Chapter 18

Draco watched as the girl beside him slowly drifted into an easy sleep. He didn't know how but he knew the words for the second verse of this Muggle song. He just really didn't want Granger to hear him sing.

Draco had never sang in front of anybody before. He was sure that his mother may have heard him but he didn't actually know if he was any good at singing. He could be awfully tone-deaf or something and if Granger heard him singing horribly...well he could expect to be made fun of.

Draco decided he couldn't look at the bushy-haired brunette if he was to sing to her. He stared at the ceiling above him and started humming the intro to the second verse of this stupid song.

"I was always the chosen child

The biggest scandal I became

They told me I'd never survive

But survival's my middle name"

He knew that if Granger heard him, she would mock him. He didn't exactly think he was very good at singing but if he was honest with himself, that hadn't sounded half bad. Of course, his brain could be hearing it better than it really was.

"I've walked around, hoping

Just barely coping

Getting it on

Getting it wrong

"How do you love someone

Without getting hurt

How do you love someone

Without crawling in the dirt

So far in my life

Clouds have blocked the sun

How do you love, how do you love someone

How do you love, how do you love someone"

Draco turned over from the girl who lay beside him even though he was sure that she was asleep. He eventually fell into a light slumber.

What he didn't know was that Hermione hadn't really been asleep after all. She smiled a little to herself. Draco was a better singer than she would've originally thought. Ok, she admitted it, she found Draco's singing talent rather amazing but she would never tell him that.

Hermione knew well enough that if he ever found out that she had secretly been listening to him singing, she wouldn't live to see the next day. She was sure that Draco would be touchy about this. She didn't exactly know how she knew this she just...did.

Once both of them were asleep, Tallulah appeared, smiling at them both. She marvelled at how well they were doing. They had seemed to hate each other before coming here but now...she could tell that they were forming somewhat of a friendship.

"I wish Mum and Dad could see me now." Tallulah whispered to herself. "I hope they'd be proud of me for bringing these two together. Especially since these two seem so similar to them when they were that age…"

Tallulah knew what her last name was. She wore it with a great amount of pride and distress. She knew how people were judged by their surname and their place in the world far more than their personalities.

"If only more people could forgive." Tallulah sighed before leaving once more.

The ghost like figures of her parents stepped out of the shadows with smiled on their faces as they looked at where their daughter had disappeared from.

The two then looked at Draco and Hermione with another smile washed across their faces. Oh, how those two reminded them of themselves. It was a little unnerving seeing them but reassuring at the same time.

They were proud of their Tallulah and of these two classmates. They just hoped they would learn to forgive enough to escape because there's always more people in need of forgiving somebody.

They glanced once more around the room they'd onced loved to stay in before sweeping out of the room and turning invisible to the watching world once again.

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