I do not own any characters, places or anything of that sort used in this story. Only the storyline was my idea. Please tell me if any mistakes were made. And excuse the OOC bits, I tried.


As usual, Hermione was sitting in the library reading some old dusty books. Almost all of them had worn-out, brown covers. The girl had piled them all up and was looking through them one by one, doing a research for her history essay due to next week. She was fully concentrated on her homework when suddenly Draco appeared next to her. She didn't seem to notice at first, but then he began to speak:

"Granger, I need those."

"You could ask nicely, you know." replied Hermione, without bothering to even look up at the boy's face.

"No time to play games, Granger. I need the books to do the essay." He stared down at her, watching her perfect hands scribble down words. Why wasn't he allowed to be nice to her for once?... But his reputation would go down the toilet the second somebody found out.

At that moment he snapped out of his fantasy. Hermione had stopped writing and was now looking up at him, into his clear blue eyes. She had a grin on her sweet little face.

"Nice to see you're such a good listener! I said: sit down and we'll do the essay together."

Surprise showed itself as he heard what she had said, pleasant surprise, but he couldn't just sit down next to Potter's little friend and expect people to walk by as if nothing was going on! There weren't that many students in the library, in fact, it was almost empty, but he could not and would not risk it.

"You're out of your mind, Granger!" he said, trying to look angry.

"Sure, if you say so Draco, but I'm keeping the books." With that, Hermione stoop up, took the pile from the table in her arms and walked away.

Draco realized a few moments too late that the girl had managed to press a little piece of paper into his hand. He turned around just in time to see her shoot one last smile at him before she vanished behind the corner. He looked back at the paper in his hand, which was folded, and opened it:

9.00 PM; Library. -H.

There he stood, staring at what he had just received, disbelief written all over his precious face. This mission would be impossible, but he was going to try anyway. One day, he'll make her his princess. This was only just the beginning.


Like it says: it's just the beginning. Should I continue or try again?