Draco ran a hand through his hair, letting out a noise that made him sound like an anguished whale.
"Why doesn't she see I love her?" He faced the same way she had gone, accidentally Transfiguring a butterfly into a raven with rage.
"Why?" Draco groaned, changing it back.
"Draco, Draco, Drakity, Draco. Most wizards our age don't show accidental bursts of magic unless they're in love," the voice chuckled.
"Blaise," Draco muttered at his best friend.
"Looks like we're having some love problems over here."
"Shut it. Where's your lover, Lovegood?"
"She's over there," Blaise pointed at the pond behind them that Draco had barely noticed in his efforts to capture his Juliet.
The pond was gorgeous, but Draco had eyes only for Hermione, and he desperately tried to leave Blaise to go into the restaurant.
He was halfway there when a light hand touched his shoulder.
"She really likes you, Draco. Hermione, she really does. I'm just a girl who sees the same expressions in the mirror when I think about Blaise," Luna said firmly.
"Yeah, well it seems as though you and Blaise are best friends, cause Hermio-"
"You're kidding me Draco."
"What?"
"First of all, you told her to go for dinner as best friends."
"How do you even know this?"
"Blaise was with me at the pond and-"
"Okay, no details necessary. He's practically my brother."
Luna chuckled and said to Draco, "Back to the point, YOU told her that it was as best friends and that whoever she liked didn't like her back."
"Yeah, she likes someone else, which is why she turned so red and awkward."
"Explain to me why she stormed away and had tears in her eyes when I asked her if everything was okay. Tell me why she had an accidental burst of magic. She loves you Draco. Go get her."
"Hold on, Luna. Is that a diamond I see? Not just any diamond, the Zabini treasured family heirloom diamond? YOU AND BLAISE ARE GETTING MARRIED!?"
"Time to go find your girl," Blaise seemed to appear out of nowhere and he spun Luna around and they shared a long lasting kiss that Draco was forced to escape from by running into the restaurant.
Flashback
Looking into a Pensieve, Draco watched as he saved Hermione. The second she collapsed, the ground around him exploded into flames. Then she awoke, and the flames turned into a meadow. But it was only a memory. A memory that showed he loved her. Accidental magic happens when one is in love. He only told Blaise.
One Year Later
Draco's bracelet (he was manly, yes, but he wore a bracelet) matched with the necklace he gave Hermione. She didn't know about this, she would obviously think he was a creep. His bracelet worked the opposite way her necklace did. When she was desperately sad and needed someone most, it would turn ice cold. June 5th, Draco's birthday, he first felt the cold. He cried in bed that night, knowing he could never have her and make her feel good again.
The next day, Draco called Pansy and told her everything and about how much he loved Hermione. Pansy, too, had changed, and she first laughed, and then she admitted that she liked Ron.
Two weeks later, Draco was making a cup of hot chocolate when his wrist pretty much acquired frostbite. He dropped the mug, hot milk spreading everywhere, and he Apparated to Pansy's flat. He begged her to go check on Hermione, to make sure she was alive, to do anything. He broke four vases and nearly lost his sanity before Pansy tucked him into bed and went to Hermione.
Honestly, Hermione had been super skeptical of Pansy, immediately on guard, ready to stun her. But Pansy had stayed the night and the next few days. It took two weeks, but Hermione Granger, Gryffindor Golden Princess warmed to Pansy Parkinson, ex-Slytherin Seductress.
Draco had panicked when Pansy didn't come back to her flat for the next three days. He left town, and cried himself to bed every night - in Miami. Thousands of girls threw themselves at the Witch Weekly's Hottest Wizard of all time, but he closed the door to everyone until Blaise knocked down the door. Not with magic, no. With brute force, stemming from his anger at Draco.
"You haven't shown up at work for 2 weeks. Because you think the girl of your dreams is a little sad?"
"Pansy.." Snarled Draco.
"Yeah, cuz you're not being sensible about it Draco. Just tell her how you feel."
"And what?"
"It worked for us."
"'Cause she's Luna frikken Lovegood, Blaise, and I know you didn't come here to lecture me on my feelings. You always understood me better than most."
Blaise inhaled "We may be best friends Draco, but I am your boss, and I think that it's time-"
"To fire me cuz I took my first break in the history of the company?"
"To tell you that I won."
"Won what?" Draco surveyed his best friend.
"You're the new CEO of Goode- Enterprises. I won the election you bloody moron."
"Congrats, man."
"No the main thing was your Juliet announced that she supported me wholeheartedly, before I won. You know who I ran against."
"Blaise, man, you know I don't follow politics."
"Okay, well I guess as a person he's fine, okay not really, very annoying, but he ran against my policies."
"Thanks for the lesson Professor Zab,"
"RONALD BLOODY WEASLEY. Will you ever learn to be patient?"
"No, it's fun seeing you like this, but.." Draco trailed off, "she's a very politically inclined person, but does this mean she doesn't like Ron!?"
Draco ran off into the white beaches, twirling, leaping, and finally Apparating away.
AN - The next chapter will continue 3 years later- the present.