Disclaimer: JK's world, our plot and Tallulah belongs to us, not our song.
Chapter 16
Draco was lying on the bed two days later feeling a little bit better than he had two days prior. He was staring at the wall like usual before he fell off the bed and saw the familiar ghost-like people.
The boy was lying on the bed with his eyes closed. He was sleeping. He didn't have the scowl on his face that he'd had last time Draco had seen him.
The same girl walked up to him and stared at him for a while. It was odd seeing her with that expression on her face.
But I thought they hated each other… Well, they certainly acted like it last time… Draco thought with his brow furrowed.
Draco watched as the girl got out an acoustic guitar from apparently, thin air and started to play a song which he knew he'd never heard but he recognised for some reason…
The girl then sighed after what must have been the intro, and then started singing. She had a beautiful voice.
"Momma never told me how to love
Daddy never told me how to feel
Momma never told me how to touch
Daddy never showed me how to heal
"Momma never set a good example
Daddy never held momma's hand
Momma found everything hard to handle
Daddy never stood up like a man"
Draco was apparently in some sort of daze as he came halfway back into reality and passed out on the spot.
Hermione was sitting on the sofa again. She found it was the best place that she could just think. There was no whining blond boys, no psychotic Malfoy elders and no strange worries about home.
It was like the fabric of the sofa sucked all the worries out of her as she let herself think about anything she felt was important.
"Tallulah." Hermione said, suddenly. She didn't know what had made her call but she felt in need of company and she knew that Malfoy didn't want to see her because of the previous incident where they had both cried in front of each other.
"You called." Tallulah's voice echoed in the room before she appeared in front of Hermione. Hermione nodded and then they both heard a thud of what must have been Malfoy falling out of the bed again.
"Yeah." Hermione sighed. "What do we have to do next? I just feel like I should be the one getting these visions Dra-er-Malfoy said he had last time. I mean, I'm the one trying to cure him."
Tallulah smiled a little at the Gryffindor girl. "Music is, in my opinion, the best way to get a message across sometimes. Just think about what his momma may never have told him. Think about songs you like. How can you love these songs?"
Tallulah then disappeared, leaving Hermione more confused than before.
Music? So I need to think of a song that will help him. What him momma may not have told him? Why did she say momma? Is that relevant to the song? Songs I like… So, a Muggle song. How can you love these songs? Uhh… Hermione's mind was running at 300 mph and she suddenly had to clutch the sofa arm very tightly so as not to collapse.
What's my favorite song? Easy, How do you love someone. Hermione thought and then it clicked. Momma never told me how to love! That's the first line of the song! It's a muggle song and 'how can you love this song' is like 'how can you love someone'. I got it!
Hermione then sighed. She knew her voice wasn't the sweetest and she only knew the first verse and chorus but, hey, it was worth a shot, right?
Hermione rushed upstairs and saw Malfoy lying, passed out, on the floor. Hermione stopped at the sight of him but started to hum the intro to the song. She didn't quite like the idea of singing to him while he was conscious.
"Momma never told me how to love
Daddy never told me how to feel
Momma never told me how to touch
Daddy never showed me how to heal
"Momma never set a good example
Daddy never held momma's hand
Momma found everything hard to handle
Daddy never stood up like a man
"I've walked alone, broken
Emotionally frozen
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"
Malfoy didn't wake up but his expression softened a little. Hermione smiled a little to herself and walked out of the room. She assumed that he'd have to sing to her and she thought he may have to sing the second verse.
She then reminded herself that he would probably not know the song because it was a Muggle song and him being the prejudiced, stuck up, ferret that he was, he would never listen to such music.
Hermione sighed and curled up on the sofa again before going into a rough sleep and faintly hearing Malfoy walk into the room.
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