In Secret Only
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This is my first story, so tell me if it really sucks. Be honest I can stand criticism.
The train ride to Hogwarts started out normal with Ronald Weasley, Harry Potter, and Hermione Granger sharing a cabin on the Hogwarts Express. Everything on the surface appeared perfect. Ron and Hermione had been going out for a little over 6 months now, and supposedly, where perfectly happy. At the end of last year, when Ron first told Hermione that he loved her, all of the girls were jealous of her. Not necessarily because she was going out with Ron, but because of the way he felt about her.
She used to think it was so sweet the way he was always there for her and how they were always together, but lately, it had started to get on her nerves. Over the summer, her feelings started to change toward him, from girlfriend back to just friends. That summer, instead of going home, she stayed at The Leaky Caldron, because her parents had to go to America for a dentistry seminar and she didn't want to stay at home away from the wizarding world if she didn't have to.
But instead of having a relaxing summer like she planned, she started to like someone who was completely off limits, someone she shouldn't even think about. Draco Malfoy. She had noticed him in Diagon Alley every weekend, and would just watch him shop, thinking about their interaction in the past, and wondering if he was really that mean and cold, or if it was just a front he put on for his father and friends. She was sure he hadn't noticed her.
I mean, Draco Malfoy, notice a lowly muggle born Gryffindor who was the best friend of the person he hated most in the world?"Not bloody likely" she thought to herself. As she sat on the train, vaguely listening to Ron and Harry talking about quidditch, she remembered her first and only contact with Draco that summer.
It happened on a Saturday afternoon in late July. She was coming out of The Leaky Caldron and wasn't looking where she was going and ran right into him. "Why don't you look where your walking?" he yelled."Are you alright?" he asked, not knowing who it was."I'm sorry" she replied, as she looked up. And she nearly fainted. Of course she had seen him before, but actually talking to him was completely different."I'm ok, just a little dirty. No harm done "she said, thinking how good he looked with his hair down, instead of slicked back as usual."I suggest you pay attention to where your walking then, unless of course ,you enjoy getting knocked down" he said with his usual drawl now in place." Thanks for the advice, but I think I can manage without YOU" she replied."Just make sure it never happens again, because I will just keep on walking" he said loving the look of shock and anger creeping over her face.
"Malfoy, I have a question for you" she started, trying to keep her anger in check."Would it kill you to be polite for a minute? I said I was sorry, isn't' that enough? It isn't like I walked into you on purpose!" she asked, her voice getting louder with each word. He gave her a hard look before he turned and left, his robes billowing behind him."I'm going to regret that later" she said to herself, not really caring though. It had felt sooooo good telling him off like that."This year was going to be interesting" she thought.