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The sun starts to set, its orange beauty starts to cascade over my lover's figure, his pale skin leaned over my darker complexion, my arms circling his skinny waist, his bones too visible under my grasp that I felt my heart shatters, piece by piece.
"Harry" his voice is soft, innocent, and weak. I fought the urge to cry as I hugged my life tighter.
"My sweet" I called back and kissed him on his nape. I felt Draco smiled, "Sing to me, please"
I nodded, clearing my throat and blinking my eyes for several times to brush the tears that's threatening to fall. My heart beating so fast as I try to enjoy the moment with him, the second he's still with me, the minute I can still hold him physically.
I opened my mouth and began to sing.
"Wise men say
Only fools rush in
But I can't help falling in love with you"
My voice cracked a little but I prayed to anyone to not let my love hear or notice it. I should be good for him, strong for him because as he always tell me, I am his strength but the problem is, he is my weakness.
I have a soul but he is my heart. I stared at the beaming sun, beginning to set, as our memories begin to live with it. Draco, my Draco, stared at it too. His hands toying with my fingers. His weak petite hands twirling with mine as he listened to my singing.
My voice wasn't good but he loves it. My voice isn't beautiful but he finds it pretty. My tone is broken but he finds it perfect. And my heart breaks a little as each second passes, as our time starts to end. I fought the urge that's begining to overwhelm me. My future sorrows that will destroy me.
I don't want him to leave, don't want him to leave me alone, don't want him to go especially when we just began our story, our forever, our infinity and beyond.
"Shall I stay?
Would it be a sin
If I can't help falling in love with you?"
I can stay. I shall stay but please, stay with me too, Draco. I cannot let you go. Cannot let you go. Cannot let you leave me in this world. Hold my hand, love me as I love you. Tell me as I tell you. Show me as I show you.
Please, stay with me.
"Like a river flows, surely to the sea
Darling so it goes, some things are meant to be."
We are meant to be. Meant to be for a lifetime, meant to be forever. Just stay with me. Stay with me and we'll fulfill our vows, we'll wear our rings, we'll live our life, we'll smile at our love.
Just stay with me, Draco. Stay with me. I cannot let you go. I really can't.
I let my tears flow when I felt him gripped my hands and intertwined it with his. I felt how skinny it were, how weak his movements are, as I noticed how ragged his breathing had started and I sobbed a little.
"Take my hand
Take my whole life too
For I can't help falling in love with you."
If you leave, take my hand. If you die, take my whole life. Because I really cannot help falling in love with you, Draco. Please live, if you can't for yourself, live for me. I am begging you.
I felt my tears fall through his hair, hair that wasn't as shiny as before but was still as soft as yesterday. His hair that was beginning to tear off as an indication of our remaining time. The time that had to intervene, the time that had to stop us, the time that had to break us away.
I cannot let you go, Draco. Take me with you.
"Like a river flows
Surely to the sea."
We are just starting our time, our own time. I will miss everything about you. I will miss you so much, I will wither.
I will miss the shine in your lips, the cheer in your laughter, the brightness in your faces. I will miss our moments with each other. I will miss us, us both, us both as one, us both as lovers, us both as Potter. I will miss you, my Draco.
I will miss my valentine. I will miss your kisses, miss your hugs, miss your sarcasm. I cannot think of a day I can survive without you.
"Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be."
I will do anything. Give my galleons, give my house, give my identity just to give you life. I will bet my own life, my own soul, my own mind just to give you life, breath you oxygen, give you the world.
Just stay with me.
"Take my hand
Take my whole life too."
I cannot hold it any longer and I sobbed in his shoulder. I cannot let go.
"For I can't help falling in love with you
For I can't help falling in love with you."
Cannot let my love go.
My parents were killed and I was heartbroken. But if you die, if you die Draco, I will be devastated, I will be destroyed, I will be chaos.
"Harry" he called me but I cannot respond as I sobbed and poured all of my tears, my shouts for my prayers and wishes.
"I-i... Can't. I can't, Draco" I cried as I felt my shoulder shake. This are all too much and it's killing me, painfully, heartlessly, mercilessly.
Why must time be so ruthless against us? Have my life been not through enough? Is Draco's life have not been bad enough?
"Harry, please" I shook my head as I buried my face in his neck, inhaling the scent I only wanted to smell, memorizing the fragrance I seek in the mornings and I sleep with at night.
"Please. P-please live" I begged.
Even if the doctors have said it was already impossible to cure my Draco, I plead. Begged them, almost kneeled in front of them for my desperation. To keep him alive so our story will live.
"If you die, p-please take me with you. Take me with you Draco" I cried and cried.
I felt him unclasped our fingers as he slowly turned his whole body to me, I blinked and looked at him when he held my face. He has tears in his eyes but he wasn't crying and it pains me to realize and think that he is the one who's sick but I am the one who's weak.
"I cannot, Harry. I cannot take you. You have to stay"
I immediately shook my head again and held his hands on my cheek.
I cannot stay here without you.
"Please, Dray. Please, t-take me with you" my voice broke and I wept. My woes and sadness came with it.
I cried in his hands, my own trembling as my insides began to collapse for the kind of reality I am in. The reality that time gave us.
"I love you. I-i love you, Dray. I love you so much" I whispered.
"If you die, it will kill me. If you die, I will drown. We're meant to be together forever"
"We vowed. We binded."
"I don't want t-the world to me alone. Don't want them to see me without you. D-dray, please I cannot let you go."
"You're my love, you're the air I breathe. Y-you're my everything. Please"
"H-harry",
"I will begged even death itself not to let you go. I will swim the ocean to find another life for you. I will cross every storms for you, just please. P-please Dray, stay—stay with me"
I lamented and hugged his body as I begged in his chest, begged and plead and begged.
Don't go.
Stay with me.
Don't go.
Be with me.
Don't go. Don't go.
"Harry"
Don't go, please. Don't leave me.
"Harry, love,"
Please. Listen. Don't go.
I felt him pushed my head away gently. He held my cheeks and kneeled in front of me. I looked up as I felt him brush my tears away, kissed them away and his lips, his lips I love made me wailed even more. My hands gripped my jeans tight as I fought the demons inside me eating my happiness away.
My tears continued to flow endlessly as Draco, my love, bent down and kissed my lips, my nose, my cheeks, my forehead, and my eyes.
He leaned his forehead to mine as I feel the sun began to set on its end. Finally, giving is its unending beauty, the light it has that I will never possess.
"I love you, Harry. Please remember that love",
I will.
"I love you forever. I love you. I love you"
"You should stay. You will stay and you can do it, Harry. I know you can. I will be everywhere. In your heart, in your mind, in your soul. I will guide you and care for you"
"Please, live for me, Harry. Be strong for me. In my name, please live. I'm sorry I cannot stay"
I gripped my jeans tighter. And clenched my jaw as my tears began to roll down my cheeks again and over again.
"I promise, Harry. I promise, when the time comes, I will meet you there"
"When the time comes, I promise you my love. I promise you my hand. I promise you your forever. When the time comes, I will be with you to beyond."
"When the time comes, I promise you, I will be in the end, and we will be together again"
"When your time comes, we will have our time in the next life. For now, please, stay here and wait for me. I will be with you. Live. Live for I will live within you"
No, no. Please. Stay, Draco. Stay.
"I promise you I will be in the sunset. When I die, look at the sunset and see me"
"At the end of the day, I promise you I will be your sunset. As you are my sunshine"