A/N) I'm back! Still have the flu and still feel like shit unfortunately. This is just a beginning chapter, things will really pick up the pace next chapter when they start school. I'm really looking forward to writing a confused Draco! Anyway hope you guys enjoy and please review :)
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As soon as their flight reached the ground Hermione was grateful. Listening to Draco Malfoy complain for seven hours about his ears without being able to hex him was the worst thing she'd ever endured in her entire life.
And Hermione Granger had endured a whole lot.
"Miss Granger? Mr Malfoy?" Asked a timid voice to their left. The speaker was a short man with thinning hair and a long nose.
"Yes?" Asked Hermione, she was fairly certain they were instructed to find a white car outside.
"I'm your driver, I was also instructed to take your wands. Dumbledore had a feeling I should collect them instead of simply instructing you not to use them." The man said.
"No way. I put up with the rest of his bullshit. I draw the line at giving up my wand. No way in hell will I give this to you." Draco fumed.
The man glared at both students, shyness gone, before casting a quick Expelliarmus, taking both wands and leaving Hermione and Draco in shock.
"Follow me." He said as he walked past the luggage claim and out of the airport. As soon as Hermione stepped out the door she regretted the long pants and leather jacket. It was comfortable on the plane but now she could feel herself sweating under the leather. Her only consolation was the fact that not only did Draco Malfoy look like an idiot in his robes, he had to be feeling the heat much worse than she was.
Bloody robes. Draco was overheating, bad. He cursed as he climbed into the crappy white car after the driver. First he sends us to a school without magic and then he sends a minion to take our wands! Should of pitched myself off the astronomy tower when I had the chance.
Draco looked over at Granger, at least she didn't have a wand. Their arguments usually turned quickly into duels. As long as she doesn't have her wand, I can piss her off without her hexing me. Unfortunately, Draco Malfoy failed to grasp the fact that his realization went both ways.
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"I thought we were going to a school..." Hermione trailed off. The driver had pulled into an old apartment building. She had assumed they'd be going to a boarding school but now she wasn't so sure.
"You'll be staying here. Your headmaster has left a generous amount of money in your rooms and this white car is the one you will be using for the next week. The high school you two will be attending is within walking distance, it is called Lincoln High School and it's to your left and past the coffee shop. If you have any requests or complaints you can take it up with the Headmaster, there is a phone in both rooms and the number painted onto it will connect you directly to Dumbledore. The keys on the passenger's seat will lead to your apartments. Have a nice day." Deadpanned the driver before immediately apparating away.
"Wow. He really didn't like us. Not that I'm surprised, you were being a brat the entire car ride. Malfoy, what the hell are you doing?" Hermione asked. Draco was climbing over the seats to get into the passenger seat. Hermione opened up her door and opened the passenger one while she gave Draco a smug smirk, watching as he continued to try and fit his tall frame in between the two seats up front.
"OW! Granger what the fuck!?" Draco winced, rubbing his head. Hermione had thrown one of the keys at him, this one had a DM engraved in a piece of wood on the keychain, Hermione held hers by her side which displayed the initials HG.
"Get out of the car, Malfoy. You look like an idiot wedged in there."
"You always look like an idiot!" Draco spat childishly as he finally managed to leave the car before violently slamming the door.
"Mature," Said Hermione "Lets just go find our apartments."
Draco had no idea what an apartment was, but he had far too much pride to ask Hermione about it.
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"You've got to me kidding me!" Hermione exclaimed, looking at the apartment doors. Her and Malfoys apartment were directly across the hall from each other.
"Like I want to spend the next week living directly across from you, Mudblood!" Draco sneered, almost as upset as Hermione about their living arrangements. Hermione rolled her eyes as she entered her new home, closing her door with much more force than necessary.
Her new place was small but comfortable, it included an average sized sitting room with a sofa, coffee table, and television, a small kitchen, and three doors. Upon further inspection, Hermione learned that the smallest door lead to a closet and the other two lead to a spacious bathroom and a good sized bedroom. True to the drivers word, the landline on the wall included a phone number painted in white across the band of the telephone.
She was pleased to find her trunk sitting next to her bed in her room and a more than generous stack of cash on her nightstand. She immediately began unpacking until she heard a knock on her door.
Confusion set into the seventeen year old's features as she made her way to the door. Please be Ginny or Lavender or even one of the twins visiting right now.
Harry and Ron were on the hunt for Horcruxes, so Hermione was left behind to fend for herself at school, both boys thought it was safer and she was still beyond pissed off at the both of them.
"I'm running out of patience, Granger! Open your damn door!" Hermione groaned. Malfoy. Of course.
"Then run out of patience, I don't want to deal with you right now." Hermione yelled through the closed door.
"Once you tell me how to use this bloody device, you won't have to!" Draco spat back. Device... Oh the phone! Hermione felt a laugh bubble up into her throat until she couldn't hold it back any more, it got to the point where she was laughing so hard that she couldn't breath. Draco Malfoy begging Hermione Granger to teach him how to use a telephone! She had no idea what the world had come to but Hermione decided that she didn't hate it, not at all. Draco Malfoy, on the other hand, was infuriated.
