Blind Date Chapter three

Last Time

"Fine, let's get ready; they will be here in about three hours." Blaise commented changing the subject. "Three hours?!?!" Draco practically shouted. "What are we going to do to get ready for three hours?" and Blaise sort of looked at him, looked away and said, "Trust me, its better if you don't know…"

At Ginny's before the movie

"Is my hair ok?!" Ginny said taking slow deep breaths, like the kind you see pregnant ladies practice with. "Ginny! Stop fretting, you look great, why are you so nervous anyway? Its just a stupid date." Hermione shrugged it off, but Ginny shook her head, "No, I've liked this guy for a while. Everyone calls him Z but I'm not really sure his name, I think its Zach." Ginny said while applying lip gloss. "Ok, you ready?" Hermione asked carefully, afraid they would have to fix something else for an hour and a half. "Yeah… lets go!" Ginny proclaimed and they left.

At the movies…

They felt foolish, there wasn't anything else to call it. They had not really established a time, or the movie, just the place. So after standing there half an hour the guys began to have doubts. "Uh maybe they aren't coming," Draco said checking his watch for the who-knows-how-many-time and that's when he felt a soft tap on his back. "What do you want?" he whipped around to face Emma and a girl directly, inches away. "Oh…" he couldn't find words to make up for his stupidity. "Smooth…" Blaise muttered under his breath, handing Ginny flowers from nowhere, making him look like an inconsiderate prick. "Oh! Thank you," Ginny blushed accepting the baby pink roses.

"So…shall we go to the movie?" Draco said, breaking the uncomfortable silence. Everyone nodded in agreement and they walked up to the ticket stand. Dread filled through them as they looked at the movies one by one have the little sold out sign placed in front of them. Draco ran his hand through his hair, sighing and then he finally saw one movie open. "The Land Before Time On The Big Screen… you have got to be kidding me!" He exclaimed, this was absurd this couldn't be the only movie they had tickets left for. "Aw!!" The girls crooned, "I loved that movie when I was a little girl!" Emma sighed fondly, and the redhead next to her nodded her head vigorously.

"Well…" Blaise started, "we could see it if you would want to, they still have tickets," he said, taking out his wallet and buying for him and his date then Draco did the same. "That would be so sweet!" Ginny's eyes turned into hearts, not literally but in a different sense. "Well, you know us, up for anything," Draco said with a glace towards Blaise. Draco led them to their theater and the whole room was packed from bottom to top of little snot-nosed brats. Draco had the urge to kick them out of the way as he descended to his seat.

"Excuse me sweetie," Emma said sweetly to the little monsters as we walked past them. "Why do we have to go to this stupid kid movie," Draco mumbled under his breath. They sat down and the lights dimmed and the movie started. This is stupid Draco thought, Dinosaurs don't talk, so why lie to little kids and make them believe this crap? The movie started with badly drawn cartoons walking around, talking, then someone dies and everyone's sad. Boo hoo who cares?

It got to a sad part and Draco smirked to himself, he could make a move, comfort her when she needed it. He slowly reached his hand to the hand to the right of him, he gripped it slowly, giving it a tight squeeze. Lightly brushing it in what he thought to be a caring manor when right in the quietist part of the movie a voice screams out "WHAT THE HELL MAN?!?!" Draco jumped, looking wildly to Emma to see if it was her who had the outburst. But no Emma wasn't on the right…she was on the left, that means HOLY CRAP! Draco freaked out, he had just hit on his best friend! How wrong was that?! They switched sides with the girls after the commotion had settled down, so they sat as far away as possible from each other.

"That was so funny! But kind of sad at the same time, I mean seriously he thought I was z? um no…" Hermione whispered to Ginny, who whispered back, "At least your date has at least tried to make a move on you!" Hermione kind of shrugged but it was the ehh kind.

There was a light tap on the back of Blaise's head. Oh never mind it was nothing. Wait there it was again Blaise felt the back of his head, puzzled, and then something hit his hand, he turned back and saw a little demon boy chucking pieces of popcorn at his head! The nerve, Blaise tried to ignore it and then after consent popcorn for five minutes he turns back. Then he dumps his whole large popcorn on the child's head, put the container on the floor and turned back to his date, who was wide-eyed and curious. "What did you do?" she asked, "Oh I just gave that little kid some popcorn, he needed some," and was relieved when she smiled, and said he was sweet.

