Chapter 2- Well This Is Awkward
"What the hell Granger? What was that all about?" Malfoy got up quickly pushing Hermione away as he spoke. Hermione was not ready for this and accidently stumbled tripping, Malfoy instinctively reached out and wrapped an arm around her waist to keep her from falling over. Unfortunately for the two Hermione had a lot of forward moment from how hard Draco had pushed her, causing then both to fall Malfoy still holding Granger to the floor, in a tangled heap.
When they hit the floor Hermione's head hit the hardwood with a nasty sounding bang. Draco was lying on top of Hermione, but his arm was still wrapped around her waist from trying to stop her from falling.
"Ok, Malfoy get off me now." Hermione said winded and struggling slightly under Malfoy's weight.
"Believe me Granger I would if I could but you're lying right on top of my arm so I can't get up.
"Malfoy use your head all you have to do is roll over off of me, then I can stand up and you can have your arm back." Hermione said annoyance slowly creeping into her voice
Malfoy, rolling his eyes at the tone of her voice, listening to orders for once in his life rolled over. Hermione sat up and freed Malfoy's arm from underneath her. Malfoy also sat up rubbing his arm.
"Geez Granger do you eat rocks?" He said a sneer in his voice
"Well you're not exactly as light as a feather either." She retorted glaring "Let's just apparate to Hogsmead to talk to Professor McGonagall."
"Whatever Granger now thanks to you I have to burn these robes."
"You really need to come up with a better insult then that, reusing the same one over and over again is really pathetic." She said glaring
Malfoy angry got up glaring down at her. Hermione instantly sense trouble she was not exactly in the best position on the floor if he decided to do anything. Quickly she scrambled to her feet stumbling as she went. Malfoy again instinctively reached out to steady her, when he realized this he quickly drew his hand back. Hermione still stumbling caught her toe on the edge of the coffee table and fell. Before she could actually hit the ground though Malfoy had caught her, his reflexes worked quicker than his brain did. Then there they were, Hermione standing in front for Draco who had wrapped both of his arms around her waist to keep her from falling over.
That's when they both noticed it a small note on the coffee table that had not been there before. A small not was on the table with black ink on it and these words were written in nice slanted handwriting:
Remember flaws can be beautiful.
There was no name to say who it was from, Hermione and Malfoy were standing in the same position still his chest pressed against her back, his arms wrapped around her waist.They both were thinking the same thing.
Whatastupidnote.
Then Malfoy felt something click in his brain he wasn't sure what it was, but something had clicked. Little did he know Hermione had felt the same thing in her head and it was bothering her because for once she didn't know something. Then Draco realized what he was doing, but strangely something in his head was telling him he didn't want to let go he wanted to stay like this holding Hermione forever. Hermione was thinking the same thing that she wanted to stay in Draco's arms forever. Both Draco and Hermione were very troubled by this not only had they both thought that they wanted to stay in each other's arms forever, but they had both used the first name of the other person while thinking about them not their surname. Then the note burst into flames startling the two and bringing them back to reality. They quickly stepped apart.
"Ummm . . . ." Malfoy said looking down at his feet
"Let's apparate to Hogsmead now." Hermione said quietly shuffling her feet and looking up at Malfoy who had just looked up from his feet.
Their eyes meet his blue grey orbs staring into her milk chocolate brown ones. Hermione thought she saw an emotion behind his eyes, love. His eyes always had told Hermione what he was really feeling, this look of love in his eyes was confusing Hermione. Draco stepped closer closing the distance between them, Hermione looked up at him an unspoken question in her eyes. Her reached out grabbed her arm and instantly dissaperated into Hogsmead. This surprised Hermione greatly she was certainly not expecting that to happen and had expect something else entirely. She felt the blackness swallow her and for a few seconds it felt like she couldn't breathe, while in that blackness she was highly aware of Malfoy's hand gripping her upper arm tightly. When the two landed in Hogsmead Hermione started to speak.
"What. . . " Hermione started asking
"You are not to tell anyone of what happened in your house or you're going to pay." He said glaring down at her his face looked angry but as Hermione looked into his eyes she saw it, confusion mixed with love. This confused her as well had Malfoy felt the same thing she had?
