Faking It

Chapter 1 – Romantic Ruse

As soon as Hermione woke up she knew it was going to be a bad day. For starters, she'd woken up late which meant by the time she went to use the girl's bathroom Lavender and Parvati were arguing over the mirror. "Have you seen my hair?" Lavender would argue, "I need the mirror more than you do."

Hermione had rolled her eyes, got dressed into her Hogwarts uniform and loosely ran her finger through her messy hair. She figured Ron and Harry had already gone down to the hall, they had a Quidditch match today against Slytherin and losing to Slytherin was never an option. Also, Ron really did love his food. He ate anything presented to him, it was one of the things Hermione had noticed about him ever since she started to develop feelings for him.

"Woah!" See this is why crushes are bad, Hermione thought as she collapsed to the floor crashing into someone; it makes you forget about important things like walking. Hermione looked up and saw she'd fallen on top of none other than Draco Malfoy. "Urgh get off me granger." He groaned pushing her off him. She rolled her eyes and got herself up. "Hey Granger, what do blind people wear?"

Hermione looked at him, "I don't know, Draco."

"Really because it doesn't look like you've seen a mirror this morning." He joked, "Did they all crack before you could?" He laughed and she pushed him. Hard. His Slytherin friends had all heard though and mocked her too.

Hermione never liked letting Draco get to her, but clearly he was judging by Harry and Ron's reactions to her sitting down. "What happened?" Harry asked, "Are you okay? Did Draco-"

"Nothing happened!" Hermione tried to assure him.

"Are you sure, you look ups-"

"My, uh, Hamster. Back home. He died." She rushed, quickly eating some food before they could say anymore.

Meanwhile, Draco was still laughing when he returned to Slytherin. A few of his teammates were chanting 'Slytherin! Oy! Oy! Oy!" in the excitement of the upcoming Quidditch match. They were going to beat Gryffindor, they always did. Draco sat down near a window with Crabbe and Goyle, resting his feet on an apothecary table. "Everything is in motion for tonight?" He asked and the two nodded. "Good, whether we win or lose – though losing isn't an option – Gryffindor will be embarrassed." He shook his head laughing again. "Well they have Hermione in their house how could they not be?" Crabbe and Goyle laughed too, "I mean seriously imagine Hermione taking a shower-" He was about to add 'and actually shampooing that thing she calls a haircut' when they got interrupted.

"Excuse me, you're sitting in my light." It was a new student from one of the American wizarding schools.

"The sun is your light?" Draco responded wittingly. "Sorry Kim Kardashian, this is not Miami."

"Any school in America and you wouldn't dare talk to me like that." She replied, sweeping some of her blonde hair behind her shoulder. Her two companions stared not knowing what to say. They were a bit younger than she was and looked poor, which bothered Draco. They didn't belong in Slytherin house and neither did she. "But no my stupid Daddy had to sign up for Wizarding Mingle and fall for a mudblood."

"Isn't your step-mom a half-blood?" Blaise came over then, interrupting Lauren.

"Whatever, if it's not pureblood it's not right." She groaned. "And it is the reason we had to move to this freak show country."

"Wow, okay. First of all you should be careful about who you piss off around here. We have access to your toothbrush." Draco smirked.

Lauren gasped. "How dare you threaten me in my own home?"

"You were moaning about it here a second ago." Draco reminded her.

"That's it!" Lauren got out her wand. "You have five seconds to move before I ship you off to Gryffindor to marry your girlfriend Hermione and live happily ever after with your half-blood fuck-ups you will call your children."

"Wow bullying the dating, someone reeks of being single." Another Slytherin, Anderson, turned the corner. Draco had never had much to do with Anderson, all he knew was that he was gay and clearly had great comebacks.

"Fucking Hogwarts, anywhere else in the world and I would own you bitches!" Lauren stormed off with her two friends out of Slytherin. Blaise applauded Anderson.

"Why thank you. I once took an instruction sheet in potions class before she did and she called me a communist." He rolled his eyes. "How does she even know muggle history?"

"She has a half-blood mother." Draco responded.

"Ah okay." Anderson nodded, staring at the doorway. "You guys are playing today right? Are you going to the Ravenclaw party afterwards?" Ravenclaw had already won the house cup, but Slytherin and Gryffindor's match for third place had been postponed to bad weather.

Draco smiled at Crabbe and Goyle. "Oh we're going." he said. They didn't really have much to do with the other houses but what they had planned for tonight had nowhere else to take place.

"Cool. I'll see you there." Anderson said, walking off. He passed his friend Cooper who asked him what Lauren had to say. "Same old, same old. Oh and did you hear Draco and Hermione were going out? I've always wondered if there was ever a Gryffindor-Slytherin couple."