"What's so funny, Granger?"
"You. You're so funny!" Hermione managed to say in between fits of laughter.
She has a really cute laugh... No, shut up. It sounds like a snort. She's a pig.
"Just show me how to use this!" He screamed and Hermione signed while opening the door, but the scene in front of her caused her to laugh even harder than before. Draco Malfoy was standing in front of her, looking totally pissed off and holding the landline that was previously mounted on the wall, he must have ripped it right off!
"Quit giggling, Granger, it's gross. Now are you going to teach me how to use this stupid thing or what?" He asked
"Fine. Come in, you can use mine since you broke yours."
"What? How'd I break it? A muggleborn told me I was supposed to pick it up."
"You're supposed to pick up the phone. You managed to pick up the entire thing." Hermione explained.
"Is there a difference?"
Hermione chose to ignore that question. What do you want to use it for anyway?"
"To tell him that there's no way I'm staying in this dump. The rooms are ridiculously small, I could be claustrophobic." Draco complained
"Good to know... claustrophobia." Hermione said with an evil gleam in her eye.
"I said I could be, Granger. You look like a kid on Christmas, I'm not claustrophobic and since you don't have your wand I'm not scared of you."
"You don't have your wand on you either, asshole."
Shit. Forgot about that.
"Can you just connect me to Dumbledore?" Draco asked impatiently. Hermione figured that since he wasn't going to say please, she may as well just do it since he asked nicely enough.
She dialed in the number and grabbed some cash from her room, she may as well go grocery shopping now since it was around dinner time and she ate all of her snacks on the plane.
"I'm heading to the store, let yourself out when you finish the phone call." Hermione called over her shoulder as she exited her apartment, Draco reluctantly nodded while Hermione closed the door.
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"No! This place is dirty and gross and I'm across the hall from Granger! Either get me a new place or bring me back to school!"
Is he still on the phone? Hermione thought to herself as she turned the doorknob to her apartment, bags in hand.
"Unbelievable. Fucking unbelievable!" erupted Draco as Hermione entered the room. "He hung up on me! Fucking hung up on me!"
"What did you expect was going to happen? You were being obnoxious." replied Hermione as she took the food out of the bags from the grocery store.
"What is this shit? 'Instant Noodles'? Have you read the ingredients list on this stuff? It's all carbs and it's really gross. White bread, mac and cheese... Does anyone even eat this much mac and cheese? What is gatorade and why is it bright red?" asked Draco, staring at the food items in disgust.
"It's a sports drink and it's good! Ramen isn't bad either, you should try some! And look, I bought lots of salads for lunch at school! I can be healthy when I want to."
"Packaged salads. And half of these are fruit, you have really unhealthy eating habits..."
"Well not everyone has several house elves who make them whatever they want all the time." Hermione fumed. She still strongly believed in S.P.E.W and the Malfoys treated their house elves horribly. Just look at poor Dobby!
"Excuse you, Granger, I am an excellent chef!" Draco exclaimed and Hermione raised an eyebrow.
"You?" she questioned
"Me," he answered "and I'm willing to prove it. Ever since I turned twelve my parents insisted I learn how to cook, even without magic. I'm a Malfoy, we learn everything young."
Hermione rolled her eyes. "You can prove it by making me breakfast tomorrow morning before school," she suggested.
"Nice try Granger. You can eat your ramen for breakfast. I'm not a morning person so I usually skip breakfast on school days."
"But it's the most important meal of the day!" Hermione argued and Draco smirked.
"Then maybe you have one healthy eating habit. I still can't believe that starting tomorrow we're going to be going to a school for muggles."
"Muggles aren't that bad, Malfoy. They're just like us except they don't use magic." Hermione pointed out.
"That's exactly what Blaise said."
"Really? Blaise Zabini told you that muggles aren't that bad?"
"Do you know any other Blaises? He has too many siblings to count so his mother used imperio on a bunch of muggles to take care of the kids. He said something about it being 'less messy' than getting wizards to do it." Draco said
"That's..." Hermione trailed off
"Disturbing?" Draco suggested
"I was going to say illegal but it's disturbing as well I suppose. Now get out, there's school tomorrow and I need to shower. Also, I'm tired."
"Granger, it's ten o'clock."
"So?"
"Right. Leaving." Draco said and he opened the door to the hall, leaving without a goodbye.
It was later that night when Hermione was lying in bed that she realized that she had just had a civil conversation with Draco Malfoy. Sure, they bickered, but it wasn't that bad.
That last thought scared the crap out of her.
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A/N) I tried to make their banter unflirty or whatever but I'm much better at flirty banter. I'm a flirty person lol. Anyway I hope everyone liked this chapter, feel free to send me suggestions about later chapters, I usually work faster with some inspiration. Lmk if I made any mistakes or if they're moving too fast, too slow, or are too ooc. This is a dramione story in case anyone forgot or I didn't clarify it enough.