This story does not follow the books, but I hope you enjoy it.
The school year was finally over. Everyone passed there exams, and all were happy. Well everyone except Hermione. It had been an interesting year for her. It all started at the Halloween ball, when she was dancing with Draco Malfoy. They had only just become friends and he was already asking her out. She of course said yes, who wouldn't? Draco was the hottest guy in school, and he wanted to go out with her.
For once in her life she was really happy. Draco treated her like a queen, well up until a day or two before they broke up. He had started to ignore her and it was painful. E broke up with her through a letter, and Hermione was pissed. Though she was only mad at him for a day, but they stayed good friends. The only thing Hermione didn't know at the time is that she fell in love with him. When she did, it's hard to say. It could have been during one of there snowball fights or when they would just hang out.
But the break up wasn't the worst of it for Hermione. It had only been a few days since Draco dumped her and he was already going out with some Ravenclaw girl named Carla. It hurt her so much to see him with another girl, so instead she burred herself in her studies.
It went on like that for 2 months before he started having problems with her. Draco started hanging out with Hermione more and asking her what he should do. She wanted her friend to be happy, but not with that girl, but she couldn't tell him that. So she told him that he had to do what he thought was right. If he wasn't happy with her then maybe he shouldn't be with her. It went on like that for another week, when he broke up with her before Valentines Day.
Well of course Hermione was happy, she loved the guy after all. But she knew that deep in her heart that he would never want to go out with her again. Little did she know that after Draco broke up with Carla he started to have feeling for her again. She didn't start to realize this until there spring break when they were hanging out watching a movie in the room of requirements. He would always be looking at her putting his hand on her thigh, and he even feed her popcorn with his mouth. Hermione didn't want to get her hopes up though, she didn't want to be hurt again.
About a week after their spring break, Draco's parents took him out of school for a week to go to Florida on holidays seeing as they would not be able to in the summer. Hermione missed him so much when he was gone, she could concentrate. Draco on the other hand was having a hard time to. He was having a great time in Florida, but couldn't get Hermione out of his head. He had taken up writing during that time, so he would write out what he was feeling hoping that would help him get Hermione out of his head, but it didn't.
When he got back from Florida he knew what he had to do. He took Hermione aside and told her that he still had feelings for her, well it was more like he was in love with her. She was so happy, and that day they started going out again. But it didn't last long, he had done the most horrible thing that he could of. After only 4 days together he had cheated on Hermione. She only found out because the person he cheated on her with told her. She had no idea what to do. She knew that she had to get his side of the story, but she didn't know how to bring up the subject but she had to. So two nights after she found out she sat him done and asked him, she didn't want it to be true but it was. He told her he was sorry and he been stupid, but she couldn't handle it. She could not be with someone who would cheat on her.
She didn't talk to him for 2 weeks and every time he would try to talk to her she would just walk away. Draco acted like nothing bad had happened, but deep down he knew that he had hurt the person that he loved. He never stopped loving her, but he accepted her wishes that she didn't want to talk to him. He would let her come back to him. After 2 weeks she didn't start to forgive him, not completely for she could never do that.
By June Draco started to want to hang out with her more then his other friends, and he would say that he needed to talk to her, but when it came time he would back out, and was always saying he was sorry. Hermione didn't know what he was sorry about so one night she sent him an e-mail saying "What are you sorry for you didn't do anything?" she didn't expect him to send a reply but he did. "I am sorry for everything that I have done wrong...and I have done plenty wrong...I am scared...(ill get back to that) remember the other day when I said I wanted to talk to you well I was going to bring you aside and tell you how I felt but when I thought about it that night it was like I froze up and got so scared of going out with you again in fear of breaking your heart...again...I have hurt a lot of people and I have only been hurt a few times and I am scared of loosing my friends...Sure I may know a lot of people and call them friends but they aren't like super good friends like your and Ginny are...so I apologize for everything stupid that I have done...and I love you..."
She didn't know what to say, she did want to go out with him again even after all that had happened. But he never did ask her out. And so came the end of school, and before both Hermione and Draco went to get on the train he kissed her, but then walked away never telling her why. She had been so confused the train ride home, but she couldn't stop smiling. She knew that during the summer she had to settle things between her and Draco. She couldn't wait around forever for him, all she wanted to know was if she was wasting her time waiting for him. She had sent him another e-mail saying all that, but still hadn't hear back. And with that our story begins.