Chapter 2: Trying to work it out

Hermione woke up confused, wondering where she was. Then all the events from last night came back to her, bringing her back to reality. She found she had 2 hours before classes officially started, so she started her day with a nice shower. However, when she came out about 40 minutes later with dripping wt hair and a towel around her, she found non other then Draco Malfoy sitting on her bed reading a book. As he looked up at her she flushed bright red in surprise looking at his face and stuttering "But...you...! What..., how..., ugh!!!!"

Draco himself had woken up about 20 minuted before Hermione had, and after trying not to think about her and how he had acted around her yesterday, found it wasn't working and instead found himself thinking about it once more. It surprised himself how he brought the side of kindness he never showed anyone not even his family.

After about an hour or so of getting his books ready for class, he thought it'd be fun to see what Ms. Smarty Pants Granger was up to. So without any hesitation he went up to her room, and found it empty. Then after hearing the sound of shower, he sat on her bed and started reading one of the books she had put down Muggles and Their Lives and snorted wondering what the mudblood was doing reading that. But somehow he had found it interesting, and was so into the book that he did not hear Hermione coming out of the shower looking at his face. Draco had a smug face until he noticed that a towel was all she had and freaked out. Jesus Christ, he had expected the girl to be dressed! And then when she was flushed and stuttering, he did what his best extincts were telling him to do, so he ran out pretty red himself and breathless without even noticing it. "Come on, you saw her like that so what? She's a mudblood, a blood traitor! You are not interested in her, Draco Malfoy!" He thought to himself as he got a cup of coffee trying to forget.

She was confused alright. Hermione had been ready to walk over and grab her wand to put loads of ugly curses right at Malfoy's face. I mean come on, you do NOT intrude a girl who just came back from a shower with only a towel! She was first burning with anger, then glad that he had taken the hint and left. As she quickly got dressed and ready, she thought "Why the heck was he in my room in the morning?! And then his face, he would have known I was in the shower. Gosh what is it with him and his mood? It's worse then his usual because at least he'll call me mudblood or something. But this? It's harder trying to figure out what he's thinking." She shook her head, quickly dried her hair lightly and went down to see Malfoy in the kitchen drinking coffee. She wanted to confront him, but instead grabbed a cup of coffee herself and sat down awkwardly.

"So.... what class do you have Malfoy?" She asked trying to get the awkwardness off the air. Surprised that she didn't ask what he was doing in her room, he said "Divination, Defense against that dark, and potions for the morning." And this was followed by a quite "Oh. Okay." from Hermione.

After a few minutes, Draco couldn't take it anymore. So he blurted out "Aren't you mad at me? For being in your room like that?"

Hermione was a little shaken by his words but said "Well I was. Ferret. But hey you did get out before I had a chance to throw curses at you, so I thought might as well as forget it. You know, I wasn't going to say anything until you did. It was your fault not mine. But now that you mentioned it, what were you doing in my room anyways? Did you not know I was having a shower or did you do that on purpose?"

"Okay I was bored, I've been up about an hour or a bit more then that and I had nothing else to do! I didn't want to eat breakfast here, and I just wanted to know what you were up to. I knew that you were in the shower, and I was reading your book something about Muggles but I thought you would get dressed in the bathroom. I had no idea that...." Trailed off Draco getting red with the confession and tried to hide it. "Besides, what the hell were you doing staring at me like that for straight 3 minutes mudblood?"

"MALFOY I SWEAR! YOU WILL PAY FOR CALLLING ME THAT! IT WASN'T YOUR ROOM TO GO INTO IN THE FIRST PLACE! AND I WAS STARING At YOU BECAUSE I THOUGHT I WAS SEEING STUFF BUT I WASN'T AND YOU WERE SMART ENOUGH TO LEAVE BEFORE I GOT A CHANCE TO HIT YOU WITH A LOT OF CURSES I HAD IN MIND!" Roared Hermione very, very, very mad and getting her wand out pointing straight at Draco's face"

"Okay! Okay relax." Said Draco trying to calm her down. But he got his own wand out just in case thinking to himself "What the hell was that Dumbledore thinking?! She's trying to kill me! Head boy and head girl, yeah right! You have got to be kidding me, I have to live with this mental mudblood?!" Out loud he said "Urm okay Gra- Hermione relax I'm sorry okay? Calm down and get your wand off of me before you blast some serious spells at me."

Hermione did what that stupid Malfoy said, but only because she did not want to get into trouble especially in the morning. "Fine you win, but it doesn't mean I'm not going to hold this against you, you little ferret!" growled Hermione and walked out shutting the door harder then she meant to.

Once she got into the Great Hall for breakfast, she met Ron and Harry but didn't explain much. Neither did she had to, for the boys already knew she wasn't in a good mood knowing that she had to live with Malfoy. But they did look at each other wondering what Malfoy did to piss her off this much, especially starting with the morning. They didn't say anything but they saw Malfoy walk into the hall to meet Crab and Goyle with his usual smirk and looking at Hermione mockingly. Hermione in return glared at him and went back up to her new tower to study before she was off to History of Magic class.

Draco on the other hand had been both confused and amused. So the little Ms. Smarty Pants had it in her did she? Well he certainly wasn't going to just sit and watch while she thought she could teach him a lesson. He was thinking about making peace with her, but this had brought it official. They were on war. And it was going to be one hell of a ride as well. He grinned at himself as he walked in to the Great Hall himself and found it once again amusing to see Hermione glaring at him and leaving. Her friends Harry Potter and that Weasly boy was looking at him wondering what he had done to her. So she didn't tell them huh? Well it was for their own good he guessed. Ronald Weasly would be easily fantasizing about her and even he knew that Granger wouldn't tell either of them. Excellent he thought to himself as he ate breakfast and got to planning. "This ought to be good."

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