Bad Habits
By: Iris Ixchel
It is said that it takes 21 days to break a habit. It only took 21 days for Hermione to realize that the life planned out for her maybe isn't the one she wanted. After becoming a professor at Hogwarts with Draco Malfoy everything she's ever known is called into question. HGDM
Disclaimer: I don't own anything of the Harry Potter brand. J.K. Rowling owns it all.
Prologue: Morning 22
Hermione Granger sighed as she began to wake up. Feeling the sun on her toes she smiled at how lovely she felt. Very soon after registering that thought panic set in, as far as she knew her apartment didn't have a window near the bed. In fact the window was on the opposite side and Hermione's eyes instantly shot open. The walls were gray. The walls in her apartment were a light blue. The sheets in this bed were white while the sheets in her bed were a cream color. She had researched the color herself to make sure it would be sleep condusive. Oh Merlin, she thought, I'm not in Kansas anymore. Her eyes went even larger when they instantly reached a conclusion to her situation. No, there's no way that's the reason. It can't be… Trying to reach a logical conclusion she went through all the reasons she could have spent the night other than at home with Ron. Maybe I had too much to drink and someone let me sleep at their place? Or maybe I flooed wrong, didn't realize it, and ended up here. But none of those options explain why I'm naked. She turned her head into the pillow and groaned. While banging her head against the pillow she thought, I didn't just cheat on Ron. I did not give into my crush and decided to act on it.
"I'm so dead." She muttered. "I'm so so so dead." Holding up the sheet to her chest the events of the previous night came back to her. At that moment she knew that life as she knew it was shattered. She had slept with the last person she ever expected to like, much less fall for and she had Ron waiting at home for her decision on a ring. Where had happened to the rule following Hermione from her school days gone? The one who would've ignored the feelings and wouldn't have slept with someone other than Ron? Where was the girl who saw her entire life with Ron and couldn't wait to be apart of the family? Wiping away tears that had started to form she slid out of bed with the sheet wrapped around her. Picking up her clothes, she got dressed and prepared herself to face Draco Malfoy.