This chapter contains violent actions. Please read with caution.

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Both Hermione and Luna gawked at me wide-eyed, eyes burning into my skin, "Is she alright?" Hermione asked her sweetheart, '' Should we do something?'' Concern cracking through her soft voice as she shot Luna a severe look, '' I mean - look at her,''

But Luna didn't utter a word as she shrugged shoulders at her lover, scratching the back of her neck, sighing loudly, " She's been standing there for almost ten minutes - We have to say something. " Hermione spoke again, nudging Luna to her side, '' Do something,''

" Just give her a minute!" Luna shouted, visibly annoyed, brows furrowed '' Just give her a damn minute,''

A trail of loud huffs and rolled eyes between the two, " Fine," Hermione finally shouted back - flinging her arms out in the air - her loud voice caused me to look på at the two raging girls, standing a few feet from each other with spite radiating around them,

I rolled my eyes, a sinking feeling nagged my bones, " I can hear you, you know," I spoke, quietly, clearing my throat, and both of them cringe at the sound of my raspy voice - staring at me in doubt, eyes begged mine to say something - to speak my mind,

But I don't know what to say. I don't even know what to think right now. I feel betrayed, stupid -stupid for letting Cedric in, stupid for believing that this would matter to him, that I would matter to him - stupid for allowing him to mean something to me.

But most of all,

I'm confused.

I'm confused about his actions, about him telling me that he wanted me. I knew that we weren't together, and I didn't want us to be. I was the one who told him no last summer because I wasn't ready. He promised me that he would wait for me, however long it took,

But apparently;

Not long enough.

I clocked out of my thoughts yet again, '' I told you she wasn't okay,'' Hermione whispered, sending Luna a mean glare, '' I just think we should-,''

'' Oh, shut up.'' Luna cuts her off, '' Just shut the hell up, would you?''

Luna's words caused both Hermione and I to look at each other at that before both of our necks snapped to Luna's, '' I know she's not okay - I'm not stupid.'' Luna spoke quietly, taking a track up to me, '' But, we should give you time - we don't even know what happened,''

And by that, my eyes pooled, looking at my two beautiful best friends, '' Thank you,'' I whimpered as the two of them took immediate steps closer to me, wrapping their arms around my trembling body,

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I never dared to leave Luna's room all weekend, too startled of what had passed both with Cedric and Draco, and even if I wanted to leave - Luna and Hermione would never have let me,

My two friends stayed in with me during my hard time - playing games, painting nails, reading - I loved having Luna read to me; she always allowed me to settle my head onto her lap as her thumb trailed soft circles on my cheek - she always read with such empathy,

And I adored them, both of them, so much as they cuddled next to me, a lock of Luna's hair intertwined with Hermione's fingers - They love each other so much, too much, and it fluttered my heart to see it because I loved them - more than words could ever begin to describe - I always wished and dreamed for what they have, something pure - honest - shared,

Something real.

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I pushed myself off Luna's bed, striving to get to the door as a small hand clutched my wrist, " Are you sure about this? You knit that we can stay-,"

Luna huffed loudly, cutting her lover off, " I don't think so," She muttered, " If you don't want to come, that's up to you - but don't you dare start putting thoughts into her head - she's been through enough," My eyes snapped to Hermione's startled ones, she looked genuinely shocked by Luna's words,

And then, her eyebrows furrowed, arms crossed over her small chest, breathing heavily, ready to argue her mind, " Well, if you won't take responsibility in this - I will because she's not a toy, you can just-," Before I could hear the rest of her well-spoken speech about how Luna needs to give me more time to heal and so on - my blonde-haired best friend dragged me out of the room, slamming the door shut behind us -

I looked at her, eyes hooded as she dragged me down the stairs out in the hallways, " She's about to kill you - you know that, right?" I smirked as Luna shot me an annoyed look,

She walked me with fast steps towards the great hall, arms intertwined, " Well, she shouldn't be such a-,"

I found myself chuckling at her words, " Such a?" I mocked her, " Hermione, shouldn't be such a what?"

Her eyes trailed off mine as she groaned out in frustration, flinging her arms out in the open, " Such a know it all,"

I burst out in laughter, stopping in my tracks to clutch my stomach, " Such a know-it-all?" I taunted her again, eyes prickled in water, " That's the best word you could think of? Know-it-all? "

She glared at me, annoyed by my attempts to mock her as she pushed me away from her, entering the great hall, " Shut up, Leiah," Luna rolled her eyes as she seated herself to the table - both of us scared that Hermione would find her way here, still furious with us,

And of course, she did - still mad, she refused to talk to us the first twenty minutes off dinner and then, with a kiss on the cheek from her sweetheart, she melted right back to the Hermione I loved - we talked and told, about everything - that's simply another reason to love the two of them - there's always something to talk about something to discuss, to argue,

My eyes darted between the two lovebirds before they dropped to my plate, trying to decide if I had it in me to eat the last pancake, " Hermione, what are you?" Luna's voice tore through my thoughts, causing me to clock back to being,

Luna nudges her in the side, " Hello? Earth to Hermione?" She spoke with a giggle as she snapped her fingers in front of Hermione's startled show - but she didn't budge, she remained petrified as her eyes narrowed into the entrance, " That's enough, what on-,"

And just as Luna and I tried turning around to look at the reason she's acting like this, her hands snapped to clutch our wrists, " Please don't - let's just go," Hermione forced a smile, teeth showing as she pushed her bench back, " Please,"

