Chapter two: Right at the beginning
Author's note: Hello again! :D After getting some good reviews from my very first readers and comments from my very dear friends,I've decided not to keep you waiting and update this new chapter as soon as I wrote it! ^^ I really do hope you'll like it and if I may just say,it is so much fun playing Draco I can't even describe it! xD So R&R!
Discalmer: If I were to own Harry Potter, Draco wouldn't end up marrying that Greengrass girl, nor Hermione... But meeee! :D
September 3rd
Dear diary,
Here we are, our very last and final year at Hogwards, and I'm not quite sure how will I take the knowing that we are never to return to this school when we graduate. That all of my dearest and closest friends are leaving on their separate ways and we are not to see each other again... At least, for a while. But, I'm trying as hard as I can not to think of this at the moment, but to concentrate on my school work and newest Head girl duties. I just simply love being Head girl! It's just so much fun! But, I just wasn't that of a fortune to be Heads with someone intelligent as me, or someone fun to talk to, or even someone like Nevil... But, nooo! I couldn't be possibly stuck nine months sharing a common room and Head duties with anyone but Malfoy. Yes, Draco bloody Malfoy! Oh, how I hate him! He just couldn't be more serious of the importance of our responsibilities! He keeps calling me names, makes me do most of the work and annoys me and humiliates me in any kind of ways, when ever he's got the time for it! It just drives me nuts! I can't stop wondering how he even got his Head boy badge for being such a lazy arrogant ferret git! It just seems impossible for us to live in any sort of piece in the remaining nine months, with out killing each other first! Whose ever idea was of putting Malfoy and me together, has seriously lost his mind! But, as it is what it is, I'll just try and be polite and act civilized with him as much as I can... Oh, Gods, wish me luck...
"Feeding our nose in some book again, aren't we Granger?" Hermione growned as she looked up form her journal just to see Malfoy entering the common room with an arrogant smirk glued on his face, as always.
"Well, good day to you too, Malfoy." , she tried using a polite voice, but she just couldn't hide the sarcastic echo in it.
"Good day, bookworm." , he replied, faking a smile at her.
She groaned in annoyance and he grinned in amazement. Malfoy walked past her as he was going to head for his room, but instead sneeked behind Hermiones back to look into her book, for he knew it was really her journal and he just couldn't resist not to sneek a peek.
"Wow, Granger, who knew you used such noty words to describe me." Hermione jumped in her seat on the sound of his sudden voice for she had thought he has already gone, but as soon as she cleared her head again she quickly closed her journal.
"Not that is any of you business what I do or do not write in my private notepad." , she shook her head and glanced a deadly look at him. Malfoy started laughing.
"Well, as I am myself mentioned in one or quite few of your private thoughts, I supposed it was only fair for me to know at least what they are." , he crossed his arms over his chest, a smirk dancing on his lips.
"Since when do you care of what is fair and what's not?" , Hermione narrowed her gaze at him suspiciously.
"Your right, Granger, I don't. I most definitely do not care what's fair for you, just for myself." Hermione groaned once more.
"Oh, Granger. When would you learn who your superiors are." , he started walking to his room, grinning at her proudly as he passed by.
Not wanting for his words to be the last, Hermione shouted after him, "Your just the same evil ferret git and you will always gonna be one!"
He turned to face her, just in front of his bedroom door, "And your the same filthy little mudblood as you forever will be" , he winked at her playfolly, which drived her nuts.
"At least I'll have a fine life of my own, with no need for anyone to take care of me!" He laughed as he was entering his room, leaving furious Hermione behind him with just a few simple words, "What ever you say, Granger, what ever you say..."
"Bloody hell, Granger! Could you possibly go on any slower? I swear, for Merlin's sake, my Grandmother walks faster than you do!" , Malfoy groaned behind his back.
Hermione was struggling to catch up with him, walking as fast as she could, but his constant nagging wasn't making her go any faster at all. They were on night patrol duties and they were just as turning around the corner into another dark corridor, as Malfoy spoke again.
"Granger!" , she could hear him, yelling for her, somewhere in front of her.
Unfortunately, the corridor was peach black and Hermione's wand's light wasn't able to reach out many steps before her. So she just followed the sound of his voice, when it turned out that he has turned around yet another corner. Suddenly, she couldn't hear him anymore. She stopped and freezed, listening for any sound of him around. But she could hear nothing. Hermione shuttered as she began walking slowly forward, still carefully searching for any sort of movement or sound.
"Malfoy?" , she called out.
No reply.
"Malfoy? Are you there?" , she looked around the empty hallway.
"Malfoy, if your trying to frighten me, it's not going to work!" Once again, she heard nothing.
Shivering harder than before, Hermione started to slowly back up, as if she could know that something bad is going to happen.
"Malfoy?" , she just almost whispered.
...
"GRANGER!" Hermione screamed in surprise as she dropped her wand, light vanishing away, leaving her in complete darkness. A small light came out near her and a long pale face appeared before her.
"Granger, where the bloody hell have you been?" , Malfoy reached out his hand, grabbing Hermione by her fore arm, is when she realized she fell on the cold rock floor. He pulled her up, gazing his gray eyes at her, suspiciously.
"Is it really that hard to catch up for you? Have you any idea how worried I was when I turned around and you weren't there? Have you any slight idea in how much trouble you almost caught us into?" , he appeared to be angry with her.
Hermione just stood before him, staring as if she could not hear any of what he has just said. He hissed at her and bowed down to pick her wand up.
"Here." , he handed it to her, "Try not to get into any more trouble and save me the time, will you?" , he gave her one last look before spinning around and continuing forward.
"Granger, now don't get lost!" , he yelled after her.
Realizing what has just happened, Hermione hurried up to catch up with him and spent the rest of their night patrol walking quietly next to him and blushing about it.
When it finally had ended and Malfoy left her in front of her room, a unusual thought went through Hermiones' head.
' Malfoy was worried about me?'
