Hermione was lounging on a chair, in her common room that she shared with the ferret, also known as Draco Malfoy, reading a lovely book known as Romeo and Juliet. She always loved this tale every since her mother had told her the tale when she was a little girl. Draco, on the other hand, was on his bed doing Potions' homework, even though Snape gave him an Outstanding on everything, Draco still liked to put forth some hard work into homework, to make sure he deserved his Headboy statis.

Hermione didn't really seem to be "into" her book, as her mind was wondering to a certain Headboy of hers'. She noticed he wasn't the same irrogant, annoying pest he used to be. She thought maybe since the invasion of his manor, his fathers' arrest and the unfortunate death of his mother, that Draco had changed. Draco seemed to be increasingly nicer to her, Harry, Ron, and Ginny. Both Ginny and Hermione have noticed this, and the sudden "flirtly" looks him and his friend, Blaise, have been giving them. He certainly was ugly, Quidditch had done wonders to his body, giving him a nice "six-pack" and he was surprisingly tan. Hermione wasn't one to really check-out boys, I mean, ever since Ron broke-up with her to date Luna, she just wasn't that interested in dating or guys. Draco on the otherhand, was very interested in girls, especially her.

Draco seemed to follow his mom's parting words of "Follow your heart, look past the blood, and look deep within. And to NEVER marry Pansy!" He sure was following his heart, and it was leading him right to Hermione. Draco was going to make his move, today after classes had ended.

Hermione and Ginny were gossiping with Lavender Brown about boys in the Gryffiindor Common Room after classes had ended for the day. Actually Ginny and Lavender were doing must of the gossiping and Hermione was merely listening. Hermione checked her watch and noticed it was getting late and told the girls that she was going to bed, they wished her goodnight as she headed to her common room. As she was headed into the bathroom, she didn't notice that Draco was sitting, enjoying a bath, bubble bath actually, until she looked in the mirror and saw him staring at her. She gasped, she was completely embrassed! She didn't even realize that Draco was in the bathroom. As she was running to the door she heard Draco yell something, "WAIT!"

She was turning around, her face beat red, her eyes were down. Thinking he might yell at her, she faced him, completely shaking from head to toe. Draco just looked at her, as he climbed out of the tub. "Hermione it's alright." he said. Hermione refused to look up, not sure of what she might see. Draco sensed this and grabbed a towel and wrabbed it around his waist. Hermione was still shaking.

"I...I..I...Im...Soooo Sorry!" Hermione studdered.

"Shhhhhh, it's alright" Draco said as he walked up to her.

"I...I..I didn't... mean...mean to!" She said, you could tell she was serious. Draco was looking at the girl, I mean young woman in front of him, whom he admired, breakdown in front of him.

He grabbed her chin, to make her look him in the eyes, as he said extremely gentlely "It's alright, Hermione." She just stared at him, thinking what he just said over in her head. Without giving her another minute to think, he kissed her. His lips were so gentle and warm, his kiss was slow and gentle too. Hermione was shocked, but she relaxed into the kiss. She and Draco deepened the kiss and came up for air after what felt like 20 minutes of kissing, was actually just a short minute or maybe a minute and a half. Hermione's eyes were filled with confusing, shock, happiness, and lust.

"Follow your heart, look past the blood, and look deep within." Draco said before kissing her again.

The End