Take a Chance on Me

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters. I am not J.K. Rowling.

Chapter 2

A/N: I'd like to thank my first two reviewers: VmOthfan and darkhearted lonewolf. You guys are awesome. Thanks. And now onto the continuation of this story:

Fate is a funny thing. Or so we all learn throughout the course of one's life. You never know when exactly your life will take a turn for the best… or for the worst. Most learn to live through it all, the good and the bad. But some cannot, whether it be that they cannot take the pain of it all or some other reason, and therefore isolate themselves from all others around them. Fate also is what makes coincidences occur. Like running into a friend you haven't seen in a while on the street. Or winning the lottery after you've hoped and prayed all day that the last bit of cash you had that you spent on the lotto ticket wasn't wasted.

Fate, it seems is a funny thing.

Hermione, with a frappuccino in hand, walked into her first store of the day. It was a normal department store on a normal street. Nothing fancy, and that's why she liked it so much. Here, there was no getting lost looking for something in particular. Everything was placed in one spot, and never moved around the store like with most other stores nowadays.

When asked if she needed any help, Hermione shook her head, 'no'. She didn't need any help finding anything in this store. Its simplicity was easy enough to get through. And besides, this was just the first store of the day, who ever bought something from the first store they walked into?

Just outside, a man looked into the windows of the same store to see if there was anything he might need from it. He didn't really see anything very interesting, and was about to walk away from the window when he spotted something that came quickly to his attention.

It was just a girls head… but he could have sworn that he knew that head. It looked like the one that he had always loved, always would… but that just simply couldn't be. It had a body attached, of course, but was currently being blocked by a rack of clothes. The man felt himself opening the doors to the store, without even thinking about it.

This is wrong…' the man with platinum locks told himself. I can't be doing this… It's one thing to fall for the wrong person, but then to stalk them outside of their natural habitat? I can't believe I'm doing this…

Draco, however, was slowly inching closer. And it seemed that no matter how many reasons he gave himself to turn back and walk back out the double doors, he couldn't make his feet stop from their intended path. He did, however, manage to make them stop at the rack before the one in which the love of his life stood.

Stupid prat. What do you think you're doing? You could've screwed up everything!

While all of this was going on, Hermione was just wistfully walking through the store and looking at various articles.

"Hmmm… Chase said the theme this year was "Masquerade Ball". I wonder what I should show up in. No animals, please and thank you. Princesses are way too over done… Ugh, I don't know, hopefully something will just strike me today, otherwise I'm sunk for the party tonight."

Hermione gave up on the store and walked out heading down the street, peering into other windows and looking at the different clothes on the mannequins.

"Shit!" Draco exclaimed. "I completely forgot about the theme. Well, this will be interesting… Hermione and I will be at the same party tonight… And she doesn't have a clue! Haha, this might prove to be a very fun evening."

Draco followed Hermione for the rest of the day, making sure to always keep out of sight while still maintaining a constant visual on the girl.

After a very exhausting 4 hours, Hermione finally walked into her last stop of the day.

If I don't find anything in here, I might as well just dress up as a witch. The people at the party would just think it was a good costume anyways. The problem about buying a costume is, it's the middle of summer! Who in their right mind would be selling any type of costume right now?!

And that was when she found it. It was perfect, she knew it was the one at first glance. She picked it up off the rack and proceeded to the check out immediately, without even bothering to try it on. She figured that if it didn't fit perfectly, she'd just use a little bit of magic.

Yes, she had to admit it would be a little risqué for her, but hey, this was most likely to be one of her last parties at Chase's house since it was her 7th year at Hogwarts and Chase would be entering his senior year of high school that fall.

Unfortunately for Draco, he didn't see what Hermione had picked up, so he had no idea what to dress up as.

He watched Hermione leave, and then walked around the store himself. He didn't want to seem like weirdo and ask the shopkeeper what she had bought, so he decided that he'd just pick out what stood out to him.

An hour later, he too walked out of the store and apparated home to get ready for the party of the summer.

A/N:

Soooo… I started writing this story in '07… eight years later and I'm back! To my first four reviewers: I am so sorry that I did not continue this years ago… If you're still with me, I love you immensely. To those of you just starting out with me, welcome to my crazy mind! I am now out of school and honestly have no excuses not to write, so please, let me know if you have any ideas for the story/things you'd like to see!

Love to you all,

-wingedfaery