she couldn´t hold them any longer, the tears started dripping down her face./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Please don´t cry"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"She looked away from him./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Just five minutes, please" he insisted, holding her hand with his wounded hand that had been now bandaged in a quick spell./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"Ellie´s silence seemed gentle. She was done fighting him, so she let him talk. She knew he was holding her hand, but she didn´t find strength to take it away. Everything inside of her wanted this, she just wanted to have her friend back./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""I know I have been unfair to you, and I´m sorry. I don´t want to lose you, Ellie, I haven´t stopped thinking about talking to you since summer. My father doesn´t want me to see you, something big is coming and I can´t afford to lose my focus – that´s what he says anyway. But then today Cedric talked to me, and then Pansy told us that you love him and …."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"Cedric had talked to him? – she stopped for a second to look in her memories for a clue of what Cedric could have told him. She knew her boyfriend, and he wouldn´t do things behind her back. She looked back at Draco. Something was off in the way he was speaking. He didn´t talk like that. He wasn´t one to overshare. Ellie narrowed her eyes./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Are you Draco?" she asked ready to reach for her wand that was sitting right beside her legs, posed in the wooden bench./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Of course, I´m Draco, don´t be ridiculous." That had been an stupid question, no one else called her Ellie and not a lot of people knew he called her like that./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"She kept trying to find out what could be wrong wit him./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""I think someone has given you emVeritaserum/em" she mused./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"" I took emVeritaserum/em" he admitted./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""How did you manage to get Veritaserum, they take ages to brew! - Why would you even do that?"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""You needed to know this, and I knew I wouldn´t be able to just tell you"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Merlin Draco… how do you manage to make everything so hard?"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""I´m sorry"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""This is wrong. You are not yourself, you shouldn't have to use potions to be able to talk to me."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"Draco knew it was an odd technique he had used, but Blaise had suggested it and, in that moment, it had seemed like the greatest idea ever. There he was, sitting in front of her, thoughts rushing through his mouth, trying to get all the information he could out there, before the effects ran out. It was great to see her, to be so close to her. She had changed during the summer, not much, people who didn't know her very well wouldn't notice. But he did. Her face had slimmed down lightly as a result of puberty. Her childish cheeks were disappearing, and sharp cheekbones were faintly showing./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"Her fragrance was more intoxicating than ever before, he couldn´t explain it but he had always imagined she smelled the way home does when you return from a long trip. When you come back, open the door and leave your bags at the door, and as much as you will always want to visit the world, you know you will always come back to live that moment. He had never experienced this before, he didn´t even like to consider the Manor his `home´, but he thought that was what home should feel like. If he had to define it, I would be like hazelnut and wood./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Ellie, I need you to give me a second chance" he pleaded, slightly distracted by her proximity./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""And what when the effects of the emVeritaserum/em fade away? What then? I don´t want to have to imagine what is going on with you."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""You won´t."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"Ellie didn´t answer straight away, she stared at Draco for a moment. It was visible in her expression that she was torn between giving him a second chance and walking away. He looked back at her, defying her and trying to convince her to make the right decision. It was Ellie and Draco; it would always be Ellie and Draco./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""And what will you say to your father?" she asked./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""He can´t know"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Oh, of course" she sighed and attempted to leave, but was stopped by Draco´s hand on her arm. "I´m not going to be your secret!" she said loudly./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Shh, Ellie – Filch!" Draco corrected her, only to realise moments after than it was probably not the moment to correct her at all. "I know I´m asking for a lot. But I promise it won´t be for too long"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"Draco´s proximity made Ellie lose all focus or determination. She wouldn´t tell him, but she was so excited that he had come up to her, he even had taken emVeritaserum/em. She still wondered where the hell they would have gotten that from, but she had other things to consider. Would she forgive and forget Draco? She also hadn´t forgotten about how Cedric had talked to Draco, it must have been true, Draco could not lie at least not in that moment./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Okay, I have made a decision" she announced./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;" You can follow me on twitter threeam13 for updates and sneek peeks/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"Thanks for reading! :) x/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""I don´t