'Oh Merlin! Save me! I'm thinking too much about him that, I've started hearing his voice too!', said Hermione, thinking that she was just imagining him speaking.
'Granger'
This time Hermione realized that she was not imagining. When she turned around she saw Draco Malfoy standing on the beach, looking so handsome in his tight t-shirt and shorts.
'Granger, are you alright ?' asked Draco.
Hermione didn't seem to hear Draco. She was admiring Draco's physique. He had a nice tan and he had muscles and that too six pack!
Granger what happened ? Are you feeling sick or something ?'
'Eh…w-what?' stuttered Hermione.
'Are you having fever or something ?'Draco asked, placing his palm on Hermione's forehead to check temperature. When Draco did that, Hermione blushed and again stuttered, ' N-No, I'm alright.'
'Oh Merlin!' you are burning! You have high temperature. It is not good for you to be in this hot sun. Come, I'll take you to your room'. Hermione was so red that she looked like a tomato.
'Can you walk?' asked Draco.
'What?'
'I asked , can you walk? Since you are not feeling well, I'll help you. I'll carry you to your room.'
'I can walk by myself', said Hermione.
She started to walk away from Draco. All she wanted was to get away from him.
But fate had its own tricks…
Hermione was just a few feet away from Draco, when something hit her head and she fainted.
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'Can you walk?' asked Draco.
'What?'
'I asked , can you walk? Since you are not feeling well, I'll help you. I'll carry you to your room.'
'I can walk by myself', said Hermione. She started to walk away from him. Draco stood there watching her go.
Some people were playing volleyball near by. And suddenly, the ball flew past Draco and hit Hermione's head. She fainted. Draco ran to her and caught her before she hit the ground.
'Granger' said Draco, patting her cheeks. 'Granger' Hermione still didn't budge.
Draco carried her to his room, since he didn't know her room.
He laid her on his bed. And he checked her head. There was a slight bump on the left side of her head. As he was a healer, he didn't have any problem in handling the bruise. He cast healing spells and went to get pain reducing potion for Hermione. He came back with the potion. Hermione was still unconscious. He sat down on the chair beside the bed and started wondering about the lovely witch on his bed. She was so beautiful, he had to admit. She had lovely wavy dark brown hair, which were now spread on his pillows. Her eyes were of the colour of honey, which always lit up whenever she achieved something or whenever she got books. She was petite, she had a perfect figure. She was fair, but now had a slight tan.
Draco began to think about the times when they were together at school, at work, at parties. At school, both of them used to detest each other. After the war, they had a truce, but still argued and teased each other. At Ron's twentieth birthday, there was a big party at 'Charms', the poshest wizarding hotel in England. Both Hermione and Draco were asked to dance. It was really uncomfortable for both of them. Both were blushing, but when they started to dance, they went back to their bickering. When Ginny said that they were attracted to each other, they both strongly denied, but both of them secretly admitted the fact to themselves.
'Mm…mmh…whereami?' Hermione started to mumble.
'Granger, how are you feeling now?'
'Whereami?' asked Hermione.
'You are in my room. A ball hit your head and you fainted. Since I didn't know your room, I thought, this would be the best thing.'
'Ah!' Hermione yelped, when she touched the bruise on her head.
'Drink this, it will relieve your pain', said Draco, giving her the potion.
Hermione drank the potion and started to relax.
'Thanks', said Hermione.
'You're welcome', said Draco.
Then after an uncomfortable and long silence, Draco decided to break it.
'Are you hungry?'
'No I'm not', but Hermione's stomach decided just the opposite and growled. Hermione was so red that it could have matched the famous 'Weasley hair' colour.
Draco smiled at this. Hermione was surprised by this act. She expected a to smirk appear on his face, followed by a silly comment, but never really expected him to smile.
'Never mind, I'll bring you some sandwiches.' He got up and went to the kitchen.
Hermione was still on his bed. She observed his room and saw that it had Slytherin colours (she smiled at this), but the bed sheets were black.
Draco came back from the kitchen and saw that Hermione was still on his bed and was observing his room. He also noticed that she was smiling.
'Wow! She looks so beautiful when she is smiling. She looks so sexy in those shorts. And Merlin! Look at her legs, they are so long and…Hey! Stop it! I don't like her. Oh really? Then why are you staring at her? And why do you always think about her? And why did you follow her here, when Ha…I mean, when he said that she was coming here and why…Okay! I love her…I mean I like her and…'
Suddenly Hermione turned around and saw that Draco was looking at her with a strange expression.
'Malfoy? What happened?'
Draco slightly jumped at her sudden voice. ' Oh! Nothing, I was just thinking. By the way, here are your sandwiches', said Draco smiling.
'Thanks' replied Hermione smiling a little.
'Would you like some coffee?' asked Draco.
'Yeah! I would love it, if you don't mind', said Hermione, blushing lightly.
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after Hermione finished her sandwiches and coffee, both of them chatted for a while and that too without any silly comments or teasing, which actually surprised both of them.
Hermione got up to return to her room. She thanked Draco once again.
'I'll walk you to your room' said Draco.
'It's alright; I'll go by myself, by the way, thanks for your offer.' Said Hermione.
'No, I'll come with you. Any way I have to see your place, in case there is one more accident as today.' Said Draco smiling.
'Okay then!' said Hermione, blushing a little.
They both walked to Hermione's place. When they reached there, Hermione opened her door and welcomed Draco inside.
Draco on getting inside, saw an orange bushy ball on the couch. Suddenly it leapt towards Hermione. Then only he realised that, it was Hermione's cat Crookshanks.
'Nice place' said Draco.
'Thanks'
'Ooooh! Still a bookworm, Granger?' said Draco, when he saw the stack of heavy books in the corner.
'Yeah! Maybe I'm' said a tired Hermione, smiling slightly.
'Hey! Don't take it as an insult, I was just joking Granger' said Draco
'I know Malfoy'
Both of them smiled at each other. Suddenly Draco jumped a little and saw that it was just Crookshanks.
'Okay then, bye. I'll see you later' said Draco.
'Bye' said Hermione.
Draco was about to go, suddenly he remembered something.
'Hey Granger, will you go to the beach party with me tonight? Its really wonderful, you really ought to see it.'
'Sure, I'll come. When does it start?'
'It starts at 8:00. I'll come and pick you at 7:30.'
'That sounds great!' said Hermione.
'Okay, Bye!'
'Bye! And thanks for asking me'
'It's my pleasure.'