Nothing belongs to me.
XLIII: Too Easy
Draco thanked the heavens for the rain. She wouldn't have to know that he, too, was crying.
With the light cast by a great fork of lightning, he could see her retreating back.
He was soaked to the bone; as a result, his Hogwarts robes clung to him like a second skin, but Draco didn't care anymore.
"Ginny!" he screamed, chasing after her.
He caught her arm, and she shrieked, trying to pry from his clutch.
She gave up quickly though and turned to look at him, laughing bitterly. Her hair looked almost brown in the darkness, plastered to her head the way it was, and he could no longer distinguish her tears from the raindrops.
"It would be so easy for you," she gasped, "wouldn't it? For you to just walk out on me? Too easy, perhaps."
Ginny closed her eyes, tilting her head up toward the black skies. "Like it was so easy for you to lie to me, to betray me." Her voice barely carried over the howling wind, but Draco was quick to notice her anger. "Like it was easy for you to tell me you loved me." She turned away again, and he didn't hear her sobs through the sounds of the storm.
"I've changed." he breathed, pulling her back to face him. "There was a time when, yes, I sought the easy way out of life.
He reached out to cup her face in his trembling hands. "But if being with you has taught me anything, it was this."
The rain poured down harder than ever.
"Because of you, I'll always choose what's right over what's easy." Draco whispered, though he wasn't quite sure she had heard him.