Life on the other side part 2
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I was running, running as fast as I could but it still wasn't fast enough. My body ached as I ran, I didn't know who was chasing me. All I know was I had to get away far, far away.
The dry land was hard beneath my bare feet, the ground and the rocks dug into the soft flesh with each beat of my feet upon the ground. 'Faster, harder!' my heart screamed as it exploded against my fragile ribs, my muscles sang in bitter agony as they strained to go on. Suddenly, I felt a stabbing pain in my chest. My eyes fly open, heart beating fast as I look around, I'm in the Hogwarts school infirmary, it was just a dream. Only a dream.
I get out of bed slowly, feeling dizzy but fine. As I look walk past the mirror I see a glimpse of myself and all that day comes back to me.
I was a girl.
I look around, but no one is here, probably all asleep. I get dressed into the sunflower dress someone had left out for me. Slipping my feet into some flat shoes I decide to take a walk in the grounds to calm myself. 'The moon looks beautiful tonight!' I think to myself.
I start to tread the path I always take down to the old oak, still standing at the edge of the grounds. As I near the tree, I see a figure leaning up against it. I stat to back away but he stops me.
"Don't leave," he calls to me in so small a voice can barely recognise it.
"Malfoy?" I ask to check I am not dreaming again.
"Yeah, sorry. I didn't mean to startle you but you looked so familiar, have we met?"
My mouth drops slightly, 'he doesn't know, but how? He was there when it happened, he saw right?', "You really don't know who I am do you?" I ask, 'Please say you do, please, I can't lose you!' 'Wait, lose you? I never had him and have him? Why don't I want to lose him?' I think, startled by my own words.
'This girl, she is so familiar, like I know her but I have never seen her before...Snap out of this Draco! You like Harry! Why did she ask if I know her when I have not seen her before?'I think to myself. "Sorry, no I do not."
"Oh, I guess I was mistaking you for another person, I have to go," the mysterious girl says, turns and runs away. 'That is not true, if that was the case, she wouldn't have recognised me, but why did she lie?'
Heart beating, fast as I flee 'why, why did he not see who I was, why?', unthinkingly I ended up at Professor Dumbledore's head office. Just as I was going to knock, his voice comes through the door. "It's open."
I enter to find him sitting at his desk. "I have been waiting for you," he simply says.
"Why don't they remember what happened in Potions?" I ask, now sitting in front of him.
"Oooh, because I put a memory charm on them so they won't, it will be for the best. We will soon have you back to normal, but in the meantime you will be placed into the Slytherin house and continue your lessons as Helen Fields, do you under.." he was cut off by my screams
"WHAT!" "There is no way I am going to be a Slytherin!"
"There is no space in any of the other houses, any way you will be on your own, you won't have to share." He said trying to calm to distort young girl in front of him.
"Fine, but can't I at least tell my friends?" I ask, thinking of how Ron and Hermione would worry.
Seeing my concern he says yes, tells me everything is sorted and tells me where and how to find my new room. 'But for some strange reason I can't shake the feeling everything is only starting to go wrong.'