Chapter 2-The Train Ride

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Hermione's eyes fluttered open as she awoke and looked around. 'Oh yea… I remember now…' she thought as she kicked off the covers she slept in.

"Mione! You up yet?! Breakfast's almost done!" Cammy yelled up the stairs.

"Yea, I'm up now… be out in a sec!" Hermione made her bed and walked downstairs. "How many people are you feeding? There's enough food here to feed an army!" Hermione said to her friend.

"Had to cook for my best friend… I forgot to ask you what you wanted last night before we went to sleep. Dig in girl, before the food gets cold!" Hermione and Cammy sat down to their breakfast of cinnamon pancakes, bacon, sausage, eggs, cream of wheat, and apple juice. When they finished, they cleaned up, and got dressed for the train.

"Cammy! Come on!! I've already packed the cab with our trunks!" said Hermione as she tapped her foot impatiently by the front door. Cammy really took her time when she wanted to.

"Alright!! I'm comin! Chill! We aren't gonna be late!" she said as she grabbed her bag with her cd's and CD player, walking down the stairs and to the car. "Get in miss 'I have to be an hour early' and let's go!" she said as the cab backed the car down the driveway and sped off.

At Malfoy Mansion, the boys were up too. Well… Draco was anyway. "Blaise… get up! We're gonna be late!" he said as he dumped freezing water on Blaise's sleeping form. "AHHH BLOODY HELL!!! That's cold man!! Why'd you do that??" Blaise said as he shivered in his once warm bed.

"It's almost 10! We have to be at the station by 10:30! Get ready! If you make me late, and I miss that girl, you're going to regret it!" Draco said as he stomped off to shower and change. They apparated to the station with their trunks, just as Cammy and Hermione were walking through platform 9¾.

Cammy had a feeling someone was watching them as they walked through the barrier. "Mione… did you feel like you were being watched a second ago?"

"You too? Well… I don't feel it anymore, so let's get on the train." She said. Cammy followed her, placing her things in the empty compartment Hermione had found. She sat down, and pulled out a book. "What's that?" Hermione asked, pulling out her own book to read from her backpack. "It's this show I used to watch back home in America called 'C.S.I.'. I like it… this one's about a body found in a trunk of a car, and how they figure out who did it. 'Hogwarts: A History'? What's that about?"

Hermione gazed at the book, turning it over in her hands. "It's about Hogwarts and all the things that have happened there. Pretty good… I've read it before." She said smiling to herself. No matter how many times she had read that book, it could never get old to her.

"Ohhhh…. Cool." Cammy said as she curled up on the seat and went back to reading her book. Hermione opened the book, and lost herself in its words.

By the time they got on the train and found an empty compartment, Draco and Blaise had no idea where the girls they had seen had disappeared to. "Let's go look for them. I've got a meeting in 10 minutes." Blaise nodded his head, and followed Draco down the hall. "Hey… I think I found them… but why are they with Pothead, Weasel and the Weaselette?" said Blaise as he turned to face Draco.

"Dunno… Let's drop in for a chat, shall we?" he said as he opened the door.

Draco glanced into their compartment and Hermione was laughing and talking with her friends, and Ron was whispering in her ear. 'Why on earth would this unbelievably hot girl be talking to the Weaselby. he thought as he stared at her. 'Damn… She's hot' She wore a pink baby tee that showed off the curves she'd gotten, along with her flat stomach. It said 'If I snap my fingers, will you go away?' and her jeans were skin tight, black with rips and holes down the legs to her ankle high black boots.

Hermione glanced at the door, having heard it open, and saw Draco staring back at her. 'He's gotten taller… bloody hell! Where did all those muscles come from?! Harry isn't THAT built… Whoa!! Did I just compare that spoiled brat to my best friend?!' she thought as she looked him up and down. He was wearing a pair of black clacks with a baby blue button up shirt and black dress shoes. 'I gotta admit… he DOES look good…but why is he staring at me as if he has no idea who I am?' she thought as she looked into his eyes. 'Oh yeah, that's because he probably doesn't you idiot.'

At that moment, the other occupants of the car noticed their unexpected, and uninvited, visitors standing in the doorway. Since Harry had defeated the Dark Lord early in the summer, no one had heard from either of the boys, although Lucius Malfoy had been captured, and later in the summer was sentenced to the Dementors Kiss. "GET OUT FERRET BOY!!" yelled Ron when he realized why Hermione hadn't answered his question.