care" she said, and her voice was cold, but her face was telling a different story. Like she couldn´t hold them any longer, the tears started dripping down her face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Please don´t cry"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"She looked away from him./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Just five minutes, please" he insisted, holding her hand with his wounded hand that had been now bandaged in a quick spell./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"Ellie´s silence seemed gentle. She was done fighting him, so she let him talk. She knew he was holding her hand, but she didn´t find strength to take it away. Everything inside of her wanted this, she just wanted to have her friend back./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""I know I have been unfair to you, and I´m sorry. I don´t want to lose you, Ellie, I haven´t stopped thinking about talking to you since summer. My father doesn´t want me to see you, something big is coming and I can´t afford to lose my focus – that´s what he says anyway. But then today Cedric talked to me, and then Pansy told us that you love him and …."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"Cedric had talked to him? – she stopped for a second to look in her memories for a clue of what Cedric could have told him. She knew her boyfriend, and he wouldn´t do things behind her back. She looked back at Draco. Something was off in the way he was speaking. He didn´t talk like that. He wasn´t one to overshare. Ellie narrowed her eyes./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Are you Draco?" she asked ready to reach for her wand that was sitting right beside her legs, posed in the wooden bench./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Of course, I´m Draco, don´t be ridiculous." That had been an stupid question, no one else called her Ellie and not a lot of people knew he called her like that./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"She kept trying to find out what could be wrong wit him./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""I think someone has given you emVeritaserum/em" she mused./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"" I took emVeritaserum/em" he admitted./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""How did you manage to get Veritaserum, they take ages to brew! - Why would you even do that?"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""You needed to know this, and I knew I wouldn´t be able to just tell you"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Merlin Draco… how do you manage to make everything so hard?"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""I´m sorry"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""This is wrong. You are not yourself, you shouldn't have to use potions to be able to talk to me."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"Draco knew it was an odd technique he had used, but Blaise had suggested it and, in that moment, it had seemed like the greatest idea ever. There he was, sitting in front of her, thoughts rushing through his mouth, trying to get all the information he could out there, before the effects ran out. It was great to see her, to be so close to her. She had changed during the summer, not much, people who didn't know her very well wouldn't notice. But he did. Her face had slimmed down lightly as a result of puberty. Her childish cheeks were disappearing, and sharp cheekbones were faintly showing./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"Her fragrance was more intoxicating than ever before, he couldn´t explain it but he had always imagined she smelled the way home does when you return from a long trip. When you come back, open the door and leave your bags at the door, and as much as you will always want to visit the world, you know you will always come back to live that moment. He had never experienced this before, he didn´t even like to consider the Manor his `home´, but he thought that was what home should feel like. If he had to define it, I would be like hazelnut and wood./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Ellie, I need you to give me a second chance" he pleaded, slightly distracted by her proximity./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""And what when the effects of the emVeritaserum/em fade away? What then? I don´t want to have to imagine what is going on with you."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""You won´t."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"Ellie didn´t answer straight away, she stared at Draco for a moment. It was visible in her expression that she was torn between giving him a second chance and walking away. He looked back at her, defying her and trying to convince her to make the right decision. It was Ellie and Draco; it would always be Ellie and Draco./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""And what will you say to your father?" she asked./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""He can´t know"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Oh, of course" she sighed and attempted to leave, but was stopped by Draco´s hand on her arm. "I´m not going to be your secret!" she said loudly./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Shh, Ellie – Filch!" Draco corrected her, only to realise moments after than it was probably not the moment to correct her at all. "I know I´m asking for a lot. But I promise it won´t be for too long"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"Draco´s proximity made Ellie lose all focus or determination. She wouldn´t tell him, but she was so excited that he had come up to her, he even had taken emVeritaserum/em. She still wondered where the hell they would have gotten that from, but she had other things to consider. Would she forgive and forget Draco? She also hadn´t forgotten about how Cedric had talked to Draco, it must have been true, Draco could not lie at least not in that moment./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;""Okay, I have made a decision" she announced./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;" You can follow me on twitter threeam13 for updates and sneek peeks/span/p
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