Luna pulled her hand back, staring at her girlfriend in question, before swiftly turning around - a loud annoyed scoff escaped Luna's lips as she does, "

What do you want, Malfoy? "

My breaths hitched, my heart suffered beating - fuck,

I didn't dare to look over at him at first, knowing that he stands there, waiting for me to turn around and face him - I felt myself swallowing thickly as I took the deepest of breaths,

And then, I met his blue eyes, instantly narrowed in mine, a devilish smirk curled up on his lips, '' You forgot this the other day.'' He shouted, for everyone to hear as he stretched his hand out, and my heart completely stopped by the look of it,

My bra - resting in his palm,

I felt myself blinking quickly as my hitched breaths strived to clock back, staring into his evil centers, " Mature, really mature, Malfoy," Luna spat at the cruel boy, feeling a comforting hand rest on my lower back, " Why don't you take that, and get the hell out of here,"

Draco didn't care about Luna's words; he didn't even spare her a look as he kept blue eyes narrowed in mine - he rose a brow at me, " Not so tough anymore, are we?" He laughed, " That's how it goes when you fuck a Hufflepuff,"

I tore my sights away, staring down at the stone covered ground, and the second he noticed, he bowed down to my level - his hand roughly clutched my cheek, bending it back with force to look at him, " You will learn to look at me, when I speak to you, filthy mudblood,"

My views snapped to his in a heartbeat as a shaky breath left my lips, sensing his cold hand wrapped around my chin, cold rings digging into my flesh,

" Let go of me," I uttered with a trembling lip,

A peel of laughter left his lips, " Make me, Riddle,"

Blank - that's how it felt when his tone hit my senses, and by that exact word - Riddle - I snapped,

I launched myself off the bench I was seated on, and with all the force I possessed - I pushed him, making him stumble back, " Don't you dare touch me, ever again," I spoke as my eyes pooled,

A trail of gasps left the students around us, and every stare reached ours,

Draco's chest breathed heavily as his tongue ran over his lower lip, taking slow, threatening steps towards my trembling figure, " What did you say?" The blonde one hissed, " What did you fucking say?"

My eyes locked in his as he stands close, and for a moment, I could almost hear his blood boil; he's not mad anymore,

He's fucking furious,

He scoffed, biting his lower lip as he towered over me, " I asked you a question - I asked you, what you fucking said," He holds, as a curve tends in the corner of his mouth, " Riddle,"

And without thinking - I felt my hand collide with his cheek as his head shifted to the side - I slapped him, with no remorse - I'm done being intimidated by him because I didn't do one single thing to upset him, merely as if he woke up one day and simply decided to make my life a living hell,

His face turned to stone, jaws clenched, teeth gritted as blue eyes snapped back to mine, and without a doubt, his hands flew to my throat - squeezing it roughly,

A muffled whimper suffered my lips as I felt myself panic by the air running out of my lungs - the sustain of oxygen is overwhelming, my hands sought to find his, trying to pry his hands away - but to no use, his rings only tugged deeper into my sore flesh,

My eyes begged his, my touch pleaded him, but nothing, his eyes grew dark as his hold tenses, not even a single flash of humanity ripped through his dull eyes - all he wanted to do at this moment was to hurt me, almost as he craved to hurt me,

One single drop of liquid rolled down my cheek, one plead for this to stop, for all of this to end,

And from nowhere, like a sign from a fallen angel, his eyes turned soft,

I closed my eyes, not wanting to see the human in him - because he was a monster, a son of the devil himself,

I felt Draco's hands around my throat loosened as he got pulled back, " That's enough, Draco," A dark but calm voice spoke, and he did as asked,

He let me go,

And my body dropped to the floor; my skin collided with the cold ground. I felt my body crumble as I crawled away from him, and his urge to torture me,

He hurt me, he was the one who caused me harm - yet I was the one who crawled up on the floor, ashamed,

Nobody dared to move, to blink - nobody even dared to breathe at this moment because nobody knew what he was capable of but still - everyone knew.

I laid there, frozen, humiliated by his deeds until I heard his footsteps, waking away - and a breeze of fresh air tore through my lungs. I could breathe again - my heart found its beat as I felt her hands wrapped around my shaking body, my best friend,

Her arms squeezed around me in comfort, and by the sound of her voice as she whispered into my skin - the touch of her - the touch of home - I broke.

I broke down in her embrace as my sobs echoed throughout the hushed hall, and I could almost sense her heart break inside of her chest - Luna's heart broke for me and all the pain the blonde one had caused me,

Her voice shredded through the tension, '' Why are all of you still doing here?'' Her arms around me pulled me even closer, '' There is nothing to see here, leave.''

I felt my heart aching, my hands trembling, my senses are torn away,

And all because of him,

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The flashes of sun tickled my eyelashes as my eyes peeled open - hurt,

That was all my mind could think as I sealed my sights closed again. I wasn't ready. I wasn't prepared for another day, a new day - I wished for all of this to an end last night. I couldn't do it anymore - I didn't want to,

My head pounded in pain as the world became dizzy, my chest held heavy while striving to clock my views broad - I walked into my bathroom, and for a moment, I didn't dare to look at my own reflection - too scared to see how he had marked my body with his abusing hands,

I felt myself gasp the second my eyes placed in the mirror.

My skin was bruised, all the way from my chin down to my collarbones, and the sinking feeling I had held the last couple of days,

Drowned me,

From the inside, out, 

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