"Look, I just came to make sure Hermione didn't forget about the Heads meeting. Obviously she isn't in here, so when you see her, can you tell her that she shouldn't be late? You either Weasley." said Draco, without stopping, he turned and walked away, Blaise in tow, trying to take his eyes off of Cammy. She was wearing a black tank top with silver writing, and black jeans with silver glitter all over them. The shirt said 'Don't be jealous because I'm pretty… be jealous because YOUR MAN thinks I am!' Her shoes were black air force ones with silver laces. She stood and walked over to him.

"Hi… Tha name's Cammy… and you are…?"

"Blaise… Blaise Zabini…" he managed to get out before a hand clamped down on his shoulder.

"Blaise, you're right… they can make it to the meeting on their own. Let's go. NOW." Draco said as he pulled him back into the hallway.

"What'd you do that for? She was talking to me!" Blaise complained, as they walked to the office where the meeting was to be held.

"I'll tell you later. McGonagall's watching us." Blaise sat next to Draco, and crossed his arms over his chest. He didn't even notice when Hermione walked into the compartment they were having the meeting in, mostly because he didn't even recognize her.

"At least think about it Hermione… Please?" Ron begged as he held the door open for her.

"I'll think about it Ron, but I'm not promising anything, okay?" she said as she took her seat across the table from Draco. He looked up and couldn't believe what he was seeing. It was the girl from the club! Of course he didn't think that Granger was in the compartment with Potter and his friends, he hadn't even knew it was her! Her once brown unruly hair was now straight with blonde streaks and black on the underneath of it. Her brown eyes were now a emerald green, but lighter than Potters, she sure had filled into her curves since the last time he had saw her, rather, the last time he saw her as Granger.

"Ms. Granger, if you and Mr. Weasey are finished talking, I would like to start this meeting." said McGonagall. Hermione and Ron nodded their heads. The meeting was about their duties as prefects and head boy and girl, but Draco and Hermione were only half listening. They were too busy glancing at each other, wondering what the other was thinking. 'I bet he's still a spoiled brat… why does he keep looking at me like that?' Hermione thought when she caught him looking at her.

'Great… the know-it-all knows I was looking at her! I must be losing my touch. I'll just have to test it later!' He smirked at the thought. The rest of the meeting went on without a hitch. As they all stood up, McGonagall's voice was heard again. "Ms. Granger, Mr. Malfoy, when we get to school, the Headmaster and I will escort you to your rooms after dinner. Meet us in the Great Hall." With a nod of her head, she dismissed them.

When Hermione walked out into the hallway, Ron was nowhere to be found. A hand wrapped around her wrist and pulled her into an empty compartment. When the lights clicked on, she was face to face with Draco. "My my Granger… you've grown up! I never would have thought the girl I'm looking at was the same bushy-haired girl from last year." He said with a smirk.

"Shut your face Malfoy, I don't want to hear it right now," she replied. He walked towards her, until he had her pinned against the wall.

"You might not want to hear it, but I like what I see…" he said as he tilted her head up to kiss her.

"Malfoy, I don't think…" she started, but she never finished the sentence. He had started kissing her. It was a soft, passion-filled kiss, and they both enjoyed it, even though neither would admit it.

"So I take it you don't think of me as a 'Mudblood' anymore?" she asked him breathlessly.

"Honeslty, I never did… but I had to act that way to keep dear old dad off my back. You understand right?" Just then the train began to slow, signaling their time on the train was coming to an end.

"We better go change," Hermione said. He agreed, gave her another kiss, and turned to leave. He paused at the door.

"Will you promise to give me a chance Hermione?" he said as he looked deep into her eyes.

"I don't know Draco, I still don't know for sure that you're not the same prat I got bullied by all those years. I'll have to think about it. I'll talk to you in our rooms tonight." She said warily.

"Thank you… I'll see you tonight then." He said as he walked out the door to change.

'Maybe he really has changed…' she thought as she walked into her private room to change. She walked out of the room, a few minutes later dressed. Little did she know her entire meeting with Draco had been watched by a furious Ron Weasley.