Chapter 2 – Dracos Surprise

It was the weekend, Saturday night at 7pm. Sitting in the library, Hermione had "Hogwarts: A History" open. But behind it was Kerrang! Magazine, she was currently looking at the Pandora cartoon, wishing she had hair like that. Her boots were just visible under her robes, and InMe pounded in her ears. It was a month into the term, and still no comment from Ron or Harry. They had barely said a word to her; in fact all they ever asked was whether or not she could set one or the other of them up. But she had had very loud comments from several professors! She ran her tongue across her lip, feeling the comfort of her ring. It was like her touchstone, a reminder she WAS different.

Just then she felt a hand on her shoulder, as she had asked Ginny to call in on the way back from Quidditch she assumed it was her and turned round smiling to be confronted with Draco Malfoy's chest. "Oh, you."

She just about managed to say. His white CKY shirt had gone see- through in the rain, and he was grinning oddly. "Couldn't help noticing the look, Granger." He said, pointing at the boots and lip ring.

"Er, yeah." She replied. Silence. "And . . . ?"

"Well I wondered if you would care to follow me." And he began to saunter away.

A little voice in her head was telling her that following Draco was a bad idea. But her curiosity got the better of her, and the heavy boots started out the door of the library.

No words were exchanged on the way. Draco swayed a little as he walked, and cursed every so often when he tripped over his feet. Hermione was getting a little worried about him when he walked straight into a tree at the edge of the forbidden forest. "Um, are you alright Draco?" she questioned, as he looked around bemused, then giggled.

"Yeah." Then he grinned up at her "so its Draco now is it?"

"Only if it's not Granger. Or Mudblood." "Done, Hermione." She just rolled her eyes and followed him cautiously into the forest.

Soon enough, they reached a little hollow. There was smoke masking her view between the trees at the edge to begin with, but as she got closer she was amazed. Sitting there were around 7 students, from 5th year upwards, of every house. Except Hufflepuff. The reason for this was about to become clear. The smell of marijuana hit her almost instantly. That explains Dracos odd walking, and his friendliness. Draco took a joint off Crabbe, and took a long drag. His lungs seemed to be bottomless the amount he took in, and then he breathed it out, his face distorted, and offered it to Hermione. Hermione had smoked before, that was the fault of the girl who changed her look too, but never anything like this. Anything illegal. Cautiously, she took the joint, and looked at it smoking in her hand.

"What's in it?" She asked after a while.

"Turnips." Draco replied. Hermione just stood there for a moment, and then raised a slender eyebrow. Draco and Crabbe erupted in giggles.

"I'm sorry, but did the oh-so-hard Draco and Crabbe just giggle?" she taunted. And they both stopped and Draco feigned sulking.

"Don't take the piss Hermione. It's mean." At this he giggled some more and stood up. Walking over to her, he was smiling with just 1 side of his mouth, he extended an arm. For a wild moment, Hermione thought he was going to pull her in for a kiss, but instead he grabbed the joint. He inhaled a deep drag, and blew the smoke out in her face. When she opened her eyes, he was inches away, and murmured "go, try, you'll like. Trust." And he winked at her once again.

Hands shaking slightly, she took the half smoked joint and brought it up to her lips. And she inhaled. Next thing she knew, the group was chanting "choke choke choke!!" as she sucked in as much smoke from the 2 litre bottle as possible. The joint rapidly disappeared, stuck in the bottom, as she sucked the drug into her mouth, which was clamped around the bottleneck. Sure enough, she coughed the smoke out, and they cheered. The bottle and finished joint dropped to the floor, as did Hermione.

She awoke to a very concerned looking Draco. "Oh Merlin Hermione I wasn't thinking. I'm so sorry; I should have slowed you down for a first-timer!"

"Meh, don't worry about it." She had a pounding headache and her back stung where she had fallen in nettles.

"What's the time?" Draco muttered a spell and I giant clock appeared in midair. It read 2:47 am. They were over 4 hours late for lights out.

As the clock vanished Hermione jumped up and began to stagger as fast as possible in the direction of the castle. Draco jumped to his feet too, and steadied her. "Don't worry man, we've done this plenty of times, they never check. But damn, you falling down and not waking up sure did straighten me out! Good job too, I think I went in excess tonight. I blame you, you naughty girl!"

"Why me? What did I do but accept what you gave me!"

"Ha! You were the one that conjured up that bottle and rolled a mean joint! And of course you made us do the hold-down pass."

"Did I really?"

"Yuh huh."

"####." At this, Draco just laughed. He was actually alright, Hermione thought to herself.

As they neared the castle, Hermione looked up to her dorm window and wondered how on earth she was going to get there without being caught. Especially in her current state! That's when Draco whispered "Accio broomstick" and sure enough his broomstick came soaring out of a window. Hermione smiled and laughed; when Draco raised an eyebrow at her she replied, "Now I know where your room is in the prefect wing". He just smiled back at her. Suddenly, it struck Hermione what she was doing. She was hovering outside her window, stoned, on the broom of her enemy, and she was enjoying it!

Saying a quiet goodbye to Draco, she clambered haphazardly through the common room window. Tripping over a cushion on the window ledge she cursed, and fell flat on her face. Thankfully, it was quiet. Picking herself up, she looked down at her muddy boots and ripped jeans, and just as she was thinking how good it looked she came face to face with a rather angry Ginny.

"Oops."

Well there we go, another chapter. Hope it's all ok, now is where you guys come in! R&R, but don't be evil. Be nice or constructive please. Thanks for reading :)