Okie. Yes, super late update. Hahs. 5 months?! Okie, better late than never right? Have really been busy. But the reviews just make me want to post up a chapter. YES, I'm completing this story, even over my dead body. I'm a bit rusty, but hope you guys like this chapter. Slowly, but SURELY, this story is coming to a close.
He kissed her.
I wiped the tears that kept flowing down my cheeks.
I was so foolish.
He didn't like me. I was just another girl. Just like the rest. He only played with me, because I was there.
I thought of my Dad, how he left mum, just like that.
It's all the same. Love is just a game you play, and when you win, it no longer becomes a fun. The challenge is gone.
Draco didn't like me.
I was just another toy, play-thing.
What a fool, Hermione.
What a fool.
"Hermione?"
He knocked furiously on the door.
I closed my ears, I can't hear anything again.
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"Hermione! I know you're in there!" I cried, banging the door heatedly.
She's ignoring me.
"Hermione, you got to listen to me!"
I gave a cry of frustration and with a large heave; I use the whole force of my body to bang the door open.
It fell open.
Hermione stared at me.
She was in a fetal position, all scrunched up, tearing all over.
I'm so sorry.
"I didn't kiss Coco."
She turned away.
"It was a transaction. I wanted to break the spell! I didn't want the two of us to be connected!"
She was drawing away.
"Don't you see? I wanted to know that our relationship was more than two beings stuck, with no choice, together. I wanted to know if we could be together even if we were separated! I wanted us to be together not because of the spell!"
I almost screamed, exasperated.
She stared at me.
I waited with bated breath.
"We are now two separate entities are you happy?"
The cool tone of her voice scared me.
"I…"
I almost said I love you.
But did i?
I don't know.
"I care for you," I said, almost choking.
"I didn't want it to be this way. You see, the kiss with Coco, wasn't a kiss. It wasn't a kiss like our kiss."
It was no use.
I could see the hollowness in her eyes. Something had died.
She wasn't listening.
"I CARE for you, could you please just look at me? Don't turn away. Don't turn deaf at me. Don't treat me like I'm leprosy. Don't turn me away… don't… not for that KISS. That Kiss that wasn't a kiss, because I care for you."
A Malfoy begging - Imagine that.
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I looked at Malfoy, his handsome pale face begging, pleading with me.
How could I not care for him?
If I did not care, I wouldn't be crying.
I wouldn't be bleeding, staining my body with invisible blood stains.
I love him.
Yes, I think I do.
Because that could be the only reason I hurt so much.
"Go away," the words came out of my mouth painfully, "Please."
I watch the hurt in Draco's eyes.
This never-ending circle of hurt and pain, when will it end?
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"Go away,"
She pleaded.
"Go away,"
She pleaded.
What happens when you realize the most painful thing, most terrible thing to befall the one you love/care, is you?
What can you do?
Pick up the broken pieces of your heart, that you know can never be pieced back together again, and try to take out the pieces that puncture her heart.
I walked up to Hermione slowly.
I could see the fear growing in her face.
Slowly, I bend down over her.
My hand lifted her face, face me.
I wiped the tears streaming down her face.
"I'm sorry," I said softly and kissed her forehead lightly.
She said nothing as I walked towards the door.
She said nothing as I turned one last time to face her as I closed the door.
I saw her eyes, brown stars that lit up my nights.
They were sorrowful.
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I love you.
I love Draco.
If love was a feeling, this was it.
Or was this merely all an illusion?
When Draco wiped my tears away, the ache left, only to be replaced with a more biting, stronger burning of the heart… and yearning.
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I faced the door.
I sighed and sunk down to the floor.
Stupid Draco.
What were you thinking?
That's it. You weren't thinking!
Hermione's may be lost forever.
The door, like this door, in her heart closed forever – to you.
