Draco Lucius Malfoy

We knew it from the beginning. From the first time our hands silently brushed against each other in the library. From that time you offered me help with a spell only to stare at me longer than necessary. From the moment you knew I was forbidden to you.

And yet… you never stopped coming.

"Hurry," Draco whispered, gently tugging at my hand as we ran across the open field, the damp grass caressing our feet. The sun was beginning to set, and as every afternoon, we had little time before night fell... and we would be enemies again, at least in the eyes of the world.

We stopped, panting, near the lake. Our lake. The place where only you and I existed, not the Malfoys or the Crouches or any war in between.

"What if they catch us someday?" I asked, glancing at him out of the corner of my eye.

He looked at me with those gray eyes that always carried a storm.

—Then let the world fall apart. But I'm not going to leave you. Not this afternoon… nor next time.

I laughed softly, resting my head on his shoulder. His arm slid around my waist as if he needed to feel me there to believe this was real.

—My mother suspects—I confessed—She says I disappear at dusk as if I were following a ghost

"Your mother would hate me less if I were a ghost," he replied with a crooked smile. "Although your father, now he'd cast an Avada Kedavra on me without batting an eye. "

"Then don't discover us," I whispered. "Just keep running after me. Always before it gets dark. "

He kissed my forehead, the gentlest gesture Draco ever showed the world.

—As long as there is one more afternoon, I will always do it

And so we remained. The sky slowly darkening, the lake reflecting our silhouettes, hand in hand, running against time, against the rules, with names we didn't choose.

He is the son of a surname that never asked for forgiveness. I am the daughter of a surname that was never forgiven

And yet, under the moon, we were just two people who couldn't stop loving each other.