Just One Kiss

"JUST ONE KISS"

"This is the moment when everything starts to fade away. My room is fading, the grey cloudy sky is fading, the all world is fading too. Only my memories won't fade...ever. My many memories of you. The many memories of us.

And my eyes are again filling with tears. I bang my head on the wall. I wasted all these years! And now...now that you're gone (gone for ever) I understand how foolish I've been. I was a kid, right. A stupid kid. I wish I had opened my eyes sooner...now it's too late. Now that all I need most is a kiss, just one kiss.

I can't believe I saw you dying. I can't believe my eyes. Sometimes I'm quite sure it has just been a terrible nightmare. Sometimes I'm quite sure you're just going to come here, again, as usual, like you always did before.

Sometimes I see you, too. My mother says I'm really going mad. She's suffering a lot.

We (now I can say "we"...) won the war...but are we really happy now? Is anybody happy now? I lost...I think I lost my very own life. I lost you.

I scream at night. I see your wonderful green eyes, your sparkling emerald eyes closing for the last time. And I know you're not going to open them again. I see your scar fading. I see you dying in my arms, all over again, every night. And I'm sure I'm going out of my mind.

Winning was worth losing you? Our world is not the same again. The day we won nobody was in the mood to celebrate. I'll never be in the mood to celebrate again. I'll never have something to celebrate again. The war left a mournful trail of blood behind.

Now everything seems to fade, and the world around me is just a dark blur of twirling colours. I lost everything. I'm losing my grip. You always helped me out. You were always here for me. Harry...I can't go on like this...without you.

Just memories, and photos. One day Hermione took Colin Creevey here, he was so sad. He gave me a box. Said I would have loved it. The box was full of photos of you. Yeah, I loved it. But I also cried my eyes out so much nobody could never imagine.

I'm going insane! Why did you leave me? I don't eat. I can't sleep. I'm afraid of nightmares. You getting so cold and pale, even paler than me, your face wetted by my own tears. I can't go on. I'm weak. I'm a coward, you've always known it. I can't face the idea of a life without you. This is pure torture. I close my eyes and you're again in front of me. I'll never forget. My bleeding wounds will never heal. This sorrow is not going to end.

But now I've made up my mind. I'm going to reach you. We'll be together, in the end."

And with a swift movement, he held out a sharp knife. He watched closely at its silvery blade. He took one last deep breath.

"Harry...I'm coming. I'll be with you again. Wait for me..."

While he stabbed himself, his last thought flew to his beloved one's emerald eyes, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

*

Before dinner, Narcissa headed for his son's room. She opened the door and loud screams filled the empty, haunted, gloomy rooms of the otherwise tomb-like silent Malfoy Manor. Draco was lying on the bed, dead, cold, a faint smile on his lips, but tears on his lily-white face.

The end