TROLOLOLOLOLOL IT'S AN AU. DON'T TELL ME IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. And enjoy xP
She fled, hoping to avert disaster. She knew he hated her. She hated him too. But they had reached the breaking point. It wasn't the easy hate that morphed into love the next day. It wasn't the exasperated hate when your best friend spills a chocolate milkshake all over you. It was a vicious hate that made you cry when you remembered that you did really love this person... this monster.
Gone was the boy who she pushed into the mud when they were five, and who pulled her down with him and took the blame when their parents furiously demanded why they were so dirty. Gone was the boy who bumped her knee under the table when they attempted to do their homework together... but ended up just playing paper football or something. Gone was the boy she knew... Gone was the real Draco. This was a young man who didn't care for her opinions... who wouldn't care if she dropped off the face of the earth.
"Hermione!" The door is pounded behind her back. "Open up, damn it!"
She sobs. "No!" She would keep her pride, if he left her nothing else.
Another pound. "Just open the god damned door!"
A vicious anger takes hold of her. Fine, so he wanted to play this game? She could hurt him. Or at least, she could hurt whatever remnants of her friend remained. She twisted to her feet and yanked open the door, letting him see her tears. She tilted her chin up, making it perfectly clear that she was better than him. As he and his parents did to everyone else. But the difference was that she was right. And as she stared at the boy -no, man- that she thought she knew all these years... She wondered what had changed. "Happy, Draco? You have accomplished the impossible. You have finally managed to make Hermione Granger cry."