Finally the movie was over, the boys felt like they were in hell and the girls were having a good time. They were trying to suggest what to do when Ginny said they should try bowling, everyone was good with it, they enjoyed a good Muggle game ever once and a while.

They flew on their brooms, Draco had Hermione on his, and Blaise had Ginny on his. They were nearly frozen to their brooms by the time they had gotten there, but it was worth it. They saw the flashing lights and the giant bowling ball and pins light up the sky in bright neon colors. "Lets go," they parked their broom inside, behind a coat rack. Then walked in, and got a lane.

"Hey I think this is our lane, lane number 31," Hermione read from a little card the lady had given them. "Ok who wants to go first?" she asked, in a good mood. "Ladies first of course," Draco said charmingly and the girls smiled to each other, and wrote their names down on the sheet.

After they were in the sixth frame, Hermione was beating everyone…except Ginny. Oh and Blaise too. Oh wait she was also behind Ginny. She sucked at bowling, never was good, it was quite sad because everyone was pretty high when she had a score of only 23. "Wow I think I just broke a record! I've had 7 gutter balls in a row!" Hermione laughed at herself.

Draco was winning he had almost all strikes and spares, he was winning by 35 and wanted to help Hermione. "Here," Draco smiled helpfully, "I'll help you," he said helping her, as in guiding her, and showing her how to release the ball. "See, when you were bowling, you would let it go with your palm facing the floor, so it would be a curve, just have it go up." He suggested and she tried it. Smack, the sound cracked through the air like a whip. Strike the board flashed, but Hermione's eyes were brighter, filled with wonder. She jumped up and gave Draco a hug. "Thank you so much Alan!" The name stung Draco. Did he have the heart to tell her his true identity?

All the sudden they heard a scratchy noise and Draco looked over and busted up laughing, clutching his side. "What?" they all said one by one, and turned to look, laughing themselves. One of the Muggle employees had seen their brooms, and had begun to sweep the Lobby with it. Can you imagine how ridiculous that man looked? Pretty bad. After they were done laughing, and the guy had finished sweeping, Draco took out his wand, and muttered "Accio Broom," and he put it under his chair.

While Draco was helping Hermione, Blaise decided to talk with Ginny a while. He leaned on the stand and said "So, I was wondering if you-" but he didn't get a chance to finish, because there was a loud, feedback, and then the intercom came on. "Lane 31, please don't press the speaker button." Horrified, Blaise looked down, and saw his elbow resting on the speaker button. He groaned, "This date has been a disaster!" He said to Ginny in an apologetic way.

"Its fine! Its been absolutely wonderful!" Ginny said, looking up into his eyes, spellbound, they leaned in and slowly kissed. Just then, Draco appeared "Hey Z, its your turn- ohhhh I'll leave you two alone," Draco winked and walked away.

Draco walked slowly to Emma, smiling at the way she bit her lip, concentrating at the screen, looking and adding up the scores. "Hey you," He smiled, forgetting all about her thinking his name was Alan. "Hi," she smiled not looking up. "Wow, you beat me by…" she paused not being able to say the words. "a lot…" she finished with a smile on her face. "Its been a while since anyone's beaten me in anything, normally they let me win or change so they are worse." She laughed. Draco smiled playfully "Now, what's the fun in that?" he asked.

They both leaned in a few inches, Hermione paused, then filled in the gap between them, savoring this sweet kiss. Electricity bolted through them, it could be because they had just washed their hands, then touched a battery to put in the light, but lets just say it was love. "Wow…" Hermione said breathless, staring right into his eyes, the ones that captivated her so much.

"Are… are you busy Saturday?" She asked, yearning for another kiss, but holding back. "If I am, I'll call you." He said, then they stopped Ginny and Z from their big make out session, and gave the girls rides home.

Phone Conversation between Ginny and Hermione

Hermione: "Wow we kissed! It was… magical. But there has to be a catch, there just has to be, guys are supposed to break your heart, not make you constantly think about them, and their soft delicious lips that I could ju-"

Ginny: "Hermione! Can't you just once believe that a great guy has come to you? Can't you accept that? They are so great! I'm seeing Z again Friday! He has amazing kisses! Ok I got to go, my laundry load is done,"

Hermione: "Ok, see you Gin!"

End Phone Conversation.

Draco sighed, there was something about her, something that was mysterious, he had to figure it out. He just had to.

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