Hiya! I do not own Harry Potter! Hope everyone's alright and well. I'm not the greatest at the moment, unfortunately; that's why I didn't post a chapter yesterday. Anyway, I hope that you all enjoy the chapter!

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Draco walked down an empty corridor thinking about his dream about Hermione. He didn't know why it kept on occurring except from the fact that he loved her, but surely that couldn't make him dream every night.

He went to Potions for his first lesson of the day. He didn't mind it, but Snape didn't exactly treat everyone very fairly. Snape was always happy to see the Slytherin students, but he always turned his rather large nose up at the Gryffindor students. He never did understand his problem.

The lesson went without incident. They learnt to make an antidote to a common poison. After the lesson had finished Snape asked Draco to stay behind after class to clean the classroom, which happened very rarely to a Slytherin, after he had made an extremely inappropriate suggestion, thinking it would be funny.

After a few minutes Draco noticed that there was a small notebook left at Hermione's place. He picked it up and put it in his pocket, ready to return it, possibly read a little bit first, though.

Once Snape said that he could leave, Draco went and found somewhere quiet to read the mysterious notebook. He turned to the last page with writing on it.

Dear Diary,

I love Ron so much. Why does he have to be going out with Lavender? I just want to do something that'll make him take notice and see what he's missing! I don't get it! What do I do? Uh! Honestly, I'm just sat in Potions just pining away after him whilst he just thinks of Lavender!

Wow. Weasley. At least she understands how I feel right now then. That was a blow that Draco didn't need; Hermione like Ron. He supposed he should go and give the diary back to Hermione. He guessed that, as there was free time, that she'd be in the library.

How right he was. When he went into the library he saw Hermione sat in the corner of the room with her head in a book. He approached her nervously.

"Hey, Hermione," he began politely.

"What do you want, Malfoy? Come to turn my hair multi-coloured or make my clothes bright orange?" Hermione asked suspiciously.

"Why would I do that?" Draco asked.

"I don't know why, that's just what you do for some reason." She replied coldly, turning back to her book.

"Anyway, I came to give you this," Draco said, handing over the diary.

"OK. You didn't… read any of this… did you?" Hermione asked nervously.

"I'm not going to lie; I read the last page that you wrote." Hermione went bright red.

"Why would you read that?" Hermione fumed quietly.

"Just out of nosiness and… to make sure that you're OK." Draco admitted, turning slightly pink. Hermione thought that it was strange that Draco Malfoy was making sure that she was alright. And then she had an idea.

"Draco… I know that this is going to sound really strange, but you're the only one who's read my diary, so I'm just going to ask you… if you didn't find it to strange or weird or any of the above… would you like to help me make Ron jealous? I mean, I really don't think that he hates anyone more that you, so it would really work…"

"Sorry… what? What are you even asking me to do" Draco asked feeling really confused.

"I'm asking you if you would like to pretend to be dating me to make Ron feel jealous." She said slowly, now sure that he'd just laugh and tell everyone. Draco thought about it for a second. He was confused. Act like her boyfriend? Maybe… but I need a good reason why I'm doing it. He though back to the summer holidays when his father kept on asking him why he didn't have a girlfriend and nagging him about it. He knew what to say.

"Um… I suppose. My dad's pissing me off with nagging me about girlfriends and stuff, so I'll have something to tell him." He said trying to sound cool. They put their arms around each other and walked to their next lesson.