Underneath This Smile

by DrakeysGirl717

She's perfect. Although that's everyone else's opinion. With all the pressure of school work and the comments of those who taunt her, Hermione begins to crack. Will Draco Malfoy discover what's hiding under Hermione Granger's smile? HBP spoilers!

1. The Letter

Ch.1 The Letter

Hermione's POV

Underneath this smile,

my world is slowly caving in,

all the while i'm hanging,

instead of letting go,

could you be ,

the one to save me,

from every bad habbit,

tell me,

take this,

i've been hiding out for miles,

underneath this smile

I held it in my hand. It seemed like just another Hogwarts letter. As I opened it I found out that I was wrong. I discovered somthing wonderful and yet I felt horrible. I was head girl. This was a great honnor, but then why was I feeling so horrible? After working hard through my whole six years at Hogwarts it had paid off. The stares and the taunts because I was a muggle born. It had all paid off. Although I had acheived this in the process I overworked myself and forced myself to live up to being perfect.

I burried my face in my pillow. I was going to be expected to do even more this year. Somthing in my gut told me that there was somthing going on. Even though I felt that there was somthing wrong I began to finish my packing. I really wanted to be done with school. Just to be able to take a break. The summer ended way to soon. I really wished that I could talk to my one of my best friends right now but needless to say Ginny didn't exactly have a cell phone.